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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Release Candidate
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Add support for the iPhone to your ASP.NET pages
a good article explains the implementation of an ASP.NET handler to add support to iPhone in the ASP.NET pages by Albert Pascual .
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ANNOUNCEMENT: Tafiti goes Shared Source
Tafiti, which means "do research" in Swahili, is a search visualization site that brings a new user experience to researching (searching and storing results). Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search.
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Different ways of Validating ASP.NET Forms
An article explain different ways of validations by Shahed Khan explains :
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Spell checker for HTML, ASP.NET, JScript, VB, C#, CSS and C++ for Visual Studio 2005 and 2008
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.NET Wrapper for Windows Live Services (from LiveSide.net)
The fine folks over at the LiveSide.net are working on a .NET wrapper for Windows Live Services. According to Scott, they will be adding support for a number of services, but have started with the Live Photos API. Head over to Scott's post for much more info, including a code sample. Also, this is an opensource project, so you can check out the source code on CodePlex.
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Workaround: Debugging Global.aspx.cs Application_Start() with ASP.Net Web Server within Visual Studio
A nice tip by Vishal R. Joshi (Program Manager | Visual Web Developer Team) about how to debug Global.aspx.cs Application_Start() with ASP.Net Web Server within Visual Studio.
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Getting Spatial Data into SQL Server 2008
A nice article by Mike Ormond explain SQL Server 2008 native support for spatial datatypes.
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC Public Availability Program
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 RC is available through Windows Update.
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The 2007 Microsoft Office Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1)
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A list of Breaking Changes for ASP.NET 2.0 applications running in Integrated mode on IIS 7.0
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ADO.NET Data Services ("Project Astoria") CTP is Released
The first CTP of the production version of ADO.NET Data Services is now available for download here as part of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions preview release.
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Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview (ASP.NET MVC) is available NOW !!
Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extension Preview ( ASP.NET MVC) are available now
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Free Utility: Web.Config Editor with a great UI
a nice tools which helps a lot in editing Web.Config and Application.Config files published at Microsoft Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism Team Blog
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Announcing Volta: Web Development Using Only the Materials in the Room
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Architecture Journal Reader (Beta)
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Visual Studio 2005: Cool Debugging Tricks
some useful debugging techniques for developer productivity By Peter Bromberg.
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MVC or MVP Pattern – Whats the difference?
A nice article explain the difference between MVC and MVP patterns.
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AJAX Control Toolkit Controls Grayed Out - HOW TO FIX
a nice post by Bill Evjen about how to fix the disappearing of AJAX control Toolkit controls from toolbox when using them with Visual Studio 2008.
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VS 2005 patch for SQL Server 2008
SQL Server 2008, Noverber 2007 CTP was recently released.
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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition
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WCF, WF and .NET 3.5 Whitepapers by David Chappell
Collection of whitepapers authored by David Chappell on .NET Framework 3.5
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Collection 6187: What's New in Microsoft SQL Server 2008
In this 3 hour online collection, IT Professionals will learn about the new features in SQL Server 2008. Topics covered within these clinics include:
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First Line of Defense for Web Applications Articles Series
There are lots of security principles which one should be aware of while developing software but at the heart of any secure application, there should be a first line of defense
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ITWorx releases MS Office 2007 Prayer Times plugin
For all those who have been asking for the download for the Office 2007 add-in, good news, you can finally download it here:
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21+ FREE Regular Expression Tools & Resources (for .Net Developers)
Carl J has created a list of 21+ FREE tools and resources that may make writing regular expressions a bit easier.
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Microsoft internal Code Analysis rules
David M. Kean , has posted a list of Code Analysis rules which runs internally against Microsoft's own code inside Microsoft.
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ScottGu MVC Presentation and ScottHa Screencast from ALT.NET Conference
@ ALT.NET Conference ,ScottGu gave an hour long presentation on the upcoming MVC Framework and I took some guerilla video. ScottGu's presentation is here in Silverlight and it's about 60 minutes long.
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43 Exceptionally Useful AJAX Applications
Justin has gathered 43 extremely useful (but still easy to implement) AJAX applications for use on any website. Keep your users coming back and increase your website2019s functionality.
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.NET TOOLBOX: 25+ Tools and Tips For Working With .NET
A nice collections of 25+ tools to help you with your daily tasks. by Sean P. Aune
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Reset Visual Studio 2005 Settings
Sometime many command menu items disappear suddenly , to fix this try to reset the Visual Studio Settings if you loose one of the needed item.
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TryParse() method in .NET 2.0
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Do More With Less using .NET 2.0 series
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Release of BlogEngine.NET 1.2
A new release for the BlogEngine.NET community project with many features being added to this release , I was dreaming to accomplish the Arabic localization part of this project , but it seems that it has been done , thanks Talal Asubaie for your effort to localize this project to our Arabic language .
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Make your website faster using Content Delivery Network
A nice article written by Omar AL Zabir about how to use Content Delivery Network (CDN) which by the way is one of the Yahoo suggested 13 rules for making your web pages faster (2: Use a Content Delivery Network )
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Validation Guidance Bundle
This bundle allows server side ASP.NET Validators to be invoked from the client without requiring the page to be submitted, this is known as partial-postback. This extender can also be combined with the Property Proxy Validator included with the Enterprise Library Validation Application Block (VAB). This allows invoking VABValidators on the server without requiring the page to be submitted.
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Running ASP.NET in a Shared Hosting Environment
A nice article about some problems which may facing you if you plan to running your asp.net application on a shared hosting environment .
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15+ Free Visual Studio Add-Ins
A list of 15+ FREE Add-ins for Visual Studio 2005. Some of these add-ins will help improve the quality of your code, while others will help you code faster.
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All About Web Service in .Net
A nice article written by DotNetGuts discuss these points about Web Services in .NET
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Starter Kit for Facebook.NET
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WEB farm - Load Balancing in Asp.net
The concept behind the web farm is that a number of different web sites share pooled resources. They typically share a common front-end dispatcher to perform load control and distribute customer requests. They share the multiple web servers themselves.
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[Resolving]Failed to access IIS metabase error
If you encounters such an error will working with Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 and IIS on XP
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Response.Redirect in a new window?
Many people have asked if they can use Response.Redirect to redirect in a new window, but unfortunately you can't do so because Response.Redirect method execute on the server-sideA0 and opening a new browser window is mainly a client side execution.
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[Resolving] Error connecting to undo manager of source file
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[Resolving] Maximum request length exceeded exception
You will get such an exception if you are trying to upload large files or making a requestA0 which exceeded 4MB.
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Web site deployment and 404 error under windows 2003
If you deployed your asp.net web site on IIS under newly installed windows 2003 , please make sure you have enabled the ASP.NET to run on IIS as it's disabled by default in Windows 2003.
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Get up to speed on Visual Studio 2008
Ready to learn about all the ways that Visual Studio 2008 will make you more productive? Check out the training videos below. This page will be updated with new clips, so keep an eye out for updates.
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Resolving 'Error Creating Control -xxx' in Web Application Project.
If you face this error while trying to open a web application project
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Security update for the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 development platform
if you currently installed crystal report component in your visual studio installation please review the following security update from Microsoft.
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What is Microsoft Jasper and Jasper ASP.Net all about?
I have heard a lot about Microsoft Jasper and Jasper.Net so i decided to take a look about what it is all about.
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Page.IsValid and the common rule 'don't relay on client-side validation only ... Validate server-side too'
using the asp.net validation controls doesn't not do all the job of the validation why because hackers simply can pass this validation from client side and go through your code directly and execute what they need with an invalid data :S
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SetFocusOnError property
One of the newer features in ASP.NET 2.0 which required more JavaScript code injection in the previous ASP.NET versions is to set focus on a certain server control on page load
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.NET 2.0 Configuration
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Wrapping System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings[KeyName] call
if you currently using
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Maintain scroll position after postbacks in ASP.NET 2.0
To maintain the scroll position for the large web page you can use on of these methods :
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Simulate a Windows Service using ASP.NET to run scheduled jobs
a nice article by Omar Al Zabir about how to run scheduled jobs 24x7 using ASP.NET without requiring a Windows Service.
read it here http://www.codeproject.com/aspnet/ASPNETService.asp
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Resolve System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings warning
If you have been migrated from ASP.NET 1.1 to ASP.NET 2.0 and still using the System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings to get the application stored configurations ,you may face this warning
System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings' is obsolete: 'This method is obsolete, it has been replaced by System.Configuration!System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings'
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Quickly sign your assembly with strong name using VS 2005
when using Visual studio 2003 to sign an assembly you used to generate the key using the snk command utility and override the Assembly.info file manually to set the signing information .
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Generating unique temp file name
I'm used to generate a GUID for temp files names when dealing with temp files to avoid file name duplications until I got a nice tip from http://dotnettipoftheday.org/tips/PathGetRandomFileName.aspx about using System.IO.Path.GetTempFileName() and System.IO.Path.GetRandomFileName()
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Switch web application project to run on IIS web server as Virtual directory
To Switch web application project to run on IIS web server as Virtual directory instead of running in the Visual Studio Development Serer you can easily follow these steps :
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Thanks to ASP.NET website Team Members (Specially Joe)
I would like to publish my first post to thank ASP.NET website Team Members specially Mr. Joe for taking their time to setup this blog for me. I promise to put a valuable stuff here and will start migrating my old post soon.