This article demonstrates how to catch an exception raised by Oracle .NET provider. Oracle database can be accessed using OleDb or ODBC providers but these wouldn?t offer maximum performance. Microsoft released a new provider for Oracle.

There some of the common errors we come across when using crystal reports in Asp.net application.Cannot see the graphs created using crystal reports on the .aspx page amd System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object (Crystal Reports)

Modifying the Web.Config is made easy in ASP.NET 2.0 with Website Administration Tool (WAT). All you have to do is to deploy your application and ask the Administrators/Support professionals to use WAT and do the necessary modification. You don?t need to teach them any more about XML and your application will never crash for a configuration issue in web.config. Thanks to Microsoft for the WAT!

Unable to build project output group 'Content Files from (Active)? Where is the Name of ASP.NET project for which I am trying to create a setup.

Web Applications are accessed all over the world and to build a website or a web application that works in different machines, browsers and environments is very difficult. Imagine that your webmaster gets to know about the unhandled exceptions that users experience whenever they browse your Web site/Web Application.

Lets get to it right away.We will try to create an object (?) based on some URI (for example, http://www.citiadsonline.com) and check for the response code by calling that URI.

Here is an working example to understand the basic difference between Reference Types and value Types. On this topic, you might have read many articles and tried couple of example code as well. My idea is to present the difference, by using a Web form with options to see the values and reset the values of derived objects

Here is the complete code listing. In this example, think of an stock price class. This class takes 3 arguments in the constructor and will return a formatted (our choice of format) string. Most of us are very familiar with ToString() method. Most of the classes in .NET are having this method by default

In a situation where you want to display only few records (out of 2000 records!) and provide navigation links to display the rest (again by restricting to a certain number). This is a very common practice in displaying records in web pages along with the navigation links, numbered properly. This is not only increases the usability from the user's point of view, and also improve the response time.

Internet is nothing but Links! Everything is linked isn't it. Every page is having Links. In most the web pages links, are more than what your eyes can scan. For our own viewing purpose, let's sort them out in our own format with our own Simple Links Search Engine (web version) written in C#. As I mentioned on the Simple Links Search Engine web page, not all links may work after displaying the results. ...

In a situation where you have signed up with other service providers in order incorporate services like, PayPal and any other SMS gateways. The problem here is they accept only FORM submissions from your site (using appropriate pages). The problem with ASP.NET page is, we can have two FORM tags inside a single aspx. The default FORM is always with the attribute runat=server.

This article explains how to nest Data List control with the check box list controls, reading XML data source, building relation ship between data tables, dynamically passing data to the Check box list, Client-side java script to select the check box list and server side code to capture the selected check boxes.

Asp.net has come a long way from Asp on many facets, especially debugging. If you have work with ASP.net for a while and go back to work on ASP you would miss a lot of feature and debugging is the most you miss. Visual studio.net is an awesome IDE tool, allows you to step through the your server code, stored procedure and JavaScript too - Did you know this?

Caching is a programming technique to keep the data in memory for quick access. Each time the page is requested querying the database to retrieve the data would be an expensive process, especially if the data is not updated frequently. In this cases using caching has enormous performance gains.

Many a time the customers would be interested in the data itself rather than the look and feel of data. This is very true when there is a need to use the data downloaded as an input for other applications. The lowest and most compatible form of data would be Tab Delimited and the comma separated value format.

Exporting data to excel is one of the most common functionality of the web applications. Users would like to have the data in the excel format for various reasons, to name a few like data verification, further computations and for sharing with others.There are a number of ways to achieve this; in this tutorial we would see how to export the data to excel using the data grid.

With ASP we all know that uploading a file was quite a task but in ASP.net file upload is very simple. This tutorial quickly shows you how to upload a single file

This article proposes a way for integrating the enterprise applications through web interfaces. Since the web interfaces are widely available for many existing applications, the method may well reduce the cost of building an integration system with less time and get ride of the dependency on other resources.