In addition to other new and interesting things ASP.NET also brought along controllers supporting representation of hierarchical data. This posting introduces IHierarchyData and IHierarchyEnumerable interfaces we can use to create wrappers for classes representing hierarchical data of the business logic layer.

By Default ASP.Net pages communicate with the server through a mechanism call “PostBack”. Postback is very useful and efficient, except for the cases, where 1) You have a huge page, with a lot of processing required at server, so doing all that processing on every postback is not only waste of resou

There’s a lot of debate these days about the ASP.NET WebForms model vs. the newer ASP.NET MVC model. There are advantages to both. Disadvantages to both. Pick the one that best fits your needs. Nuff said. But sometimes that choice isn’t so obvious.

It’s possible to do a lot of work with ASP.NET and not know anything about IIS, particularly if you work with a large team where IT specialists keep the riff-raff away from production web applications. Ever since Visual Studio started shipping its own web server1, many people don’t rely on IIS for day to day development work (although many of us still do).

This blog post shows you how to use the ASPxScheduler with custom objects.

If you are using “Asp.Net Development Server” One of the big problem of developing multiple web site at the same time is Development Server does not recognize and support Host Header. So you have to use different port for each web site. Problem with this solution is if you have hard coded links or templates pointing website you have to tweak code for testing and development. Here is the solution

“The following example shows how to render views that do not have a matching ActionResult method. For example, if you have a Details.aspx view but no corresponding method exists that returns an ActionResult instance, the following example displays the Details view when a request to for the Details action is made on the controller. If there is no matching view, the error page displays a message.”

At some point you need to stop polishing and let it go already – so I did just that today: SubSonic 3.0 is released. This thing took me just about a year to finish up, and a lot of work has gone into it. So, what’s new? Well…

Recently, I’ve started a fairly large project in C# 3.0. As it happens, there came a point where I wanted to use a pattern similar to Bloch’s Builder. However, as anyone who tries to use his pattern in C# will quickly find out, Bloch’s Builder doesn’t translate perfectly to C#. Here is how Bloch’s Builder looks in C# (with changes made only for syntax):

Problems in creating Custom panel control

Some applications require that the mouse pointer be hidden during use. Examples of such software include screen savers and graphical applications or games. Each may fundamentally change the manner of display or the general behaviour of the cursor.

Although rare, there are some situations where you may wish to reposition the mouse pointer programmatically to improve the user experience or to enhance accessibility. This can be easily achieved using standard .NET classes and properties.

Almost all of you have tried ASP.NET AJAX for Ajax related operations. But there are times when you need something more from ASP.NET AJAX, and unfortunately you cannot. These are the times you ask for alternatives.

This article will show you how to trick and overcome the JSON date problem when you are using jQuery, JSON callback alongwith asp.net