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

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

Best Practices to Improve ASP.Net Web Application Performance. 

[B]Introduction[/B] Performance tuning can be tricky. It's especially tough in Internet-related projects with lots of components running around, like HTML client, HTTP network, Web server, middle-tier components, database components, resource-management components, TCP/IP networks, and database servers. Performance tuning depends on a lot of parameters and sometimes, by changing a single parameter, performance can increase drastically.

Metadata Vs Manifest 

This article will describe the diffrence between metadata and manifest.

Inserting, Updating, Deleting and Paging records using ListView controls 

ListView control is a new control added into ASP.NET 3.5. It enables you to display data in a format specified by you using templates and styles. It is useful for data in any repeating structure just like DataList and Repeater controls. However, unlike those controls ListView control enable you to edit, insert, delete, sort, paginate data without any extra effort.

Working with LINQ to SQL Classes and LinqDataSource Controls 

As you all know LINQ (Language Integrated Query) is the new way to communicate with database that has been introduced in .NET Framework 3.5. In this article, I am going to explain you how to work with LINQ to SQL Classes and LinqDataSource control. For this, you will need .NET Framework 3.5, Visual Web Developer 2008, and SqlServer Express Database.

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.

Updating, Deleting records using GridView control 

In this article, I am going to explain how to manipulate data using GridView control. This article scope is limited to Updating and Deleting records using GridView and I am not using any readymade Data controls for that but manually writing all event methods. I will be using Sql objects directly into methods to keep the example simple and straight forward. In practical scenario you should use your existing architecture to populate and update the data.

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.

4-Tier Architecture in ASP.NET with C# 

[B][I]Code Updated on 21st April 2008 to support Sorting, Paging and data manipulation through Stored Procedure in DAL[/I][/B] Almost all of us must have heard about 3-Tier architecture but what is this 4-Tier architecture? What are the benefits and how it is different from other architectures?

Creating/Setting properties of User Control in ASP.NET 

You might have came across a situation where you need to pass a value from your .aspx page to the user control (.ascx). This is possible in several ways including storing values into session or database and again retrieving at the user controls. However, the easiest and optimized way is to create a properties of the user control and set it into the .aspx page and access it from the user control.

Change theme dynamically without page refresh in ASP.NET 

You must have noticed one link in yahoo.com, msn.com or other popular websites named "Page Options". When you click this link you get a popup displaying different small several color icons. After clicking one of these icons your page theme changes without entire page refresh. Now you are able to see the same page with different look and feel.

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.

Splitting string in C# 

Here is a very simple example of how to split a string delimited with a particular character or string. I know this is very simple to do but I have find many people struggling in doing that. Attached code also demonstrate how to use StringBuilder, Foreach loop, Regex etc.

Generating Ms Excel file from GridView with ASP.NET and C# 

I was having one requirement of giving an option to the user to generate the Ms Excel sheet from the report that was given to the user in GridView. Initially it seems difficult but when I worked around, I found really easy way to do that.

Generating Ms Word document in ASP.NET and C# 

It is very frequntly asked question in any of the forum or question-answer section on websites. So I decided to write a very compact article with source code. It is as simple as 123.