Overview Let’s say that you have an asp:image control that displays user uploaded images from a database: <asp:Image ID=”Image1″ runat=”server” ImageUrl=”me.png” /> A common request in this scenario is how to set a maximum width for this image. While you can certainly set the Width property, this scales up images smaller than the width that [...]
Asp.net 2.0 introduced nullable types that allow you to determine whether a variable has been assigned a value or not and not cause an exception if the variable is null. A nullable type simply allows a variable to be null in addition to its normal range of values.
OneNote 1.3 has just been released for iOS devices and is now available in the App Store. From the Microsoft Office OneNote Blog: What’s new in this version OneNote for iOS builds on previous releases with the following new features in version 1.3: Support for iPad and iPad 2 Localization into several new languages and markets Tabbed [...]
Overview ASP.NET provides a series of validation server controls that can be used to validate data that a user inputs into your forms. These controls allow you to prevent a form from being submitted upon the rules that you define in the validation server controls. The available validation server controls are (courtesy of MSDN): Validation [...]
The recently released Amazon Kindle Fire is a great 7-inch tablet that admirably serves as a low cost consumption device for Amazon content. Invariably however, reviewers are making the comparison between the Kindle Fire and the Apple iPad, despite the two devices targeting different market segments and uses.
The later versions of Visual Studio have put Web Application projects front and centre, and they are required for MVC development. This leads to new developers hitting some ubiquitous error messages; one of the most common I see in the ASP.NET forums is “The type [Class] is ambiguous. Please specify the assembly explicitly in the type name”
Since ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has included a platform for managing site membership, from user creation to authentication and authorization.
This article focuses on customizing the ASP.NET Login control to create a simple, stylish form that your users can use to log in to your web application that also provides informative errors.
Steven Sinofsky has today updated the Building Windows 8 Blog to share his thoughts on the new Windows 8 Task Manager, which focuses on 3 main goals: Optimize Task Manager for the most common scenarios, Use modern information design to achieve functional goals and Don’t remove functionality.
The recently released Amazon Kindle Fire is a great 7-inch tablet that admirably serves as a low cost consumption device for Amazon content. Invariably however, reviewers are making the comparison between the Kindle Fire and the Apple iPad, despite the two devices targeting different market segments and uses.
This post is the first part in a series on Microsoft WebMatrix which will show you how to create a simple blog site. The tutorial is broken into multiple parts which demonstrate some of the new functionality that Microsoft introduced with WebMatrix, and how it relates to traditional ASP.NET Webforms or MVC programming.
SQL Server 2008 Express edition with Tools has finally been released (It was launched on August 11th, but only today are the management tools available). As I’ve been building web servers today, I’ve put together this comprehensive guide to setting up your website to work with SQL Server 2008.
This simple tutorial shows you how to create a great looking Gridview that allows users to filter content. This design uses individual drop down boxes and data sources for each column that you want to allow your users to filter data on, and presents them in a stylish, professional looking table.
