Windows Communication Foundation

If you are familiar with web services, this should be easy. But let us start with the basics.We know about object oriented programming concept. In object oriented programming concept, we create an instance of a component in form of an object and work with it. As we see, objects are tightly coupled to the component and hence controls the component's lifetime.In contrary, service oriented applications are loosely coupled. In service oriented architecture, there exists a host (call it a server) that hosts a service and there exist clients to consume...

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State management in ASP.NET

A web application runs over HTTP, a stateless communication mode. That means, each request for a page is a new request for the server, no matter if the same page is being requested again. When a page makes a round trip to the server (for example when you fill up a form and submit it), you can naturally expect the data you filled in to be lost when the page loads back...unless you somehow manage to save the data somewhere and fill them back in the controls when the page loads back. This is called "maintaining the state".In traditional environments...

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ASP.NET Page Life Cycle

By understanding the details of how an ASP.NET page runs on the server before the rendered HTML is sent to the browser, one can realize how many significant stages a page goes through and how much control it releases to the developer. While the page runs through its life cycle, while the methods of the page’s base class can be overridden, a number of events are also raised that can be handled and exploited.I wanted to write in detail about the life cycle, but time constraints...you know. But, everything about the life cycle can be found here,...

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