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Overview of Oracle Providers for ASP.NET 

Oracle Providers for ASP.NET is a collection of ASP.NET 2.0 providers that follow the ASP.NET 2.0 provider model and uses Oracle Database as the data source. Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 includes a number of services and providers that store application state in databases and other storage media. Oracle offers the following providers: ¦ Membership Provider ¦ Role Provider ¦ Site Map Provider ¦ Session State Provider ¦ Profile Provider ¦ Web Events Provide r¦ Web Parts Personalization Provider ¦ Cache Dependency Provider

An Overview of ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 

On November 19, 2007, Microsoft officially released the ASP.NET version 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008. Like with the progression from ASP.NET 2.0 to 3.0, the features in ASP.NET 3.5 are additive, meaning that the core assemblies installed from the .NET Framework version 2.0 are still used by the 3.0 and 3.5 versions. The In short, ASP.NET 3.5 doesn't change or take away or break any functionality, concepts, or code present in 2.0 - it simply adds new types and features and capabilities to the framework.

Type Fundamentals 

Type Fundamentals

Convert HTML tables to a DataSet 

Summary: An example of how we can extract data from HTML tables and create a DataSet object containing this data.

Conditional statement in CSS 

You must have came across some .css issues related with the browser behavior. Some of the styles that works in IE doesn't work in FireFox. In that situation you need to write conditional code for both browsers.

Strings Comparison :: Equals Vs = operator :: Performance Benefit 

This piece of information examines the performance of result when using Equals as against "=" operator.

Metadata Vs Manifest 

This article will describe the diffrence between metadata and manifest.

Search Engine Optimization 

SEO involves a great deal of learning – relearning - unlearning – learning again. Make sure you prepare a clear action plan and stick to it.

Dynamically updating pages content of your website 

If you are a webmaster or an administrator of the website, you must have came across a situation where you need to change the description or introduction of the page time to time or you need to add some extra lines or a special offers details based on the circumstances or importance of the page.

Dynamically writing Meta tags on Master page from a User Control or any other class file 

While developing web sites, you must have came across situations where you need to write Meta tags from the user control or any class files. At first look it seems very difficult but I think it is not that much.

How to implement Remoting in ASP.NET 

.NET Remoting provides a way for application in different machines/domains to communicate with each other. To make an object remotable that should be inherited by MarshalByRefObject.

Reading appSettings and connectionStrings from web.config file in asp.net 

In this tutorials, I am going to explain how to read appSettings and connectionStrings values from the web.config file.

Several Ways to populate DropDownList Controls 

There are several ways to populate DropDownList control. In this article I have tried to cover some of them including populating DropDownList manually, programmatically, through xml, database, arraylist, hashtable. I have also covered how to specify different background color of every items of the DropDownList and how to generate DropDownList on the fly. At last I have covered how to get its index, text and value properties.

Source control for stored procedures in SQL Server 2005 

.NET Developers working with Visual Studio 2005 IDE are well aware of the fact that source control for all the classes, pages, dlls can be integrated just by configuring source control in VS 2005 IDE.

Tracking Object (Table/Function/Stored Procedure etc.,) changes in SQL Server 2005 

DBAs often need to track the changes being made to the database objects such as tables, user-defined functions and stored procedures etc.,. Our team size was 10 and a couple of members were responsible for each of the modules. My requirement was to track the changes made to the stored procedures right from its creation. My earlier articles explained on how source control can be made available for new/existing stored procedures. If you have missed those articles please catch them up at, http://dotnetfunda.com/articles.