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Support Articles and Publications Explaining Various Upsizing .Net Design Issues

Security
  • Integrating ASP.NET security with SQL Server security using LINQ
    If you have an internet application where you are not going to use windows authentication, ASP.NET security provides an excellent security model to use which includes security controls and a membership database. This article illustrates how to provide further intergration with SQL Server security, mapping asp.net users and security roles to SQL Server users and security roles. In addition, we show how with LINQ we can wrap a DataContext class building user specific connection strings at runtime.


Data Structures


Layout and Design Techniques
  • CSS Design Strategy
    CSS can be used to simplify editing control poisition and width in webforms; avoiding the need to make changes in several layout templates. This article presents a strategy for using CSS to simplify adjusting FormView layouts which use absolute positioning for controls.

  • Altering a webform layout with absolute control positioning in VWD 2008
    Once Access Forms have been converted to WebForms minor adjustments to the alignment of controls may be required. This article shows how to align multiple controls when using a FormView control with absolute positioning of the controls.

  • Enabling Ajax in WebForms
    Enabling Ajax in your WebForms reduces screen flicker, improves performance and creates a better experience for your users, this article discusses how to add this to your web site.


VBA to VB.NET Code Conversion
  • Converting Access VBA to VB.NET – Global Variables
    In this article we look at how to translate Access Global Variables into equivalent variables in a .net web form application, we also show how to construct a support class enabling converted Access VBA code to run in a web form application.

  • Converting Access VBA to VB.NET – General Prinicipals
    This article discusses general issues relating to converting the VBA Code in an Access application to code that can form part of your WebForm application in .net. We know that it is possible to convert VBA to VB.NET, but there are a number of issues which you need to consider that will affect the degree of success in doing this.