Sometimes while developing websites on your dev machine you may want to encrypt sections of your web.config to hide user ids, passwords or other secret type stuff. To do this by using a particular directory path, as in a file system hosted website, you can use the ASPNET_REGIIS utility with the –pef switch. If you are using IIS to host your site rather than a website, you can use the ASPNET_REGIIS utility with the –pe switch and a –app switch to point to the virtual directory. Either of these two...

Often we have typed datasets coming back from component methods that we want to bind to a GridView at runtime. There are multiple ways to do this. The first technique is without using an ObjectDataSource, the second one is with an ObjectDataSource. Although with either technique its not to difficult to do the bind, formatting the gridview can be a challenge. I have a small app for a library that keeps track of a library’s membership, books checked out, etc. I have a business component that has a...