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Conserving Resources When Writing BLOB Values to SQL Server and Stream

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 14:28:09 GMT

Reading and writing blob data to/from your database can be a resource hog, because it normally involves holding the entire stream in memory..

ASP.NET Menu, Click instead of Hover

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:18:54 GMT

A way to make the ASP.NET Menu Control respond to clicks instead of the default behavior of responding to mouse hover using a javascript override.

Building and binding hierarchical data from the database to the ASP.NE

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:52:48 GMT

If we need to bind our navigations controls to hierarchical data we define manually ourselves in an xml file, this is easy as pie. However, things can get rather complicated or not so obvious when we need to generate this data from a database. First off...

Customizing the ChangePassword control and removing the required Curre

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 06:59:03 GMT

When using the ChangePassword control, to my big surprise, CurrentPassword Field is a required field that i cannot remove. This is also a field that I do not want asked for during the password change request(since my user has forgotten their password and are now going to provide their new pasword)...

Common Data Patterns with LINQ to SQL

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:46:20 GMT

These examples aim to show the simplest possible way to get started with the LINQ to SQL in common scenarios.

Semantically correct markup and the casual table. Can they co-exist ?

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:09:29 GMT

I am sure by now, everybody has been scorned upon for not using semantically correct markup. It's all over the web today. The message is clear, Web standards are important. Valid Xhtml is important but above all, SEMANTICALLY CORRECT MARKUP! What is Semantically correct markup ? First lets define semantics..

Reducing UpdatePanel bloat by utilizing UpdateMode="Conditional" and C

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:03:20 GMT

Just the other day, i was playing around with my DataControls nested inside an updatepanel. While this was working well, since everypostback was being done via an ajax callback, the amount of traffic going back and forth was simply way too bloated. It's easy not to notice at first, because everything is working as expected. however imagine a simple situation...

Using SQL Server 2005's OUTPUT to return generated identity with ADO.N

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:28:56 GMT

This article focuses especially on ADO.NET-side of handling the returned values from the SQL Server 2005's OUTPUT. It is a good alternative for the scope_identity() etc.

Failed to load viewstate ? Typical problem, with an obvious solution.

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:28:23 GMT

WebForms is an event based postback model and as such understanding viewstate is fundamental for the proper functioning of your applications. If your building dynamic controls at runtime, then this is for you

10 reasons why I chose MySQL over MSSQL2005 Express

Mon, 07 Jan 2008 20:16:03 GMT

10 reasons why to choose MySQL as database engine for your websites instead of MSSQL 2005