Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

Trolling the ASP.NET forums this afternoon I came across this thread about creating a custom httpHandler to log IP information to a database. What the requester was trying to do was call a remote site’s (www.ShowMyIP.com) REST API to get information about the visitor’s IP address, such as location and store it in the database. Unfortunately I ...

A very common issue that many new developers come into when using a DropDownList control is how to truly bind items to the list. A common problem that happens is they bind just the items or records from the list. This creates an issue when the user wants to select the first item in the list and there is an event handler for the ...

While for most sending an E-Mail message tends to be fairly trivial to seasoned .NET programmers, a new .NET programmer might find it a little mysterious. .NET has all this functionality wrapped up for us in the System.Net.Mail namespace to maange the sending of a message. There are classes for attachments, notification options, ...