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User Group Talk: Handling Errors in an ASP.NET Web Application

Tomorrow night, Tuesday January 16th, I'll be speaking at the ASP.NET Specicial Interest Group here in San Diego. The meeting, held at Microsoft's office in UTC on La Jolla Village Drive east of Genese, starts at 6:30 PM with announcements and free pizza and soft drinks!!! I'll start blathering aro......

Securing Non-ASP.NET Files Using ASP.NET 2.0

Did you know that you can actually use the ASP.NET authentication system to secure other types of files like images and PDFs? It only works on IIS 5 or later and has some limitations, but it can be done.Visit our new .NET 2.0 section!...

Community Recognition System now Live

One area that we have been focusing a lot of energy is continuing to improve our online community offerings. A few weeks ago we rolled out a new Community Recognition System as a way to reward members of our community with special recognition for their contribution to the 'greater good.' ......

A Navigation System Comes Easily

Learn about the three new navigation controls of ASP .NET 2.0, with which you can accomplish a professional-looking, XML-data-driven navigation system in just a few simple steps....

A Look at ASP.NET 2.0's URL Mapping

URL mapping - a feature new to ASP.NET 2.0 - enables page developers to map one set of URLs to another. If a request comes in for one of the URLs in the first set, it is automatically re-mapped on the server-side. For example, you can configure the application so that the URL ~/Beverages.aspx is......

DotNetPro’s Search Engine Spam

My friend Philipp Lenssen wrotes some days ago about the German magazine DotNetPro which offers different html output when Google's crawler is fetching the site.“Neue Mediengesellschaft mbH” is a German publisher of tech print magazines like Com!, Internet World Business, MacUp and ......

BUG: Off-By-One Error in the Paging/Sorting with the DataList or Repeater Tutorials

Alert Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0 tutorial reader Nathan P. wrote in to let me know that there is a small bug in the code for the paging and sorting with the DataList and Repeater tutorials. It's a silly off-by-one error that I should have caught long before turning in the tutorials. In any e......

Tip/Trick: Using Mobile Web Forms with Web Application Projects

Hopefully, people reading this post are familiar with the "Web Application Projects" feature that was added to Visual Studio 2005 in Service Pack 1. If you are using Web Application Projects, you might have noticed that it doesn't have item templates for ASP.NET Mobile Web Forms (which were previou......

Search on www.asp.net now Live

Yesterday we rolled out Live Search integration on www.asp.net . Type what you are looking for in the space in the navigation bar and up come the results. Use the tabs at the top of the results window to do a search specific to weblogs.asp.net or forums.asp.net . Enjoy, Simon. Read More......(read ......

A few VS 2005 SP1 Links and Information Nuggets

In you were out the second half of December, you might have missed some of the VS 2005 Service Pack 1 posts that I've previously made: Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (SP1) Released Installing VS 2005 SP1 on Vista (and how to uninstall the VS 2005 SP1 Beta on Vista) HTML Source Edi......

I've been Tagged: Five Things You Might Not Know About Me

I've been tagged by Paul, so here are 5 things to share about me: 1) I was born in Michigan, lived for two years in California, and then spent a decade growing up in England. I attended Duke University and graduated with a degree in Computer Science. 2) During college I also worked for Apple......

Much ado about nothin.............Laptops given to bloggers

Original url: http://morewally.com/cs/blogs/wallym/archive/2006/12/28/624.aspx I started reading about this issue of "Microsoft giving laptops to bloggers with Vista" lastnight.The question about this seems to revolve around ethic. The perception seems to be that bloggers......

Creating a Quick and Dirty Online Blackjack Game

Every now and then I like to give myself a fun little programming challenge. I'll randomly pick some enjoyable task, like programming a game or blogging engine or what not, and impose a time limit, anywhere from an hour to an afternoon. Such little challenges keep the fun in programming and help......

Is this http://wallyweblogs.asp.net ?

I'm not trying to subvert anything, but given the amount of downtown that people have from technology over the holidays and my increase in available time, I am afraid that someone might complain and start asking themselves if this is http://wallyweblogs.asp.net. We shall see....................

Microsoft Zune Media Player - First Impressions

My absolute first impression of the Microsoft Zune Media Player is that Microsoft has done a good job with the interface. I am finding it simpler to use than my IPod Video video and it runs the video files for the podcast in the wmv format. Guess what, the ASP.NET Podcast distributes th......

Doug Reilly has passed away

Doug Reilly, author, MVP, ASPInsider, Friend, and good guy passed away today. Doug had cancer. For more info, check our:http://blog.programmingasp.net/Update:Article on Doug at CNet: http://news.com.com/Cancer+survivors+advice+to+programmers%2C+others/2100-1022_3-6073931.html?tag=nefd.l......

