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Why ASP.NET Developers Should Care about Windows Azure

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:46:04 GMT

"Even though I sat in the audience at the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference during the November keynote session when Azure was announced with great fanfare, I did not fully comprehend why Windows Azure should matter to me. Why, as an ASP.NET developer, should I care about Windows Azure?"

Clearing Vista's saved passwords

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:51:58 GMT

Ever wondered where your saved credentials are stored on Windows, and how to delete them? Find out here! A handy little tool if you need to clear down access to remote resources

Nested Master Page Events not being called

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:35:25 GMT

Its the silly features that soak up the time on any development project..... here's one that caught me out before. Nested MasterPage Events not being fired.

Downloading Videos From YouTube

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:32:19 GMT

I've finally figured out a reliable way to download videos from YouTube. It involves one website and Microsoft's Expression Video Encoder. Now I can get anything I want to put on my Zune or iPod.

ASP.NET gets no Respect

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:16:11 GMT

Poor ASP.NET! Is it really that bad? I say No!

Create apple.com-like breadcrumb using simple CSS

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:01:02 GMT

Janko shows an extremely simple and nicely polished way to create graphical breadcrumbs like on apple.com.

XML Data Manipulation with XLinq

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:31:03 GMT

A short screencasts on how to do XML Data Manipulation with XLinq

C#: Generate WebPage Thumbmail Screenshot Image

Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:16:08 GMT

There are a few services out there that serve up screenshots of any webpage for you to display on your website. One popular one is Kwiboo; this is the one that DotNetKicks uses. For some time now I've wondered what the easiest way to do this in .NET was, and today I stumbled upon the undocumented WebBrowser.DrawToBitmap method that makes this extremely easy to do.

Move ASP.Net ViewState to SQL Server

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 22:16:03 GMT

ViewState is a great feature, but it can get really bloated with data, especially if you have loads of controls on a page, repeaters etc. You could think about setting enable viewstate to false, but you'll need it for posting pages back. This tutorial moves the viewstate to a SQL database, by implementing a simple class that all your pages will inherit from.

Customise Password Recovery Email

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:20:33 GMT

Implement your own Password Recovery Email rather than rely on the simple mail defination of the PasswordRecovery control. Using this method you can replace the password recovery mail with more sophisticated emails using alternate views and linked resources

stylizedweb.com - Most used CSS tricks

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:01:02 GMT

Earlier before I have written an article about current best CSS hacks which you can see here And now here's the list of today's most used CSS tricks - tips. I have added image examples for most of them because of critics on CSS hacks article. If you think I have missed any please let me know.

4 ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript UI methods you should learn

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:46:04 GMT

A closer look at some of the ASP.NET AJAX client side framework's less utilized UI functionality. Examples include CSS manipulation, measuring the size of a rendered element, and finding/changing the location of an element.

Specifying an originator IP Address on a WebService Request using Serv

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:15:03 GMT

If you're running multiple IP Addresses on the same NIC in Windows 2003 server and you need a webservice call to originate from a certain one, you'll probably have found the same thing I did. .net uses the default machine IP address.

Set Input Focus on a Control Programatically Added to an ASP.Net Page

Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:44:32 GMT

Here's a handy tip for those of you who are dynamically building a form add and removing controls as required by the user's responses. If you need to set the focus of a recently added control, here's how to do it using AJAX.

Backup ALL your SQL Server 2005 databases using a script

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:16:03 GMT

I wanted to backup all my databases... I had loads, creating a step for each db was getting tedious, so I wrote this script.

Editing the IIS Metabase from .net

Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:05:06 GMT

When searching (alot) for how to edit the Host Header dynamically in the IIS metabase, I stumbled across this handy library.. awesome. Certainly makes life easier.

Story of a Constructors in C#

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:32:11 GMT

There are 2 constructors. The 2 are brothers. One is static and other one is instance one. Both being brothers work [function] differently. Let us see each of them in detail. Let me know your comments. Uday.D

Preventing Caching of an ASP.net page in c#

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:45:31 GMT

The following code prevents a page being cached.

Getting the Virtual Path of a Request in c#

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 08:16:02 GMT

This simple bit of code will get you the Virtual Path of your current request.

Fixing Form Action on UrlRewrite

Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:33:07 GMT

IF you're rewriting URL's, you've probably come across the same problem I had.

Custom Validators using Client Side JavaScript

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 17:12:00 GMT

If you're doing a bit of AJAX code and you need to validate on the client, this handy guide will help you on your way.

Awesome Sidebar Gadget

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:18:58 GMT

System Control is a great shutdown gadget. It works best in large mode

Triple DES encryption wrapper

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:17:06 GMT

Here is a handy wrapper for Triple DES encryption. Uses MemoryStream, not FileStream like most other examples

Code snippet for 'protected void MethodName(object sender, EventArgs e

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:47:51 GMT

When adding a method to handle server events (such as OnClick) I often found myself copying the Page_Load method and changing the name. I looked for a snippet which would create this method for me but had no luck, so I wrote one.

How to get more than 3GB in Windows Vista 32-bit

Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:10:44 GMT

Out if the box, Vista (32-bit) only detects a maximum of 3GB of RAM. You're probably gutted if you just bought a 4GB PC. All is not lost...