I have been a professional developer for more than five years and in this time I have been working exclusively on (more or less) enterprise ASP.NET applications. In that time I have worked on a couple of Windows Services to do background tasks and a couple of migration tools but other than that I have no real world experience with either desktop or mobile development. I do not like the web as a platform for applications. I really like it as a platform for serving information (Wikipedia style) but it always seemed so wrong to me to build applications using a document format – like programming in doc + VB script for Word. Sadly in the relatively small city where I live there are not many options that pay well and have interesting projects so my whole career kind of naturally swung towards Web development. So I saved some money, quit my job, took another junior level part time job as a mobile developer with a severely reduced pay and I plan to develop some apps on my own. All of this because I do not like developing for the Web… Plus I want to have more time to play StarCraft...

   In this series of articles I will detail my experience developing my very first Windows Phone application.

  Това видео беше записано за един конкурс съпътстващ Дни на Microsoft 2012. В крайна сметка не спечелих, което очевидно е резултат от ширещата се корупция, а както знаем Microsoft са измамници и осъден монополист. Така и така съм го записал реших да го публикувам за да се насладите.

   I recently encountered a bug in the ASP.NET Web Forms project I was working on that I found quite interesting. Certain page had a list of items and an item can be selected in a master/detail fashion. All this is done with AJAX via an UpdatePanel. When the page is opened for the first time everything works fine but if the user selects an item and then refreshes the page the next item selection simply does not work. It throws event validation error and all this happens only in Firefox. All other browsers work like a charm...

   A few days ago I was asked how one can develop a page in ASP.NET Web Forms that fulfills the following requirements:

   1. The page should display a product.
   2. There should be an AJAX pager (next/previous or normal pages).
   3. The user should be able to copy URL from the address bar and send it to other people who should see the same product.
   4. If the user pastes the link in Facebook the right product information should be displayed.

   So how can we fulfill these requirements using good old Web Forms with update panels...

   I almost forgot that today is the 256th day of the year which means that it is Programmers' Day. Happy holiday to everyone cranking code!

   I almost forgot because of all the excitement around BUILD. Be sure not to miss the live stream tonight (it should appear on the site) and learn about the future of Windows. A nice day for a big dev conference. Good job Microsoft!