Category Archives: ASP.NET

Today I was converting some ASP code to ASP.NET when I ran into a problem with the eval statement which is not supported in the NET Framework. Fortunately, I found a clever solution on the Internet at http://odetocode.com/Articles/80.aspx. You can … Continue reading →

I feel that I have become a much better programmer this year. I have learned a lot more about Visual Studio and now use all of its features. This includes using bookmarks to find my way back to lines of … Continue reading →

I am still studying web parts. I’ve learned how to export and import web parts but I’m not sure how useful this is because you can’t share web parts with other sites. You can only export a web part that … Continue reading →

Today I expanded my knowledge of Web Parts, which is my favorite addition to ASP.NET in ASP.NET 2.0. I learned how to create custom properties for my web parts and I added a property to my Newsvine web part so … Continue reading →

I recently did some research on control adapters, another new feature of ASP.NET 2.0 that I read about in the book “Essential ASP.NET 2.0” by Fritz Onion and Keith Brown. Control adapters allow you to change the rendering of web … Continue reading →

Today I created a new help topic on the Navigation Controls for ASP.NET 2.0. This is a topic that was not covered in the ASP.NET 2.0 For Dummies book. The navigation controls get their data from a XML sitemap but … Continue reading →

I recently created a custom VSI file which is a kind of ZIP file used to install Visual Studio content. A Visual Studio Content Installer can be used to distribute macros, addins, code snippets, toolbox controls, or templates. I created … Continue reading →

Yesterday I learned how to create custom Item Templates for Visual Studio 2005. An item template is used to add new items to a project like a starter class file. You can export any of your project files as an … Continue reading →

In addition to trace listeners, ASP.NET 2.0 has added a health monitoring system to log web events for a web application. Health Monitoring is similar to trace listeners with the additional option of logging the events to a SQL Server … Continue reading →

log4net provides the same sort of debug and trace logging capabilities as the trace listeners in ASP.NET 2.0 but it can be used in ASP.NET 1.1. Therefore if you like trace listeners in ASP.NET 2.0 but have some ASP.NET 1.1 … Continue reading →

I have been spending a lot of time exploring Visual Studio’s debugging options because I deal with a lot of large projects and web applications that require me to search through thousands of lines of code. Web applications are especially … Continue reading →

It can take a long time to learn a programming language. After the initial period of study during which you learn the language syntax, there is a long period of learning how to do various useful tasks. For a programming … Continue reading →

For the past two days I have been working on encrypting data using ASP.NET’s built-in cryptography classes. I experimented with TripleDES and Rijndael, also known as the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Rijndael is accepted as a government standard for data … Continue reading →