Getting your content and master pages to work side-by-side is easy, thanks to UpdatePanel.
Unhandled runtime errors hit the best of us. But if you catch them at the Page and Application levels, you'll save yourself a lot of grief.
Putting updateable controls in the ItemTemplate in a GridView gives developers what they want: the ability for users to change more than one row at a time. The cost is writing some extra code.
Peter provides an alternative to the default mechanism for accessing connection string -- and plugs his next book.
Want to make life easier for your users? NET 3.5 SP1's routing technology has some extra features to let you do just that.
You can use ASP.NET Routing to decode meaningful URLs into real physical path names.
New for ASP.NET developers with .NET 3.5 SP1 is routing, an easy way to simplify site maintenance -- and give meaning to your users' lives.
After using EF to drive a series of drop-down lists, Peter moves on to the next step: using EF to build a Master/Detail page.
What's one test of a new technology? Seeing whether you can use it with the old technology.
To support a real page, your entity model is going to need multiple entities and associations between them. Here's how to add them.
Peter begins to explore the usability of Dynamic Data and Entity Framework by adding the simplest possible data model to his application.
What's in SP1 for ASP.NET developers? At least one bug fix, a couple of enhancements and -- perhaps -- something that will change your life. But Peter is suspicious.
Peter shows you how to make a Master-Detail page that will work right and save your users a lot of grief.
Peter stumps for the Cache, despite developers' worries over stale or lost data.
The ASP.NET Cache object could be the secret to speeding up your application if you just started using it more.