One of the hardest things for me to find coherent information on has been how to set up spell checking for multi-line TextBoxes on ASP.NET forms. In my search, I came across Hunspell, an open source spell checker that is widely used in applications such as OpenOffice. To set up Hunspell for use in your … Read more
In ASP.NET, there are four ways to store Session State. The way I prefer to store it is using SQL Server. However, instead of storing it in the ASPstate database, which is the default way to store it on SQL Server, I choose to store it in the application database, which is a “custom SQL … Read more
The biggest project I’ve worked on in the past year involved building almost all of the ASP.NET controls for a page programmatically in the code-behind and putting them into a Placeholder, rather than declaring them in the markup file. Many ASP.NET controls are relatively easy to build this way. Buttons, TextBoxes, Labels, DropDownLists, even SqlDataSources … Read more