Archives
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ASP.NET 2.0 Localization (Video, Whitepaper, and Database Provider Support)
ASP.NET 2.0 and VS 2005 add a bunch of features that make localizing ASP.NET applications much easier.
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Eliminating CSS Image Flicker with IE6
One challange that web designers and developers often wrestle with is an annoying "image flicker" issue that sometimes shows up when using CSS image references. For example, when using a CSS rule like so:
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Checking all CheckBoxes in a GridView
Scott Mitchell continues to post great ASP.NET content (if you haven't subscribed to his blog then you should!).
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Reading/Writing Excel Spreadsheets with ADO.NET
David Hayden maintains a really great blog. He regularly posts about ADO.NET and Data Access, and is someone I'd highly recommend subscribing to.
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www.iis.net site launched
If you haven't visited it yet, I'd highly recommend taking a look at the new dedicated IIS community site: http://www.iis.net
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Resharper 2.0 Released
JetBrains has recently shipped Resharper 2.0 -- a Visual Studio add-in that provides a rich set of developer productivity features for C# and ASP.NET developers (including richer refactoring support, ASP.NET code assistance, unit testing integration, Nant and MSBuild script editing, and more).
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Red-Gate SQL Query Intellisense Tool (Free Download)
I've seen a lot of people rave about Red-Gate's SQL tools in the past. They provide a really nice set of tools that are well worth spending sometime to check out.
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Cool Atlas PasswordStrength Complexity Control
Paul Glavich blogged about a useful little Atlas externder control he built that enables sites to provide real-time password strength feedback on the client to users as they create new passwords (for example: if you have only letters in the password it will list "weak", and then give you immediate feedback as you type and make it stronger). Below is a simple example of how to use it to point at a standard ASP.NET TextBox:
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IIS 7.0 on the MSDN .NET Show
Bill Staples and I did an interview with the MSDN .NET Show about IIS 7.0 that was just published yesterday. You can watch it online for free here. In addition to about 30 minutes of discussions about the new features and architecture are 30 minutes of demos.
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Commerce Server 2007 RC1 Released
Today the Microsoft Commerce Server Team announced availability of their Commerce Server 2007 RC1 bits. The Commerce Server 2007 release is monumental improvement -- you can read about all the details on Ryan's blog post. Commerce Server 2007 is built using ASP.NET 2.0 and has full integration with VS 2005.
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Using LINQ with ASP.NET (Part 1)
One of the new things I’m super excited about right now is the LINQ family of technologies that are starting to come out (LINQ, DLINQ, XLINQ and others soon).
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VS 2005 Web Application Project V1.0 Released
I am very happy to announce that the final release of the VS 2005 Web Application Project is now available. You can download it for free here.
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Two Nice ASP.NET Tracing and Logging Articles
I wanted to point people at two cool new ASP.NET articles have been published recently:
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Atlas Control Toolkit Refresh Now Available (adds Safari support + 4 new controls)
I blogged about the Atlas Control Toolkit three weeks ago when it first shipped. There are three big reasons I find it exciting:
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ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Roles Tutorial Series
Scott Mitchell has continued the great ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles and Profile Tutorial series he started a few months back, and has now posted parts 3 and 4 on it. You can read the series here:
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CSS Control Adapter Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0
Tired of having <table> elements rendered by the built-in ASP.NET server controls and wishing you could use a pure CSS solution instead? Read on...
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VS 2005 Web Application Project V1.0 Release Coming Shortly
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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SharePoint 2007 -- Built on ASP.NET 2.0
One of the things we did with ASP.NET 2.0 was to work very closely with the SharePoint and CMS teams within Microsoft to enable much richer architectural and developer integration than we had with previous releases.