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First Public Preview of TP 2.0 Available

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 07:12:47 GMT

TP 2.0 is an ASP.NET 2.0/ATLAS based agile project management system.

September Atlas Control Toolkit Released

Wed, 20 Sep 2006 06:31:01 GMT

ScottGu blogs about the latest refresh to the Atlas toolkit. A couple of new controls included as well.

Scott Hanselman's 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:31:01 GMT

Scott Hanselman, that uber technologist, updates his must have list of power tools for developers.

CSS Menu system with No JavaScript

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 00:31:02 GMT

This is a page with a navigation menu that uses only CSS. It uses No JavaScript.

The IIS7 Difference

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:31:01 GMT

You may be wondering what's so special about Internet Information Services 7 (IIS7). After all, that stuff is for IT Administrators to worry about, right? It is true that IIS7 offers many new features for IT Administrators, but it offers a ton of features tailored for the ASP.NET developer, as well.

Sumatra PDF Viewer for .NET?

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 15:31:01 GMT

There's a new version of Sumatra, Krzysztof Kowalczyk's open source PDF Viewer for Windows. It's an incredible accomplishment, and a great example of the value of open source software.

Developer Productivity Tools Video

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 17:01:01 GMT

Great videos about developer productivity tools by Scott Hanselman. Presented at Beantown.NET, June 2006 * Part 1 (Command-line tools, Reflector) * Part 2 (Xml Serializer) * Part 3 (MS Powershell) * Part 4 (CodeRush, Misc)

LightBox with ASP.NET

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 02:01:01 GMT

If you don't know what LightBoxes are check out the list at blinklist. Among them two implementantions caught my attention, the original LightBox JS 2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar and the lighter LiteBox by Tyler Mulligan.

LiteBoxAlbum: Autogenerate LightBox-like photo albums

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 20:01:01 GMT

Yesterday I posted about how I created a couple ASP.NET web controls to make it easy to generate a photo gallery using the LiteBox library. Ok now I have to make a confession, that was only a step to achieve something much more useful, an automated LighBox-like image slideshow!

Atlas July CTP and Latest Atlas Control Toolkit

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 08:01:01 GMT

ScottGu posts about the latest Atlas build with examples. Everything you need to know to get started with .NET and Atlas, including how to videos.

Windows Presentation Foundation Community Site

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:01:01 GMT

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) is the next-generation presentation sub-system for Windows. It provides developers and designers with a unified programming model for building rich Windows smart client user experiences that incorporate UI, media, and documents.

ZedGraph: A flexible charting library for .NET

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:37:00 GMT

Here's an open source charting library for .NET that provides a high degree of configurability.

A CAPTCHA Control for ASP.NET 2.0

Sat, 11 Mar 2006 05:41:00 GMT

CAPTCHA is short for "completely automated public Turing test to tell computers and humans apart" and is the most popular technique used to prevent computer programs from sending request to Web servers. This can be for meta-searching search engines, doing dictionary attacks in login pages or sending spam using mail servers. You may see CAPTCHA images in Google register page when you do availability check on too many usernames or in Yahoo, PayPal and many other big Web sites.

Adding 'Google Suggest' functionality to an ASP.NET application

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 04:33:00 GMT

Shows how to add 'Google Suggest' functionality to an ASP.NET application.

ASP.NET In Page Progress Bar with Cancel Example

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 03:25:00 GMT

Example of an asp.net page with progress display and a cancel button. A single page starts a long running process, shows the progress and shows the process completion message.

ASP.NET Popup Control

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 18:09:00 GMT

This article describes an ASP.NET popup control. This control imitates MSN Messenger alert, but it is designed for use in a web page. Graphical appearance of this control can be completely changed by using one of predefined styles or by modifying all colors used on the control. Control supports Drag&Drop, so user can move control on the page, where he wants.

Introduction to Anthem.NET

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 15:19:54 GMT

Anthem.NET is an AJAX library with these features: # support ASP.NET 2.0 # work as seamlessly as possible with VS2005, ideally without having to hand-code client JavaScript and # support ASP.NET functionality as closely as possible. Anthem is so easy to use it's almost a crime. It has a number of built-in AJAX-enabled controls. It supports viewstate so you can get control states and page info back in callbacks. It works seamlessly with web usercontrols, and master pages. Best of all, you won't need to write any JavaScript (or XMLscript).

Composite UI Application Block

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 21:33:00 GMT

This application block is a reusable, source code-based component based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0. It provides proven practices to build complex smart client user interfaces based on well known design patterns such as the Composite pattern, in which simple user interface parts can be combined to create complex solutions, but at the same time allowing these parts to be independently developed, tested, and deployed.

Reflector for .NET

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 17:01:00 GMT

Reflector is an excellent utility - a class browser for .NET components. It supports assembly and namespace views, type and member search, XML documentation, call and callee graphs, IL, Visual Basic, Delphi and C# decompiler, dependency trees, base type and derived type hierarchies and resource viewers.

What is The Regulator?

Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:09:00 GMT

The Regulator is an advanced, free regular expressions testing and learning tool written by Roy Osherove. It allows you to build and verify a regular expression against any text input, file or web, and displays matching, splitting or replacement results within an easy to understand, hierarchical tree.

I coulnd't do regex coding without this

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:25:00 GMT

After discovering this tool, I just can not imagine doing any regex coding in .net without this. It is free, and saves you tons of debug time and compilations. All you need is to play with your regex on this tool, perfect it, and then write the code. just love it!

Compress ASP.NET 2.0 ViewState

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:09:00 GMT

Benchmarking test with 116 web controls on 1 page to reduce viewstate size from 43.3 kb to 3.5 kb.

self-contained ASP.NET application that demonstrates a few things

Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:17:00 GMT

David Hayden blogged about a cool new ROW_NUMBER() function that SQL 2005 provides that got me excited and inspired to write a little code last night.

Introduction to Anthem.NET

Wed, 01 Mar 2006 13:37:00 GMT

AJAX is something lots of ASP.NET developers are interested in, but there are a number of AJAX libraries and solutions out there - so which one do you go for...........

Marketing yourself as IT professional in the new web era!

Sat, 11 Feb 2006 19:17:00 GMT

The web is a dagerous place. But it is THE hang out. If you have been a passive user, its time to come forward and tell the world what you're made of!