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Have a wonderful and exciting .netting life.Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-15253054784554040132010-02-21T21:45:00.000+11:002010-02-21T21:45:54.944+11:00ASP.NET MVC Uploading and Downloading Files<div>Great article about file handling in MVC.</div><div><br /></div><a href="http://www.mikesdotnetting.com/Article/125/ASP.NET-MVC-Uploading-and-Downloading-Files">ASP.NET MVC Uploading and Downloading Files</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-1525305478455404013?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-91504607116853265892010-02-21T21:38:00.001+11:002010-02-21T21:38:42.416+11:00Consuming WCF / ASMX / REST service using JQueryThis is a great article about how to consume WCF using Jquery.<div><br /></div><div><a href="http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/sridhar_subra/116/Default.aspx">http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/sridhar_subra/116/Default.aspx</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-9150460711685326589?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-65454764150168753922009-03-31T18:42:00.001+11:002009-03-31T18:44:46.889+11:00MVC chapter ebookScott Guthrie has released a chapter of the upcoming "Asp.net MVC 1.0" and it can be found on the following URL:<br /><br /><a href="http://aspnetmvcbook.s3.amazonaws.com/aspnetmvc-nerdinner_v1.pdf">http://aspnetmvcbook.s3.amazonaws.com/aspnetmvc-nerdinner_v1.pdf</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-6545476415016875392?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-3447280177278154822008-02-26T19:54:00.002+11:002008-02-26T19:55:33.500+11:00TRULY Understanding ViewState, the comment indexThis article gives a very good coverage of the problems faced in usage of ViewState.<br /><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/infinitiesloop/archive/2008/02/19/truly-understanding-viewstate-comment-index.aspx"><br />http://weblogs.asp.net/infinitiesloop/archive/2008/02/<br />19/truly-understanding-viewstate-comment-index.aspx</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-344728017727815482?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-77005796616776505582008-02-26T19:39:00.000+11:002008-02-26T19:49:04.185+11:00User Administration Tool (Part 3)In <a href="http://www.dotnetbips.com/articles/d0733f82-ebd9-4282-9fce-389c4257f870.aspx"> Part 2</a> of this series of the article covered <a target="_new" href="http://www.dotnetbips.com/articles/30775db7-379a-4b37-beff-cb32d3734a04.aspx#">user management</a> features. This final part will deal with role management and profile management.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dotnetbips.com/articles/30775db7-379a-4b37-beff-cb32d3734a04.aspx">http://www.dotnetbips.com/articles/<br />30775db7-379a-4b37-beff-cb32d3734a04.aspx<br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-7700579661677650558?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-18316450176994606882008-02-26T19:36:00.001+11:002008-02-26T19:39:28.081+11:00ASP.NET AJAX Controls and Extenders Tutorial<span id="intelliTXT">What are the differences between the Server Control, the ASP.NET AJAX Server Control and the ASP.NET AJAX </span><span id="intelliTXT">Server Control </span><span id="intelliTXT">Extender, and when should each be used?<br /><br />This article gives good comparison between each of them.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/kb/ajax/ajaxcontrolsandextenders.aspx">http://www.codeproject.com/kb/<br />ajax/ajaxcontrolsandextenders.aspx<br /></a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-1831645017699460688?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-25262747263194628212008-02-26T19:34:00.001+11:002008-02-26T19:36:12.226+11:00Best Practices to Improve ASP.Net Web Application Performance.This article gives some important points to consider for the performance improvement in asp.net applications.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article45.aspx">http://www.dotnetfunda.com/<br />articles/article45.aspx<br /><br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-2526274726319462821?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-54666473620462988892008-02-26T19:32:00.000+11:002008-02-26T19:34:13.243+11:00Validate XSL Against XML<span id="abstractLabel">In this Article, Haissam Abdul Malak shows how to create a class library for validating a certain XSL file against an XML file. He examines the concept with the help of a series of steps with relevant source code and explanations. Finally, he describes how to test the class library which was created in the previous steps.<br /><br /><a href="http://aspalliance.com/1567_Validate_XSL_Against_XML.all">http://aspalliance.com/<br />1567_Validate_XSL_Against_XML.all<br /></a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-5466647362046298889?