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Well, I learned something a couple of days ago and in the process also found an "Undocumented Feature" in ASP.NET 2.0

First, I learned that you can nest an asp:TextBox inside an asp:Label control and if you then set the associatedcontrolid attribute of the Label control to the id of the TextBox control, the label will render as a label element instead of a span element.  Both are pretty cool and both are not very well known.

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By now, most people are familiar with the fact that ASP.NET will send mail from the codebehind by simply adding a few lines to your web.config file and adding another few lines of code in the codebehind file.

But it wasn’t until recently that I found that you don’t need to have access to an SMTP server to test your code.

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A couple of weeks ago I pointed out that you could easily find the definition of a property, method, variable, or class by right-clicking the item and selecting, “Go To Definition” from the context menu.

You can also use this feature in your ASPX files to find the definition of CSS classes.  However, you cannot use this to find definitions of rules.  And if the class is not defined, you will not see the menu option and you’ll get a green squiggly under the class and the tooltip will tell you that the class is not defined.

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I know I said yesterday that I’d start a series about creating DotNetNuke modules, but I solved a problem yesterday after I wrote that post that I think a lot of you will be interested in.  Especially if you are using WordPress in combination with an ASP.NET site.

The problem we had was this.  We have an ASP.NET web site that requires a login before anyone can see any pages.  We wanted to add a WordPress blog to it that could only be viewed when people log in and wanted to be able to have the same user names in WordPress that they had in ASP.NET.

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What if there was a product that would allow you to create your web site themes as easy as you could create a PowerPoint presentation theme?  Wouldn’t that be cool?

This past weekend I discovered just such a product.  At first, I was pretty skeptical.  I mean, I normally pay $50.00 or so per theme when I put up a DotNetNuke site and here is a product that will let me create very nice themes that I can use in BOTH my ASP.NET based sites AND my WordPress based sites for just over 3 times that price.

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