Question: Hi, I'm trying to use a HoverMenuExtender with a web user control, but it doesn't work. If I move the content of the user control to the same page with HoverMenuExtender, it works. Can someone tell me what I am not doing right?  Here is the web user... [More]

Question: If I would like to incorporate AJAX tools into my projects, am I required to use the AJAX Control Toolkit Web Site template to design my projects instead of using the ASP.NET Web Site template? Thanks in advance. ... [More]

Question: My Main page is looks like follow   Top Frame     Button1  Button 2 Button 3 Button 4 Buttn 5 _______________________________________________________ Main Frame   the Button1 ~ Button5 clicked will direct to different page ( 1.as... [More]

User input can come from a variety of locations: You must test input from data files as well as interactive controls. Writing user input validation is pedantic and error-prone but very necessary. Trusting user input can cause anything from exception conditions to SQL injection attacks. None of the o... [More]

Experienced Windows programmers are familiar with writing the code to place data values in controls and to store values from controls: public Form1 : Form { private MyType myDataValue; private TextBox textBoxName; private void InitializeComponent( ) { textBoxName.Text = myDataValue.Name; thi... [More]

Question:  hii am creating my college website for goalivechallenge a Microsoft website compition.i hav used live id sdk in my site and aslo want to use asp.net membership. so for that i use code given athttp://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorials/aspnet/48857836-0c72-4ef... [More]

Question: Hi I need the contents of textfiles on my webserver. It's possible to load the file on a textbox? Thank you  Answer1: hi may this help http://a... [More]

Question: Is there a way in membership to end a specific users session? When I open my page that shows me the users that are online, it shows users online even if they have logged out using my logout page with Session.Abandon(). I would like to end that users session w... [More]

Question: I've got meta.ascx which gets info from a database and puts it into a variable called keywords. In meta.ascx I declared the variable as public.  But in the .aspx I can't use <%=keywords%> as I'm getting an error System.Data.Keywords' is... [More]

In our quest to avoid hard-coding configuration and settings information, we have created many different strategies for storing configuration information. In our quest to get it right, we kept improving and changing our minds about where to put such information. INI files? That was so Windows 3.1. Y... [More]

Problems happen. They don't always happen in the lab, on machines you can easily debug. The problems you can't fix always seem to occur on one user's machine in the field, with no debugging environment and no way to figure out the cause. Experienced developers have learned to build in the capability... [More]

Many .NET classes provide two different ways to handle events from the system. You can attach an event handler, or you can override a virtual function in the base class. Why provide two ways of doing the same thing? Because different situations call for different methods, that's why. Inside derived ... [More]

The cost and inconvenience of a communication protocol dictates how you should use the medium. You communicate differently using the phone, fax, letters, and email. Think back on the last time you ordered from a catalog. When you order by phone, you engage in a question-and-answer session with the s... [More]

Not everybody needs to see everything. Not every type you create needs to be public. You should give each type the least visibility necessary to accomplish your purpose. That's often less visibility than you think. Internal or private classes can implement public interfaces. All clients can access t... [More]

This item should really be titled "Build Assemblies That Are the Right Size and Contain a Small Number of Public Types." But that's too wordy, so I titled it based on the most common mistake I see: developers putting everything but the kitchen sink in one assembly. That makes it hard to reuse compon... [More]