Archive for August, 2008

Have you ever wanted to add a text string, like an application name, to the title of all your web pages. It’s easy to do using the control adapters available in ASP.NET 2.0 and later. First, create a new .browser file in the App_Browsers folder of your application, or add this entry to an existing [...]

Frankly, it’s always a pain to create ASP.NET machine keys for each of your web applications. I’ve written a little helper app that creates the <machineKey> section for your web.config file for you, with options for various encryption and validation algorithms. Special thanks go to Ben Strackany, who’s article ASP.NET: MachineKey Generator I used as [...]

I’ve posted an update to the Partial Authentication System that fixes the following minor bugs: Fixed bug where PartialAuthentication properties weren’t always initialized after application reload Fixed bug where invalid authentication tickets were raising exception instead of ignoring them You can download the new source code and binaries here: Partial Authentication System 1.0.1.1 Source and [...]

One of the great features of LINQ that DataSets didn’t support well is the ability to use enumerations for your columns instead of integers. It can make writing and working with your code a lot easier. This is accomplished by manually setting the Type of the column to the type of the enumeration in the [...]