(Eric Smith) The ASP.NET Repeater control is one of my favorites, mainly because it is fully customizable and it allows me to build many types of applications. However, it does have a few downsides in terms of which controls it can host. If you try to add a RadioButton control into a Repeater’s Item
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Tutorial 2: Creating a Business Logic Layer
(Scott Mitchell) The Data Access Layer (DAL) created in the first tutorial cleanly separates the data access logic from the presentation logic. However, while the DAL cleanly separates the data access details from the presentation layer, it does not enforce any business rules that may apply. For exa
A Custom Action for Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Add-in
(Ting Huang) Having developed a Visual Studio 2005 add-in recently, I found that when it comes to deploying the add-in, there is no setup project automatically created any more.
Introduction to Managed Device Development Using Visual Studio 2005
Microsoft Embedded MVP Maarten Struys shows how to create an application for a Windows Mobile 5.0 device using Visual Studio 2005. Learn how Visual Studio 2005 helps you to create user interfaces that will run on different devices with different display orientation modes and form factors. (video)
.NET Remoting with an easy example
(syednadeemulhassan) .NET Remoting is a mechanism for communicating between objects which are not in the same process. It is a generic system for different applications to communicate with one another. .NET objects are exposed to remote processes, thus allowing inter process communication. The appli
Beyond the Guidelines: Advanced Accessibility Techniques
(Trenton Moss) When creating accessible web sites, most web developers and web managers follow the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, or WCAG for short. And rightly so — after all, these guidelines are the most comprehensive accessibility resource on the Web today.
Tutorial 1: Creating a Data Access Layer
(Scott Mitchell) As Web developers, our lives revolve around working with data. We create databases to store the data, code to retrieve and modify it, and web pages to collect and summarize it. This is the first tutorial in a lengthy series that will explore techniques for implementing these common
Using C# and VB.NET classes together in the App_Code folder
(Bipin Joshi) In ASP.NET 2.0 you can mix web forms coded in C# and VB.NET together in a single web site. This works great for web forms. However what if you want to code classes from App_Code folder in different languages? Such mixing of classes coded in different languages is not allowed with defau
Xtended TextBox
(Venkat Eswaran) Whether it is a web application or a windows application textbox is the most widely used control. The masked textbox is available for windows forms. But we dont have one for ASP.NET. So I decided to write one for ASP.NET. Using Extended TextBox control will save a lot of time for de
Sending Email in ASP.NET 2.0
(Scott Mitchell) Email serves as a ubiquitous, asynchronous notification and information distribution system. Not surprisingly, there are many web development scenarios where server-side code needs to generate an email and scuttle it off to the intended recipient. The email may be destined for a use