The deep permeation of the World Wide Web into the life of the common man has lent itself to a variety of uses most notably as a backbone for business-to-consumer B2C communication creating a new business model called e-commerce. This article traces the lifetime of an HTTP request from its inception inside a Web browser to its interception by IIS...

In the early days of .NET Web services using a Web service to accept binary data required converting the data to something that could be represented in XML. Surely you remember those days - back before December 2002. With the release of Web Service Enhancements WSE 1.0 followed shortly by WSE 1.0 SP1 in March 2003 and now with WSE 2.0 on the horizon...

You have probably not escaped seeing the latest commercials for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 which urge listeners to do more with less ; this has been an aim of software engineering since the very beginning....

Web Parts are building blocks for creating modular Web sites. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and Windows SharePoint Services utilize Web Parts as the key component to add modular functionality and provide configurable user interfaces. As a developer you know it s impossible to create a single interface that satisfies all users; however Web...

Like many features available in Microsoft s products page ViewState in ASP.NET works behind the scenes by default. However unlike most other features ViewState can impact the pages we develop dramatically. The impact may not only be in page size but also in server-side performance. Pages with large ViewState can throw unexpected errors....

In large Web sites there are generally just a couple of unique page layouts. In the past developers had to duplicate large chunks of code on each page. Doing so made the site hard to maintain and difficult to change on a global scale. This tended to be an issue even when using include files as it was difficult to pass page-specific information down...

There are many ways to display arrow-up and arrow-down image in the header of a datagrid when it is sorted. In this article you will see 3 ways to implement this using CSS style sheet using image control or using font type webdings....

This article will demonstrate two ways you could use the DataReader to bind a DataGrid which includes how to cache it page it and persistently and bi-directionally sort it without the use of a DataAdapter DataSet at all...

If you want to use the new Google Maps API with ASP.NET you ll quickly discover there is no easy way to translate addresses into latitude longitude coordinates. This article presents one solution that will allow you to use Sql Server and Census data to geocode addresses in an easily queryable interface....

One of the first things many people try with ASP.NET V2.0 currently in Beta 2 and with the starter kits is to create a new user. Whether it is the CreateUserWizard a starter kit form or using the membership namespace from code creating a new profile is going to happen. Immediately following that is often a sigh of frustration when a fairly non-descriptive...

The inclusion of Forms Authentication in the .NET Framework has been a significant benefit to developers securing web-based applications. While pages can be secured server-side local caching by browsers and proxy servers may allow a user to review information even after they have logged out. In some cases this may present a risk to the user s confidential...

This article describes how to present a parent-child data relationship to the user by embedding a child datagrid within a cell of a parent datagrid....

A discussion and complete source-code in C on the challenages of creating a ProgressBar Control for ASP.NET Webforms and the stateless web. This implementation approach provides easy integration steps two demo examples real-time progress reporting of server activity to the browser and is cross-browser compatiable....

The beta for the TIGER installer is ready.Eventually this will give options for different database systems but right now its just for SQL Server.It also includes some enhancements like the FIPS55 data.The schema in this version is smaller tha the others it excludes many of the extraneous fields.It will also only load roads which cuts down on the size. Here s...

Time for an update on the geocoding project. The automated download extract install is just about complete. During a test run supported by the folks at http www.hksi.net I found out that the full dataset is too big to run under MSDE s 2 gig limit. Loading Type 1 data properly indexed for forward and reverse Geocoding weighs in at 4 gigs.This is  disappointing...