initially I mentioned query here along reference to Brent’s Blog, but on his suggestion I have modified the post.

Please Microsoft don’t consider me a REBEL, I am proudly Microsoft Tech Person. The reason is simple we (Tech persons) are open enough to embrace any products or trend which provides performance and stability (and ma cost-effective too).

Generally I am supporting discussion about “Alternate technologies should be explored” while sticking with technological boundaries which in my case are Microsoft one. We all are aware of the fact that looking at better code and concepts can make us better programmer/Developer, reason being clear enough I would say “Look at those good Open Source products if you learn accept it, if you haven’t that means you know better than suggest it”.

Microsoft is also supporting and getting benefits from this CodePlex is biggest example, Microsoft has placed many of it’s packages at CodePlex which gets used and reviewed by community and later become part of different Microsoft Frameworks.

Look at StackoverFlow they are part of Microsoft Bizspark program, even they earned Microsoft Stack Badge on use of Microsoft Products: OS, Database, C#, Visual Studio, and ASP .NET MVC.
But they too are blending with Open Source flavor now:

• Cruise Control .NET
• WMD – Open Source. (contributed by Stackoverflow)
• Mercurial (after a switch from Subversion) – Open Source (Source control)
• HAProxy
• Cacti
• MarkdownSharp
• Nginx

I used “memcached” as caching layer to cut huge load from SQL Server, it greatly improved response time.

In upcoming articles I will be discussing following Open Source products along their pro and cons:

1. Lucene – Open Source full text search engine framework
2. SOLR – Open Source search engine with support for Facet search and a lot more
3. Redis Server
4. memcached (a windows based port is also available)

the list may increase with time depending on my personal findings and inputs.

so place following code in our View (be aware that I am using Razor as my view engine)

@Ajax.ActionLink("Click here to make javascript call", "Home/Read", new AjaxOptions { HttpMethod="Get
   , InsertionMode=InsertionMode.Replace, UpdateTargetId=”div5”})

Nice and clean… upon click the above link will do a call back to Read method of our Home controller and will replace the result from that method in Div5.

Hit F5 and this will be rendered into your browser let’s inspect the resulting HTML

<a data-ajax=”true” data-ajax-method=”Get” data-ajax-mode=”replace” data-ajax-update=”#div34″ href=”/Home/Home/Read”>
Click here to make javascript call</a>

notice that behind the scene it’s using HTML5 style annotations… now click on the link and you will find that instead of doing Callback the link is simply doing a post back…. wow… what has gone wrong…. doing a little google on this suggest that we should include MicrosoftAjax.js and MicrosoftMvcAjax.js in our view but this doesn’t solves the problem… after some research I had figured that out you need to include mainly “jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.js” and it will work like a charm

"jquery-1.5.1.min.js"
"jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js"

http://bit.ly/hcwEXx

Find out more at http://visitmix.com/labs/ai2canvas/

and they have a introductory video at http://visitmix.com/labs/ai2canvas/introduction.html

i was tired of Spam comments on Windows Live Blog and eventually had to turn them off.

a year back when Microsoft started silverlight i was not sure about it’s future and with the pace they were proceeding. But in this short span Microsoft has taken some serious steps towards the development and interoperability of silverlight. Like for Linux platform a collaborative effort Moonlight (though i haven’t tested but it looks promising) is open source cross platform implementation of silverlight.
also news are around that Microsoft is testing beta for Silverlight for Android.

and just days ago they launched Silverlight for Symbian, such steps showed Microsoft’s strong efforts to strongly capture the Market which is currently owned by Adobe Flash.

The plugin for Symbian (S60 series) can be downloaded here.
for more click here

Today in Mix010 Microsoft has announced Windows Phone Developer Tools and the great thing which is new for me atleast (but i must say i suspected it ) is that it’s purely Silverlight… Scott Guthrie announced that development plateforms for Windows Phone are Silverlight and XNA..

    Courtsy Microsoft

i have gone through some good blogs Windows Phone takes the stage at Mix and Windows Phone 7 and Silverlight – Details Revealed