Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit. [In addition to blogging, I’m also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] Over the last few weeks I’ve been polling developers to see how many are using the new Search Engine Optimization (SEO) toolkit to increase traffic to their web-sites. I’ve been surprised by how many people either have never heard of the tool, or have not yet had a chance to run it against their websites.
This blog post provides a quick summary about why anyone doing web-development should check it out. Why use the free SEO Toolkit? In a nutshell – the free SEO Toolkit Analyzer helps you increase traffic and visitors to your site, and as a result can increase the revenue you directly or indirectly make through your web-site. The SEO Toolkit Analyzer increases traffic to your site by helping you assess and improve the search relevancy ranking of your site with search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Takes less than 5 minutes to download and run the SEO Analyzer. Encrypting Connection Strings in Web.config. By Wei-Meng Lee 02/15/2005 One of the best practices in ASP.NET is to save your database connection strings in the Web.config file instead of hard-coding it in your code. This allows you to change database servers easily, without needing to modify your code. As an additional protection, it is always better to use integrated Windows security to access your database, rather than using SQL Server authentication, and thus including your SQL server credentials in the connection string.
Either way, it's not such a good idea to save your connection strings as plain text in Web.config -- you should ideally encrypt the connection strings so that it leaves no chance for a potential hacker to easily get more information about your database server. In ASP.NET 2.0, Microsoft has taken this further by allowing you to encrypt the connection strings in Web.config, all without much plumbing on your part.
Using the DataProtectionConfigurationProvider and RSAProtectedConfigurationProvider for Encryption 1. 4 SEO Improvements (VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Series) - ScottGu's Blo. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu] This is the thirteenth in a series of blog posts I’m doing on the upcoming VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. Today’s post covers some of the improvements being made around Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with ASP.NET 4. Why SEO? Search engine optimization (SEO) is important for any publically facing web-site.
A large percentage of traffic to sites now comes from search engines, and improving the search relevancy of your site will lead to more user traffic to your site from search engine queries (which can directly or indirectly increase the revenue you make through your site). Measuring the SEO of your website with the SEO Toolkit Last month I blogged about the free SEO Toolkit we’ve shipped that you can use to analyze your site for SEO correctness, and which provides detailed suggestions on any SEO issues it finds. ASP.NET 4 SEO Improvements Summary Hope this helps, Scott. VS 2010 and .NET 4 Series. [In addition to blogging, I have been using Twitter more recently to-do quick posts and share links.
You can follow me on Twitter at: (@scottgu is my twitter name)] Over the next few months I’m going to be doing a series of posts that talk about some of the cool things coming with the VS 2010 and .NET 4 release. VS 2010 and .NET 4 are the next major releases of our developer tools and framework. Together they contain a ton of new functionality and improvements that I think you’ll really like, and which make building applications of all types easier, faster and better. The improvements range from nice small tweaks to major, major enhancements - and can be found across the .NET Framework, the languages, and the IDE. I will update this page with links to the individual posts I do as I publish them along the way: Hope this helps, Scott.
Exploring ASP.NET Validators. Download source code - 904.25 KB Table of Content Introduction Validation is one of the most important parts of any website. Nowadays, mostly new era websites are having very rich UI, and are very much user friendly. User-friendly includes everything, very good look n feel, excellent user friendliness and well placed messages according to the different scenarios. So here validation becomes one of the key parts of today's new generation websites because it is going to be shown directly to the end users and obviously users are required to pay extra attention to these messages.
So here, I am going to discuss all the validators provided by ASP.NET and for rich UI, I'll also discuss in detail the calloutextendor that is part of the latest AJAX ToolKit. Earlier in ASP.NET 2.0, we had two different ways to show the validation message. When we'll be going to use the single validator for multiple controls, positioning of callout extenders is a key part. Prerequisites ASP.NET Validators Something More.