Beyond Web Logs

I have to run one XL Tool even the system does not having office installed.Having the dll like Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll. Through this, got the exe(application name is oxppia) and run it.while running, it is asking the path to install.I selected the application path(under debug folder).All dlls are installed in the Debug folder.the... [More]

ASP.NET

Following is the list of basic CSS selectors supported by jQuery * Matches any element. E Matches all element with tag name E. E F Matches all elements with tag name F that are descendents of E. E>F Matches all elements with tag name F that are direct children of E. E+F Matches all elements F immediately preceded by sibling E. E~F Matche... [More]

ASP.NET

Ever wondered how to take a full manual backup of your windows sharepoint services 3.0 [wss] site? Of course you can use stsadm command to do a full backup but you'll have to run this command every time you need to take your site's backup. Below is a .bat script that you can use to automate this manual process. It automatically... [More]

ASP.NET, General, How To, SharePoint

With Visual Studio, you can debug ASP.NET applications using the integrated debugger. To take advantage of the Visual Studio debugger, ASP.NET applications must run in debug mode. The compilation mode can be set by modifying the web.config file of the website accordingly. Visual Studio also lets you debug script files loaded by the browser at r... [More]

ASP.NET, Tips n Tricks

There is a new popup calendar control in town named "RJS PopCalendar". Very cool, slick, easy to use and most importantly FREE :) Use following links for more details: Free ASP.NET PopUp Calendar  Walkthrough of Implementation in ASP.NET Web Application 

ASP.NET

A very nice trick with tab controls to asynchronously load their content in the background and improve perceived page load time. Reducing Page Load Time with UpdatePanel and Timer

ASP.NET, Tips n Tricks

If your application is targeted for use inside an organization, and users accessing the application have existing user accounts within the local user database of the Web server or Active directory, you should authenticate users with Windows authentication. You can configure Windows authentication in two ways: within IIS and within your ASP.NE... [More]

ASP.NET, How To iis, web.config

A very nice article by Scott Hanselman on this fundamental question: How do I tell my IIS Application or Virtual Directory to use ASP.NET 3.5 rather than ASP.NET 2.0? EnjoY!

ASP.NET asp.net 3.5, asp.net 2.0, iis

Ever tried to connect to a .dbf file in .NET and gotten a Microsoft JET OleDB error that the file does not exist or something? You know the file is there because you've double checked and you know you've given the correct path but still no cigars? Here'e a reason why: Microsoft JET OleDB driver for dBase .DBF files does NOT support fi... [More]

ASP.NET dbf, microsoft oledb provider, dbase

Bookmark this link for your ASP.NET URL Rewriting Needs! http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/26/tip-trick-url-rewriting-with-asp-net.aspx

ASP.NET

Follow this link to learn ASP.NET's ListView and DataPager Controls through a multipart article series: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/122607-1.aspx

ASP.NET

Kyle has a nice post that summarizes a number of good best practices to follow when deploying your ASP.NET applications into production. I am copy/pasting it below for my own reference :) 1.  Generate new encryption keys When moving an application to production for the first time it is a good idea to generate new encryption keys. ... [More]

ASP.NET, Tips n Tricks production, deployment

The DataBinder.Eval method uses reflection to evaluate the arguments that are passed in and to return the results. Consider to limit the use of DataBinder.Eval during data binding operations to improve ASP.NET page performance. Consider the following ItemTemplate element DataBinder.Eval. <ItemTemplate>  <tr> ... [More]

ASP.NET, Better Coding, Tips n Tricks

Many times ASP.Net users face a problem with invalid Postback or Callback argument error. This error may occur when you are firing click event and the object is rebinding or its properties are changed in Page_Load event. So every time when you are firing event make sure Page_Load event does not change the control. For example, a pr... [More]

ASP.NET, Tips n Tricks gridview, postback

Another nice article to rescue from 4GuysFromRolla! Creating Custom Configuration Sections in Web.config Using .NET 2.0's Configuration API  

ASP.NET configuration, api, web.config