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Manipulating Query Strings

(Jim Mischel) As you probably know, a URI’s query string is usually made up of key-value pairs. For example, a session identifier might be defined as “sessid=237”. Individual parameters in the query string are separated by ampersand characters. So if you had a session id and a user name the query st

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Your First Server Control

(Bipin Joshi) Even though ASP.NET provides you with plethora of server controls, sooner or later you require something that doesn’t ship out of the box. Custom server controls is the way to go in such cases. Custom server controls provide much more control on the overall control creation process tha

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ViewState in ASP.NET 2.0

One of the most interesting features of ASP.NET 2.0 is the open way it allows the programmer to manipulate a control’s viewstate. The viewstate should be the first choice to save data to access across postbacks. If the information is to be shared across different controls, it can be placed in the vi

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From DevConnections/SQL Connections – Final Thoughts

Featured Article(s) One of the common problems, mostly misunderstood! (Vadivel Mohanakrishnan) This article explains the power of ‘EXECUTE’ keyword in SQL Server. I would explain a common issue which to my knowledge is mostly misunderstood by most of the folks (At least whom i have met so far :)). The target audience for this article are: Basic to Intermediate level […]