What we are going to do is define a template to render html using a standard ASP.NET User Control (.ascx file). This will get you full VS designer support, intellisense, data sources, and compilation checking.  It does not require that you host the UserControl template on a page - instead the RenderView implementation dynamically creates a dummy Page object to host the UserControl while it renders, and captures and returns the html output as... [More]

You have decided that in your ASP.NET page the ScriptManager and an Update panel is going to work just fine, but you want to add a little something special to this page, and you know jQuery could make this happen a lot easier. Here are some things that I have used to make this easier for me, and I hope it can help you. Tip 1 - Using ScriptManager Use ScriptManager to load your third party JavaScript libraries. This may sound funny but you also ... [More]