It is a very basic need to have a forum and a blog on a single website these days. If you already have a asp.net website and are looking to set up a forum and a blog, then you can cretainly use open source softwares to get the functionality FREE of cost.

There are the one of the best options that I have found and have been using for some years now. [More]

Are you looking to set up a Blog on your existing asp.net website and have finalized BlogEngine Dot Net, then this article will help you do the set up.

For those who do not know, it is an open source blog application written in asp.net and C#. It can be easily integrated with your current website to provide the blog (writing articles) facility to your website users. You can go throught he BlogEngine website to know about the featrues it supports. [More]

If you are reading this article, then you probably know about YAF (Yet Another Forum) and looking to use it.

For those who do not know, it is an open source forum (discussions) application written in asp.net and C#. It can be easily integrated with your current website to provide the Forum (Asking questions, getting answers) facility to your website users.

We also use the same forum application to power our community on this site here.

YAF can be used independently or can be integrated with your exisitng website. We are going to talk about the integration with existing website. [More]

This blog runs on GoDaddy and uses asp.net 3.5. I recently upgraded my windows hosting account to GoDaddy's 4G hosting and wrote about the issues and solutions here. Upgrading to 4G hosting automatically upgrades your IIS to version 7.0 and you have to make some tweaks to web.config to make it work.

This time I upgraded my asp.net 3.5 to asp.net 4.0 and again faced some issues. Here are the solutions to common problems so that you can jump start your upgrade process. Moving to asp.net 4.0 from asp.net 2.0 or 3.5 is easy and not much problematic as 4.0 is backward compatible. hence, most of the features are supported. But, there are some minor changes that are required to get things work. [More]

By default, Windows hosting servers like Godaddy display a generic error when any .NET application generates an exception because the detailed error messages may allow a malicious user to obtain sensitive information about the website. Most of the time this is a "500 Internal Server Error" like the one shown in image. [More]

You keep visiting sites and see that cool Google search boxes that let you either search your entire site or search the entire Google database, all without leaving your site's page! If you also want to have something like this, then I am sure you would have already got the Google Search Box for Adsense or have got the paid Google search box for your website.

The code works fine if your website has simple HTML or HTM pages. The moment you have master page (Which 99% of you would have in case your web site has been built using asp.net), the code provided by Google will throw an error if you place it on your master page. [More]

Designing and Developing Reports in ASP.NET consists of following steps:
1) Creating a strongly-typed data set.
2) Designing the report on the basis of dataset.
3) Displaying the report using Reportviewer.
4) Attaching dataset (data) to the reportviewer (report) dynamically at run time. [More]

Developing your own website and want to implement asp.net membership? asp.net membership is a feature provided by Microsoft which provides all the code and database schema readily available for implementation. Follow these steps to create the asp.net membership schema in your SQL server database. [More]

Planning to open your website's membership to people who does not want create another set of user name and password specific to your site?

The answer is Google friend connect (GFC) and openID. GFC lets visitors on your site to be a member of your site with their existing OpenID, Google, Yahoo, Twitter and many other providers. [More]