(nunos) In the last post, we successfully implemented a webpart framework that renders simple static Views and allows the user to change the layout.

(John Mendez) There are a few ways to redirect from http to https in asp.net, but I wanted a somewhat simple and efficient method. After researching a bit, I could add some code to global.asax, or make my own custom configuration section in the web.config. Well I chose to do a little variation of

(Andrew Rea) Today in work I had a requirement where I wanted to output binary content to the response output stream. I also want to stay with the MVC Controller for serving this content and so wanted a result I could add my data to and return it. To my knowledge there is a ContentResult, but with

(Jason Dove) I hate sub reports and always consider them the last resort in any reporting solution. The negative effect on performance and maintainability is just not worth the easy ride they give the report writer. Nine times out of ten reporting requirements can be met using a little forethought

(Scott Mitchell) Twitter is a popular social networking web service for writing and sharing short messages. These tidy text messages are referred to as tweets and are limited to 140 characters. Users can leave tweets and follow other users directly from Twitter’s website or by using the Twitter API.

(Vince Varallo) Crystal Reports is a terrific tool that allows you to easily incorporate professional style reporting in your applications. The Crystal Reports designer is easy to use and the Report Viewer Control makes it easy to display reports. It also allows users to navigate through the report

(joydipkanjilal) Sometimes while you’re developing an application you need to track potential errors that can creep in post-deployment. Debugging and tracing are two features that come in handy for tracking such errors. In the case of ASP.NET AJAX applications, debugging is a challenge because these

(Ben Nadel) Last week, when I was working on my jQuery Photo Tagger plugin (for Flickr-style photo annotation), I was using CFLock to create thread-safe cache updates in the ColdFusion aspect of the code. As I was doing that, it occurred to me – I wasn’t 100% sure what would happen if the timeout (i

(rtpHarry) The ProviderUserKey gives access to a unique identifier for each of the members in your membership data store. If you’re doing a large amount of lookup’s or want to cross link to another table you will find this technique will give you better performance than using the UserName property.

(Ged Mead) In an earlier blog that looked at how to display available fonts, I used an automatic Style (that is, one without an explicit key). These are sometimes also referred to as Keyless Styles.