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Note: Cross posted from Heartysoft.com.
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In this article, I've looked at a few CMSes for my site. I've looked at Graffiti, Umbraco, Dnn, AxCMS and BlogEngine.Net. I've found the last one to fulfil most of my needs. This article explores how.Note: Cross posted from Heartysoft.com.
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I’ve answered this question about five times in the last few days at the forums. It’s getting tedious so I thought I’d make a blog post about it.

I’ve been contributing more and more to the asp.net community recently. I had a somewhat dry spell two to three moths back. I completed my graduation in Computer Science and Engineering, moved out of the university dorms, got a new apartment, had a nightmare furnishing it; and finally got some time to sit down and get back to the community. Having a bit of free time, I wanted to make up for the lost time as much as I could. And now, it has happened. I never thought I’d actually achieve this, but I’ve somehow managed to get to the top contributor spot in the last 30 days. And here’s a nice pic to show my reward [although helping everyone is reward enough…]:

If we have a ModalPopupExtender with the id ‘modPopup_ModalPopupExtender’, and need to display or hide it in javascript, we can easily do this using the $find() function.

We frequently see questions about sending emails using .Net in the asp.net forums. The process of sending mail is the same for Windows apps and asp.net websites as the same .Net classes are used. The process can be slightly shortened by specifying default SMTP settings in the web.config or app.config file. Here, I’m showing the full version of the code and it does not rely on any configuration settings. The code also specifies unicode encoding for the subject and body.

I recently ran into the altogether common problem of the Html.DropDownList helper rendering a drop down list with no value selected. This is a major problem when editing data as by default, the first value is selected and saving would mean the first value is used.

It’s been a while since I last blogged. I’ve become a forum moderator, an All-Star and also completed my final exams for my bachelor’s degree since then. Now that I have a little more time, I hope to contribute more often.

I love the asp.net validation controls. They're chick and really useful. We sometimes have to show some messages that are not the ErrorMessages of validators. An approach to do this could be to