Community Blogs : ASP.NET 2.0

HTML Validation fails: Attribute "border" exists, but can not be used for this element.

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:31:00 GMT

Recently, I validated my website using HTML Validator . One strange error I found from validation result was: Attribute "border" exists, but can not be used for this element. I was not able to figure out the actual cause of this error at that time. I reviewed my asp.net page and there wasn't any border property used for any HTML tags. I searched a lot and found a solution somewhere on microsoft support site. I forgot the exact URL that gave actual solution. But, what they said is: Put ClientTarget...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Test Email Notification without configuring SMTP Server

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:56:00 GMT

In this post, you will lean to Test Email Notification without configuring SMTP Server for your ASP.NET application....( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Using EQUATEC FREE .NET Profiler with ASP.NET Applications

ASP.NET Weblogs — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:35:25 GMT

This was originally an email I sent to .NET team in my company, then decided to share as a blog post. The problem: Let’s say you have a complex application, and this application (or part of it) runs very slowly. No bug s in results, no errors or exceptions, but it just so slow! Now you want to know which part of your code is the reason, which method(s) you need to go and modify., which methods take so long to execute or consume so much memory/CPU. How would you know that? Let’s say you want to improve the performance of your application in general (say add caching or such), so, you want to identify which parts of your code deserve your attention and will really make difference (so that you don’t waste your time on optimizing something that will...(read more)

Summer ASP.NET Web Special Valid Until September 15

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:41:00 GMT

The summer 2009 is more than hot and there is finally some refreshment for the overheated ASP.NET developers and web designers available. Axinom is providing your own full featured web site based on the Enterprise Web CMS and Microsoft .NET Framework (ASP.NET) for a fixed-price of 1400 USD. Your personal web site contains flexible and user generated dynamic lists (RSS) and contact forms, integrated user registration, protected content areas, user registration with individual rights to view content, newsletter subscription and publishing tool (up to 100.000 users inclusive!), a shop functionality to offer and sell your products, state of the art features like "recommend this page" and "rate this content", video player control...(read more)

Improve ASPX page performance by reducing HTTP Response size by combining Skin & CSS

ASP.NET Weblogs — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:57:43 GMT

There has been numerous discussions happened on web site performance, ranging from UI design to Site H osting. Out of this, one of the important step is, to reduce the size of Http Response size. Optimizing Http Response will considerably reduce the page loading time at the browser. There are many ways to create optimized HTML markups to improve client-side performance. I would like to explain one such a way of designing web page. The Loading time factor will mainly depends on the web page size that is going to download at the client's browser. In order to achieve this as a web developer, you will have to work on the following things at least. HTML ->...(read more)

Error: Inconsistent accessibility: return type

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:10:00 GMT

In one of my projects I found this error Inconsistent accessibility : return type...................... is less accessible than method ......... It was a quite strange error for me as I have not seen the same in past. My classes were defined as: class MyClass1 {} class MyClass2 {} class MyClass3 {} Solution to this problem is very easy, all I did is add public with all my classes. public class MyClass1 {} public class MyClass2 {} public class MyClass3 {} And once again, the day is saved by "Powerpuf Girls", I mean by adding public :). Read More......(read more)

Authentication using web.config Credentials

ASP.NET Weblogs — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:37:00 GMT

In one of my projects I have been asked to implement temporary security on sepcific module for internal usage and it was also suggested that I will not be putting more efforts on the same. First thing came in my mind was Membership/RoleProvider, but as I advised my planned solution they surprised me with the decision that I will not be using these providers and I should be using something more simpler and I was like Duh!!! Any way I started thinking about a much more simpler solution as I have been alotted the biggest time period ever of 10-15 minutes max for this task :). OK now I guess I should come to the point. During this process I realised that web.config credentials can be a good option as I personally don't wanted to implement any...(read more)

World Wide Web - Internationalization

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:04:00 GMT

I’m going to Paris France for my vacation this year! I’m very excited about it because I’ve always been a bit of a Francophile. Unfortunately, I don’t speak French so, being a IT professional, I’ve sought a technological solution for the language barrier. I’m not sure that I’ll need to speak any French because I’m going on a guided tour which should reduce my interaction with the locals. I’ve already blogged about ASP.NET’s support for internationalization and browser languages on my WordPress blog at: ASP.NET 2.0 Culture – Web Site Internationalization . I also blogged about Elgg’s support for languages at Elgg Languages . I’ve done some additional research since then into how PHP supports internationalization and I looked at how all the browsers...(read more)

