March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

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.

ASP.NET

Three New ASP.NET Security Tutorials Now Available: Scott Mitchell continues his great ASP.NET security tutorials. These three new ones cover creating and managing roles, assigning roles to users, and implementing role based authorization. You can also find more security articles by reading posts on my blog tagged with security.

.NET Libraries to Digg, Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and other Web 2.0 APIs: Scott Hanselman's latest "weekly source code" review looks at .NET APIs that you can use to call popular web 2.0 services.

Hangs and how to Solve Them (Part 1) and (Part 2): Tom has some useful posts that talk about deadlocks and request queuing in ASP.NET, and how to detect and debug what might be causing them.

ASP.NET AJAX

Building ASP.NET AJAX Controls (Part 1), (Part 2), and (Part 3): Mike Ormond has started a nice blog post series that talks about how to build ASP.NET AJAX Controls. Make sure to check out Part 2 - Components and Part 3 - Properties and Events as well.

New ASP.NET AJAX "How Do I?" Videos: Joe Stagner has published a number of new ASP.NET AJAX "How Do I?" videos. Learn about the re-order control, retrieving values from server-side AJAX controls, two techniques for triggering updates to update panels, and using the cascading drop down control.

Real-Time Progress Bar with ASP.NET AJAX: SingingEels shows a technique for displaying real-time progress notifications using AJAX as a long-lived activity runs on the server.

Using JQuery to Consume ASP.NET AJAX JSON Web Services: Dave Ward has a nice post that describes how to use the JQuery AJAX library on the client to call an ASP.NET Web Service on the server that is JSON enabled (using ASP.NET AJAX on the server).

ASP.NET MVC

Kigg - Building a Digg Clone with ASP.NET MVC: Kazi Manzur Rashid published an excellent Digg-clone sample built with ASP.NET MVC last February. He recently updated the code to work with ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 (full details here). You can download the latest version of his source code here.

ASP.NET MVC In-Depth: The Life of an ASP.NET Request: Stephen Walther has a great post that details the exact steps that occur when an ASP.NET MVC request executes.

ASP.NET MVC Action Filters - Caching and Compression: Kazi Manzur Rashid has another great post that shows how to use the new ActionFilterAttribute support in ASP.NET MVC to implement output caching and compression attributes. Read this quickstart article to learn more about how Action Filters work, or watch Scott Hanselman's video that covers them.

Defining Routes using Regular Expressions with ASP.NET MVC: Someone asked me the other day how to use regular expressions to define route rules with ASP.NET MVC. Turns out Fredrik Kalseth already has a nice sample that shows how to-do this.

Testing with the ASP.NET MVC Framework: Simone Chiaretta has a great article that discusses how to test controllers using ASP.NET MVC Preview 2. Note: the next ASP.NET MVC preview release will include a number of refactorings that will simplify controller testing considerably (and avoid the need to mock anything for common scenarios).

Test-Driven Development with Visual Studio 2008 Unit Tests: Stephen Walther has a really nice post that describe how the unit testing features now built-in VS 2008 Professional work (using an ASP.NET MVC project). Also check out Stephen's excellent Introduction to Rhino Mocks blog post that describes how to use the open source Rhino Mocks framework with VS unit test projects.

Visual Studio

VS 2008 Web Deployment Hot-Fix Roll-Up Now Available for non-English Languages: Last month we shipped a hot-fix release that fixes a number of bugs, adds a few features, and improves performance for web development scenarios in VS 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express. Last month's release only worked with the English-language VS 2008 products. Yesterday we shipped an update that now works for all VS 2008 languages except Portuguese and Russian (which are still to come in the future).

Hotfix Available for VB Performance Issue in VS 2008: The Visual Basic team recently released a hotfix as well that addresses a performance issue with large files that contain XML documentation. Read this post to learn more about how to download it if you are running into this issue.

10 Ways to Boost your Productivity with C# and VS 2008: John W Powell shares a few tips and tricks on how to improve your productivity with C# and VS 2008.

