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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.

Latest Articles

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.

All Articles

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

30 Oct 2014 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

14 Jul 2014 by Misha1964

Learn how to validate complex web forms using business rules engine

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Enhancing Church Worship With The Cloud

9 Jun 2013 by Stan Bice

Imagine connecting church worship attenders with real-time content.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Exact Phrase Website Live Search Script .NET 3.5

18 Aug 2010 by Tushar Arora

This script can be used in an ASP.NET 3.5 website. It can search out exact phrases and keywords live from all HTML pages and text files on the website.

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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Email Notification Framework

4 Oct 2009 by gaurav_verma_mca

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

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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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.

WCF DataContract with FaultException Details

24 Jun 2009 by SP.Murugesa Pandian

WCF DataContract

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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...

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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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Binding Menu Control With Database

28 Jun 2008 by Ravi Selvaraj

Bind the menu control with list of Category and Sub Categories

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

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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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.

Networking in Silverlight and WPF or How to Make them Speak to Each Other

22 Apr 2008 by Tamir Khason

How to use raw sockets in Silverlight application and how to make Silverlight speak with Windows Forms and WPF

Web Application State

15 Apr 2008 by Andrew Golik

This article explains how to maintain the web application state.

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.

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.

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.

Creating Pivot Tables and Charts Using ActiveX

20 Jan 2008 by Sushant Joshi

This article describes how to generate Excel at client side and embedd "Pivot Tables" and "Charts" into the Excel.

ASP.NET Menu Parent Menuitem Highlighting

17 Jan 2008 by Rolf Szomor

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

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

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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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.

Google Earth Network Link

27 Dec 2007 by robertosari

This article aims to show the creation of Network Links for Google Earth.

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.

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.

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

15 Dec 2007 by ammar_shaker

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

New Ajax Navigation Bar

4 Dec 2007 by dilip23

New Ajax Navigation Docable Bar

Picture Cache & DAL

26 Nov 2007 by Krisztian Batyai

Picture Cache & DAL (WebService & App cache(

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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.

Bind Data's to Table Using JSON with Webservice.

23 Nov 2007 by justindhas

Create JSON Application With WebServices

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.

Utility to convert file includes to virtual includes

4 Nov 2007 by User 4682017

A utility to convert file includes to virtual includes.

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.

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 !

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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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.

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

Dynamic ToolTip

10 Sep 2007 by drgbg

Dynamically toggle ToolTip messages from the client side.

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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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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Simple NumericTextBox Web Custom Control

14 Jul 2007 by Kostas Papakonstantinou

A simple textbox control allowing only integer input.

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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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.

ASCII Art Generator

28 May 2007 by Sau Fan Lee

ASCII Art generator in ASP.NET.

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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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.

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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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#

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

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!

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.

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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A Simple PHP Polling/Voting System

11 Dec 2006 by DreamInHex

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

ASP Code Analyzer

6 Dec 2006 by fschudel

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

Understanding AJAX

7 Oct 2006 by Nawaz Ijaz

Let's cook up a simple AJAX example

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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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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.

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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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.

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.

Creating FTP and Web IIS virtual directories

5 Feb 2006 by Palwinder Singh

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

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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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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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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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.

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.

Find "Leaked" Database Connections in ASP.NET Web Applications

9 Dec 2005 by Todd Denlinger

Presents a method for monitoring the amount of time database connections stay open in ASP.NET applications.

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"There is insufficient memory or disk space. Save the document now" - Opening MS Word from ASP.NET

5 Oct 2005 by Sadish Kumar.V

This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

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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Rapid Web Application Development

27 Sep 2005 by Andrew M Baldwin

An article about the Multiformity Open Source project.

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Implementing WS-SecureConversation in Microsoft IssueVision

27 Sep 2005 by Weidong Shen

Adding secure communications to the Microsoft IssueVision sample application using WSE 2.0.

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MCMS SharePoint List Items Placeholder

22 Sep 2005 by Stephen Huen

Lists items in a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) list.

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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.

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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Requirements for Developing WebApplications & ASP .NET Problems

13 Aug 2005 by Star_Friend

Web Applications & ASP .NET

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Sending Email with attachment in ASP.NET using SMTP Server

28 Jun 2005 by Sivakumar Ramadoss

This article explains how to send a mail with attachment using SMTP server and how to configure the SMTP server.

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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