Sometimes we need to add a static item to the top of DropDownList web control, such as "-- Please select --" or any other text. This static item will be removed and replaced with the items that comes from the data source you are using after calling DataBind() method. To keep the static item you are...
We were working on a database which has a column for storing an image path. The path has been changed and we need now to update that column with the new path. Please find below a simple SQL update statement that replaces text, you may use it with any column that has type of char,...
As we all know that the default max file size that the FileUpload control is using is 4 MB.I was trying to upload a file using FileUpload control provided in ASP.NET but the file size was larger than 4 MB so I was not be able to upload the file.I had to change the...
Did you know that String functions StartsWith and EndsWith are case-sensitive even in VB.NET? You will need to make sure you are looking for the correct string, since 'abc' with case-sensitivity is different than 'ABC'. So, if your function is looking for 'abc', you must make sure that you make adjustments to the string, in...
In this post we are going to know how to generate barcode images using C#.NET native classes. You will not need a third-party tool or external DLL library in order to achieve this. As we all know that barcodes depends on fonts, there are plenty of them used for barcodes. The most famous font for...
Sometimes you may want to get rid of all the open connections to a database for many reasons. One of the reasons could be delete the database or detach the database in order to move it to another server. But you will not be able to do that if there are connections open with this...
Configuration inheritance is a very good feature of ASP.NET. It allows you to set configuration settings in the Web.config file of a parent application and have it automatically be applied to all of its child applications. But sometimes you do not want the child applications to inherit the configuration from its parent application, so you...
There are lots of XSL templates out there that get a human readable path to a node. But none of them cover the case when there are more than one node of the same element at the same level. Please find below the code that get XPath of an XML node: <xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"> <xsl:output...
In this post we are going to know how to write a text to an image using C#.NET. It was required in one of the projects that we were working on, the ability to write a dynamic string that would be entered by the user to an image. Please find below the code that write...
We were using lately the login controls for ASP.NET in a website we are working on it. We discovered a bug or we can call it limitation in the password recovery web control. We used to use the membership provider and login controls, but we did not face this problem before since we were...
