Monthly Archives: January 2012

Using ucajax to render UserControls via WCF

Posted on by rick schott

I recently released an open source project called ucajax hosted on GitHub and also available via NuGet. The project’s main purpose is to render ASP.NET UserControls via web services, currently supporting WCF and WebMethods.   It also comes will a fully functional demo that consumes the NuGet package and can be viewed live here. There are few limitations such as postbacks, it doesn’t [...]

Building a demo chat app in MVC3, backbone.js and a little SignalR for fun…

Posted on by rick schott

I have been doing a lot of reading lately on backbone.js. One of the key features I wanted to explore was it’s concept of Models and how it keeps the server side in sync with RESTful JSON endpoints. What is backbone.js? Backbone supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich [...]