I’ll be presenting at Code Camp January 25th at California State University Fullerton at 9AM

Al Pascual : ASP.NET 2.0 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:58:00 GMT

What I’ll be presenting? Maps, maps and a little more maps! SoCal Code Camp What’s the SoCal Rock and Roll Code Camp?: Code Camp is a place for developers to come and learn from their peers. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community. Schedule here Who organizes this code camp? Daniel Egan , Michele Leroux Bustamante & Woody Pewitt , many Microsoft evangelist in that list! Hope I’ll see your there. Cheers Al Read More......(read more)

Commerce Server 2007: No Cache refresh using Host Headers

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:24:00 GMT

As you all know I have been working hard writing, eating and bleeding commerce server 2007 for the past year. One thing I could never get past was why I could not do a site cache refresh from the tools provided with commerce server 2007 . The tools that are provided are what you would call management tools (mostly well written web services.). Within these awesome tools is a cool little button called refresh. It’s sole purpose is to refresh the catalog,user base and or discounts without killing the...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

File Upload control AJAX effect

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 06:42:00 GMT

Since long I was wondering on how I will be able to use FileUpload control inside UpdatePanel and I am sure there will be lot of other people who were expecting the same to be working. I found an intersting video article by Joe Stagner in which he described how to use the FileUpload control inside iframe to give some AJAX effect. You can find this video here. http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/video-254.aspx Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET AJAX Roadmap

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:45:54 GMT

Being ASP.NET AJAX a very important part of ASP.NET one thing that would help is knowing what and when will be delivered and so a Roadmap is a must-have, and Microsoft delivered precisely that in order for us to get to know what's being done and have some notion about when it will be delivered, and I think there's some great stuff there like AJAX in ASP.NET MVC, Interoperability, Accessibility and even support for OpenAJAX-compliant XML metafiles, never forgetting that the Javascript support in Visual Studio must evolve also. So if you want to have detailed information about this subject check here for the complete document with all the explanation regarding this Roadmap. Read More......(read more)

Converting Data Table / Dataset Into JSON String

ASP.NET Weblogs — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:04:00 GMT

JSON ( J ava S cript O bject N otation), is a light weight, easily understandable to read and write string. It is also easily parse-able by machine. JSON is introduced on two structues A collection (key/value pair) And ordered list of values. I have not covered this topic in detail. Detailed analysis is stated on http://www.json.org/ . I am presenting a helper function (in C#) for developers for fast parsing on datatable / dataset into JSON String, and access it on client-side. public static string GetJSONString( DataTable Dt) { string [] StrDc = new string [Dt.Columns.Count]; string HeadStr = string .Empty; for ( int i = 0; i < Dt.Columns.Count; i++) { StrDc[i] = Dt.Columns[i].Caption; HeadStr += "\"" + StrDc[i] + "\"...(read more)

Custom Web Service Test Page Design

ASP.NET Weblogs — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:07:00 GMT

You can customize the design of a web service's test page with a single line of code in the web.config file. But like most things in ASP.NET it is not that easy if you actually try it! Although you can find instructions on how to specify a custom wsdlHelpGenerator page it does not seem as if any developer has gone through with it and actually customized the design. They just tell you about the obscure web.config tag and leave it at that. This reflects the typical programmer's indifference to design. Although, to be honest, you really don't need to customize the design of the web service's test page because this is rarely exposed to the public. The first thing you should do is copy the default wsdlHelpGenerator template which...(read more)

Choices to Develop ASP.NET Applications

ASP.NET Weblogs — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:48:42 GMT

There are several ways to develop ASP.NET, and this has been growing and it tends to continue to grow in order to chose the best approach to the problem in hand, and so I decided to write a little bit about this subject. So ok, with the introduction of the ASP.NET 3.5 and even with the ASP.NET 2.0 with the AJAX Extensions you had 3 choices to develop ASP.NET Applications, and those were: ASP.NET Applications This was the best know type of applications without using any AJAX or anything else, just the plain simple ASP.NET Application, and this could be done using 2 types of development, that were the choices on the Visual Studio when beginning the development, ASP.NET Web Application Application that is pre-compiled and had some...(read more)