Do you like dynamic challenges in rich internet application (RIA) development? A large scale internet application on the world’s top commercial web site sounds interesting to you? Do you want to work on cutting edge web application using state of the...

I have few job openings in my team for Silverlight, AJAX, WCF, WPF and SQL Server developers. Here's the job description. “Do you like dynamic challenges in web application development? A large scale internet applications on the world’s top commercial...

C# 2.0 - Use generic collections instead of Hashtables and ArrayList types - If using Generic types, then refrain from using foreach loop on the collection. Rather use ForEach method to loop through via an anonymous method predicate (much faster...

There might be scenarios when all JavaScript side initiated function calls need to be intercepted for logging and error reporting purposes on the client. Two approaches exist, one, calling an intermediary function and then initiating call to real function...

As we all know state management is a big deal in web applications. We might have web forms that send important data to the server where might lie some validations in addition to the client side JavaScript validations. General challenge is to restore all...

For rendering content and feature rich web pages, here are the questions that we have in front of us: 1. How to speed up the process of data fetch/load at the server to rendering it to the web client. 2. Reduce the markup I discussed point 2 in...

Lately I've been thinking about devising a mechanism to determine the division of the Payload between the content that is rendered to client web browser (including markup) and the one that client browser can load, hold and process in its memory. The logic...

There might be situations where the content from thin client that is accessible via internet, needs to be encrypted (without storing the encryption logic at the client) and subsequently be decrypted on the server side code that doesn't run on SSL. Here...

Industry is talking of Web Services to the height of Petronas Towers. For an IT professional unaware of Web Services following questions come up, 1. How practical is it when it comes to implementation? 2. Are they real, or hype? 3. Why Web Services? 4...

Introduction The project contains code that allows to Describe, Discover and Invoke a web service in .NET using SOAP SDK 3.0 and UDDI SDK 2.0 beta on .NET SDK 1.1. Background UDDI (Universal Description Discovery and Integration) is a standard that defines...

Web Services might be invoked using HttpWebRequest. If the invocation raises a service specific exception, the WebException’s Message property gives “Internal Server Error (500)”. There exists a need to parse the WebException object to retrieve the original...

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Requirement may arise to define a custom section in app.config or web.config configuration file(s), to load a related but dynamic data for configuration purpose. Following is an example of how this can be achieved; element contains a sub element where...

There might be general situations when developer needs to provide a download link to users for any kind of document that may include but not limited to doc, pdf, zip etc. However, the scenarios do exist when developer wants to authenticate the users before...

While isolating nodes with custom namespace definition, it might be problematic to retrieve the nodes using XPath (SelectSingleNode or SelectNodes methods). Because if the target XML document contains a URN prefix in the node, that has to be defined and...

Caveats: 1. Security: HTAs bypass the Internet Explorer's advanced settings to disable/enable active scripting, which leads to vulnerability in system to malfunction. However, since the HTAs interact with local system (using ActiveXObjects) for file/DB...

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