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"There is insufficient memory or disk space. Save the document now" - Opening MS Word from ASP.NET

by Retired Author

This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

A beginner’s guide to WCF in XBAP

by Retired Author

This article shows how to use a WCF service in XBAP or a WPF browser application.

A C# Serviced Component for Websphere MQ 5.3

by Retired Author

A C# .NET serviced component that encapsulates MQ PUT and MQ GET.

A Simple PHP Polling/Voting System

by Retired Author

Create an IP-logging PHP Polling or Voting System in PHP 5.0

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"There is insufficient memory or disk space. Save the document now" - Opening MS Word from ASP.NET

by Retired Author

This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

A beginner’s guide to WCF in XBAP

by Retired Author

This article shows how to use a WCF service in XBAP or a WPF browser application.

A C# Serviced Component for Websphere MQ 5.3

by Retired Author

A C# .NET serviced component that encapsulates MQ PUT and MQ GET.

A Simple PHP Polling/Voting System

by Retired Author

Create an IP-logging PHP Polling or Voting System in PHP 5.0

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"There is insufficient memory or disk space. Save the document now" - Opening MS Word from ASP.NET

by Retired Author

This article will help you to open an MS-Word Document (Document or Document template) or MS-Excel sheet from server side code (ASP.NET) with minimum configuration efforts.

A beginner’s guide to WCF in XBAP

by Retired Author

This article shows how to use a WCF service in XBAP or a WPF browser application.

A C# Serviced Component for Websphere MQ 5.3

by Retired Author

A C# .NET serviced component that encapsulates MQ PUT and MQ GET.

A Simple PHP Polling/Voting System

by Retired Author

Create an IP-logging PHP Polling or Voting System in PHP 5.0

A small C# Class for impersonating a User

by Retired Author

Introduced a class that simplifies Windows Impersonation in C#.

Add an extra header to an ASP.NET DataGrid

by Retired Author

This article explains how to add an extra header item to a standard ASP.NET DataGrid.

Adding a zip filter to web services

by Retired Author

Passing large amounts of data through web services can become a huge bottle-neck in a WAN application architecture (i.e., server is on the web), and in any case, a real load on the network traffic. This is one solution for downsizing the network costs.

AJAX Demystified - Part Three - An AJAX Color Picker using Anthem

by Retired Author

Create an AJAX Color Picker for your website with the power of Anthem.

An AJAX image list control to manage lists of items displayed with icons

by Retired Author

An ASP.NET server control inspired from WinForms’ ListView and implementing ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0.

An Extensible Master-Page Framework for ASP.NET 1.1 Using Pattern Oriented Design

by Retired Author

Development of a framework for master-pages using ASP.NET and C#.

An information box control to display messages using AJAX

by Retired Author

An alternative to message boxes, implementing ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0.

Applying Robustness Analysis on the Model–View–Controller (MVC) Architecture in ASP.NET Framework, using UML

by Retired Author

This article will enhance your vision on the usage of Robustness Analysis in conjunction with Model View Controller, using UML with application in ASP.NET. This article is a sequel to my articles on Architecture and Design with ASP.NET.

Applying Security to Server controls

by Retired Author

You may have to give access or hide controls based on the user logged in. This article would help you write custom code to show/hide or enable/disable controls

Architectural Best Practices - Automating SQL Parameter Creation and Assignment

by Retired Author

Most systems that use Stored Procedures make use of SQL parameters to send and receive information from the database. The code to create these SQL parameters and then populating them is repeated throughout the system. This article describes how to automate this code.

ASCII Art Generator

by Retired Author

ASCII Art generator in ASP.NET.

ASP Code Analyzer

by Retired Author

A simple tool to find unused subs, functions and variables in your ASP code.

ASP TreeView (Version 2.0)

by Retired Author

ASP TreeView is a advanced ASP control that's base on Server side / Client side technique. server side: Asp + JScript, client side: Jscript + HTML.

