Creating a Library of Common ASP.NET 2.0 Functions -- Visual Studio Magazine

Creating a Library of Common ASP.NET 2.0 Functions

Build a library of common ASP.NET 2.0 functions that will help you maintain and secure your Web sites.

By Robert Boedigheimer
06/01/2006

Listen to the audio and watch the slides! (Running time: 1 hour)

Have you ever seen the "Object Reference Not Set" exception? Or tried to track down its cause in a production system? Discover some common functions that provide safe coding practices and simplify your search for the causes of null references. For example, you can use VerifyTables to validate the expected tables and rows that are present in a dataset before you use it. Learn how you can leverage a generic function that will enable or disable all controls on a Web page for a given type, or utilize callbacks to provide other processing. Plus, implement QueryString tamper proofing for more secure Web sites.

About the Author

Robert Boedigheimer has been designing and developing Web sites for the past 18 years including the early days of ASP and ASP.NET. He is a columnist for aspalliance.com, a Pluralsight author, an ASP.NET MVP and a third degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.

Printable Format

comments powered by Disqus

Featured

Visual Studio 2026 Gives Copilot Built-In Skills -- and Makes Them Prove Their Worth

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the additional token use.
Copilot AI Billing Shock Met with Meters, Caps and Token-Saving Tools

GitHub is layering spending limits, expanded credit allowances and increasingly granular usage reporting onto Copilot, while Microsoft is reworking Visual Studio and VS Code to expose -- and reduce -- the cost of agentic development.
The AI-Powered Software Development Lifecycle

René van Osnabrugge makes the case that AI's biggest opportunity in software development is not faster coding -- it's reducing the friction everywhere else in the SDLC.
Copilot Usage-Based Billing Gets a Token Dashboard

Microsoft is keeping Visual Studio's new built-in Agent Skills switched off by default while a public dashboard measures whether their performance gains justify the additional tokens they may consume.