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3 articles on ASP.NET AJAX, WebForms, legacy .NET, modernization, and developer culture.
AJAX & Modern Web
How AJAX Powers the Modern Casino Front End
A decade ago a casino lobby was a sea of static thumbnails wrapped in full page reloads. Click a category, wait for the server to render a fresh HTML document, repeat. Today that…
Alex
AJAX & Modern Web
HTMX and the UpdatePanel — Why the Original AJAX Pattern Came Back Twenty Years Later
For about three years now, HTMX has been the framework you cannot avoid in developer Twitter, Hacker News threads, and conference talks. It is positioned, by its creators and most…
Alex
Legacy & Modernization
ViewState — What It Actually Was, Why It Broke Things, and What Modern Frameworks Quietly Learned From It
If you started writing web applications after about 2014, there is a reasonable chance that the first time you opened the DevTools on a WebForms application, you saw a hidden fiel…
Alex