Sandor Korozsi’s linkblog

"Web applications are by nature stateless. Statelessness is both an advantage and a disadvantage. When resources are not being consumed by maintaining connections and state, scalability is tremendously improved. But the lack of state reduces functionality severely. Ecommerce applications require state to be maintained as the user navigates from page to page. ASP.NET’s Session object makes it easy for developers to maintain state in a Web application. State can be maintained in-process, in a session state server, or in SQL Server… "

DBAzine.com: ASP.NET Session State Management Using SQL Server

Using SQL Server for ASP.Net session state

Feature List:

• 100% C# ASP.NET
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005 database support.
• User configurable cultures. See dates and numbers the way you are used to.
• All dates and times in local time zone for registered users.
• Unlimited number of categories, forums and messages.
• Includes private messaging and private messaging notification features.
• Possibility to hide forums when user has no access.
• Unlimited user groups, with option to automatically promote users based on number of posts.
• Access rights based on groups.
• Polls can be added to posts.
• Administrators can mass email to all users or specific group.
• Template for easy integration with your current site design.
• Web based administration.
• Member list.
• Move topics to other forums.
• Active topics list.
• Active users list.
• Print topics.
• Email topics.
• Setup moderators with the ability to moderate topics, posts and users signatures.
• Watch forums or topics for new posts.
• View and delete subscriptions from the user control panel.
• Change password in control panel.
• Recover lost passwords.
• Supports smileys/emoticons.
• Quick and easy installation.
• IP banning.
• Points for points system.
• Multiple boards support.
• Comes with many themes to choose from.
• Supports common "Rich Text Editors" including FreeTextBox and FCKEditor.

"SubversionSharp is a C# wrapper that fully covers the client API of Subversion SCM. Easy access to the Subversion API is provided without any compromise on functionality. This library is the starting point to easily integrate Subversion repositories in any .NET managed software. These C# bindings for Subversion has been written for portability and performances. This library is now available for both Mono/Linux and .NET/Windows environments."

Ivan Uzunov Blog » Blog Archive » Create High Quality Thumbnails with .NET

"UrlRewriter.NET is an open-source, light-weight, highly configurable URL rewriting component for ASP.NET 1.1 and 2.0. UrlRewriter.NET provides similar IIS Rewrite capabilities that the Apache web server provides with mod_rewrite and .htaccess. You don’t need to install an ISAPI Rewrite filter to use the component.

UrlRewriter.NET is a great Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool. Using UrlRewriter.NET, you can create URL’s containing your target keywords, boosting your rankings.

With UrlRewriter.NET, you can:

• Rewrite URL’s from “user and Search Engine” friendly urls to the actual .aspx pages (also known as URL Masking, IIS RewriteASP Rewrite) or
• Redirect from old URL patterns to the new ones, ensuring the Search Engine spiders continue to follow your links (also known as URL Replace)
• Block certain visitors based on the User-Agent - very helpful for blocking crawlers that don’t obey the robots.txt protocol
• Ban users based on IP range (provides the capabilities of mod_rewrite on IIS)
• And much more…

UrlRewriter.NET is a pure .NET component written in C#, and does not require any ISAPI rewrite dll’s to be installed in IIS. You configure rules in a very readable XML format, either in your web.config file or an external rewriter configuration file."

"With PostSharp, you can develop custom attributes that change your code. And you can do more!

PostSharp is a post-compiler: an open platform for analysis and transformations of .NET assemblies after compilation.

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) or Policy Injection are two of the major applications, but only two of them.

PostSharp Laos is a high-level aspect weaver that makes aspect-oriented programming (AOP) extremely easy. But Laos is only an illustration of the complete Platform. PostSharp is used to perform low-level MSIL injection. It serves as a base for persistence layers, optimizers or custom AOP weavers."

ASP.NET.4GuysFromRolla.com: Adding Paging Support to the Repeater or DataList with the PagedDataSource Class

"Fireball Framework is project that aim to create the best controls and libraries for developer, the project already contains some control, CodeEditorControl with Syntax Highlight, Collections,Outlook Navigation bar and etc.."

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