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Asp.Net AJAX Client Side Templated Data Bound Control

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:18:15 GMT

A server control that allows you to specify header, item, and footer templates for a basic data list that will be bound on the client based on either a given web service method, or on a data-source provided client side. The templates are rendered server-side before being passed to the client behavior which allows you to use other server-side controls in the development of the templates.

DnDns - A .NET DNS Client Library (Resolver)

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:46:02 GMT

A DNS protocol library written completely in managed code. Supports common DNS records types like A, CNAME, MX, SRV, and more.

Exploring the secrets of intermediate materialization

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 13:09:01 GMT

Looks like a good trick for tuning certain SQL queries.

.NET Framework Library Source Code now available

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:46:02 GMT

Scott Guthrie announces that the .NET framework source code can now accessed in Visual Studio

K2 Underground Launches!

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:30:13 GMT

SourceCode Technology Holdings has launched an upgrade to their community site called 'K2 Underground' as the next version of their K2.net product codenamed K2 [blackpearl] nears completion.

TableAdapterManager in ADO.NET Orcas

Tue, 01 May 2007 16:16:01 GMT

A description of the new TableAdapterManager for DataSets in Visual Studio Orcas, as well as a data-access framework that enables similar function now.

ADO.NET Entity Framework cut from .NET 3.5/Orcas

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:46:02 GMT

As Frans Bouma reports, it appears that the ADO.NET EF is being cut from orcas and moved to 2008 as an orcas update...

Implementing SmartCard Authentication with ASP.NET

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:46:01 GMT

This is my 9 page follow-up article on how to implement non-Active Directory Integrated Smart Card Authentication with ASP.NET using Http Modules.

Overview of WCF/SOA

Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:16:01 GMT

An introduction to and overview of SOA, the WS-* specifications, and how WCF makes them accessable to .NET developers. Material is rooted in Juval Lowy's presentations at SD West 2007.

Teamprise now free to Codeplex users

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:31:01 GMT

Teamprise, a TFS client package for OSS users (Eclipse and other IDEs on Mac/Linux/&c) is now free for users who host their projects on Codeplex.

Overview of Customizing Community Server

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:01:01 GMT

A good introduction to the architecture of Community Server and how it can be customized.

ASP.NET AJAX(ATLAS) RC Released

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 10:31:02 GMT

A direct link to the new release of ASP.NET AJAX(ATLAS) RC

Escaping Tables With CSS

Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:31:02 GMT

While this isn't totally .NET related, I think that the crowd here will be able to relate to this dilemma. We're .NET developers who do HTML and CSS, and this is a common problem that we've all run into.

"Atlas" 1.0 Naming and Roadmap

Tue, 12 Sep 2006 06:31:02 GMT

"Atlas" 1.0 Naming and Roadmap

Asynchronous Pages in ASP.NET 2.0

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 18:31:02 GMT

Improve scalability on your asp.net applications ...

Add Windows Live Alerts to your blog

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 09:31:03 GMT

Some of my readers have been asking me how I've added the Windows Live Alerts functionality to this blog. I simply love this feature and I hope that it will spread to some of the blogs I read daily. It allows me to get notified about blog updates in a non-intrusive way through Messenger without having to subscribe to the RSS feeds. I already have to many RSS subscriptions.

Masterpages hate logic, throw interfaces at them

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:01:01 GMT

Wyatt Barnett explains a good way to keep your logic and presentation independent.

arrays of methods in C#

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:01:01 GMT

a technique that can reduce your code when you have a pattern of 2..n values where for each value you want to execute a different method with the same signature

Asynchronous command execution in .NET 2.0

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:01:01 GMT

Asynchronous execution of commands was one of great new features in ADO.NET 2.0. The ability to execute commands that take long time to execute asynchronously is very helpful for developers.

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.

Mixing C# and VB.NET in one assembly

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:31:05 GMT

How to mix C# and VB.NET in one assembly

Overload operators the right way in C#

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:01:01 GMT

It's a good rule of thumb to overload the equality operators on classes. That ensures a correct comparison between to class instances of the same type. If you don't, .NET automatically uses reflection and that is way slower than a custom implementation. We all use the equality operators ("==", "!=") all the time and we expect them to be right every time. They are not!, but even if they were there is a good chance that you want to change them anyway.

Hiding generics types complexity

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 02:01:01 GMT

Generic types can get quite ugly, here's a technique to hide that complexity (both at writing and reading) while keeping all the benefits of generics intact

Using Strongly Typed DataSets and GridViews

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 20:01:01 GMT

A brief overview of using Strongly Typed Datasets with the Gridview object - when using stored procedures these two don't play as well as would be expected

How to design an ASP.NET container user control

Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:10:39 GMT

Shows how to create an ASP.NET user control that can host some arbitrary inner content, much like the asp:Panel server control