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Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

Using .NET and PHP to create an extensible WebDAV server

by Bill Seddon

Shows how a .NET based WebDAV server can be created by combining two Open Source projects. The example implementation returns files from a file system, but you can extend it to return resources from any repository.

How to Create SSL Secure Server (HTTPS) in Local IIS?

by Bikash Prakash Dash

This tip is helpful to create and manage self-signed SSL certificate for local IIS.

Salient.Web.Security.AccessControlModule

by Sky Sanders

AccessControlModule can impart a greater consistency and usability upon the default behaviour of FormsAuthentication and allow any client script code to leverage FormsAuthentication in a straight forward manner.

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Using HttpModules with URL Re-writing to Handle Fake Directory Requests

by Terrence Sheflin

Explains how to use HttpModule in conjunction with IIS to handle requests to fake directories

How to Validate ASP.NET and MVC Web Forms Using Business Rules Engine

by Misha1964

Learn how to validate complex web forms using business rules engine

Deploy MVC2 Application in IIS 5.1 (Windows XP)

by Sadeque Sharif

How to deploy MVC2 application at IIS 5.1 (Windows XP)

Enhancing Church Worship With The Cloud

by Stan Bice

Imagine connecting church worship attenders with real-time content.

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Easy Guestbook with ASP

11 Jul 2004 by aa2max

Easy Guestbook with ASP and MS Access

News System with ASP

5 Aug 2004 by aa2max

Simple News System using ASP and MS Access

Simple Image Gallery with ASP

29 Oct 2004 by aa2max

A simple image gallery with captions using ASP.

Parent/Child (Hierarchical) Relational Treeview User Control Development in ASP.NET

14 Aug 2012 by Abdul Quader Mamun

Custom TreeView web user control for parent child relatioinal data upto infinity

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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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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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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Use Adobe's Indesign COM in asp.net application with automatic publication flow

9 Apr 2007 by Amit M patel

This Article represents that .net based application which is used in web based publication work flow with the use of XML and indesign file

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

15 Dec 2007 by ammar_shaker

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

Logging System for .NET SOA Applications

30 Dec 2007 by Anders Revsgaard

No matter how well you design your system, a distributed SOA application is always complex. When a SOA application fails, it can be difficult to track down the cause of the problem and the web service where the error occurred. To handle this difficulty, you need a logging system such as UptoLog.

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Web Application State

15 Apr 2008 by Andrew Golik

This article explains how to maintain the web application state.

Rapid Web Application Development

27 Sep 2005 by Andrew M Baldwin

An article about the Multiformity Open Source project.

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Architectural Best Practices - Automating SQL Parameter Creation and Assignment

18 Jul 2007 by Anton Pious Alfred

Most systems that use Stored Procedures make use of SQL parameters to send and receive information from the database. The code to create these SQL parameters and then populating them is repeated throughout the system. This article describes how to automate this code.

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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.

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.

Customary Functions of GridView in ASP.NET 3.5

25 Mar 2009 by Behrouz Rad

The most advanced things which you can do with GridView in ASP.NET 3.5

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Using .NET and PHP to create an extensible WebDAV server

31 Oct 2007 by Bill Seddon

Shows how a .NET based WebDAV server can be created by combining two Open Source projects. The example implementation returns files from a file system, but you can extend it to return resources from any repository.

Extending the ASP.NET multiline TextBox control to limit the number of characters entered

16 Nov 2007 by blogging developer

Developers use multiline TextBox controls in almost all web projects. Since the MaxLength property of a TextBox control does not work when the TextMode property is set to Multiline, we usually use Validator controls to validate the length.

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.

BooProd.Core - Context sensitive URL

22 Dec 2004 by Boo!

Helps you create context sensitive dynamic URLs: dynamically computed URLs, depending on which server the page is generated on.

BooProd.BMail - Sending dynamically generated emails

22 Aug 2011 by Boo!

This package will help you send all kinds of emails like account creation, order, mailing, reports, ... everything containing dynamic fields. You can configure your own SMTP server, use notification, and add attachments.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

DataGrid's ViewState optimization

11 Apr 2005 by Daniel Fruzynski

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

Restoring Datbase Using BatchFile(*.Bat)

9 Jun 2008 by Deepak.M

This article describes on building a Database from scratch using Batch File from the existing Database

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Cell Merging of DataGrid in ASP.NET

10 Oct 2007 by Deepthi Viswanathan Nair

This article depicts how to merge cells in the DataGrid control in ASP.NET, hence gains better look and clarity.

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.

