Make your ASP.NET custom controls work with the validation controls
Do you have a custom ASP.NET control that you want to allow your users to attach the standard ASP.NET validation controls to? A quick web search turns up a lot…
How to cleanly log messages without wasting cycles when not logging
Whether you use System.Diagnostics.Trace, log4net, or any other logger, it’s often the case that you want to allow the logging to be turned on or off at runtime. To avoid…
DotNetOpenId gets a new face
Javier Román has completed his work on the new DotNetOpenId logo. I think he has done excellent work, and he did it for free in the spirit of contributing to…
How to use DotNetOpenId’s Attribute Exchange extension
DotNetOpenId supports OpenID extensions, but does not provide samples for using any except the Simple Registration extension. Since the Attribute Exchange extension (AX) was added recently, which is more extensible…
How to add OpenID to your ASP.NET forms web site without using ASP.NET controls
Although DotNetOpenId makes adding OpenID support to your ASP.NET web site as easy as dropping a control on your page design surface, there are reasons you may want to take…
Uri.AbsoluteUri and Uri.ToString() are NOT the same
If you’re familiar with the System.Uri class you know that it has a couple of ways of becoming a string for purposes of communication: its AbsoluteUri property and its ToString()…
DotNetOpenId 2.1.0 released, adds Attribute Exchange support
DotNetOpenId had a double release tonight. Version 2.0.1 is a maintenance release with a few minor bug fixes. Version 2.1 adds built-in support for the Attribute Exchange extension, but introduces…
Enhancing the ASP.NET MVC OpenID login experience
In a previous post, I present an example of how to accept OpenIDs for logins on your ASP.NET MVC site. To keep the sample simple, I left out a feature…
Why DotNetOpenID as your C# OpenID library of choice
In choosing an implementation of OpenID for your .NET web site, of course I would have to recommend DotNetOpenId, seeing as I spend a considerable amount of my spare time…
How to add OpenID to your ASP.NET web site (in C# or VB.NET)
Adding OpenID support to your VB.NET web site couldn’t be easier. Here is the easiest way: Download the DotNetOpenId library. Extract the DotNetOpenId.dll from the bin directory of the .zip…