Today we had a little situation where to get the selected text of Dropdown in Jquery. As far as I know we can get only the value as given below $("#somedrop").val() This gives the selected value. I did a little google and found a helpful text in discussion forums . The answer will be simple. $("#somedrop option:selected").text() Please let me know if ......

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All these days I was trying out with ADO.Net Dataservices in my local Visual Studio 2008 express which used to run in the Cassini WebServer which comes along with that. I was having some problem with the port as the number is dynamic.So I decided myself to upload the same in IIS and did so. When tried running the app pointing to the DataService file ......

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Hi All, The most awaited RIA services is live. You can check the below blog post. http://blogs.msdn.com/brada... Thanks, Thani ......

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I am currently studying some of the listed articles which may be of useful for you guys Study material on Object Persistence (This is in Java but subject is general) New things in .Net 4 Beta 2 Javascript Class browser Making jQuery calls to WCF/ASMX with a ServiceProxy Client Disable button during postback Hope they will be of great use. Thanks, Thanigainathan.S ......

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Today I was trying to call ASP.Net web service from JQuery. I thought it was easy first. But when tried implementing them I felt the difficulty. I don't had this problem while calling Ajax enabled WCF service from JQuery. Hence I did a small Bing and found out some useful tips to share. I referred links below. http://www.mikesdotnetting.... ......

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Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is released. I tried searching for the ISo copy and could not find one. Finally they released the ISO copy also. http://msdn.microsoft.com/h... There under the downloads section you can find the ISO link of rthe Ulitmate,Premium and professional edition. Thanks, Thani ......

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I should definetely share this link by Scott Gu on the updates of VS10. There are some series of 10 posts in them. Please read them . http://weblogs.asp.net/scot... ......

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Hi All, I got a chance to read the Blog from Scott Gu Very nice post explaining the new intellisense features available in VS 2010. I am sure MS would have done a good R&D in this field and came up with the solution. The intellisense members are now searched based on 1. Events,Methods and Properties listing all of them .We don had this feature previously. ......

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Wednesday is a fantastic day for me as Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 is launched (though MSDN subscribers got them on tuesday itself). I tried download them and installed. I would like to give some useful links where youcan get some info on them for reference. http://www.microsoft.com/vi... - This is a web install ......

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Just going through some function programming comcepts in .Net .Don't wonder how we have this in .Net. Its there from VS2008(.Net 3.5) . I checked this blog post and its very intersting.

F# Programming Concepts and Difference with C#

Thanks,

Thani

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