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This article presents my views and advice on how best to handle exceptions in an ASP.NET application.

The first installment in this article series showed some simple examples of plotting chart data. This article delves into more intricate examples, showing how to plot database data, data from an XML file, and data from other types of data sources.

While the Microsoft Chart Controls have some rough edges, their cost (free), number of chart types, and array of supported charting features make them an excellent choice for adding charts to an ASP.NET web application. This article, the first in a series of articles on the Chart Controls, shows how to download, install, and get started using the Microsoft Chart Controls.

This article shows how to implement incremental navigation, which is a style of navigation where users find information by clicking through a series of lightweight pages, with each click resulting in a small, but highly visible change to the navigation user interface. It differs from traditional drop-down menu navigation in that incremental navigation limits the amount of new choices available to just the next level in the sitemap hierarchy.

This article provides an overview of JSONs rules and illustrates how it is used in AJAX-enabled web applications. Well also look at using the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX framework's JavaScriptSerializer class, which facilitates serializing and deserializing JSON-formatted messages on the client in JavaScript or in C# or Visual Basic code on the server.

Until recently, there was no built-in support for creating or consuming syndication feeds in the.NET Framework. That changed with the release of the.NET Framework version 3.5, which included a new namespace: System.ServiceModel.Syndication.

This new namespace includes a handful of classes for working with syndication feeds. As aforementioned, syndication feeds are XML files, and for the syndication feed to be of any use it must conform to one of the popular syndication feed standards. The two most popular syndication feed standards are RSS 2.0 and Atom 1.0, and these are the standards supported by the classes in the codeSystem.ServiceModel.Syndication namespace. But there is a third format that, while not as popular as RSS 2.0 or Atom 1.0, is still used. That standard is RSS 1.0./?p

The good news is that with a little bit of work we can create a class that works with the RSS 1.0 standard and have this class used by the syndication feed-related classes in the.NET Framework 3.5 can be. This article introduces a free library, skmFeedFormatters, which you can use in an ASP.NET 3.5 application to create and consume RSS 1.0 feeds.

Starting with ASP.NET 3.5 SP 1, the ScriptManager control in the ASP.NET AJAX Framework includes functionality for creating history points in an AJAX-enabled web page. Adding a history point creates an entry in the browser's history for a particular page state.

This article shows how to add history points using the ScriptManager control. In particular, it shows how to record history points whenever the user pages or sorts a GridView.

For those of you who have been sitting on the sideline waiting for "Orcas" to ship before you take a look at the new features in ASP.NET 3.5, it's time for you to get in the game.

ASP.NET's new ListView control provides template-based layout for both display and CRUD database operations, making it an extremely way to build data-centric Web applications.

Single sign-on using ASP.NET Forms authentication is not a new topic. If you Google it, you’ll find a fair amount of articles talking about it. However, it does not appear to be easy enough to get a clear picture when you try to implement it. The concepts and implementation details are often scattered around, which requires adequate efforts to put pieces together. In this article, I’ll try to summarize my understandings through literature study as well as my own practice, and hope to make it easy for you if you ever need to implement it.