In web applications you may need to download image, zip files, doc files, pdf files, text files. Luckily, Pdf files zip files, doc, docx files will download but images will be displayed by browsers. To force any file to download, we can use the following…

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To Get the UserName from the ASP.NET membership tables using the UserID or Userkey the following snippet will work. First add the Label Control in the .aspx page Now the snippet in the code behind, in the snippet if you have the UserID first we…

To Get the UserID or UserKey of the logged in User from the ASP.NET membership tables the following snippet will work. First add the Label Control in the .aspx page Now the snippet in the code behind. In the snippet User.Identity.Name gets the current loggedin…

For every project we need dropdownlist of countries. Here is the snippet i want to share and use it myself often, so it is handy. The dropdown list comes with country name as text and its 2 letter code as its value.

We can use regular expression to get the first N words from a title or strings. The following example shows how it can be done. This example utilizes RegularExpression namespace eg Result I want only

When using Eval in your gridview or datalist view, we will bind the coloumn value using the Eval statement. Sometimes we need to check if the value of the Eval exists so that we can take appropriate mesures. For example checking the image value if…

When using DataList control, you may want to obtain the ID or other values from the item in the DataList ItemDataBound Event using the following snippets in asp.net and C# There are two cases and you can get the values from the both case 1.…