Virtual-Essential's DotNetNuke, .NET, and SQL Tips For the Developer

With the help of the .NET framework, it is simple to download files via FTP sessions programmatically. In this example, I am going to download a stylesheet from my FTP directory and display it in the console window. You'll see how easy it is to begin using FTP in your programs.

If you are working on a project in Visual Studio and are presented with the error: Name 'ConfigurationManager' is not declared you can easily resolve the error with a couple mouse clicks.

...But, if you want to create a drop down list instead of a textbox in the gridview you can easily do this. Click on the smart tag for the gridview and go to click on "Edit Columns". Find the column that you want to change from a textbox and click on "Convert this field into a TemplateField".  Close the box and return to the smart tag options and click on "Edit Templates" Any columns that you have turned into templateFields will show up as on option in the new view (you may have to click on the smart tag again). Each templated column will have a view for the Item {read only/default view}, Edit {what you see when the grid view is in edit mode...you can make things read only, or invisible here if you don't want them to be seen in edit mode}, also templates for Insert {insert view of the gridview insert mode}, the Footer and Header also.

While surfing the web, I found the most useful little snippet of code that can help quickly troubleshoot and track down session and application variables. Just throw the code on an .aspx page and view in browser while you have your application running. A little F5 here and there and you can easily keep up with what's going on with your session and application level variables.

It doesn't take long for a web.config file to get large and hard to read. But, there is one thing you can do to make managing multiple connection string a snap. Best of all, you can do this in less than 60 seconds.