Microsoft has a new web site to start the excitement on his new dev technologies: IE8, WPF, Silverlight and Windows Mobile. It is called {You shape} it and focus on Design, Development and IT Management in a nice claymotion Silverlight UI. http://www.microsoft.com/youshapeit/ MSDN is part of this portal...

Since Visual Studio 2008 SP1 you may have noticed 2 projects template for dynamic data: So what is the difference ? Dynamic Data Web Site / Dynamic Data Web Application: Uses a LINQ to SQL model and LinqDataSource controls. Dynamic Data Entities Web Site / Dynamic Data Entities Web Application: Uses...

I made a Search Provider for IE8 to search videos on Youtube : Youtube Search for IE8 What are Search Providers ? In IE8 you can use search providers like Live Search, Wikipedia, Yahoo, Amazon, and more to deliver direct results and images that provide you with immediate answers. Learn more. I also wrote...

I always had the question if I could add a LiteralControl via Markup code. Let's say something like that : < div class = "header" > < asp : LiteralControl runat = "server" ID = "ltrHeader" > </ asp : LiteralControl > </ div > < div class = "sub...

For those of you who are already running IE8 (since IE8 beta 2 is available ), I made some accelerators ready to use: Search Images with Live Search “Use this accelerator to find related images with Live Search based on selected text.” Search with Google Canada “Use this accelerator to find information...

Microsoft has updated the VPCs to test your web apps with different versions of Internet Explorer. You can now download these VPC: IE6/XP SP3 IE7/XP SP2 IE7/Vista IE8 beta 2/XP SP3 >> Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image These new VPCs will expire in January, 2009.

When I want to add a user control to a page I use the @Register directive at the top of the page. and the I add the control to the markup. But what if I want to add a user control programmatically but I have no reference of it via the markup? That is where the @Reference directive comes to action. What...

Yesterday .NET SP1 released and many new features for ASP.NET where added. But yesterday i also discovered a feature that ASP.NET has from version 2.0 Let's say we have a button. We can decide what value will the properties have for different browsers!!! And we can do that with this way... < asp ...

Many times when i develop a user control i have the need to add some javascript to the header of the page. But the header doesn't have a method where you can add script and RegisterStartupScript inserts the script at the bottom of the page. So i thought let's create an extension method... public static...

As promised, here's my article from the "Silverlight: write and win" competition. A live example of the finished outcome can be viewed here: http://olakarlsson.com/SL2Beta2FlyoutDemo/SL2Beta2FlyoutDemoTestPage.aspx and the source can be downloaded from http://olakarlsson.com/downloads.aspx Overview In...