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In my previous blog post , I have discussed about how to get asynchronous JQuery treevew to work with ASP.NET Webservices, and we identified that, to make a successful ASP.NET webservice call using JQuery the request must be POST request, the content type of the request must be “application/json; charset=utf-8”, and the data parameter of the the $.ajax() method must be passed as a string. We also looked at the tweaks that we need to do to the jquery.treeview.async.js file to get that working. However

Recently I had to display some hierarchical data in a treeview. I looked around and found JQuery treeview can transforms an unordered list into an expandable and collapsable tree, and supports both location and cookie based persistence. Fig: JQuery Treeview As I was dealing with a large amount of data I needed something that will allow me to navigate through the data asynchronously, and I found jQuery Treeview fits well for my purpose. I found this demo of Lazy Loading Tree and I needed to implement

Recently I had to display some hierarchical data in a treeview. I looked around and found JQuery treeview can transforms an unordered list into an expandable and collapsable tree, and supports both location and cookie based persistence. Fig: JQuery Treeview As I was dealing with a large amount of data I needed something that will allow me to navigate through the data asynchronously, and I found jQuery Treeview fits well for my purpose. I found this demo of Lazy Loading Tree and I needed to implement

Search Engine Optimization guides, recommends to have one version of a URL of the same content. Search engines may pickup www and non-www versions of URL as 2 separate URLs, i.e. http://xyz.com/page1 may be considered different to http://www.xyz.com/page1 . It is a good idea to pick on of these URLs as preferred and use 301 redirects to send traffic from the other URLS to the preferred URL. Today we will pickup www version of URL as our preferred URL and look at how we can redirect the non-www version

Recently I have started playing with the Moq (pronounced "Mock-you" or just "Mock") a Mocking Library for .NET Developers, that takes full advantage of .NET 3.5 (i.e. Linq expression trees) and C# 3.0 features. Here in this post I will discuss how I have used the TryUpdateModel method in the Form POST scenario and also share how I have written a test case using Moq mocking library to deal with the TryUpdateModel<TModel>(TModel model) method of the ASP.NET MVC controller

Routing Library resides in the System.Web.Routing Namespace of the .NET Framework 3.5, which provides us the flexibility to use URLs that has no mapping to a physical file. This means ASP.NET MVC framework provides flexible URL mapping engine and enables us to write SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) friendly URLs with very little effort. No one can deny the importance of SEO, to be successful in search based marketing. What better way to analyze a business than from what customers are looking for

I normally do not use DataSet and prefer Objects instead generated by the ORM frameworks, but recently I had to produce a ASP.NET page that displayed a list of records from multiple DataTables. Lets look at a similar example. Lets assume we consume this DataSet which has two DataTables "Agent" and "RealEstateProperty". The task is to display, what properties belongs to which agent, in a GridView. There are different ways to accomplish this task, lets look at them one by one. Method

All our ASP.NET pages must derive from System.Web.UI.Page class, but we can take the advantage of inheritance and create a Custom Base Class to manage Security, Session, Error Handling and other repetitive custom codes elegantly. We normally go and create a custom base class that derives from System.Web.UI.Page class which looks something like this. Then we go and inherit our ASP.NET pages from this class. Note: For ASP.NET 2.0 website projects this file needs to be in a separate class library because

Now Microsoft Chart controls Add-on for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 can be used for charting needs. Prerequisite: Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and Microsoft Chart Controls for Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 . For sample Environment for Microsoft Chart Controls check here . The sample environment contains over 200 samples for both ASP.NET and Windows Forms. See the following related links: Chart Controls for .NET Framework Chart Controls for .NET Framework Language Pack Chart Controls Add-on for