ScottGu's Blog
Scott Guthrie lives in Seattle and builds a few products for Microsoft
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Extending the ASP.NET 2.0 Localization Model with a Database Resource Provider
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Tip/Trick: Implement "Donut Caching" with the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution Feature
Some Background:
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Tip/Trick: How to Register User Controls and Custom Controls in Web.config
I've been including this technique in my ASP.NET Tips/Tricks talks the last year, but given how many people are always surprised by its existence I thought it was worth a dedicated tip/trick post to raise the visibility of it (click here to read other posts in my ASP.NET Tips/Tricks series).
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Common Gotcha: Don't forget to <clear/> when adding providers
Recently I've helped a few people out who were having an issue with how they had added new Membership, Role, and Profile providers within their web.config file. If you are ever going to add a provider declaration within your web.config file, please read-on to learn how to avoid a common gotcha.
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Podcasts and Prototyping
Ron Jacobs recently published a podcast with me for his ARCast.net show (which is a free Podcast series aimed at architects). In the podcast we covered a couple of topics people might find interesting:
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IronPython for ASP.NET CTP
A few months back I blogged about the release of IronPython v1.0. IronPython is an implementation of the Python dynamic language for .NET. It supports an interactive console with full dynamic compilation support and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers -- while still maintaining full compatibility with the Python language.
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Gotcha: Lost HTML Intellisense within ASP.NET AJAX Controls
Symptom:
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Nikhil's WebDevHelper Utility and ASP.NET AJAX Support
If you aren't subscribed yet to Nikhil's blog, you really should visit it and subscribe immediately.
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Office 2007, VS 2005 Tools for Office, and VS 2005 Extensions for SharePoint
Last week Microsoft released Office 2007. For those of you who haven't tried it yet, this is probably the biggest release of Office since Office 95 and is a really awesome upgrade. Among its biggest innovations is the introduction of the new "Ribbon UI" paradigm - which provides a significantly new and improved user experience (menus are no longer used):
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ASP.NET Connections Slides + Demos
Earlier this week I presented at the ASP.NET Connections conference in Las Vegas. This is a great conference that is held twice a year (the fall show is in Las Vegas, the spring show is in Orlando). This past week we had over 1,500 attendees for the ASP.NET conference alone, and more than 4,700 total for all of the DevConnections conferences held in parallel (VS, SQL, SharePoint, Mobile and Office Connections are all held in the same place - with attendees allowed to attend any session).