(Bilal Haidar) In his article, Understanding ASP.NET View State, Scott presented a section about storing the ASP.NET view state into a persistent medium, instead of storing it in the page itself. He used the system file system, mainly a simple text file to store the page’s view state. However, Sco

(John Kilgo) I recently completed a small custom content management system for a client to facilitate frequent editing of a 1,200 page manual. The manual is viewable on a large intranet and the client wanted a specific type of search mechanism for employee use. Since regular expressions and I don’t

(Paul Kimmel) Archimedes once claimed that given a lever long enough, a fulcrum strong enough, and a place to stand, he could move the world. (Archimedes also reportedly ran through the streets of Athens naked shouting Eureka when he discovered displacement, but that’s another story.) Advanced techn

(Pradeep Shukla) Auto-culture handling can be enabled for each page in ASP.NET 2.0 by including the Culture=”auto” and UICulture=”auto” attributes in the Page directive of each page. UICulture can be considered as the physical UI, fonts, colors etc. Culture affects formatting, for example date forma

(Justin Whitney) You can know all the tricks and tips to extending your Visual Studio 2005 IDE and the knowledge won’t do you a bit of good if you don’t know what you want to create. But to know what you want, sometimes it helps to know what’s possible. What have others done? Where in the project li

(David Chappell) What’s required to create good software? While it’s possible to write first-rate code in almost any environment, creating good software is much easier when the right platform and tools are available. For most Windows developers today, that platform is defined by .NET. This chapter o

(Brad Jones) In the Two Minute Tip, “First Look at the Class Designer,” I presented the steps for creating a simple class using Microsoft’s new tool in Visual Studio, the Class Designer. In this Two Minute Tip you pick up where the first left off. You learn how to add inheritance to your designs as

(Vishal Kumar Patil) Good object-oriented design emphasizes both encapsulation and loose coupling. The Observer Pattern is a mechanism for drastically reducing coupling between interacting classes. The observer pattern should be used whenever one or more objects (observers) must track changes in t

(Mark Seemann) Enterprise Library for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is a library of application blocks, which are modular components designed to help developers deal with common development challenges. It provides an extensible framework for building robust, scalable applications. And while Enterpris

(gtamir) Almost every website nowadays needs to maintain a list of users and passwords. Many multi-user applications require a way to authenticate users, and passwords seem like a natural.