Beginner’s Guide: How IIS Process ASP.NET Request

IIS (Internet Information Server) is one of the most powerful web servers from Microsoft that is used to host your ASP.NET Web application. IIS has it's own ASP.NET Process Engine  to handle the ASP.NET request. So, when a request comes from client to server, IIS takes that request and  process it and send response back to clients

When client request for some information from a web server, request first reaches to HTTP.SYS of IIS. HTTP.SYS then send the request to respective  Application Pool. Application Pool then forward the request to worker process to load the ISAPI Extension which will create an HTTPRuntime Object to Process the request via HTTPModule and HTTPHanlder. After that the ASP.NET Page LifeCycle events starts.



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Filter GridView Records using AJAX Slider Control

Sometimes we need to filter the gridview data based on some range value. On that case we can use AJAX Slider control to provide scrollable Filter functionality with gridview control. Data source for the Gridview can be anything like XML or Database.

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Visual Studio 2010 - Extension (VSX) Contest Winner - From CodeProject

My ZoomSlider VSX Extension  has been selected as a prize winner for  Visual Studio 2010 Extension Contest for the category “Most Useful Extension”!

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ASP.NET 4.0 Features - MetaDescription and MetaKeywords

ASP.NET 4.0, came up with two new properties inside Page Class, those are MetaDescription and MetaKeyWord. This has been introduce because of make web application Search Engine Friendly. Search Engine looks for Meta tag of our web page to get the details of page contents. In ASP.NET 4.0, we can add these two properties with Page class in Code behind or in Page Directives.
If you want to find out the definition of these two properties, Right Click on Page Class and Click on Goto Definition. This will show you the Meta data information of Page Class as shown in below picture

If we set MetaDescription and MetaKeywords either from Code behind or using Page Directive in aspx page, both will be render as “meta” tag in html code.
The main objective of MetaKeywords and MetaDescription proerties to make your web application SEO friendly. In ASP.NET 2.0, HtmlMeta used to do the same, but in ASP.NET 4.0 make these thing  very simple as we can easily add using Page Class.

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