How to Set the Default Value of a DropDownList in an ASP.NET Page
Wednesday 17 October 2007 @ 10:44 am

This article shows how to set the default Value of a DropDownList Control when using asp.net 2.0. It uses the DataBound event to do it. A full page example which can be cut and paste is included

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Resetting Password with ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Multiple Providers
Thursday 15 February 2007 @ 8:39 am
If you ever have wanted to be able to programmatically change (reset) a users password while at the same time continuing to be able to use the question and answer feature, this post is for you.

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Have GridView Highlight Last Inserted Record in ASP.NET 2.0
Thursday 7 December 2006 @ 4:41 pm
A question that frequently comes up in the asp.net forums is how to have a gridview show the the last record added highlighted. This articles gives a technique for doing this. It only works with SqlServer but could could be modified for other databases.

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Moving From Casini to IIS, Login Fails. How come?
Friday 20 October 2006 @ 10:33 am
What to do when an web application you wrote worked fine in developement (VS2005) but when you move it to IIS, you can no longer login using the Membership Provider you configured under development.

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Fourth MSDN Article Published! “Adding Personalization with Profiles to the ObjectDataSource”
Monday 4 September 2006 @ 11:55 am
This article explains how the encapsulation of Membership can be extended to include Profile (personalization) information for users. The designers of Membership included a very basic set of attributes to associate with Members (logged in users).

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Third Article Published on MSDN! ASP.NET 2.0, Membership Meets Atlas
Wednesday 2 August 2006 @ 3:30 pm
Microsoft published my third article in a series on how to use Membership in ASP.NET 2.0 with an ObjectDataSource. That is, extending Membership into three tiers. This article takes what was developed in article two and adds Atlas extensions to make it work even better. The Article on MSDN uses the March CTP (Community Technology Preview). There is an update on my blog as well as a download to make it work correctly with the June CTP.

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Inserting Programmatically with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0
Wednesday 7 June 2006 @ 1:21 pm
Inserting Programmatically with ObjectDataSource ASP.NET 2.0 ( ObjectDataSource1.Insert(); )   ObjectDataSource’s are great for building your own middle tier between your aspx web page and your database (or any other datastore for that matter). By binding the datasource to a databound server control like detailsview, you auto-magically get the insert behavior you are looking for. If however, you […]

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Adding Personalization via Profiles to the ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0
Monday 13 March 2006 @ 5:33 pm

This article explains the mechanics involved in extending the ObjectDataSource (developed in the previous article in this MSDN Membership Security Series) to handle personalization information using the ASP.NET 2.0 custom provider facility. Then, it goes on to explains some fancy tricks you can do with this ObjectDataSource to make accessing membership even easier. Finally it presents a free tool available on the web that lets you cut and paste part of your web.config file into a web page and out comes a ready-to-compile C-Sharp ObjectDataSource.

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AJAX Meets ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Management For IIS
Thursday 2 March 2006 @ 12:34 pm
This article extends one of the web pages developed in Part II of this series using Microsoft’s implementation of AJAX called Atlas. You can view a live demonstration of the technology developed in this article at the URL http://livedemos.peterkellner.net/AJAXDemo.

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Membership Management Newly Styled GridView
Friday 27 January 2006 @ 10:46 am
Mikhail Lukyanau has been kind enough to provide a redesigned version of the membership.aspx page

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