(Julia Lerman) Post-Cache Substitution is one of the underdogs of ASP.NET 2.0. It seems to have gotten lost in the glitz and bright lights of other features, such as Membership and Personalization, DataSources, Web Parts, and Master Pages. I discovered the Post-Cache Substitution control when I was

(Mike Ellison) There are occasions when one may work with a data source that provides dynamic columns. A stored procedure that aggregates year-to-date totals, with columns representing the months-to-date, is an example. Towards the beginning of the year, there are only a few columns of data; towards

(Mahesh Chand) You can print a Crystal Report using print option of Crystal Report Viewer. However, there are occasions when you want your application to print a report direct to printer without viewing the report in Crystal Report Viewer.

(Bill Xie) Knowing whether a group of form fields have changed and which fields have changed can be beneficial in many ASP.NET Web applications. ASP.NET triggers a “value change” event at the server side for each server control for which the client changed the value upon postback.

(Dino Esposito) Most enterprise applications contain business processes that developers and architects find natural to express through workflows. Ultimately, a workflow is a program that captures the interactions among real-world entities. The workflow waits for stimulus from the external world, and

(Matthew David) In 2000, Microsoft released the first beta of a product called .NET 1.0. The product, a framework of classes, was the answer to problems that Microsoft faced from the developer community, particularly the Java community. Microsoft was seen as old-fashioned and behind the times. The .

(Bipin Joshi) By default when you call a web method from the client application it is a synchronous call. that means unless the web method returns the further code will not be executed. However, this approach may not be suitable in each and every scenario and you may need an asynchronous way to exec

(John Peterson) In the first part of this series we gave you a brief introduction to ASP.NET 2.0 Themes and walked you through creating a theme, adding a stylesheet to it, and associating the theme with your site’s content files.

(Dipal Choksi) This brief article describes the use of the OnClientClick property of button controls in ASP.Net 2.0, in order to get a user confirmation before deleting items from a GridView control.

(Michael G. Gorman) What’s in a name? Most commonly, the idea is that a name should convey the essence of the object being named. Sounds simple, and to some degree it is. For example, when you make a reservation on Travelocity for a trip to a distant city you end up with a “Reservation Number.” But