Ra Ajax, a New .Net AJAX library

Ra Ajax Is a new Ajax library for ASP.NET or Mono. It looks like it will bridge the gap between AJAX.NET and other common Ajax libraries in that it will have the ease-of use and integration of AJAX.NET and yet have a very light client side JS footprint. Looks pretty cool!

URL rewriting in .Net

URL rewriting in .Net is a bit trickier than using a Ruby “route” or updating the “mod_rewrite” in Apache.  Here’s an article from Scott Mitchell on MSDN on how to do it:  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972974.aspx. Isapi filters are great if you have control over your server, but if you’re on a shared server, you’ll need to handle it at the ASP.NET level with a custom http handler. Scott’s article above goes into some detail about how to write your own,  but Thomas Bandt and Albert Weinert have written a nice one (based on the work of Fabrice Marguerie) that you can freely reuse here: http://www.urlrewriting.net/149/en/home.html