(Bipin Joshi) Developers often worry about performance of their web sites. Every developer wants that his web site be optimized for good performance. There are several factors affecting performance of your web site and one of them is ViewState. In this article I am going to show a way by which you c

(Bill Hatfield) Deployment issues often get swept aside when deadlines overtake you and getting it out the door is all that matters. But, if maintaining the code is also a consideration, you’d do well to take note of the following assembly deployment best practices.

(Tony Patton) Last week, I introduced ASP.NET 2.0’s GridView data control and covered the basics of using it. This week, I go a step further by going into the details of working with the data contained in the control. This includes viewing, editing, and deleting data. Thankfully, the GridView contro

(Rahul Soni) Honestly speaking, since everything works fine most of the time, we never really bother to think about it in detail. When a session loss issue happens on your happy website (for example your customer added 25 items in his cart and when he proceeded to check out he was redirected to the

(James Taylor) Enterprise decision management (EDM), the automation and improvement of operational business decisions to improve their precision, consistency and agility, is on the rise. Using a combination of business rules and predictive analytic technologies and focusing on the operational decisi

(Alejandro Gervasio) The strategy design pattern is applied much more often than you might think, so if you want to find out how to implement it with PHP 5, this article should guide you through the whole learning process. Welcome to the final installment of the series that began with “Introducing t

(Jack Gudenkauf and Jesse Kaplan) In our first column, where we introduced the new System.AddIn namespace in the Base Class Libraries (BCLs), we walked through the typical process customers undertake in order to provide extensibility through their host applications. We discussed the functionality ne

(Mike Clark) This article discusses many aspects involved in extending a standard server side control to produce something new and useful. In this case, we will extend the ASPX Panel control to generate an HTML DIV with rounded corners without corner images. The color of this control may be easily

(Jeff Prosise) Do you want to know a secret? A deep, dark, dirty secret? One that, if revealed, would cause great angst in the ASP.NET community and prompt shouts of “Aha!” from the anti-Microsoft crowd?

(Scott Guthrie) One of the questions I am often asked is “How can I integrate ASP.NET security with Classic ASP other non-ASP.NET URLs?”. Specifically, people want to know if they can integrate ASP.NET’s Forms Authentication, Role Based Security, and URL Authorization features with Classic ASP, PHP