.Net and Some (may be MORE) Random Thoughts

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 [...]

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 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) [...]

I found this An Introduction to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in JavaScript and .NET article to be very useful especially if you are new to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
Explore some of the Object Oriented Techniques of JavaScript, check this MSDN article, http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/07/05/JavaScript/default.aspx, by Ray Djajadinata (Ray Hsieh).
Happy Scripting!!!

I use a Url Rewriting a lot and ran into this problem very offen. There are multiple solutions to this issue and basically we would be manipulating the “post” action of the web page.
Here is a link that talks about a more elegent approch to solove this problem, Postbacks does not work with URL ReWriting.
http://weblogs.asp.net/jezell/archive/2004/03/15/90045.aspx
EDIT: please see [...]