JSON stands for Javascript Object Notation and this is the new lightweight (then XML) standart for transferring data from one point to another over the network. Here you can find a sample web page codebehind to see usage in C#. Static methods in ‘Functions‘ class Happy codings…
SiteMapPath Url Querystring problem
When you are using the SiteMapPath control page Urls with the querystrings, pages don't show the control. Because url can't be matched with url in your Web.Sitemap file. To handle this situation, a little web.sitemap file trick is enough. Write the static part of your Url and define the dynamic querystring parameters at "reliantOn" attribute. […]
Timespan and Databases
When you are developing application you may need to store timespan database. (Assuming you are using Sql Server 2005) TimeSpan.TotalSeconds can be used to store. This returns a double. And maps to decimal data type of the sql server. For reverse action to get the time span you can use TimeSpan.FromSeconds method. This will give […]
Converting a List of Inherited Type to a List of Base type
For example you have a base class and a class that inherits it like below. And you have generic list of these types. Then if you want to convert List<B> to List<A> You can use this code block: Happy coding.
How to use overloaded methods with ASP.NET Web Services
In .NET world it’s very common to write methods with same name but different parameters. This is called overloading. And if you use this technique wisely you can prevent some code repetation. But in the web services world of .net its not allowed by default. If you try you get an exception says : “Bla, […]
Problem with classes under App_Code folder in VS 2008
We are developing a new ASP.NET web application in Visual studio 2008. Last week we’ve decided to use HttpHandlers instead of some web pages. And as we used to do in Visual Studio 2005 web sites created an App_code folder after that we created new classes under that folder. Then we noticed that there is […]
Access to Session State from Http Handler
Sometimes you need to use Http handlers to respond to requests rather than classical asp.net pages. At that times if you want to use session objects you will see that HttpContext.Current.Session is null. If you want to read session state from you http handler your http handler must implement System.Web.SessionState.IReadOnlySessionState interface. If you want to […]
Anti XSS Library Decode Method
If you are using Anti XSS Library, you’ve noticed that it doesn’t have any decoding methods. It is because library aims preventing XSS attacks. If you want to decode your content you can use Server.HtmlDecode method. Do not re-write the code that already written. 🙂 Cross Site Scription
Culture ‘tr’ is a neutral culture. It cannot be used in formatting and parsing and therefore cannot be set as the thread’s current culture.
You get this error, when you use neutral culture name to set culture of the application. 1 System.Globalization.CultureInfo ci = new System.Globalization.CultureInfo("tr"); 2 System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = ci; 3 System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture = ci; To prevent this error you can use explicit culture name like "tr-TR" or use the code below: 1 System.Globalization.CultureInfo ci = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CreateSpecificCulture("tr"); Happy coding.
LINQ Notepad: LINQPad
You can query your database with modern query language LINQ. I think SQL Server Management Studio need this functionalty built-in. Tool is free for now. Yo can download from this link: http://www.linqpad.net/