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New ASP.NET MVC Tutorials

2008-10-11T00:00:03Z

I created three new ASP.NET MVC tutorials that were just published at the www.ASP.net/mvc website. There are both C# and VB.NET versions of each tutorial. Here are the direct links and descriptions: Creating Custom HTML Helpers Create new HTML Helpers to make it easier to generate view content. Stephen Walther demonstrates two simple methods of creating new HTML Helpers. Creating Model Classes with LINQ to SQL Learn how to create data access classes by taking advantage of Microsoft LINQ to SQL. In...(read more)

Checkout Tip#10, Tip#11, Tip#12 and Tip#13 on Tips and Tricks blog

2008-10-10T23:48:21Z

Here are four new tips on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #10 Did you know… Visual Web Developer 2008 has a New Style Builder Dialog? Tip #11 Did you know… New Style builder can be invoked from various other tool windows in Visual Web Developer. Tip #12: Did you know..How to create an IIS Virtual Directory from within Visual Web Developer? Tip #13: Did you know... How to get the browser agent using ASP.NET Ajax ? Have a nice weekend! Reshmi Mangalore SDET, Web Development Tools Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET MVC and the new IIS7 Rewrite Module

2008-10-10T09:23:08Z

Last year I noticed that there were 11 ways to get to my blog. Literally 11 different URLs and it wasn't helping me my ranking in the search engines. I wrote about this in detail and how I used ISAPI_Rewrite to fix it up . Fast forward to this year and the IIS7 team has been taking advantage of IIS7's modular design to release a bunch of new modules out-of-band . Both the newest ISAPI_Rewrite and Apache's standard mod_rewrite module uses distributed configuration files or .htaccess files...(read more)

October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, IIS

2008-10-10T08:53:45Z

Here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Best Practices for Creating ASP.NET websites with IIS 6.0 : Omar Al Zabir, author of the excellent Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 book , has a great article that details best practices to follow when setting up a site on IIS 6.0. Definitely worth reading and book-marking...(read more)

PDC: Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies

2008-10-09T20:00:32Z

The PDC 2008 schedule is locked down. Looks like my main talk is on the first day, 10/27 at 5:15pm-6:30pm. Come to the talk and we'll all go out for tacos afterwards, maybe a party. :) The scheduling tool is a little wonky, but if you want to add my talk to your sessions, you can go to https://sessions.microsoftpdc.com/public/sessions.aspx , sign in, search for "hanselman" then click "Add to My Sessions" in the lower right corner. Here's the title and abstract: Microsoft...(read more)

Silverlight Tips of the Day – Week 8

2008-10-09T03:05:28Z

Silverlight Tip of the Day #57 Title: How to Dynamically Load a Silverlight Control within another Silverlight Control Silverlight Tip of the Day #56 Title: Accessing the HTML DOM from Silverlight. Silverlight Tip of the Day #55 Title: How to Apply Styles in Silverlight – Part I Silverlight Tip of the Day #54 Title: How to Develop with Silverlight Tools for Free Silverlight Tip of the Day #53 Title: MessageBox is now Available in Silverlight 2 Silverlight Tip of the Day #52 Title: How to Popup a...(read more)

Setting ASP.NET Webform Tag’s Action Attribute

2008-10-08T16:45:58Z

Click here for a text version of this article Facing issues with embedding the video. For now, you can view the video, directly from http://silverlight.services.live.com/34222/Setting%20ASP.NET%20Form's%20Action%20Attribute/video.wmv Cheers !!! Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET MVC Tip #45 – Use Client View Data

2008-10-08T16:44:08Z

In this tip, I explore one approach to building Ajax applications with ASP.NET MVC. I show how you can use view data when building Ajax applications with ASP.NET MVC in the same way as you would use view data when building server-side application. I demonstrate how to create a custom HTML Helper that renders client view data. One of the primary benefits of building an ASP.NET MVC application is that it enables you to build web applications that support a sharp separation of concerns. This sharp separation...(read more)

Loading Iframe Dynamically in ASP.NET

2008-10-08T12:55:38Z

Click here for a Text Version of this Article In case you have issues in viewing this video within the blog, you can directly view it from http://silverlight.services.live.com/34222/Loading%20Iframe%20Dynamically%20in%20ASP.NET/video.wmv Cheers!!! Read More......(read more)

Alt.NET podcast on jQuery

2008-10-08T04:56:57Z

We had an interesting conversation with the good people from the Alt.NET podcast on jQuery and what it means for .NET developers. Check it out: http://altnetpodcast.com/episodes/11-jquery-in-asp.net Read More......(read more)

The Digital Blackbelt Webcast Series is BACK !

2008-10-07T18:32:11Z

I've been working hard to get more security related work back into my schedule. And so..... I'm starting a new "season" of the Digital Blackbelt webcast series. If we get enough interest I'll do some give-a-ways and such ! SIGN UP NOW !!!! Here are the first 3 dates ! 11/3/2008; 11:00 AM (PST) Convincing Management: The Business Case for Adding Security to the Development Life Cycle [ Click HERE to Register ] 11/10/2008; 11:00 AM (PST) Security Development Lifecycle: Building...(read more)

Artinsoft Aggiorno fixes your web pages.

2008-10-07T18:17:53Z

If you read my blog you probably know that I'm a total tools junkie. I never blog about a tool that I haven't actually played with and I don't write about tools based on a "trial" install. Recently the guys at Artinsoft let me know about Aggiorno . I've known the Artinsoft guys for many years (and not just because some of the principals are in Coasta Rica and once sent me the best coffee on the PLANET !) The Artinsoft guys are experts at converting your applications from...(read more)

Using VSTS Test and Profilers to troubleshoot a High CPU in GC issue

2008-10-07T14:23:32Z

Following my post about how to troubleshoot a low CPU performance issue with VSTS Test, I will now do the same for lab 4 where we have high CPU in GC. The scenario is pretty similar in that we have a page ( http://localhost/BuggyBits/AllProducts.aspx ) that seems to be taking a lot of time to execute. We also see that the w3wp.exe process sits at very high CPU ~100% during the time this page executes. Using Windbg in the lab, we saw that the issue here was that we were concatenating a very...(read more)

Where to download and buy IIS7 and Windows 2008

2008-10-06T15:14:00Z

I've heard several people ask where to buy IIS7 and Windows 2008. First, if you want to download and try before you buy, Microsoft has made Windows 2008 trial editions available, with just a few clicks and a live ID you can download them today. If you are looking for the lowest cost, fully-featured Web server for the internet, look no further than Windows Web Server 2008 , which is the enhanced version of Windows server specifically built for internet Web sites. It supports the full hardware...(read more)

Client templates in MSDN Magazine

2008-10-06T04:48:16Z

My first full-length article in MSDN Magazine is out with the October issue and it’s about Microsoft AJAX client templates . Check it out… http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc972638.aspx Read More......(read more)