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Using the SQL Table Profile Provider in ASP.NET 4 Web Applications (C# & VB) by Ken Cox [MVP]

This post and accompanying projects demonstrate how to use Microsoft's SQL Table Profile Provider with an ASP.NET Web application. ASP.NET's built-in Profile provider (SqlProfileProvider) stores Profile data in an oddball, serialized format that’s hard...

EF 4 Pluralization Update by Ken Cox [MVP]

I previously wrote about playing with EF 4’s PluralizationService class . Now that OrcsWeb is running ASP.NET 4, you can play with my little pluralization page and its WCF service online. The source code (such as it is!) can be downloaded from the MSDN...

EF 4’s PluralizationService Class: A Singularly Impossible Plurality by Ken Cox [MVP]

Entity Framework’s new 4.0 designer does its best to generate correct plural and singular forms of object names. This magic is done through the PluralizationService Class found in the System.Data.Entity.Design.PluralizationServices namespace and in the...

Display ‘–Select–’ in an ASP.NET DropDownList by Ken Cox [MVP]

A purchaser of my book writes: “I would like a drop down list to display the text: "-Select-" initially instead of the first value of the data it is bound to.” Here you go…   <%@ Page Language="VB" %> <script runat="server">...

Animation on MSDN Web Pages? No Thanks by Ken Cox [MVP]

I may be fighting a losing battle against the Silverlight/Flash animation gurus. The Visual Basic Developer site on MSDN is showing off a preview of its proposed redesign . One of the “features” is a flashing, fading, distracting, and very annoying animation...

Publishers Prepare for Year End .NET 4.0 Release by Ken Cox [MVP]

While Microsoft is coy about product release plans (“When it’s ready” is a common evasive answer to the question), book publishers frequently reveal their (and Microsoft’s) plans online. If you’re curious about when software like .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio...

Is 'Thingy' Okay When Talking LINQ? by Ken Cox [MVP]

Hey gang, I need some support here. I'm in the author review phase of ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies . In a chapter on LINQ, an editor wants me to change 'Thingy' to "a more concrete noun". Here's an example heading: Narrowing the thingys with a Select...

What's Coming for VB, C#, and ASP.NET in the "Upcoming VS2005 Service Pack (SP1)"? by Ken Cox [MVP]

Interesting to see that Leslie Giblett, Release Manager on the Visual C++ team is offering specifics about " the upcoming VS2005 Service Pack (SP1) release ." As you see , that team lists the precise issues they're working on for the service pack release...
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