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The article explains the detailed steps of creating a designer supported postback-less custom control that will help to build your own.

Use HTTP Compression on ASP.NET 2.0 pages

When building a Web application, creating the DAL should be one of your first steps, occurring before you start creating your presentation layer. With Visual Studio, creating a DAL based on Typed DataSets is a task you can accomplish in 10-15 minutes.

When building a Web application, creating the DAL should be one of your first steps, occurring before you start creating your presentation layer. With Visual Studio, creating a DAL based on Typed DataSets is a task you can accomplish in 10-15 minutes.

How to compress the ViewState of ASP.NET pages and save bandwidth

Shows how to dynamically get the coordinates of the street address property and compute the exact Virtual Earth map tile, download and display in the control from memory. Supports aerial, road and hybrid images, image size, and zoom level.

Many portals collect user opinion by conducting polls. This sample application developed in ASP.NET 2.0 will show how to develop such an application. The administrator can manage poll questions using a web page (PollManager.aspx). The administrator can specify the start and end dates for which the poll remains active. The poll question along with voting options (Yes, No, Don't Know) are displayed to the end user (Default.aspx). The interesting part of the application is the graphical display of the poll results. The code uses System.Drawing classes to render bar graphs. The application uses SQL Server Express database to store the data.

In this installment of Advanced Basics Ted Pattison discusses the localization of Web sites in ASP.NET 2.0.

The MVP pattern helps you separate your logic and keep your UI layer free of clutter. This month learn how.

This article uses a generic collection as the data source for the Gridview. Some code is requried to get the sorting to work. There is an examples of using the pager template along with a simple Gridview printer.