(Tony Patton) Developing robust solutions with ASP.NET requires a thorough understanding of the platform. An important part of most Web applications is maintaining data or state between pages. Heres a look at ASP.NETs four ways to maintain data.

(Matt Hawley) Thanks to Brad, he identified a few areas that made things MUCH simpler from my prior implementation. Notably, while you still have your ViewEngine specify “here’s your view’s path” there’s no longer a need for having a new helper, derived classes, etc. This implementation goes back to

(Bill McCarthy) One of my favorite things about Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is how it allows you to focus on what you want, rather than on how to achieve it. Nothing illustrates this principle better than LINQ’s Distinct clause, which you can take advantage of to create Distinct views of your o

(Satheesh babu) UpdateProgress control provides a mechanism where we can inform user that the server side processing is still progressing in ASP.NET AJAX applications. For example, we can provide a Loading message or an image showing the progressing of the request. Just dragging an UpdateProgress co

(Brad Abrams and Krzysztof Cwalina) Writing applications that interact with data sources, such as databases, XML documents, or Web Services, was made easier in the .NET Framework 3.5 with the addition of a set of features collectively referred to as LINQ (Language-Integrated Query). The following se

(Michael Ulmann) This article describes the implementation of a custom membership provider for the ADO.NET entity framework. The code presented in this article fully complies with Microsoft’s provider model design pattern. It also leverages the LINQ to Entities feature introduced with framework 3.5.

(Ben Nadel) I have an issue that’s been bugging me for a while now and I’ve had to back out of my CF application just to get the job done with SQL Server Enterprise Mgr. The issue is this: I am trying to export a cfquery result set to a file and I want to use all the columns in […]

(Tom) How many times have you been troubleshooting a dump or application, you look at the callstack and you see something that just doesnt quite look right. Chances are the problem is that you dont have correct symbols.

(Suprotim Agarwal) As given in the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit documentation The Accordion is a web control that allows you to provide multiple panes and display them one at a time. It is like having several CollapsiblePanels where only one can be expanded at a time. Here are some tips that could help you

(Paul Kimmel) I write about real problems that real programmers have, and in so doing I try to show you, the reader, alternate solutions that provide you with options. Hearing back from you that the article and solution helped makes it worth writing.