ASP.NET MVC Tutorials

Users and Roles On The Production Website

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 9 Jun 2009

The ASP.NET Website Administration Tool (WSAT) provides a web-based user interface for configuring Membership and Roles settings and for creating, editing, and deleting users and roles. Unfortunately, the WSAT only works when visited from localhost, meaning that you cannot reach the production website's Administration Tool through your browser. The good news is that there are workarounds that make it possible to manage users and roles on production. This tutorial looks at these workarounds and others.
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Precompiling Your Website

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 9 Jun 2009

Visual Studio offers ASP.NET developers two types of projects: Web Application Projects (WAPs) and Web Site Projects (WSPs). One of the key differences between the two project types is that WAPs must have the code explicitly compiled prior to deployment whereas the code in a WSP can be automatically compiled on the web server. However, it is possible to precompile a WSP prior to deployment. This tutorial explores the benefits of precompilation and shows how to precompile a website from within Visual Studio and from the command line.
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Logging Error Details with ELMAH

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 9 Jun 2009

Error Logging Modules And Handlers (ELMAH) offers another approach to logging runtime errors in a production environment. ELMAH is a free, open source error logging library that includes features like error filtering and the ability to view the error log from a web page, as an RSS feed, or to download it as a comma-delimited file. This tutorial walks through downloading and configuring ELMAH.
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Logging Error Details with ASP.NET Health Monitoring

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 9 Jun 2009

Microsoft's health monitoring system provides an easy and customizable way to log various web events, including unhandled exceptions. This tutorial walks through setting up the health monitoring system to log unhandled exceptions to a database and to notify developers via an e-mail message.
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Processing Unhandled Exceptions

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 9 Jun 2009

When a runtime error occurs on a web application in production it is important to notify a developer and to log the error so that it may be diagnosed at a later point in time. This tutorial provides an overview of how ASP.NET processes runtime errors and looks at one way to have custom code execute whenever an unhandled exception bubbles up to the ASP.NET runtime.
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Displaying a Custom Error Page

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 9 Jun 2009

What does the user see when a runtime error occurs in an ASP.NET web application? The answer depends on how the website's <customErrors> configuration. By default, users are shown an unsightly yellow screen proclaiming that a runtime error has occurred. This tutorial shows how to customize these settings to display an aesthetically-pleasing custom error page that matches your site's look and feel.
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Validation with the Data Annotation Validators

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Friday, 29 May 2009

Take advantage of the Data Annotation Model Binder to perform validation within an ASP.NET MVC application. Learn how to use the different types of validator attributes and work with them in the Microsoft Entity Framework.
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How do I use the HTML Editor Control?

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 12 May 2009

HTMLEditor is an ASP.NET AJAX Control that allows you to easily create and edit HTML content via buttons in a toolbar.
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Creating a Custom AJAX Control Toolkit Control Extender

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Custom Extenders enable you to customize and extend the capabilities of ASP.NET controls without having to create new classes.
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Using AJAX Control Toolkit Controls and Control Extenders

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Learn how to add AJAX Control Toolkit controls and extenders to your ASP.NET pages.
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Get Started with the AJAX Control Toolkit

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 12 May 2009

Learn all you need to know to get started using the AJAX Control Toolkit.
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How do I use the ComboBox Control?

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 12 May 2009

ComboBox is an ASP.NET AJAX control that combines the flexibility of a TextBox with a list of options from which users can choose.
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Using the ColorPicker Control Extender

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Tuesday, 12 May 2009

ColorPicker is an ASP.NET AJAX extender that provides client-side color-picking functionality with UI in a popup control . It can be attached to any ASP.NET TextBox control. It.
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Strategies for Database Development and Deployment

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Thursday, 23 Apr 2009

When deploying a data-driven application for the first time you can blindly copy the database in the development environment to the production environment. But performing a blind copy in subsequent deployments will overwrite any data entered into the production database. Instead, deploying a database involves applying the changes made to the development database since the last deployment onto the production database. This tutorial examines these challenges and offers various strategies to assist with chronicling and applying the changes made to the database since the last deployment.
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Configuring a Website that Uses Application Services

ASP.NET MVC Tutorials — Thursday, 23 Apr 2009

ASP.NET version 2.0 introduced a series of application services, which are part of the .NET Framework and serve as a suite of building block services that you can use to add rich functionality to your web application. This tutorial explores how to configure a website in the production environment to use application services and addresses common issues with managing user accounts and roles on the production environment.
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