Tutorials & Tips

In detail guide how to implement nested master pages in ASP.NET. Creating a master page can be very simple or very complex depending on the intentions of the web designer. This tutorial shows how to create a very simple master page and nest a number of other master pages into it.

Explains everything about how to work with long running task in ASP.NET. Almost every ASP.NET developer, before or later experiences a problem with page timeout error. Sometimes it is because of some error in code, but sometimes you just need more time to execute long running task.

This tutorial explains how you can export crystal reports to PDF, Excel, Word and HTML formats with ASP.NET web application. Reports are then available for direct download or used for scheduled reports to be sent via email, in this case, the exporting is done on the server side and the exported file is attached to an email and send to the user's email id.

This tutorial explains how to install, configure and implement SQL Server Reporting Services in ASP.NET. Business development often requires analysis and data mining and SQL Server Reporting Services provide a solution to those tasks.

This tutorial explains how to modify web site settings, like connection strings, session timeout etc. at run time. It is very useful in some scenarios, but you need to know that your web application can load slower first time after changes in web.config are made.

This is a beginner introduction to using MS SQL Server in ASP.NET web applications. MS SQL Server is one of the options if you have to develop web sites with dynamic content, like news site, bulletin boards, eCommerce etc.

A tutorial to create a newsletter application for your website. It allows users to subscribe and unsubscribe from the newsletter. A simple online administration interface (an ASP.NET page) allows the admin to create and send newsletters/emails.

This tutorial explains how to connect to data source with ObjectDataSource and show data in GridView. A GridView supplies data in table form with the possibility to sort, edit, select an item and even split the data over several pages. ObjectDataSource supplies the possibility to use the 3 tier design model and has the advantage that less code has to be written.

This tutorial explains how to add a record, sort and divide data in DataGrid, and how to use DetailsView control. DetailsView class shows one single record in table form. It's used to give a view on all the details of any object selected by a GridView or another control (often DropDownList).

Creating composite controls in ASP.net can prove to be quite a tedious process at times, when it comes to the actual HTML the control renders. Especially since design-time support for composite controls are quite limited, fortunately we can always add our own support, like described in this code example

This beginner tutorial will give you a small summary of the most important ASP.NET server controls. ASP.NET server controls are objects and have their own properties, methods and event handlers.

This tutorial explains what types of mistakes you can make in ASP.NET applications and how to correct them. It can be very hard to track down the problem in your code. Fortunately the .NET Framework SDK includes a lightweight debugger that is perfectly suited for this task. Together with Tracing and Exception Handling you're armed and ready.

These days layout is very important. ASP.NET supports CSS and adds its own Themes and Skins which provide control based style elements. Uniform layout on your whole site can be guaranteed by using Master Pages.

Dynamic Web sites usually use one or more data sources like a database or xml files. This tutorial explains how to use ADO.NET to easily communicate with data sources through a recommended 3 tier architecture.

Explains how to use ADO.NET to manipulate data without database connection. Disconnected data can be used to communicate between distributed applications or web services. Like connected data, disconnected data supports multiple tables and data binding.

A coding standard is a set of guidelines, rules and regulations on how to write code which will help programmers/developer quickly read and understand source code conforming to the style as well as helping to avoid introducing faults and misunderstanding. Coding standards are important because they provide greater consistency and uniformity in writing code between programmers. This ultimately leads to the code that is easier to understand and maintain which reduces the overall cost of the project.

Explains how to upload and save image to database, and then read and show image on web page. ASP.NET provides a simple mechanism to upload image files to a database, like SQL Server. The images can be stored in a database table attribute that is of image data-type.

Introduces Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and how to link interface and code behind in ASP.NET web application. OOP (Object Oriented Programming) uses 'objects' to design applications. This object is a particular instance of a class. The class defines all the possible characteristics and behaviors for his objects.

Explains how to get web site thumbnail image using ASP.NET. One very common requirement of many web applications is to display a thumbnail image of a web site. A typical example is to provide a link to a dynamic website displaying its current thumbnail image, or displaying images of websites with their links as a result of search, like in Google search.

An easy intro to AJAX in ASP.NET with examples in both C# and VB.NET. Before reading this tutorial you should be familiar with ASP.NET and C# or VB.NET (examples are provided in both C# and VB.NET).