Tutorials & Tips

Cookie are one of several ways to store data about web site visitors during the time when web server and browser are not connected. This tutorial explains how to read, write and delete cookies, how to use HttpCookie class, what are web browser's limits for cookies and more.

This tutorial explains how to play video on web page and how to build custom ASP.NET control that manages Windows Media Player on web page.

This tutorial explains what is and why we need data paging and how to implement it in ASP.NET web application with simple GridView paging, custom GridView paging or paging by using DataPager class.

The term 'SQL Injection' means to inject malicious SQL statement(s) in an otherwise regular SQL to get access to secure data on a website. In this article, we will examine how SQL injection attacks are carried out and what programming techniques can be used to prevent them. While we will assume classic ASP pages and the backend SQL Server database to demonstrate the method and means of prevention, the concept is equally applicable to other web programming technologies and database systems.

This article explains how to create an RSS feed in ASP.NET. The author first explains the structure of RSS feed and then provides working code example from Stardeveloper.com to explain how an RSS feed can be generated dynamically. After reading this article you will be able to create an RSS feed for your website.

This tutorial explains what to do when you need GridView hidden column in ASP.NET. The problem is, when a Gridview column's visibility is set to False, then the Grid does not bind data to the column, and thus when you try to retrieve data from the hidden column in the code-behind, it either blows up or returns an empty string.

AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) has been integrated into Microsoft's .NET 3.5 Framework, replacing a previous AJAX package that could be downloaded and employed on top of ASP.NET 2.0. This tutorial explains what is ASP.NET Ajax and how version 3.5 differs from version 1.0.

Gzip and Deflate are two popular HTTP compression methods. I ran a test in C# to figure out which one is faster and by how much. Read this article to see which won the speed test and how to implement Gzip and Deflate HTTP compression in your website.

This tutorial explains what's new in ASP.NET 3.5 and how it affects your development projects. ASP.NET 3.5 is the latest release of the Active Server Pages technology from Microsoft. The latest release of ASP.NET integrates with .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 to provide a number of new features that help you create more powerful and flexible Web sites.

This tutorial explains different ways how you can print forms or reports in ASP.NET web application. Before or later, you will probably need to print some reports for your users. But, printing in ASP.NET is still not completely defined and you can choose from few common solutions depending of your case.

This tutorial explains how to read, construct and write XML data by using LINQ to XML data provider. LINQ to XML is a built-in LINQ data provider that provides a clean programming model to read, construct and write XML data.

This tutorial explains how to use Dynamic Expression API in your ASP.NET web application. LINQ to SQL is an extension of LINQ that allows developers to write "queries" in .NET to retrieve and manipulate data from a SQL Server database.

This article reviews the Supervising Controller implementation of MVP in winforms applications and the Passive View implementation in ASP.NET webforms applications. All the code in the scope of this article is available for download.

LINQ to SQL is an extension of LINQ that allows developers to write "queries" in your ASP.NET web application to retrieve and manipulate data from a SQL Server database. This tutorial covers basic steps to implement LINQ to SQL in ASP.NET web application.

Language integrated query (LINQ) in .NET 3.5 provides querying capabilities to Object Oriented programming languages like C# or VB.NET. This tutorial explains LINQ architecture and common examples when using it with C#.

ASP.NET AJAX consists of client-script libraries and server components that are integrated to provide a robust development framework, which allow us to build rich client applications quickly and easily. This tutorial explains how to dynamically create Ajax web form, ScriptManager, UpdatePanel and AsyncPostBackTrigger.

ASP. NET 3.5 introduced two new data bound controls ListView & DataPager. This tutorial explains how to use ListView and DataPager controls to achieve example e-mail Viewer web application.

This tutorial explains how ASP.NET applications work with IIS and how to set up settings of an ASP.NET web site with IIS 5.0/6.0 web server.

This tutorial contains a list of SQL Server optimization tips for ASP.NET Developer. These tips should be your common habits when building efficient, scalable web applications.

This tutorial explains how to create Newsletter and send mass e-mails to your web site subscribers. It includes registration form so users can subscribe to receive your newsletter.