If you work with an Oracle database on a laptop as I do, I am sure you have noticed the amount of resources that Oracle consumes. Figure 1: Task Manager To overcome this I simply set the database service to manual process so my laptop is not sluggish and I start this service only when I need it. This solution works fine however I started to ...

I completed the membership provider today and placed it online at my personal website. Go to http://www.radicaldevelopment.net/Default.aspx and click the Community Projects tab. If this tab is not visible you must first register. Good Luck and if you find any bugs please let me know. As far as the remaining providers I will post additional ...

I wanted to post an update to my previous blog entry on the work I am doing for the custom providers which will use Oracle 10gR2 and ODP.NET. It seems there is much more interest than I expected in this project so after all the request for releasing the code I have completed I thought I would meet those folks half way and release each provider as ...

If you have not seen the two new additions titled ITracker: Inventory Tracking System and Extended Club Site Starter Kit give them a look. Also seperate from By the Community, For the Community there is a new starter kit available titlted Small Business Site Starter Kit with the download section of www.asp.net that may be of ...

Assume for a moment that you need to monitor a specific folder and its subfolders for incoming files such as a FTP transfer and you wanted to accomplish such a task without an type of action from the system administrator. To accomplish this I will employ the FileSystemWatcher Class which is located in the System.IO NameSpace. First off open Visual ...

I was recently was tasked to develop a solution to download data from an Oracle database and allow the client to save the data as an XML document without the use of the file system. I turned to the System.IO Namespace to accomplish this specifically using the MemoryStream Class. First I will demonstrate how I accomplished this task and keep in ...

Today Microsoft has released the source code for the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management, Site Navigation, Session State, Profile, Web Events, and Web Part Personalization providers.  [Download Here] Check out Scott's blog which contains a few more resources in this matter.

I must admit using xpath to query and find a specific node in an XML file is not my strongest point and when a namespace was part of the XML file it threw me off even more. A huge thank you goes out to Adam Sills for pointing out my errors. Take the following XML file that was generated using the June 2005 Patterns and Practices ...

Do you allow your users to upload images? If so would you like to place some restrictions on the size, dimensions, and type of image that is acceptable? Accomplishing this is much easier than you may think. Let us say we have the following business rules that we need to enforce. 1.      Image must be either a GIF or ...

Here is the code to stream the images to the client or save to a local file system. using System;using System.IO;namespace Swafford{    /// <summary>    /// Creates a thumbnail image from a file spec in the calling URL.    /// </summary>    public class GenerateThumbnail : ...