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jQuery Ajax Beats ASP.NET Ajax

ASP.NET Ajax is a good technology in theory, but the implementation in practice is anything but smooth. There are many little ‘quirks’ that ASP.NET Ajax does to your page; these quirks almost entirely revolve around the handling of viewstate during ajax calls. ASP.NET Ajax passes the viewstate to the server and back during things like [...]

Slaying the 70-536, or How to Become an MCP

There haven’t been a lot of updates to the site lately. That’s because I’ve been studying for the Microsoft 70-536 exam, covering the .NET Framework Fundamentals, which I successfully passed today. This is the gateway exam – pretty much all of the development series starts with the 70-536. I thought I’d share some of my [...]