Using Lightbox in an ASP.NET Application (C#)
The article describes Lightbox as, "... a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page." It delivers a nice, professional looking method for displaying images as overlays through the use of hyperlinks. ...
Performance Tuning in Database Systems
In this article, we’re going to learn the principles and techniques you can use to help troubleshoot and evaluate query performance by illustrating examples in Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle database....
Materialized Views in Database Systems
This article is intended to illustrate the concepts of materialized views in database systems and their realization through examples written for SQL Server and Oracle database systems. ...
Test for User Group Membership in ASP.NET C#
This article describes a simple approach to determining whether or not a logged in user is a member of a group within the context of an asp.net web based application. ...
Simulating autonomous transactions in Microsoft SQL Server
In the article, I will cover how to use table variable techniques in order to simulate the autonomous transaction behavior of Oracle databases in Microsoft SQL Server....
ASP.NET 3.5 URL Routing
This post speaks about basics of URL Routing and how URL Routing related to building a ASP.NET MVC Application. This post specifically speaks about how URL Routing is used in ASP.NET MVC Application.
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Physical data organization and indexing
This article is intended to explain the main storage structures used in database systems through examples in Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database. ...
ASP.NET 3.5 MVC Application
This post gives you the basic overview on ASP.NET Models, Views and Controllers. It explains how all parts in MVC Application work together and discuss how the architecture of an ASP.NET MVC application differs from an ASP.NET Web Forms application.
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About development on two-way RTF to XML/XHTML converter components and services
Microsoft introduced the Rich Text Format for specifying simple formatted text with embedded graphics. Initially intended to transfer such data between different applications on different operating systems, today this format is commonly used in Windows for enhanced editing capabilities. The XHTML t......
Ajax rounded corners control
There is a very good control in AJAX to make rounded type shape. We can create rounded shape in many design by using Corners property of this control....
AJAX Accordion Control
The Accordion is a web control that allows us to provide multiple panes and display them one at a time. It is like having several CollapsiblePanels where only one can be expanded at a time....
OleHelper for Microsoft Access (.MDB) in ASP.NET 2.0
This article is very much similar to the Microsoft Data Access Application Block, provides static methods in a "sealed class OleHelper" where I have Execute Dataset, ExecuteNonQuery & PrepareCommand to work with Microsoft Access database....
Accessing Themes/SkinId's Programmatically using ASP.Net 2.0
This article will give you good idea, as how we can access Theme & Skins & use CSS with respect to each theme, Microsoft has provided great feature in asp.net 2.0, which will reduce developer's stress to maintain GUI and Color-combination again....
ASP.Net 2.0: Export GridView to Excel - Part II
In this version of the article, we will include the handling the Hyperlink columns in the GridView export to Excel and also re-factor our original logic to use more general features of Reflection....
ASP.Net 2.0 Ajax Extension 1.0 Application
This article will explain you in dept of creating AspNet Ajax-Enabled Application
I have explained with the help of product management example, where you can add new product, edit, update & cancel the product related activity....
Arabization: Localization/Globalization in ASP.Net 2.0
In order to reach global market for any successful product, it is necessary that product supports maximum regional languages. To have support different languages, it is required that while developing product, the concept of localization / globalization utilized....
ASP.NET HTML Postback Custom Control
Web form controls do not offer a complete solution to ASP.Net design and hence HTML tags are still required. Occasionally the need exists for a postback from an HTML tag, this article presents a Custom Control to address this requirement....
Extending the ASP.NET ImageButton Control
This article describes an easy approach to extending an existing ASP.NET control; in this example, the standard toolkit’s Image Button control is extended to support roll-over effects. Given the standard control already contains existing support for both server side click events and client click e......
.NET SQL Authorization Manager
.NET Sql Authorization Manager (AzMan x .NET 2.0) allows you to set Item-based permissions for Authorization Manager-enabled Microsoft.NET 2.0 applications. Storage reside on a MS Sql Server DataBase and can be administrated by a managed MMC 3.0 Snap-In....
Flash Player Custom Control for ASP.NET 2.0
This article describes a quick and simple approach to creating a custom web control used to display shockwave flash files within an ASP.NET page. Whilst the article and demonstration project are focused upon displaying a shockwave flash (SWF) file, the basic idea is applicable to any sort of objec......
OnChanged Event for User Controls
In this article I will show some ways how to create user controls with OnChanged event . The examples are written using VB.Net for Windows applications.
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HTTP Compression with HttpCompress
This article describes how to enable HTTP compression for ASP.net web applications without having direct access to the server and by using an HttpModule....
Using Client Callbacks for building the ListBoxesFTs_C ASP.NET Web User Control: Part II
In this article I share how you can build your own ASP.NET web user control with the help of the Client Callbacks. The examples are written using C# and JavaScript....
