ASP.NET Best Practices

[dsa1971]

Here's an article I like to keep handy for that very question: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/050405-1.aspx

not sure what the date of the previous article in the above link is but the link below is a tutorial by the same author that creates a data access layer using typed datasets in asp.net 2.0.

http://asp.net/learn/dataaccess/tuto....aspx?tabid=63

[clay_mckinney]

not sure what the date of the previous article in the above link is but the link below is a tutorial by the same author that creates a data access layer using typed datasets in asp.net 2.0.

http://asp.net/learn/dataaccess/tuto....aspx?tabid=63

Yeah... All my asp.net 2.0 sites have been based on this asp.net tutorial by Scott Mitchell. In it, he uses Visual Studio to create a "DataSet" in the AppCode folder. It makes a neat GUI copy of the database as some sort of XML file thingy. I finally felt like I could face life after reading this tutorial.

So... That's the wrong way to do it? Really? Aw, Crap...

[honeymonster]

Typed datasets can generate method wrappers (table adapters) for SQL queries which can be used without using a dataset instance. If you are concerned about the performance of the dataset, but like the GUI approach (and the wizards to generate the SQL); then you can simply generate a typed dataset, generate table adapters for the tables, and simply use the latter in "direct mode", i.e. DataReaders.

[clay_mckinney]

What I've been doing is using the GUI to make both the dataset and the table adapters, and using an ObjectDataSource to talk to the tableadapters. Then my controls are bound to the ObjectDataSource. I hope this means I am off the hook, and not breaking one of the thirty something commandments.

[honeymonster]

I think that is perfectly ok. The objectdatasource separates the sql from the page; the sql goes into the table adapters. If you changed the database, you merely had to change the table adapter (hence the name). You are doing what most MS asp.net people demonstrates at conferences, in demos etc. It does provide a measure of de-coupling and it performs and scales as good as any hand-coded SQL.

When VS2008 is released you can use LinqDataSource and a DataContext instead, and it will be almost plug-compatible with what you are doing; LinqDataSource can replace ObjectDataSource and the DataContext takes the place of the table adapters.

Personally I'm looking forward to EDM, Entity Data Model which - sadly -- will not make it into VS2008.

[Louis_34]

One question: how to connect SQL database with any project in ASP.NET?

[Asrar]

One question: how to connect SQL database with any project in ASP.NET?

First use name space system.data.sqlclient

then create connnection

using

sqlconnection conn = new sqlconnection('your connection string'
then open this connection
conn.open();


Thanks for good question.

[aspapp]

Wow-- this is a very big thread. I wonder if it is actually useful to anyone. Speaking to the original topic of ".NET Best Practices", I have found David Hayden's http://www.pnpguidance.net site to be very useful for getting up to speed on newer .NET patterns such as ASP.NET MVC, DI, IoC and T4.

[jrosesr]

x. Don't use error handlanding inside asp net pages
Rather use Page or application error event and redirect of the error type of page within web.config.
y. Never leave the debug flag to true in web config when deploy
z. If you use Ajax script manager add ScriptMode="Release" tag. That will srink the js file a lot and help with the speed (no debuging will be done)

[krazysarah]

The tips I am going to demonstrate here is very useful and tested one. In order to save viewstate and speed up your web page performance to greater extend then always try to load data into control in Init event. We make a common mistake of loading data in dropdownlist,radiobuttonlist and checkboxlist in page_load event. In page_load event we tend to generate viewstate again and again even we support it with Ispostback constraint.

So BEST practice to overcome the bandwidth leakage is to call data loading in dropdownlist control in init event of dropdown itself
< aspropDownList ID="dll" OnInit="dll_Init" DataTextField="value"
DataValueField="key" runat="server" ></aspropDownList>//

[pamelaluck]

I fully agree with your last paragraph. Markup should speak for itself, otherwise you're mixing concerns... Perhaps that's why there's so little support for comments in web frameworks (in general). Who knows ;-)

[carrotflowers]

I wonder if a discussion of avoiding Eval() belongs here. I've encountered a few Eval() naysayers and find the argument for avoiding it compelling (Eval() uses reflection, so especially when dealing with many, many records, using a typed expression instead is more efficient) - yet examples using DataBinder.Eval are pretty dominant.

[tyremt]

whats the recommended method opposed to datasets?

great thread by the way covers so many points ive always thought am i doing this the right way or the wrong way

[hemabasha]

Can we get explanations with the rules

[tutistech]

String concatenation is one of the commonly used operations among programmers. If you don't handle the string concatenation in .NET properly, it may decrease the performance of an application.

basically concatenation string are 2 types:-

* First, traditional way of using string and adding the new string to an existing string. In the .NET Framework, this operation is costly. When you add a string to an existing string, the Framework copies both the existing and new data to the memory, deletes the existing string, and reads data in a new string. This operation may be very resource consuming in lengthy string concatenation operations.

* The second and better way to concatenate strings in .NET is using the StringBuilder class. The StringBuidler class provides the Append method, that inserts a new string to an existing string.

[kners]

whats the recommended method opposed to datasets?

I guess a lot has changed in ASP.Net world since this thread started, but these days I would strongly press for Entity Framework as the big replacement for datasets (although in a way it probably is just another glorified dataset it self). I now use Entity Framework with repository in MVC and find this to work extremely well in my applications.

[Pankaj11]

For best .net pratices you must visit to w3school(dot)com. I learn all things regarding the asp.net from this website. In my opinion this one is the best resource for asp.net practices.

[ronaldstanley]

the string connection is more useable rather than StringBuilder because the string connection is very simple to fetch the data from the database by taking the string. So That is best resaurce.

[livetecs]

ASP.Net use too much data in VIEWSTATE which cause very big size pages. You can switch page based VIEWSTATE to session based VIEWSTATE to minimize page size