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I have hosted my site on a shared hosting server and have to live with the reality of limited database/web space, recently my database space was shooting up and I was really worried about it.
My posting (blogs) are not too long to reach a whopping...
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DataList control is a template driven data control which allows us to display a list of data in a customizable format. Simply speaking we will define how the data is to be displayed and assign a data source, the control in turn uses the data source and...
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System.Net.Mail provides us with a very intuitive object model to construct and send an email message.
These days almost all the web and windows email clients gives us more control over the email content we wish to view (a.k.a HTML view, plain...
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India was an Information Technology super power, wait a minute did I say was and not is.....
Yes you read it right, and the politicians are adamant to prove it.
According to NDTV there is unconfirmed reports that Department Of Telecom has issued...
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To be short and sweet, a good website should remember my preferrences. So that the next time I visit , I get a personalized welcome.
So how do we achieve this without using the out of the box solution provided by ASP.Net 2.0?
Create couple of tables...
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Scott Mitchell has put together an awesome tutorial on building and using 3-tiered date architecture with ASP.Net 2.0
It's available here
The flow of the tutorial is excellent, you can also download the tutorials in pdf format....
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At first it might look irrelevant and you might ask "What has .Net Profile to do with my optical business?", just sit back, relax and read on as it will be evident that it is relevant.
Around 5 years back while I was pursuing my graduation...
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How do you feel about people who are very successful? What’s your attitude toward the movers and shakers in your field?
Do you admire and respect them? Do you speak highly of them?
Or are you suspicious of them? Do you criticize or attack them?
What’s the true role of these people in your life? What do they [...]
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In ASP.NET MVC, you can use a collection of SelectListItems to help build an HTML <select>. Just watch out for the HTML helper overloads. The question is – what is the prettiest code that can change a list of Products into a collection of SelectListItems? Tonight, you’ll be the judge in this first contest of charm, grace, and readability. Contestant #1 hails from the System.Web.Mvc namespace. It likes pina coladas and string literals, but is turned off by tattoos that look like programmin... [ read more]
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Want a peek at a couple things our designers and front edge team have been working on? These widgets were just short-term exercises that we hope will get you excited about the things to come. If you love it or hate it, let us know by hitting the feedback link at the bottom of the page!
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I’m in the UK today and tomorrow (on my way back from a trip to India for two days earlier this week), and am giving two tech talks while in town. The first is this evening at a London .NET User Group event . I’ll be presenting Silverlight 3. Unfortunately the event is already over-registered – so if you haven’t registered yet you’ll need to catch it the next time I’m in town. The second talk is tomorrow (Friday) from 1-4pm at the Microsoft facility in Reading and is on ASP.NET... [ read more]
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There’s a lot of debate these days about the ASP.NET WebForms model vs. the newer ASP.NET MVC model. There are advantages to both. Disadvantages to both. Pick the one that best fits your needs. Nuff said. But sometimes that choice isn’t so obvious. MVC for example essentially gives you much more control over the generated HTML for the page. Well, complete control. But sometimes you don’t really need complete control, and the lack of an encapsulated control kind of sucks. HTML Helpers help, but t... [ read more]
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All of the talks at this year's Norwegian Developer's Conference were recorded, which is always a treat. I did four talks as well as a live .NET Rocks show. It was a crazy week. I also recorded a half-dozen great podcasts. Three are already live on Hanselminutes and I've got more in the hopper coming soon. The HaaHa Show - Hacking with Phil and Scott In this one, Phil is a hacker and he keeps breaking my websites. I fix them, and he breaks them again. Watch movie . .NET Rocks - Live!... [ read more]
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It’s possible to do a lot of work with ASP.NET and not know anything about IIS,
particularly if you work with a large team where IT specialists keep the riff-raff
away from production web applications. Ever since Visual Studio started shipping
its own web server1, many people don’t rely on IIS for day
to day development work (although many of us still do).
For those of you who are just learning how to deploy in IIS, or those of you who
n... [ read more]
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Visual Web developer 2008 SP1 supports multiple selection of controls on your designer using Ctrl+Click . You can see that the designer: Displays the primary selected control with a white tab. Button3 in the image below. Enable you to set property for...(read more)
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The standard methods for searching can be found under the Edit --> Find and Replace menu. The “Quick Find” method (Ctrl+F) allows users to search inside of the current document, all open documents, the current project, the entire solution, and the...(read more)
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Tip#66: Did you know... how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values? Tip #67: Did you know the list of ASP.Net MVC shortcuts? Tip #68 Did you know… How simple it is to attach an existing style sheet to your web page? Tip #69: Did you know…The keyboard shortcut for View in Browser? Tip #70: Did you know… how to install win7 RC IIS through command script? Tip #71: Did you know... there are several new configuration settings available in FastCGI Extension 1.5 Beta Tip #... [ read more]
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To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page This post is a continuation of various recent posts, most notably: A new and improved ASP.NET MVC T4 template The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex First, I’d like to thank all those who are using the MVC T4 template and sent me suggestions and bug reports. Most issues have been addressed, and most suggestions have been integrated. I’m up to the 8th CodePlex drop, and it’s only been a week! You can see the history of ch... [ read more]
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I saw Maurice de Beijer recently published a good introduction article on .NET RIA Services. Getting started with the .NET RIA Services The post starts with a very good introduction: RIA, short for Rich Internet Applications, is a bit of an umbrella term for all sorts of applications delivered through the browser. The key aspect however is that they deliver some business function and are not just about flashy graphics. Business applications tend to work with data and other business resourc... [ read more]
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Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Here is some of what it covers ! Common Scenarios – How to Plan for Acceptance Testing – What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run – How to Create and Run Acceptance Tests – Defining What “Done” Means – How to Justify Your Approach – How to Streamline Your Acceptan... [ read more]
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I got this email today from Mark….. Hello Joe, First may I say thank you very much for all the information that have published on asp.net. I have learnt allot from it. I do follow you on twitter although I am interested to know how you started out, how you gained experience to the point that you are a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft. If you are able to spend any of your time replying to this message I would be very grateful. Many thanks Mark I get an email like this every few weeks so I tho... [ read more]
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.NET Services are a set of highly scalable building blocks for programming in the cloud. In this brief screencast, you'll learn about the registration process, the SDK and the built-in samples - everything you need to know in order to get started.
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