Prologue Ever since I read my Asp.Net Problem-Design-Solution 2.0 book several years ago, I’ve been hooked on using custom configuration sections and then putting all the configuration settings into my web.config file. This keeps all the settings in one central location and makes it easy retrieve settings or to make updates or changes to them ...

I'm working with an ASP.Net 4.0 project, and I'm calling a stored procedure on a SQL 2008 64-bit server. When I call the stored procedure, I don't get an error message, but the stored procedure doesn't do anything. When I call the stored proc natively in SQL Management Studio, it works fine. I've walked through the code in the ...

Prologue Several years ago, I created a post on this blog about using ASP.Net to create JavaScript variables. Times have changed, and I’ve found that sometimes I need to add more than just a couple variables to JavaScript to the page. Luckily, I found an easy way to add JavaScript code to your page ALL in the backend so that you don’t have to use ...

Prologue ASP.Net Windows authentication seems to be a topic that hasn’t been covered in very much depth. There are plenty of articles about making the change over, however there doesn’t seem to be much information on what to do once you’ve made the transition. This series aims to add some depth to the discussion (Check out previous posts Part 1, ...

Prologue We recently converted our Intranet from Forms authentication to Windows authentication. While this has several distinct advantages for us (i.e. single-sign on, users don’t have to manage another account etc.), it has not been without some significant pitfalls as well. In searching the internet for advice on how to make this transition, ...

ScottGu's presentation online: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2012-the-Netherlands/2364 And the blog post about ASP.NET MVC 4 beta: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/02/19/asp-net-mvc-4-beta.aspx  The ASP.NET MVC 4 Beta release works with VS 2010 and .NET 4.0, and is side-by-side compatible with prior ...

Prologue One of the features I’ve been working on lately is adding membership/profiles to our website. In the past we haven’t offered this feature on our site, but recently we’ve made some changes that make this a good idea. In the process of trying to do this, I found that I would like the user to be able to enter/edit profile information on two ...

Prologue Recently, I was putting together a new intranet site for our company. I ran into a couple of things that I wanted to do with our Menu that couldn’t be done out of the box with the ASP.Net Menu control. Thanks to the internet (a tweak to the code in the answer here) and a little playing around, I was able to successfully tweak the ASP.Net ...

Prologue In a couple previous posts (here and  here), we looked in depth at the code in my ASP.Net Website Programming: Problem – Design – Solution book attempting to fill in any of the gaps that I found (such as where does the code in the book go – what file – and adding code that is missing from the book). This post continues this series ...

** NOTE **  EDIT 29/9/2010 ASP.NET Security Update is now available. See here. EDIT 21/9/2010 : Scott Guthrie has published FAQ on the Security Vulnerability, read it here. Read his original post on the issue here. ** ** See Steve Smith's blog post for ...