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ASP.NET MVC includes an [Authorize] attribute, which when placed on any controller actions will forbid unauthorized access. The AuthorizeAttribute allows you to specify a list of roles or users, like this: [...]

Learn how to create a simple game using ASP.net MVC, jQuery, State Machine and CSS3 gradients [...]

A demo web scraping ASP.NET application utilizing Regular Expression matching and XML transformation. [...]

The following article shows you how to create a custom attribute to output additional HTML when using a metadata class in MVC. [...]

In this introductory tutorial we will take a look at Gridviews in ASP.NET. This web control is often the most important web control for developing ASP.NET websites. They are mostly used for dynamically presenting database information to the browser in the form of HTML tables and can even interact with users by accepting input deleting data. [...]

Asp.Net MVP pattern was evolved during the late 90’s. It is the descendent of MVC pattern with a slight change in the design pattern ie. it implements the observer design approach of MVC. The rest of the components remain the same which means the model and view does their task as in MVC. [...]

This article provides a simple globalization mechanism for a bilingual website. Part I creates a simple bilingual website. [...]

ASP.NET MVC3 is now available, and it includes a new View engine called Razor. In this lesson (dubbed 9.5), we download the MVC3 bits and look at Razor and rebuild the application from the previous lesson with the new View engine. [...]

This beginner tutorial will teach you another method for doing ASP.NET URL rewrite – using the Global.asax Application_BeginRequest method with the help of VB.Net [...]

This tutorial will teach you several methods to connect to MS SQL Server 2008, including using SQL Server Management and remote computers.

The SQL Server Database Engine comes with various tools. The tools that you get with the engine are determined not only by the edition you install, but also by how you configure the installation. [...]

One of the common problems with people coming over to RavenDB is that they still think in relational terms, and implicitly accept relational limitations. The following has been recently brought up at a client meeting. The problem was that they got an error when rendering a page similar to that: [...]

Pure HTML templates and uniform codebehind is the future of web development. The article presents ASP.NET DaST Rendering Engine and its underlying DaST concept that brings web apps architecture to a new level getting rid of all problems and complexity related to standard ASP.NET Forms and MVC. [...]

Internet has become one of the most important and widely used communication medium in this modern world. Be it knowledge gathering or information sharing or social networking, internet plays a vital role. Since everything is automated and people wants everything to be done sitting in front of the computer, the internet age has also brought more threats and security nightmares on our web assets in the form of hackers, spammers and automated bots and viruses. [...]

In this tutorial you will be introduced to URL rewriting methods in ASP.Net. In particular we will be looking at ways to utilize Request.PathInfo to create shorter keyword-rich URLs [...]

In my spare time I have been working on a Simple.Data provider for Sqlite. Simple.Data is a lightweight ORM written by Mark Rendle that leans heavily on dynamic types and metaprogramming techniques to create an api that is the closest to Ruby’s Active Record that I have ever seen in .NET. I have been using [...]

VSM Web columnist Eric Vogel kicks off his first C# Corner installment with a walk through creating an application using asynchronous programming. [...]

Regex has been the most popular and easiest way of writing validations. The only big problem with regex has been the cryptic syntax. Developers who are working on projects with complicated validation always refer some kind of cheat sheet to remember the syntaxes and commands. [...]

Peter Vogel takes a look at Razor and the productivity gains in generating views that ASP.NET MVC 3 provides to developers. [...]

The new await keyword in the Async CTP makes it easier to write asynchronous code, so processes that can take up time no longer jam up the application’s UI. [...]

When implementing some software for another project, I came across several requirements involving calculations with time periods. These calculations were an important part of the solution and had high demands in respect to correctness and accuracy of the results. [...]

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular file format for documents. Due to their ubiquity and layout capabilities, it’s not uncommon for a websites to use PDF technology. For example, an eCommerce store may offer a “printable receipt” option that, when selected, displays a PDF file within the browser. [...]

Reporting is one of the crucial parts of any data oriented application. These reporting often provide a visual understanding of the business by consolidating the data and sometimes, it also helps to understand it in-depth by drilling down the reports. [...]

This course looks at the features of the ASP.NET MVC 3 framework, including the new Razor View Engine, the new unobtrusive AJAX features, NuGet Package Management and more [...]

This time I want to deal with some other useful tools for ASP.NET developers that I have used on a regular basis. Again, before using for commercial purposes, please check the license information.

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In this my first article for this website, I want to deal with some of the many useful projects on codeplex.com for ASP.NET developers. Before using for commercial purposes, please check the license information.

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