ASP.NET IIS Chameleon Tool

by Retired Author

A tool to set one specific IIS Virtual Directory for a lot versions of the same web project.

ASP.NET Menu Parent Menuitem Highlighting

by Retired Author

A work-around for ASP.NET menu parent menuitem highlighting.

ASP.NET Reports Starter Kits Porting from Windows to Linux (Race to Linux)

by Retired Author

ASP.NET Reports Starter Kit Porting from Windows to Linux using Mainsoft's Grasshopper

ASP.NET Zip Entry Handler

by Retired Author

Deploy zip files to your web application and serve compressed files directly out of the zip file.

Bind Data's to Table Using JSON with Webservice.

by Retired Author

Create JSON Application With WebServices

Binding Menu Control With Database

by Retired Author

Bind the menu control with list of Category and Sub Categories

Bitsup - Server Upload Utility Using BITS

by Retired Author

A file upload utility that uses BITS as the transfer engine.

BooProd.BMail - Sending dynamically generated emails

by Retired Author

This package will help you send all kinds of emails like account creation, order, mailing, reports, ... everything containing dynamic fields. You can configure your own SMTP server, use notification, and add attachments.

BooProd.Core - Context sensitive URL

by Retired Author

Helps you create context sensitive dynamic URLs: dynamically computed URLs, depending on which server the page is generated on.

Browsing Via Directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET

by Retired Author

An article on browsing via directories or HTTP, with ASP.NET.

Building Blocks For ASP.NET Applicationa: Part 1

by Retired Author

This is a series of articles providing Building Blocks for any ASP.NET application.

Cell Merging of DataGrid in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

This article depicts how to merge cells in the DataGrid control in ASP.NET, hence gains better look and clarity.

Class implementation for using webservices in ASP

by Retired Author

With that class you only have to set a few properties and you can access to the webservices, only need know the URL of webservice, the method to invoke, and parameters.

Configure DIME with WSE 2.0

by Retired Author

This article focuses on demonstrating the usage of DIME (Direct Internet Message Encapsulation) with Web Services. Here, you will have two applications, one is a Web Serivice that uses DIME technology to send an attachment (of different types) to a client side, other is a Windows Forms application.

Context Sensitive Help using Client Callbacks - AJAX Style

by Retired Author

This article is all about providing Context Sensitive Help in a web page, asynchronously or AJAX style, using Client Callbacks in .NET 2.0.

Create Sample Application Using Entity Objects In C#.Net

by Retired Author

Create Sample Application Using Entity Objects Using C#.Net

Creating FTP and Web IIS virtual directories

by Retired Author

Creating FTP and Web IIS virtual directories programatically, using C#.

Creating a WebDav to RSS adapter

by Retired Author

How to develop a handler that reads Exchange WebDAV folders and returns RSS.

Creating an HTML Attribute Plug-in Framework

by Retired Author

This article explains how to create your own HTML attributes using a plug-in framework.

Creating Pivot Tables and Charts Using ActiveX

by Retired Author

This article describes how to generate Excel at client side and embedd "Pivot Tables" and "Charts" into the Excel.

Customary Functions of GridView in ASP.NET 3.5

by Retired Author

The most advanced things which you can do with GridView in ASP.NET 3.5

DataGrid's ViewState optimization

by Retired Author

How to reduce DataGrid's ViewState size, while maintaining all DataGrid's functionalities.

Date control with support for languages and different date formats

by Retired Author

Using .NET's System.Globalization class for retrieving month names in forgein lanaguages, and the DateTimeFormatInfo for keeping your dates the correct way around.

Development of web application using MVC II design pattern or why following MVC II will help me

by Retired Author

MVC infrastructure that dosen't harm ASP.NET mechanism.

DPAPI and Triple DES: A powerful combination to secure connection strings and other application settings

by Retired Author

This article shows how DPAPI and Triple DES can be used to encrypt connection strings and other sensitive strings for storage in the ASP.NET web.config file.

Dynamic connection string

by Retired Author

Creating dynamic connection string on a remote site.

