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Awesome ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Tool-Kit Released

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:51:54 GMT

RSS Tool-Kit Released

Free - Three Hour Video on Designing .NET Class Libraries (Excellent)

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:16:02 GMT

This class presents best practices for designing frameworks that are reusable object-oriented libraries. The guidelines are applicable to frameworks ranging in size and in their scale of reuse from large system frameworks to small components shared among several applications. They started as a small set of naming and design conventions, but have been enhanced, scrutinized, and refined to a point where they are generally considered the canonical way to design frameworks at Microsoft. They carry the experience and cumulative wisdom of thousands of developer hours, over three versions of the .NET Framework. (Via Greg)

Get view state off __VIEWSTATE!

Sun, 18 Mar 2007 04:31:01 GMT

ASP.NET saves transient control data across postbacks in a hidden field, which can severely affect response times. This article explores the ways to keep view state on the server.

Mateusz Trojak - myBlog: SQL Server 2005 Express for Beginners

Sun, 11 Mar 2007 06:26:38 GMT

Yeah! It's a new, brand Microsoft's politic about learning! After New Videos from "How Do I?" series on asp.net and Microsoft® Web Development Learning Series Microsoft released SQL Server 2005 Express for Beginners.

A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts

Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:46:01 GMT

A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts with many sample projects, js files and other resources

Adding a DotNetKicks image via Javascript

Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:46:02 GMT

Simple Javascript function which adds the DotNetKicks counter button to your pages.

Microsoft Web Development Learning Series

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:49:59 GMT

In one of my previous post I shortly described a few features of New Microsoft Beginner Developer Learning Center. But Microsoft doesn't forget about more advanced programmers! Exactly web programmers, with basic ASP.NET knowledge. Microsoft Web Development Learning Series it's a next well-organized library with "more than 60 learning modules-organized by track-including Virtual Labs and both live and on-demand webcasts for PHP, JSP, and ColdFusion developers."

Creating a Generic Collection Class with Sorting Support in .NET 2.0

Wed, 07 Mar 2007 20:16:01 GMT

One of the coolest new features in .NET 2.0 is the introduction of Generics. For those of you that have been creating tons of strongly typed collections for your business objects I'm sure you had the same reaction I did when you heard about them. "Sweet!! Now I can stop generating and tweaking derived collection classes all over the place!!" (This is assuming you've all been using some sort of refactoring tool that can generate the collection classes for you, I hope you have.) OK, so now we know we can create strongly typed collections in our code. You might be wondering why I'm suggesting we still create a separate collection class and not just use the generic collections included in the System.Collections.Generic namespace. The idea is that we can create our own collections that support generics that provide us with specific needs that we might commonly use or need for a specific application. In this article I will present a simple collection class which both supports Generics as well as Sorting.

Design Patterns for ASP.NET (Part 2)

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:46:02 GMT

As you saw in the first article in this series, ASP.NET automatically implements the Model-View-Presenter (MVP) pattern when you use the built-in "code-behind" approach. However other patterns, usually referred to as "controller patterns," are also suitable for use in ASP.NET. These patterns extend the capability for displaying a single view by allowing applications to choose which view to display at runtime depending (usually) on user interaction.

Aspnet 2.0 with Partial Trust... is tricky

Thu, 08 Mar 2007 11:16:01 GMT

A few things to remember about Partial Trust hosting.

New Videos from "How Do I?" series on asp.net

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:16:01 GMT

There are two new videos available on ASP.NET in learn/videos section: "How Do I: Implement the AJAX Paging Pattern?" and "How Do I: Get Started with the Animation Extender Control?". Watch and Learn!

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 available on Microsoft's Download Center

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:31:02 GMT

Yesterday Microsoft finally release ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 on a Microsoft Download Center.

.NET samples

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:01:01 GMT

Mike Woodring has an interesting collection of .Net samples covering almost everything from remoting to security.

The Three Faces of ASP.NET AJAX

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 06:46:04 GMT

A comprehensive introduction into ASP.NET AJAX 1.0.

ASP.NET Security Hacks

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:01:01 GMT

Learn how to keep your ASP.NET Web site safe and secure from common security attacks, e.g., SQL Injection, Parameterize IN Expression, Canonicalization Attacks, File Upload Control, Dynamic Impersonation, Validate Strong Password.

OpenID control for ASP.NET

Wed, 28 Feb 2007 09:01:01 GMT

OpenID is a cross-platform, cross-browser single Internet sign-on using a distributed network. The DotNet OpenID library lets you enable OpenID authentication on sites built using ASP.Net.

5 podcasts that every .net developer should be listening to

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:46:01 GMT

A list of the best .net podcasts on the web

The IDE does NOT make the developer

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:46:01 GMT

Just a brief comparison of the highs and lows of both SharpDevelop and Visual Studio as well as a discussion of why and why not the quality of your IDE should even matter to a developer.

Great AJAX, WPF, RSS and Gadgets content

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 11:16:01 GMT

As you know MIX07 will be at Las Vegas on April 30 - May 2nd this year. I'm sure this would be the best conference for me, but can't afford to go there, bouuuuhhh :-( If you feel like me, you'll be happy to know that you'll find lots of free content to download (Videos, Powerpoint, Demos, Hands-On Lab) about these topics : Windows Presentation Foundation ASP.NET AJAX Gadgets RSS WPF /E

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

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:01:01 GMT

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.