.Net and Some (may be MORE) Random Thoughts

What is JQuery? “A new type of JavaScript Library” Jquery really made my UI developement Fun. If you are not familiar with JQuery, i strongly suggest you check it out. We can do more with less code using JQuery.
And then there is ASP.NET MVC to make make web development clean and TDD friendly. If you [...]

As i am moving in to hosting my application on an external server, i am finding some interesting and annoying (time consuming for research) things. i will try to address them as they come along…
One of the main thing was the way i handle my Data Layer. My Data Layer is a class library project [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

 
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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I have pulled in few resources on couple of ways we could databind an XML file to a Data-Bound controls using XmlDataSource.
Basically the idea is to be able to bind an XML file, either a physical XML file or XML formatted String using XMLDataSource.
1) This article from MSDN talks about how to bind an external (physical) [...]