December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.

Several people have pinged me asking for the download location of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview. We were hoping to post it on the web Friday, but unfortunately found a late bug that we felt needed to be fixed. The team is working this weekend to sign off on the new build. We hope to be able to post it as soon as this is done - apologies for the delay.

ASP.NET

Using the new ASP.NET ListView Control: Matt Berseth has a great post that talks about how to use the new ASP.NET ListView control in .NET 3.5.

Data Navigation with the ListView, DataPager, and SliderExtender Controls: Matt Berseth has another great follow-up post that describes how to use the new ListView and DataPager controls in .NET 3.5 together with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit's SliderExtender to implement nice data paging support.

Building a Product Listing Page with Clean CSS using the ListView Control: This is one of my own posts from earlier this summer that covers the ListView control. It also details how to use the new CSS editing features in VS 2008 to stylize it.

Taking an ASP.NET Application Offline: Scott Mitchell has a good article on 4GuysFromRolla that discusses a few approaches you can use to temporarily take down ASP.NET applications for updates/maintenance.

ASP.NET AJAX

Work Smarter: Microsoft AJAX's JavaScript Type Extensions: Dave Ward has a great post that describes some of the ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript client-library functionality. In this article he discusses using Array.contains, Date.format and String.format.

Sys.Debug in ASP.NET AJAX Framework: Roman Nikitin has a nice post that describes how to use the Sys.Debug feature of ASP.NET AJAX to easily instrument, debug and trace your AJAX applications.

Download Free ASP.NET AJAX In Action Chapter: I'm a big fan of the ASP.NET AJAX in Action book that was published earlier this summer (I also wrote the forward to the book). You can download a free PDF copy of chapter 2 from it here and buy it on Amazon.com here.

Cool Skin for the TabContainer Toolkit Control: Matt Berseth has a great post that details how to build a really attractive looking CSS skin for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit's TabContainer control.

Surrounding your Data Table and Dialog Controls with Styled Panels: Matt Berseth has another nice post that describes how to add styled borders to ASP.NET data grid controls using CSS and some of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit controls.

ASP.NET MVC

TDD and Dependency Injection with ASP.NET MVC: Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team writes about how to use TDD (test driven development) with the new ASP.NET MVC Framework. He uses StructureMap and RhinoMocks to enable the Dependency Injection and Mocking support.

.NET

Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008: Amanda Silver from the VB team has an awesome post that discusses some of the new hidden gems with Visual Basic in VS 2008. I actually learned a few of them for the first time reading her article! Highly recommended reading.

Extending Base Type Functionality with Extension Methods: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that discusses how to use the new Extension Methods feature of VB and C# to add custom helper methods to existing classes.

LINQ to Active Directory is Here: Bart De Smet from my team has been working on a cool LINQ to Active Directory provider (previously called LINQ to LDAP) in his spare time. You can learn how to use it in his series here, as well as read about how he built it (and learn a lot about how to build LINQ providers).

Visual Studio

Ten Tips for a Happy Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008: Jon Galloway has a useful blog post that provides a complete list of recommended steps to take if you are upgrading a machine from VS 2008 Beta2 to the final RTM release.

Organizing Big Solutions using Visual Studio Solution Folders: This tip of the day describes a useful technique that you can use in Visual Studio to easily organize large solutions that are full of many sub-projects. Use this approach to easily find and filer your projects more effectively.

Use DebuggerBrowsable attribute to clean up class view in a debugger: This tip of the day demonstrates how you can apply the DebuggerBrowsable attribute to clean up how fields and properties are displayed within Visual Studio when you are debugging your code.

Hope this helps,

Scott

Published Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:14 PM by ScottGu

Filed under: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, .NET, Link Listing, MVC

Comments

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:05 PM by Mike

Aw man, I was really going to have a look at ASP.NET MVC this weekend, too bad. I'll do it next weekend. Thanks for the links!

# December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:10 PM by DotNetKicks.com

You've been kicked (a good thing) - Trackback from DotNetKicks.com

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:41 PM by Enrico

Hi. I get error 550 User unknown when trying to emailing you about testing the debugging source-servers.

