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Tip/Trick: Creating and Using Silverlight and WPF User Controls by ScottGu

One of the fundamental design goals of Silverlight and WPF is to enable developers to be able to easily encapsulate UI functionality into re-usable controls. You can implement new custom controls by deriving a class from one of the existing Control classes...

Tip/Trick: Hard Drive Speed and Visual Studio Performance by ScottGu

People often ask me at conferences for PC hardware recommendations. Specifically - "what type of machine do you recommend I get for doing development with Visual Studio?" and/or "your laptop seems really fast, what type is it?" Some of my recommendations...

Tip/Trick: Building a ToJSON() Extension Method using .NET 3.5 by ScottGu

Earlier this year I blogged about a new language extensibility feature of C# and VB called "Extension Methods". Extension methods allow developers to add new methods to the public contract of an existing CLR type, without having to sub-class it or recompile...

Tip/Trick: Automating Dev, QA, Staging, and Production Web.Config Settings with VS 2005 by ScottGu

One of the questions I get asked fairly regularly is: "how can I can easily change different configuration settings in my web.config file based on whether my application is in a dev, qa, staging or production mode?" The most common scenario for this is...

Public Hotfix Patch Available for VS 2005 F5 Debugging Performance Issue with ASP.NET by ScottGu

Over the last year we've seen several people report having performance problems when using F5 to run/debug ASP.NET 2.0 applications using Visual Studio 2005. The problem in theses cases typically wasn't with building the project, but rather that it sometimes...

July 4th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Visual Studio, Silverlight and IIS7 by ScottGu

I've fallen behind on my weekly link-listing series - apologies for the delay. ASP.NET ASP.NET RSSToolkit 2.0 Released : One of the cool projects for ASP.NET 2.0 that was released last year was this free RSS Toolkit - which makes consuming and exposing...

Tip/Trick: Creating Packaged ASP.NET Setup Programs with VS 2005 by ScottGu

Scenario You have built an ASP.NET Web Application using Visual Studio 2005, and want to enable customers to automatically install and deploy it on servers via an easy setup program. Specifically, you want to create a standard Windows setup program that...

ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks and ASP.NET, IIS7 and ASP.NET AJAX End to End Talks by ScottGu

I've finished my whirlwind speaking tour of Europe (Belgium, UK and Netherlands in less than one week), and was fortunate to have had the chance to present to several hundred people along the way. Many thanks to everyone who came out to attend my talks...

Recipe: Deploying a SQL Database to a Remote Hosting Environment (Part 1) by ScottGu

Scenario: You finish building a great ASP.NET application, have everything tested and working right on your local system, are taking full advantage of the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role and Profile features, and are ready to publish it to a remote hosting...

Tip/Trick: How to Run a Root “/” Site with the Local Web Server using VS 2005 SP1 by ScottGu

One of the questions I'm often asked is whether it is possible to run an ASP.NET web-site project as a top-level root "/" site using the built-in VS web-server and the VS 2005 Web Site Project model. By default, when you open a web-site as a file-system...
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