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-72277127879417746122008-02-26T19:30:00.002+11:002008-02-26T19:32:29.441+11:00AJAX localization<span class="clsSearchBox">This article discusses:</span><div class="clsDiscuss"><ul><li class="clsInfoBox">Globalization support in ASP.NET AJAX </li><li class="clsInfoBox">Need for support in JavaScript </li><li class="clsInfoBox">Assembly-based AJAX localization </li><li class="clsInfoBox">File-based AJAX localization </li></ul><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/01/InternationalizingASPNETAJAX/#S3">http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/<br />08/01/InternationalizingASPNETAJAX/#S3<br /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-7227712787941774612?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-11931111388262569922008-02-26T19:27:00.000+11:002008-02-26T19:30:06.343+11:00Adding a Build Banner to ASP.NET PagesThis article explains, and provides fully functional code, for a plugin to the HTTP pipeline which will render such a 'development banner' to any ASPX page in the website in question.<br />The only requirement is to add the appropriate configuration to the <em>Web.config</em> file, and ensure the banner assembly is in the sites <em>bin</em> directory.<br /><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/kb/aspnet/buildbanner.aspx"><br />http://www.codeproject.com/kb/<br />aspnet/buildbanner.aspx</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-1193111138826256992?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-70836697656813644932008-02-26T19:26:00.000+11:002008-02-26T19:27:36.058+11:00Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET ApplicationsIn no particular order, here are the top ten things I've learned to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications. Hopefully they will help you save you some time and headaches.<br /><br /><a href="http://daptivate.com/archive/2008/02/12/top-10-best-practices-for-production-asp-net-applications.aspx">http://daptivate.com/archive/2008/02/12/<br />top-10-best-practices-for-production-asp-net-applications.aspx<br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-7083669765681364493?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-58849347693723400932008-02-26T18:53:00.001+11:002008-02-26T19:26:35.482+11:00ASP.NET Memory: If your application is in production… then why is debug=trueThis is another article which has some information about the impact of leaving debug=true in the production environment.<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/2006/04/13/575364.aspx">http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/<br />2006/04/13/575364.aspx<br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-5884934769372340093?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-80887569914007867442008-02-26T18:50:00.002+11:002008-02-26T18:53:53.111+11:00App_Offline.htm and working around the "IE Friendly Errors" featureThis article gives a way to overcome the "IE Friendly Errors" feature interfering with the actual message coming from the server when the content length is less than 512 bytes.<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/09/442332.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive<br />/2006/04/09/442332.aspx<br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-8088756991400786744?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-29016746085253219722008-02-19T09:35:00.001+11:002008-02-19T09:37:56.276+11:00Building a Web Message Board using Visual Studio 2008This article gives a practical example of using LINQ to develop a basic message board application.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.codeproject.com/kb/aspnet/vs2008messageboard1.aspx">http://www.codeproject.com/kb/<br />aspnet/vs2008messageboard1.aspx</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-2901674608525321972?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-82175923492089632052008-02-18T09:25:00.004+11:002008-02-18T09:28:53.061+11:00Code Converters (C# to VB.Net)This is a nice tool to convert C# code to VB.net or wise versa.<br /><br /><ol><li><a href="http://labs.developerfusion.co.uk/convert/csharp-to-vb.aspx">Convert C# to VB.NET</a></li><li><a href="http://labs.developerfusion.co.uk/convert/vb-to-csharp.aspx">Convert VB.NET to C#</a><br /></li></ol><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-8217592349208963205?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-39931554223020717292008-02-15T09:47:00.000+11:002008-02-15T09:48:50.635+11:00Uncover Hidden Data to Optimize Application Performance<span class="clsSearchBox">This article discusses:</span><div class="clsDiscuss"><ul><li class="clsInfoBox">Dynamic management views and functions</li><li class="clsInfoBox">Causes of server waits </li><li class="clsInfoBox">Common index problems </li><li class="clsInfoBox">Problems associated with logical I/O </li></ul><a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/08/01/SqlDmvs/default.aspx">http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/<br />issues/08/01/SqlDmvs/default.aspx<br /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-3993155422302071729?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-68644182214281574522008-02-13T14:03:00.003+11:002008-02-13T14:07:37.572+11:00JSON-Enabled WCF Services in ASP.NET 3.5This article gives a very good introduction to using WCF services with AJAX.<br /><br /><a href="http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ajax/JSON-EnabledWCFServicesInASPNET35.aspx">http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ajax/<br />JSON-EnabledWCFServicesInASPNET35.aspx<br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-6864418221428157452?