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
I store the connection strings for all three of my environments (development, test, production) in the “connectionstrings” section of web.config on most of my ASP.NET Web applications. When deploying the app to one of these environments, I either have to change a key called “Environment” in the appSettings section of web.config, or I can just … Read more