How to apply ASP.Net Skin and Theme for better Web Designing

In one of my previous blog I had mentioned Theme property of page directive. In this blog we are going to discuss various ways we can apply asp.net skin in a website.

There are various ways to apply a particular Theme. This can be done:

1. On Page Level
2. On Website Level and
3. Dynamically on Page Level(from cookies or from database, based on user preferences)

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ADO.NET: What is Difference Between DataSet & DataReader Object

To be specific to the topic and give answer to this question without arguing a lot, following are the differences between DataSet and DataReader objects:

Datareader is connected architecture while Dataset is a disconnected architecture. This means you need to keep the connection open in DataReader to reader from it. Once the connection is closed you cannot read data from DataReader object. On contrast DataSet object works in a disconnected mode. You fill data into DataSet object and then close the connection. After that you can use/read data from this DataSet object any time you like, regardless of the state of current connection.

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.NET: What is an Application Domain?

In past only "Processes" were used to define boundaries and provide security. Every process had its own virtual memory and never overlaps the other process virtual memory. Thus one process cannot crash another process. This way, any problem or error in one process does not affect the other processes.
In .Net they introduced application "Domains" and went a step ahead of process. This makes multiple applications to run without influencing each other. If one application domain throws an error it does not affect the other application domains.

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Ajax Control Toolkit Textbox Watermark Extender Control

Yesterday I shared HTML5: How The Geolocation API Determines Your Location today I will share cool tip with readers.When it comes to Ajax, cool things are always expected. Ajax Textbox Watermark Extender also gives nice and cool effect to the text box in the form of watermarked message. When a Textbox is not selected, it shows watermarked text in it, which gives a message to the user about current Textbox. Custom CSS of that text increases the beauty of the watermarked message and Textbox also. When the user selects the Textbox and type something, the watermarked message disappears. The main advantage of TextBoxWatermarkExtender is that it provides more information to the user, and also don’t occupy any extra space.

Here is an example. I used it for search TextBox.

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HTML5: How The Geolocation API Determines Your Location

To find a GeoLocation you don't need to have the latest Smartphone. You can get location aware even by using your PC by using a browser. The question may arise in your mind: "How would a browser be able to determine its location if it's not using any GPS or any other sophisticated location technologies". Well, while using HTML5 GeoLocation API all browsers are using various ways for finding the current location of the user. We will have a look at them in detail in this blog.

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