ASP.NET is a web application framework developed and marketed by Microsoft to allow programmers to build dynamic web sites and web applications. It was first released in January 2002 with version 1.0 of the .NET Framework, and is the successor to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology. ...
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Why choose an established CMS as opposed to building one from scratch?
A lot of my research over the next few weeks will be into different CMS's. I've already had a brief look at episerver and umbraco. While reading into these systems I can't help but think that ...
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Are there established practices on versioning of a shared web service?
We are working on an ASP.NET-based XML Web Service that we will be using for our own purposes as well as using it as part of a product offering for our integration partners.
Once it goes live we ...
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Need advice for approach for a web-based app that loads excel worksheet but exposes only the charts
I'm looking for suggestions on the Visual Studio approach to take for a web application that is in the conceptual stage.
My environment has a lot of tools:
Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 64bit
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Use Theme/Skin or CSS in Asp.Net
I am working on a website which is using Skin templates everywhere in the page. Because of this all the controls, even labels, are server controls. I was wondering if it is worth changing at least ...
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How viable is it to switch stacks for setting up a startup [closed]
I am currently employed with a company for 2.5 years and I have been working with the .net stack for the entire duration mainly on the MVC framework. I believe I have some cool ideas for a startup but ...
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How can I design an application so that it works well with a database selected by the customer?
I want to write an ASP.NET 4.0 application with IBM DB2 Express-C as its back-end. One thing that worries me, is hosting this application on a remote server. I don't know any hosting provider who ...
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Team Parallel development in ASP.NET
I am developing an application written in ASP.NET (C#) which heavily use on Master Page and Session.
As there will be enhancement in the same web application, and will be done by my teammate.
is ...
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Can I share data between two users in an ASP.NET Application?
I have an issue with Roles.IsUserInRole function. It take hell amount of time to just check if the logged-in user is in particular role(typ 3-9 sec). I searched to find a solution and arrived on this ...
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What things do I need to become expert ASP.net MVC [closed]
I graduated in computer science. I had pretty good knowledge in Java. I have about a year experiences in ASP.net C# Web form. What other things do I need to know if I want become expert in ASP.net MVC ...
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Is it possible to integrate UDP file transfer into a .NET web application?
Background
I have recently been tasked with designing a rebuild of an existing .NET web application that currently uses a third-party company to handle large file transfers (as big as 50Gb).
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Should one bind data with Eval on aspx or override ItemDataBound in code-behind?
For data bound controls (Repeater, ListView, GridView, etc.), what's the preferred way of binding data?
I've seen it where people use Eval() directly on the aspx/ascx inside the data bound control to ...
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What do I need to learn of C# for ASP.NET? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do you need to learn to become professional ASP.NET programmer?
Should I be a professional in C# programming in order to build good web applications using ASP.NET?
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UserControl inside Placeholder good/bad? + Postback problem
Currently I'm working a bit with ASP.NET and trying to find the best way to navigate through pages. Right now I have an UpdatePanel which has a Placeholder inside it. This Placeholder will then add ...
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Using alternative MVC framework
I am new to ASP.NET MVC and EF. I read about open source implementations of MVC pattern like Spring, FubuMVC, Castle etc.
I want to know how flexible these alternatives are when compared with ASP.NET ...
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Best Practice: strategy regarding Website Projects and versioning
What are the best practices and strategy for designing and developing a website?
The key parts I want considered are:
DLL deployment
IIS publishing
project versioning
namespace
Please answer ...
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Extensibility in multi-tenant systems? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do you manage extensibility in your multi-tenant systems?
I asked this on StackOverflow, but I thought it might be more appropriate for Programmers.
I've got a ...
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Should I use the language I'm most comfortable in, or the company “standard”
I'm going to be developing an Intranet site for my specific plant, and our company standard for web-development is IIS + ASP.Net + VB.Net + Microsoft SQL Server (note that we have about 10+ plants). ...
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An aspiring programmers proverbial fork. (asp.net or …) [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it better to specialize in a single field I like, or expand into other fields to broaden my horizons?
Do Diversified Skills Foster or Hinder Specialization?
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What is the right way to develop ASP.NET applications in order to separate data access from data visualization?
I'm currently involved in a migration to TFS from SVN of a large project that is going to be divided into five different sites. This project allows some providers to insert five different product data ...
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How do delegates fit into ASP.NET?
A developer told me they used delegates to bind most of their events in ASP.NET. Until then, I did not even know it was possible to use delegates in ASP.NET in a meaningful way.
My understanding ...
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Exposing warnings\errors from data objects (that are also list returned)
I'm exposing Data objects via service oriented assembly (which on future usages might become a WCF service).
The data object is tree designed, as well as formed from allot of properties.Moreover, ...
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How do you manage extensibility in your multi-tenant systems?
I've got a few big web based multi-tenant products now, and very soon I can see that there will be a lot of customizations that are tenant specific.
An extra field here or there, maybe an extra page ...
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Best practice for using a user control across many projects
I have a messaging User Control, that is used across 4 projects, and for each change I have to propagate it in 4 places. This is obviously against the DRY principle. However, centralizing user ...
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In search of a control
I'm looking for a control for use in web development (ASP.NET) that mimics gmail-labels or Facebook recipients when sending FB messages.
It's a label with an attached [X] to facilitate deleting of ...
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What's better approach when creating a user control: receive a full object or only the needed values?
