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  • Asynchronous Wait State Pattern in ASP.NET

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    Putting a browser UI on business applications makes them easily accessible to users in remote locations, but it presents some challenges for the developer. One of those challenges is how best to construct it for a long-running process.
      For example, when a user enters data into a Web Form and clicks the submit button, the page does not change and the UI is unresponsive until the server sends a new page to the browser. If the UI is unresponsive for more than a few seconds, users are inclined to press the submit button repeatedly. These multiple submissions can cause problems for the application, forcing the developer to write code to handle the repeats.
      A cleaner approach would be to keep the user informed about the server process with updated messages and a progress bar in the browser. In this column, you will learn how to create an asynchronous ASP.NET wait page that does exactly that. Let's begin by creating a page that initiates a long-running process. (The samples in     this article are written in C# unless otherwise noted.)

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  • Multilingual Web Site in .Net - A Tutorial

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    This is a Web Solution designed to teach all newcomers into the .Net field on how to incorporate Multi-language support into your Web Applications. You have to download the accompaning ZIP file.

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  • GAP - Global Attention Profile

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    The map above shows what countries Google News is paying the most attention to today. Countries in deep red are experiencing the most attention, yielding more than 3.2% of the stories detected by GAP scrapers. As the red fades and blues deepen, countries are experiencing less and less media attention. Reload this page to see the media attention profile of another news media outlet. To examine detailed data per country, this data is also presented in a table.

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  • UltraGrid for Avalon – Technology Demo

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    UltraGrid for Avalon is a functional grid control that supports hierarchical data, column sizing, multi-column sorting and ‘Outlook Group-by’. It was written by Infragistics, at the request of Microsoft, to showcase at the PDC what could be done in a very short period of time by leveraging the Avalon framework. The control was written from scratch in less than 1 month’s time by 2 Infragistic’s developers who had no prior exposure to Avalon. This was made possible by the fact that the Avalon’s framework and Infragistics’ Presentation Layer Framework (PLF) are remarkably similar - both are based on UIElements and visual trees. In fact the base class for all visual elements is called UIElement in both the Avalon Framework and our PLF. Since Infragistics has had over 3 years experience designing and building components based on UIElements we were uniquely positioned to leverage the power of Avalon.

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