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TFS Proxy Efficiency Testing

by Max Paulousky

This article describes MS TFS Proxy efficiency testing depending on the internet channel rate between TFS and TFS Proxy, TFS commands, and TFS Proxy cache state. Also, this article describes the advantages of using the MS TFS Proxy on slow Internet channels.

Fundamentals of Web Site Acceleration

by Joe Lima and Port80

This paper outlines a common sense, cost-effective approach to lowering total cost of ownership and improving Web site and Web application performance.

ASP.NET Zip Entry Handler

by Jake Morgan

Deploy zip files to your web application and serve compressed files directly out of the zip file.

Understanding CGI with C#

by Justin Williams

Leveraging the Common Gateway Interface in C#.

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.NET 2.0 REST Service

by carlos@takeapps

A working implementation of a REST service in .NET 2.0.

Simple Reverse Proxy in C# 2.0 (description and deployment)

by Denis Voituron

This article describes how to develop a reverse proxy in C# using the IIS HTTPHandlers.

Send Emails in ASP.NET using Gmail Credentials

by Harshana Eranga Martin

This article contains code to send email using Gmail accounts.

TFS Proxy Efficiency Testing

by Max Paulousky

This article describes MS TFS Proxy efficiency testing depending on the internet channel rate between TFS and TFS Proxy, TFS commands, and TFS Proxy cache state. Also, this article describes the advantages of using the MS TFS Proxy on slow Internet channels.

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TFS Proxy Efficiency Testing

26 Sep 2008 by Max Paulousky

This article describes MS TFS Proxy efficiency testing depending on the internet channel rate between TFS and TFS Proxy, TFS commands, and TFS Proxy cache state. Also, this article describes the advantages of using the MS TFS Proxy on slow Internet channels.

Fundamentals of Web Site Acceleration

24 Mar 2004 by Joe Lima and Port80

This paper outlines a common sense, cost-effective approach to lowering total cost of ownership and improving Web site and Web application performance.

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ASP.NET Zip Entry Handler

8 May 2008 by Jake Morgan

Deploy zip files to your web application and serve compressed files directly out of the zip file.

Understanding CGI with C#

27 Jan 2005 by Justin Williams

Leveraging the Common Gateway Interface in C#.

Universal Database Admin for ASP.NET and SQL Server (Reloaded)

15 Apr 2006 by Raj Lal

A dynamic web application needs an admin section for CRUD actions on the records/tables in the database. Wouldn't it be nice to have a database admin, which can be plugged to any web application? Just give your SQL connection string and it dynamically manages all table operations in just five pages.

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Adding a zip filter to web services

16 May 2006 by DaberElay

Passing large amounts of data through web services can become a huge bottle-neck in a WAN application architecture (i.e., server is on the web), and in any case, a real load on the network traffic. This is one solution for downsizing the network costs.

How to use data caching in a .NET Windows Forms application

8 Jul 2004 by Simon Steed (SimonAntony)

This article explains how using caching within your Windows Forms application can speed up data access for frequently used data and avoid performance bottlenecks over the network.

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Network Assessment - A Guide to Infrastructure Planning

25 Jan 2008 by code-frog

A simple guide meant to take the reader through a series of questions that will help them plan for and manage their business network.

Simple Reverse Proxy in C# 2.0 (description and deployment)

28 Nov 2008 by Denis Voituron

This article describes how to develop a reverse proxy in C# using the IIS HTTPHandlers.

Cookie Spy

10 Oct 2001 by Konstantin Boukreev

Creating a CookieSpy explorer bar with ATL

Independent Data Access Layer (Ddocumentation in Progress)

4 Apr 2006 by Salvatore Vetro

The art of swap from a database to another changing a flag

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Microsoft Reporting Services in Action

5 Jan 2005 by Teo Lachev

Introducing Microsoft Reporting Services.

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Your first managed C++ Web Service

17 Oct 2001 by Chris Maunder

An introduction to writing your first WebService using C++ with managed extensions

An OpenGL ActiveX Control Developed with MFC

22 Nov 1999 by Zhaohui Xing (Joey)

Panel Curve Container - An ASP.NET Custom Control Nugget

15 Nov 2005 by Tittle Joseph

An ASP.NET custom panel control which is curved on the corners, could be minimized/maximized, displayed as a nugget, and can work as a container for anything.

Running DotNetNuke 4.0.2 on Windows XP Home or on any other system lacking IIS

13 Feb 2007 by Vlad Hrybok

This article describes how to run DotNetNuke content management system on UltiDev Cassini web server, which unlike IIS can run on Windows XP Home and can be redistributed along with the DotNetNuke applications.

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ASP.NET Menu Parent Menuitem Highlighting

17 Jan 2008 by Rolf Szomor

A work-around for ASP.NET menu parent menuitem highlighting.

