Back from Tech-Ed EMEA
I just flew back from Barcelona where I gave three talks last week at Tech-Ed EMEA. Lots of excitement, and great feedback, on all of the new Ajax features being added to the ASP.NET framework. I've included the Power Points and demo code from my presentations below. In my first Ajax talk, I fo......
<microsoft:ScriptReferenceProfiler> for ScriptCombining, available at CodePlex, ASP.NET AJAX
If you have seen Bertrand’s video on Script Combining to improve AJAX performance , you must have really felt like using it in your site to figure out the scripts downloaded in your page and minimizing the size, improving performance etc., Well, this post is just to say that, the ScriptReferencePro......
Enabling the Browser Back Button for GridView, ASP.NET AJAX History
One of the common navigation tools in a website is the back button of the browser. People use the back button quite frequently to go back to the page already visited. When there is a postback, the browser is updated with the information of the page visited and hence the back button gets enabled aut......
Rendering A Single View Using Multiple ViewEngines
One of the relatively obscure features of ASP.NET view rendering is that you can render a single view using multiple view engines. Brad Wilson actually mentioned this in his monster blog post about Partial Rendering and View Engines in ASP.NET MVC , but the implications may have been lost amongst a......
ASP.NET AJAX 4.0: Observing updates to POJOs (Plain 'Ole JavaScript Objects)
First of all, if you haven't already done so, download the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 3 now and try it out! And after you're done with that, come back here, or there , or there , or there , and let us know what you think and what you like or don't like...( read more ) Read More......(read......
Framework Design Guidelines: Testable Frameworks
I thought I do a weekly blog post series that highlights a few of the new additions to the Framework Design Guidelines 2 nd edition .. The first is around writing testable frameworks it is found in Chapter 1: Introduction. Phil brings his real world experience building ASP.NET MVC to the table with......
Step Aside StackOverflow, Here’s HaackOverflow
During my talk at the PDC, I heeded Hanselman’s call to action and decided to veer away from the Northwind “Permademo” and build something different. In the middle of the talk, I unveiled that I was going to build a competitor to StackOverflow which I would call HaackOverflow. This was all news to ......
ASP.NET and jQuery
It looks like many of you have already noticed that there's an official Visual Studio autocomplete file for jQuery posted up at the jQuery site . It's significant that it's hosted by the jQuery team in that it's a contribution by the Visual Studio team but it's not up at CodePle......
Donut Caching in ASP.NET MVC
With ASP.NET MVC , you can easily cache the output of an action by using the OutputCacheAttribute like so. [OutputCach(Duration=60, VaryByParam= "None" )] public ActionResult CacheDemo() { return View(); } One of the problems with this approach is that it is an all or nothing approach. Wh......
Nov 6th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight and WPF
Last week was our big PDC conference, and I've been busy catching up back at work this week. I'm hoping to publish a bunch of new posts soon (including some on the PDC announcements we made). Until then, here is the latest in my link-listing series . Also check out my ASP.......
The Weekly Source Code 36 - PDC, BabySmash and Silverlight Charting
First, let me remind you that in my new ongoing quest to read source code to be a better developer , Dear Reader, I present to you thirty-fifth in a infinite number of posts of " The Weekly Source Code ." At the end of my crazy babies talk at PDC ( Tips on how I prepared here ) I had a bi......
Securing Dynamic Data
One of the questions we often get is how do you secure Dynamic Data websites. Michael Miele one of the technical writers that writes the documentation for ASP.NET wrote a great sample that shows how to do this using Form Authentication and Roles that are provided in ASP.NET. We uploaded his sample ......
Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC
With the release of ASP.NET MVC Beta, the assemblies distributed with ASP.NET MVC are automatically installed into the GAC. System.Web.Mvc System.Web.Routing System.Web.Abstractions While developing an application locally, this isn’t a problem. But when you are ready to deploy your application to a......
PDC ASP.NET Content Available Now
Just got back from PDC 2008 last week, we showed all kinds of cool new stuff. Here is a list of links for the videos of all the ASP.NET sessions: ASP.NET 4.0 Roadmap - http://channel9.msdn.com/pdc2008/PC20/ ASP.NET MVC: A New Framework for Building Web Applications - http://channel9.msdn.com......
Performance by Design – PDC 2008
Rico Mariani (Chief Architect of Visual Studio – previously performance architect for .net), Vance Morrison (Performance architect for .net) and Mark Friedman (Architect Lead for the Developer Division of Performance Engineering) had a full day talk at the PDC about performance. Unfortunately recor......
jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX Demo Code
Thank you to everyone who came to my jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX PDC talk! As promised, I've added a link to the demo code from the talk to this blog entry. There are three separate downloads: jQuery Demos -- Contains sample code that demonstrates how to use jQuery selectors, animations, and ......
