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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 enable HTTPCompression in IIS6

by Brij

Enabling HTTPCompression in IIS6

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

Common issues in WCF

by Member 10763717

Common issues faced while implementing WCF in Project

sBlog.Net - A Minimalistic Blog Engine - Using ASP.NET MVC 3

by Karthik. A

sBlog.Net is a minimalistic blog engine created using the ASP.NET MVC 3 framework.

All Articles

IIS 6.0

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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Common issues in WCF

24 Apr 2014 by Member 10763717

Common issues faced while implementing WCF in Project

sBlog.Net - A Minimalistic Blog Engine - Using ASP.NET MVC 3

16 Aug 2013 by Karthik. A

sBlog.Net is a minimalistic blog engine created using the ASP.NET MVC 3 framework.

Enhancing Church Worship With The Cloud

9 Jun 2013 by Stan Bice

Imagine connecting church worship attenders with real-time content.

Singleton pattern in a multiple worker thread Application Pool

13 Nov 2012 by Wawrzyniec Wawro

This article is about cross-"worker thread" solutions of implementing the Singleton Pattern in ASP.NET.

Effective paging with List View control in ASP.NET

9 Nov 2012 by Abdul Quader Mamun

To develop scalable applications, effective paging is essential. Devoid of smart and effective paging and sorting to handle thousands of thousand data takes extra time and system resources.

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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

Package that speeds up loading of JavaScript, CSS and image files

29 Mar 2012 by Matt Perdeck

Improves web site performance by combining and minifying JavaScript and CSS files on the fly. Processes ASP.NET AJAX toolkit .axd files too. Improves image caching and loading. Very easy to add to any ASP.NET web site.

Making the most out of IIS compression - Part 2: Configuring IIS 6 compression

24 Aug 2011 by Matt Perdeck

This two part series shows how to get the most out of the compression features built into IIS 7 and IIS 6. This second article focuses specifically on IIS 6 compression.

Custom Membership, Role Providers, Website administration tool, and Role based access to individual files

12 Jul 2011 by amitthk

Custom Membership and Role Providers, a website administration tool, and Role based access to individual files.

Switching Physical Path of Website Using a Script

5 Jul 2011 by My Tech World

Switching IIS websites' physical location automatically

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.

SharpBITS.NET - A Wrapper for the BITS API

7 Oct 2010 by xidar

A BITS wrapper library for .NET 2.0.

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.

Mobile Application Development in ASP.NET

9 Apr 2010 by Abdul Quader Mamun

ASP.NET provide features to develop appllication for mobile devices. System.Web.Mobile namespace is devoted specifically to mobile Web development.

Scrollable GridView

6 Apr 2010 by ckuroda2001@yahoo.com

Cross browser support for a scrollable GridView.

Switching Between HTTP and HTTPS Like A Bigshot Hotshot

22 Feb 2010 by Pero Matić

How to automatically enforce and switch between secure (HTTPS/SSL) and non-secure (HTTP/non-SSL) web pages without hard-coding absolute URLs, using SEO friendly redirects.

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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Enterprise Configuration Management

23 Nov 2009 by gaurav_verma_mca

Configuration of .NET applications using database

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Using IIS for Creating Scalable Windows Services

25 Oct 2009 by gaurav_verma_mca

This article discusses a mechanism for creating scalable Windows services using IIS.

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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Custom MembershipProvider and RoleProvider Implementations that use Web Services

4 Oct 2009 by Shaun Wilde

Custom MembershipProvider and RoleProvider implementations that use web services in order to separate the application and database servers.

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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.

Send Mails from Windows Application

15 Sep 2009 by Sushant Joshi

This article enables you to send mails from Windows application which is normally a tedious task

How To Improve the Performance of ASP.NET MVC Web Application

5 Sep 2009 by Farooq Kaiser

In this article, I will examine how you can improve the performance of an ASP.NET MVC application by taking advantage of the various components

.NET Remoting under IIS - ASP.NET Application as Client

2 Aug 2009 by Raj Settipalli

Simplest method to host remote component under IIS with ASP.NET application as client

Subversion & TortoiseSVN: Installed and started on Windows 2003 server and local machines

30 Jul 2009 by Chris McGlothen

An article on installing and implementing Subversion version control software and TortoiseSVN the client interface tool for Windows machines.

Application Pools on IIS 6.0

12 Jul 2009 by Kishore Nandagiri

Improve your web application performance using Application Pools.

VSTO 2005 add-ins and Outlook 2003

2 Jul 2009 by RENJUR

Adding a command bar to Outlook 2003.

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Using WCF in .NET Compact Framework

14 Jun 2009 by Artem S. Dmitriev

This article will show you how to create a proxy client to the WCF web service from PDA device.

Customised Calender web server Control

30 May 2009 by hitesh_tech

This Customised Calender web server Control developed in .Net version 1.1

How To Enhance ASP.NET Application Responsiveness and Scalability using Garbage Collection Notifications

25 May 2009 by Vitaliy Liptchinsky

This article expresses a simple idea of how to enhance web application performance using Garbage Collection notifications.

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...

Creating 3DBarChart using ASP.NET 2.0

31 Mar 2009 by Ravikumar Commuri

How to Create 3DBarChart with Graphics, Bitmap Objects in ASP.NET 2.0

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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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How To Make Your Website More (McAfee) Secure

4 Mar 2009 by User 5983344

Learn how to make your website more secure so that McAfee recognizes it 100% mcAfee Secured and PCI Compliant

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.

