Category Archives: asp.net
Setup POST REST Webservice with ASP.net and VB.net
Post Add new REST Service into existing ASP.net web application shows how to setup a REST Service to GET data from the Webservice. Typically you also want to write some data back to the server, e.g. when you create a new record you should send a POST request. Here is a description how to do […]
Add new REST Service into existing ASP.net web application
If you want to create a new webservice, you might use the new de-facto standard REST instead of previous solutions from Microsoft like SVC or ASMX. So here are some helpful information if you want to add your first REST Webservice into an existing ASP.net application.
Logging extended Properties to Azure SQL with Enterprise Library 6
As written in my previous posts I’m currently playing around with migrating an application to MS Azure. This includes the migration from Enterprise Library 5 to Enterprise Library 6. And as it’s Azure, logging could not be done to the file system. I played around with semantic logging for a while, but unsuccessfully. So now […]
No cross database joins in Microsoft Azure SQL
As written in my previous blog post, I’ve migrated a database from MS SQL Server to Azure SQL. This worked quite fine. But now I wondered why one of my stored procedures does not work anymore….
Tags with autocomplete in asp.net textbox
My last posting showed how to use jQueryUI autocomplete with some individual formatting and an image. Now I have a similar request: I want to build an input for tags (or tokens). It should also provide suggestions from a backend using autocomplete (so that’s similar to previous posting) but the returned list does not need […]
Autocomplete in asp.net with images and formatting
Before jQuery, I used AJAX Control Toolkit and I liked it as it contained lots of helpful widgets. With jQuery there are now much more options how to implement something. Today I searched for something like the autocomplete so you could type in the first letters and then get some proposals. We all know this […]
Create a Recommendation box similar to LinkedIn using asp.net
If you are a member of LinkedIn (like me) you probably know the recommendation box at the upper right. It shows you some people you might know (according to LinkedIns algorithms). I like this plugin because it’s easy to use. As I needed to add a similar functionality to a new project I’ve investigated a […]
Use Toast Notification popups in asp.net
jQuery has some wonderful toast notification popups. In some of my web projects they are really helpful, but I did not find an easy general solution how to add them into all of my asp.net pages. Sure there are commercial solutions e.g. from Telerik but as long as you don’t need the other included stuff […]