How can setup a friendly email name in the MailSetting section of web.config?

Well, in code you need to put the sender's name in quotes, followed by the e-mail address.

new SmtpClient(...).Send("\"John Smith\" jsmith@somewhere.com", ...);

And...it looks like you can encode it into the attribute too...

<smtp from="&quot;John Smith&quot; &lt;jsmith@somewhere.com&gt;">

CompareValidator for “dd/mm/yyyy” format

By default the ASP.Net CompareValidator does not work for dd/mm/yyyy format hence we will need to change the Culture property of the page to en-GB in the @Pagedirective of the ASP.Net Web Page as show below

<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="Request.aspx.cs" Inherits="Request" Culture = "en-GB"  %>

Standard Date Format in c#

DateTime dtStartDate, dtEndDate;
        string uname = null;
        string strStartDate, strEndDate;

   if (txtStartDate.Text == "")
            {
                strStartDate = string.Format("{0:d}", Convert.ToDateTime("01-01-1900"));
            }
            else
            {
                strStartDate = string.Format("{0:d}", Convert.ToDateTime(txtStartDate.Text));
            }
            if (txtEndDate.Text == "")
            {
                strEndDate = string.Format("{0:d}", Convert.ToDateTime("01-01-2500"));
            }
            else
            {
                strEndDate = string.Format("{0:d}", Convert.ToDateTime(txtEndDate.Text));
            }

            dtStartDate = Convert.ToDateTime(strStartDate);
            dtEndDate = Convert.ToDateTime(strEndDate);



  strStartDate= dtStartDate.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", new CultureInfo("en-US"))
  strEndDate= dtEndDate.ToString("dd/MM/yyyy", new CultureInfo("en-US"))

How to delete all comments from XML using SQL?

set @XMLData.modify('delete //comment()')   

select @XMLData

Uploading file with Progress Bar

   <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        var size = 2;

        var id = 0;

        function ProgressBar() {          

                document.getElementById("divProgress").style.display = "block";

                document.getElementById("divUpload").style.display = "block";

                id = setInterval("progress()", 20);

                return true;        

        }

        function progress() {

            size = size + 1;

            if (size > 299) {

                clearTimeout(id);

            }

            document.getElementById("divProgress").style.width = size + "pt";

            document.getElementById("<%=lblPercentage.ClientID %>").firstChild.data = parseInt(size / 3) + "%";

        }

    </script>

 <asp:Button ID="btnAddImage" runat="server" Text="Upload File"OnClientClick="return ProgressBar()" OnClick="btnAddImage_Click" />

<div id="divUpload" style="display: none">

                        <div style="width: 300pt; text-align: center;">

                            Uploading...</div>

                        <div style="width: 300pt; height: 20px; border: solid 1pt gray">

                            <div id="divProgress" runat="server" style="width: 1pt; height: 20px; background-color: Blue;

                                display: none">

                            </div>

                        </div>

                    </div>

Ref:

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/uploadfile/rahul4_saxena/uploading-file-with-progress-bar/

c# search in google using search text as parameter

http://www.google.com/search?q=query

Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.

Use doc.Load(xmlPath).
 LoadXML is for loading an XML string.