An ASP.NET 2.0 BlackJack Game

Every now and then I like to give myself a fun little programming challenge. I'll randomly pick some enjoyable task, like programming a game or blogging engine or what not, and impose a time limit, anywhere from an hour to an afternoon. Such little challenges keep the fun in programming and help me......

Emailing the Rendered Output of an ASP.NET Web Control in ASP.NET 2.0

In a previous 4Guys article, Emailing the Rendered Output of an ASP.NET Web Control, I showed how to programmatically render the HTML of an ASP.NET Web control (such as a GridView) and then send that HTML through email. This technique is useful in scenarios where you want to let the user email ......

Tip/Trick: How to Run a Root “/” Site with the Local Web Server using VS 2005 SP1

One of the questions I'm often asked is whether it is possible to run an ASP.NET web-site project as a top-level root "/" site using the built-in VS web-server and the VS 2005 Web Site Project model. By default, when you open a web-site as a file-system based web site project and run it, VS w......

Announcing the ASP.NET website Community Recognition Program

Last night we launched the Community Recognition Program for the www.asp.net site, which seeks to recognize each person’s contribution to the site. Historically the greatest contribution has been in the forums, where many people moderate and answer questions from developers. More recent initiatives......

Freeing up drive space on XP

Totally Stolen from: http://weblogs.asp.net/jgalloway/archive/2006/12/17/freeing-up-drive-space-on-windows-xp.aspx Empty Recycle Bin (Yes, I know. Not rocket surgery so far. Keep with me, I'm getting warmed up.) If you bought a PC with XP preinstalled, consider running the PC Decrapifier......

Running VS2005 with IIS7

The team I work within has been doing a lot of work to get Vista/IIS7 and VS2005 to play nice, I can't say the experince has been nice and I do wonder what its been like for others. Here's a few things that you need to be careful of.MSDN link, follow this first - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/......

Taking an ASP.NET 2.0 Application Offline

Normally the last thing you want is for your web application to be offline. That being said, there are times when it's either desirable or necessary to take an ASP.NET application offline. Luckily ASP.NET 2.0 provides a convenient way to take an application offline and inform site visitors of the......

A Video Presentation of Implementing a Layered Architecture Using Separate Class Library Projects

My Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0 tutorial series looks at building a layered architecture and demonstrates working with data against that architecture. The tutorials implement the architecture as classes in the website's App_Code folder. Ideally, these layers would be implemented as separate Cla......

Extending the ASP.NET ImageButton Control

This article describes an easy approach to extending an existing ASP.NET control; in this example, the standard toolkit’s Image Button control is extended to support roll-over effects. Given the standard control already contains existing support for both server side click events and client click e......

Himalia - Model Driven UIs

Himalia looks very very interesting. It's built with Visual Studio DSL tools. It lets you model a UI based on Use Cases, Navigation Models and Presentation Models.They have an implementation that runs the models on top of WPF but the models are not platform dependent, so they plan to have ASP.N......

Maintain Scroll Position on Postback in ASP.NET 2.0

When working with a lengthy web page that spans many vertical “pages,” scrolling down and then doing something that causes a postback results with the posted back page sitting back up at the top rather than auto-scrolling down to the location where the postback was triggered. With ASP.NET 1.x, this......

PHP Security Woes

I do alot of PHP programming and like working with apps like Joomla and XOOPS, etc…. I have wondered if PHP would suffer the scrutiny that ASP did a while back. This dialog on Slash Dot is interesting…… "PHP security holes have a name — quite often it was Stefan Esser who found and reported them. N......

Testing Web Sites with HttpWebRequest

Web servers sometimes produce a Web page even if it has an error. To verify whether the server is actually running and not generating any Web errors, use the HttpWebRequest class to check the content of any ASP.NET page....

Why is Traffic to the ASP.NET Podcast up so much?

Its been an interesting last month or so. I've been watching traffic to the ASP.NET Podcast XML feed go way up. I've been trying to figure out why? Is it my sparking good looks, cute smile, sterling voice, or something else? Well, I think I have figured out why. ......

Great new ASP.NET training from Total Training

I got a mail from the folks over at Total Training today letting me know that Set 1 of their awesome ASP.NET 2.0 video training is available -- they are offering a free hour to wet your appetitie -- details below. Enjoy! Total Training offers 1 Hour of complimentary video training on ......

Working with Web Parts and Tabbed Views

A common feature among popular portal sites - such as Google and Live portals - is the ability for users to add new pages and hence having tabbed views. When you have such a feature how would you allow users to drag web parts between the tabs? In this article I will show how to do that using th......

