In almost every web project of any size, you would probably use a lot of user controls to separate the content and UI logic. Many of the user controls are used only at one place in the solution while others are used by...
A week ago I wrote about the native client callback feature of ASP.NET 2.0 and why it isn’t always the smart choice. That post got me some good feedback that inspired me to build a custom callback implementation so you...
I was ones faced with the issue of enforcing copyright on different files on a website. That meant that images and dynamically created XML files had to be blocked if accessed from outside the website. So, I had to find a...
In many cases we write our ASP.NET logic around query strings in order to show the right product page or what not. The first thing we do is to check if the query string exists in the first place before we start using it...
Today, I was playing around with HTTP request headers and for some reason started thinking about how limited information they provide about the requesting browser. All they really provide is the user agent string which...
URL parameters or query strings are often used to carry information that can be used by hackers to do identity theft or other unpleasant things. Consider the URL example.com/?user=123&account=456 and then imaging what a...
Whenever you use a Button or LinkButton it is because you want to be able to do a postback when it is clicked. The same could be the case for CheckBox or DropDownList etc. but then you need to set the AutoPostback...
Most websites include a meta-tag that tells the browser what content-type the document is. It looks like this: < meta http-equiv ="Content-Type" content ="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />> All ASP.NET web applications...
Today, I ran into an issue regarding the way numbers are parsed in different cultures, which resulted in very wrong numbers. The problem begins when your web application is set to automatically resolve the culture...
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are becoming a more and more common way to bring websites and servers down. They are very easy to do and pretty hard to protect against, which is why they are so popular. The only thing...