Showing Hack, Undone, and Custom Tokens in the Task List: Sara Ford has some cool VS tips of the day posts that talk about what you can do with the task list. Also read her How to Create and View Todos in the Task List, Assigning Priority to Items in the Task List, Create Shortcuts in the Task List, Create User Tasks in the Task List, and Keyboard Navigation of items in the Task List.

Silverlight

Using the Silverlight DataGrid and Defining Columns for a Silverlight DataGrid: Scott Morrison has started a great series of posts that describe how to use the new Silverlight 2 DataGrid control (which he is the program manager for - so he definitely knows his stuff!).

Using Silverlight 2's DataGrid with WCF + LINQ to SQL: This 15 minute video blog demonstrates how to build a LINQ to SQL object model on the server and publish it using WCF. It then demonstrates how to build a Silverlight client that uses the new Silverlight DataGrid control, and which calls the WCF service to retrieve the LINQ to SQL data to populate it with.

Simple Editing of Web Service Data in a DataGrid: Mike Taulty has a nice blog post that shows how to create a WCF service on the server, and then use it from a Silverlight 2 client to retrieve data, bind it to a DataGrid, allow users to update rows, add/delete rows, and then save it back to the server using Silverlight 2 Beta1.

Sorting with Silverlight 2's DataGrid Control: The DataGrid control in Silverlight 2 Beta1 doesn't yet have built-in column sorting support (it is coming in Beta2). That hasn't stopped Matt Berseth though! In this post he shows how to implement sorting using a custom header column approach. Also check out Matt's post here, which provides a DataGrid test page that shows off a number of the current DataGrid features.

Open Source Silverlight Charts with VisiFire: Silverlight doesn't yet have built-in charting controls. The good news is that the folks at Webyog just released a really cool set of open source Silverlight charting controls (complete with animation support) that enable you to easily build great looking charts. Their model makes it super easy to use the chart components within existing HTML or AJAX applications.

.NET

FormatWith and DateTime Extension Methods: James Newton-King and Fredrik Kalseth have some nice posts and samples that demonstrate how to use the new extension method feature in the VB and C# languages in VS 2008 to create some useful convenience libraries.

Dependency Injection Explained: James Kovacs has a nice MSDN article that explains how to build more loosely coupled applications and enabled dependency injection. Also read Scott Hanselman's that list of .NET Dependency Injector Containers (IOC) post. Matthew Podwysocki also covers the new Unity IOC in his posts here and here.

Hope this helps,

Scott

Published Friday, March 28, 2008 1:08 AM by ScottGu

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

Comments

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 4:41 AM by Davi Lee

Hi,Scott,could i join your team?

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 5:49 AM by Pierre

Hi Scott,

Any idea about a release date for Silverlight 2?

Thanks!

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 6:04 AM by Lance Fisher

Nice list as usual. I recently have switched from VB.NET to C#, and I was disappointed to find that the task list is more limited in the C# editor. With VB.NET you can see your TODO and other comment tokens across all your files, but you can't in C#.

Also, it would be nice if there was a tool that included these comments in your build output. Do you know of any tools to enhance the comment tokens? Or perhaps it will be in the next version of VS?

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Friday, March 28, 2008 8:10 AM by DotNetKicks.com

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# Come testare controller con ASP.NET MVC

Friday, March 28, 2008 9:28 AM by FoxyBlog

Come testare controller con ASP.NET MVC

# Mad Links by ScottGu!!

Friday, March 28, 2008 10:41 AM by Creative Jar Blog

Mad Links by ScottGu!!

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 10:52 AM by Al Pascual

One day I know you'll link me! ;-)

Cheers

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# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 12:18 PM by dwahlin

For those that haven't checked out Scott's awesome series of Sivlerlight 2 tutorials he posted them here:

weblogs.asp.net/.../first-look-at-silverlight-2.aspx.

They've been converted to video as well and can be viewed here:

weblogs.asp.net/.../silverlight-2-0-video-tutorials.aspx

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 12:45 PM by Rob Mills

Thanks for the links!

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 4:21 PM by Bartek Szafko

You might also find useful MvcValidatorToolkit.

It solves common form input validation scenarios.

