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What's new in Visual Studio 2010

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:40:42 GMT

A list of the new features in Visual Studio 2010

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Workflow Foundation 4.0

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:50:21 GMT

My first look at Windows Workflow Foundation 4.0 and the new features in Visual Studio 2010 related to WF applications.

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Visual Studio 2010 (2) - Historical debugger

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:56:44 GMT

My first look at the new Debug History window in Visual Studio 2010.

Pavel Nikolov's blog: Visual Studio 2010

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:31:06 GMT

My first look at Visual Studio 2010 codename "Rosario". I showed some screen shots and and some new features of the new visual studio.

jQuery and Microsoft

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

Development Tools I Use & Recommend

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:16:03 GMT

Eventually I will get to some technical code Posts. But for now, I'm a bit delayed with some other things at work lately. I will be blogging about Code Generation, OOP, and other topics very soon though. In the meantime, I wanted to share a list of tools I regularly use now or have used in the past as a C# / ASP.NET Engineer listed below:

Virtual Earth ASP.NET Control - CTP Release

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:46:10 GMT

Finally at long last we have released the Virtual Earth ASP.NET control (CTP Release). I spent a few minutes with Angus Logan from the Windows Live Platform Team to show off the control and give a quick demo to get you started. Go get the control from http://dev.live.com/tools, download the Windows Live Tools July CTP Release then watch the video and go build some maps. -Enjoy.

Five Common ASP.NET SEO Mistakes

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:16:06 GMT

Here's a checklist of five common mistakes that ASP.NET and the Viewstate/Postback model of development make it far too easy for unsuspecting developers to make:

The ASP.NET MVC Information Portal

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:46:02 GMT

A content aggregator of everything related to ASP.NET MVC

VS2008 Web Server Here Shell Extension

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:31:02 GMT

This shell extension adds a right click menu on any folder that will start WebDev.WebServer.exe (aka Cassini) pointing to that directory.

How to compress viewstate in ASP.NET 2.0

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:45:36 GMT

This article demonstrates how to extend the functionality of the new System.IO.Compression namespace to compress and decompress viewstate information in ASP.NET 2.0 pages.

How to disable web.config Inheritance for Child Applications?

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:01:02 GMT

Each ASP.NET Web Application has its own configuration file called web.config file. In fact every directory in ASP.NET application can have one. Settings in each web.config file apply to the directory where its placed, and all the subdirectories of that directory. This is called Configuration Inheritance and it can cause serious headaches if you are not fully aware of how it works...

ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview Available

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:16:02 GMT

From ScottGu's blog. Today we released an updated ASP.NET Dynamic Data Preview. This new dynamic data preview now works with the standard built-in ASP.NET data controls (GridView, ListView, FormView, DetailsView, etc). The dynamic data support enables these controls to automatically handle foreign-key relationships.

ASP.NET Google Charts Implementation

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 08:01:02 GMT

Implementation of Google Charts wrapped in server controls for easy consumption by asp.net developers.

Let's tag all ASP.NET MVC contents with aspnetmvc

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:01:08 GMT

I saw using a lot of different tags for tagging ASP.NET MVC related contents: why don't we just standardize the way we do it and tag with aspnetmvc?

Link to Everything: A List of LINQ Providers

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:01:03 GMT

I've recently updated the list of LINQ Providers found on my Links to LINQ page, accessible from the News section on the left of my blog. I'm sure there are other providers available. Feel free to write me or append a comment if you want to add to this list.

Top 10 Best Practices for Production ASP.NET Applications

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:01:02 GMT

A list of some things to pay attention to when dealing with production ASP.NET applications.

HttpHandlers

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:31:02 GMT

A pretty useable article on how to use HTTP Handlers and why not.

Ajax usage among .NET developers

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:31:03 GMT

Ajax usage survey, but targeted only on ASP.NET developers

LINQ and Deferred Execution

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:51:30 GMT

This post covers one of the most important and frequently misunderstood LINQ features. Understanding deferred execution is a rite of passage that LINQ developers must undergo before they can hope to harness the full power of this technology. The contents of this post assumes an intermediate understanding of LINQ.

ASP.NET 3.5 by Scott

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:46:02 GMT

The blog entry from Scott

ThumbNail Creation in ASP.Net

Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:02:02 GMT

How To create ThumbNail image in ASP.NET

Another Vibrant Ink Theme for Visual Studio

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 01:16:02 GMT

Rob shows off his new version of the version of the Vibrant Ink theme for Visual Studio.

New "Orcas" Language Feature: Lambda Expressions

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:16:01 GMT

Scott demonstrates lambda expressions and linq