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 [...]
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.
The Listview control introduced in ASP.NET 3.5 fixes a number of issues with the old Gridview and Repeater controls. In particular, one of my biggest problems with the Gridview was the inability to add an item through an empty row in the Gridview footer. While there are several workarounds to achieve this functionality, the Listview [...]
The Compare Validator allows you to compare the entries in 2 text fields and generate an error if they don’t match a certain condition. However, a frustrating problem that commonly arises with the Compare Validator is the way it handles dates for non-US date formats (eg, DD/MM/YYYY).
I’m pleased to announce the launch of my latest ASP.NET project, Our Honeymoon Registry.
Our Honeymoon Registry is an online wedding gift registry service that allows couples to specify items from their upcoming honeymoon as gifts in a registry for their family and friends to choose in lieu of traditional wedding presents.
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.
