Tutorials & Tips

Tutorial explains how to make international applications customizable to users belonging to different nations, cultures, or regions. The local is the combination of a language and a country. An application uses the locale to identify the preference of a user.

Validation controls are used to validate the user's input. The validation controls can be attached to input controls to check the values that are entered by the user. This tutorial explains how to check the values entered by the user by using 6 standard validation controls.

Screen Scraping, in terms of programmer means fetching data from a website into your application. To talk more technically, it is actually a way by which your application extracts data from the output of some other program. This technique is basically making the request and parsing the response. This tutorial explains how to fetch data from a website into your application by using System.Net namespace.

A template is a combination of HTML elements, controls and embedded server controls, and can be used to customize and manipulate the layout of a control. ASP.NET provides three server controls for displaying data in a customized layout: Datagrid control, Repeater control, and Datalist control. This tutorial explains how to use a template to customize the layout of these controls.

This tutorial explains how to store and retrieve data by using XML with ASP.NET web application. XML is a cross-platform, hardware and software independent, text based markup language, which enables you to store data in a structured format by using meaningful tags. XML stores structured data in XML documents that are similar to databases.

Tutorial explains how to maintain state-level and page-level information of an ASP.NET Web application. You need to maintain state-level and page-level information of an ASP.NET Web application because Web pages and ASP.NET Framework use stateless HTTP protocol to communicate between a Web browser and a Web server.

In this article we will be discussing on how you can send emails using your ASP.NET applications. In ASP.NET application, you can send electronic mails by using either the SmtpMail class or the MailMessage class found in the System.Web.Mail namespace.

Tutorial explains functionalities like user registration and administration. In sample web application users will be able to upload picture and edit profile. To enjoy all these features a user should first register to the website.

This tutorial explains everything you need in order to start using sessions in your website. Sessions in the websites are very important as one of the ways how you can send sensitive data from one web page to another.

Someone wanted the exact same thing on codeproject.com a while ago but I didn't give much thought to it, until someone at work asked me how to do it - since he wasn't able to find a viable solution on the internet.

This tutorial explains how to use Crystal Reports in ASP.NET Web application. Crystal Reports is the standard reporting tool for Visual Studio .NET used to display data of presentation quality. You can display multiple-level totals, charts to analyze data, and much more.

Tutorial covers the details regarding how master pages can be nested within one main master page. To give a same look to the overall site Master Pages are used since long. They give you the power to customize your web pages but keeping the same overall look of the website as well.

The evolution of the internet and its exponential growth in recent years has resulted in gradual shift from desktop to distributed applications. This shift has led to the development of complex enterprise applications that are managed across different platforms and geographical boundaries. A Web Service exposes a number of methods to provide functions that can be used by one or more applications, regardless of the programming languages, operating systems, and hardware platforms used to develop them.

AdRotator is one of the Rich Web Controls available in ASP.NET. AdRotator control is available in ASP.Net to make the task of rotating the advertisement images in a web form quickly and easily. It displays banner advertisements randomly. This tutorial explains how to rotate advertisement images on web form by using AdRotator Control.

This tutorial talks about connecting to an Access or Sql Server database using ASP.NET. You might have noticed that the procedure to connect to a database is almost the same, but you should always take some ideas into consideration before you start implementing your projects.

Data Normalization uses different techniques to narrow down values to a certain range. Min-Max and z-Score are most common normalization techniques. In this tutorial we will use ASP.NET to solve the data normalization problem. A web-based application will a read dataset, normalize it, and store it in a Microsoft Access database. The normalized dataset will be displayed to the user in an ASP.NET data grid control.

This article describes how to embed and display PDF documents in a web page using simple ASP.NET custom server control. The method used, allows the developer to control the web page contents surrounding the embedded PDF. This is not same as linking directly to a PDF which doesn't allow developer to control the appearance of the page.

It is very easy to build To-do list web application in ASP.NET. This tutorial will cover the basics of using .Net 2.0's controls and fundamentals of using Visual Web Developer to create a simple, but powerful application. There is sample To Do List ASP.NET 2.0 project, used in this tutorial.

Data Visualization is of immense importance these days. In this tutorial we will graphically visualize a data set (iris) uploaded by user. We will build an ASP.NET application that will allow a user to upload iris data file on the server. Server will then read the file and calculate its summary. Summary will include average, minimum, maximum, and Pearson's correlation etc. Using the ASP.NET drawing libraries the application will draw the correlation matrix as a bipartite graph and adjacency matrix form (using some pixel oriented technique). At the end we will compare both the diagrams.

Web Pages developed in ASP.Net are HTTP based and HTTP protocol is a stateless protocol. It means that web server does not have any idea about the requests from where they coming i.e from same client or new clients. On each request web pages are created and destroyed. This tutorial explains how to remember site visitor's informations between requests.