There are a lot of different entities crawling around your web applications in the wild, including web browsers, web crawlers, web spiders, web bots, and automated scripts. Determining the difference
LINQ is one of the most popular Microsoft technologies for reading and writing to SQL Server databases. LINQ to SQL builds upon LINQ technology to allow working with business objects, generated from t
The following is a fix for an issue with slow queries in DbLinq when using MySql. The problem causes very slow MySQL queries when using LINQ to SQL with DbLinq, and displays a list of ArgumentExceptio
Redirecting a user after login to a C# ASP .NET web application is a common feature found in most web applications. It’s also quite common to have multiple types of users logging into the ASP .NET web
Sooner or later many web sites realize they need to allow users to login to their C# ASP .NET web applications. This can be as a result of web application functionality, feature restrictions, or simpl
With the latest release of C# ASP .NET 3.5, Visual Studio 2008, and LINQ, there is a whole new way of working with the data layer in C# ASP .NET web applications. Prior to LINQ, many developers would
The State Pattern is an interesting design pattern in that it allows us to separate out portions of code into individual related modules, or states. This pattern is particularly useful for application
C# ASP .NET has a setting in the web.config file which allows selecting the desired session timeout. When the session timeout value expires, the currently logged in user’s session is deleted and the u
The Iterator design pattern provides us with a common method of enumerating a list of items or array, while hiding the details of the list’s implementation. This provides a cleaner use of the array ob
The strategy design pattern is a useful pattern for pulling out frequently changing pieces of code and encapsulating them within individual classes. The strategy pattern allows us to reference these n