ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/ASP.NET-2.0-Tips_2C00_-Tricks_2C00_-Recipes-and-Gotchas.aspx This page lists some of the more popular “ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas” posts I’ve done over the last year. My goal is to add 1-2 new posts to the series each week going forward – so bookmark this page for updates, or subscribe to my blog via this RSS feed. To learn more about ASP.NET, also make sure to watch all of the great “ASP.NET: How Do I?” videos (each week a new video is posted). You can also browse a large listing of published ASP.NET 2.0 books here. Visual Studio · Tip/Trick: Optimizing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Project Build Performance with VS 2005 · Common Gotcha: Slow VS 2005 Web Site Build Performance Because of “Dueling Assembly References” · Resource: VS 2005 Web Application Project Tutorials · Recipe: Using VS 2005 Web Deployment Projects · Tip/Trick: Custom formatting HTML in Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio 2005 · Tip/Trick: Fast HTML Editor Navigation within VS 2005 · Tip/Trick: How to Run a Root “/” Site with the Local Web Server using VS 2005 SP1 · Tip/Trick: Changing the default browser used in VS 2005 and Visual Web Developer · Tip/Trick: Creating Re-Usable Project and Item Templates with VS 2005 · Tip/Trick: Creating Sub-Web Projects using the VS 2005 Web Application Project Option · Tip/Trick: Spell Checker Plug-in for VS 2005 for ASP.NET and HTML Pages · Tip/Trick: Using IIS7 on Vista with VS 2005 · Gotcha: Fixing Error with VS 2005 SP1 Beta and older Web Application Project Templates UI · Tip/Trick: Using Server Side Comments with ASP.NET 2.0 · Tip/Trick: Use the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters for CSS friendly HTML output · Tip/Trick: How to Register User Controls and Custom Controls in Web.config · Recipe: Dynamic Site Layout and Style Personalization with ASP.NET · Tip/Trick: Advanced Article on ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages AJAX · Tip/Trick: Nikhil's WebDevHelper Utility and ASP.NET AJAX Support · Tip/Trick: Handling Errors with the UpdatePanel control using ASP.NET AJAX · Tip/Trick: Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios · Gotcha: Lost HTML Intellisense within ASP.NET AJAX Controls · Gotcha: Don't use with ASP.NET AJAX · Tip/Trick: UpdateProgress Control and AJAX Activity Image Animations Data · Tip/Trick: Online Database Schema Samples Library · Recipe: Great ASP.NET 2.0 Three-Tier Data Tutorials Published · Recipe ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Tool-Kit · Resource: LINQ Demos, Slides + Samples · Recipe: Building and using a LINQ for SQL Class Library with ASP.NET 2.0 · Recipe: Tagging Data using LINQ · Recipe: Paging through lots of data efficiently (and in an Ajax way) with ASP.NET 2.0 · Recipe: Efficient Data Paging with the ASP.NET 2.0 DataList Control and ObjectDataSource · Tip/Trick: ListControl.AppendDataBoundItems Property in ASP.NET 2.0 Security · Resource: ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources · Recipe: Enabling Windows Authentication within an Intranet ASP.NET Web application · Recipe: Implementing Role Based Security with ASP.NET using Windows Authentication and SQL Server · Recipe: Configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Application Services to use SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005 · Gotcha: Always set the "applicationName" property when configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and other Providers · Common Gotcha: Don't forget to when adding providers · Tip/Trick: Source/Documentation for Simple ASP.NET 2.0 SQL Providers Published · Tip/Trick: Guard Against SQL Injection Attacks · Tip/Trick: Gathering Custom User Registration Information · Recipe: How to add a Login, Roles and Profile system to an ASP.NET 2.0 app in only 24 lines of code · Gotcha: Authorization with the built-in VS 2005 Web Server (aka Cassini) · Gotcha: Forms Authentication timeout default changed between ASP.NET 1.1 -> ASP.NET 2.0 · Tip/Trick: How To Share Authentication Cookies across ASP.NET V1.1 and ASP.NET V2.0 Applications Deployment · Gotcha: Don’t run production ASP.NET Applications with debug=”true” enabled · Tip/Trick: Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer for .NET and ASP.NET · Tip/Trick: App_Offline.htm and working around the "IE Friendly Errors" feature · Tip/Trick: Show Detailed Error Messages to Developers (and only to Developers) · Tip/Trick: Logging ASP.NET Application Shutdown Events Performance · Tip/Trick: Implement "Donut Caching" with the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution Feature · Tip/Trick: Disk Based Output Caching Feature Now Available for ASP.NET 2.0 · Tip/Trick: Cache Manager Miscellaneous · Resource: Credit Card Payment Processing with ASP.NET · Tip/Trick: List Running ASP.NET Worker Processes and Kill/Restart them from the command-line