Nuno Gomes /* ASP.NET Adventures */

ELWEA - EventLog WebEvent Aggregator for ASP.NET

Last time I wrote about Health Monitoring was during 2008 and since then I ‘m using, on a daily basis, a complex Health Monitoring EventLog provider to aggregate WebEvents from specific ASP.NET web applications. Last year I found ELMAH (Error Logging...

ASP.NET Controls - System.Web.UI.HtmlControls.HtmlButton client click hits the server twice

Hi all, At work we have about 5000 PC's that are mainly our commercial network. All those PC use intranet services and web applications. Until a few months ago IE6 was our corporate browser (yep) but we ended moving to IE8. A few days ago someone came...

Patch For ASP.NET Vulnerability Available

Microsoft has published a Security Advisory (2416728) about a security vulnerability in ASP.NET on Saturday, September 18th. This vulnerability exists in all versions of ASP.NET and was publically disclosed late Friday at a security conference. Scott...

jQuery UI on the Microsoft CDN

Microsoft is now hosting jQuery UI on the Microsoft Ajax CDN (uncompressed and compressed versions) as well as all the pre-built themes. Remember that CDN using is free and no registration is required. For more information check out Stephen Walther’s...

ASP.NET Controls – CommunityServer Captcha ControlAdapter, a practical case

The ControlAdapter is available since .NET framework version 2.0 and his main goal is to adapt and customize a control render in order to achieve a specific behavior or layout. This customization is done without changing the base control. A ControlAdapter...

ASP.NET Controls – Problem sorting GridView with SqlDataSource control

Let me start by saying that Microsoft don't consider this issue as a problem, as you can see here this is a “by design” behavior. The problem is well described in the referred Connect feedback and it contains a workaround. Although simple, the workaround...

Typemock Racer – A “must have tool” for all ASP.NET developers

A very common mistake taken by junior ASP.NET developers is forgetting that any web application running in a IIS instance will most likely run in a multithread environment. They forgot that, unlike the dev environment which usually runs in a single thread...

ASP.NET – Converting C# String to JSON String

Most web applications display messages to users. Displaying messages is the most effective way to inform user about errors and warnings or to simply display info or success status. I also believe that most of those web applications renders user messages...

ASP.NET Controls– Applying CSS styles to a Menu control

This is subject to which I ended up returning from time to time, either for professional purposes, for some pet project or simply to help a friend. For those of you that already played with Menu control knows that applying CSS styles to the standard ASP...

ASP.NET Health Monitoring - Building an EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 2

In the first post of this series I've manage to find the correct eventId for each Web Event type, and by this time the major problem has been solved, but I cannot yet write a correct entry into the EventLog. I still have to decided the best severity type...