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ASP.NET Page Lifecycle 3/11/2009 - I have tried to explain relevant events in the Page lifecycle and their importance with some gotchas. I will keep updating this article with more tips and tricks, besides readers are welcome to point out mistakes and suggest corrections and give feedback! An important thing to remember here is that the entire lifecycle is repeated on every reque

Design Pattern: State design pattern 12/31/2011 - The State pattern allows an object to change its behaviour when its internal state changes. This pattern comes under Behavioral Patterns section. This pattern is used to represent the state of an object. By "internal state changes" it means, the object will appear to change its type at runtime

JavaScript Design Pattern: Publisher Subscriber Pattern 9/22/2011 - This pattern enables to build agile software architecture by decoupling items/objects which produce information and items/objects which consume it. The publisher/subscriber pattern is a software design pattern in which an object, called the subject, maintains a list of its observers, and notifies them automatically of any state changes. It is mainly used to broadcast information to multiple subscribers/observers. The essence of this pattern is to allow one object (the observer, publisher) to wat...

How to use log4net in ASP.NET 9/10/2011 - The Apache log4net library is a means to help the programmers output assertions or logs to a variety of output targets. It is very helpful in the cases where you are facing problems with an application and want to log statements to locate the problem. The statements are logged with the help og log4Net during the runtime of the program.

Understanding CSS Overflow Property 7/21/2011 - Recently one of my developers asked me regarding the overflow property of CSS. He was having some confusion regarding various options (visible, hidden, scroll and auto) provided in overflow property. Therefore I decided to write an article on same which will put some light on the overflow property of CSS. While working with HTML pages we all have boxes on it. By boxes I mean to say square or rectangular containers on the page. These containers have some height and width. If the height and width ...