.NET Web Services - Exception Handling And Non-Exception Error Handling

This article shows one approach to bubbling up exceptions and error messages from your business layer to your ASP.NET web page as well as web methods when called via Web Services. It is a great beginner sample to utilizing web services and custom classes in .NET....

Half of PCs won't run Vista

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2068351,00.asp I can believe it. I've been running Vista on a system that is about 2.5 years old. Its not horribly slow, but its not lightening fast either. I tend to buy highend systems when I plunk my money down, but I can imaging......

WPF/E VS2005 Template (ASP.NET Version)

I found a post on Paul Glavichs blog about the WPF/E Visual Studio .NET 2005 template:I saw a link on Andrew Stopford’s blog which pointed to yet another blog by John Rayner that showed a way of installing the WPF/e template into VS2005 without Web application projects. Well, my template......

"WPF/E" CTP and Expression Studio Announced

For the past several months I've been spending more and more of my time at work focused on our broader UX story, designers, and our rich media platform. It has been quite a ride, ramping up on parts of the business that I haven't had a lot of famiiarity with but are critical to our Web Platfo......

Flash Player Custom Control for ASP.NET 2.0

This article describes a quick and simple approach to creating a custom web control used to display shockwave flash files within an ASP.NET page. Whilst the article and demonstration project are focused upon displaying a shockwave flash (SWF) file, the basic idea is applicable to any sort of objec......

IIS7 Beta Hosting at DiscountASP

I got an email yesterday from Takeshi over at DiscountASP and they just launched free IIS7 Beta hosting for all customers who are interested. You can get all the details at http://www.discountasp.net/sp_iis7hosting.aspx This is a great way to experiment with the great new features of II......

Smart ListControl in ASP.NET 1.x/2.0

In this article Bilal Haidar shows you how to make any ListControl that ships with ASP.NET 1.x/2.0 a smart control by making those controls preserve the client-side changes on their collection of items....

TIP: System.WebServer configuration section

You can fill in the System.WebServer section now on your ASP.NET 2.0 applications and deploy it to IIS 6 servers, where the section is deployed...So why is this cool?Well, you can deploy the same site to IIS 6 and IIS 7, and IIS 7 will take advantage of all the cool features which are there. It mea......

Extending the ASP.NET 2.0 Localization Model with a Database Resource Provider

Earlier this spring, Michèle Leroux Bustamante wrote a great article for MSDN: ASP.NET 2.0 Localization Features: A Fresh Approach to Localizing Web Applications. It covers the basics of how to use the new localization features available within ASP.NET 2.0 to build localized, culture-aware, w......

Tip/Trick: Use the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters for CSS friendly HTML output

Tired of having html <table> elements rendered by the built-in ASP.NET server controls and wishing you could use a pure CSS solution instead? If so, read on... Last week we released Version 1.0 of the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters. These adapters take advantage of a new exten......

ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action by Darren Neimke

I highly recommend the book ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in Action by Darren Neimke (Manning Publications). This book assumes you are already experienced with ASP.NET, so it doesn't waste your time with yet another introduction. Instead, everything in this book is just good content about W......

Boulder, CO .NET User Group Presentation

Creating CSS Friendly Websites with ASP.NET 2.0

One of the features of ASP.NET 1.0 was its adaptive rendering capabilities that allowed for the markup rendered by an ASP.NET web page to be appropriate for the visiting browser. In short, when an ASP.NET page is visited its Web controls are rendered into markup that is sent down to the browser ......

Link: The Windows Shutdown crapfest

I saw this via Frans, but it's worth linking to...http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2006/11/windows-shutdown-crapfest.htmlAs ridiculous as it all seems, isn't it strange how you can't really generalize that this is the way things go all over the company. The Xbox team doesn't appear......

Tip/Trick: Implement "Donut Caching" with the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution Feature

Some Background: One of the most powerful, yet too often under-used, feature areas of ASP.NET is its rich caching infrastructure. ASP.NET's caching features enable you to avoid repeating work on the server for each new request received from clients. Instead, you can generate either html content or ......

ASP.NET Podcast Site has been updated

After watching my beloved Georgia Tech Ramblin' Wreck have a train wreck against Georgia, I started on updating the site for the ASP.NET Podcast from Community Server 1.1 all the way upto CS2.1. The site is updated and appears to be properly working now. Thanks to the folks at Orcsw......

HTTP Compression with HttpCompress

This article describes how to enable HTTP compression for ASP.net web applications without having direct access to the server and by using an HttpModule....

Is PHP the new VB6?

Introduction In the past, I've come down hard on ASP.NET for trying to be an all-in-one solution. Rather, I've come down hard on ASP.NET developers trying to make it into an all-in-one solution. ASP.NET is an unsurpassed language for enterprise development and other medium-to-large scale pr......

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