Creating a WebDav to RSS adapter

28 Feb 2006 by Diego Mijelshon

How to develop a handler that reads Exchange WebDAV folders and returns RSS.

New Ajax Navigation Bar

4 Dec 2007 by dilip23

New Ajax Navigation Docable Bar

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#

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.

Using C# to Enumerate Through Stored Procedures in MS SQL Server 2000

3 Jan 2006 by DreamInHex

This guide will show you how to enumerate through the stored procedures in MSSQL 2000, as well as retrieve parameter information for a stored procedure.

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Using C#, OpenXML, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to create a multi-threaded Rules Engine Webservice

9 Jan 2006 by DreamInHex

Create a simple, scalable XML-consuming rules engine in just a few minutes, using OpenXML.

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AJAX Demystified - Part Three - An AJAX Color Picker using Anthem

26 Sep 2006 by DreamInHex

Create an AJAX Color Picker for your website with the power of Anthem.

A Simple PHP Polling/Voting System

11 Dec 2006 by DreamInHex

Create an IP-logging PHP Polling or Voting System in PHP 5.0

Dynamic ToolTip

10 Sep 2007 by drgbg

Dynamically toggle ToolTip messages from the client side.

Transactional Web Services with WS-AtomicTransaction

12 Jun 2008 by Dustin Metzgar

Explains a simple way of using WS-AtomicTransaction to create distributed transactions across Web services

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.

Server.MapPath problems in Global.asa

7 Mar 2005 by felipep

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

ASP Code Analyzer

6 Dec 2006 by fschudel

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

Add an extra header to an ASP.NET DataGrid

9 Dec 2005 by Gabriel Sirbu

This article explains how to add an extra header item to a standard ASP.NET DataGrid.

Email Notification Framework

4 Oct 2009 by gaurav_verma_mca

A .NET managed framework to send template emails in HTML or plain text

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.

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.

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.

SparkLines

25 May 2007 by Igor Krupitsky

SparkLine is a small, high resolution line chart. This article explains how to create and use SparkLines in your ASP.NET application.

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Load and Display Page Contents Asynchronously with Full Postback Support

14 Sep 2010 by iucon

An AJAX UpdatePanel with less communication overhead and better performance

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.

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.

An information box control to display messages using AJAX

19 Dec 2007 by jlchereau

An alternative to message boxes, implementing ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0.

An AJAX image list control to manage lists of items displayed with icons

18 Dec 2007 by jlchereau

An ASP.NET server control inspired from WinForms’ ListView and implementing ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0.

MultiUpload, a smarter file upload server control using AJAX

20 Dec 2007 by jlchereau

An ASP.NET server control inspired from Google mail’s selection of file attachments, and implementing ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0.

Professional file uploads with the MultiUpload and ImageList server controls

19 Dec 2007 by jlchereau

A professional AJAX GUI for uploading files using the server controls in the Memba Velodoc XP Edition.

ASP.NET IIS Chameleon Tool

15 Feb 2006 by joaoPaulo

A tool to set one specific IIS Virtual Directory for a lot versions of the same web project.

Web Session - Monitor, Record, and Video Playback

6 Mar 2008 by John Doherty

How to: Monitor, Record, and Playback every visit to a website using very simple techniques and existing technologies.

Understanding CGI with C#

27 Jan 2005 by Justin Williams

Leveraging the Common Gateway Interface in C#.

Bind Data's to Table Using JSON with Webservice.

23 Nov 2007 by justindhas

Create JSON Application With WebServices

Create Sample Application Using Entity Objects In C#.Net

15 Oct 2007 by justindhas

Create Sample Application Using Entity Objects Using C#.Net

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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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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.

Simple NumericTextBox Web Custom Control

14 Jul 2007 by Kostas Papakonstantinou

A simple textbox control allowing only integer input.

Set Up IIS to Work with Server and Client Certificates and HTTPS: Test your Client or Web Service Code in Minutes (without using Win 2003 or Certificate Server).

9 Mar 2007 by Koushik Biswas

Have you written a web service that will be deployed over HTTPS and you want to test it on your own box? Have you written a client that needs to call a web service using a client certificate, and want to test it without involving half your company? Here's how to do it!

Stop editing 'web.sitemap' - Let unknown pages dynamically inherit from a parent! And more...

11 Apr 2009 by kriceslo

Reduce sitemap maintenence and never have another "unlisted" page! Unlisted pages dynamically inherit site map placement from a parent page. Replace repetitive '/default.aspx' mentions with '/' for friendlier URLs. Wildcard query string matching and more...

