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Understanding Response.Redirect, Server.Transfer and Cross Page Postbacks
In ASP.NET, you are left with three choices to transfer server processing from one page to another – Response.Redirect, Serve.Transfer and Cross Page Postbacks. This article discusses at how each of these methods in a lucid language.
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Space Pens and SQL Server
Wrapping up the Good Enough discussions – Ken: "The “Good Enough” series instantly reminded me of the Space Pen story.
In the heat of the space race in 1965 an enterprising American named Paul C. Fisher developed the Space Pen. This pen was capable of writing in zero gravity, freezing cold, boiling heat, and even underwater. Fisher developed this under his own initiative at a personal cost of over $1 million. Between 1965 and 1967 Fisher solicited his pen to NASA, who after repeated testing and consulting with Fisher, purchased 400 pens for $2.95 each.
The Soviets, faced with a similar problem, used a pencil.
I have Pencil and a Space Pen in my cube to remind me that sometimes the best solution is the Pencil. Yes, there are times where the Space Pen solution is what’s needed. But in today’s “agile development” climate, the pencil solution is often most appropriate.
People often get lost in the details of that story, and say that the story is an urban legend. The only “legend” part of that typically relates the idea that NASA paid for the development of those pens. Fisher paid for the development himself.
http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp"
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