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  • Client-Side Enhancements in ASP.NET 2.0

    Oftentimes, the overall user experience can be enhanced by intelligently adding client-side script. By associating script with client-side user actions, it is possible to provide a snappier user interface or to enhance the overall experience. For example, when clicking a Delete button on a web form, rather than blindly deleting the record or posting back to a confirmation page, client-side script can be used to display a confirm messagebox, asking the user if they're certain they want to proceed with the delete. Clicking OK would proceed with the postback, while clicking Cancel would short circuit it.

  • Build a treeview with XML and Ajax

    AJAX or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a free framework for quickly creating a new generation of more efficient, more interactive and highly-personalized Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers. AJAX is relatively new phenomenon, based on technologies that aren’t quite new, for creating a way for businesses to interact with customers over the internet.In this article using the current AJAX technique,(in it’s simplest way) to implement an on demand tree view. Since XML is common standard and easy to implement I am using XML in my sample application rather than any database. I have found another article here that to build a tree view using this AJAX.

  • Add an RSS Feed Through a Custom Control

    This article describes the construction of a very simple custom server control used to display the content returned from an RSS feed. The control consumes a public web service to retrieve the current data from an RSS feed, and the control displays the content along with a user defined label. The public web service returns the feed content as straight HTML which greatly simplifies the process of displaying the data.

  • Now I need Vista to fly away

    Cool, just received today the brand new Microsoft Flight Simulator X! Now for me it's  the first time I see in an official documentation that Vista is recommended for the best flying experience of your life.