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 4:59 PM by John Chapman

Thanks for the link for using Solution Folders to group projects in large solutions. This little trick will actually come in handy for us. I'm surprised I didn't realize you could do that earlier, I've always just used Solution Folders to contain non-project related files (like 3rd party dlls)

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 5:02 PM by Roger Jennings

Hi, Scott,

Will all five items (MVC, AJAX Improvements, Dynamic Data Support, Silverlight Support, Data Services (Astoria))

ship with this forthcoming drop?

Thanks in advance,

--rj

Pingback from oakleafblog.blogspot.com/.../linq-and-entity-framework-posts-for.html

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 5:37 PM by Mike

Scott,

can you do a post on the new web.config in ASP.NET 3.5, because it's really scary. Ok, maybe not scary, but I'm afraid to remove or change anything, because I don't understand half of what in there anymore. Why didn't you patch the machine.config or update the runtime with a service pack?

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:18 PM by zeeshan hirani

I am always waiting for your links series. Like many others i am curious to find what rss feeds you to subscribe and if possible you could share the feeds you subscribe to. It would give away some good resources to the community.

Thanks

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:20 PM by mike.strobel

Hi Scott,

The e-mail address you posted doesn't seem to work--I received a failure message back immediately:

"PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 13): 550 5.1.1 User unknown". Looking forward to digging down into the Framework :).

Cheers,

Mike

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:26 PM by Michal Altair Valasek

E-mail address "fxrefsrc@microsoft.com" is not working for me, I got 550 5.1.1 User unknown from <mail5.microsoft.com> [205.248.106.30]. Is that general condition of just Microsoft does not like me? ;-)

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:32 PM by ScottGu

Hi Mike, Enrico, and Michal,

Sorry for the issue with the email address - for some reason it is not allowing email outside Microsoft at the moment.

Can you instead send email to: sburke@microsoft.com (and include the phrase "reference source" in the subject line). Shawn can then help you get setup.

Thanks,

Scott

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:33 PM by ScottGu

Hi Roger,

>>>>>>>>> Will all five items (MVC, AJAX Improvements, Dynamic Data Support, Silverlight Support, Data Services (Astoria))

ship with this forthcoming drop?

Yes - this preview will include all of those features.

Thanks,

Scott

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 6:34 PM by ScottGu

Hi Mike,

>>>>>> Aw man, I was really going to have a look at ASP.NET MVC this weekend, too bad. I'll do it next weekend. Thanks for the links!

Sorry about the delay. We are hoping to have the bits live early Sunday - so keep an eye out for them then. That way you have at least half of the weekend to play with them.

Thanks,

Scott

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 7:22 PM by Brent Brown

Thanks for the update! And for taking the time to get it right.

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 7:52 PM by Kevin Daly

That's the disadvantage of me living in a timezone that's GMT+12 (and currently on DST)...Never mind, it'll give me something interesting to do on Monday morning.

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 08, 2007 10:36 PM by Lance Fisher

It's actually a good thing that the MVC Framework didn't come out Friday. I have a couple of papers to write for school this weekend, and I probably would have ignored them. :)

# Amaerg.Com » re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET …

Sunday, December 09, 2007 1:09 AM by Amaerg.Com » re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET …

Pingback from Amaerg.Com » re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET …

# Link Listing - December 8, 2007

Sunday, December 09, 2007 1:20 AM by Christopher Steen

Link Listing - December 8, 2007

# Link Listing - December 8, 2007

Sunday, December 09, 2007 1:20 AM by Christopher Steen

ASP.NET TDD and Dependency Injection with ASP.NET MVC [Via: Haacked ] Link Blogs Silverlight Cream...

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Sunday, December 09, 2007 6:06 AM by Reza

Tanks From Iran...

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Sunday, December 09, 2007 6:22 AM by Mike

>>>>>>> We are hoping to have the bits live early Sunday - so keep an eye out for them then. That way you have at least half of the weekend to play with them.

Nope, I live in Europe, so I think I'll just get Hello World running on Sunday evening ;-)

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Sunday, December 09, 2007 4:57 PM by Alexey

Hi Scott,

what is version .Net sources available on source test server?

