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 114...

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...

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...

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 orders...

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...

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. C# Tutorial in PDF...

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 degree, I...

Tech.Ed 2006 in Chennai will be held at Chennai Trade Centre and kick starts on 15th June and will end with a bang(entertainment/party) on 17th June. Where is Chennai Trade Centre?Chennai Trade CentreMount Poonamallee High RoadNandambakkam Chennai: 600089...

Hmm "Operation could destabilize the runtime" sounds too scary, what operation on earth is this; which can destabilize the .Net runtime? It looks like  the 1.1 C#/VB.Net compiler had case boundary with the generated IL code, the massive overhaul done...

Developer's are the most busiest guys on the earth and unfortunately I am one of them. So what do we do about it? Well, I have decided to go out on date with the five beautifull girls. Their names are listed below. Ms. ObjectDataSource Ms. SqlDataSource...

As simple as it gets, C# 2.0 has brought with it loads of language features. Some made a huge difference and few less talked about. One of them is String's IsNullOrEmpty method, let's do a comparision of C# 1.1 and 2.0 logic to check for a empty and...

In our .Net 1.1 days we used to check whether a string object contains a specified string(text) using IndexOf method. Here is the typical code to check the existence of a string in an string object. //Sample code string sName = "John Smith"; if(sName.IndexOf("Smith")...

Developers were always looking forward to the inclusion of Nullable types in C#. I love the way it's been implemented using generics. Before we go in to the specifics of Nullable types; let's look at what is a Nullable type and it's usage. What's a...

Interned string is nothing but a locked up version of a string, so that it can be shared. Memory allocation can be avoided by using string.Empty. string sFirstName = string.Empty; The C# compiler is intelligent enough to generate code based on our...

We all have come across a situation where we need to store a collection of a specific type. Let's say for example we have a class called Customer and we need to have a collection of customers. Simple way of doing that may be to use ArrayList and add...