Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.
More ASP.NET Security Tutorials: The last three of Scott Mitchell's excellent ASP.NET security tutorials. His final three articles cover how to select user accounts, recover and change passwords, and unlock and approve user accounts.
Building a VS 2008 Styled Grid with the ListView and DataPager Controls: Matt Berseth has a great article that talks about techniques you can use with the new ASP.NET 3.5 ListView control to create a nicely styled Grid UI - while preserving total control over the HTML and CSS used. Also read his follow-up post here that talks about how to achieve the same UI with the GridView control.
50 Useful CSS Tips and Tricks: A useful page that provides a nice listing of various CSS tips, tricks and tools you can use for common web scenarios.
Using a DataPager with the GridView Control - Implementing IPageableItemContainer: Matt Berseth has a cool article that shows how to use the new IPageableItemContainer interface to implement paging support with the new ASP.NET 3.5 DataPager control.
Accessible UpdatePanel: Bertrand Le Roy from the ASP.NET team has an article that describes how to make the ASP.NET AJAX's UpdatePanel control accessible for screen-readers.
ASP.NET AJAX Meets Virtual Earth: Alessandro Gallo, author of the excellent ASP.NET AJAX in Action book, has a nice series of articles that talks about using ASP.NET AJAX with Virtual Earth to implement mapping on your site.
Faster Page Loading by Moving ASP.NET AJAX Scripts after visible content: Omar Al Zabir (the co-founder of www.PageFlakes.com) has a great article that describes a nice technique you can use to improve the perceived loading performance of an ASP.NET AJAX page. I also highly recommend reading Omar's great Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 book to learn some of his other suggestions and techniques.
3 Tips for Working with ASP.NET AJAX's TabContainer Control: Matt Berseth continues his great articles on ASP.NET AJAX with some tips on working with the TabContainer control in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit.
Building ASP.NET AJAX Components: Mike Ormond has written an excellent 8-part series that covers building re-usable ASP.NET AJAX components that work on both the client and server.
An Introduction to ASP.NET MVC using VB: Bill Burrows from www.MyVBprof.com has put together a great set of online videos that introduce ASP.NET MVC using Visual Basic. Also make sure to check out his video series on LINQ to XML using VB and LINQ to SQL using VB.
ASP.NET MVC: Membership Starter Kit: Troy Goode has a built an awesome membership starter kit for ASP.NET MVC that provides registration and login pages for users to authenticate on your site, as well as a set of administration functionality that allows admins to create/manage users and roles. Download it here.
ASP.NET MVC: Action Filter for Handling Errors: Troy Goode has another good post that provides some ASP.NET MVC action filters for catching and handling runtime errors.
How to Enable Pretty URLs with ASP.NET MVC and IIS6: James Geurts posts a useful article that describes how to enable extension-less URLs with ASP.NET MVC on IIS6 (note: you do not need to configure anything special with ASP.NET MVC on IIS7 to enable extension-less URL support).
PowerCommands for Visual Studio 2008: A free set of useful extensions for VS 2008 that add a bunch of cool features to the IDE.
Dave Campbell's Excellent Silverlight Link Series: Dave Campbell posts a regular series of links to new Silverlight articles and content on the web. I highly recommend subscribing to his blog if you want to stay current with all the latest Silverlight articles and posts.
Silverlight 2 Map / DataGrid Tutorial: Jason Zander has a great two-part Silverlight tutorial that demonstrates how to build a nice data-driven application that integrates a map control with a datagrid to filter and analyze data.
CRUD operations with Silverlight 2, WCF and LINQ to SQL: Ronnie Saurenmann from the Swiss MSDN team has a nice video that shows off some basics of how to support inserts, updates and deletes using Silverlight 2 connected via WCF to a LINQ to SQL backend.
Writing a Templated Silverlight 2 Control: Shawn Burke has a great tutorial post that walksthrough how to build a templated Silverlight control that implements an expand/collapse control.
Hope this helps,
Scott
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Scott,
Excellent links. To follow your blog daily I need at least 8 hours of time. So much of information to read.
I don't know how you find all this great content Scott but it's very useful - thank you!
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Thanks for the link,Scott!
Great links, thanks! I would love to see some Silverlight applications demonstrating how to create special effects like flag waving, water ripple, blur, sharpen, warp text on image (like photoshop displace filter), whirlpool, etc.
Thank you very much for including my article in this amazing resources list that is so valuable.
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PowerCommands 1.1 for Visual Studio 2008 is now available for free download, along with the updated source
Im looking forward for siliverlight to expose directx or opengl APIs. Does your team have any plan of it.
Thanks a lot
Great links.
Good resource specially silverlight links
Great stuff as usual, thanks scott
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Scott, while I think the MS ASP.Net AJAX framework has its potential, it won’t truly be useful to me unless it can successfully support browser “Back” button support. I have created the following thread in the ASP.Net forums (forums.asp.net/.../2272928.aspx), asked Joe Stagner from MS and another person, and nobody has come up with a simple explanation of why the Navigate event is not firing.
I have a small project that I can email you and inform me why the Navigate event is not firing when going back to page1….
If you take a look at the thread, it will explain very simply what I'm trying to do.
Until the framework can successfully support the “Back” button in the browser, I find the framework useless.
On a totally separate topic, I have posted the following thread to the ASP.Net forums (forums.asp.net/.../2287600.aspx). It seems that VS 2008 does not compile web sites successfully if you want to compile them under the 2.0 framework which compiled fine with VS 2005. What’s the point of using VS2008? My job won’t allow us to use VS 2008 to make a gradual progression to the 3.5 framework until VS 2008 can successfully compile and implement websites targeting the 2.0 framework. If you have any insight to this, I would also be very grateful.
You can implement the Browser navigate capabilites with ASP.NET Ajax by downloading the 3.5 futures that includes also this duty solved, I think.
Hi Scott,
We are thinking of using MVC but not sure about the impact on the site performance. I didn't find info on that. Is MVC improving/hurting site performance?
Thanks,
Tamir
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raffaeu, I am using the ASP.Net 3.5 Futures version. The Navigate event does not fire going from Page2 back to Page1.
Great links!
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This month's letter includes a summary of what our plans are for upcoming new versions of the VS SDK,
Is there a single roll up of .Net 1.0, 1.1, 1.1SP1, 2.0, 2.0SP1, 3.0, 3.0SP1 3.5... IE One download and one install, that does everything? I had to build a new server last night and manually install everything, was quite time consuming!
Is it true that there is a problem with the back button with the ajax library?
Another vote to hear the status if it's as bad as it sounds.
This blog is great for learning what issues are out there, in addition to the content :)
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Thanks for the links and explanation.
Does anybody have an explanation about AJAX History management explained more in detail at the following link:
www.codeproject.com/.../ajaxhistorymanagement.aspx
Thanks for the very useful links.
Hi Scott
Is it possible to run silverlight apps with unlimited (or less limited) access to system resources (if the client trusts the app).
Lets say an app needs to save a lot of data.
I posted another comment at the following url which explains the browser history issue.
This is just a general comment on vs2008, others may agree / disagree.
I am constantly loading the designer in vs2008 for the sole purpose of wiring events. i.e loading the designer just to double click a button to have vs 2008 wire the on click event into the html source and code behind.
My suggest is to have the events wire directly from the source view, maybe have a task list popup when you have the cursor in any server control or something similar..
This is purly a time saving exercise but I believe it would be a huge benefit to the majority of programmers out there.
Basically I want to be able to do all the quick things in source view, another example is dragging usercontrols onto the source view. Why can't it register the tag and add the element just like it does in design view?
Mark Kemper
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