Have a look at www.codeplex.com/MvcValidatorToolkit

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 4:56 PM by dario-g

In weblogs.asp.net/.../asp-net-mvc-framework-part-4-handling-form-edit-and-post-scenarios.aspx You wrote: "In future posts I'll cover how to handle validation and error recovery situations with form input and editing scenarios."

When it will be? :) We are waiting :))

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 9:25 PM by Kevin

Hi,

Is it possible to use silverlight for standalone apps with full access to resources (file system, networking, etc, ie not sandboxed)? I know about WPF but WPF is too big (and windows only).

For us (and I am sure for a lot of others) lack of this feature alone will make us switch to alternatives.

I searched for this here and there but it seems that Microsoft does not want to talk about this?

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, March 28, 2008 10:12 PM by leeql

Hi,ScottG,

Any idea about a beta2 release date for Silverlight 2?

Silverlight 2 will supports webcam and mic in final release?

Thanks

# 3月28日链接篇： ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Saturday, March 29, 2008 1:31 AM by Joycode@Ab110.com

【原文地址】 March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET 【原文发表日期

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Saturday, March 29, 2008 3:04 AM by PrejeshVP

When iS Beta 2 releasing? What are the added features?

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Saturday, March 29, 2008 5:32 AM by Shail

Hi,

Thanks for nice posts.

I have a question about LINQ to SQL. By using the ORM designer in vs 2008, I am creating my DataContext class.

If something changes in Database ( Say a table is modified and also a stored procedure ). is there any way I can tell my DataContext class to update it self ?.

Because I keep on changing my sprocs ( like I add a column in query ). This should also get reflected in the function in LINQ to SQL.

Any best tip and trick for this.

Thank you

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# More Silverlight 2.0 DataGrid posts

Saturday, March 29, 2008 11:48 AM by Hot Topics

Scott Guthrie lists a number of posts and videos about the Silverlight 2.0 DataGrid in March 28th Links

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:10 AM by Sambo

Great links! I always looking at you.

Thanks

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Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:28 PM by grassland

Thank you so much! :-)

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Sunday, March 30, 2008 4:51 PM by IDMO

It seems to me that MVC is taking us back to the asp time where the code is mixed with HTML.

It's really a mass.

Can any body tell me why?!

Even the data binding is not done in the code behind in the most posted examples! Is there a reason for?

Please answer.

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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:38 AM by Abhijeet Rajwade

This is really helpful links.

Thanks

# Community Convergence XLII

Monday, March 31, 2008 12:57 AM by Charlie Calvert's Community Blog

Welcome to the forty-second issue of Community Convergence. The last few weeks have been a busy time

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Monday, March 31, 2008 10:34 AM by egoZd

Right now im just finished main part of my teris game using silverlight.I found silverlight's graphic engine is not very well ,when there are not too much graphic object it's seem work well ,but when the amount of graphic object grown the speed will slow down ,

can someone give me some suggestion to solve it .thanks .

Bye the way ,Does silverlight plan to support directx or opengl .

This link is the test link of the game . (www.douziwang.cn)

thanks for your help

# Wöchentliche Rundablage: WPF, Silverlight 2, ASP.NET MVC, .NET 3.5… | Code-Inside Blog

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 10:08 AM by John Lamberton

Scott - about a month ago you said that you thought that the VS2008 intellisense would be available about now for VBScript and ASP Classic. Do you have any more info on that. It sounded like your team was just going to re-enable that code. We are going live with TFS2008 and VS2008 this month and still need to support an old ASP Classic web site.

# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:33 PM by ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_Eric

I patiently look forward to the day that I will be able to use MasterPages without having to deal with mangled Client IDs. Possibly with a Page level attribute or an attribute on the ContentPlaceholder control? Maybe an attribute on the Content control? Maybe call it EnforceUniqueClientIds and set the default value to true (backwards compatibility), but allow us to set it to false? Any news on that Scott?

# April 11th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight « .NET Framework tips

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# re: March 28th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

Friday, May 02, 2008 6:16 AM by gimmy

hi scott, i tried visifire. believe me i was able to create cool silverlight charts in minutes, kudos visifire.

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