February 10, 2003

If you install the .NET Framework on a system that has IIS already installed, IIS is automatically configured to handle requests to ASP.NET pages, and to redirect the execution to the ASP.NET runtime. However, it may happen that you installed the framework on a Windows 2000 Professional system where IIS

Urls that you set in user-control’s child controls are relative to the user control’s directory, not to the host page’s directory. Say for example that you have an user-control located under the /UserControls directory, and the host page under the / root directory. The user-control exposes a custom public property

‘ This function takes in input a base url and an array of parameter names and ‘ values (in the form: param1, value1, param2, value2, etc.),’ and returns the final url with all the parameters in the querystring’ Example:’ Dim url As String = BuildUrlWithQueryString(“Test.aspx”, “Param1”, “Value1”, ‘ “Param2”, 123,

Sessions management consumes server’s resources and memory, thus, if you don’t use them in your application, you should disable them to improve performances. You can disable sessions for the entire application by setting to False the mode attribute in the web.config’s tag, as follows: If you generally need session variables,

Many data entry forms have one or more text fields that the user should fill with a date value. Many sites have a button near these fields that when clicked pops up a new small window with a calendar, to help the user select the date. When the user clicks