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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Mikhail Lukyanau has been kind enough to provide a redesigned version of the membership.aspx page

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