Today I attended the NYC session of ASP.NET Exposed presented by Rob Howard . While the “sneak preview” of Whidbey was very cool and very interesting (I can't wait to get my hands on it now) the presentation, in general, was introductory. If you are a beginner and would like a taste of what...

Today I attended the NYC session of ASP.NET Exposed presented by Rob Howard . While the “sneak preview” of Whidbey was very cool and very interesting (I can't wait to get my hands on it now) the presentation, in general, was introductory. If you are a beginner and would like a taste of what...

Visual Studio .NET 2008 provides many new features that will definitely enhance developer productivity. In this video tutorial I provide an introductory look at VS.NET 2008 and show a few features such as multi-targeting, split view, and the LinqDataSource control. In the video you'll see how to build...

I came across the following error while trying to debug an ASP.NET page in VS.NET 2008 tonight: "Unable to start debugging on the web server. Strong name validation failed." I hadn't seen the error before but after spending a few seconds searching I came across the following steps that seem to have solved...

I've had several people here in the Phoenix area and others I've met at ASP.NET Connections conferences ask when I'll be teaching specific .NET classes in 2008 and my standard reply has been "I'm not sure at this point". We have things scheduled out past June now so here's the information for those who...

Thanks to everyone that attended the Visual Studio 2008 course yesterday. It was a lot of fun talking about all of the new stuff available in VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 and hearing the different projects people are working on. As promised, here's the lab code from the course: http://www.xmlforasp.net/LabFiles...

Microsoft just released the SP1 beta for Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 and it includes a huge number of new features and enhancements.  Check out Scott Guthrie's blog for details but here's a quick list of what's included: ASP.NET Data Scaffolding Support (ASP.NET Dynamic Data) ASP...

I wrote a few articles for the Simple Talk Website (run by RedGate Software ) over the past year and was honored to be included in the "Best of Simple Talk ASP.NET" eBook they just released.  The book is a free PDF that covers a lot of different topics including: ASP.NET Master Pages Tips...