Internet and computers are where things change fastest. Look at web
technologies (and companies. Google is 12 and Facebook is 6 years old.
Their revenues are $23 billion and $300 million, respectively). About in
last 15 years user experience on the browser has changed dramatically:
from static HTML
pages, to dynamic web sites with advanced JavaScript
capabilities (look at your Facebook Profile) and to the ultimate Rich
Internet Applications (RIA) along with web technologies to
offer best technologies and experience. Companies and communities have
developed many technologies, programming languages and frameworks on
browser and server side: JavaScript, ASP, PHP, Python, Ruby, JSP, JSF,
ASP.NET etc. On PHP side, new versions have come to the use of
developers and it dominated small websites (like small news websites)
and is used by some big companies like Yahoo because of these companies'
desire not to be dependent on another companies so they selected open
source. JSP on Java side, has been used by many enterprises in their
large scale websites. JSF was released as the successor of JSP but
couldn't gain market share. On Microsoft side, ASP and its successor
ASP.NET was released for dynamic websites and have been used by
enterprises generally. All technologies [read more....]
Taking snapshots of web pages is used by many applications, for example
Wordpress shows a small snapshot image of the page that a link directs
to. In this post, I'll show how can we get snapshot image of a web page
by using a small program, an .exe executable. Hence, it is the
executable that creates the image actually and our asp.net page will
make use of that .exe. First create a website, add a textbox and a
button like below: [read more....]