So, I’ve always incorrectly thought that somehow, the cookie stored in Stefan Schackow, a Microsoft employee who is an expert on all things secure around

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A Step by step tutorial on how to use WildCard Mapping for processing URL requests. It includes how to set it with IIS6 and IIS7. It also discusses the theory behind how it works and talks about a great open source packaged called URLRewriter.Net. Basically, how to resolve http://mydomain.com/Home to http://mydomain.com/HomeSite/Home.aspx which looks so much nicer.

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Combining two mailing lists with LINQ, then removing a third is demonstrated in this post. Using C# 3.0 with .Net 3.5 allows us to leverage LINQ to make this an easy process. This post shows and explains the LINQ code to do this

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This article shows how to create a modal windows (not a popup) that displays a login windows (asking for username and password) in the middle of whatever asp.net page you are viewing. It uses the Telerik Modal Radwindow control. At the end of a successful login, the login dialog redirects the web user to some page designated by the author. It requires no Javascript programming by the programmer. Just simple method calls in the asp.net page.

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Learn how to bind a DropDownList in an asp.net 2.0/3.5 GridView Edit Row. This will show you how to get the data back to the database and learn why Bind does not help you (hint: SelectedValue is not our friend here).

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This article shows how to use Expression Builders in ASP.NET 2.0 to retrieve the current logged in user. DataBinding will not work so Expression Builders is the ticket. A small source file is created, the refernces to web.config are shown and a simple example is built.

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It’s Monday, August 21st, we have our CodeCamp scheduled for October 7th and 8th in Los Altos California and we realize we need to have our web site to sign up and running yesterday! For those of you who don’t know what a codecamp is, basically, it’s a developer to developer weekend meeting where high quality presentations are given to an audience of enthusiastic developers. Typically, 30 or 40 speakers running simultanious presentations to 300 or so attendees. Codecamps are all Volunteer, all free, and always on a weekend. So, our web site needs to allow sign ups for speakers and their presentations, attendess to let us know they are coming, provide information about the Venue as well as ultimately provide scheduling information about classes. Most importantly, it needs to do it with style and pizazz.

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In this article, a simple asp.net 2.0 page will be taken apart and shown how the actual page class is put together. As we know, when an http request comes into asp.net through the http pipeline that is destined to be a page (file type aspx), the objective of asp.net 2.0 is to create a complete class that encapsulates that page request. That page class is an httpHandler of course.

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