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ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action by Darren Neimke
I highly recommend the book ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action by Darren Neimke (Manning Publications). This book assumes you are already experienced with ASP.NET, so it doesn't waste your time with yet another introduction. Instead, everything in this book is just good content about Web Parts and the Portal Framework, a lot of which is hard to find anywhere else. This book does not just show you how to build a Web Part based Portal, it will also teach you how to customize most every aspect of the process. You'll learn about the Manager control, Connections, and Personalization, but also about changing the look of the Chrome that all Web Parts automatically get. So if you are an experienced ASP.NET developer that is needing to learn about Web Parts, then this is a must-have book -- there's nothing else like it.
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ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters Released
Its official -- the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters have finally been released !
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Free Lunch-n-Learn on .NET v3.0 (WinFx) in Atlanta
Doug Turnure and Todd Fine will be hosting a few free lunch-n-learns on .NET v3.0 (formerly called WinFx) in Atlanta at the Microsoft offices in Alpharetta on Nov. 20 and Dec. 18 -- BYOL (bring your own lunch).
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Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET User Group on Nov. 6, Part 2
I'll be donating the following books, mostly sent to me by the publishers so they deserve the praise, to be given out at the Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET User Group on Monday night, November 6th:
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MySpace: My "Space" and My Thoughts
I've recently finally joined MySpace and created my own "space". I've looked a little at them before when they've been in the news, but I never really thought much of it. The funny thing is that even now that I have created my own "space", I still don't think much of it. I suppose its possible that I'm just too old to really "get it", but I don't think that's the case. My problem with MySpace is that its just NOT a very user-friendly community site at all.
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Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET User Group on Nov. 6
I'm going to be presenting on Custom Providers in ASP.NET at the November 6th meeting of the Atlanta Cutting Edge .NET User Group. This is pretty much a repeat of my session at the 2006 Atlanta Code Camp, but I keep getting lots of requests for it. The primary goal is to introduce ASP.NET custom providers and discuss why you should care about them. Of course we will also examine several sample custom providers as time allows. Hopefully in a few months, at a future meeting, I will be able to dig deeper into a specific provider, probably the "Health Monitoring" provider for logging and diagnostics. But for now, come out and learn about custom providers, and maybe win a full one-year subscription to Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite with MSDN Premium, a $10,939 value being donated by me and Mimsware.