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Great ASP.NET 2.0 Tutorial Videos Online
Last week we published a series of great ASP.NET 2.0 “How do I?” videos on MSDN. These videos are code-focused videos (no slides or marketing at all – pure code) that walkthrough using some of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer (which is free).
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ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources
I usually try and spend at least an hour or two each night hanging out on the ASP.NET Forums answering questions. The last week or so I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Security Forum answering a lot of “how to” questions about some of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 (in particular the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management and Login Controls) and pointing people at resources and samples around the web about them. What I thought I’d try and do with this post is consolidate a lot of pointers to different ASP.NET 2.0 security resources in one place.
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Great Step By Step Guide on how to build an ASP.NET "WaitScreen" Server Control
Daniel Fisher recently forwarded me a pointer to an excellent step-by-step blog post he wrote that walks through how to build an ASP.NET Server Control that provides "wait-screen" functionality for long-rendering pages (note: this can be used to avoid users becoming impatient, hitting refresh, only to restart a long running request).
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Awesome ASP.NET 2.0 RSS ToolKit Released
Dmitry on the ASP.NET Team posted an awesome RSS Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 on his blog earlier tonight. It provides a ton of great support for both consuming and exposing RSS from ASP.NET 2.0 applications, and ships with full source code.
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ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control
One of the useful new controls in ASP.NET 2.0 is the <asp:wizard> control, which allows developers to easily create multi-step UI (with built-in previous/next functionality and state management of values).
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ASP.NET Connections Conference in Orlando from April 2nd-5th
The east-coast ASP.NET Connections conference is coming up in Orlando from April 2nd-5th this year. I'll be speaking there along with a ton of other great speakers. There are 37 dedicated ASP.NET breakout talks at the event (click here to see the session list).
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ASP.NET 2.0 Starter Kit: The eBay Selling Starter Kit
The eBay Selling Starter Kit for ASP.NET 2.0 provides a fully-functional sample that enables you to build a custom application to list items, monitor auctions, integrate eBay search and perform inventory maintenance.
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VS 2003->VS 2005 Web Application and VS 2005 Web Site->Web Application Migration Tutorials Live
May 8th Update: The final release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project is now live. You can learn more about it here.
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Cool Utility to Use Multiple IIS Sites on Windows XP
Gabe forwarded me a pointer to a cool utility he worked on which enables you to define and switch between multiple sites with IIS on Windows XP -- which out of the box only allows you to define one site (note: you can have multiple applications underneath the site -- but only one unique port or hostname combination). The utility allows you to define multiple sites, and then quickly switch which site is "active" at a particular time.
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Great ASP.NET 2.0 Site Navigation Tutorial Series
Scott Mitchell has written a really great tutorial series on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Site Navigation system and features.
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Building Composite Controls in ASP.NET
A few weeks back I blogged about the new CompositeControl base class introduced with ASP.NET 2.0.
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Cool Video Tutorial Introduction to Building a DAL using CodeSmith
I've heard lots of people rave about CodeSmith in the past.
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MSBuild Community Tasks Project for VS 2005
David Yack posted a great pointer to a community project where you can find a long list of cool MSBuild Custom Tasks that you can use within your VS 2005 build environments. You should be able to use these with both the VS 2005 Web Deployment Project and with the VS 2005 Web Application Project option in VS 2005 when building ASP.NET 2.0 projects.
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Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Project Update
In addition to releasing the VS 2005 Web Application Project this past Friday, we also released an update to the VS 2005 Web Deployment Project -- which provides additional build support for pre-compiling and configuration changes with applications. Here is a pointer to an old tutorial I wrote about it.
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A few ASP.NET 2.0 GridView Sorting Tips and Tricks
I saw a few interesting posts today that talked about ways to implement some sorting tips and tricks with the ASP.NET 2.0 GridView:
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Second release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview now available
May 8th Update: The final release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project is now live. You can learn more about it here.
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New Atlas Build Available for Download with ASP.NET 2.0
The January CTP build of Atlas was made available today and can be downloaded from http://atlas.asp.net. This is a pretty big release of Atlas that has a number of new and improved goodies (I'm planning on hopefully doing some blog posts walking through some samples soon).
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Databinding a Drop-DownList within a FormView Control w/ 2-way databinding in ASP.NET 2.0
Mike Pope has a great blog post tonight that walks through a common scenario I've seen asked a lot on http://forums.asp.net lately. Specifically his post covers how to embed a DropDownList control -- whose ListItem values are databound against one database table -- within a FormView or GridView control, and have the SelectedValue of the DropDownlist be two-way databound against the results from a separate database table.
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CopySourceAsHtml: Html Source Formatting Utility
Last week I posted about a cool ASP.NET syntax highlighter that Wilco built that allows you to easily publish ASP.NET source online. This works great for cases where you want to point to live source to generate syntax, although there are also sometimes needs to statically capture source formatting and embedd it in things like blog postings.
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Coming Soon: VS 2005 Web Application Project and VS 2005 Web Deployment Project Updates
May 8th Update: The final release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project is now live. You can learn more about it here.
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Netherlands Microsoft DevDays Event March 7th and 8th
I'm heading over to Europe to talk about ASP.NET and Atlas at the Microsoft DevDays event in Amsterdam on March 7th and 8th. Apparently we'll have about 2400 people attending -- which will be awesome! If you are in the Netherlands and are interested in attending, you can find out more at this site.
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Adding Blogging Support to Apps with My.Blogs and Visual Basic 2005
I just saw a pointer to a MSDN TV show you can check out on a new set of features (called My.Blogs) you can download for VB that makes it really easy to add blogging support to both ASP.NET 2.0 and Windows Forms application. You can watch it here and you can download the My.Blogs library here.
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Outstanding Blog for Learning how to Debug ASP.NET App Issues (Memory Leaks, Crashes, Deadlocks, etc)
Tess is a PSS escalation engineer for Microsoft and she has a really priceless set of blog posts on using some of the more advanced debugging tools that ship with .NET to better understand what is happening when things go wrong on the server (memory leaks, deadlocks, crashes, etc), identify root causes of issues in apps, and how to fix things.
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Adding your own Validation Schema to Visual Web Developer / VS 2005
I blogged about some of my favorite html source editor features in Visual Web Developer and VS 2005 a few months ago. In case you missed it, you can read that post here.
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FREE CMS System for ASP.NET 2.0
AxCMS.net is a free CMS offering that you can download and run on ASP.NET 2.0 today. Here are a few AxCMS customers deployed on it today:
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Free Online Video Training on ASP.NET 2.0
Someone asked me recently for a list of webcasts/video presentations on ASP.NET 2.0. In looking to answer his question I stumbled upon a link that I didn't know existed: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/multimedia/ It has about 15 videos of using ASP.NET 2.0 and VS 2005/Visual Web Developer (including a webcast by me).
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Upcoming Webcast on Feb 16th: Building Toronto.com with ASP.NET 2.0
I just saw on John's blog that there is an upcoming web-cast by the folks who built and launched http://www.toronto.com in October of last year (pre RTM) describing the architecture of the site and their experiences.
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Authorization with the built-in VS 2005 Web Server (aka Cassini)
I've helped two people with a problem related to this recently on the ASP.NET Forums, so I thought it might make sense to put out a quick blog post explaining it to others. Specifically, they were building a secure website using forms-authentication. They added the below authorization rule within their web.config file: