Piyush Shah's Blog

How to check if a user belongs to a Security or Distribution group in ASP.Net

If you need to check at Runtime if your User belongs to a Security group. Here's how to do it - Assuming the IIS Application has Authentication set to "Windows Authentication". The Request object of HttpContext has the Logged in users Identity which contains

ASP.Net AJAX 4.0 Client Templates in depth

The best way to know a Javascript library is to pry open the javascript file and look at the details. This release has a lot of powerful features which I will discuss here. 1. Sys.Observer – Ajax 4.0 includes an implementation of Observer Pattern. In

ASP.Net RssToolkit Version 2.0

I have been part of the team working on the latest version ASPNET RssToolkit, originally created by Dmitry Robsman . We enhanced this awesome Toolkit and have just released version 2.0 of the Toolkit. Please check out Codeplex to download this toolkit.

Translate your text using Google Api's

Here is how you can translate a Text using Google's "Unofficial" API's. The URL for Google Translate is - http://www.google.com/translate_t?hl=en&ie=UTF8&text={0}&langpair={1} "text" is your input string which needs to be translated. langpair

VS 2005 not loading project on IIS 7 and Vista

If you get this error when loading a Web Application project on Visual Studio 2005 running on Vista and IIS 7 - "Unable to read the project file 'xxx.csproj'. The Web Application Project xxx is configured to use IIS. To access local IIS Web sites, you

101 LINQ query samples

If you are starting into writing LINQ queries or you are stuck in writing a query here is a link which I'm sure will help you - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vcsharp/aa336746.aspx

Convert any feed to ATOM

Judging by ATOM's rising popularity, see Atom compared to RSS , and its public endorsement by Google. Atom may be the future of Feed Syndication. Here is a quick way, courtesy of Google, to convert any Feed type to Atom. Google provides a nice REST interface

Creating Widgets using Javascript Simple Syndication - JSS

Web syndication is a way to make content of your website or application available for others to use. Rss/Atom/Rdf are specifications, which websites use for this purpose. However to consume such formats in your website, you need to know a little programming

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

Sharing Master Pages amongst Applications by Embedding it in a Dll

If you need to share Master Pages across applications and you don't want to create a ton of virtual directories, below is a way to do that. You can embed the Master Page as a Resource in your Dll and use VirtualPathProvider mechanism to call the Resource.