XML language list
Yesterday, I wrote about an XML country list that I couldn’t find on the Internet, so I generated one myself. That was possible because I had a list of countries in a database. But what about languages? Countries and...
XML country list
Today, I had to bind a list of countries to a drop down list in ASP.NET 2.0. I wanted to use an XML file to store the countries. There are more than 200 so there was not way I was going to hard code them in the HTML. I...
Make the GridView control accessible
The GridView is a new web control in ASP.NET 2.0 and is an improvement of the old DataGrid. One of the biggest issues with the DataGrid was the lack of standard compliance and accessibility. This has been fixed in the...
Old ASP is easier to manage
For the past six months or so, I’ve been working on a really cool website in ASP.NET 2.0. As soon as the last bugs and design tweaks have been dealt with, we are releasing it to the world – we’re almost there. Yesterday...
AJAX and search engines – Do's and Don'ts
In the light of the immense popularity AJAX has received the last couple of months and the emerging tools like Atlas and AJAX.NET , I thought it was the right time to talk about the implications on search engine...
Fix the Firefox cache problem
For some strange reason, Firefox caches ASP.NET pages even if you tell it not to. This could create problems with the back-button. Normally you can tell the browser how to cache your web page in two ways. You can use...
Store your settings in isolated storage
Isolated Storage is a place in Windows where .NET is grated read/write permissions by default. It is a physical folder like any other folder and is located somewhere within C:\Documents and Settings\User name\Local...
Refactor your ASP.NET project
Today at work i was refactoring my code as I do everyday, when it suddenly hit me that our ASP.NET projects were also refactored in a sense. For those of you who don't know what refactoring is, here's a definition. “...
Atlas – the new AJAX engine for ASP.NET
Atlas is an ASP.NET control collection for creating AJAX enabled websites. It is also developed by the man who brought us ASP.NET some years ago, the one and only Scott Guthrie . The idea behind Atlas is to make it easy...
Calling GC.Collect from ASP.NET
It can be a risky business to manually intervene with the Garbage Collector. You have to trust it to know how to manage the memory efficiently. Otherwise you could end up stressing the web server unnecessary or even...