Piyush Shah's Blog

How to check if a user belongs to a Security or Distribution group in ASP.Net

If you need to check at Runtime if your User belongs to a Security group. Here's how to do it -...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 03/25/2009

ASP.Net AJAX 4.0 Client Templates in depth

The best way to know a Javascript library is to pry open the javascript file and look at the...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 02/01/2009

ASP.Net RssToolkit Version 2.0

I have been part of the team working on the latest version ASPNET RssToolkit, originally created by...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 06/16/2007

Translate your text using Google Api's

Here is how you can translate a Text using Google's "Unofficial" API's. The URL for Google Translate...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 06/09/2007

VS 2005 not loading project on IIS 7 and Vista

If you get this error when loading a Web Application project on Visual Studio 2005 running on Vista...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 06/01/2007

101 LINQ query samples

If you are starting into writing LINQ queries or you are stuck in writing a query here is a link...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 05/15/2007

Convert any feed to ATOM

Judging by ATOM's rising popularity, see Atom compared to RSS, and its public endorsement by Google....

Author: shahpiyush Date: 05/11/2007

Creating Widgets using Javascript Simple Syndication - JSS

Web syndication is a way to make content of your website or application available for others to use....

Author: shahpiyush Date: 05/05/2007

MSDN Video Vista Sidebar Gadget

I created a Vista Gadget with the help of my Lead Jon Gallant. This gadget helps you find Videos on...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 04/17/2007

Convert Rss to JSON - Serialize to JSON by using XmlSerialization and JavaScriptSerializer

JSON (Javascript Object Notation) – is a light weight data interchange format. It essentially is...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 04/12/2007

Compressing ViewState of your Application

.Net framework has an entire namespace for compression - System.IO.Compression. GZipStream is the...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 04/06/2007

Sharing Master Pages amongst Applications by Embedding it in a Dll

If you need to share Master Pages across applications and you don't want to create a ton of virtual...

Author: shahpiyush Date: 03/09/2007