Piyush Shah's Blog

MSDN Video Vista Sidebar Gadget

I created a Vista Gadget with the help of my Lead Jon Gallant . This gadget helps you find Videos on MSDN. You can select from existing categories or you can search for videos. It shows the Video links at the bottom. When you hover over the video links

Convert Rss to JSON - Serialize to JSON by using XmlSerialization and JavaScriptSerializer

JSON (Javascript Object Notation) – is a light weight data interchange format. It essentially is composed of key-value pairs. For Example – XML < rss version = " 2.0 " > < channel > < item > < link > http://test.com</link >

Compressing ViewState of your Application

.Net framework has an entire namespace for compression - System.IO.Compression. GZipStream is the class used for Compression and Decompression. .Net Framework 2.0, exposes a new class called PageStatePersister. This class is used to override and customize