Julio translated a recent atlas talk and demo I did into Spanish.. Great to see Atlas reaching a much broader community. Spanish translated slides Spanish translated demo Enjoy! Read More...

We received such positive feedback on the first eleven How-Do-I videos that were published on www.asp.net that we decided to do another series of videos focused specifically on Atlas and the Atlas Control Toolkit . Last Tuesday Joe Stagner’s first two videos were released and there will be two more a week until we run out of topics. These two focus on building your first Atlas application and your first application using the Control Toolkit and in future weeks Joe will be drilling into more complex Atlas topics. I hope you enjoy them and if you have topic suggestions, enter the into the suggestion box on the right hand side of the videos page . Thanks, Simon. Read More...

Symptom: When building a VS 2005 Web Site Project you experience very slow build times – where compilation seems to mysteriously pause for 30+ seconds (or even minutes), before continuing each time you do a build or F5 of the project. This compilation performance slow-down might be the result of a problem I call “dueling assembly references”. This can occur when you setup multiple “automatic refresh enabled” file-system assembly references within your web site project to multiple assemblies that in turn share common assembly dependencies whose version numbers are different. The post below describes this in more detail and how to fix it. Some background on how file-assembly references work: Developers using VS 2005...

Here's a little trick to write samples that involves data binding controls to a database. It's very inconvenient to have to package a sample database with your code (especially when it's just a few lines of code in a blog), and just making sure your users have SQL Server installed is no small thing. All this just diverts the attention from what really matters: your sample code. It's a little-known feature that XmlDataSource enables you to declaratively expose sample data to the page. Here's how it's done: < asp : XmlDataSource runat = "server" ID = "data" > < Data > < colors > < color name = "Red" value = "#FF0000" /> < color name = "Green" value...

Earlier this spring we published a really popular series of short, focused, online ASP.NET videos that we called the “How Do I?” series. The series walked through how to use Visual Web Developer to take advantage of the cool new ASP.NET 2.0 features like Master Pages, Membership, Role Management, Profiles, 3-tier Data Access, Themes, Web Parts, etc. If you haven’t watched these videos yet, I'd highly recommend setting aside an hour or two to review them all (each video is only 10-15 minutes long). They are a really great way to quickly obtain a very good understanding of the new ASP.NET 2.0 features and how they all fit together. You can watch each video online for free here . The series was so popular that we asked Joe...

I found this great link the other day from SSW discussing recommended coding standards. It provides a categorized list of best practices to follow when doing software (and specifically .NET) development. You can read them all here . Very useful stuff. Hope this helps, Scott Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More...

I just heard that the Chinese translation of the Framework Design Guidelines was just released... I hope these sites says something nice about the about the book ;-) http://www.china-pub.com/computers/common/info.asp... http://www.dearbook.com.cn/book/ViewBook.aspx?pno=... If you read the book, let me know what you think! Read More...

Joe Stagner has released the first 2 "How Do I" Videos in his new series on learning "Atlas." We have had so much success with the short "How Do I" video format that we plan on releasing tons and tons more of these over the course of the year. I know you will enjoy it. Also, we've added some new design flair to the www.asp.net site so be sure to explore -- you'll find it easier then ever to find more content then you can handle ;) -- check out the new videos page , essential downloads , books page , starter kits , live webcasts , data tutorials , and more. We are also just beginning work on a *huge* overhaul to our www.asp.net experience -- we probably won't be able to show you much of the work until towards the end of the year, but we are investing...

One of the things that I rarely have the time to do is to create really nice looking web templates. Stuff that is just graphically pleasing, between work, school and having a social life, I just don't get time to do it. But reading one of the many blogs that I read in the morning, I came across this site called Open Source Web Designs . It's a great idea, and a fun way to share your artistic talents. Each template has it's own EULA, so you'll have to have a look to determine if it will work for you (and your business if that's the case), but the idea of having a good looking CSS designed page it awesome. I would love to see someone do something similar to this, but instead of simple HTML and CSS, to use Master Pages, HTML and CSS so that you...

The video of my Web Design World talk was just posted... Take a look... I'd love to hear your feedback, thoughts. http://www.ftponline.com/channels/web/reports/wdws... There is a free registration required to watch it... Read More...