If you have long running (server side) tasks in your ASP.NET MVC 3 web application it could be reasonable to provide the user with information about the current progress of this task. In this blog post I will show how such a progress indicator could be implemented using jQuery and AJAX. The basic idea is [...]

In this blog post I will show how to set up custom error pages in ASP.NET MVC 3 applications to show user-friendly error messages instead of the (yellow) IIS default error pages for both “normal” (non-AJAX) requests and jQuery AJAX requests. In this showcase we will implement custom error pages to handle the HTTP error [...]

This blog post is my third blog post about jQuery Ajax forms with ASP.NET MVC 3. The first post “ASP.NET MVC 3: Ajax Form with jQuery validate supporting (unobtrusive) Client Side Validation and Server Side Validation” is about creating Ajax forms with jQuery validate to support client side validation and partial page updates. The second [...]

Update 2011-08-09: I’ve written a follow-up blog post which shows how to use JSON to customize the way the server’s response is handled on the client side. This blog post summarizes how to use jQuery’s .ajax() function to submit an Ajax form in ASP.NET MVC web applications. In ASP.NET MVC you can use the Ajax.BeginForm(…) [...]

Update 2011-08-07: I’ve written a new follow-up blog post to this one which shows how to upgrade the techniques described here with custom (jQuery) JavaScript code to implement a more flexible Ajax form handling. This blog post shows step by step instructions how to build an Ajax form with jQuery validate supporting (unobtrusive) client and [...]