I found an interesting article about delay-loading with UpdatePanel.

It is simple and useful, all you need to do is:

• Add a PreRender event handler for the UpdatePanel which delays the enabling of the desired controls.
• Do a Postback on that UpdatePanel from clientside PageLoad, using the EVENTTARGET & EVENTARGUMENT (set as an identification string to prevent multiple code executions)

Here is the complete description and code sample: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/AllAboutDelayLoading2.aspx

Oana

Two of my favourite optical illusions, pretty amazing and unbelievable :)

First one (all details are written on the picture)

And the second one:

The big rectangle has a gradient color, but the bar has only a solid, single color.

 And many others http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/  -  thanks Vali ;)

 Have a nice day,
 Oana

Hawkeye, our "travel trails app", among the best at the Imagine Cup's Windows Phone 7 “Rockstar” Award:

Details: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2010/06/08/and-the-windows-phone-7-rockstar-is.aspx?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Extremely happy,
Oana and Arthur

1. Hawkeye, the application which runs on a Windows Phone.
2. Hawkeye.API, a web service used to implement API functionalities.
3. Hawkeye.Console.App is a console application used for testing the web service and APIs.

Open source .NET APIs

• SkyDrive: http://skydriveapiclient.codeplex.com/
• Bing Maps: http://www.earthware.co.uk/blog/index.php/2010/03/writing-a-bing-maps-location-aware-application-for-windows-phone-7-series/
• Twitter
  • TweetSharp: http://tweetsharp.codeplex.com/
  • LinqToTwitter: http://linqtotwitter.codeplex.com/
• Facebook: http://facebooktoolkit.codeplex.com/
• TinyURL: http://www.emadibrahim.com/2008/04/15/shortening-urls-using-tinyurl-api-in-net/

Screenshots:

Visual Studio 2010 Hawkeye Solution

MainPage.xaml 

Oana & Arthur

The new Silverlight Pivot control will be available with the release of Silverlight 4 on 15th April.
It enables you to organize, sort, visualize huge collections of data in a very friendly way.

More details and a demo video at: http://www.getpivot.com/silverlight/