Antony Francis's Blog

ASP.NET MVC Uploading and Downloading Files

2010-02-21T21:45:00.000+11:00

Great article about file handling in MVC.

ASP.NET MVC Uploading and Downloading Files

Consuming WCF / ASMX / REST service using JQuery

2010-02-21T21:38:00.001+11:00

This is a great article about how to consume WCF using Jquery.

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/sridhar_subra/116/Default.aspx

MVC chapter ebook

2009-03-31T18:42:00.001+11:00

Scott Guthrie has released a chapter of the upcoming "Asp.net MVC 1.0" and it can be found on the following URL:

http://aspnetmvcbook.s3.amazonaws.com/aspnetmvc-nerdinner_v1.pdf

TRULY Understanding ViewState, the comment index

2008-02-26T19:54:00.002+11:00

This article gives a very good coverage of the problems faced in usage of ViewState.

http://weblogs.asp.net/infinitiesloop/archive/2008/02/
19/truly-understanding-viewstate-comment-index.aspx

User Administration Tool (Part 3)

2008-02-26T19:39:00.000+11:00

In Part 2 of this series of the article covered user management features. This final part will deal with role management and profile management.

http://www.dotnetbips.com/articles/
30775db7-379a-4b37-beff-cb32d3734a04.aspx

ASP.NET AJAX Controls and Extenders Tutorial

2008-02-26T19:36:00.001+11:00

What are the differences between the Server Control, the ASP.NET AJAX Server Control and the ASP.NET AJAX Server Control Extender, and when should each be used?

This article gives good comparison between each of them.

http://www.codeproject.com/kb/
ajax/ajaxcontrolsandextenders.aspx

Best Practices to Improve ASP.Net Web Application Performance.

2008-02-26T19:34:00.001+11:00

This article gives some important points to consider for the performance improvement in asp.net applications.

http://www.dotnetfunda.com/
articles/article45.aspx

Validate XSL Against XML

2008-02-26T19:32:00.000+11:00

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.

http://aspalliance.com/
1567_Validate_XSL_Against_XML.all

AJAX localization

2008-02-26T19:30:00.002+11:00

This article discusses:

Globalization support in ASP.NET AJAX
Need for support in JavaScript
Assembly-based AJAX localization
File-based AJAX localization

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/
08/01/InternationalizingASPNETAJAX/#S3

Adding a Build Banner to ASP.NET Pages

2008-02-26T19:27:00.000+11:00

This 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.
The only requirement is to add the appropriate configuration to the Web.config file, and ensure the banner assembly is in the sites bin directory.

http://www.codeproject.com/kb/
aspnet/buildbanner.aspx

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

2008-02-26T19:26:00.000+11:00

In 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.

http://daptivate.com/archive/2008/02/12/
top-10-best-practices-for-production-asp-net-applications.aspx

ASP.NET Memory: If your application is in production… then why is debug=true

2008-02-26T18:53:00.001+11:00

This is another article which has some information about the impact of leaving debug=true in the production environment.

http://blogs.msdn.com/tess/archive/
2006/04/13/575364.aspx

App_Offline.htm and working around the "IE Friendly Errors" feature

2008-02-26T18:50:00.002+11:00

This 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.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive
/2006/04/09/442332.aspx

Building a Web Message Board using Visual Studio 2008

2008-02-19T09:35:00.001+11:00

This article gives a practical example of using LINQ to develop a basic message board application.

http://www.codeproject.com/kb/
aspnet/vs2008messageboard1.aspx

Code Converters (C# to VB.Net)

2008-02-18T09:25:00.004+11:00

This is a nice tool to convert C# code to VB.net or wise versa.

Uncover Hidden Data to Optimize Application Performance

2008-02-15T09:47:00.000+11:00

This article discusses:

Dynamic management views and functions
Causes of server waits
Common index problems
Problems associated with logical I/O

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/
issues/08/01/SqlDmvs/default.aspx

JSON-Enabled WCF Services in ASP.NET 3.5

2008-02-13T14:03:00.003+11:00

This article gives a very good introduction to using WCF services with AJAX.

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/ajax/
JSON-EnabledWCFServicesInASPNET35.aspx

An Overview of ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008

2008-02-13T12:48:00.000+11:00

This 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!

http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/
articles/112107-1.aspx

ASP.NET Application Life Cycle Overview for IIS 7.0

2008-02-13T12:46:00.001+11:00

This 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.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/
library/bb470252.aspx

MS-Ajax Client Javascript integrated within the Aptana IDE

2008-02-13T08:41:00.000+11:00

Aptana 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.

http://www.aptana.com/studio

Handling Data After Post Back

2008-02-12T07:57:00.000+11:00

This article gives an introduction to maintaining the new data entered by the user across postback on custom controls.

http://www.bipinjoshi.net/articles/
522e2775-aa37-4ba4-b08f-828e2ae9c79a.aspx

Don’t run production ASP.NET Applications with debug=”true” enabled

2008-02-11T14:31:00.001+11:00

One of the things you want to avoid when deploying an ASP.NET application into production is to accidentally (or deliberately) leave the switch on within the application’s web.config file.

This article gives what are the reasons for not doing it.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/
2006/04/11/442448.aspx

ASP.NET Code Debugging

2008-02-11T10:14:00.000+11:00

This article gives an introduction for debugging ASP.Net coding.

http://www.beansoftware.com/
ASP.NET-Tutorials/ASP.NET-Code-Debugging.aspx

ASP.NET AJAX Extender for multicolumn drag & drop

2008-02-11T10:12:00.000+11:00

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.

Implementation details can be found on http://www.codeproject.com/KB/
ajax/multicolumndragdrop.aspx

Persisting State Information

2008-02-11T10:10:00.000+11:00

This article give a brief introduction on maintaining the state information between the post backs.

http://www.bipinjoshi.net/articles/
3380d5ce-b84e-443f-8c26-e97ec071292d.aspx