Entries By Tag: Programming
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Jun 09, 2010 by Oana Pelineagra
The World Wide Web is an environment which will never cease to evolve and to create newer and newer possibilities and solutions for every imaginable need. Such an example is HTML5: the next generation of HyperText Markup Language. ... read more
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Nov 26, 2009 by Oana Pelineagra
After entering a partnership with Verizon last month, and after launching the newest Android 2.0 smartphone (I am talking about Motorola Droid, of course) on November 6, only four days later (on November 10) Google has released Go: its first programming language. ... read more
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Aug 14, 2009 by Doina Stefanescu
Following the announcement of the first Beta version for the Microsoft development platform and tools, the new enhanced .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 is available for download from MSDN.
One of the exciting new features, though not sure to remain in the final release, is ... read more
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Jul 21, 2009 by Constantin Ionescu
If you’re wandering what is the best way to include CSS and JS file references in ASP.NET pages, here is a quick guide that outlines the available options and shows which approach suits each situation.
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Jul 10, 2009 by Doina Stefanescu
This month's MIX conference revealed a lot of "hot" stuff about the new MS products, and Silverlight 3, released yesterday, was one of the topics discussed. Fully supported by Visual Studio and Expression Blend, Silverlight 3 is hyped with: significant graphics improvements including 3D graphics support, out of browser support that allows Web applications to work on the desktop, important media enhancements, GPU acceleration and many other features that improve RIA development productivity. The future ... read more
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Jun 17, 2009 by Constantin Ionescu
ASP.NET AJAX is a Microsoft solution that provides support for implementing XMLHttp requests. This type of request is different from the normal web requests by the format and amount of data it sends to and receives from the server – it is a minimal (partial) postback, sending and receiving only the important data, instead of transferring the entire page, as a normal postback would do.
Normally we would take advantage of this feature by using an UpdatePanel, but we can also do it by using network calls – as we’ll be able to see in the following example ... read more
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Mar 09, 2009 by Oana Pelineagra
Exactly 2 years have passed from the initial release of Silverlight, in April 2007, and during this time period a number of definitions have appeared, trying to better explain what Silverlight is and what it actually does. Some say it is a web browser plugin, some view it as a new Microsoft technology that allows the development of RIA (Rich Internet Applications) and some just know that it is an alternative to Adobe's Flash. All of these definitions are quite true, but incomplete one without the other ... read more
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Jan 27, 2009 by Constantin Ionescu
The standard approach for making a URL redirection in ASP.NET is to use a Redirect call:
Response.Redirect("http://www.example.com/mypage.aspx")
What happens behind the scenes: the server (IIS) sends to the browser a simple HTTP Response, containing a message code ("302"), which essentially tells the browser to issue a new HTTP Request, for obtaining the new destination URL. Next, the browser issues that new request, and in the end it receives another page, served from that new URL.
This redirection behavior can be also obtained by plain HTML (no ASP.NET needed), if including in the HTML page a "meta tag": ... read more
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Jan 05, 2009 by Constantin Ionescu
Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax is a great platform, and provides lots of functionalities, but you need to know your way around it, to make the most of its capabilities. Today I'll be writing down a couple of tips that will help you when deploying an Ajax website in IIS. ... read more
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