http://aspalliance.com/author.aspx?uId=697 AspAlliance articles by Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) One of the big advantages of LINQ is that we could use it against Objects, collections, XML, etc. Most importantly, searching a collection or a node in XML can be easily done using LINQ. LINQ uses queries similar to SQL, which is rather easy compared to querying an XML using XPath. The author, Satheesh Kumar, explains LINQ and how it can be used to solve the most common issues lying around objects, XML, SQL, Datasets and XSD. This is a great book for beginners. http://aspalliance.com/1627_Review_LINQ_Quickly Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT In most of the projects that I have worked on, I ended up creating custom controls. Creating functional custom controls involves a lot of careful coding. In this book, the authors have explained how to build a custom controls using the Microsoft .NET framework. Greater importance is given on how to build a control which deals with the GDI. GDI stands for Graphical Device Interface. GDI+ is the .NET framework representation of the graphical class library. These class libraries provide us with a rich set of functionality which can be used to develop some flashy controls. This review looks at each chapter of the book, explaining what is covered and analyzing if the book meets its goal of teaching GDI. http://aspalliance.com/1628_Review_GDI_Custom_Controls__PACKT_Publishing Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT In this article, Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) reviews "Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5" by Omar AL Zabir (O'REILLY Publishing). Das does a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the book and explains how this book will help you build an AJAX enabled Web 2.0 portal. http://aspalliance.com/1592_Review_Building_a_Web_20_Portal_with_ASPNET_35 Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT This article is a review of "Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials" by Bogdan Brinzarea and Cristian Darie (Packt Publishing).Chinnathampi does a chapter-by-chapter analysis of the book and explains how this book will help you build AJAX enabled web pages with ease. http://aspalliance.com/1576_Review_Microsoft_AJAX_Library_Essentials__Client_Side_ASPNET_AJAX_10_Explained Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT In this article, Das explains how the good old data manipulation operations (such as Add/Modify/Delete) can be done using the ListView Web Server control. Apart from these, you will also learn how to give a confirmation message before we delete a row from the ListView. And finally, during editing/modifying a row from the ListView, we will see how to set the proper index for a DropDownList inside the ListView Edit Row. All these operations have been explained clearly with a live demo. http://aspalliance.com/1542_Data_Manipulation_using_ListView_Server_Control_with_ASPNET_35 Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:00:00 GMT This article explains how we can create a Textbox with AutoComplete feature using ASP.NET 2.0 Microsoft AJAX 1.0, Web Services and Javascript. We will see how we can expose a web service so that it can be invoked from a client side Javascript call. http://aspalliance.com/1504_Developing_AutoComplete_Textbox_using_ASPNET_AJAX_10_Web_Service_and_JavaScript Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT This article examines how to upload a file to a remote web server using ASP.NET 2.0 and AJAX. The author also discusses how to display a "Please wait ..." message while the upload is happening. http://aspalliance.com/1442_Building_AJAX_Enabled_File_Uploading_System_with_Progress_Bar_Using_ASPNET_20 Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Wed, 03 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT This article examines how to upload files to a web server using ASP.NET 2.0 with a different approach. With a click of a hyperlink you can show the "Choose File" dialog box and immediately once the user clicks the OK button from the File Choose dialog box, a file can be uploaded to the server. http://aspalliance.com/1441_Building_a_Gmail_Style_File_Uploading_System_using_ASPNET_20 Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:00:00 GMT In this article Das examines how to stream a media file from any web page using Microsoft Silverlight. He also discusses the streaming of multiple media files hosted at Silverlight.Live.com. http://aspalliance.com/1342_Streaming_a_Silverlight_Media_Application_from_Silverlight_Live Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT This article talks about how we can create Web Pages using Silverlight and is intended for anyone who is interested in knowing what Silverlight is and what needs to be known in order to create and deploy a Silverlight application with your Microsoft Silverlight Streaming account. http://aspalliance.com/1334_Building_Web_Pages_Using_Microsoft_Silverlight Jesudas Chinnathampi (Das) Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT