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Building Twitter Search using the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta – Part 1

Latest Microsoft Blogs — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Last week we launched the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta during PDC, oh and we donated it to the CodePlex Foundation under new BSD license (FTW). As the email volume has been fading away running up to Thanksgiving in the US and everyone at work is recovering...(read more)

T4MVC 2.6: MVC 2 Areas support

Latest Microsoft Blogs — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:51:36 GMT

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to T4MVC page on CodePlex One of MVC 2's major new features is the support for breaking up a large application into "Areas". This works by following a structure that looks like: Root folder Models...(read more)

Script# Update - v0.5.5.0

Latest Microsoft Blogs — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:19:05 GMT

The long-awaited event (by some) ... an updated script# build, along with next steps, new channels for Q&A and staying up-to-date via @scriptsharp on twitter... [ Full post continued here... ] Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Microsoft AJAX CDN – Now with SSL Support

Latest Microsoft Blogs — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:55:34 GMT

Back in September I blogged about the new Microsoft AJAX CDN (Content Delivery Network) service that the ASP.NET team is now providing. The CDN provides edge caching support for AJAX libraries (including jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX). The service...(read more)

Customizing ASP.NET MVC 2 - Metadata and Validation

ASP.NET Daily Articles — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:34:36 GMT

In this article, you will learn about two major extensibility points of ASP.NET MVC 2, the ModelMetadataProvider and the ModelValidatorProvider. These two APIs control how templates are rendered, as well as server-side & client side validation of...(read more)

How To Consume Web Services Using AJAX and ASP.NET 3.5

ASP.NET Daily Articles — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 04:21:44 GMT

The article covers the use of AJAX to consume web services in ASP.NET 3.5. It delves into both client-side network callbacks and server-side ASP.NET controls, and helps the reader to determine which method is best suited for his or her application. It...(read more)

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studio 2010 – Now in Visual Basic!!

Latest Microsoft Blogs — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:13:00 GMT

I had a great time at my talk PDC2009 talk, but i was disappointed that I could not demo in both C# and VB… So here is the next best thing: A full play-by-play of the demo, but all in VB! Enjoy. What you need to get started: Visual Studio...(read more)

Resetting the Page Index in a ListView

ASP.NET Daily Articles — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:34:36 GMT

Resetting paging in a GridView is pretty easy, but that isn't the case for a ListView. There's actually no such property as PageIndex with ListView, so we need to dig into the internals of the DataPager to perform this common task. Read More....(read more)

Presenting in Europe Next Week

Latest Microsoft Blogs — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:33:49 GMT

I’m off to Europe next week to do a bunch of technical presentations. I’m presenting for 5-6 hours in a bunch of different cities, and will be doing talks that cover: ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Silverlight 4. Below are details on...(read more)

Introduction to ASP.NET HTML Helpers

ASP.NET Daily Articles — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:34:36 GMT

In this article we will introduce the concept of HTML helpers and how they can help the developer to speed up the development for an ASP.NET MVC application. Read More......(read more)

Silverlight and RIA Services: Implementing Search

Latest Microsoft Blogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:11:51 GMT

Some of you likely noticed that my PDC09 demo included a stubbed out Search function that I didn’t really get to walkthrough during the talk. I thought I’d do a blog post showing how it is done. To get started you need: Visual Studio 2010...(read more)

Replacing ASP.NET Session with Velocity Session Provider

ASP.NET Daily Articles — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:34:36 GMT

One nice feature of Microsoft Distributed Cache aka Velocity is a custom session provider that can replace the ASP.NET default session provider. The article explains how to replace ASP.NET session with the Velocity session provider that is being provided...(read more)

T4MVC now has a real home and a dedicated forum!

Latest Microsoft Blogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:09:39 GMT

Up until now, most things related to T4MVC were happening through my various blog posts about it. And while that was sort of working ok for a while, it was also less than ideal for a couple reasons. First, there was no single place to go to in order...(read more)

Web Deployment Painkillers: VS 2010 & MS Deploy

Latest Microsoft Blogs — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:12:00 GMT

Last week I did a talk at the PDC 2009 and the talk is now available to view online live at www.microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/FT56 The abstract of the talk was “ Learn about next generation of ASP.NET Web Deployment with tips & guidance on how you can...(read more)

Detecting .NET Application Memory Leaks

ASP.NET Daily Articles — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:34:36 GMT

This article shows how to detect and investigate .NET application memory leaks. Read More......(read more)