WMI Functions from ASP.NET

10 Feb 2009 by JeroenMX

Add a website, virtual folder, and host header to IIS 6 from code.

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

Visual Studio Add-In for Web Parts Generation

19 Jan 2009 by Sasa Popovic

A Visual Studio add-in that allows generation of Web Parts based on prepared ASCX controls/templates.

Base class for skinned Web Parts and generator tool

19 Jan 2009 by Sasa Popovic

Base class for skinned Web Parts and a tool that will generate Web Part code based on previously made layout (ASCX)

Windows Workflow as WCF Service and Workflow Persistence

19 Jan 2009 by Mohan Pindyala

Workflow calculator WCF service, an example of long running workflows

Host your WCF service with multiple host environment using multiple protocol

15 Dec 2008 by Faris Y. Elias SHOMOU

Exploring multiple hosting environment for WCF service

LINQ and WF Based Custom Profile Provider for ASP.NET 3.5

8 Dec 2008 by Anas Karkoukli

A new implementation of the Custom Profile Provider for ASP.NET 3.5, using LINQ, Workflow Foundation, and the Responsibility-Centric-Singleton DataContexts pattern.

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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.

Download SharePoint Zipped List Items

25 Oct 2008 by Mohamed Zaki

This custom UI Action for SharePoint extends the lists action menu to allow users to zip document library items and download all of them with or without version.

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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.

IIsManager

20 Aug 2008 by Marcel Wijnands

Manage IIS 6 in .NET

Microsoft Analysis Services 2005: Displaying a grid using ADOMD.NET and MDX

19 Aug 2008 by khatri.hitesh

The article explains how to fetch data from Microsoft Analysis Services 2005 (OLAP) Cube using ADOMD.NET and MDX, and display it in the form of a grid.

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Enterprise ASP.NET Suite

24 Jul 2008 by David Hoyt

Easy to use ASP.NET suite that gives you everything you need to get started and makes it all pathetically easy to use - Windows services (with UAC), localization (webpage and e-mail), e-mail templating, configuration, and much, much more!

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Cache, Session, and ViewState

21 Jul 2008 by Rajib Ahmed

Properly using cache, session, and viewstate objects in your asp.net application

Build a Web Chat Application using ASP.Net 3.5, LINQ and AJAX (in C# 3.5 or VB 9.0)

30 Jun 2008 by junnark

We will create a very simple web chat application using the latest ASP.Net 3.5 technologies from scratch.

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Duplex Web Services

26 Jun 2008 by Boaz Davidoff

Using multi-threading techniques to create a duplex (two-way) web service that can push events/messages to the client.

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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A web based application configuration wizard

18 May 2008 by defwebserver

A wizard that allows you to FTP an application to a remote server and then launch the configuration wizard from the web browser to update the database connection.

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ListView Header Sort Direction Indicators

13 May 2008 by Philip Lippard

Writing an ASP.NET Custom Control which extends the ListView to visually show sort direction for columns.

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

Access a Web page in Dynamics CRM with JavaScript Code

21 Mar 2008 by Baris KANLICA

In this article, I will show you how to access a Web page with JavaScript code in Microsoft Dynamics CRM. You can process CRM entities or different actions in that page

Make ClickOnce Work With ASP.NET Forms Authentication

20 Mar 2008 by David P Henry, Graham Murray

A solution for securing access to a ClickOnce application using ASP.NET Forms authentication.

Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007(MOSS 2007) And Microsoft CRM Integration

17 Mar 2008 by Avinish Awasthi

The purpose of the integration is to create collaboration sites on SharePoint 2007 as new accounts or opportunities are created in Microsoft CRM.

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Routing with Windows Communication Foundation : Part 2 - Extending web.config

13 Mar 2008 by Paul Reeder

Implementing a custom configuration for routing rules

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.

ASP.NET Ajax Under-the-hood Secrets

5 Mar 2008 by Omar Al Zabir

Performance tips and hard-core tricks that change core runtimes, not for the faint-hearted

port scan with asp.net

15 Feb 2008 by ozkan.pakdil

I check around and could not find any port scanner written in c# with asp.net.

Generate and Configure Digital Certificate

15 Feb 2008 by Ahmed Kahwaji

Generate and configurate digital certificate using IIS 6.0

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

Building a Web Message Board using Visual Studio 2008, Part I - The Basic Message Board

30 Dec 2007 by Rama Krishna Vavilala

This article builds a web based message board and uses several new technologies introduced with Visual Studio 2008 such as LINQ, WCF Web Programming, WCF Syndication, ASP.NET ListView, ASP.NET DataPager etc.

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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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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

Hosting XAML Files for Silverlight without Registering MIME Types on Web Server

28 Nov 2007 by Sriram Chitturi

IIS rejects files with unknown type and ISP providers may not have updated their servers with the XAML MIME type. This article suggests a workaround to host XAML files.

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.

Excel Report Generation Using XMLSS

20 Nov 2007 by Sujith John Thomas

This article explores the concepts of XMLSS and its transformation to XL.

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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.

Web Services: ATL vs. ASP.NET

4 Nov 2007 by Aman Sura

This article provides a quick and comprehensive overview of ASP.NET and ATL Web Services.

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.

Incremental Page Display Pattern for User Controls

30 Oct 2007 by TylerBrinks

A solution for loading user controls asynchronously via AJAX with no custom JavaScript required.

Dynamic Images with ImageTemplate.NET

26 Oct 2007 by flipmind

ImageTemplate.NET lets you easily generate images dynamically for use on your website.