August 2007 - Posts
A few months back, we had blogged about the new BDLC (beginner developer learning center) on MSDN. This is a a centralized learning environment specifically targeted to beginning .NET programmers. Recently, we have added a couple of Visual Web Developer specific resources at this center. 1. Five online chapters of "Creating Web Pages for Dummies". 2. Nine online chapters of "Visual Web Developer for Dummies". If you are a beginner web developer or are new to Visual Web Developer, please check these out and provide us your feedback. Thank you, -- Bash Read More...
Well, I got into Houston late last night and now all I have to do is talk to a few customers and fix up my demos for tomorrow’s TechFest 2007 ! This is a FREE event, brought to you by the good folks at the Houston .NET Users group (and their generous sponsors).. I will be talking about Silverlight and some other good stuff. I hope to see you there! Read More...
Over the last few weeks I've been writing a series of blog posts that cover LINQ to SQL. LINQ to SQL is a built-in O/RM (object relational mapper) that ships in the .NET Framework 3.5 release, and which enables you to model relational databases using .NET classes. You can use LINQ expressions to query the database with them, as well as update/insert/delete data. Below are the first six parts in this series: Part 1: Introduction to LINQ to SQL Part 2: Defining our Data Model Classes Part 3: Querying our Database Part 4: Updating our Database Part 5: Binding UI using the ASP:LinqDataSource Control Part 6: Retrieving Data Using Stored Procedures In part 6 I demonstrated how you can optionally use database stored procedures (SPROCs) and user defined...
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 took the debugger a really long time to hit the first breakpoint once it attached to the application (45+ seconds and longer sometimes). We recently posted a public hotfix patch that you can download and apply to fix this issue. You can download the hotfix immediately here . You can read more about it in this KB article here . Background on the Issue The particular bug fixed in this hotfix was surprisingly difficult to track down. The slowdown issue occurred when breakpoints were set in...
I have to admit I've always been a little jealous of blogs that have cool titles or urls . I was also getting tired of the default Community Server skins, which are nice, but that I see a little too often on other people's blogs. So here it is. I launched Photoshop, cooked up a background from a picture I had shot a few years ago of a cool pumpkin my wife had carved for Halloween. I also picked a title that I quite like and that I hope you'll like too. So what do you think? Read More...
My second favorite Ajax library just added support for Silverlight. From this recent announcement it looks like Dojo is adding support for Silverlight in its 2D vector APIs. That is very cool to see! Dojo 0.9 Final Version Released DojoX high quality implementations of previously experimental features: gfx (portable 2D drawing), data wires, offline, storage, cometd, etc. dojox.gfx now includes Sliverlight support many more features and improvements than there’s room for here. Read More...
It's 8:30am PST and the VPC's are in the process of being moved from the staging server to the live servers and I expect them to be up in the next hour or so. I'll update this blog post as soon as they're available! Read More...
Over the last few weeks I've blogged about the new VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense and VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging features in Beta 2. I've also posted about how both ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 and ASP.NET AJAX 3.5 are supported with VS 2008 , as well as how you can get Silverlight 1.0 JavaScript Intellisense with VS 2008. One of the other small, but very useful, AJAX features you can now take advantage of in VS 2008 is its improved designer support for ASP.NET AJAX Control Extenders. What are ASP.NET Control Extenders? ASP.NET Control Extenders are controls that derive from the System.Web.UI.ExtenderControl base class, and which can be used to add additional functionality (usually AJAX or JavaScript support) to existing controls already declared on...
Finally back into Redmond after completing TechEd in Australia and New Zealand. Slides and code posted... Read More...
Steve Marx apparently never gets tired of writing video centric web sites... he has done it again and it is very cool. I am impressed with the fact that there is so few lines of code (in fact there is more CSS markup than code).. this is due to the simplicity that Linq, ASP.NET 3.5 and Silverlight brings to the developers. Here is the the code and a screen cast . Steve uses a bunch of new stuff! Searching and paging via ListView, DataPager, and LinqDataSource (all new ASP.NET controls with .NET 3.5). Video player via the Media control in the ASP.NET Futures July CTP (uses Silverlight 1.0 RC). Popup biographies and "more/less" collapsible details via the new .NET 3.5-compatible drop of the AJAX Control Toolkit. Back/forward buttons support via...
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