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ASP.NET AJAX provides the power of asynchronous JavaScript and XML to your web sites. AJAX makes web pages more responsive and interactive by reducing page refreshes or postbacks. It harnesses the power of client-side JavaScript and the XML HTTP object to provide these features.

One of the commonly asked question by developers is how to maintain headers of GridView in a fixed position. You must have observed that in Excel you can freeze top cells of your spread sheet. When you scroll down the headers are always visible making your sheet more readable. The same effect is often needed in GridView control especially if you are displaying many records at a time.

Nice tip! Add a tootip to a GridView item using Ajax:

Useful article if you are still struggling with regular expressions!

This article approaches JavaScript from the perspective of an ASP.NET developer who is comfortable with the paradigms and patterns of either C# or Visual Basic. The article doesn't look at how to use JavaScript from ASP.NET exactly, but it does look at why JavaScript is so different from the two languages we commonly use with the .NET CLR. The article assumes you already know that JavaScript is a loosely-typed language (because you don't have to declare the type of data you store in a variable), and that the syntax is similar to the C family of languages (with charming curly braces and stunningly beautiful semi-colons).

I wrote two or three years ago about the avalanche of announcements regarding VS 2005 and all the things coming with it like .NET 2.0.

Many discussions in connection with an article publish by Jeff Atwood, Coding Horror, comparing two books on WPF.

Microsoft has released the first Beta of the 3.5 framework version.