Free Custom Flasher Control

Flash animation is a great way to grab people’s attention among the endless sea of look-alike Web pages on the Internet. It can present useful information, as well as provide functional interactivity. Embedding Flash animation within a Web page [...]

RTE (Rich Text Editor) ASP.NET Control

The key feature of the RTE is to support WYSIWYG along with the following generic feature set below. The key goal has been to encapsulate all the complex functionality of web based rich text editing into a single control.
All that you need is to drop the control dll into your bin directory, and include a [...]

Binding an image in a DataGrid

ImageUrl=’<%# “../productimg/” + DataBinder.Eval(Container.DataItem, “imageurl”) %>’

Add an Additional Item To a Databound DropDownList Control in ASP.NET

In ASP.NET 2.0 and onwards things are much easier. The DropDownList control and other list controls now have a AppendDataBoundItems (7) property. With this property set to true, a call to DataBind leaves all existing items in the list. That allows you to add the extra items declaratively in the markup:

<asp:DropDownList ID=”DropDownList1″ runat=”server”
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The type or namespace name ‘ProfileCommon’ could not be found

I uploaded a new version of my .NET 2.0 website. In the process I had changed it from a File based web site, to an ASP.NET web application (same as for .NET 1.1)
After uploading it, I got that error while my site was compiling.
Eventually I tracked it down. I replaced my files instead of [...]

CreateUserWizard using email as username

A very common scenario is to use email address as login id instead of a username. Here I will show you my approach to that CreateUserWizard tweaking:
The idea was first to somehow hide the username field, and in the event CreateUserWizard1_CreatingUser set the UserName to the Email. Well, that didn’t work out since the UserName [...]

ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Tool-Kit

 RSS Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 provides a ton of great support for both consuming and exposing RSS from ASP.NET 2.0 applications, and ships with full source code.
Updatedl download here. 
Some of the features/scenarios in the new RSS Toolkit include: 
RSS Data-binding Control Support 
You can now declaratively databind any ASP.NET control to the new RSSDataSource control provided in the toolkit.  For [...]

How to upload a .SQL file to a Hoster and Execute it to Deploy a SQL Database

 Database Publishing Wizard is designed to make it much, much easier to upload and deploy SQL Express and SQL Server databases in a web hoster environment.

Steps to Deploy a SQL Database to a Remote SQL Server without using an Admin Tool
Below are the steps to take to deploy a local database to a remote hoster without [...]

.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1

.NET-based Windows application development benefits from increased Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) designer performance and updated components for Visual Basic and Visual C++ (including a MFC-based Office 2007 Ribbon). Web development improvements include enhanced the client-side script tooling (JavaScript IntelliSense). In addition to IDE performance inprovements SP1 fully supports SQL Server 2008 and the ADO.NET Entity [...]