Pushing Data to a Silverlight Client with Sockets: Part I

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weblogs.asp.net — Silverlight 2 has built-in support for sockets which creates some interesting possibilities. If you've ever worked on a client-side application that needed to receive up-to-date data then you're probably used to solving the problem by polling. With polling the client contacts the server on a consistent, timed basis to see if any updates are available. ASP.NET AJAX provides a Timer control that makes this process easy and straightforward. read more...

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Managing ASP.NET Dev, Staging and Production Connection Strings

weblogs.asp.net — If you work with a large number of applications then you know what a pain it can be to manage multiple web.config files and multiple connection strings for development, staging/test, and production databases. This article discusses an alternative that allows connection strings to be consolidated into a single file that can be shared across mutliple applications. It also shows how connection strings can be loaded dynamically based upon a URL which can greatly simplify getting correct connection strings for dev, staging, and production databases. read more...

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How To: Create an ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit Extender to Extend the GridView

weblogs.asp.net — This article provides a step by step guide to creating a custom ASP.NET AJAX extender control based upon functionality in the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit. The tutorial covers creating the JavaScript file, embedding it in an assembly, and referencing it from a server-side control. The end result is an extender control that can freeze a GridView header and allow for scrolling of rows. read more...

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Video: First Look at Visual Studio .NET 2008 and the LinqDataSource

weblogs.asp.net — This video tutorial provides an introductory look at VS.NET 2008 and shows a few new features such as multi-targeting, split view, and the LinqDataSource control. read more...

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Custom ASP.NET Server Controls with Embedded JavaScript

weblogs.asp.net — This article discusses how JavaScript can be embedded in custom ASP.NET server controls and output efficiently. It provides a good introduction to using WebResource.axd, WebResourceAttribute and the ClientScriptManager. read more...

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Simple ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks

weblogs.asp.net — This article provides a list of some of the most simple (yet cool) things you can do with ASP.NET 2.0 that require little or no C#/VB.NET code. read more...

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Video: Calling Web Services Asynchronously with ASP.NET

weblogs.asp.net — This video tutorial walks you through the fundamentals of calling Web Services asynchronously from an ASP.NET page using the .NET 2.0 event driven model exposed by Web Service proxy objects. There are several different options for calling Web Services asynchronously including polling, callbacks and wait handles, but the event driven model is quite easy to use and does not put as much pressure on the ASP.NET thread pool as the other options. read more...

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WPF/E and ASP.NET AJAX AlbumViewer Application Now Live

weblogs.asp.net — Back in December I released a sample application that demonstrated how WPF/E and ASP.NET AJAX could be integrated to view albums returned from an Amazon.com Web Service in a simulated 3D type view. I finally made some time to get the application running live so feel free to take it for a spin. read more...

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