Category: Visual Web Developer

When Microsoft introduced the SqlDataSource, they made it very easy to add database connectivity to your ASP.NET pages with a minimum of programming. The SqlDataSource (and the related AccessDataSource) allow you to define database connections declaratively - that is, …

When programming an ASP.NET application, it’s very simple to use the built-in Button and LinkButton controls to perform actions like adding a record to a database or saving changes. When you create one of these buttons, the HTML looks …

Today’s .NET tip is a quickie (previous entries here and here): When you are using a database to fill the rows of a data bound drop-down list control, you will inevitably run into an error when the bound …

(UPDATE #2: When I wrote this post a couple of years ago, I thought this was a pretty brain-dead way to handle things. Turns out that I really know what I’m talking about when the subject is my own …

Off and on for the past couple of weeks I’ve been using Microsoft’s free Visual Web Developer 2005 Express to redesign a little Access database-driven website at work. I had hoped to make it simpler and easier to …