Dec 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio, Silverlight/WPF

I'm flying out later today on a pretty intense business trip (22,000 miles, 5 countries, 3 continents, 1 week, no sleep... :-), so my blog activity over the next week and a half will be pretty light.  To keep you busy till I return, here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.

ASP.NET

• Geolocation/Geotargeting Reverse IP Lookup Code: Scott Hanselman has a cool sample that demonstrates how to perform IP address lookups on users visiting your site to determine where they are located on the globe (down to the latitude and longitude).  Pretty cool stuff.

• Tracking User Activity: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that discusses how to track end-user activity when visiting an ASP.NET web site.

• iTunes Data Grid Skin: Matt Berseth continues his cool series showing off cool new skins you can apply to ASP.NET controls (especially the GridView and DetailsView controls).  This post shows off a pretty sweet iTunes like skin.

• Using ETW to Troubleshoot AppDomain Restarts and other Issues: Tess Ferrandez has another great post that demonstrates how to use the ETW tracing features built-into ASP.NET and Windows to trouble-shoot runtime issues.

ASP.NET Dynamic Data

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Videos: Joe Stagner has 6 nice ASP.NET Dynamic Data "How Do I?" videos posted on www.asp.net that you can check out to learn about the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data feature in .NET 3.5 SP1.

• A "Many to Many" field template for Dynamic Data: David Ebbo has a great post that talks about how to enable Many To Many scenarios with ASP.NET Dynamic Data.

• Customizing ASP.NET Dynamic Data and Customizing a Template Field: Laurent Duveau has two nice posts in a series he is doing on using ASP.NET Dynamic Data and customizing the UI generated from it.

• ASP.NET Dynamic Data Routing: Rachel Appel has a nice post that talks about how to use the new ASP.NET routing features with ASP.NET Dynamic Data to enable customized URLs.

• Fun with T4 Templates and Dynamic Data: David Ebbo has a cool post on how to use the T4 templating engine built-into Visual Studio to automate ASP.NET Dynamic Data form generation.

• Using User Controls as Page Templates in Dynamic Data: David Ebbo has another nice post that talks about how to use user controls with ASP.NET Dynamic Data.

ASP.NET AJAX

• ASP.NET AJAX - Observing Updates to Plain Old JavaScript Objects: Dave Reed has a great blog post about one of the new features coming in ASP.NET AJAX - support for observing updates on plain old javascript objects.

• Using the Power of Binding to Animate Changes: Bertrand Le Roy has a nice post that talks about the new ASP.NET AJAX binding features coming and how you can use them with jQuery to animate changes.

• Instantiating Components on template markup: Bertrand Le Roy has a nice post that talks about client-side AJAX templating approaches and some of the new features coming in ASP.NET AJAX.

• Putting more than one behavior on one element and Getting a Reference to a Behavior: Bertrand Le Roy has two nice articles that talk about how to use the client-side behaviors feature of ASP.NET AJAX.

• Check/Uncheck all Items in an ASP.NET Checkbox List using jQuery: A nice article by Suprotim Agarwal that shows how to write client-side jQuery code to enable check/uncheck for all items within a checkbox list.

ASP.NET MVC

• How to Setup ASP.NET MVC on IIS6: Phil Haack has a great post that walks-through how to enable ASP.NET MVC on IIS6 servers (including how to enable it on a hosting server that you can't install anything on).

• Fluent Route Testing in ASP.NET MVC: Ben Scheirman has a nice post where he blogs about new helper methods he is creating that make it easier to unit test ASP.NET MVC routes using a fluent API.

• Autocomplete using jQuery, ASP.NET MVC and JSON: Faraz Tabibian has a nice blog sample that demonstrates how to implement an autocomplete textbox using jQuery and ASP.NET MVC.

• Hierarchical TreeView with ASP.NET MVC & jQuery: Mike Bosch has a cool sample that demonstrates how to add treeview UI to an ASP.NET MVC site using jQuery.

Visual Studio

• MSTest Tip: Double-Click to Go to Failing Test: Simone Chiaretta has a cool tip that can speed up navigating to a test when it fails in the built-in VS 2008 unit test runner.

• How to Add a Linked Item to a Project: Sara Ford has a nice post that talks about how to add linked items to your VS projects.

• Go to Class Definition for CSS: Nice post from the VS web tools team that talks about the "Go To Class Definition" feature in VS 2008 for CSS.

• How to Set a fixed Port for the VS Development WebServer: Another nice post from the VS web tools team that discusses how to assign a fixed HTTP port to an ASP.NET project within Visual Studio.

WPF / Silverlight

• XAML Power Toys - Instant Form Creation: Karl Shifflett has a great video that shows off his XAML Power Toys tool that integrates into Visual Studio and enables rapid forms creation for WPF and Silverlight.

• AutoCompleteBox Control - The Missing Guide: Jeff Wilcox has an awesome post that talks about the new Silverlight AutoCompleteBox control in the Silverlight Toolkit.  Very useful reading.

• Silverlight Charting and BabySmash: Scott Hanselman has a cool post where he talks about how he integrated the new Silverlight Chart control with his BabySmash sample from his awesome talk at the PDC.

• Silverlight Validator & Input Toolkit: A really nice new CodePlex project that enables validation controls for Silverlight - making form input scenarios a lot easier.

Hope this helps,

Scott