Need your input for TechEd EMEA sessions on troubleshooting .net applications
TechEd EMEA Developers is just around 2 weeks away now and the pre-conference nervousness is starting to get to me:) This will be my first time at TechEd (even as an attendee) so I am really excited. I was just chatting a little with one of the track-owners to figure out what the venue ......
Script# Programming in the Large
Some large-scale Ajax apps and frameworks - the Live Framework and Office 14, both announced at PDC - built using Script#... Read More......(read more)...
Hot New Presentation Tip
Before giving a presentation, I review Scott Hanselman’s top 11 presentation tips . Well I have a twelfth tip that Scott needs to add to his list, and he’ll vouch for this. A couple of hours before Jeff and I gave the ASP.NET MVC presentation, we played some RockBand in the Big Room (exhibition are......
October 22nd Links: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, WPF and Silverlight
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 Building a Great ASP.NET AJAX Application from Scratch : Brad Abrams has a nice end t......
The Weekly Source Code 35 - Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session and Cache State
Recently while talking to Jeff Atwood and his development team about StackOverflow he mentioned that he compresses the Cache or Session data in ASP.NET which enables him to store about 5-10x more data. They do it with some helper methods but I thought it'd be interesting to try it myself. There......
Troubleshooting ASP.NET issues with HTTPERR logs
I am doing some email cleanup and got a request to write a post about how to use the HTTPERR logs. I thought long and hard about what I could write that would add value. There is a really good KB article on the topic http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;820729 that goes thr......
.NET Debugging at TechED EMEA (10-14 November in Barcelona)
I hope you will join me for TechEd in Barcelona on the 10th-14th of November. I will be presenting 2 sessions, one breakout and one interactive session: WUX405 Common ASP.NET production issues and how to troubleshoot them with windbg “ This session presents the most common causes for hangs, perform......
Essential Visual Studio Tips & Tricks that Every Developer Should Know
In this blog entry, I list the essential tips and tricks that every developer who uses Visual Studio 2008 should know. I wanted to keep this list brief. I also wanted to focus on only those tips and tricks that I use on a daily basis. Almost all of these tips and tricks are just as useful regardles......
AjaxWorld Talk: Building a Great Ajax application from Scratch
I had a great time today at AjaxWorld during my talk on building a great Ajax Application from Scratch. It was fun to get out from behind the powerpoint and show some real code! For this demo, I only used freely available tools... In particular everything I show works in Vis......
Hanselminutes Podcast 134 - StackOverflow uses ASP.NET MVC - Jeff Atwood and his technical team
My one-hundred-and-thirty-fourth podcast is up . Well, actually a few weeks ago, but I totally forgot to update my website with the details. You'd think somewhere around 100 shows I'd had automated this somehow. Hm. If I only I know a programmer and the data was available in some kind of un......
Flickr Xplorer - A Cool ASP.NET MVC Example !
Mehfuz Hossain has created a cool open source application based on ASP.NET MVC The CodePlex project can be found HERE ! You can use the application LIVE - HERE ! Read More......(read more)...
Community Links 10/11/2008: URL Rewrite, ASP.NET, Extensibility, Diagnostics, WordPress
Here are a few cool links I found today while catching up on my IIS reading: URL Rewrite In case you missed it, the IIS7 URL Rewrite extension is now licensed for production use in its final beta release. Deploy it today and get all the benefits from one of the most powerful IIS7 featu......
New ASP.NET MVC Tutorials
I created three new ASP.NET MVC tutorials that were just published at the www.ASP.net/mvc website. There are both C# and VB.NET versions of each tutorial. Here are the direct links and descriptions: Creating Custom HTML Helpers Create new HTML Helpers to make it easier to generate view content. Ste......
ASP.NET MVC and the new IIS7 Rewrite Module
Last year I noticed that there were 11 ways to get to my blog. Literally 11 different URLs and it wasn't helping me my ranking in the search engines. I wrote about this in detail and how I used ISAPI_Rewrite to fix it up . Fast forward to this year and the IIS7 team has been taking advantage of......
Checkout Tip#10, Tip#11, Tip#12 and Tip#13 on Tips and Tricks blog
Here are four new tips on Tips and Tricks Blog. Tip #10 Did you know… Visual Web Developer 2008 has a New Style Builder Dialog? Tip #11 Did you know… New Style builder can be invoked from various other tool windows in Visual Web Developer. Tip #12: Did you know..How to create an IIS Virtual Directo......
October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, IIS
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 Best Practices for Creating ASP.NET websites with IIS 6.0 : Omar Al Zabir, author of ......
ASP.NET MVC Tip #45 – Use Client View Data
In this tip, I explore one approach to building Ajax applications with ASP.NET MVC. I show how you can use view data when building Ajax applications with ASP.NET MVC in the same way as you would use view data when building server-side application. I demonstrate how to create a custom HTML Helper th......