I'm try test this from Win2k8 with assembly WindowsBase.dll (3.0.6920.1106) and don't can getting pdb (and source). From win2k3 WindowsBase.dll (3.0.6920.1109) I download WindowsBase.pdb file, but not source.

Thanks

# Weekly Link Post 19 « Rhonda Tipton’s WebLog

Sunday, December 09, 2007 6:25 PM by Weekly Link Post 19 « Rhonda Tipton’s WebLog

Pingback from Weekly Link Post 19 « Rhonda Tipton’s WebLog

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Sunday, December 09, 2007 11:25 PM by vikram

Thanks for the links. One question. Can we have VS 2008 professionals and express edition on the same machine?

# » Daily Bits - December 10, 2007 Alvin Ashcraft’s Daily Geek Bits: Daily links plus random ramblings about development, gadgets and raising rugrats.

Monday, December 10, 2007 8:48 AM by » Daily Bits - December 10, 2007 Alvin Ashcraft’s Daily Geek Bits: Daily links plus random ramblings about development, gadgets and raising rugrats.

Pingback from » Daily Bits - December 10, 2007 Alvin Ashcraft’s Daily Geek Bits: Daily links plus random ramblings about development, gadgets and raising rugrats.

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Monday, December 10, 2007 1:52 PM by Scott Mitchell

****************************************

What a great idea. I think I'll write up an article on this topic. Thanks

-- Scott (not Scott Guthrie <g>)

# Professional Visual Studio » Debugging the .NET Framework source code

Monday, December 10, 2007 10:28 PM by Professional Visual Studio » Debugging the .NET Framework source code

Pingback from Professional Visual Studio » Debugging the .NET Framework source code

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:26 AM by ScottGu

Hi Vikram,

>>>>>>> Thanks for the links. One question. Can we have VS 2008 professionals and express edition on the same machine?

Yes - you can install both safely side by side on the same machine.

Thanks,

Scott

# .NET Framework のreference source codeは希望者にテストしてもらっている段階のようです

Tuesday, December 11, 2007 8:05 AM by 米田 Blog ( SQL Server MEMO )

.NET Framework のreference source codeは希望者にテストしてもらっている段階のようです

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Wednesday, December 12, 2007 11:19 AM by ELH

Have downloaded the beta2 visual studio 2008 standard edition in which design view has a bug with nested master pages (throws error so you can't use design view) I downloaded the professional beta 2 and this error disappeared. I hope this will be fixed soon in the standard edition because this is the one I want to purchase copies of.

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Thursday, December 13, 2007 11:10 AM by Handy

Hi Scott

I would like to publish your blogs on my website at <A href='http://www.worldofasp.net'>worldofasp.net</A>

Is that Ok with you?

And also, could you add my sites link to your blogs Favourite Links?

I am just starting to develop and enhance the features of worldofasp.net

and really hope if you can give some support to grow this community.

Best Regards

# ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Saturday, December 15, 2007 10:29 AM by fredlau

【原文地址】December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008 【原文发表日期】 Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:14 PM 这是我的链接系列的最新篇。也请参阅我的ASP.NET 技巧，诀窍和教程网页里我以前写的众多很受欢迎的文章的链接。有几个人向我询问ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions预览版的下载地址。我们本希望在星期五发布在网上的，但很不幸地，我们发现了一个我们觉得必须修补的缺陷

# December 16th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS, .NET, IIS7, WPF « .NET Framework tips

Thursday, December 20, 2007 9:04 AM by December 16th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS, .NET, IIS7, WPF « .NET Framework tips

Pingback from December 16th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, VS, .NET, IIS7, WPF « .NET Framework tips

# re: December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

Friday, January 25, 2008 2:56 AM by Chris

any news on localized versions of VS2008?

# Исходный код .Net

Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:47 PM by Tr-Tr-Mitya

Прочитав в блоге Scott Guthrie о возможности протестить получение исходного кода .Net не преминул этим...

ScottGu's Blog

Search

Tags

News

<RECOMMENDED> My ASP.NET 2.0 Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas Series</RECOMMENDED>

<RECOMMENDED> My Silverlight Tutorials and Links</RECOMMENDED>

Navigation

Archives

Favorite Links