As more and more companies reach out to other countries for business, creating global Web applications with Microsoft ASP.NET is becoming more and more important. ASP.NET 1.1 supported creating localized Web sites by means of the ResourceManager class. ASP.NET 2.0 makes it even easier to provide support for multiple cultures and locales through improved runtime and tool support.
Thom Robbins, from Microsoft New England, provides a quick overview of all the data source controls: SqlDataSource, AccessDataSource, XmlDataSource, ObjectDataSource, and SiteMapDataSource as well as the declarative caching properties you can use with the controls.
This article presents a simple method for securing your ASP.NET web pages, requiring almost no code development. In this article, you'll be introduced to the components that .NET provides that significantly reduce the amount of code you have to write in order to secure your website pages. You'll learn about Forms Authentication, User Identity, XML configuration files, and authorization tickets. And you'll learn how to store username and password information in simple XML configuration files.
This article walks you through the steps for buillding a simple web service and then how to wrap a web service located somewhere on the Internet in a component shell to allow the web service's properties and methods to be accessed from within code.
This article walks you through the process of building a thin-client ASP.NET bug tracking application, with a Microsoft Access XP backend. It uses nearly every documented capability of the .NET datagrid web server control to allow you to select, edit, update, or delete any item listed in the datagrid. The Issue Tracker also uses advanced features, such as reading values from lookup tables, and then conveniently providing these values to the user in Edit mode as dropdownlists.
With a solid foundation created in Part 1, we now turn our attention to more advanced topics. We’ll use context rewriting for some professional looking and hassle free state-management, talk about good database design with respect to multilingual applications, and dive into more advanced Localized controls for ultimate flexibility and productivity.
This paper looks at some of the specific benefits you can achieve in migrating applications from ASP, and presents five distrinct strategies for a migration, based on its perceived strategic value and your desired timeframe for results. A scorecard with key questions about your migration allows you to quickly arrive at an initial estimate of a migration's complexity. Finally, it outlines the major activities involved in the four phases of a migration project.
If you are working in a mixed development environment you know that ASP "Classic" and ASP.NET cannot share session state information. I am offering the source code I used to this resolve this issue as well as discussing a couple of other possible resolutions.