How to automatically send a resolution optimized markup of a web page to the client
This article will tell you about a technique through which you can make intelligent ASP.NET websites which will automatically detect the resolution of the visitor's desktop and generate a resolution optimized mark-up of a page, not forcing the visitor to keep the resolution of his/her desktop accor......
Generics in VB.Net 2.0
This articles comes in series with my last article - Limitations in ArrayLists. In this article, I specifically talk about Generics and how they improve upon arraylists and how they solve the issues posed by ArrayLists....
Using Client Callbacks for building the ListBoxesFTs_C ASP.NET Web User Control: Part I
In this article I share how you can build your own ASP.NET web user control with the help of the Client Callbacks. The examples are written using C# and JavaScript....
A Server Timer using ASP.Net Client side callback
This page is to design a client side timer which will display the server time without refereshing the page and using the client side callback feature of the ASP.Net feature....
Data Access Component and the Factory Design Pattern
A generic Data Access Component implementation written in VB.Net that supports SQL, Oracle, OLEDB and ODBC data providers. Using the Factory design pattern for instantiating the data provider correct and specific objects determined at run time....
A guide to ObjectDataSource control
One of the best new features of the forthcoming ASP.NET 2.0 will be the ObjectDataSource control. However, as I found out in my experimentation what seems like a simple control has some complex behaviours to master to get it working properly. If (like me) you have an existing data access layer you ......
VB.Net Defensive Event Publishing using Interfaces
In order to ensure that our events behave as intended we can use interfaces to control access, the classes that subscribe to the events, and the event registration process. To do this, we can write "observer"-type interfaces for notification, subscription and un-subscription to events because the V......
VB.Net Yield Return Iterator
One interesting new feature of the VB.Net is the “yield” keyword. Basically it is used to iterate through objects returned by a method. It creates a state engine in IL so you can create methods that retain their state and don’t have to go through the pain of maintaining state in your code....
Creating MS Word Document using VB.Net, XML and XSLT
This simple program demostrate how to create well formatted MS Word documents using VB.Net, XML and XSLT. Using XSLT to create Word documents requires the knowledge of RTF key words. ...
Building the ListBoxesFT_C ASP.NET Web User Control in Visual Studio 2005: Part II
In this article I share how you can build your own ASP.NET web user control. As example, I use control which includes at least two built-in ASP.NET Web server controls (such as ListBox controls) and allows "to make data exchange" between them : a) by using server side process ( PostBack ); b) by ......
Packing List for the Pocket PC in the .NET Compact Framework
This article demonstrates a pocket pc packing list application to help you track moving inventory. The application is written in C# for the .NET Compact Framework (1.1) and shows you how to overcome some limitations in the framework such as scrolling a form and searching nodes in XML....
Building the ListBoxesFT_C ASP.NET Web User Control in Visual Studio 2005: Part I
In this article I share how you can build your own ASP.NET web user control. As example, I use control which includes at least two built-in ASP.NET Web server controls (such as ListBox controls) and allows "to make data exchange" between them : a) by using server side process ( PostBack ); b) by ......
Lookup Area Codes by Zip Codes with an ASP.NET Custom Control
This article describes the construction of a simple custom control used to lookup an area code and a city/state location based upon a selected zip code; the lookup is performed through the use of an available public web service. The article includes the source code for this custom control and well......
Convert Currency Values with a Custom Control
This article describes the details for constructing a custom ASP.NET 2.0 composite control used to convert one form of currency into another. The control consumes a public web service in order to calculate the exchange rate and uses the exchange rate returned from the web service to calculate the ......
Tip: How to Export a Crystal Report to a PDF file Programmatically in ASP.NET?
You can export a Crystal Report to various formats using CrystalReportViewer’s Export option. However, there are occasions when you want your users to see the report direct in PDF format in the browser as soon they click the Report button in your application....
SQL Server Reporting Services
SQL Server Reporting Services is a comprehensive, server-based platform for creating, managing, and delivering reports that contain data from relational and multidimensional data sources. This article explains the features that are supported by SQL Server....
Understanding SQL Server Yukon Service Broker
The new version of Microsoft SQL Server™ "Yukon" comes together with a set of technologies capable of enlarging the horizon for database applications. One of the most remarkable technologies is the Service Broker that makes it possible to build database-intensive distributed applications. In this a......
Validating ASP.NET Server Controls
Validation server controls are a series of controls that helps you validate the data that the user enters into the other controls that are provided with ASP.NET. They determine whether the form can be processed based upon the rules that you define in the validation server controls....
ColorFul Web DropDown List in ASP.NET
In this example we will build an ASP.NET User Control which provides a listing of colors with the list items displayed in the actual color that the list item represents. ...
ASP.NET Bug Logging Program
This simple application uses an access database to log bugs from a web page. The application also allows you to view a report of all the bugs that have been entered....