Nuno Gomes /* ASP.NET Adventures */

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...

ASP.NET Controls - Improving automatic ID generation : The ShortIDs Naming Provider (Part 4)

In the previous posts on this subject I wrote about why automatic ID generation should be improved and how we can improve it. Now I will step forward and show you my own implementation of a specific naming provider. As we saw in part 3, to create a specific...

ASP.NET Controls - Improving automatic ID generation : Architectural Changes ( Part 3)

Naming container controls are a subclass of standard controls, that differ in the ability to manage child controls' ID, in fact, these naming container controls are the key to unique ID generation. To become a namingcontainer a regular control must implement...

ASP.NET Controls - Improving automatic ID generation : Introduction ( Part 1)

Some time ago, while developing a large corporate ASP.NET application with high complex layout requirements and thus, many custom composite controls, I was faced with the following problem: The generated HTML of my pages don’t meet my bandwidth...

.NET Framework 2.0 SP1 - TagMapping Undocumented hotfix

While searching a way to solve the HtmlControls tag mapping problem I found that the new SP1 bring an extra undocumented hotfix. This undocumented hotfix changes MainTagNameToTypeMapper.GetControlType method so that, for every tag name regardless is kind...