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?'' he asked. As a quick response I said that it's stored on the server. He followed that by ...

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 entries a second time because they're all in the html. Being in the html will only slow the page ...

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 adapted them to be extension methods now. As extension methods the code looks like this. ...

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 finds child controls not grandchildren or anything farther down the line. This means that anything ...

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 don't actually have their contents known until run-time because it is dependant on ...

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 a repeater and is not inside of the update panel. In instances such as this you will need to ...

Earlier today I was helping someone who was working with a user control. That control was on an ASP.NET page which was inheriting from a base page. From the user control he could not access the properties of the base page. He mentioned that he was getting an error message which said that the property did not exist in the current context. I ...

In this new age when the Internet is becoming the medium of choice, blogs are rapidly gaining momentum. It is nice to be able to get information direct from the experts in any area. The ease with which one is able to obtain this information is astounding, and this statement brings me to my next point. Some of the content which is so ...