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http://www.eggheadcafe.com New features in ASP.NET 2.0 enable developers to get Viewstate out of the Page and on to the server for up to 500% better throughput. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... Peter puts together a neat class to capture Alexa Site data on any tracked domain - with no API and no developer license key. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... Creating any moderately complex MSI based installation with the Visual Studio .NET 2005 setup project is a real pain. Today's tips will include how to easily package up a single installation file, setup SQL Server 2005, execute large sql scripts, launch the application at the end of setup, configure NTFS permissions, trigger another MSI file, and auto install and configure UltiDev's Cassini Web Server. read more
By Robbe Morris
Read more... How to download stock price history data from Yahoo finance, store in a SQLite database, and make nice stock charts from same. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... Repository Factory tutorial with WebService layer feeding an ObjectDataSource and GridView on a web page. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... The .NET Framework provides us with over 100 colours to use within the System.Drawing namespace. In order that we know exactly what all these colours look like here is a simple web based tool that uses Reflection to loop through all the colours with the System.Drawing.Color struct and print them to the page. read more
By beto74 dixon
Read more... The most common usage of Generics in any .NET language is in implementing collections. This article provides a quick overview of the generic collection classes provided by the .NET Framework, and their main characteristics. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... Microsoft has rolled out its Live ID Web Authentication SDK and from some of the forum posts I've seen, developers are already misunderstanding what they really have to work with. You see comments like "hey, but it won't give me their email", or "Useless!", etc. Wrong!
Here we'll show how to integrate Live ID with ASP.NET Membership, Roles and Profile. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... ASP.NET has lots of "out of the box" features that make the display of data easy, including pageable GridViews and DataGrids with little or no code. But the stock paging mechanism uses javascript to cause the postback, and the url of the new "page" doesn't change. This is not "SEO friendly", because the Googlebot and other search engine crawlers click on the links, and see the result as a page they've already requested, so it doesn't get indexed. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... Learn to draw a selected color bar on an icon for font color, fill color, and line color. Office icons with the color bar stripped are included in this code sample. read more
By Robbe Morris
Read more... This is a rating bar script done with asp.net and sql server that allows users to rate things like can be done on Netflix or Amazon, all web 2.0-like with no page refresh, so you should be able to adapt it to your situation without too much trouble. read more
By arun thakur
Read more... This article presents three scenarios where an Abstract Factory may prove useful. It also highlights areas where abstract factory has been used within the .NET framework and the Patterns and Practices Enterprise Library. read more
By Douglas Minnaar
Read more... Using the much improved Version 2.0 of the ASP.Net RssToolkit building our own Feed reader to consume RSS/ATOM feeds is a cinch & requires effectively just one line of code! read more
By mv ark
Read more... This is the third article in a three part series of articles pertaining to the understanding and application of ASP.NET 2.0 data controls. This article will address common functionality that may be required from ASP.NET DataList and DataRepeater data controls. read more
By Douglas Minnaar
Read more... Utilizing a ListBox, TextBox, ComboBox, TreeView, or custom class as a property in a .NET Windows Forms PropertyGrid control can seem like a daunting task. Even resizing the PropertyGrid column widths seems impossible. Today's article will show you how. read more
By Robbe Morris
Read more... Shows how to easily create a YouTube Search page using the YouTube RESTful API and a simple DataList control. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... .NET 3.5 Extension methods are a great new way of adding functionality to an existing type – even a type you don’t have the source code to modify that type. This article explains extension methods and provides clear examples along with pros and cons. read more
By Ian Suttle
Read more... This article gives a brief demonstration of C# .NET's anonymous methods and the power and flexibility they offer developers in real world applications read more
By Shay Shivecharan
Read more... What percentage of your development time would you say that you spend debugging code? Here are some useful debugging techniques for developer productivity. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... Summary of how to use the EntlibContrib SQLite provider with Enterprise Library 3.1 (May 2007) and ASP.NET read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... Some information we've compiled from various sources, along with some of our own discoveries about cookies and ASP.NET. We will continue to add content to this article over time and in response to questions. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... It is not the intent of the Design Pattern Series to focus on providing a theoretical knowledge dump of all there is to know about design patterns. There are many books that do that already. Instead, this series will focus on providing lots of practical examples. However, there will be some theory to help address important points concerning design patterns. I use the theory of design patterns mostly as a guide and instead make references to good design pattern books for more detail explanation. read more
By Douglas Minnaar
Read more... Part 2 of the ASP.NET Data Control Series continues. In this article, the FormView DataControl is given a closer inspection. read more
By Douglas Minnaar
Read more... Shows how to use the Asynchronous Fire and Forget pattern to ping RPC Servers about changes in your site, ping the Yahoo crawler API with a RESTful GET, and perform a Fire and Forget FORM POST. Most of them say "thank you"! read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... I could not find an easy way to get HTML Entity strings (e.g. "& g t ;" - without the spaces) based on the character value, so I created this easy HtmlEntities static class based on the Generic Dictionary. read more
By Peter Bromberg
Read more... Shows how to perform high-speed ASP.NET Request logging to a database using the asynchronous Fire and Forget delegate wrapper patterns. read more
By Peter Bromberg
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