In case you did, there are some interesting improvements like…. Monitor changes to a file . The module can be configured to listen for file change notifications on a specific file and when that file changes, the module will recycle FastCGI processes for the process pool. This feature can be used to recycle...

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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’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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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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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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Since I spent some time today working with control extenders and exactly where in the page lifecycle to do what, I thought I’d share the whole list. If (!IsPostBack) Begin PreInit End PreInit Begin Init End Init Begin InitComplete End InitComplete Begin PreLoad End PreLoad Begin Load End Load Begin LoadComplete...

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I’ve recently had several questions about attempts to use the Ajax Control Toolkit’s Modal Dialog, or more accurately, to misuse it, as a window. It’s a “dialog” and therefore not well suited to being used for receiving data from the user. Controls like the Modal Dialog Extender Control are convenient...

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Some time ago I started playing with the idea of organizing an Open Source project to build a CMS. It generated a lot of interest, but the “expectations” seemed overwhelming to me. NETOOP is not dead, I still plan to build it but I intend to build version one myself (On MVC) and release it as FREE source...

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