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This article provides a step-by-step introduction on Localization in ASP.NET 2.0 using the Visual Studio 2005.

The AspLib ToolTip is an easy-to-use, professional on-line context help tool for ASP.NET applications that allows developers to easily add in-page help for end-users. The end user just sees an image or text and they see pop-up or window context help that explains a page element. The tips can localize themselves automatically using application culture settings. The built in ToolTip editor allows to create and edit helps easily. The ToolTip uses AJAX technology and help tips are displayed without the need to load anything from the server.

You may receive the error: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Access Denied when trying to access a Webservice from your ASP.NET Application. This article discusses on the resolution for the same.

WebResource (rumours and lies exposed): this is how you really do it.

This article lists the techniques that you can use to maximize the performance of your ASP.NET applications. It provides common issues, design guidelines, and coding tips to build optimal and robust solutions.

When creating ASP.NET 2.0 applications, developers commonly store sensitive configuration information in the Web.config file. The cannonical example is database connection strings, but other sensitive information included in the Web.config file can include SMTP server connection information and user credentials, among others. While ASP.NET is configured, by default, to reject all HTTP requests to resources with the .config extension, the sensitive information in Web.config can be compromised if a hacker obtains access to your web server's file system. For example, perhaps you forgot to disallow anonymous FTP access to your website, thereby allowing a hacker to simply FTP in and download your Web.config file. Eep.

Fortunately ASP.NET 2.0 helps mitigate this problem by allowing selective portions of the Web.config file to be encrypted, such as the section, or some custom config section used by your application. Configuration sections can be easily encrypted using code or aspnet_regiis.exe, a command-line program. Once encrypted, the Web.config settings are safe from prying eyes. Furthermore, when retrieving encrypted congifuration settings programmatically in your ASP.NET pages, ASP.NET will automatically decrypt the encrypted sections its reading. In short, once the configuration information in encrypted, you don't need to write any further code or take any further action to use that encrypted data in your application.

In this article we'll see how to programmatically encrypt and decrypt portions of the configuration settings and look at using the aspnet_regiis.exe command-line program. We'll then evaluate the encryption options ASP.NET 2.0 offers. There's also a short discussion on how to encrypt configuration information in ASP.NET version 1.x.

Silence may be golden, but increasingly, applications, appliances, and other automated systems are acquiring the ability to speak. You can take advantage of text-to-speech technology to voice-enable your .NET applications.

In this screencast available here we take a look at one of the new features of ASP 2.0 called Themes and Skins. A theme is a collection of property settings that allow a Web page to define a common look and for pages and controls. Themes are made up of elements: skins, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), images and other defined resources.
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ASP.NET 2.0 brings enhanced performance and many new features that make the web developer's life easier. Alex Homer takes you through what's new.

An article on how to zip the output stream of an ASP.NET page.