Whenever you might have started reading about Delegates, the first line you read is : "Delegates are function pointers in C#" Now what is a function pointer? and how is it going to make my life any easier? Lets understand function pointers now. Function...

1. Ajax basics - "Asynchronous JavaScript and XML," is a web development technique for creating interactive web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so...

An overview of Asynchronous-ness: Getting started You must have read in a number of blogs/articles that asynchronous operations are good for your UI responsiveness. It sounds good too. But, for last many months I have been working hard to put them in...

How to call Webserver methods using Javascript If you are planning to call your own ASP.Net webservice from client side using XMLHttp you need to configure its web.config. Add the following inside <system.web>: <webservices> <protocols>...

What is XMLHttpRequest? - It is an API that is used by JavaScript and some other scripting languages to transfer data (XML/plain text) "to-and-from" a web server over HTTP. - You can make a call from an html page also. In the following example we are...