Technology experience and practical advice from Mitchel Sellers on ASP.NET.
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Developers often think that their applications are automatically setup for the best performance when it comes to images and other static content, however, that is not the case. A simple change to your configuration however, can fix this.
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There are times where via Javascript, or otherwise, we need to trigger a specific ASP.NET WebForms control to postback, this post explores how to accomplish that goal.
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Developers looking to deploy new ASP.NET MVC applications to production might find they are greeted with errors, this post explores the options to prevent errors by including the needed files.
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IIS by default includes a number of documents that are defaults, by removing the unnecessary items you can improve performance, and security.
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There are many ways to create an Excel export from a DataGrid, this is a very simple method to create an excel file without any third-party libraries.
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Like many ASP.NET programmers, I utilize a third-party hosting company to host all of my sites. We have all ran into situations where we have been losing sessions and other oddities and it would be very helpful to find out exactly what caused the application to restart, we will discuss in this posting how to log this information
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At one time or another I think everyone has been locked out of a system and not been able to get back in. This can be especially troubling if you happen to be locked out of your administrator account. I have seen many people asking how to reset passwords for the host and admin accounts with DotNetNuke so I thought I would write up some simple instructions on how to change a password via the database for any ASP.NET 2.0 website.
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One configuration setting that seems to be overlooked frequently with ASP.NET 2.0’s membership provider is the applicationName setting. This setting is very important if you ever want to move your application from one server to another or if you want to share users between multiple ASP.NET applications.
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ASP.NET 2.0 allows for a very robust user authorization/authentication system with little to no code. One of the added features of the ASP.NET Membership and Profile systems is the ability to have custom user profiles. The ASP.NET Profile system allows you to add additional user profile fields very quickly. I will discuss in this post the methods needed to add simple profile fields (Standard system types), however, remember that you can use complex objects for profile fields as well.
