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Behind The Scene - Control ID's in ASP.Net - Ran Wahle's blog

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:08:46 GMT

We all familiar with the terms of ID, ClientID and UniqueID which are properties of Control class. In this post I'll dive into the way the last two read-only properties values are being set and when.

AJAX and Dates - Ran Wahle's blog

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:32:16 GMT

While AJAX in general, and Data-Services in particular becomes more and more in use, you may encounter a problem of sending / receiving dates when you don't usually share the same Time Zone settings.

Sending complex typed data from web service to SilverLight client

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:53:30 GMT

Here I'll sum this part which is Serialize the object for the SilverLight component and operate method inside it to bind the data. Step 5 - Serialize the data for the SilverLight component

Using Firebug extension - Ran Wahle's blog

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 19:05:15 GMT

Before Visual Studio 2008 there wasn't many decent client debugging tools. One of the tools that were already (and for free) was the Firebug extension Firefox for Firefox.

Improving Performance By Using ASP.NET Caching

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:10:41 GMT

What is ASP.NET caching mechanism? When to use caching? andASP.NET Caching how can I use it in order to improve my site performance? are the questions this post series is going to answer.

Get Rid of COM+ Application after Migrating to Framework 2.0 - Ran Wah

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 20:05:53 GMT

COM+ application was the only way to manage transactions on Framework 1.1 and lower. After migration to Framework 2.0 or higher there was no need for COM+ applications for transaction matters but loosing it is a long process. Here I'll explain how I did it.

Sending complex typed data from web service to SilverLight client - Pa

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:26:39 GMT

In this post I'll explain in how to send complex typed data between web service and SilverLight client code. In order to avoid security issues I'll use JavaScript as mediator between my server code and SilverLight code.

AJAX WEB Methods and Daylight Saving Settings - Ran Wahle's blog

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:28:25 GMT

As most of you know, although our computer displayed time moves forward by an hour on DST period, It's time isn't changing actually, it just moves to it's neighboring time zone. This is in order not to change the computer UTC so different DST setting on different countries won't cause actual time difference between computers. However, many system administrators doesn't know how to configure correctly the time zone shift and instead they simply setting the clock forward / backwards by one hour.

Visitor Pattern

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:35:05 GMT

The post explain the use of the visitor design pattern and how to implement it in C#