Introduction If you haven't heard, we've shipped ASP.NET AJAX CodePlex Preview 3.  It's live and available here .  I'm really excited about this release because it includes client-side support for ADO.NET Data Services, replacing the AJAX Client Library for ADO.NET Data Services that we had...

Not sure how many people are planning on attending the PDC (Professional Developers Conference) this year, but it is going to be a fantastic conference. We announced some huge announcements on the PDC web site.  http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ We have Read More......( read more )

Here is an interesting problem we ran into recently.  The customer had a large GridView that was being updated by AJAX inside on UpdatePanel and seeing bad performance. The reason is that the Client-Side Javascript has to walk the entire DOM of the Read More......( read more )

I just finished an article on my favorite new topic, ADO.NET Data Services... There's not a sample download at the end (like their normally is) because of it being in beta, and I'm pretty tired, so it might not sound great... let me know what you think. Here's the URL: http://www.singingeels.com/Articles...

Crazy title for a blog post? Maybe... but that's exactly what Jonathan Carter (and the Visual Studio & .NET Framework evangelism team at Microsoft) has just released a complete package training kit for. It has the following 6 hands on labs: ADO.NET Data Services ADO.NET Entity Framework ASP.NET AJAX...

Today I'm starting a new series of posts regarding Data Access methods and Data Binding with focus on the new developer. There are a multitude of ways to access data with ASP.NET and I will attempt to go through as many as I can, hopefully digging deep enough for you to get a solid understanding of the...

It all started with an email Mohamed Hossam (AKA, Bashmohandes) sent to SilverKey Tech. (the company I work for) local office here in Egypt, referring to the article " Foundations of Functional Programming - Part 1 - B# .NET Blog ". It inspired me to send few more language links: Linklist 03022008...

I am sitting here listening to the MSDN Webcast: Framework Masterclass: LINQ to Entities and guess what. Patrick Lowendahl is there as well and beat me to it with the following remark. Question : Eilsa, if you want more feedback from DDD mvps you can drop me or my friend Jimmy (who wrote the second book...

I'm teaching a C# programming course this week at Interface Technical Training and promised that I'd post some demo code that demonstrates how to segregate code into multiple layers (presentation, business, and data) while using ADO.NET. The code can be downloaded here . Awhile back I put together a...

A gentleman in my ASP.NET 2.0 class a while ago asked me how to access the underlying object used for the ObjectDataSource control. Suppose you have some code in App_Code like so: public class DataManager { public DataSet SelectDataSet() { // code that populates the dataset... DataSet ds = GetPopulatedDataSet...