Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

Technology is changing faster than ever. After ASP.NET 1.0 came out in January 2002, it took over three years for ASP.NET 2.0 to be released (in November 2005) but the latest version, ASP.NET 3.5 which has come out in November 2007 has taken a relatively smaller time frame . To add to developers' woes, most of them are perennially short of time. Therefore, learning a new technology under time constraints and becoming productive quickly is a challenge. As the book MCTS Self-Paced Training Kit (Exam 70-528): Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Web-Based Client Development , is based on the well-conceived certification objectives of the new Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) series Exam 70–528 & focuses on the essentials of ASP.NET 2.0 as they relate to the real-world, I feel it's useful for MCTS aspirants as well as those interested in ASP.NET 2.0. This is also the only 70–528 exam prep guide currently available as the Amit Kalani book is still in cold storage. In ...

It is extremely useful to know the answer if you are embarking on a long term project where you plan to use ASP.NET AJAX and the project SLA demands that your web application be cross browser. As per the official documentation , ASP.NET AJAX is compatible with most modern browsers on some operating systems and this includes the following: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or later versions. Mozilla Firefox version 1.5 or later versions. Opera version 9.0 or later versions. Apple Safari version 2.0 or later versions The supported Operating Systems are: Microsoft Windows XP with Service Pack 2 installed. Microsoft Vista. Apple OSX (Intel architecture only). The documentation is slightly incorrect when it says Apple Safari version 2.0 or later versions are supported. Precisely Safari version 2.0.4 on the Mac & above are actually supported. ASP.NET AJAX can run with the default security settings for the above browsers. If browser security and privacy settings are set too high, JavaScri...

Did you ever bookmark a valuable web page & discover one day that it has vanished? Or as a designer or developer found that a website that you have built for a former client & proudly put in your portfolio returns a "Page not found" error just when a prospective employer checks it out? On the Internet there is a constant churn, web pages get modified or disappear altogether alongwith the whole website due to various reasons. It is in times like these that you can invoke the services of the Internet Archive Wayback Machine . Unless you have configured the robots.txt on a website to exclude your site from being crawled, you may get back the whole website as it was archived by the Wayback Machine at different intervals. Even dynamic pages (that render standard html & do not require interaction with the originating host) are archived and you can also link to the old pages ! These options make it more attractive than the cached content provided by Google or Live Sear...