DPAPI and Triple DES: A powerful combination to secure connection strings and other application settings

26 Aug 2005 by Hannes Foulds

This article shows how DPAPI and Triple DES can be used to encrypt connection strings and other sensitive strings for storage in the ASP.NET web.config file.

ASP Code Analyzer

6 Dec 2006 by fschudel

A simple tool to find unused subs, functions and variables in your ASP code.

Extending IIS 5.x and IIS6 with Managed Filters

17 Sep 2007 by Tiago Halm

An overview on Filter.NET as a framework designed to expose the ISAPI Filters API to .NET while maintaining the power, flexibility and efficiency of the IIS platform

How to Install and Run ASP.NET Applications on Systems That Don't Have IIS

24 Dec 2005 by Vlad Hrybok

The article describes creating a Visual Studio .NET Setup Project that allows ASP.NET applications to be deployed on boxes that don't have IIS installed. Some familiarity with Visual Studio .NET Setup Projects will help better understand the material in this article.

Processing Long Running Tasks With Asynchronous Handlers and XMLHTTP

17 May 2005 by Javier Lozano

This article shows you how to use async handlers along with XMLHTTP to process long executing tasks in ASP.NET.

Restricting Access to trace.axd using IIS Basic Authentication

15 Sep 2004 by ChrisAdams

A technique to use the IIS Basic Authentication mechanism to control access to trace.axd.

Bitsup - Server Upload Utility Using BITS

25 Jun 2005 by wduros1

A file upload utility that uses BITS as the transfer engine.

IIsAdmin.NET: Create Multiple Web Sites Under Windows XP

16 Jun 2005 by Mark Belles, Gabe Wishnie

Tool for creating multiple web site definitions under Windows XP.

Your free search engine – Microsoft Indexing Server

15 May 2005 by Klaus Salchner (Canada)

Microsoft Indexing Server is a powerful indexing and search engine for your web or file search. This article explains how to set up Indexing Server and how to search its index from within your application.

MCMS Connector for SharePoint Technologies Review

3 May 2005 by Stephen Huen

Review of MCMS Connector for SharePoint Technologies.

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Protect non-.NET Assets Using a .NET Reverse Proxy with Forms Authentication and ISAPI

27 Aug 2006 by Toby Emden

How to protect secure assets using a .NET Reverse Proxy, an ISAPI redirection filter and .NET Forms Authentication

Your first C# Web Service

5 Jun 2002 by Chris Maunder

An introduction to writing your first WebService

Using Managed Code to Detect if IIS is Installed and ASP/ASP.NET is Registered

30 Dec 2007 by Scott Dorman

Explains how to use managed code to detect which version of Internet Information Services (IIS) is installed and if ASP or ASP.NET is registered.

DataGrid's ViewState optimization

11 Apr 2005 by Daniel Fruzynski

How to reduce DataGrid's ViewState size, while maintaining all DataGrid's functionalities.

Using Updater Block

12 Apr 2005 by Praveen Nayak

A vanilla implementaion showing how Updater Block 2.0 can be included in a Windows Forms application.

.NET 2.0 REST Service

6 Jan 2009 by carlos@takeapps

A working implementation of a REST service in .NET 2.0.

Microsoft Content Management Server Crawl Page for Search

17 May 2006 by Stephen Huen

Provides a start page for search engines to crawl a Content Management Server (MCMS) web site.

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Internet programming primer (general overview and history of ASP.NET)

14 Nov 2004 by Kevin Staunton-Lambert

A general overview of Internet technologies including what the Internet actually is, what HTML and XML are, using Web forms, CGI/MIME, IIS ISAPI, ASP and creating HTML based front ends to databases via ODBC32, OLE DB, ADO and ASP.NET

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Microsoft Content Management Server Search Controls (C#)

27 Jun 2005 by Stephen Huen

Gives Content Management Server web sites search capability using SharePoint Portal Server as the search engine.

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Email System Using ASP.NET

15 Nov 2005 by Sujith John Thomas

The article explores the SMTP concepts, configuration and simple mail service.

A Simple Web Page Template Parser And A Template Pool

16 Aug 2004 by Agemo

A simple web page template parser to separate layout from code.

Pushing HTML content to a Blackberry

7 Dec 2004 by Steven Berkovitz

How to push HTML content to a blackberry handheld using MDS

Microsoft Content Management Server Search Controls

27 Jun 2005 by Stephen Huen

Gives Content Management Server web sites search capability using SharePoint Portal Server as the search engine.

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MCMS Placeholder Content Web Part

22 Jan 2005 by Stephen Huen

Display content from a Content Management Server placeholder in a WSS site.

