Convert .net ~/ path to actual web path

In .net, we use the sympol ~/ for refering to a file, but some times we want to be able to convert the ~/ path to the actual path in url.
For example, in one of my projects,I have a web.config variable to the login page, and the value is ~/login.aspx, and I use the Response.redirect(configurationmanager.appsettings(“Login”)) [...]

Improve your Ajax performance using YSlow and Firebug

YSlow is a plug-in for the Firebug plug-in in Firefox, it is developed by Yahoo and is used for performance profiling. YSlow is a great tool for seeing how your Ajax functions are actually performing.
Apart from the normal benefits of YSlow like analysis of your page size, number of http requests, GZip components, expire headers, [...]

Changing Code While Running in Debug Mode in .Net 2005

In .Net 2005, you can change the code behind once a debug process has finished, but if you were stepping through the code, and changed while it’s still in the process of stepping through the code(the green play button is highlighted), once you run through the rest of the code you will probably get a [...]

Autocomplete not showing up even though no exception has occured

While working with the Ajax tookit autocomplete extender, I have encountered a very strange problem. On one of the pages where autocomplete were setup, the autocomplete had a huge delay. There were no exceptions, the data was retrieved fine, when in debug mode, the autocomplete would show, but when running on the server, the autocomplete [...]

Blogging, it’s actually good for your well being?

I blog for a very good reason, to share my ideas and issues I have resolved so it can help others, but apparently I am also improving my own well being and making my self a happier person in general as well.
In this article here from Mike Sachoff at WebProNews, he explains based on two [...]

Can not open Visual Studio .Net 2003 project once added to SVN- Problem Resolved

This is an issue that has haunted me when I first started to use SVN, and it took me sometime to figure out why it is happening and how to get around it.
After first switching to SVN from visual source safe, I added all my .Net 2003 projects to SVN, but after I’ve added them [...]

10 ASP.NET Performance and Scalability Secrets

I came across a really good article today on how to optimise asp.net performance by changing web.config and other non code related areas. The article can be accessed here