(Scott Swigart) The “Paste as…” functionality in applications like Microsoft Word has become indispensable for me. I often copy something from the Web and want to paste it into a document without all of the HTML formatting. Paste as is the tool for the job.

(Richard Dudley) Before .NET there were a number of ways a web application’s settings could be used. One of the most common methods was to declare all settings in one file and include that file on every page that needed the settings. This method had its drawbacks, as did the use of the application

(Wayne Berry) Sometimes the simplest things in ASP.NET 2.0 turn out to be the hardest things to implement. One example is trying to have a shared property across all your web pages. For example, let’s say that you want to have a User object that is on all of your pages and that object be initialized

(Jim Keogh) In the preceding example, the value of the search criterion was inserted into the WHERE clause of the query. In the real world, however, the visitor to your web site usually enters the search value into a web form. Therefore, you need to have a placeholder for the search criterion in the

(Peter Aitken) In a previous article, I introduced you to ASP.Net 2.0’s site navigation tools. We saw how the Menu, TreeView, and SiteMapPath controls can be bound to a Web.Sitemap file, to quickly and easily provide navigation elements on your pages. When you go beyond these basics, however, you wi

(Nagasai Mattegunta) In my recent project, a part of requirement is, to generate KPI score card. The KPI score card is a chart showing the KPI in tree like structures. All the KPIs are categorised and each category represents a tree. The tree hirarchy is defiend in database. This basically requires

(Tony Patton) Last week we examined ASP 2.0 master pages and discussed how you can use them to centralize a site’s layout. Developers often confuse themes with master pages, but the two elements are quite different. Master pages allow you to control the general layout of a site or a group of pages w

(Peyton McCullough) SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained SQL database engine. This article examines pysqlite, one of a number of libraries in Python, that is used as an interface with SQLite.

(Moustafa Arafa) On the first part we discuss in detail how to move our database which contains the membership tables from the default aspnetdb Database to our database. On this part we will show how to change the default settings of asp.net membership and role providers to read from tables which

(Jerry Brunning) Managing calendars across multiple Microsoft Exchange servers has always been a problem for those of us in consulting or other professional service fields. Having to aggregate appointments across calendars maintained at multiple client sites, plus your calendar back at the home offi