Dynamic ToolTip

by Retired Author

Dynamically toggle ToolTip messages from the client side.

Dynamically adjusting the size of a drop-down list and adding color to the back-ground and fore-ground of the list items

by Retired Author

To adjust the size of the drop-down list dynamically at the client-side and adding back-ground and fore-ground color to the drop-down list.

Easy Guestbook with ASP

by Retired Author

Easy Guestbook with ASP and MS Access

Email Notification Framework

by Retired Author

A .NET managed framework to send template emails in HTML or plain text

Encryption of Connection Strings Inside the Web.config in ASP.NET 2.0

by Retired Author

Encryption & Decryption of Connection Strings inside the Web.config in ASP.NET 2.0

Enhancing Church Worship With The Cloud

by Retired Author

Imagine connecting church worship attenders with real-time content.

Error Handling in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

Starts with user redirection settings with customErrors section; then moves to exception handling in different scopes. Explains how to prevent recursive loops, hande parser errors, base class error handling with internals as appropriate. Source code demonstrates the concepts illustrated.

Exact Phrase Website Live Search Script .NET 3.5

by Retired Author

This script can be used in an ASP.NET 3.5 website. It can search out exact phrases and keywords live from all HTML pages and text files on the website.

Extending IIS 5.x and IIS6 with Managed Filters

by Retired Author

An overview on Filter.NET as a framework designed to expose the ISAPI Filters API to .NET while maintaining the power, flexibility and efficiency of the IIS platform

Extending the ASP.NET multiline TextBox control to limit the number of characters entered

by Retired Author

Developers use multiline TextBox controls in almost all web projects. Since the MaxLength property of a TextBox control does not work when the TextMode property is set to Multiline, we usually use Validator controls to validate the length.

Find "Leaked" Database Connections in ASP.NET Web Applications

by Retired Author

Presents a method for monitoring the amount of time database connections stay open in ASP.NET applications.

Generate a Google Site Map Using the HTTP 404 Handler

by Retired Author

Site maps make your websites search engine friendly. Learn how to generate them dynamically using your site's HTTP 404 error handler page.

Google Earth Network Link

by Retired Author

This article aims to show the creation of Network Links for Google Earth.

HomeLinks: What it is and how to implement it

by Retired Author

How to implement a mechanism to provide links to your web shared local files using XML, AJAX, and Web Services.

How to Install and Run ASP.NET Applications on Systems That Don't Have IIS

by Retired Author

The article describes creating a Visual Studio .NET Setup Project that allows ASP.NET applications to be deployed on boxes that don't have IIS installed. Some familiarity with Visual Studio .NET Setup Projects will help better understand the material in this article.

How to Validate ASP.NET and MVC Web Forms Using Business Rules Engine

by Retired Author

Learn how to validate complex web forms using business rules engine

IIS Utility to Create Virtual Directory - Advanced

by Retired Author

This tool is useful to create new virtual directories with extra settings in One Click !

Implementing WS-SecureConversation in Microsoft IssueVision

by Retired Author

Adding secure communications to the Microsoft IssueVision sample application using WSE 2.0.

Independent Data Access Layer (Ddocumentation in Progress)

by Retired Author

The art of swap from a database to another changing a flag

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

by Retired Author

Installing IIS for Windows Vista

Internet programming primer (general overview and history of ASP.NET)

by Retired Author

A general overview of Internet technologies including what the Internet actually is, what HTML and XML are, using Web forms, CGI/MIME, IIS ISAPI, ASP and creating HTML based front ends to databases via ODBC32, OLE DB, ADO and ASP.NET

Introduction to Developing a Custom Web Control.

by Retired Author

This article explains the development of a custom web control using C#.

Load and Display Page Contents Asynchronously with Full Postback Support

by Retired Author

An AJAX UpdatePanel with less communication overhead and better performance

Logging System for .NET SOA Applications

by Retired Author

No matter how well you design your system, a distributed SOA application is always complex. When a SOA application fails, it can be difficult to track down the cause of the problem and the web service where the error occurred. To handle this difficulty, you need a logging system such as UptoLog.

