The GridView control (as well as the DataGrid) has a way of defining the style of every other row of the grid. My favorite way of doing it, is to set a class on the row and then by stylesheet set the background like so...

Every time an email address is written on a website, it allows spam robots to collect it and abuse it. If you have a website (e.g. blog or forum) that displays the users e-mail address it would be a nice service to mask...

I’ve done a lot of web services during the last couple of years and I simply love Service Oriented Architecture using SOAP. The power of using services as a means to create large connected systems are enormous but...

Whenever I had to add a string to a web controls control collection I’ve always used the Literal control like this: Literal str = new Literal (); str.Text = "hello world" ; Page.Controls.Add(str); I have always thought a...

Today, I had to build web form that took user input from standard ASP.NET input controls. In one of the text boxes the user must to enter a valid URL, so I had to make some validation logic. But first of all, I had to...

Back in February I wrote a post on how to export DataTables to XML and Excel and I still get a lot of search engine traffic to that post. People have been asking me to simplify the example and only concentrate on the...

Caching is a very easy solution to many performance related issues on almost any website. There are many different ways to use server-side caching and they all have their own unique advantages. But client-side caching is...

Among the differences between version 1.1 and 2.0 of .NET Framework is the many new controls. Even though most of them don’t add new functionality they make a lot of things much easier and cleaner than before. Some of...

Custom web controls for your ASP.NET application are a brilliant way to separate, reuse and “refactor” your code pieces. In that sense I consider myself to be a control freak and that's a good thing! In our product...

After reading a post on The Cafes about the lack of dynamics in the CSS language, I found myself inspired to do something about it. It became clear that something had to be done and that we couldn’t wait for the W3C to...