(pfemiani) This is intended to be a simple solution to sharing session data across applications. This implementation allows you to use the out of the box session providers that ship with ASP.NET without modifying any stored procedures, or creating custom session store providers.

(Jon Galloway) I was prompted for the original installation media both when uninstalling the SP1 Beta and when installing the SP1 RTM. The file its looking for is vs_setup.msi in most cases, but theyre not all created equal. If you installed from a Visual Studio 2008 Professional DVD or image, you c

(Tony Patton) One of the key aspects of Extreme Programming is refactoring, which improves code without affecting its function. The Visual Studio IDE provides refactoring features in the 2005 and 2008 versions that you can easily put into action with a mouse click. Unfortunately, this feature is onl

(Stephen Walther) In this tip, I demonstrate how you can unit test ASP.NET MVC views without running a Web server. I show you how to unit test views by creating a custom MVC View Engine and a fake Controller Context.

(Scott Mitchell) ASP.NET includes a number of data source and data Web controls that make it remarkably easy to work with data from a web page. For example, to display the results of a database query simply add and configure a SqlDataSource control and then bind that to a GridView, ListView, or some

(Alex Gusev) Salute another player in the Microsoft’s .NET jungle: the .NET Micro Framework, formerly known as SPOT (Smart Personal Objects Technology). So, spot it on your development map. Initially announced about a couple of years ago and now already in version 2.5 (with v3.0 “kimono” on its way)

(Ehsanul Haque) Several communities have already started a few workarounds on this issue. HP Web Security Research Group published a tool named HP Scrawlr, to find out SQL Injection vulnerabilities in websites. Also, Microsoft recently released source code analyzer for SQL Injection. But sanitizing

(BrantBurnett) When working with ASP.NET applications, time zones are often a problem when dealing with DateTime structures. There are two different common scenarios that a developer is likely to encounter. The first is that you are placing the application on a hosted server that is in a different t

(Mahesh Chand) This article shows how to add data binding support among controls in WPF.

(Brian Mains) The ASP.NET AJAX framework, along with the AJAX Control Toolkit that adds additional controls, extenders, and other client and server objects, provides a new unique way to develop .NET controls. It leverages the existing structures in JavaScript to create a wide array of add-ons that m