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Making AJAX calls from a .NET web page - Part 2

Continuation of Part 1 
AJAX sample code - calling from a .NET page with C#
Now the good stuff.  How do we implement AJAX in our .NET pages?  The answer is surprisingly and pleasantly simple, as it turns out, and is not actually particular to any one scripting language, be it C#, php, perl or whatever.
The secret […]

Making AJAX calls from a .NET web page - Part 1

AJAX, (which stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML”) is a really cool technology.  Although not a perfect solution, AJAX has solved some difficult problems related to creating a “rich” user experience in a web browser.  
With a traditional web page, the browser makes an http request to the server.  The web server delivers the HTML content to the […]

Parsing Amazon Web Services (AWS) with C# and .NET

Amazon web services are one of the most feature and information-rich sources
of queryable product data available. They even have user and editorial reviews that
you can present to your customers to induce them to buy through your site. The
best part is that it’s free for developers (Get it at Amazon.com).
Here I want to present a short […]

Using C# to parse XML feeds.

What with the big push to have XML adopted as a cross-everything data format, it seems like it should be fairly straightforward to parse an XML file in .NET.  For the most part, I would say that it is, but I ran across a situation recently that was a bit difficult to solve — mostly […]