In some web applications that show sensitive data, such as online banking, we want to “time out” the user’s session after a certain amount to time. For instance, we might want to log out the user automatically and redirect the user to the home page. This is an important security feature, but at the same […]

In web development, there are occasions when we want to redirect the browser to another page without any interaction from the user. For instance, we might want to display the current page for 5 seconds and then automatically redirect to another page. This could be done with the Refresh meta tag. But what if we […]

ASP.NET AJAX is a simple way of creating pages that are more interactive and make use of AJAX technology without having to create new controls. But it’s not always possible to generate the behavior we want with just code on the server side. In many occasions we have to write our own JavaScript code. ASP.NET AJAX also puts at our disposition JavaScript functions. One of them is $get().