I'm working with ASP.NET Web User Control (WUC) and I got to this question:
I'm creating a WUC to show an object's data. This object is already loaded when I call that WUC. I'm wondering what would ...
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google analystics with asp.net web application
I am trying to add google analytics to a web application built in asp.net c# that is already pretty mature. The requirement is to have all sorts of event tracking on buttons clicks, breaking up page ...
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How to detect impacts caused by changes?
I've often run on this problem. Now I am working on a team of 4 and we built a lot of stuff. We are still finishing somethings and making changes. The problem is that those changes can (and most ...
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What are the tools/frameworks used to build C# ASP.net applications? [closed]
I am basically a java programmer who wants to move to .net. I haven't worked in .NET companies so I don't have any idea about the tools they use. In a Java company people use Maven, Hibernate and ...
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Looking for input on a daily scheduler app UI and implementation
I'm currently evaluating different asp.net components for the main UI in a “Daily Employee Scheduler” app I'll be making. The tool will be rolled out at a few different locations, which makes it ...
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How to update display during large processing job
I have an ASP.NET C# application that needs to go off and iterate through a directory of .xml files and do some processing on the data inside them. This is easy enough, but i need to display the ...
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A good substitute for ASMX web service methods, but not a general handler
The best thing I like about ASP.NET MVC, is that you can directly call a server method (called action), from the client. This is so convenient, and so straightforward, that I really like to implement ...
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Where does jQuery fit-in with frameworks like JavaScriptMVC, BackboneJS, SproutCore and Knockout?
I have been happily using JQuery for the last 2 years and have been quite sucessful creating some really cool functionality with it...so I am very comfortable with it. I also beleive the future of ...
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How should data be passed between client-side Javascript and C# code behind an ASP.NET app?
I'm looking for the most efficient / standard way of passing data between client-side Javascript code and C# code behind an ASP.NET application. I've been using the following methods to achieve this ...
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Exposing business logic as WCF service
I'm working on a middle-tier project which encapsulates the business logic (uses a DAL layer, and serves a web application server [ASP.net]) of a product deployed in a LAN. The BL serves as a bunch of ...
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ASP.NET MVC 3 Blogs to Follow [closed]
What are some good blogs about ASP.NET MVC 3 out there to follow? Anybody know of any?
Thanks in advance.
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How to instrument existing ASP.NET application?
We have several highly complex ASP.NET web applications that are used internally by hundreds of users. We are trying to figure out which areas of the applications to invest in to improve ...
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First ASP.NET WebForms application completed, should I jump into MVC now? [closed]
I just finished my first Asp.net intranet application using WebForms, and now I am considering learning MVC.
My questions are:
I mainly use LINQ for CRUD purposes instead of SQL, should I also ...
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What is the meaning of driven ? (test-driven , data-driven, event-driven and etc)
I was reading a paper that makes a comparison between ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC. While reading it, such as data-driven, event-driven, test-driven are the terms that I see a lot. So what are ...
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Is there a proven concept to website reverse certificate authentication?
We're looking at exposing some of our internal application data externally via a website. The actual details of the website aren't that interesting, it'll be built using ASP.NET/IIS etc, that might be ...
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Why decouple view and controller (web)?
Why can't we put them in the same page, like each action paired up with its view? Not using code island, but controller code at top then view code at bottom? What are the problems with this approach?
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Traditional ASP.Net WebForms vs ASP.Net MVC [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When to favor webforms over MVC
ASP.Net MVC has been around for some time now. The latest one, i.e MVC3 comes with Razor View Engine.
My question: How long is ...
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Where to go from here, how to improve / learn more [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
I'm graduating with a Computer Science degree but I don't feel like I know how to program
I finished University around 4 years ago double degree in Software ...
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Is it a good practice set connection strings in a web config?
Recently I have a discussion with some of my colleagues at my work because they said that it's better have in a .DLL a string connection encrypted. And I said why just don't use the string connection ...
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What is a good way to familiarize myself with PHP, coming from an ASP.NET background?
Currently, I'm very comfortable with building tools/web apps in an ASP.NET environment. I'm not really looking to leave tbh, as I really like C#, ASP.NET, MVC 3, Visual Studio, etc.
However, right ...
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Starting a coherent architecture in a legacy application
I have responsibility for a large Asp.Net based website. It is currently a website (not web application), some windows services and a number of class libraries.
The data layer uses a mixture of ...
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How to maintain a demo version of an application?
I need to be able to demo our production application to prospective clients. The way I have it setup today is simple. The demo application is an exact duplicate of the production system, except that ...
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Newbie seeking advice on programming in general [closed]
need some of you to remember back to a time when you might have been bad at programming...
Been at my new job (as a software developer) for a couple of months now, passed probation period. Have very ...
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PCI Compliance, FDMS and TransArmor
So, I've been tasked to work on an integration project where we will ask customers for credit card information and send it over to our integration partners, who will process the payment/cc info and ...
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What are other technologies that are capable of creating Websites with Animation, Load Detailed Images & Cross Browser
I am a Junior Web Programmer who is tasked with redesigning our website. Right now the website is made in ActionScript using the FLEX API(so its Flash based).
I am looking for advice on what ...
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Using SQLDataSource / DataBound Controls in ASP.NET - Bad Practice?
When programming in ASP.NET, you can get very quick, effective functionality out of using DataBound controls (GridView, FormView, etc) with an SQLDataSource control on the page (In my opinion, anyway ...