MCMS Connector for SharePoint Technologies Review

by Retired Author

Review of MCMS Connector for SharePoint Technologies.

MCMS Placeholder Content Web Part

by Retired Author

Display content from a Content Management Server placeholder in a WSS site.

MCMS SharePoint List Items Placeholder

by Retired Author

Lists items in a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) list.

Microsoft Content Management Server Crawl Page for Search

by Retired Author

Provides a start page for search engines to crawl a Content Management Server (MCMS) web site.

Microsoft Content Management Server Search Controls

by Retired Author

Gives Content Management Server web sites search capability using SharePoint Portal Server as the search engine.

Microsoft Reporting Services in Action

by Retired Author

Introducing Microsoft Reporting Services.

Modify the Realm in the browser's Authentication Dialog

by Retired Author

An article on using ISAPI with MFC support to modify the authentication realm

MultiUpload, a smarter file upload server control using AJAX

by Retired Author

An ASP.NET server control inspired from Google mail’s selection of file attachments, and implementing ASP.NET AJAX Extensions 1.0.

Network Assessment - A Guide to Infrastructure Planning

by Retired Author

A simple guide meant to take the reader through a series of questions that will help them plan for and manage their business network.

Networking in Silverlight and WPF or How to Make them Speak to Each Other

by Retired Author

How to use raw sockets in Silverlight application and how to make Silverlight speak with Windows Forms and WPF

New Ajax Navigation Bar

by Retired Author

New Ajax Navigation Docable Bar

News System with ASP

by Retired Author

Simple News System using ASP and MS Access

Notification of Silverlight Applications about Database State Changes

by Retired Author

This article presents the techniques and caveats of building Silverlight applications that can be notified about database state changes via polling duplex. WSHttp binding and CLR triggers are used to implement the solution as well.

OverLibWrapper -- C# wrapper of the overLIB DHTML popup JavaScript library

by Retired Author

An article on the use of the OverlibPageControl and OverlibPopupAnchor for extended manipulation of the overLIB popup JavaScript library.

Parent/Child (Hierarchical) Relational Treeview User Control Development in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

Custom TreeView web user control for parent child relatioinal data upto infinity

Picture Cache & DAL

by Retired Author

Picture Cache & DAL (WebService & App cache(

Post XML Data to an ASP.NET Page using C#

by Retired Author

This article describes the function to post XML data to an ASP.NET page and then read the data on an ASP.NET page

Power yourself against XSS

by Retired Author

XSS gaining popularity to hack into websites. This article describes how to power yourself against XSS

Processing Long Running Tasks With Asynchronous Handlers and XMLHTTP

by Retired Author

This article shows you how to use async handlers along with XMLHTTP to process long executing tasks in ASP.NET.

Processing with C# and Oracle PL/SQL

by Retired Author

An article which describes an alternative way of cooperation between Oracle PL/SQL and C#

Professional file uploads with the MultiUpload and ImageList server controls

by Retired Author

A professional AJAX GUI for uploading files using the server controls in the Memba Velodoc XP Edition.

Profiling the Performance of a .NET Application

by Retired Author

ANTS Profiler provides you with a quick and easy way of identifying performance bottlenecks within your .NET applications. Additional support for the latest .NET 3.0 features, the Vista operating system, and Visual Studio integration, cements ANTS Profiler as a leading tool in performance profiling.

Protect non-.NET Assets Using a .NET Reverse Proxy with Forms Authentication and ISAPI

by Retired Author

How to protect secure assets using a .NET Reverse Proxy, an ISAPI redirection filter and .NET Forms Authentication

Pushing HTML content to a Blackberry

by Retired Author

How to push HTML content to a blackberry handheld using MDS

Rapid Web Application Development

by Retired Author

An article about the Multiformity Open Source project.

RecruitOffice DB - An Open Source Web-based Recruitment Management System

by Retired Author

ASP based with MS Access as backend, recruitment mangement system. No DLLs.

