To reduce the chance of someone intercepting the information stored in the ViewState, it is good design to encrypt the ViewState. You could do this in previous releases of ASP.NET, but the support ...

ASP.NET 2.0 adds support for altering the location where ViewState data is stored for your pages. This article looks at how a new class can be created and used to store ViewState information in Ses...

Reviews both Visual Studio 2005 Web project and ASP.NET 2.0 framework changes that affect Web project conversion, and then discusses common issues and solutions for converting using Visual Studio 2...

ASP.NET 2.0 is replete with new features ranging from declarative data binding and Master Pages to membership and role management services. But my vote for the coolest new feature goes to asynchron...

Personalization is growing to be more and more of an essential ingredient in many types of Web apps, including portals and shopping sites. Without it, it's quite difficult to serve your customers e...

This article examines the steps involved in creating a custom, compiled ASP.NET server control that randomly rotates through specified content, much like the built-in AdRotator control randomly rot...

When displaying large amounts of data it's often best to only display a portion of the data, allowing the user to step through the data ten or so records at a time. Additionally, the end user's exp...

In most data models there are numerous one-to-many relationships. For example, in a data model that contains information about a company's workforce, there might be a Locations table and an Employe...

In the examples we've looked at so far, the GridView's output is a tad drab and unattractive. In Figure 7, for example, the GridView's output lacks any color.

One of the most common tasks Web developers face is working with data. The data might be from an XML file, from a database, or provided through a more abstract interface, such as through a set of c...

In Microsoft ASP.NET 1.x, one of the most commonly used ASP.NET Web controls is the DataGrid. The DataGrid control makes displaying data on an ASP.NET page a breeze: simply drag and drop the DataGr...