AJAX applications offer a more interactive user experience by replacing traditional full page postbacks with leaner and more efficient partial page postbacks. These partial page postbacks are exec...

Retrieving the Just-Inserted ID of an IDENTITY Column Using a SqlDataSource C...

ASP.NET offers a variety of tools and mechanisms for working with database data, including a number of data source controls, such as the SqlDataSource, ObjectDataSource, and LinqDataSource, among ...

Programmatically Retrieving a Stored Procedure's Parameters

Stored procedures in SQL Server are similar to methods in C# and Visual Basic code. They encapsulate one or more statements into a single, parameterized construct. Both stored procedures and method...

Using ASP.NET 3.5's ListView and DataPager Controls: Grouping By a Data Field

The ListView control renders its ItemTemplate once for every item in its DataSource. As discussed in Grouping Data with the ListView Control it is possible to inject grouping template every N rec...

Creating a Dynamic Data-Driven User Interface (Part 4)

This article is the fourth and final installment of a series that examines how to build a data-driven web applications that offers dynamic user interfaces. Over the past three articles we created ...