Removing White Chars from ASP.NET Output using Response.Filter property

by Retired Author

This article shows how to remove unwanted white chars from each line, and some of the new line chars too. My code correctly handles scripts embedded in HTML pages.

Requirements for Developing WebApplications & ASP .NET Problems

by Retired Author

Web Applications & ASP .NET

Restoring Datbase Using BatchFile(*.Bat)

by Retired Author

This article describes on building a Database from scratch using Batch File from the existing Database

Restricting Access to trace.axd using IIS Basic Authentication

by Retired Author

A technique to use the IIS Basic Authentication mechanism to control access to trace.axd.

Running DotNetNuke 4.0.2 on Windows XP Home or on any other system lacking IIS

by Retired Author

This article describes how to run DotNetNuke content management system on UltiDev Cassini web server, which unlike IIS can run on Windows XP Home and can be redistributed along with the DotNetNuke applications.

Send Emails in ASP.NET using Gmail Credentials

by Retired Author

This article contains code to send email using Gmail accounts.

Sending Email with attachment in ASP.NET using SMTP Server

by Retired Author

This article explains how to send a mail with attachment using SMTP server and how to configure the SMTP server.

Separating an ASP.NET Web Application into multiple Web Projects (Assemblies)

by Retired Author

This article outlines how to separate an ASP.NET Web Application into multiple Web Projects (Assemblies).

Serve Extensionless URL Without Using ISAPI Handler or Wildcard Mapping

by Retired Author

Serve extensionless URL from IIS without using custom ISAPI handler or IIS 6.0 wildcard mapping

Server.MapPath problems in Global.asa

by Retired Author

Server.MapPath does NOT return the physical path of global.asa.

Set Up IIS to Work with Server and Client Certificates and HTTPS: Test your Client or Web Service Code in Minutes (without using Win 2003 or...

by Retired Author

Have you written a web service that will be deployed over HTTPS and you want to test it on your own box? Have you written a client that needs to call a web service using a client certificate, and want to test it without involving half your company? Here's how to do it!

Sharing User Controls Between Projects

by Retired Author

How to share user controls between projects

Simple Image Gallery with ASP

by Retired Author

A simple image gallery with captions using ASP.

Simple NumericTextBox Web Custom Control

by Retired Author

A simple textbox control allowing only integer input.

Simple Photo Gallery With ASP.NET 2.0

by Retired Author

An article on creating a simple photo gallery that is easy to maintain and aesthetically pleasing

Simple Reverse Proxy in C# 2.0 (description and deployment)

by Retired Author

This article describes how to develop a reverse proxy in C# using the IIS HTTPHandlers.

Smart Client Application based on the No touch deployment

by Retired Author

Smart Client Application based on the No touch deployment. This kind of application provides you very rich GUI in a Internet zone.

SparkLines

by Retired Author

SparkLine is a small, high resolution line chart. This article explains how to create and use SparkLines in your ASP.NET application.

Stop editing 'web.sitemap' - Let unknown pages dynamically inherit from a parent! And more...

by Retired Author

Reduce sitemap maintenence and never have another "unlisted" page! Unlisted pages dynamically inherit site map placement from a parent page. Replace repetitive '/default.aspx' mentions with '/' for friendlier URLs. Wildcard query string matching and more...

System.Web.Mail and the pickup directory

by Retired Author

This article describes how to use System.Web.Mail with the SMTP server's pickup directory.

TFS Proxy Efficiency Testing

by Retired Author

This article describes MS TFS Proxy efficiency testing depending on the internet channel rate between TFS and TFS Proxy, TFS commands, and TFS Proxy cache state. Also, this article describes the advantages of using the MS TFS Proxy on slow Internet channels.

Transactional Web Services with WS-AtomicTransaction

by Retired Author

Explains a simple way of using WS-AtomicTransaction to create distributed transactions across Web services

Transfer arguments between modal page and invoker page in asp.net 1.1

by Retired Author

Transfer arguments between dialog page and invoker page in asp.net 1.1

Two-Way Data Binding in ASP.NET

by Retired Author

Demonstrates how to get two-way databinding work in ASP.NET without subclassing all your controls.

