RSS (Rich Site Summary) news feeds are easily consumed and displayed in an ASP.NET web forms page using no more than a few lines of codes. However, listing the RSS news feed links in this fashion can take up considerable page space. Instead, it would be more convenient to display them in a small embedded window that automatically scrolls them to the user. This method substantially reduces the page real estate devoted to the news feed, while displaying the same information in a compact, attractive, and intuitive manner. Once you have developed a method for displaying RSS news in this format, it would be still more convenient to implement the method as a custom control that you can add to any ASP.NET web forms page with just a few lines of code. This article shows you how. In this article, you will learn how to create the illusion of continuous seamless scrolling by: 1) using two datagrids to display the same listing; and 2) scrolling the entire total list, but then repeating the scrolling when it has passed over the first list.

Take advantage of inheritance in the .NET Framework to extend ASP.NET classes to make them generate ASP.NET code that is fully accessible to people with disabilities.

Out of the box, ASP.NET is a very powerful platform for writing XML Web Services. But what happens when you need to format the XML to match an existing XML grammar? Not surprisingly, this can be accomplished using the XML Serialization Engine. In the first part of this two-part article, Justin Rudd shows you the basics of the engine as well as how the engine works with ASP.NET.

This paper looks at some of the specific benefits you can achieve in migrating applications from ASP, and presents five distrinct strategies for a migration, based on its perceived strategic value and your desired timeframe for results. A scorecard with key questions about your migration allows you to quickly arrive at an initial estimate of a migration's complexity. Finally, it outlines the major activities involved in the four phases of a migration project.

This article discusses the importance of security considerations when designing a server application. Both Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) and ASP.NET provide security models that will allow you to authenticate your users appropriately and obtain the correct security context within your application.

Extend the existing globalization capabilities of .Net to create flexible and powerful multilgual web sites. First create a custom ResourceManager and then create custom localized-capable server controls to easily deploy multilingual functionality.

With a solid foundation created in Part 1, we now turn our attention to more advanced topics. We’ll use context rewriting for some professional looking and hassle free state-management, talk about good database design with respect to multilingual applications, and dive into more advanced Localized controls for ultimate flexibility and productivity.

ASP.Net's introduction of the web.config file went a long way to filling the configuration hole we had to deal with in classic ASP. We actually went from having very little (global.asa was the closest thing) to a well-structured, change on the fly XML file. For the most part, the web.config file does the trick fine. However there are some limitations and constraints with using it, which you are probably already aware of. What you might not know is how easy is it to surmount those issues by creating a far more flexible alternative.

How to create a cookie, how to get the value stored in a cookie, set the lifetime, path and domain for a cookie, edit a cookie, delete a cookie, remove subkeys from a cookie...

Demonstrates how to use custom validation on a form by checking to see if a string in a TextBox is not the same with a string from an array (or database), case in which it displays 'This name is already taken'.