Create Dynamic XML Files with ASP.NET HTTP Handlers
The internet in it’s current state sees XML as a very mature technology to allow data to be transferred between sites. There may be many times when you will want to generate XML files in your web solutions and ASP.NET provides HTTP Handlers to assist in this task. The ASHX files that you [...]
Porter Stemmer Algorithm Class in C#
The Porter Stemmer Algorithm is an algorithmn which was created to by Martin Porter to reduce english words to their root word stems. For example, the word “forms” would reduce to “form” and the word “connections” would reduce to “connect”. The details of the algorithmn can be found here
Create popup date picker in seperate window using ASP.NET calendar control
I’ve gotten alot of feedback on our popup ASP.NET calendar control I posted awhile back. In that post I did it with a “fake” popup using DIV’s. In this post, I will do it with a traditional popup window.
Using Parameters/Parameterized Queries in database interactions with C# and VB.NET
When writing ASP.NET applications, you need to be careful with your code to protect from misuse by would be hackers. One of the best ways to do this is to parametrize your queries. Not only will using parameters help against SQL injection attacks, but it’s best practice to do so and avoid large [...]
Return a line break or carriage return in ASP.NET page
I came across the issue today of needing to output some text from a multiline textbox and having a few issues on preserving the line breaks/carriage returns from the textbox. If you view the source on the page, it would look correct, but yet the display on the HTML page would show no line [...]
Dynamically Create Google Sitemap with ASP.NET
This article will cover dynamically generating your sitemap to submit to Google Sitemaps using ASP.NET and as usual the code will be available in C# and VB.NET. Whenever you develop a site with the intention of putting it on the internet, it’s necessary to do everything you can to index your site with the [...]
Adding paging to a repeater
While the Gridview control has pagination built in, alot of the time, you may want to add pagination into your repeater control as well. Thankfully, ASP.NET has a PagedDataSource object to help accomplish this task.