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What are effective options for embedding video in an ASP.NET web site?
A quick glance at the present-day internet would seem to indicate that Adobe Flash is the obvious choice for embedding video in a web page. Is this accurate, or are they other effective choices? ...
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Tracking state using ASP.NET AJAX / ICallbackEventHandler
I have a problem with maintaining state in an ASP.NET AJAX page. Short version: I need some way to update the page ViewState after an async callback has been made, to reflect any state changes the ...
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ASP.NET URL Rewriting
How do I rewrite a URL in ASP.NET?
I would like users to be able to go to
http://www.website.com/users/smith
instead of
http://www.website.com/?user=smith
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Easy way to AJAX WebControls
I've got a web application that I'm trying to optimize. Some of the controls are hidden in dialog-style DIVs. So, I'd like to have them load in via AJAX only when the user wants to see them. This is ...
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Are Multiple DataContext classes ever appropriate?
In order to fully use LinqToSql in an ASP.net 3.5 application, it is necessary to create DataContext classes (which is usually done using the designer in VS 2008). From the UI perspective, the ...
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ASP.NET built in user profile vs. old style user class/tables
I am looking for guidance regarding the best practice around the use of the Profile feature in ASP.NET.
How do you decide what should be kept in the built-in user Profile, or if you should create ...
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ASP.Net Custom Client-Side Validation
I have a custom validation function in JavaScript in a user control on a .Net 2.0 web site which checks to see that the fee paid is not in excess of the fee amount due.
I've placed the validator ...
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Checklist for IIS 6/ASP.NET Windows Authentication?
I've been having trouble getting my ASP.NET application to automatically log users into the Intranet site I'm building. No matter the googling or the experimentation I applied, there is always a ...
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Floating Point Number parsing: Is there a Catch All algorithm?
One of the fun parts of multi-cultural programming is number formats.
Americans use 10,000.50
Germans use 10.000,50
French use 10 000,50
My first approach would be to take the string, parse it ...
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ASP.NET Site Maps
Does anyone have experience creating SQL-based ASP.NET site-map providers?
I have the default XML file web.sitemap working properly with my Menu and SiteMapPath controls, but I'll need a way for the ...
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