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Considerations for AJAX UpdatePanel, Page Methods and Web Services
I would not even pretend to be all knowing here but I couldn't stop myself from sharing this chain of interesting links which should remind all of us of the dangers of abusing UpdatePanels thinking that using it in any way will make our old non asynchronous pages work like magic. [more] My journey starting…
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Updating ASP cookie from ASP.NET (vice versa)
You might encounter a case where updating an ASP (classic/3.0) cookie from ASP.NET code (or vice versa) doesn't work. That is despite updating the cookie value, the old value still remains. [more] I was working on a having an ASP page communicate some information to an ASP.NET (2.0) page and vice versa and since the…
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Link: Enterprise Library 4.0 download on MSDN
Enterprise Library 4.0 – May 2008 has been released and can be downloaded from the following link (in addition to it's CodePlex home ofcourse): http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=90de37e0-7b42-4044-99be-f8ecfbbc5b65&displaylang=en&tm
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DotNetZip, open source ZIP library for .NET
We needed a library for creating and managing ZIP files and fortunately for us there is DotNetZip which I have encountered previously when going around CodePlex (as I use to do when there is a little free time). [more] It is licensed under Microsoft Public License, so you can use it free of charge, for…
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Link: Delaying Data Could Cut Net’s Carbon Footprint
Found this article from Microsoft Research Team. Delaying Data Could Cut Net’s Carbon Footprint It’s good to see how bigger companies do their part for the environment. Besides they won’t only be doing that but also help save companies from saving a lot and thus allocating more resources on more important things than wasted energy.…
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Button doesn’t postback after clicking Back Button in Firefox
I ran into this behavior (which I think is weird) where a button no longer posts back to ther server after I click on a the Firefox's back button. [more] I'm not sure if I'm missing some incorrect settings whatsoever but it works on IE7. I'm hoping someone who runs into this might verify or…
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Page ViewState, Control ViewState and ControlState
Just a quick note. I was working on some Web User Control and needed to persist information across postbacks and thought of using ViewState. But while I was working on it, I realized that I was using the same key for saving another information in the parent Page's (the Page containing the user control) ViewState.…
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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Now Available
I just received a notification of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP availability when I opened my PC. (automatic updates – have mine set to notify when updates are available) Here a link to Release Notes which I recommend reading before installing the update. [more] In the release notes it says: Internet Explorer If you…
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Subversion Branches, Tags and Merges
I found this great article by Bill Simser on Day-to-day with Subversion where he explains practical use of Subversion branches, tags and merges. As a additional reading it might help if you read the documentation on branching and merging from the SVN Book from here but Bill's explanations made me understand better. And allow me…
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My Black Theme and Selecting Theme File
In joining the rest of the eco geeks in contributing small or little ways to help the environment I switched to a black background for my desktop for a start and sharing a few steps here. [more] I explored a bit on having other things (windows content, application backgrounds) to black but not ready for…
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