Did you know that you can actually use the ASP.NET authentication system to secure other types of files like imagess and PDFs? It only works on IIS 5 or later and has some limitations, but it can be done.

Do you have an ASP.NET application ready and now you want to translate it into different languages, or are you developing a new application for which you want to support localization? If yes, ASP.NET 2.0 makes it easier to do so than ever before.

This article describes how to create an audit tool that tracks and records the changes of any fields with their old and new values using an ASP.NET web page. To see the project in action, you can download the code, but you must change your connection properties for the database interaction.

Themes are used to define visual styles for web pages. Themes are made up of a set of elements: skins, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), imagess, and other resources. Themes can be applied at the application, page, or server control level. We can create theme by adding App_Themes folder in our project in solution explorer panel. The simple steps are Right click on project and select Add ASP.NET folder – Theme. We can add files into it also. The sample code snippets in this article have been written in C#.