ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Release Candidate Now Available
Earlier today the ASP.NET team shipped the release candidate for ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 . This is the penultimate release of ASP.NET AJAX - the next public release will be the final, fully supported, 1.0 product. This release candidate build includes several new features, and one important change, from t......
Updated Toolkit (for AJAX RC) released on a windy day in Seattle
I write this post from a coffee shop in downtown Bellevue (not far from Microsoft). We had a massive wind storm here last night and most of the Seattle area is without power, Microsoft included. There are trees down everywhere. For some reason, there's a few blocks here in Bellevue with power. And ......
Video: Edit XML Data with the XmlDocument Class
In this video tutorial I walk through how to use the XmlDocument class to edit XML. Click the link below to view the video. View Video...
A short list of WPF/E exmaples
- Flash and WPF/E combined:http://thewpfblog.com/examples/wpfe/microbe/Default.html- Page Turnerhttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=79204&clcid=0x409- Sprawl Gamehttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=79206&clcid=0x409- Film Strip Slide-Showhttp://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=79208&am......
ASP.NET AJAX RC 1 is here! Download now
We are making great progress with ASP.NET AJAX and are definitely winding down to the home stretch. I'm happy to announce immediate availability of ASP.NET AJAX RC 1. Here is the blurb from the www.asp.net homepage: ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Release Candidate is now available for downloa......
ASP.NET AJAX RC is Live!
Check it out! We just posted the ASP.NET AJAX RC bis … Just in time for your holiday coding fun…. We are getting to the home stretch here and we really need your last minute feedback on the product. The big change you will notice here is that we moved from the Microsoft.* namespace to the System.* ......
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......
Swivel
Swivel has been called "YouTube for Data". Very cool.Who will be the first to post their Team System productivity data? How about some kind of SQL Server connector to Swivels? ...
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....
Atlas 4: Only 2 calls at a time and don't expect any order
Browsers make two concurrent AJAX calls at a time to a domain. If you make five AJAX calls, browser is going to make two calls first, then wait for any one of them to complete and then make another call until all remaining four calls are complete. Moreover, you cannot expect calls to receive a resp......
ComponentArt ASP.NET AJAX Video
I should have put this on Tuesday with my previous post. There is also a video that ComponentArt has put out. The video is at: http://www.componentart.com/videos/webui20062/...
MobiLink Synchronization Wizard in SQL Anywhere 10
If you work with data that is distributed and stored in databases then you understand the importance of keeping multiple databases synchronized. Mobilink is a technology that can help with that process. Keep reading to learn more....New SAP NetWeaver J2EE Preview! Try the new SAP NetWeaver J2EE pr......
Output Caching in ASP.NET 2.0
One of the most sure-fire ways to improve a web application's performance is to employ caching. Caching takes some expensive
operation and stores its results in a quickly accessible location. ASP.NET
version 1.0 introduced two flavors of caching:
Output Caching - caches the entire rendered mar......
Reporting Services - Add a logo to the Report Manager
The SQL Server Reporting Services Report Manager is functional, but it's not very customizable. The ASPX pages just reference compiled assemblies, so the only real way to modify them is via CSS. What makes that more difficult is that the SSRS HTML is poorly constructed so that the tags you'd most ......
Use ASP.NET Membership and Role Providers in Windows Communication Foundation
It's possible to use ASP.NET membership and role providers for authentication and authorization in Windows Communication Foundation.
To enable ASP.NET membership for authentication you need to modify service configuration file and add appropriate items for ASP.NET membership to it then set Win......
Video: Parsing XML with the XmlDocument Class
In this video tutorial I walk through the fundamentals of using the XmlDocument class in .NET to parse an RSS feed and display results. Click the link below to view the video. View Video...
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. ......
ComponentArt ASP.NET AJAX
http://www.componentart.com/home.aspxLooks like the guys at ComponentArt are doing good stuff. I just got an email from them about there new ASP.NET AJAX controls....
Create Drill-Through Reports using ReportViewer in ASP.NET 2.0
This article provides a step-by-step demo on how to create drill-through reports in local mode using SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Application Blocks, and the ReportViewer control in ASP.NET 2.0....
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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....
Gotcha: Don't use with ASP.NET AJAX
Recently I've helped a few developers who have been having some weird JavaScript issues (both when using ASP.NET AJAX and with some other custom JavaScript routines they were using). The culprit was that they had automatically migrated a VS 2003 Web Project to VS 2005, and still had ......
NOVA SQL - December 2006 Meeting - SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning
Title SQL Server 2005 Performance Tuning http://www.novasql.com/presentations.htm Speaker David Kress of Symantec and Jeremy Kadlec of Edgewood Solutions Date and Time Monday, December 18, 2006 @ 7:00 PM Location AT&T Government Solutions Building @ 1900 Gallows Road Vienna, VA 2218......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #79 - Microsoft AJAX UpdatePanel and Clientside Page LifeCycle Video
Original Url: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/12/09/asp-net-podcast-show-79-ajax-updatepanel-and-clientside-page-lifecycle.aspxSubscribe - What you really want to do!Download - wmvDownload - mp4Download the Powerpoint slides. Show Notes:Microsoft AJAX UpdatePan......
