External Resources for ASP.NET Developer

General ASP.NET Resources

Update Multiple Records at Once in ASP.NET Application

• Inserting multiple records at once with the ASP.NET DataGrid control (Part One)
• Inserting multiple records at once with the ASP.NET DataGrid control (Part Two)
• Update Multiple Records with the DataGrid, DataList and Repeater

Free ASP/ASP.NET Google Sitemap Generator

• Google Sitemaps Code Snippets in ASP
• Google Sitemaps for ASP.NET 2.0

ASP.NET 2.0 Resources

ASP.NET 2.0 Framework

• Download the .NET Framework 2.0

ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Database

• Configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Application Services to use SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005
• Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile
• ASP.NET SQL Server Registration Tool (Aspnet_regsql.exe)
• How to Configure Your ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Database

ASP.NET 2.0 Forms Authentication

• How To: Use Forms Authentication with SQL Server in ASP.NET 2.0

Microsoft Report Viewer Control

• Download Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005
• Microsoft Report Viewer Sample Codes and Resources Site
• Deploy Microsoft Report Viewer Control As Local Assembly in Shared Hosting Servers
• Report Viewer Control Community Forum
• Microsoft ReportViewer Documentation

Development Tools

Free Development Tools - Microsoft Web Visual Developer 2005 Express Edition

Designed for the unique needs of the new Web Developer, Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition provides a fun, easy to use, easy to learn tool for building dynamic Web applications.

• Overview
• Feature Tour

ASP.NET Shopping Cart System

• Free Open Source PayPal-enabled eCommerce Starter Kit
• Free ASP Shopping Cart - Comerus Cart
• Other Shopping Carts

ASP.NET Forum Software

• Community Server is the award winning platform for rapidly enabling online communities and includes all the integrated tools, such as discussion forums, email lists, newsgroups, weblogs (blogs), file galleries, content management, and more to help enable you to create your community presence quickly and easily!
• Yet Another Forum.net is a opensource discussion forum or bulletin board system for web sites running ASP.NET. It is ASP.NET based with a MS SQL backend database. The full C# source code is available licensed as GPL.

ASP.NET 2.0 Articles

• Encrypting Connection Strings in Web.config

ASP.NET Performance

• Keep Sites Running Smoothly By Avoiding These 10 Common ASP.NET Pitfalls: Here are 10 of the pitfalls that litter the path to releasing your production ASP.NET applications, and what you can do to avoid them.