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File Management with Searching, Uploading, Copying and Email function

17 Feb 2005 by Matthew So (Hong Kong)

File management with searching, uploading and Email function and ASP.NET Cache is employed.

ADO.NET 101: SQL Connection

31 Aug 2004 by mysorian

A tutorial on connecting to SQL 2000 Server.

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News System with ASP

5 Aug 2004 by aa2max

Simple News System using ASP and MS Access

Development of web application using MVC II design pattern or why following MVC II will help me

4 Dec 2004 by Natty Gur

MVC infrastructure that dosen't harm ASP.NET mechanism.

Date control with support for languages and different date formats

31 May 2005 by i386.com

Using .NET's System.Globalization class for retrieving month names in forgein lanaguages, and the DateTimeFormatInfo for keeping your dates the correct way around.

ASP TreeView (Version 2.0)

28 Mar 2005 by simonchen.net

ASP TreeView is a advanced ASP control that's base on Server side / Client side technique. server side: Asp + JScript, client side: Jscript + HTML.

Modify the Realm in the browser's Authentication Dialog

3 Aug 2004 by Proxy4NT

An article on using ISAPI with MFC support to modify the authentication realm

Easy Guestbook with ASP

11 Jul 2004 by aa2max

Easy Guestbook with ASP and MS Access

Random Password Generator With Pattern String Support

2 Feb 2006 by Prasad Khandekar

A JavaScript based random password generator with pattern string support.

Generate a Google Site Map Using the HTTP 404 Handler

24 Nov 2007 by W. Kevin Hazzard

Site maps make your websites search engine friendly. Learn how to generate them dynamically using your site's HTTP 404 error handler page.

Rapid Web Application Development

27 Sep 2005 by Andrew M Baldwin

An article about the Multiformity Open Source project.

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Server.MapPath problems in Global.asa

7 Mar 2005 by felipep

Server.MapPath does NOT return the physical path of global.asa.

System.Web.Mail and the pickup directory

28 Dec 2004 by Daniel Fisher (lennybacon)

This article describes how to use System.Web.Mail with the SMTP server's pickup directory.

Post XML Data to an ASP.NET Page using C#

18 May 2005 by S Sansanwal

This article describes the function to post XML data to an ASP.NET page and then read the data on an ASP.NET page

Two-Way Data Binding in ASP.NET

12 Apr 2005 by ^piers7

Demonstrates how to get two-way databinding work in ASP.NET without subclassing all your controls.

Progess Bar Control for ASP.NET

15 Feb 2005 by Scott McCain

A reusable progress bar server control for ASP.NET server pages.

Class implementation for using webservices in ASP

14 Jun 2005 by asanoguera

With that class you only have to set a few properties and you can access to the webservices, only need know the URL of webservice, the method to invoke, and parameters.

Alert / Confirm or Call any JavaScript Function on ASP.NET DataGrid Paging

9 Dec 2005 by Tittle Joseph

Did you know that you can call any JavaScript function or stop the user from moving to the next page when he clicks on the paging links in an ASP.NET DataGrid? Read on...

Context Sensitive Help using Client Callbacks - AJAX Style

25 Sep 2006 by Mahi2407

This article is all about providing Context Sensitive Help in a web page, asynchronously or AJAX style, using Client Callbacks in .NET 2.0.

using javascript create printer-friendly pages.

20 Oct 2005 by newbegin

using javascript create printer-friendly pages,Writing the content directly into the popup windows. Using this script the pop up window can be created which holds the data that has to be printed.

Send Emails in ASP.NET using Gmail Credentials

10 Nov 2008 by Harshana Eranga Martin

This article contains code to send email using Gmail accounts.

Transfer arguments between modal page and invoker page in asp.net 1.1

19 Aug 2005 by Rouser

Transfer arguments between dialog page and invoker page in asp.net 1.1

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Collecting Remote System Information With WMI

15 Nov 2004 by Crazyloon (N. Smith)

An article explaining how to connect and collect information from a remote computer using the WMI interface.

Dynamically adjusting the size of a drop-down list and adding color to the back-ground and fore-ground of the list items

11 Mar 2008 by Sushant Joshi

To adjust the size of the drop-down list dynamically at the client-side and adding back-ground and fore-ground color to the drop-down list.

Browsing Via Directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET

14 Jul 2004 by Bobby Ryzhy

An article on browsing via directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET.

A Simple RSS News Generating Tool

28 Apr 2005 by Stephan Pilz

A tool to generate/manage news and provide news via RSS.

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Configure DIME with WSE 2.0

25 Apr 2005 by Nirosh

This article focuses on demonstrating the usage of DIME (Direct Internet Message Encapsulation) with Web Services. Here, you will have two applications, one is a Web Serivice that uses DIME technology to send an attachment (of different types) to a client side, other is a Windows Forms application.