Understanding AJAX

by Retired Author

Let's cook up a simple AJAX example

Understanding CGI with C#

by Retired Author

Leveraging the Common Gateway Interface in C#.

UpdownNumeric, IP, Timer and Validated TextBox Controls using webcustomcontrols

by Retired Author

Download EuroNetWebCustomControls suite Demoproject-26.3kb and the source code - 31 kb. This custom control suite contains UpdownNumerci, IP, Timer and Validated Text Box Controls. I created these controls using WebCustomContolsLibrary in .Net2003.

Usage of the Client Authorization in an ISAPI Extension

by Retired Author

An article on how the authorization can be used in a ISAPI Extension

Use Adobe's Indesign COM in asp.net application with automatic publication flow

by Retired Author

This Article represents that .net based application which is used in web based publication work flow with the use of XML and indesign file

Using .NET and PHP to create an extensible WebDAV server

by Retired Author

Shows how a .NET based WebDAV server can be created by combining two Open Source projects. The example implementation returns files from a file system, but you can extend it to return resources from any repository.

Using C# to Enumerate Through Stored Procedures in MS SQL Server 2000

by Retired Author

This guide will show you how to enumerate through the stored procedures in MSSQL 2000, as well as retrieve parameter information for a stored procedure.

Using C#, OpenXML, and Microsoft SQL Server 2000 to create a multi-threaded Rules Engine Webservice

by Retired Author

Create a simple, scalable XML-consuming rules engine in just a few minutes, using OpenXML.

Using HttpModules with URL Re-writing to Handle Fake Directory Requests

by Retired Author

Explains how to use HttpModule in conjunction with IIS to handle requests to fake directories

Using Managed Code to Detect if IIS is Installed and ASP/ASP.NET is Registered

by Retired Author

Explains how to use managed code to detect which version of Internet Information Services (IIS) is installed and if ASP or ASP.NET is registered.

Using RSA Public Key Encryption in a Shared Web Hosting Environment

by Retired Author

This article provides a way to use RSA public key encryption in scripts running on a Web server hosted by a shared hosting company. It also demonstrates how to use RSA in .NET to solve the 'real world' problem of signing license codes so that they cannot be forged.

Using Updater Block

by Retired Author

A vanilla implementaion showing how Updater Block 2.0 can be included in a Windows Forms application.

Utility to convert file includes to virtual includes

by Retired Author

A utility to convert file includes to virtual includes.

ViewState Serializer, Compressor & Encrypter

by Retired Author

It's a very complete and robust processor of ViewState, it allows: to select the way of serialization, compression and encryption optionally.

WCF DataContract with FaultException Details

by Retired Author

WCF DataContract

Web Application State

by Retired Author

This article explains how to maintain the web application state.

Web Server and ASP.NET Application Life Cycle in Depth

by Retired Author

This article describes in depth everything that happens beween the request/response in a web application.

Web Session - Monitor, Record, and Video Playback

by Retired Author

How to: Monitor, Record, and Playback every visit to a website using very simple techniques and existing technologies.

Webservice sample - example of using SOAP protocol to access Internet Database Server

by Retired Author

Use SOAP to communicate with a remote DB Server (Here I use SQL Server) on the Internet and get information or interact with the database

WSE 3 Deployment: MSI and ClickOnce

by Retired Author

Overview of deployment techniques using example WSE 3 enabled solutions

xLibrary - Using a custom IHttpHandler to access embedded JavaScript

by Retired Author

This article covers how to make a custom IHttpHandler to use the X Library from www.cross-browser.com embedded in an assembly.

Your free search engine – Microsoft Indexing Server

by Retired Author

Microsoft Indexing Server is a powerful indexing and search engine for your web or file search. This article explains how to set up Indexing Server and how to search its index from within your application.