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Woohoo…I’m an Asp.net MVP…and a few questions for you

Admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:25:00 -1000

I was announced asp.net MVP today. It’s great to receive the award as a recognition of my activities at the asp.net forums. I hope I can continue to help people out there and that this site...

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Simple Username / Password Authentication WITHOUT Membership Providers

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:44:15 -1000

The Membership provider in asp.net is great. As is the Roles support. You can do some very nifty things with it with a considerable amount of ease. You can get hashed or encrypted passwords and a...

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Display Modes of Validator Controls

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 23:04:02 -1000

By default, asp.net validators are positioned right next to the control they validate. You can move them in the markup, but wherever you put them, they occupy an area equal to the area required to...

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A Cool Bing-like Search Box (Button on the Inside)

admin — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:57:26 -1000

In the recent “web 2.0” sites, we see cool search boxes, with the search button appearing “inside” the text box. How’d they do that? Microsoft’s bing search also has this feature. A snapshot of the...

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Retrieving the Password for a User in Asp.net

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 19:30:04 -1000

If you’re using the Membership API in asp.net and need to retrieve a user’s password, you can do so by doing this: MembershipUser user = Membership.GetUser("username"); string...

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How to Programmatically Logout / Disable a User Account

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:29:01 -1000

There may be the need to programmatically logout the user in an asp.net application. If you’re using Forms authentication, this is very simple to do: FormsAuthentication.SignOut(); You may also...

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Speaking at Microsoft Day @ Dhaka- June 20, 2009

admin — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:04:09 -1000

It’s finally happening…we’re having an MS dev (and IT) event here in Dhaka, Bangladesh. This is the first one ever and marks a significant landmark for the software industry here. It’s going to be...

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Finally Set Up My Own Site: BlogEngine.Net

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:12:26 -1000

I’ve been looking to set up my own site for quite some time now. The things I had in mind required a great deal of development and, due to my workload with completing graduation and a few client...

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FileUpload Control Doesn’t Give Full Path….HELP!!!!

Admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:44:00 -1000

I’ve answered this question about five times in the last few days at the forums. It’s getting tedious so I thought I’d make a blog post about it. Issue: The FileUpload control has...

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Top of the Mountain :)

Admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:47:00 -1000

I’ve been contributing more and more to the asp.net community recently. I had a somewhat dry spell two to three moths back. I completed my graduation in Computer Science and Engineering, moved...

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How to Show / Hide a ModalPopupExtender using Javascript

Admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:10:00 -1000

If we have a ModalPopupExtender with the id ‘modPopup_ModalPopupExtender’, and need to display or hide it in javascript, we can easily do this using the $find() function. Let’s see...

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How to Send Emails from .Net [example uses GMail SMTP]

Admin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 00:10:00 -1000

We frequently see questions about sending emails using .Net in the asp.net forums. The process of sending mail is the same for Windows apps and asp.net websites as the same .Net classes are used. The...

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Asp.net MVC, Html.DropDownList and Selected Value

Admin — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:53:00 -1000

I recently ran into the altogether common problem of the Html.DropDownList helper rendering a drop down list with no value selected. This is a major problem when editing data as by default, the first...

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Error Installing SQL 2008 Business Intelligence Studio and Related Package Load Error in VS2008

Admin — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 01:35:00 -1000

It’s been a while since I last blogged. I’ve become a forum moderator, an All-Star and also completed my final exams for my bachelor’s degree since then. Now that I have a little...

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Putting Messages Into a ValidationSummary Control...From Code

Admin — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:49:00 -1000

I love the asp.net validation controls. They're chick and really useful. We sometimes have to show some messages that are not the ErrorMessages of validators. An approach to do this could be to a)...

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