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A while back, I was asked a question by one of the junior developers here at Lake Quincy Media. I had him working on a little feature on an ASP.NET site which could be easily handled using Session. "Where is session stored, on the server or the client?"
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One of the most ViewState heavy controls is the DropDownList. It stores in ViewState the Text and Value for every ListItem in the DropDownList. This means large Lists can get really nasty when ViewState comes into play. They also include all of these
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Yesterday I was upgrading an ASP.NET MVC site from Preview 2 to Preview 4. For the most part this is an easy process. Some assemblies needed to be updated and some information updated in the web.config file. Route declaration changed, but the same information
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I recently answered a blog post about how to handle password recovery in ASP.NET. My first thoughts when I read this questions are along the lines of, "Ah! Don't recover passwords!" With any authentication system it is important to remember this one thing
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Recently I was explaining the difference between the web application project and the web site to the budding developers I've been working with. I suffered greatly while using web sites instead of web application projects. I remember having a great deal
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Earlier today I posted about a Recursive Find Control Extension Method . I was informed recently by Steve Smith that I should check out the generic find control method which Aaron Robson has on his blog . He has some pretty nice methods there, so I just
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So one of the most useful methods for ASP.NET development that never seems to be included in ASP.NET is a recursive find control method. This problem results from the standard FindControl method on controls only searching within that control. It only
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One problem I've noticed on a bunch of sites is a large amount of ViewState. I'm not going to sit here and explain all about ViewState. There are PLENTY of sources for information on that piece of technology. So in an extremely short description of what
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So I am finally sitting down to play with the ASP.NET MVC Framework. I've installed Visual Studio 2008 on my machine. You can obtain a 90 day free trial of Visual Studio 2008 from Microsoft if you don't own a copy. There are also Express Editions of Visual
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There are plenty of AJAX tools being used everyday. The AJAX Control Toolkit can be likened to a pack of Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans ; there are far too many choices. Some tools you'll love and some are as useless to you as an earwax flavored bean.
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I've recently come across a large number of blog posts talking about a new Rich Text Editor on CodePlex released under the Microsoft Public License (MS-PL). Some of the blog posts talking about this interesting control can be found here , here , here
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One question that seems to come up often in the asp.net forums is from people who are trying to access controls within controls using templates. LoginViews and CreateUserWizard controls are two commonly used templated controls. These templated controls
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Earlier today I was trying to debug a Stack Overflow Exception I was receiving. While debugging I was stepping into the function where the problem was occurring. I could not seem to find the problem. A line of code was calling a function and passing it
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In order to use an update panel you have to specify the triggers either individually or by setting the ChildrenAsTriggers property of the UpdatePanel. Sometimes you may need to set these triggers dynamically such as if the desired trigger is inside of
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Recently I had forgotten how to access the ScriptManager in my MasterPage from one of the Content Pages. There is a static method on the ScriptManager class called GetCurrent() which will allow access to the current instance of a ScriptManager. This is
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