ASP.NET Tutorials & Articles
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Creating a Members Area in ASP
by James CrowleyA complete tutorial on how to create your own 'members-only' area on your website.
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Automate web application UI testing with Selenium
by Sing LiTesting web applications is a problem, but Sing Li thinks the solution might be easier than you think with Selenium.
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The Future of .NET Languages
by Damon ArmstrongWondered why Microsoft always seems to release different language features for each language? Discover how .NET 4.0 will reduce the disparity between C# and VB.NET with some great new features for both languages, plus a new dynamic language runtime and new functional and parallel programming languages.
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ASP.NET Patterns every developer should know
by Alex HomerIn the first of three parts, Alex looks at some of the basic patterns in ASP.NET, and how you can apply these to your ASP.NET applications in a few simple steps.
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WPF Custom Controls
by George ShepherdWPF completely overturns the classic approach to developing Windows applications and adds user interface flexibility and pizzazz unavailable to Windows developers up to now. George looks at one aspect of this - implementing controls.
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Have you seen the Silverlight? – More Silverlight
by Dave WheelerIs Silverlight the way to make your browser based applications as rich as a desktop application? Dave Wheeler thinks so and put the case for sophistication in Silverlight. In this second article, we look at events and move rapidly on to animation and other powerful presentation effects.
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Selecting, Confirming & Deleting Multiple Checkbox Items In A DataGrid/GridView - Part 2: Maintaining CheckBox State Acr
by Dimitrios MarkatosIn this article, we will examine how to create a fully functional DataGrid and GridView in .NET 2.0 with all the features you'd find set up on Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL Mail, and further demonstrate how you can multi-select items across pages and batch delete them all.
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Generate Thumbnail Images from PDF Documents in .NET
by Jonathan HodgsonThis article presents VB.NET code to create thumbnail images from a directory of Adobe Acrobat PDF documents using the .NET Framework.
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To SP or not to SP in SQL Server
by Douglas ReillyThe topic of using or not using stored procedures reaches the level of religious fervor in many quarters. Douglas Reilly, a Microsoft MVP, weighs in on the topic with an in-depth analysis.
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Web Services Interoperability between J2EE and .NET - Part 1
by Wangming YeWeaving together Web services to create cross-organizational business processes requires all partners to program to the same standard model and to avoid exposing proprietary implementations. However, the ultimate goal of making Web services interact seamlessly is still a frequent concern and a hot discussion topic. The first part of the series stresses the importance of WSDL design and analyzes the strength and pitfalls of the traditional RPC/encoded style in Web services interoperability.
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Building a Full-Featured Custom DataGrid Control
by Dimitrios MarkatosIn this article, we will demonstrate how you can build your very own Datagrid control component, one that you will be able to customize, and more importantly reuse. Based on this ability, you will then end up with one powerful control that will have many implementations, from which you could learn about creating almost any other types of custom controls.
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SQL Injection Attacks by Example
by Stephen J. FriedlSteve Friedl takes a look at how your site could be vulnerable to SQL injection attacks - complete with numerous examples - and the action you can take to prevent them.
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Tree structures in ASP.NET and SQL Server
by James CrowleyTakes a look at how tree structures can be usefully stored in a relational database such as SQL Server, and how to implement web directory-like features such as breadcrumbs.
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ASP.NET Controls Explained: Part 1/2
by James YangIn ASP.NET, there are several features that we can use to make our code reusable and independent of other code, including user controls, server controls, and the code behind method. In this article James explains what each of these features are used for, and also shows you how to use each one by providing a number of simple yet detailed ASP.NET examples.
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Introducing a post-relational database for .NET
by John SasakThis is a step by step guide for a post-relational database for .NET, Matisse. The article is aiming at helping developers quickly evaluate this alternative solution as .NET database when they face problems of productivity, flexibility, extensibility, or maintainability.
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Using ADO.NET with SQL Server
by James CrowleyAn extensive examination of using ADO.NET to access SQL Server databases, from establishing connections and executing stored procedures, to connection pools, data readers and data sets.
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In Depth ASP.NET using ADO.NET
by John GodelIn this article we will discuss a number of ways to retrieve, show, and update data with ASP.NET forms using ADO.NET. Also, we will have a clear idea about the most common server controls in ASP.NET. In particular, with this article we will cover ASP.NET server controls, ADO.NET DataSource, and creating Templated DataBound Controls, ASP.NET forms, using data with controls. John Godel
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Creating an ASP.NET Search Engine
by Stevan RodriguesWhen I was working on an ASP.NET project, I had to add the site search module - this article demonstrates how. This search engine will index an entire page for matching keyword(s) or a phrase and will count how many times the keyword(s) or phrase are found on the page, and displays the results with the highest matches first.
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Inheriting An ASP.NET Server Control
by Palo MrazHow to easily customize an ASP.NET server control by deriving from it.
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.NET Data Caching
by Dimitrios MarkatosAn introduction to using data caching in your ASP.NET pages, from simple time-specific data expiration to file dependencies, plus a real-world example with caching for data in a pagable DataGrid control.