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We noticed that the ViewState in silverlightshow.net was enormous so we decided to make some improvements. The first step was to move it to the bottom of the page just for the search engine optimization. I have met many articles in internet which describe how to do this. One of them which I have used ...

Introduction A common scenario in web development is when one page shows different content depending on some query parameters. OK, but these query parameters do not look friendly to the user and are neither friendly for the search engines. Here the URL Rewriting comes. We have URL rewriting in SilverlightShow.net sitemap page. Look for example ...

Have you ever experienced such error? Well, today I did. It is not easy to get it - you have to browse too quickly trough pages (or in one page) and click buttons (causing postback). Yep, sounds strange. The point is that if you have a page, with lets say just a text box and a button, and you push that button quickly you will probably get this ...

Here I'm back from the Linux-bg and RIABG seminar where i've talked about Asynchronous operations on the client and on the server using MS AJAX and ASP.NET. It was my first ever presentation, people seemed interested though, and I had some great questions and comments after the session, so I guess everything went well. Here you can ...

This Saturday (21.07.2007) I'm going to speak at the RIABG seminar about executing async operations on the client and on the server using ASP.NET async pages and Microsoft AJAX library. I'll try to reveal some interesting points about the usage of async operations and what problems they solve.  The seminar is ...

Today was the first day of the Wicked ASP.NET Programming presented by Dino Esposito who talked about The ASP.NET Underlying Machinery. The talks were based mainly on his book Programming Microsoft® ASP.NET 2.0 Applications: Advanced Topics. HTTP runtime, runtime components and asynchronous pages were the general topics today. The interesting ...

There is no better start of the week than being an attendee in the REMIX'07 conference in Budapest. It was my first time attending Microsoft conference and it was really great to be a part of this event. I'll try to point out the most interesting moments from both the developer and the designer sessions. UPDATE Pictures from Budapest ...

Dino Esposito, one of the most trustworthy ASP.NET and AJAX speakers, is going to visit Sofia, Bulgaria and have a talk about ASP.NET infrastructure, building asynchronous pages, utilizing ASP.NET AJAX machinery and monitoring requests. Check out the agenda and hurry up to register.

K. Scott Allen has written a great article for ASP.NET developers who have no experience in JavaScript programming. It is a well structured article defining the JavaScript basics – What is right/wrong with JavaScript, Object Oriented JavaScript, JavaScript Functions, Constructor Functions, and Object Prototypes. I like what he summarizes at the ...

Introduction Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a great way to stay in touch with latest news and blogs. RSS delivers its information in simple XML document called ''RSS feed'', ''RSS channel'', ''webfeed'' etc. More about RSS format can be learned from Wikipedia. ASP.NET 2.0 provides a great way to consume RSS feeds by using the new ...