ASP.NET 101

ASP.NET ViewState data is stored in a single Base64-encoded string  such as  this:
id=”__VIEWSTATE” value=”dDw3NDg2NdTI5MDg7Ozr4=”/>
Since this value is not formatted in clear text, developers sometimes assume that their ViewState data is encrypted which is most certainly not the case. This data string can be reverse-engineered this and then viewed. This is an obvious security issue [...]

State management is a perennial challenge for any web development framework – once a page is refreshed any data on the page (such as text already entered in textboxes) must be persisted using some method. Traditionally ASP.NET solves this problem using View State which inserts text directly into the html of the page which can then be [...]

After deploying application a proper troubleshooting policy should be ready in order to perform maintenance activity of our project life cycle. Here we will see different tools available from Microsoft within visual studio in order to manage, configure, debug and troubleshoot WCF service after deployment. Note that if you are unfamiliar with WCF, please read my WCF Tutorial .
WCF Tracing [...]

WCF was introduced to overcome the constraints of previous distributed technologies like ASP.NET Web Services, WSE, .NET Enterprise Services and .NET Remoting and to provide a performance boost in addition. For an introduction to WCF please read my first WCF article - WCF Tutorial .
Performance is a central goal for web or app site, expecially since Google now includes [...]

In this WCF tutorial we introduce the primary reasons for moving from other technologies to WCF as well as how to get started using WCF. Prior to .Net 3.0 it was not an easy matter to select a particular technology for communicating between systems due to the number of technologies available from Microsoft. For example, users [...]

The first choice to consider in selecting an ASP.NET Host is to select between Shared Hosting, VPS Hosting, and Dedicated Server Hosting:
ASP.NET Shared Hosting
(typical price $5 – $25 per month)
In shared hosting the web host allocates a portion of a server to your hosting plan. Typically you are given a fixed amount of disk space [...]

ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 has just been released and is now available for download here. Microsoft is now using Preview as the name for its early releases which roughly corresponds with the old CTP release type.
The first thing to not is that MVC 3 is backwards compatible with MVC  2, and can be installed [...]

ASP.NET Profile can also accept custom data types and they are relatively easy to implement
The first step is to create a class which wraps the information you require. In the class, you may use public member variables, but the preferred choice is full-fledged property procedures which will allow the  class to support data binding or other complex logic.
For [...]

ASP.NET Profiles were introduced to assist developers in persisting user information. Previous methods of persistence all had limitations in how they stored user data, Session state would only be held in memory and lost once the user’s session ended, a query-string would only be useful for that particular page and had to be [...]

ASP.NET Profiles are a very useful tool for  persisting user data. Most other methods of state management do not easily persist the data across user visits, but Profiles plug seamlessly into the ASP.NET Membership database to provide a convenient persistent store.
Defining Profile Properties
The first step to using Profiles is to defining them in the web.config file.  This is [...]