Many developers have asked how to create the SQLExpress database from an *.aspx page. Without creating or updating anything, a simple call to Membership.GetAllUsers.Count will do the trick. Your SQLExpress database will be generated in no time. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit...

Teemu "Joteke" Keiski has helped me solve a very trivial task. I had the simple request of accessing a GridView row data by checking a checkbox within that row. Based on the row data, I'd perform a particular task. My GridView had a few bound columns with a few template columns. One of...

Teemu "Joteke" Keiski has helped me solve a very trivial task. I had the simple request of accessing a GridView row data by checking a checkbox within that row. Based on the row data, I'd perform a particular task. My GridView had a few bound columns with a few template columns. One of...

I was reading a post by Richard Dudley earlier regarding membership management on remote websites. He mentioned a tool that seems to be pretty useful and costs $59. That's not bad at all for users who don't have the time or desire to whip up a membership console themselves. However, minus the...

I was reading a post by Richard Dudley earlier regarding membership management on remote websites. He mentioned a tool that seems to be pretty useful and costs $59. That's not bad at all for users who don't have the time or desire to whip up a membership console themselves. However, minus the...

Sometimes on a web page you have a div container with 2 or more divs within. In many cases, you'll want the background from one of the divs to fill the container div. Unfortunately, the div style property height does not support a percentage value as of XHTML 1.1. Instead, you can "fool" the div by repeating...

One of the goals that Microsoft has really pushed for in ASP.NET 2.0 is saving the amount of coding necessary to perform common tasks such as data access. On a recent project, I needed the ability to filter the results on a GridView control after I returned the results from my datasource. To accomplish...

Scott Guthrie pointed out some good tips to resolve an issue that occurs with images stored in CSS. Russ Helfand , who works on his team and has done some cool things such as an AJAX wiki and the CSS adapter kit, has a really cool solution by caching the images by using a handler.

I just finished reading a post by Julie Lerman about "Fake AJAX" better known as FAJAX and couldn't stop laughing. I know exactly what she means. If I counted the number of times users have asked me why does my page go blank when I click a button... It's funny how the simplest little change to your site...

I came across a blog entry by Rich Strahl about adding stylesheets to ASP.NET 2.0 web pages. The way Rick explained it is that he'd recommend a contentplaceholder in the header section of a masterpage and to set the properties there. That's just fine and dandy if the content you'd like to set is in a...