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What I visit most of the time

I was just thinking about what are the sites I’m visiting most of the time. So I thought to write something about them. I think a person can be understood better by the sites he is reading and visiting most of the time. So I think you can know more about me when I share my favorite list. Google : The best search engine I have ever used. It helps me a lot on finding almost anything. It helps me a lot. I don’t have to talk about this because anybody who reads this blog knows about Google. Yahoo mail : Yahoo mail is the mail I am using. There are 2 reasons for that. First it is free. Second no storage limit. FaceBook : Most of the time what I am doing in here is accepting friends and looking at the photos posted by friends. (normally I visit almost all the photos of the friends) DefenceWire (blog): This is a blog which posts about the current status of the war in Sri Lanka . There are a lot of comments so the time is spent more on reading

User Controls vs. Custom Controls

The first thing I have to do in here is to apologise for not posting something on this blog for a long time. Yes it was really a long time without any posting. There were some reasons for that like I had to go abroad (still I am at Canada, and it is a big experience). So I was new in here had lot of work to do. Anyway I hope to post regularly now onwards.  I have been on 2 projects in here (web applications). On one project it was designed to do by using more “User Controls” and the other one was using “Custom Controls” so first of all I was pretty confused with mixing these two approaches. In my mind I was like in a war to identify what is the better approach and thought to write about those a little. User Controls  Basically a User Control is like a normal aspx page only different I can see is the file extension is as ascx . We can make a user control and it has a code behind also. We can just build this as a web page and treat it as a normal web page on aspx. So we can have pro