ASP.Net

In a previous post How to download multiple files in ASP.NET, I explained how to generate multiple documents and offer them as separate downloads in ASP.NET. One of the options I had when looking for a solution to offer multiple…

The project I’m currently assigned to, already has an option to generate reports (pdf) which are just streams the binary output of the report generator to the response output stream. Something like this: Dim binReader As New System.IO.BinaryReader(report.ExportToStream()) With Response…

What is AOP (Aspect Oriented Programming)? Aspect oriented programming breaks down programming logic in separate concerns. It separates and groups blocks of code that perform a specific operation and that can be applied to or re-used by different pieces of…

What is NuGet? From the NuGet website: NuGet is a Visual Studio extension that makes it easy to install and update open source libraries and tools in Visual Studio. Installing NuGet Method 1: NuGet comes with ASP.Net MVC3 The easiest…

First something about caching The numerous caching options you have in ASP.NET (MVC) are mainly focused on data and page output caching. But caching also occurs at the webserver, network and browser level.  These you can’t always control from within…

you’ve been HAACKED – ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6 Walkthrough Steve Sanderson’s blog – Deploying ASP.NET MVC to IIS 6 Bia Securities – How to enable pretty urls with Asp.Net MVC and IIS6 Omar AL Zabir blog on ASP.NET Ajax…

In the first part of the checklist, we looked at creating high quality websites from a client perspective and the tools that helps us do that. In this part we look at the (free) tools that will help us build…

In the post below I am going to run down a short-list of some of the less-popular performance tips and the reasoning behind them. There are loads of blog postings and articles on asp.net performance enhancements, and I urge you…

Now that the ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate is available for download, how do you learn how to start using it to build applications? Here’s a guide to resources for learning about ASP.NET MVC Release Candidate 1. Stephen Walter on ASP.NET…

A few years ago I had the opportunity to sit down with a designer possessed of a rare talent. We were both part of the same team and he was creating some UI elements that I was to wire up.…

Forms authentication is nice way to protect your asp.net web pages from unauthorized views. The good thing is that it shields all request for pages in your site and will redirect the request to a login page. You can set…

With the advent of new web applications with rich user interface, there is a lot of processing on the client side. Most of this processing is done using scripting languages like JavaScript, etc. Lot of new frameworks are in the…