Tutorials & Tips

The DotNetNuke Skinning Toolkit demonstrates all of the skin classes within DotNetNuke so that you can easily view, search and learn how to style the various elements within a DotNetNuke skin. Each DotNetNuke class is presented with an image and the various styling options available through CSS.

Datasets store a copy of data from the database tables. However, Datasets can not directly retrieve data from Databases. DataAdapters are used as a link between them. This tutorial explains how to manipulate data in database using DataSet and DataAdapter objects.

In this source code we will look at how to read an XML data source and how to put it on our ASP.NET page. For this example you can use a sample XML file putting same folder with our source code. .

This Tips & Tricks video covers many useful techniques for enhancing ASP.NET 2.0 web sites using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. Topics include encrypting sensitive information stored in web.config, maintaining the browser scroll position across postbacks, posting content to a different page, setting focus on a specific control when a page is loaded, creating a bulleted list of hyperlinks from an XML file, working with the file upload control, simplifying complex URLs using URL remapping, and using the MultiView control to switch between groups of content programmatically.

With this paper we'll be creating an ASP.NET Web page that serves as a financial calculator. This paper will focus on building the ASP.NET Web page, with only a light discussion of the source code and Web controls used.

In this code sample we will take a look at how to use SCOPE_IDENTITY() in ASP.NET. We use this function to get new ID of inserted record from SQL database. .

Advanced use of Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 to achieve consistent look and feel of your web site. Master Pages enables us to apply the same page layout to multiple pages in a Web Application.

Explains how to use Tab keyboard key in different situations for both ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 Web applications.

Explains how to simulate hidden column in GridView control. GridView is one of the new controls in ASP.Net 2.0 that replaced the DataGrid. In earlier versions of .Net when you didn't want the data to be visible to the client, you simply set the Column visibility to False. But, if you try that with ASP.NET 2.0 GridView control, it will return only empty string.

Explains how to work with ASP.NET user controls at run-time. User controls offer great flexibility than server-side includes (SSIs) by accessing the object model support provided by ASP.NET.

Explains how to store images to database and retrieve it later in some server control, like GridView.

This serie of articles explains the membership provider system in ASP.NET 2.0, how to make it work against SQL Server 2000, how to tweak the CreateUserWizard to require email verification when new accounts are created etc. As of this moment there are 6 articles, all with explaining sourcecode.

Using an ASHX handler for optimal performance we create a system for feed RSS out of your database driven site. Explains RSS xml format and gives you extra caching tips.

In this paper, we discuss the benefits that companies are seeking to gain in migrating to ASP.NET, and the various approaches they can adopt. We also discuss how to estimate the complexity of a .NET migration, and outline the main phases of a well-planned migration.

Explains how to include multiple .config files to make ASP.NET Web application more secure and manageable. Microsoft ASP.Net provides a configuration system that can be used to keep our applications flexible at run-time.

Explains how to automatically build help in ASP.NET. It is possible if you use XML comments in C# or VB.NET source code. Simply write all the documentation you need tightly tied to and inside your source code! Then use some documentation processing tools to collect all these comments and to construct a stand alone document containing every little aspect about your source code. As simple as that!

In this tutorial we are going to present you a set of famous and frequently used client side scripts. You can simply copy any of these scripts into your web application without giving any attention to their underlying technologies. If, in any case, further customization or configuration is essential to utilize any of these scripts then we will include this information as well.

Every developer knows well that to be able to design a proper user interface then we have to have a solid knowledge about every aspect of this user interface before we actually start designing it. Unfortunately, this is not always 100% possible. Situations arise from time to time in which we have no or little idea about what will be the proper user interface for a given application. In web applications things becomes worth as these situations arises more frequently.

In this tutorial you will learn advanced site functionality, Enhanced Page Framework, To create the Web.Sitemap file, Tracking Traffic with Site Counters and Going Mobile.

In this tutorial you will learn how to Enable Users to Edit Pages and Change Layout, To create a user control that enables changing page layout, To enable users to change the layout and To test layout changes.