Loading Iframe Dynamically in ASP.NET
Click here for a Text Version of this Article In case you have issues in viewing this video within the blog, you can directly view it from http://silverlight.services.live.com/34222/Loading%20Iframe%20Dynamically%20in%20ASP.NET/video.wmv Cheers!!! Read More......(read more)...
Setting ASP.NET Webform Tag’s Action Attribute
Click here for a text version of this article Facing issues with embedding the video. For now, you can view the video, directly from http://silverlight.services.live.com/34222/Setting%20ASP.NET%20Form's%20Action%20Attribute/video.wmv Cheers !!! Read More......(read more)...
October 2nd Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Dynamic Data
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 Amazon EC2 Support for Windows and ASP.NET: Big news announced this week: Amazon will......
JQuery and ASP.NET MVC
Where have I been? ;) You probably heard the news already form the GU already, but just in case, we will be shipping JQuery with Visual Studio . ASP.NET MVC will have the privilege of being one of the first products to include JQuery. I am glad we finally announced this because I got tired of stifl......
Plug-In Hybrids: ASP.NET WebForms and ASP.MVC and ASP.NET Dynamic Data Side By Side
I wanted to write this post because there seems to be a lot of confusion about how ASP.NET WebForms, MVC and Dynamic Data all fit together. Folks may have WebForms applications and want to start looking at ASP.NET MVC but aren't sure if they need to start from scratch or not. Folks might look a......
jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio
I've done a series of four podcasts dedicated to JavaScript over the last month. Why? Because of this rockin' sweet announcement: Microsoft is going to make jQuery part of the official dev platform. JQuery will come with Visual Studio in the long term, and in the short term it'll ship w......
POP QUIZ: What’s wrong with this code – part 3
Imagine you are a developer and your boss comes to you complaining that your piece of code has been deemed to be taking up too much memory and causing problems for the application. You take a look at your code and you see the following, assume that stream is defined above this and is correct:......
Refreshing ASP.NET Dynamic Language Support
This afternoon we released a refresh of our DLR/IronPython support for ASP.NET, now called “ ASP.NET Dynamic Language Support ”, on our CodePlex site . This was originally part of our July 2007 ASP.NET Futures package, along with several other features. As updates to these features were made availa......
Update on .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 and Windows Update
The .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 included a bunch of new features, but as a Service Pack it also included a number of bug fixes and many improvements. These fixes included all aspects of the .NET Framework from ASP.NET to WPF and the CLR. Will the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 break my 2.0 apps? Almost certainl......
ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Forums #6 – Ajax
In this series of blog entries, I build an entire MVC Forums application from start to finish. In this entry, I create the user interface for the Forums application by taking advantage of ASP.NET AJAX client templates. I build the entire user interface for the Forums application with a single view ......
How are you using ASP.NET and Silverlight?
I have posted in the past about some new things that are coming with DeepZoom and the like. What I am curious about is how is everyone using ASP.NET and Silverlight? Are there plans in the future to use it? I think the options with it are some vast, that I’d like to see how everyone is ......
REST in WCF Series
Rob Bagby is in the midst of a blog series on REST in WCF and been building a series of screencasts on the same subject (in conjunction with Ron Jacobs). Since it's such an interesting topic, especially to AJAX developers I thought I'd share them here. Blog Series: REST in WCF - Part I (RES......
ASP.NET MVC Application Building: Family Video Website #4 – Paging, Silverlight and Flip
(ASP.NET MVC + Silverlight + Flip Video) is a wonderful combination! In this blog entry, I continue building the Family Video Website. I integrate a new Silverlight video player, demonstrate how to upload Flip videos, and add paging. This blog entry is part of a series of entries on using ASP.NET M......
ASP.NET MVC Tip #44 – Create a Pager HTML Helper
In this tip, I demonstrate how you can create a custom HTML Helper that you can use to generate a user interface for paging through a set of database records. I build on the work of Troy Goode and Martijn Boland. I also demonstrate how you can build unit tests for HTML Helpers by faking the HtmlHel......
ASP.NET Tips: Careful Use of Static's
Not sure how many people realize it, but when you start dealing with multiple users access a system (in this case a web server), you have to be very careful what you store in static's (global variables). This is because all the users will have access to this data and so if you create a pa......
Control Freak.
Hmmm...no blogging lately...what has Shawn been up to? Yes, guilty. But here's what's been going on over the past few months. Shortly after MIX07, ScottGu brought up an idea of building a larger team focused on building controls. We kicked this idea around for while ......
Hanselminutes Podcasts 128 and 129 - Ajax with Scott Cate and JavaScript with Bertrand Le Roy
My one-hundred-and-twenty-eighth and one-hundred-and-twenty-ninth podcasts are up. Both are on JavaScript and each has a very different perspective. I also talked to jQuery creator John Resig a few weeks ago so check that out. Watch for a possible upcoming podcast with the creator of JavaScript, Br......