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What’s coming in the next version of ASP.NET Webforms?(blog.evonet.com.au)

submitted by brianmaddoxbrianmaddox(65) 1 year, 2 months ago

Microsoft are still significantly investing in ASP.NET Webforms, incorporating the best from the Webforms and MVC frameworks into the base ASP.NET classes, based on feedback received from customers, developers, and their internal teams. MVC and Webforms are both excellent frameworks – neither is ‘better’, but each are more suited to different scenario’s. The future release of ASP.NET is still in development, and will incorporate more features from MVC into Webforms than described here. However, the improvements detailed in this post should ease any worries you may have as to whether Webforms is suitable for your next ASP.NET project. read more...

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Scraping prices off Walmart - A simple Regex Example(blog.evonet.com.au)

submitted by brianmaddoxbrianmaddox(65) 1 year, 3 months ago

Scraping is the process of parsing an HTML web page and extracting specific pieces of text for your own use.  An excellent use for scraping, which we will use as an example in this post, is to monitor a competitor’s web site for the price of a product and alert or perform some other action when the price changes. read more...

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Creating a great looking Gridview with filtering(blog.evonet.com.au)

submitted by brianmaddoxbrianmaddox(65) 1 year, 3 months ago

Matt Berseth recently wrote some articles about how to a design good looking Gridview's (Building a vs2008 Styled Grid and Gridview Themes based on Google's Personalized Homepage) which was exactly what I was after. I have been looking for quite some time for a good looking Gridview and Matt's were great, although they didn't include any filtering. Nearly all of my Gridviews have filtering enabled and so here is a quick tutorial to show you how to design a stylish Gridview based on Matt's design with filtering enabled for some of the columns. read more...

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Invalid postback or callback argument with EnableEventValidation="true(blog.evonet.com.au)

submitted by brianmaddoxbrianmaddox(65) 2 years, 5 months ago

ASP.NET 2.0 has a feature known as Event Validation, which ensures that the data being sent back to the server on postback is an expected value. Event Validation is designed to help prevent injection attacks from users who are trying to POST malicious data. If an incoming value is returned via POST that the runtime believes is false then you will get an exception. This article discussed some methods for finding the underlying cause of this problem. read more...

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