HOW TO build a simple Tab Menu Control

If you need a dynamic Menu for your ASP.NET website that should show up differently for different kinds of users, you need not look beyond the ASP.NET 2.0 Menu. It has umpteen properties (over 75!) that can be set declaratively to configure beautiful standards compliant Menus with no effort at all....

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HOW TO use Wikipedia content in your application

Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger and operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.As of April 2008, Wikipedia had over 10 million articles in 253 languages, about a quarter of which are in English.Wikipedia offers...

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Free Bug Tracker/Issue Trackers tools

Take a look at Michael Flanakin's comparison of Web-Based Issue Trackers next time you need a free Bug Tracking/Issue Tracking tool and pick the one with the features you need. (Thanks Corey Trager)And if you need one for a quick non-confidential personal project, there are also some hosted online for...

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6 months of BSNL Broadband

Six months ago I signed up for the BSNL Broadband Internet Home 500 Combo Plan. While the bandwidth and speed offered under the plan have been decent, all my interactions with the State-owned BSNL staff have been unpleasant. The unhelpful local Help Desk, lethargic Billing clerk, tip-seeking Linesman,...

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HOW TO find approximate time when a web page was posted

For certain time-sensitive info on the Web to be useful, it helps to know when a particular web page was posted.Google now extracts and shows the byline date from pages that have one. The byline dates are presented uniformly even though they may be in different formats.Search Google by providing the...

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Free SQL Server Videos

The MSDN Webcasts site has a nice bunch of downloadable webcasts (beside Virtual Labs & Podcasts) on SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2005Michael K. Campbell has recently launched www.sqlservervideos.com–a site that provides free SQL Server training videos.There aren't too many videos for now, but...

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