Tutorials & Tips

Quickly get to grips with DotNetNuke with these 3 videos. Provides essential tips for beginners to DotNetNuke from securing DNN to adding modules to the page (ie. Text/HTML, links, image modules). Working with skins, changing the logo. (40min)

Menus are well known way to provide feature rich but also simple user interface to your users. This tutorial explains how to make static or dynamic menus in ASP.NET applications.

DNN Creative magazine covering module video reviews, video tutorials, resources and web design tips for working with DotNetNuke. Beginner to Advanced. Skinning to Security. Step by Step guides. Currently 164 DNN videos in 11 issues. A new issue is released each month. A selection of videos, tutorials, skins are released for free each month. All videos are available for download to subscribers of the magazine.

Explains how any beginner Web developer / designer can easily apply a multitude of formatting to the Web pages he produce. One of the methods by which an experienced Web designer can show up from the crowd is to provide flexibility to this formatting as well.

This video shows how to use the new Web Parts and Personalization features of ASP.NET 2.0 and the designer support provided by Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition to build customizable web pages whose content and layout can be modified by the user. See how Web Parts enable the user to add new content to a page on-the-fly and restructure the page in the browser using drag-and-drop.

Ever wondered how Microsoft have implemented Windows XP help? Ever wondered how MSDN authors develop their articles? Ever wondered how come when you press F1 in most application you are presented with something describing that part of the application? You will be amazed if we told you that all of the above cases are developed using the same tool: Microsoft Windows HTML Help Workshop. We believe now you need not us to explain more why Microsoft Windows HTML Help Workshop is an important and vital tool for most software developers and content writers / distributors.

The ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard control simplifies many of the tasks associated with building a web application. In this tutorial we will look at the basics of the Wizard Control by creating a simple data collection form and then advance to simulate an online test wizard that will be generated dynamically.

This video illustrates how simple it is to create data-driven web sites using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, ASP.NET 2.0, and SQL Server 2005 Express Edition. See the integrated data editing support provided by Visual Web Developer that simplifies database creation and population using the Database Explorer and DataSet Designer. Explore how easy it is to create a master-details view with support for filtering, sorting, paging, and editing with no code using the DropDownList, GridView, DetailsView, and ObjectDataSource controls.

If you developed an ASP.NET page and receive an error page form your locale ISS, you should check your setup. Cause, ISS tries to validate web clients for authorized. Normally a web client 's session sets Anounymous account. So you should check NTFS permissions and set correct permissions for .NET setup directory.

Implementing help for ASP.NET Applications and for .NET Windows Forms Applications have many similarities that will be highlighted in this tutorial and the reader will be thought how to implement it in both.

Explains what is validation, why validation of user input is so important and how to use ASP.NET 2.0 validation controls to build robust Web applications.

ASP.NET is available for download as a component of the .NET Framework. Learn how to install ASP.NET and the .NET Framework.

Explains how to set focus in ASP.NET controls (e.g. button or textbox) using ASP.NET server side code or client side javascript. Tutorial includes review of focus in ASP.NET 2.0 too.

A complete research of using an Enter key in ASP.NET, submiting a form or how to get specific button "clicked" when visitor hits an Enter key. That could be in case that you want to build Login screen, web site search, pool or all of that on the same page.

Most programmers are used to passing data in methods as input and output parameters. Imagine a scenario where you wish to pass methods around to other methods instead of data. Amazed! Read further.

ASP.NET 2.0 Tutorials : GridView Filtering - In this tutorial you will learn how to add a filter to a Grid View Control, To modify the query with a parameterized filter, the WHERE Clause, Parameter properties, Parameter Value Editor and To test filtering. Adding Filtering - If the developer wants to display only selected data in a page, the query for the SqlDataSource control will have to be modified.

ASP.NET 2.0 Free Tutorials : Advanced Site Functionality - 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.

ASP.NET 2.0 Free Training : Creating Web Wizards - In this tutorial you will learn about Rich Controls and Services, Creating Web Wizards, Working with the Wizard Control, Editing Wizard Steps, Adding a Completion Step, To edit the completion step, To show the user's data and Testing Wizard Control.

ASP.NET Training : Dynamic Image control - In this tutorial you will learn how to create Dynamic Image Control, DynamicImage Control Properties and Custom Parameters. The DynamicImage control derives from the DynamicImageBase which is in turn derived from Image. This control acquires image bytes from varied sources and renders them to image capable devices using an internal normalization process.

ASP.NET 2.0 Free Training : Adding Sorting and Paging in GridView - In this tutorial you will learn adding sorting and paging in a GridView Control, Implement Two Column Sorting, Create Code for Custom Sorting, Editing the GridView control data, Deleting Displayed Records, Inserting Records and Using Templates.