This is a post relevant to all the developers out there that use Web Forms as their main ASP.Net platform. In this post I would like to talk about ViewState and how we can move it and store it in a session on the server's memory. We know that the default...(read more)

In my seminars I always show how to fetch data from an SQL Server database to some UI controls (usually a GridView control). I use the connected data access model,I use the disconnected data access model (datasets) and obviously I provide samples that...(read more)

In this post I would like to show you again with a hands-on example how to create an Ajax enabled WCF Service and invoke it using the Ajax Script Manager web server control. This is going to be a very simple example and it is for people who are not familiar...(read more)

In this post I would like to show you with a hands-on example how to invoke a WCF service from JQuery . I have already posted a few posts regarding JQuery and server communication.Have a look in this post and in this post . This is a similar post . In...(read more)

This is the second post in the new HTML 5 post series. You can find the first post about HTML 5 input form elements and validation here . In this post I would like to show you how to use audio and video.We all know that audio and video are everywhere...(read more)

I am going to start a new series of posts that focus on HTML 5. HTML 5 is something I wanted to learn and finally I have covered enough ground to feel confident. HTML 5 gives us things like Semantic tags, the possibility to add video and audio in our...(read more)

In these series of posts I am going to have a look into the various factors that make our web applications slower and how we can rectify that. Ι have already blogged about caching in this blog and you can find these blog posts below Caching an ASP.Net...(read more)

This another post that is focusing on how to use JQuery in ASP.Net applications. If you want to have a look at the other posts related to JQuery in my blog click here In this post I would like to show you how to perform client-side validations using the...(read more)

This another post that is focusing on how to use JQuery in ASP.Net applications. If you want to have a look at the other posts related to JQuery in my blog click here In this post I would like to show you how to create a simple watermark effect using...(read more)

This another post that is focusing on how to use JQuery in ASP.Net applications. If you want to have a look at the other posts related to JQuery in my blog click here We all know that there is always a limited space in our web page to show content.In...(read more)

This another post that is focusing on how to use JQuery in ASP.Net applications. If you want to have a look at the other posts related to JQuery in my blog click here We all know that there is always a limited space in our web page to show content.In...(read more)

This is going to be another short post regarding ASP.Net and custom error pages. Our goal is to specify a particular page to be displayed on the user's screen when error occurs within our application.In order to that we basically have to make some changes...(read more)

In this post (it is going to be very short for a change) I would like to show you how to take your ASP.Net application offline. We have to place a file named app_offline.htm into your root directory.By doing that we stop any ASP.Net processing. If you...(read more)

In this post I would to focus on ASP.Net Health monitoring and Web events.Health monitoring is another mechanism to capture/abstract logging. In most cases with our ASP.Net applications we need to trace what happens when they are up and running. Have...(read more)

In this post I would like to talk about the great support that JQuery has for Ajax.I have already written another post on my blog regarding the Jquery Ajax functions and how we can get data form the server.In that post we looked into how we can use the...(read more)

This another post that is focusing on how to use JQuery in our ASP.Net applications. If you want to have a look at the other posts related to JQuery in my blog click here We always wanted to have eye-candy web applications and since the first web pages...(read more)

In this post I will talk about Ajax again.This time we will use an extender to ajaxify our application.I am going to use the AutoCompleteExtender extender together with a textbox. Inside the extender control I will call a web service (a service method...(read more)

In this post I would like to talk about Ajax history in ASP.Net applications and how it works.The problem with ASP.Net Ajax applications is that the browser's back and forward buttons do not store the history of the page. The browser recognises only URLs...(read more)

In this post I would like to talk about the various Ajax features-functions available to us when incorporating JQuery into our applications.We are going to investigate how we can use those JQuery Ajax functions to get data from the server. This post will...(read more)

In this post I would like to talk about the various ASP.Net projects types, the compilation process and finally how to deploy ASP.Net applications to a local and remote server. Before we begin explaining the mechanism behind compiling ASP.Net projects...(read more)

In this post I would like to demonstrate with a hands on example, how to ajaxify an existing website/application. This post will not cover the basics of Ajax. If you want to find out what Ajax is (and what the main Ajax controls are) have a look at this...(read more)

In this post I will demonstrate with a hands on example how to use the ObjectDataSource web server control to fetch data from a database. I will use this control in an ASP.Net application. I will also use GridView,DropDownlist,DetailsView web server controls...(read more)

In this post I would like to show you a hands-on example on how to use the Code First approach when building data-centric ASP.Net applications with EF. Obviously I cannot go into much detail on what EF is and what it does. I will give again a short introduction...(read more)

In this post I would like to show with a hands-on example on how to retrieve data from an sql server database table using C# and ASP.Net MVC 3. This post will not (and cannot be) a thorough introduction to ASP.Net MVC. I suggest that you go through some...(read more)

In this post I would like to talk about ASP.Net Dynamic Data . ASP.Net Dynamic Data is a feature that has been released in ASP.Net 3.5.I know a lot of ASP.Net developers that have never used it. Well, one thing I can say is that it can save us a lot of...(read more)