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Google Calendar API

Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:01:00 GMT

Google Calendar allows client applications to view and update calendar events in the form of Google data API ("GData") feeds. Your client application can use the Google Calendar data API to create new events, edit or delete existing events, and query for events that match particular criteria. There are many possible uses for the Calendar data API. For example, you can create a web front end for your group's calendar that uses Google Calendar as a back end. Or you can generate a public calendar for Google Calendar to display, based on your organization's event database. Or you can search relevant calendars to display a list of upcoming events on those calendars.

Ultimate Security, Role, Membership and Profile Provider List

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 05:49:00 GMT

The Ultimate Asp.net 2.0 Security, Role, Membership and Profile Provider List V1.0

Upcoming ASP.NET Releases in April

Sun, 02 Apr 2006 14:53:00 GMT

Upcoming ASP.NET Releases in April by ScottGu

Encoding and Decoding a string to Base64 for QueryStrings

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 06:57:00 GMT

A friend of mine asked me today about encoding a string Base64. The scenario was that he has some files that he wants to be allowed for download on their company website and that he doesn't want the people who are downloading the files from his website to see where the downloads are coming from. The files are located in a folder inside the webserver outside of the virtual directory. The decision that the came up with was just to Base64 encode all the paths, pass ito to a new page via querystring and then decode that value on the download page. I gave it a shot and this is the code i gave him to serve as a guide on how he can effectively implement this.

How To: Use Protocol Transition and Constrained Delegation in ASP.NET

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:21:00 GMT

This How To shows you how to configure and use protocol transition and constrained delegation to allow your ASP.NET application to access network resources while impersonating the original caller.

HOW TO: Using Surrounds with in Visual Studio 2005

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 03:33:00 GMT

Kick guide on how to use the Surrounds with feature in Visual Studio 2005

Eric's weblog - Update User's Session with AJAX

Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:17:00 GMT

Shows how to warn or update a users ASP.Net session using AJAX/Atlas

Dynamically adding webparts to the dynamically added Catalog zone

Tue, 21 Mar 2006 09:05:00 GMT

This entry shows you how to add webparts dynamically to the Catalog Zone in ASP.NET 2.0. The reason why you may like to do it is because you have a lot of webparts to choose from which you don't want to show up directly when your user logs in. Using this method you can load them dynamically only in the Catalog zone. I had a customer which had a very similar requirement. I found it a good one to share and here it is...

A CAPTCHA Control for ASP.NET 2.0

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:41:00 GMT

CAPTCHA is short for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart" and is the most popular technique used to prevent computer programs from sending request to Web servers. This can be for meta-searching search engines, doing dictionary attacks in login pages or sending spam using mail servers. You may see CAPTCHA images in Google register page when you do availability check on too many usernames or in Yahoo, PayPal and many other big Web sites.

Adding 'Google Suggest' functionality to an ASP.NET application

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:33:00 GMT

Shows how to add 'Google Suggest' functionality to an ASP.NET application.

ASP.NET In Page Progress Bar with Cancel Example

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:25:00 GMT

Example of an asp.net page with progress display and a cancel button. A single page starts a long running process, shows the progress and shows the process completion message.

Reflector for .NET

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:01:00 GMT

Reflector is an excellent utility - a class browser for .NET components. It supports assembly and namespace views, type and member search, XML documentation, call and callee graphs, IL, Visual Basic, Delphi and C# decompiler, dependency trees, base type and derived type hierarchies and resource viewers.

Matching Anchor tags with Regular Expressions

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 15:53:00 GMT

From Matt Bourne's Blog: "As some of you would have noticed, I like to do my matching in steps. That is, match the main tag that I'm after and then match for the attributes."

I coulnd't do regex coding without this

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:25:00 GMT

After discovering this tool, I just can not imagine doing any regex coding in .net without this. It is free, and saves you tons of debug time and compilations. All you need is to play with your regex on this tool, perfect it, and then write the code. just love it!

Compress ASP.NET 2.0 ViewState

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:09:00 GMT

Benchmarking test with 116 web controls on 1 page to reduce viewstate size from 43.3 kb to 3.5 kb.

Consuming WebServices with SSL and HTTP BASIC Authentication

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 15:53:00 GMT

Excellent article on how to have web services check SSL certificate status and over-ride that default behavior based on the CertificateProblem enum. It also covers how to use BASIC authentication with SSL on the web service as well.

Design Patterns in C#

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 04:33:00 GMT

The Gang of Four (GoF) patterns are generally considered the foundation for all other patterns. They are categorized in three groups: Creational, Structural, and Behavioral. Here you will find information on these important patterns.

Introduction to Anthem.NET

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:37:00 GMT

AJAX is something lots of ASP.NET developers are interested in, but there are a number of AJAX libraries and solutions out there - so which one do you go for...........

How to create file Upload form using AJAX tech

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:21:00 GMT

File uploading thru HTTP is always big problem for websites. There are some restrictions from client and server sides. But with growing internet channels bandwidth one of major problem is file size. Sometimes it's impossible to send 500MB file to webserver due to request length limit. One of the workaround is to increase maximal request length on webserver, but it may cause server restart when memory limit will be exceeded. For example: IIS APS.NET webserver. We increases..........

Using MySQL with .NET

Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:53:00 GMT

It is realy amazing to combine a powerful platform like .net with a free database like MySql. Well the credit goes to the ODBC database functions in ADO .net. You install it and its ready for the action and rollover to build a simple application for reading a table built in MySQ. Read to know more about using My SQL with . NET.....

Best Practices for High Performance ASP.NET Applications

Sat, 25 Feb 2006 06:49:00 GMT

Here are some tips to help improve the performance of your ASP.Net application. This article lists the techniques that you can use to maximize the performance of your ASP.NET applications. It provides a few important tips on common issues, design guidelines, and coding tips to build optimal and robust solutions.

Google Maps! AJAX-Style Web Development Using ASP.NET

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 15:53:00 GMT

Article on AJAX development using ASP .NET 2.0

Atlas Task List : New feature added

Wed, 22 Feb 2006 03:25:00 GMT

Now here comes a New release with Atlas..Task List.. It is a simple to do list..where u can ceate/manage/delete lists (something like tadalist.com), and then items within those lists. What is neat is that all of the inserts, updates, deletes, sorts, and paging operations within the application are done in an Ajax way

Managed Spy

Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:09:00 GMT

Spy++ was/is the essential tool for developing Win32 apps. Benjamin Wulfe's MSDN Magazone article presents Managed Spy, a utility to replace Spy++ for Windows Forms development.

ASP.NET: Client-side DataSets with Ajax.NET Pro

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:37:00 GMT

Everybody loves .NET's DataSets. They provide the most simple yet powerful way to manipulate in-memory tables and data collections on the server-side. Good news for hardcore AJAX web developers: using Michael Schwarz's amazing Ajax.NET Professional library we can unleash the power of server-side DataSets to the client-side using Javascript. Not only that, but we can create a DataSet and populate it on the server, invoke it on the client side, modify it or create a new one and send it back to the server.