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Here, in this article I want to focus on form based authentication with ASP.NET 2.0's Membership and How to implement Web parts in my sample project.

For this exercise we put aside our Quotations database work: We'll use the DataContractSerializer to serialize a Generic List of type Note. The serialized List will then be compressed with SharpZipLib, and finally we'll save the compressed byte array in an IsolatedStorage File so that we can load, decompress, deserialize, and get our Notes List back on demand.

In this article I want to simply describe the steps how to create a web service and use it in project.

A server farm is a group or cluster of interconnected computers (servers) created to provide processing capabilities beyond the capabilities of a single computer server.The primary configurations of a server farm are commonly of three types: a highavailability
(HAC) cluster, a high-performance cluster (HPC), a load-balancing cluster (LBC), or some combination of all three.
An HAC server farm is configured so each primary computer server, dedicated to a single task, application,

Here is simple way of reading your gmail email using ASP.net web application 
Before using this code make sure you are able to access your gmail email using outlook 
if not then login to www.gmail.com click on settings => pop => check to access email outside gmail web client.

Check out this feedback post that literally slaps the buried skeleton of Bill Gates for his role concerning Microsoft Outlook 2007's junk mail filters.

This is the second in a series of articles focusing on working with Data and Databinding with Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Each article in this series focuses on a simple "task" in an easy-to-understand progression of working with Data via ASMX and WCF web service, WebClient, and other modalities, and using Silverlight Controls with DataBinding.

This article will explain about the steps to upload the file as BLOB into the DB. Also explains about the steps to render the file with the specific content type, so that it gets opened in approrpiate software related to the file type.

Since Silverlight 2 Beta 2 has been out for a while, we thought it would be appropriate to solicit developers' ideas about it with this simple poll.

This is the first in a series of articles focusing on working with Data and Databinding with Silverlight 2 Beta 2. Each article in this series will focus on a simple "task" in an easy-to-understand progression of working with Data via ASMX and WCF web service, WebClient, and other modalities, and using Silverlight Controls.

A complete walk through on the steps of creating a custom xml web control, using control designer, signing the assembly and implementing the control in a web form.

Our "best book on C# 3.0 / LINQ" poll showed this book as the clear winner. This review tells why.

CTE is a new feature provided by Microsoft SQL Server 2005. In real world, we often need to query hierarchical data from the database. For example, to get a list of hierarchical list of all the employees, list of product categories etc. CTE fulfills this requirement and let us query the database recursively.

If you are familiar at all with the "Cookbook" series from O'Reilly, then this is a book that will surely not disappoint you. The nice thing about this book is that it is near 955 pages covering all aspects of ADO.NET from simple things like connection strings for beginners, all the way through advanced LINQ queries for more experienced programmers, and just about everything in - between.

This quick tip demonstrates how to get the total rows as part of the paging query as well as how avoid a common coding error with joins that can harm performance.

This is a question that apparently comes up frequently: What is the fastest way to search a string of text for a bunch of keywords (e.g., a "badwords" list for cleaning or disallowing forum spam, etc.). To the average developer, two approaches come to mind: First, the "brute force" String.IndexOf method. Second, using REGEX to find matches based on an OR (x|y|z..) expression.

I've collected almost 3000 feeds in Google Reader. Find out how I used the not-public Google Reader API to purge old feeds.

Here are a few free (paid for by me) language translations of common software terms for use in your multi-lingual ASP.NET application.  This is particularly helpful if you want to create a list of available languages in Spanish, German, Chinese, etc...

Some easy modifications to somebody's nice CPU / Memory Control to enable appearance in the Notification Area with mouseover CPU / Memory readings.

I wasn't completely aware that you can use Templates in an ASCX UserControl 
until another developer that I work with was trying to do it. Previous to that, 
I would have created a Custom Control. However, it can be done quite easily.

This article gives an overview of MVC# - a Model-View-Presenter framework for .NET platform. It firstly explains the MVP pattern essentials and then walks through the key features of the MVC# framework which help building true MVP-based solutions.

In this article you will learn how to read data from Excel, generate report using the Response objects and to play with the Microsoft Excel 11.0 objects involved. Indeed, it is impossible to cover all features in this tutorial but many important techniques were covered to help you down the line. It is up to you to be creative and adapt the techniques to your scenarios.

Now that Silverlight 2.0 BETA 1 is out, developers are discovering some unique and compelling applications. Here is a short example of how to paint a Silverlight Canvas with randomly colored and sized rectangles.

The selected books are sorted by Amazon's Best Sellers. Multiple choice allowed.

It's time to be "movin' on up" with Framework 3.5 and LINQ to do old things in a brand new way! Consume the New York Times's OPML feed of featured feeds into an XDocument, get the feeds with a LINQ Query, then mash-up only the latest feeds and publish with Syndication Framework.

Dealing with vendor data (or your own) in the form of "codes" can pose significant challenges. You must ensure that your source code remains readable, that data are properly validated, and that data can be displayed as user-friendly descriptions.  The built-in solutions (named constants and enums) help, but they have some significant shortcomings.  If you derive a class of named constants from the MagicStringTranslator class, though, you can vanquish all 3 challenges in one fell swoop!

Review of Jon Skeet's new book, published by Manning.

LINQ to Objects is based on iterators. These have always been part of .NET, and indeed are the basis of the foreach statement - but with LINQ to Objects they're more important than ever before. In this article Jon explores what iterators are about, how to implement them in C# 2 (or 3), and then the fundamental aspects of LINQ to Objects. Jon's new book, "C# In Depth" will be awarded to our top two Contest winners in March 2008.

To kick off our March promotions, we added this nifty poll that lets users share their pet peeves about Windows Vista!  Surprise! People don't like User Account Control! After a while, we'll feature some of the custom "other" entries.

This article presents a technique for sorting a GridView populated from a list of custom data objects.  It relies on the view state and does not require additional calls to the database.

The .NET Framework includes GZipStream and related classes, but they only support compression, not the standard ZIP file structure. This article explains how you can handle correctly zipping and unzipping folders and files including using a zip password.

Shows how to integrate OpenId authentication using the ExtremeSwank OpenId UserControl and simplified ASP.NET Membership, Role and Profile providers.

Attributes are a mechanism for adding metadata. Reflection is the process by which a program can read its own metadata. This article shows how to add attributes to an enum, and how to read out the attributes via Reflection.

A review of the new O'Reilly book, "C# 3.0 Cookbook" by Jay Hilyard and Stephen Teilhet

With the help of this tutorial one can easily programmatically extract images from microsoft word document into a folder using C# .net component Aspose Words

Review of Judith Bishop's new O'Reilly book on C# 3.0 / 3.5 design patterns

Never think so to email PowerPoint presentations as easy as "just attach it". It's so easy and too easy to make mistakes. You may need to know more about multiple ways to email your PowerPoint presentations, in the right version to play, with background music or movies included, and without any hassles.

Callback doesn’t cause postback and page rendering neither full nor even partial. We can communicate with server (IIS) and our server side code runs there successfully

I have a love / hate relationship with Windows Vista. It has some really cool advanced features, but in other areas it just seems dog-slow. It may be too late to go back to Windows XP, but there are some things you can do that will definitely speed up Vista.  Here is a short list of the ones I've found most useful.