I recently received an email from a developer who needed to implement a behavior around a user’s session timeout behavior. As you probably know, we can configure our application to “expire” a user’s session at any interval that we wish. Example: < system.web > < sessionState timeout ="10"...

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Historically, working with databases on shared hosting accounts has been problematic. DiscountASP.net has implemented the IIS Database manager with some additions. Now you can manage your own databases and do things like Backup & Restore yourself. [ For more information about the IIS Database Manager...

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I thought this was a cool idea ad thought I’d share it. Apigee is a website that provides analytics, protection and control for APIs.  Apigee enables API providers to understand usage, protect their app, and enforce API terms of use.  Developers using APIs can use Apigee to get visibility into...

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I’ve started blogging simple tips when I get a question from a developer that’s a bit tricky. This is one of those. Simple to do, but not always simple to find the answer. In this case the developer wanted to use an AJAX Editor Control inside a ModalPopup control. This isn’t a problem but, the user needed...

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What happens when you need to protect your whole site so that only Authenticated users can access our site. Since I received this question twice this week I thought I’d share a tip. To allow ONLY authenticated access to your site using Forms authentication you can add a section like this on e to your...

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This week someone referred me to this blog post about Small Basic. What a cool idea for playing teaching beginners of kids about programming or just playing around. You can even build Silverlight application with it and “Graduate” your Small Basic” code to Visual Basic.net / Visual Studio You can even...

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So I’m building an ASP.NET application to host Podcasts and in the post submission logic I want folks to be able to submit markup, but not JavaScript. ASP.NET automatically traps suspicious posts to the server, but the results have to unfortunate defines. First is the ugly resulting page. We’ve...

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Yes, the MisfitGeek Podcast still lives. I’ve recovered from a catastrophic audio hardware failure and learned how to record podcast interviews over Skype. I’ve got several scheduled and they should start appearing here soon. In the meantime I thought I’d share that that the Podcast is now listed on...

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I get many (MANY) email from customers who are struggle to answer specific technical problems. As time permits I’m going to start answering them here, I recently received an email from a developer building an application using the Ajax Control Toolkit and he needed his page to contain an Accordion Control...

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A free Android application for testing your ASP.NET Development Knowledge. [ Check it out here. ]...

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