Explains how to work with ASP.NET user controls at run-time. User controls offer great flexibility than server-side includes (SSIs) by accessing the object model support provided by ASP.NET.

Explains how to store images to database and retrieve it later in some server control, like GridView.

Explains how to simulate hidden column in GridView control. GridView is one of the new controls in ASP.Net 2.0 that replaced the DataGrid. In earlier versions of .Net when you didn't want the data to be visible to the client, you simply set the Column visibility to False. But, if you try that with ASP.NET 2.0 GridView control, it will return only empty string.

Advanced use of Master Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 to achieve consistent look and feel of your web site. Master Pages enables us to apply the same page layout to multiple pages in a Web Application.

Explains how to use Tab keyboard key in different situations for both ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 Web applications.

Explains how to use Tab keyboard key in different situations for both ASP.NET 1.1 and ASP.NET 2.0 Web applications.

In this code sample we will take a look at how to use SCOPE_IDENTITY() in ASP.NET. We use this function to get new ID of inserted record from SQL database. .

With this paper we'll be creating an ASP.NET Web page that serves as a financial calculator. This paper will focus on building the ASP.NET Web page, with only a light discussion of the source code and Web controls used.

This Tips & Tricks video covers many useful techniques for enhancing ASP.NET 2.0 web sites using Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. Topics include encrypting sensitive information stored in web.config, maintaining the browser scroll position across postbacks, posting content to a different page, setting focus on a specific control when a page is loaded, creating a bulleted list of hyperlinks from an XML file, working with the file upload control, simplifying complex URLs using URL remapping, and using the MultiView control to switch between groups of content programmatically.

Datasets store a copy of data from the database tables. However, Datasets can not directly retrieve data from Databases. DataAdapters are used as a link between them. This tutorial explains how to manipulate data in database using DataSet and DataAdapter objects.