By budigelli on Jun 15, 2008 in .NET | 3 Comments
Ok, i have had FUN working with ASP.NET MVC (the official site, more info on Scott Gu’s Blog) Preview 3. I was doing some fun stuff. Wanting to play with different technologies of late, i found (really found) ways to use LINQ (to SQL, to XML, and on Entities). To complement all this i have [...]
By budigelli on Jul 5, 2007 in ASP.NET 2.0 | 5 Comments
Master Pages are good for so many things. They also cause some confusion on how to have a different page title for each page, how to specify Meta Tags, etc.
This post is neither on Master Pages nor on best practices on handling these two topics. I would try to list couple of simple ways to [...]
By budigelli on Jun 21, 2007 in AdSense, Random | 5 Comments
In case you are wondering about Similar programs to Google AdSense, you might find the below list usefull.
Mostly pulled from this link here and sorted & linked for convenience!
7Search
AdBrite
AdSense
BidClix
BidVertiser
Chitika
CompactADS
Clicksor
FastClick
Gold-Words
interCLICK
Kanoodle
Kontera
PartnerWeekly
PeakClick
ValueClick
VibrantMedia
Yahoo Publisher
Please let me know if i missed something useful…
By budigelli on Jun 16, 2007 in .NET, AJAX, Little Known, UpdatePanel | 3 Comments
Little Known Secrete ” UpdatePanel causes Postbacks”.
Even though it is good entry point in to AJAX programming using .NET technologies, UpdatePanel does not give you much performance over traditional PostBack model.
When used, UpdatePanel causes the postback similar to the traditional postback, instantiates the control tree, and at render time realizes to send only the required [...]
By budigelli on Jun 14, 2007 in .NET, ASP.NET 2.0, SEO, URL ReWritting | 0 Comments
If you are doing any web-applications, chances are you have heard of Search Engine Optimization, also know as SEO. Its all about getting better search engine ranking for your web-pages.
Even though, there are no fixed rules on what to do, there is a general consensus among web masters, on what helps your search engine rankings. [...]
By budigelli on May 25, 2007 in Microsoft, Popfly | 0 Comments
I was working on a project and happen to go to the “Start Page” on my Visual Studio and noticed this Microsoft Popfly Alpha under Visual Studio Headlines.
As a technology enthusiasts, I ended up on http://www.popfly.ms and puzzled to see no information on the home page and liked the simple page.
You could Watch the Popfly [...]
By budigelli on May 24, 2007 in .NET, AJAX, ASP.NET 2.0, UpdatePanel | 0 Comments
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I am working on a simple web application that aggregates RSS from different Online Deal Site in to one place. One of the things I wanted to do was to have one page and load the RSS details in to an Update Panel. I know Update Panel is not the best when it comes to [...]
By budigelli on May 8, 2007 in .NET, Visual Studio 2005 | 0 Comments
I read about creating temporary project in Visual Studio some time ago and kind of forgot about it. Few days ago, I needed to create a temp project for trying out something really quick.
There is a setting in Visual Studio that lets you create projects in temp directory and not save all the directory structure [...]
By budigelli on May 4, 2007 in Microsoft, Vista | 0 Comments
I have tried Windows DreamScene before but have not noticed the resources it is consuming. To day I was browsing around and landed on Microsoft Silverlight Wallpaper Section.
I went ahead and got the DreamScene from there and noticed that my computer usage has gone up about 15%. I quickly went back and changed my background [...]
By budigelli on May 1, 2007 in .NET, AJAX, ASP.NET 2.0 | 1 Comment
I was playing with AJAX enabled applications for some time but not really done any thing major yet. I was working on a small project that required me to add some AJAX functionality using simple updatepanels. I dropped the necessary controls like scriptmanager and updatepanel in to the page and added the references to System.Web.Extensions.
I [...]