Configure Log4Net for Desktop and Web Applications

15 Aug 2005 by Hai, Nguyen

How to configure Log4Net for desktop and Web applications

ASP.NET Reports Starter Kits Porting from Windows to Linux (Race to Linux)

30 Sep 2005 by Abi Bellamkonda

ASP.NET Reports Starter Kit Porting from Windows to Linux using Mainsoft's Grasshopper

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IIS Utility to Create Virtual Directory - Advanced

23 Oct 2007 by PuneWala

This tool is useful to create new virtual directories with extra settings in One Click !

Removing White Chars from ASP.NET Output using Response.Filter property

7 Feb 2005 by Daniel Fruzynski

This article shows how to remove unwanted white chars from each line, and some of the new line chars too. My code correctly handles scripts embedded in HTML pages.

Usage of the Client Authorization in an ISAPI Extension

3 Aug 2004 by Proxy4NT

An article on how the authorization can be used in a ISAPI Extension

Processing with C# and Oracle PL/SQL

29 Apr 2007 by Dimitar Madjarov

An article which describes an alternative way of cooperation between Oracle PL/SQL and C#

Programmatically Populating HTML forms made easy

9 Dec 2000 by Troy Marchand

A simple way to separate your design from your scripting when populating forms with data.

Requirements for Developing WebApplications & ASP .NET Problems

13 Aug 2005 by Star_Friend

Web Applications & ASP .NET

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ActiveX Magnetic Strip reader for Web and Windows Appications with a custom event

29 May 2006 by VictorVele

Example for read Magnetic Strip Reader using ActiveX, COM Object for KioskMsr reader

ASP.NET ProgressBar Control

31 Mar 2002 by xicoloko

A ProgressBar control to be used in WebForms

Power yourself against XSS

7 Aug 2007 by albert arul prakash

XSS gaining popularity to hack into websites. This article describes how to power yourself against XSS

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Spell check text area

17 Jul 2004 by Vasanth Kumararajan

Spell check text area.

Passing information between pages -The .NET way

22 Sep 2004 by Ansil

Article which demonstrates how to pass data between pages.

Testing HTML Controls with NUnitASP

5 Aug 2005 by Suresh Reddy B.V

Usually NUnitASP is used to test web controls(UI) on ASPX page. This artilcle explain how to test HTML controls which are on the ASPX page.

Simple ASP.NET Session Management Framework

5 Oct 2004 by Joey Chömpff

An article on managing Session information.

Simple Image Gallery with ASP

29 Oct 2004 by aa2max

A simple image gallery with captions using ASP.

A C# Serviced Component for Websphere MQ 5.3

29 Oct 2004 by eleung

A C# .NET serviced component that encapsulates MQ PUT and MQ GET.

Dynamic connection string

9 Aug 2004 by x_scripterx

Creating dynamic connection string on a remote site.

HomeLinks: What it is and how to implement it

19 Jun 2007 by dimpant

How to implement a mechanism to provide links to your web shared local files using XML, AJAX, and Web Services.

RecruitOffice DB - An Open Source Web-based Recruitment Management System

28 Feb 2007 by Asim_Abbasi

ASP based with MS Access as backend, recruitment mangement system. No DLLs.

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

15 Dec 2007 by ammar_shaker

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

ASP.NET Guest Entry Form

8 Aug 2004 by mysorian

Guest Entry form with an XML control.

Separating an ASP.NET Web Application into multiple Web Projects (Assemblies)

29 Aug 2004 by Michael Kalika

This article outlines how to separate an ASP.NET Web Application into multiple Web Projects (Assemblies).

Update Asp Code to Asp.net Code

7 May 2005 by kesmellon

Update classic asp code to aspx

Building Blocks For ASP.NET Applicationa: Part 1

30 Jan 2006 by Agha.net

This is a series of articles providing Building Blocks for any ASP.NET application.

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Applying Security to Server controls

11 Jan 2008 by Makesh Sanwal

You may have to give access or hide controls based on the user logged in. This article would help you write custom code to show/hide or enable/disable controls

Quick Screen Development in ASP.NET

20 Jul 2004 by Balachandar Ganesan

Auto Generate the ASPX page quickly

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Sharing User Controls Between Projects

29 Nov 2004 by mayafit

How to share user controls between projects

Append Word documents using interop services

12 May 2005 by Rabeek

An article on Word append using interop.

All about Cryptography in .NET

20 Dec 2004 by AtulMalhotra

Cryptography classes available in .NET.

New Ajax Navigation Bar

4 Dec 2007 by dilip23

New Ajax Navigation Docable Bar

Create Dynamic Line Chart graph

25 May 2006 by DEEPCHAND KOSTA

Create Dynamic Line Chart graph