When deploying a web application across your organizations hosting environments you need to make sure you make the correct modifications to your web.config on each environment. Currently with Visual Studio 2008 this means hand modifying each web.co ...[Read More]

I'm currently working on a project the requires the use of WebParts to allow a user to construct custom reports by dragging and dropping WebParts into WebPartZones. I needed to dynamically create these WebParts on the fly and add them to the page ...[Read More]

The trouble with using some of the built in .Net controls like LoginControl and TreeView is that they render their output in tables and as we know tables should only be used to display tabular data not control the layout of a web page. If we wanted ...[Read More]

Scott Hansleman posted this video recorded from a recent ALT.Net conference. Scott Guthrie demo's the new MVC Framework from Microsoft which uses the MVC Front controller pattern that Ruby on Rails people would be familar with. I definately reco ...[Read More]

We all know the benefits of re-usable components in our applications and User Controls in ASP.Net are an easy way to build reusable components that can be used throughout an entire web application. Templated User Controls allows us to seperate th ...[Read More]

Every good developer should understand the basics of how Threads and Processes work on the platform they are writing applications for.  For us it’s the Windows operating system and using the .Net Framework it’s even easier to harness the power of Mu ...[Read More]

I'm working on a project at the moment that requires a navigation menu built with ASP.Net 2.0. The requirements dictate that the navigation elements should be configured in an XML file. This sounded perfect for the ASP.Net siteMap provider so I set ...[Read More]

I'm currently working on an ASP.Net project for a client of mine that utilises the ASP.Net AJAX framework to asyncronously load a report into a web page.  Now sometimes in this application the report is loaded when the page loads up, which meant ...[Read More]

Last Thursday the guys at VBug ran a talk at Bournemouth University entitled 'Internationalizating ASP.Net AJAX'. The title was quite interesting to me because I knew about localization with the .Net framework but I wanted to know where the AJAX f ...[Read More]

As you may or may not of heard, Microsoft annouced an private alpha release of Popfly last Friday. Popfly is an online tool for creating 'web mashups' by allowing you to connect web services and API's together in an easy to use editor. The tool ...[Read More]