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We all want when we visit a website to have some unique treatment (personalisation). Developers on the other side must devise mechanisms to remember our personal settings and preferences. This makes it more likely for us to return. ASP.Net developers must track users and save somehow their preferences between visits.
In this post I would like to present you with a very simple example on how to create a simple web service that access data from a database.
In this post I will show you with a hands-on example on how to accompish a common task. We will use an asp.net application to read data from an excel file. I have excel 2007 installed and I have several .xlsx files with data.
In this post I am going to explain how to get information about the user's browser. This is the browser that the user uses to access the web application.
You can accomplish what i am going to show you with javascript. But I approached it differently and i will show you how to do that with .Net code.
I will be using VS 2010 Ultimate edition and VB.Net to create a simple asp.net application.
This is the eighth post in a new series of posts regarding LINQ to XML and ASP.Net.Please do read the first post here. You can find the second post here .
This is the seventh post in a new series of posts regarding LINQ to XML and ASP.Net.Please do read the first post here. You can find the second post here .
You can find the third post here . You can read the fourth post here . You can find the fifth post here . You can find the sixth post here .
In this post I will talk about ASP.Net State management. I will provide a hands on example with VS and VB.Net.
In this post i am going to try to give you an overview of the events that take place in asp.net lifecycle. Page Life Cycle in ASP.NET is essential knowledge for developing applications.
This is the fourth post in a series of posts regarding web server controls.
This is the third post in a series of posts regarding web server controls.
In this second post of presenting the basic web server controls in ASP.Net we will look into the Adrotator control. You can find the first post here.
I am going to write a new series of blog posts regarding the most common web server controls we use in ASP.Net applications.Lots of people that start now in ASP.Net want to know more about these standard controls.
I am thinking to continue the LINQ series of posts but I want to give a clear example on Linq to Objects.
This is the sixth post in a new series of posts regarding LINQ to XML and ASP.Net.Please do read the first post here. You can find the second post here .
This is the fifth post in a new series of posts regarding LINQ to XML and ASP.Net.Please do read the first post here. You can find the second post here .
This is the fourth post in a new series of posts regarding LINQ to XML and ASP.Net.Please do read the first post here. You can find the second post here .
This is the third post in a new series of posts regarding LINQ to XML and ASP.Net.Please do read the first post here. You can find the second article here .
This is the second post in a new series of posts regarding LINQ to XML and ASP.Net.Please do read the first article here.
I am going to write a new series of articles regarding LINQ to XML and how to use it in ASP.Net web sites.
In this post I will try to show you with a detailed example how to create an Ajax enabled Web Service and consume it from client scripts running in a different Web site. It will be a simple example but the principles apply to the most complicated ones.
In this post I would like to talk about cross-page postbacks in ASP.Net.
This is the third post in a new series of posts regarding ASP.Net and JQuery. You can see the first post here. and the second one here.
This is a second post in a series regarding ASP.Net and manipulation of files & folders. You can find the other one here .
I am going to start a new series of posts regarding files and how we can manipulate them in our ASP.Net applications. I will also present samples of .Net code that will exhibit how to get information on drives and folders.
Scott Gu in his latest post, announces a very serious security threat-vulnerability regarding ASP.Net sites.
I wanted to write a few thoughts of mine regarding the new lightweight development tool available from Microsoft called WebMatrix.
I know that this topic is also well documented in the web. But I decided to have a go, after so many people ask me the same question
In this post we are going to see a step by step example on how to read,write,delete cookies in asp.net websites.
This is my second post regarding caching in asp.net applications. You can find my other post in caching here.
This is a second post in a new series of posts regarding ASP.Net and JQuery. You can see the first post here.