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-52098125227322283422008-02-13T12:48:00.000+11:002008-02-13T12:49:42.013+11:00An Overview of ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008This article provides an overview of the new features in ASP.NET 3.5 and the new web/ASP.NET-related features in Visual Studio 2008. Read on to learn more!<br /><br /><a href="http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/112107-1.aspx">http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/<br />articles/112107-1.aspx</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-5209812522732228342?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-28550698660907195152008-02-13T12:46:00.001+11:002008-02-13T12:48:02.224+11:00ASP.NET Application Life Cycle Overview for IIS 7.0This topic describes the application life cycle for ASP.NET applications that are running in IIS 7.0 in Integrated mode and with the .NET Framework 3.0 or later. The IIS 7.0 integrated pipeline is a unified request processing pipeline that supports both native-code and managed-code modules.<br /><a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb470252.aspx"><br />http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/<br />library/bb470252.aspx</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-2855069866090719515?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-74748364881781666242008-02-13T08:41:00.000+11:002008-02-13T08:43:56.898+11:00MS-Ajax Client Javascript integrated within the Aptana IDEAptana has a cool Eclipse-based IDE for writing AJAX-y websites. It's got built-in support, via plugins, for most of the major Javascript Libraries.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.aptana.com/studio">http://www.aptana.com/studio</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-7474836488178166624?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-44123500287366939882008-02-12T07:57:00.000+11:002008-02-12T07:58:41.346+11:00Handling Data After Post BackThis article gives an introduction to maintaining the new data entered by the user across postback on custom controls.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bipinjoshi.net/articles/522e2775-aa37-4ba4-b08f-828e2ae9c79a.aspx">http://www.bipinjoshi.net/articles/<br />522e2775-aa37-4ba4-b08f-828e2ae9c79a.aspx<br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-4412350028736693988?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-53073045840462260732008-02-11T14:31:00.001+11:002008-02-11T14:31:59.842+11:00Don’t run production ASP.NET Applications with debug=”true” enabled<span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;">One of the things you want to avoid when deploying an ASP.NET application into production is to accidentally (or deliberately) leave the <compilation debug="”true”/"> switch on within the application’s web.config file.<br /><br />This article gives what are the reasons for not doing it.<br /><br /><a href="http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/04/11/442448.aspx">http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/<br />2006/04/11/442448.aspx<br /></a></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-5307304584046226073?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-63588726064156899012008-02-11T10:14:00.000+11:002008-02-11T10:31:06.800+11:00ASP.NET Code DebuggingThis article gives an introduction for debugging ASP.Net coding.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.beansoftware.com/ASP.NET-Tutorials/ASP.NET-Code-Debugging.aspx">http://www.beansoftware.com/<br />ASP.NET-Tutorials/ASP.NET-Code-Debugging.aspx<br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-6358872606415689901?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-51845904208136455522008-02-11T10:12:00.000+11:002008-02-11T10:14:31.386+11:00ASP.NET AJAX Extender for multicolumn drag & drop<span name="intelliTxt" id="intelliTXT">The Extender allows reordering of content on the same column and drag & drop content between columns. It also supports client side notification so that you can call web service and store the position of the content behind the scene without producing (async) postback.<br /><br />Implementation details can be found on <a href="http://www.codeproject.com/KB/ajax/multicolumndragdrop.aspx">http://www.codeproject.com/KB/<br />ajax/multicolumndragdrop.aspx</a><br /><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-5184590420813645552?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-576470838948850861.post-35209121792735037372008-02-11T10:10:00.000+11:002008-02-11T10:12:13.734+11:00Persisting State InformationThis article give a brief introduction on maintaining the state information between the post backs.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.bipinjoshi.net/articles/3380d5ce-b84e-443f-8c26-e97ec071292d.aspx">http://www.bipinjoshi.net/articles/<br />3380d5ce-b84e-443f-8c26-e97ec071292d.aspx<br /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/576470838948850861-3520912179273503737?l=blog.jansonfrancis.com' alt='' /></div>Antony Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13014414558292835636noreply@blogger.com0