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Have you ever had the need to generate images on the fly in your ASP.NET applications? You could use GDI.NET to do this directly, but we think we have an easier way. Enter ImageTemplate.NET. ImageTemplate.NET lets you configure an image template in an XML file and then change the image that is generated by passing parameters in the URL.

This article discusses how to improve the performance of SQL Server 2005. The author also examines Clustering, Indexing, Stored Procedures, Profiling, Recovery mechanism, etc. in detail.

This article shows how the page and user controls within the page can communicate together with a little more work. It shows how the use of interfaces or custom page classes can make the application more efficient and reduce code.

Anyone who has used .NET events and delegates understands its power and ease of use. Creating an event and subscribing onto it has become quite simple in C# or VB.NET classes. Moreover, it is a helpful mechanism to implement (for instance) a responsive user interface. When carefully designed you don't need to poll for an object's state, instead you signal its state by means of an event.

This article examines the usage of the ASP.NET AJAX Control named DragPanel with the help of a project.

In this article Bilal Haidar will show you how to develop a Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Inline-Edit control that can be used to provide on-the-spot text editing for specific areas on a web form.

In this article, Jagadish Chaterjee will focus on developing a WCF library which performs business logic (with CRUD operations) at the middle tier level and finally access it using ASP.NET 3.5.

I tried of course to cast the user control but unless some use of Reflection I don't see how I can type the control.