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Published on 12 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
One of the cool new features in VS 2005 is a debugging extensibility feature called "Debugger Visualizers". Basically this provides a way for developers to build and use UI extensions within the VS debugger that provide richer data visualization and analysis of types and variables wi
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Published on 11 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Jeff Prosise has a written a great sample and article for the February edition of MSDN magazine that walksthrough the new SQL Server based provider he built for the ASP.NET 2.0 Site Navigation System. This enables you to store your site map structure in a database instead of using the default
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Published on 10 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Hao and Stefan just shipped a cool new Profile Provider download on the ASP.NET Sandbox Site. It provides two new profile provider implementations (with complete source code) that you can use. One enables you to map profile properties directly to a SQL table in a database -- en
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Published on 09 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Peter Kellner has a good article on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Roles Features, and then put together a very useful sample that demonstrates how to implement a set of admin data-pages on top of the ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Role Management system to allow you to remotely administer your
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Published on 09 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
One of the cool new features in the configuration system with ASP.NET 2.0 is the ability to encrypt any of the values stored within them (note: this works with any configuration section -- including ones you build yourself). This is obviously important when storing sensitive information like c
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Published on 08 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Joshua Flanagan has recently published his latest update to a new ProfileView control he has built that enables you to view/edit ASP.NET 2.0 Profile settings within a web-page. It is a pretty cool control definitely worth checking out if you are using the new profile system. He also has
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Published on 08 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Teemu posted a cool sample of how to subclass the built-in ASP.NET 2.0 GridView to provide a row-clickable GridView control (where you can click on a row to switch into edit mode on it). I haven't tried yet, but you should be able to combine this with the new <atlas:updatepanel> con
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Published on 15 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
One of my goals over the next few weeks is to publish a number of quick tutorial postings that walkthrough implementing common data binding design patterns using ASP.NET 2.0 (master details, filtering, sorting, paging, 2-way data-binding, editing, insertion, deletion, hierarchical data browsing, hie
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Published on 17 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Cristian Civera recently forwarded me a pointer to a really cool client-utility that he has built that provides support for analyzing ASP.NET content markup and view-state usage within a page. The below screenshot gives a good idea of some of the things you can do with it: You can learn
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Published on 17 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
This past weekend I posted a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a strongly-typed DAL (data access layer) using Visual Web Developer (which is free) and ASP.NET 2.0. My plan over the next few weeks is to post many follow-up samples that show various ways to use this DAL to build common data
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Published on 18 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Here is a really cool URL rewriting module for ASP.NET 2.0. You can configure it using regular expressions in your web.config file like so: <urlrewritingnet rewriteOnlyVirtualUrls="true" contextItemsPrefix="QueryString" compileRegex="true" xmlns="http://www.urlre
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Published on 18 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Keith just pointed me to a free promotional training offer on ASP.NET 2.0, VS 2005 and SQL 2005. You can register to receive a 3 hour free training video on ASP.NET 2.0 (using either VB or C#) through this site. Hope this helps, Scott
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Published on 19 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Scott Cate blogged a review about a cool new RSS email subscription site he has been using called Squeet.com: One of the nice things about the site (besides it being cool and very useful), is the fact that it is all ASP.NET 2.0 based. Definitely worth checking out if you are looking for email-based
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Published on 20 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Mike and Andres on my team have been doing some really cool work with integrating the ASP.NET 2.0 Web Part functionality with Atlas. One of the really cool scenarios that Web Parts enable is that they allow developers to build portal-like composition UI's really, really easily.
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Published on 22 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
I found this article recently which I thought was pretty cool. It describes how to build and use an ASP.NET Server Control that makes Google Map integration easy within ASP.NET applications: Hope this helps, Scott
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Published on 23 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
I've posted in the past about how to create your own custom datasource controls using ASP.NET 2.0. One of the other cool new ASP.NET 2.0 extensibility points is the ability to create your own custom datasource parameter objects. These can then be used with any datasource control (i
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Published on 24 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
I published a step by step tutorial on using Master Pages and Site Navigation last week. One of the questions that someone posted in the comments was whether there was an ability with Site Navigation to add custom properties or settings on a per-node basis. For example: a custom icon pro
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Published on 24 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Community Server is a cool ASP.NET application that provides a blog system, forums system, photo album, rss reader/aggregator system and more. It also provides an admin tool interface for managing the application -- so no coding required in order to setup and manage a site using it.
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Published on 25 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Danny Chen has a great post that talks about how to customize the new ASP.NET 2.0 TreeView. One technique he shows is how to sub-class the TreeNode class and insert your own TreeNode type into the tree (complete with template support). You can read all about it here. Hope this helps, Scott &nb
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Published on 26 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Jesse Liberty recently published a nice tutorial on building dynamic portal-like UI with drag/drop end-user customization using the new ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts functionality. You can read it here. Hope this helps, Scott
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Published on 26 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
In case you weren't aware of it, you can build and upload an ASP.NET 2.0 web-site using SQL server for free using this service: http://vwdhosting.net/ In addition to ASP.NET 2.0 support, it also provides built-in support for uploading SQL Express databases (which you can download as
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Published on 26 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Fabrice has been working on a number of really cool extensions to ASP.NET 2.0 (including a new LINQ/DLINQ build provider). One of them is called "PageMethods", and provides a really nice way to perform strongly-typed, clean, url based navigation (with compile-time checking) across an ASP.NET a
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Published on 26 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
One of the nice new features of Visual Web Developer (which is free) and VS 2005 is the new "Code Snippet Support" that has been added. This handy feature allows you to quickly find and use code-libraries of common patterns (examples: get/set property definitions, data access code, file IO, ex
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Published on 28 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Wilco Bauwer has been cranking out a bunch of really cool ASP.NET utilities on his web-site. On Friday he updated a cool syntax highligher handler he has written for ASP.NET. This enables automatic source code highlighting and formatting for samples and blog posts. Click here for a
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Published on 29 Jan 2006 by Scott Guthrie
Bilal Haidar recently did a nice blog post that called out a small but useful new feature on the ListControl base class (which is the base control for a variety of input controls) in ASP.NET 2.0. Specifically it is a property called "AppendDataBoundItems", and it controls whethe
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