Jeevan Murkoth

I am sure that most of you have heard about or have had a chance to use Google Maps. It's a great service and I was really impressed by the responsiveness of the application and the ease with which users could drag and zoom maps from a Web browser. It has in many ways heralded th... (more)

Ever since the advent of the Internet, Web applications have lagged behind desktop applications in terms of interactivity and responsiveness. One of the biggest drawbacks in the conventional Web model has been the cycle of inactivity between the user request and the server respon... (more)

Since the advent of Web development, Web developers have sought a way to provide a consistent look and feel across the Web application. This pursuit has resulted in different custom solutions. With the introduction of master pages in ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has finally brought the... (more)

The introduction of ASP.NET in 2002 signified a big change in Microsoft server-side technologies for building Web sites. It represented a shift from the interpreted Active Server pages (ASP) to compiled ASP.NET pages. The compiled ASP.NET Web applications were much faster than th... (more)

XAML, pronounced "zammel," stands for Extensible Application Markup Language, which made its first appearance during PDC 2003, when Microsoft unveiled its next version of Windows, known as Longhorn. XAML is a part of the new Windows API, codenamed Avalon, which in turn is part of... (more)

Use of XML has become more and more popular over the past few years. Security is a big concern since the content of an XML file is in plain text and the information is in a human-readable form. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has developed standards to meet the security requi... (more)