An Introduction to the Microsoft Web Platform Installer
Getting a new ASP.NET Web development machine up and running isn't hard, but there are a lot of steps involved and it takes a fair amount of time. That's why Microsoft is working on a new tool called the Microsoft Web Platform Installer. It provides a single interface for installation of the tool......
Building an Enhanced ASP.NET GridView Control
The GridView is a great control that allows you to display paginated results. But what happens if you want to change the underlying display for all of your projects? This article shows you how to extend the GridView so that it displays a summary row and allows pagination and sorting in that summa......
Using the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block in ASP.NET - Part I
This article shows how you can take advantage of the validation features within the Validation Application Block, part of version 3.0 of Enterprise Library, in your ASP.NET applications. Part one examines the Validation Application Block's built-in validators, configuring validation rule sets, and......
Building an ASP.NET Note Taking Application
This article presents a one-page, extremely simple, online note taking application built in ASP.NET. It's not much from a technology point of view, but sometimes it's the simple little things that help you the most.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...
Introduction to Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0
Webparts provide an easy way to customize a website at runtime. This article will cover the basics of using webparts in ASP.NET 2.0, including the Web Part Manager, Web Part Zones, and using a database to store customizations.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...
Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0
If you've been wanting to leverage the power of AJAX in your ASP.NET Web applications, but aren't a client-side Javascript and XML guru, the moment you've been waiting for is finally here. Microsoft just recently released version 1.0 of the "Atlas" project, calling it simply ASP.NET AJAX......
Securing Non-ASP.NET Files Using ASP.NET 2.0
Did you know that you can actually use the ASP.NET authentication system to secure other types of files like images and PDFs? It only works on IIS 5 or later and has some limitations, but it can be done.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...
Server-Side Creation of Excel 2007 Files Using .NET 3.0 and Office Open XML
The adoption of XML as the native file format for Excel 2007 has opened up a whole host of new possibilities for utilizing the power of Excel as a reporting tool. Now instead of relying on hacks and OLE Automation, you can create native Excel files on the server using standard tools.Visit our new ......
Taking an ASP.NET 2.0 Application Offline
Normally the last thing you want is for your web application to be offline. That being said, there are times when it's either desirable or necessary to take an ASP.NET application offline. Luckily ASP.NET 2.0 provides a convenient way to take an application offline and inform site visitors of the......
File Uploading in ASP.NET 2.0
With the inclusion of the FileUpload control in ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has finally given us a WebControl to handle file uploading. In this article we'll examine the new FileUpload control and show just how easy it is to build an ASP.NET Web Form that accepts user uploads.Visit our new .NET 2.0 sec......
LDAP Access Control for ASP.NET
Microsoft's ADAM (Active Directory Application Mode) is a popular LDAP server for application developers. This article describes how to configure ADAM for regular LDAP communication and build a boilerplate ASP.NET authentication application on top of it.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...
An Introduction to the ASP.NET 2.0 Navigation Controls
In this article, Ziran Sun introduces the new ASP.NET 2.0 Navigation Controls and shows you how they make managing your site easier. He walks you through the entire process -- from creating your first sitemap all the way to applying formatting to the controls so they match the design of your site.......
An Introduction to Themes in ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 1
The advent of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) was a huge leap forward in document presentation on the web. Using CSS, you were finally able to separate a document's content from the associated layout and presentation information. With the inclusion of Themes in ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has taken this ......
An Introduction to Themes in ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 2
In the first part of this series we gave you a brief introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 Themes and walked you through creating a theme, adding a stylesheet to it, and associating the theme with your site's content files. In the second part of the series, we show you how to add a second theme to the site,......
An Introduction to Themes in ASP.NET 2.0 - Part 3
In the third installment of our series on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Theme system, we introduce you to the concept of Skin files and illustrate how they extend your theme so that it applies to the built in ASP.NET server controls. We then examine Named Skins and the EnableTheming property and show how th......
Building an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part for Deployment to WSS V3.0 and MOSS 2007 - Part 1
In this article, Gayan Peiris will explain how to create an ASP.NET 2.0 web part using Visual Studio 2005 and the C# language. As an example, he will walk you through the creation of a simple ASP.NET 2.0 web part that displays the logged in user's name.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...
Building an ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part for Deployment to WSS V3.0 and MOSS 2007 - Part 2
In the conclusion of his article on how to create an ASP.NET 2.0 web part using Visual Studio 2005 and the C# language, Gayan Peiris shows how to add the web part to the Web Part Gallery and a SharePoint site.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...