The webmethod tag is an attribute added to a Public methods to indicate the method should be exposed as part of an XML Web service. Below is an example of applying the WebMethod attribute.
<WebMethod()> _
Public Shared Function FunctionName(ByVal Parameter As String) As ObjectName
Dim ObjectName As Object = Object
Return ObjectName
End Function
The Web method can now be called via javascript on the client. Below is an example of calling the webmethod from the client.
PageMethods.FunctionName(Parameter1, onComplete, OnTimeOut, onError);
Here is a great link with additional information for web methods:
http://www.novologies.com/post/2009/05/06/Cleaner-Faster-Ajax-in-ASPNET.aspx
<script type=”text/javascript” language=”javascript”>
<!–
$(document).ready(function(){
$(‘#btnAddNew’).click(function(){
var isVisible = $(‘#divNew’).is(‘:visible’);
if (isVisible == false){
$(“#divNew”).animate({ height: ‘show’, opacity: ‘show’ }, ‘fast’);
} else{
$(“#divNew”).animate({ height: ‘hide’, opacity: ‘hide’ }, ‘fast’);
}
return false;
});
});
–>
</script>
Microsoft Velocity provides distributed in-memory web application caching. This provides highly scalable, high-performance application caching. “Velocity Caching” can be used to cache any Common Language Runtime (CLR is the Virtual Machine of Microsoft’s .NET initiative) through simple API’s. From a general standpoint, Velocity was created with the goal of providing performance, scalability and availability.
The main application for providing scalable, available, high-performance applications using Velocity is by fusing the memory between multiple computers to give a single/unified cache view for the application to employ. The application can they store any CLR object that is serializable.
http://blogs.msdn.com/velocity/
If (Not String.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.QueryString("qString"))) Then qString = Request.QueryString("qString")
End if