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Using the Wizard control of ASP.NET |
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Some times the data to be accepted from the user is too much and splitting the entire form into multiple logical sections is desirable. In classic ASP or even ASP.NET 1.x developers used to create multiple web forms each containing a part of the total information thus creating a wizard. However, this approach was often proved to be complex and time consuming. ASP.NET provides Wizard server control that allows hassle free development of such web forms. In this article we are going to see how to use this control in a typical situation of user registration. |
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Posted On : 24 Aug 2008 |
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Using Site Maps to provide web site navigation |
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If you anytime traveled to unknown areas you know the importance of maps. They help you to travel easily making your journey pleasurable. The same holds true for web sites. The visitors coming to your web sites should be presented with simple yet flexible navigation structure so that they can travel to various parts of your web site easily. ASP.NET provides a feature called SiteMap that help you achieve this goal. In this article we will explore what site maps are and how to develop web site navigation structures making use of them.
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Posted On : 17 Aug 2008 |
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Using LINQ in ASP.NET (Part 4) |
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In the Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we discussed how to use LINQ to SQL features to query and manipulate data. Part 3 introduced you with the inbuilt LINQ to SQL class designer. The LINQ to SQL class designer not only allows you to design classes visually but also saves reasonable amount of time otherwise needed to write equivalent code manually. Another such handy feature available to ASP.NET developers is LINQ Data Source Control. In this article I will explore this control with examples.
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Posted On : 28 Jul 2008 |
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Using LINQ in ASP.NET (Part 3) |
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In the Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we discussed how to use LINQ to SQL features to query and manipulate data. We also learnt to call stored procedures via LINQ to SQL. In the previous examples our approach was manual in that we ourselves created the custom data context and entity classes. Visual Studio comes with an inbuilt designer to perform the same task. This article will teach you how to use the designer and consume the created classes in your application. |
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Posted On : 21 Jul 2008 |
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Using LINQ in ASP.NET (Part 2) |
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In the Part 1 of this series I discussed the basic operations of LINQ to SQL. By default when you use LINQ to SQL queries as shown earlier, they internally use SQL statements i.e. INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE and SELECT. In many real world applications you use stored procedures. Luckily, LINQ to SQL has a way to call stored procedures from your application. It involves bit of a work as compared to almost automated way discussed earlier. In this article I will explain how stored procedures can be consumed using LINQ to SQL. |
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Posted On : 15 Jul 2008 |
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Using LINQ in ASP.NET (Part 1) |
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Language INtegrated Query or LINQ changes the way you write your data driven applications. Previously developers used to think and code differently to access different data stores such as SQL server, XML files and in-memory collections. The new LINQ based programming can take away the hassles involved while developing such applications. In this multi part series I am going to explain how LINQ capabilities can be used ASP.NET applications. |
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Posted On : 08 Jul 2008 |
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Getting Started with IIS7 (Part 2) |
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In the Part 1 of this series you learnt the common tasks such as application pool management, web site creation and IIS application creation. In this part I will discuss about the hierarchical configuration system used by IIS7 along with feature delegation. |
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Posted On : 29 Jun 2008 |
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Getting Started with IIS7 (Part 1) |
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Visual Studio comes with an inbuilt web server. No doubt the inbuilt web server comes handy during development. However, finally your web site needs to sit inside Internet Information Services (IIS). If you are an ASP.NET developers you are probably familiar with IIS6. The new generations of Windows namely Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 come with IIS7. The new version of IIS is different than earlier versions in many areas. In fact the entire architecture of IIS has been revamped for the good. In this article I am going to give you a jump start on IIS7. I will confine myself to the features that are most commonly needed by ASP.NET developers. If you wish to deploy your websites on IIS7 then this article should give you a good start. |
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Posted On : 23 Jun 2008 |
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Consuming Web Service using ASP.NET AJAX |
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ASP.NET AJAX is all set to provide the power of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML to your web sites. AJAX makes the web pages more responsive and interactive by reducing the page refreshes or post backs. AJAX harnesses the power of client side JavaScript and XML HTTP object to provide these features. Though AJAX is essentially a client side technique most of the real world cases call for server side processing. Most commonly the data manipulated by your web site will be residing in some RDBMS on the server. To make AJAX really useful there has to be a easy and robust way to deal with this server side data. Fortunately ASP.NET AJAX provides a sound infrastructure to do just that. AJAX communication happens between your browser and the server over internet. Naturally, web services can play a significant role in data transport and overall communication between client and the server. In this article we are going to see how ASP.NET AJAX can consume ASP.NET Web Services. |
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Posted On : 15 Jun 2008 |
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Working with Virtual Path Providers |
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In the majority of the web sites web form exist physically on the web server. However, in some cases you may want to deviate from this storage mechanism. For example, some Content Management Systems (CMS) allow the end users to add web forms dynamically. In such cases disk based storage is tedious to manage. More elegant approach would be to store the web forms in a database and serve them as and when requested. But how can we accomplish this? ASP.NET Virtual Path Providers (VPP) is the answer. In this article I will illustrate how a simple VPP can be developed and plugged in your web site. |
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Posted On : 26 May 2008 |
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