Picture Cache & DAL

26 Nov 2007 by Krisztian Batyai

Picture Cache & DAL (WebService & App cache(

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WSE 3 Deployment: MSI and ClickOnce

4 Oct 2009 by lepipele

Overview of deployment techniques using example WSE 3 enabled solutions

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Introduction to Developing a Custom Web Control.

14 Feb 2005 by Maharishi Bhatia

This article explains the development of a custom web control using C#.

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.

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

Encryption of Connection Strings Inside the Web.config in ASP.NET 2.0

1 Feb 2009 by Manish K Gupta

Encryption & Decryption of Connection Strings inside the Web.config in ASP.NET 2.0

Web Server and ASP.NET Application Life Cycle in Depth

21 Dec 2010 by Massimiliano Peluso "WeDev Limited"

This article describes in depth everything that happens beween the request/response in a web application.

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.

Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

27 Nov 2009 by Max Paulousky

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

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Sharing User Controls Between Projects

29 Nov 2004 by mayafit

How to share user controls between projects

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).

How to Validate ASP.NET and MVC Web Forms Using Business Rules Engine

14 Jul 2014 by Misha1964

Learn how to validate complex web forms using business rules engine

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ViewState Serializer, Compressor & Encrypter

26 Sep 2009 by ModMa

It's a very complete and robust processor of ViewState, it allows: to select the way of serialization, compression and encryption optionally.

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.

Understanding AJAX

7 Oct 2006 by Nawaz Ijaz

Let's cook up a simple AJAX example

Webservice sample - example of using SOAP protocol to access Internet Database Server

6 Jul 2007 by Nguyen-Thanh-Tung

Use SOAP to communicate with a remote DB Server (Here I use SQL Server) on the Internet and get information or interact with the database

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Simple Photo Gallery With ASP.NET 2.0

30 May 2006 by Nilesh G

An article on creating a simple photo gallery that is easy to maintain and aesthetically pleasing

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.

Serve Extensionless URL Without Using ISAPI Handler or Wildcard Mapping

11 Jun 2011 by Omar Al Zabir

Serve extensionless URL from IIS without using custom ISAPI handler or IIS 6.0 wildcard mapping

Creating FTP and Web IIS virtual directories

5 Feb 2006 by Palwinder Singh

Creating FTP and Web IIS virtual directories programatically, using C#.

Profiling the Performance of a .NET Application

10 May 2007 by Paul Glavich

ANTS Profiler provides you with a quick and easy way of identifying performance bottlenecks within your .NET applications. Additional support for the latest .NET 3.0 features, the Vista operating system, and Visual Studio integration, cements ANTS Profiler as a leading tool in performance profiling.

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Using RSA Public Key Encryption in a Shared Web Hosting Environment

19 Mar 2011 by Paul Sanders (the other one)

This article provides a way to use RSA public key encryption in scripts running on a Web server hosted by a shared hosting company. It also demonstrates how to use RSA in .NET to solve the 'real world' problem of signing license codes so that they cannot be forged.

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.

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.

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

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

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 !

Smart Client Application based on the No touch deployment

21 Jun 2006 by pvinaysh

Smart Client Application based on the No touch deployment. This kind of application provides you very rich GUI in a Internet zone.

A beginner’s guide to WCF in XBAP

9 Feb 2009 by Rahman Masudur

This article shows how to use a WCF service in XBAP or a WPF browser application.

Error Handling in ASP.NET

5 Jun 2005 by Rakesh Rajan

Starts with user redirection settings with customErrors section; then moves to exception handling in different scopes. Explains how to prevent recursive loops, hande parser errors, base class error handling with internals as appropriate. Source code demonstrates the concepts illustrated.

UpdownNumeric, IP, Timer and Validated TextBox Controls using webcustomcontrols

9 Jul 2006 by Ramesh.Tsi

Download EuroNetWebCustomControls suite Demoproject-26.3kb and the source code - 31 kb. This custom control suite contains UpdownNumerci, IP, Timer and Validated Text Box Controls. I created these controls using WebCustomContolsLibrary in .Net2003.

Binding Menu Control With Database

28 Jun 2008 by Ravi Selvaraj

Bind the menu control with list of Category and Sub Categories

Creating an HTML Attribute Plug-in Framework

16 May 2007 by RayLouw

This article explains how to create your own HTML attributes using a plug-in framework.

xLibrary - Using a custom IHttpHandler to access embedded JavaScript

28 Feb 2009 by Rick Bassham

This article covers how to make a custom IHttpHandler to use the X Library from www.cross-browser.com embedded in an assembly.