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......
Get the SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition CTP
SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition is the successor to SQL Server 2005 Mobile Edition (SQL Mobile). Compact Edition adds to the great data replication and synchronization capabilities available in SQL Mobile....
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NetAhead Dynamic SearchControls
Add dynamic searching to your asp.net 2.0 data webpages with visual controls.
With dynamic searching you extent the search options dramatically. You also reduce the data resultset and speed up your data webpages.
NetAhead Dynamic SearchControls enables you to add dynamic parameterized server......
Storing Binary Files Directly in the Database Using ASP.NET 2.0
In building a data-driven application, oftentimes both text and binary data needs to be captured. Applications might need
to store images, PDFs, Word documents, or other binary data. Such binary data can be stored in one of two ways:
on the web server's file system, with a reference to the file ......
"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......
ASP.NET Podcast Show #78 - South Bend, IN Report with Sql Server CLR Objects
SubscribeDownloadOriginal url: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/12/02/asp-net-podcast-show-78-south-bend-in-report-with-sql-server-clr-objects.aspxShow Notes:My book writing is in.Went to South Bend, IN to talk on Sql Server 2005 CLR Objects.Indianapolis, IN – ......
ASPInsider Public Overview via Scott Guthrie
The ASPInsiders Summit began today with Scott Guthrie's overview of what's happening. Steve Smith already has a good summary of his presentation, so I won't try to repeat it. Instead, let me just say that working with .NET just keeps getting more and more exciting. Its truly amazing to ......
Building a Multi-table Report with SQL 2005 Reporting Services
If you want to learn how to generate a multi-table report using Microsoft s SQL Server Reporting Services SSRS you ve come to the right place. This article will use data from two of the tables in the Northwind database on the SQL 2 5 server for demonstration purposes....Professional Trac Hostin......
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......
Get "WPF/E" onto a Web Page in seconds using ASP.NET AJAX Extenders
Kudos to the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit team for creating a killer extender to simplify getting a "WPF/E" control onto a page. I love seeing the agility we have with the toolkit releases.
Shawn Burke has all the details...
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......
OpenOffice Will Support Microsoft's Office Open XML format
[Via ZDNet Belgium] Novell is going to include Microsoft's Office Open XML Format in OpenOffice! Read the full press release in Novell's Press Room. Novell Boosts OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office Interoperability Novell to support Open XML format to advance document interoperability WALTHAM, Mas......
Performance Enhancements
So in my last blog I talked about how important it is to have a thorough understanding of the Windows Hosting environment before diving into performance optimizations in your web application. Another critical aspect is having a Performance Test Plan as well as a Test Lab where you can simulate load......
Performance Enhancements
So in my last blog I talked about how important it is to have a thorough understanding of the Windows Hosting environment before diving into performance optimizations in your web application. Another critical aspect is having a Performance Test Plan as well as a Test Lab where you can simulate load......
Returning the First Day of the Month from a Given Date/Time value in SQL Server
First off, it's been a long time since my last post, close to a month! Things have been very busy between the new batches of Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0 tutorials, the monthly Toolbox column, other miscellaneous writings (working on an article on JSON for MSDN Online with my favorite coauthor ......
Returning the First Day of the Month from a Given Date/Time value in SQL Server
First off, it's been a long time since my last post, close to a month! Things have been very busy between the new batches of Working with Data in ASP.NET 2.0 tutorials, the monthly Toolbox column, other miscellaneous writings (working on an article on JSON for MSDN Online with my favorite coauthor ......
Rules you need for Fiddler
From time to time I install Fiddler on new PCs and everytime I have the same problem: which rules do I need to get most from Fiddler. Here are my top 5 rules I use:In OnBoot() I use following two lines to display the raw request and response inspectors:FiddlerObject.UI.ActivateRequestInspector(&quo......
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....
SmartPart Featured on CMS Wire
Brice Dunwoodie has written a nice article on CMS Wire about the latest release of the SmartPart (aka the Return of the SmartPart). Easy Web User Controls for SharePoint (MOSS) 2007 SmartPart v3, also known as the “SmartPart for SharePoint 2007” has been released. This is a container Web......
TechEd Europe Sessions Posted
Some great videos from TechEd Europe were recently posted… If you couldn't make it to Barconlna this year, at least you can hear some of the great talks. Here are a few of my favorites… Please let us hear your feedback! ASP.NET: Developer and Designer AJAX Bliss with Visual Studio and Expression Br......
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......
Toolkit Extender for creating WPF/E components
If you haven't already seen ScottGu's post on WPF/E , I'd recommend checking it out. WPF/E is a new technology that opens up incredible new possibilities for improving the richness and interactivity of the web. Scott links to a few demos, and the WPF/E install is quick simple, and even works on a M......
WPF/E and Script#
A whole bunch of technologies working together - AJAX, Script#, JSONP, and the just announced, WPF/E client runtime that enables scriptable media and vector graphics in the browser... Read More......(read more)...