How to Create an ASP.NET Modal Popup Login
In this article, Yi demonstrates how to create a modal popup login page in ASP.NET. By using Login controls, AJAX Extensions, and the AJAX Control Toolkit, you can easily accomplish this task without much coding. The demo project is based on Visual Web Developer Express 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5. It also assumes you [...]
Solution to ASP.net Theme Conflict with FCKEditor
According to me, FCKeditor is the coolest HTML editor. It is very popular among web developers because of its rich set of useful features. It's also compatible with ASP.NET. But it has some issues with the ASP.NET page theme. When uploading files or images through the editor, it displays an wired XML parse error stating [...]
Client Centric Approach of AJAX using Toolkit
In this article, the author discusses the client-centric approach for AJAX using the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit. In general, server-centric (use of Update panel) is very popular in this field. But when it comes to performance, the client-centric approach is preferred. Sandeep also demonstrates how to call a webservice using javascript.
Routing with ASP.NET Web Forms
Service Pack 1 for the Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 introduced a routing engine to the ASP.NET runtime. The routing engine can decouple the URL in an incoming HTTP request from the physical Web Form that responds to the request, allowing you to build friendly URLs for your Web applications. Although you've been able to use [...]
Caching Oracle Data for ASP.NET Applications
For building scalable and high-performance Web based applications, ASP.NET provides a feature called data caching. Data caching enables programmatic storing of frequently accessed data objects in memory. This feature can be extended to vastly improve performance for ASP.NET applications that query data stored in an Oracle database. This article describes a strategy for caching Oracle [...]
Working with Microsoft Dynamics AX and .NET: Part 2
Add a reference to .NET Business Connector
In the next example, we create a new project in Visual Studio and add the reference to the project. You can skip this step if you already have a project where you would like to use the .NET Business Connector.
Open Visual Studio and create a new project as shown [...]
Working with Microsoft Dynamics AX and .NET: Part 1
This article by Erlend Dalen, explains how you can use .NET classes in AX with the Common Language Runtime and how you can write .NET code that uses AX classes by using the .NET Business Connector for AX.
Debugging ASP.NET AJAX Applications
The ability to debug code is a skill that every developer should have in their arsenal regardless of the technology they’re using. It goes without saying that understanding the different debugging options that are available can save a tremendous amount of time on a project and perhaps even a few headaches. While many developers are [...]
Writing Reliable .NET Code
When we talk about something being reliable, we're referring to it being dependable and predictable. When it comes to software, however, there are other key attributes that must also be present for the code to be considered reliable.
Canceling Server Tasks with ASP.NET AJAX
Last month I built a framework to monitor ongoing server-side tasks from the client. Using this framework, which I’ll call Progress Monitor Framework (or PMF), you can provide Web users with information about the progress of operations running on the server, something that typically requires a lot of custom code to do. With PMF, you [...]