GridView is the most common data representation
contol in asp.net.It's needed to show users the
items details when the item is selected.DetailsView
control can be used precisely to show the Gridview items
details.

Because of non english character or an incorrect alias in our category names, joomla will replace the category name with a time stamp lik 2014-01-01-07-15-29. This can be solved easily. Just follow these steps to fix the problem

this article covers how to read,write data through
textreader and textwriter.

asp.net routing is easy to use for rewriting any url.

if you have a url like wwww.aspdotnetsite.com/Projects?user=username.
but if you want to have it in short name for marketing or for anything
you want like this is the resulting url -
wwww.aspdotnetsite.com/Projects/username

this post shows how to populate dropdown list from
dataset.it's done by the following generic method-

Setting up your mail in joomla is easy if you not set during its installation. It can be find at Administrator(admin panel) -> Site -> Global Configuraiton -> Server. Below this you can see the 'Mail Settings'.

limiting the number of characters in a textbox control
is tricky and useful.

the two functions in the codes mainly used to do that.
these two functions are-Limitvalidation and get_object.