ASP.NET provides out of the box three session state stores: Provider Description InProc Session state is stored in the ASP.NET cache. SQLServer Session state is stored out-of-process in an SQL Server database. StateServer Session state is stored out-of-process in an ASP.NET state service. Because with...

In one of the environments I work, cookies cannot be used because the pages run inside web browser controls running on a client application and cookies end up being shared by all browsers. Fortunately, ASP.NET allows us to persist some cookies as part of the URL. To persist the session state identifier...

On my last post I wrote about a solution for the problem that arises when we try the use path infos and ASP.NET Themes and Skins together . Raj Kaimal   suggested rewriting all LINK HTML elements URLs to the correct URL as seen from the client. Something like this: void HttpApplicationPreRequestHandlerExecute...

Updated on 2008.07.28 – The code was done in a hurry and, talking to my friend Luís , I noticed that I had forgotten to make a case insensitive comparison and that the code was not so obvious. So, I updated the code and added an explanation. On my last post I wrote about the problem that arises when...

If you ever worked with ASP.NET Themes and Skins , you know that stylesheet links are added to the head section of the HTML document. The rendered URL to these stylesheets is always relative to location of the page being requested. So, for a request to: http://MySite/Section/Default.aspx you'll get:...

I find the System.Web.HttpValueCollection class very useful in a wide number of situations that involve composing HTTP requests or any other need to represent name/value collection as a string (in an XML attribute, for example). As of now ( .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta), the only way to create an instance...

If you run this code: System.Collections.Specialized. NameValueCollection queryString = System.Web. HttpUtility .ParseQueryString( "noKey&=emptyKey&A=Akey" ); queryString will actually have the running type of System.Web.HttpValueCollection . What's great about this class is that its...

Ah yes, S. Somasegar, Scott Guthrie and Ken Cox. What an influential trio! It's kind of a geeky rat pack. We definitely run in the same circles... the MSDN Home page where my MVP profile is part of the current random display cycle. Just in case I disappear before you get there, here's a screenshot: Thanks...

On previous posts [ ^ ][ ^ ] I mentioned the size of ASP.NET validators and validation summary rendering and the fact that expando attributes are being used to add properties. Mohamed also mentions this issue. Besides the fact that custom attributes aren't XHTML conformant, Firefox differs from Internet...

Share this post : I spent this weekend looking at all the submission from all around the world. I finally narrow it down to 5 people that in my mind and opinion, even maybe wrong, they deserve the Premium MSDN subscription. I was looking for a person that could use the MSDN subscription for the community...