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ScottGu's Blog: Los Angeles Web Camp

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:57:53 -0500

A few months ago I blogged about some Web Camp events that Microsoft is sponsoring around the world. These events provide a great way to learn about ASP.NET 4, ASP.NET MVC 2, and Visual Studio 2010. The events are free and the feedback from people attending them has been great. We are working to setup many more web camps around the world in the months ahead.

This Friday (September 10th) we’ll be holding a free web camp in Los Angeles. Phil Haack, Jon Galloway, and James Senior will all be presenting at the event – so it will be really good.

Details on the Los Angeles Web Camp can be found here. We just got additional space so some extra seats are now available. They are filling up fast, though, and will be sold out soon. Learn more and register here if you want to grab them and attend.

Hope this helps,

Scott

P.S. In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu

The Code Project Latest Articles: Online Rich Text Editor with download as Word option

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:30:00 -0500

Online Rich Text Editor with Mail Merge and download file as word option.

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: Experimenting With Offline Data Synchronization Using jQuery And ColdFusion

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:30:00 -0500

Modern browsers are making it much easier to build web applications with offline capabilities. Between the application cache manifest and the SQLite databases , the web as a platform can now be used to deploy "native feeling" applications ... Read More »

The Code Project Latest Articles: Classic ASP Class for Yahoo Placefinder

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:15:00 -0500

A VBScript class for calling Yahoo's placefinder for geocoding

Open Source Web Development Tutorials - RSS Feeds: PHP Excel Customizations: Working with Formulas and Functions

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:00:06 -0500

PHP Excel is one of the most important developer's tools when working with MS Excel applications in PHP. This tutorial will start to explore some of PHP Excel's basic features. The most important one enables you to work with formulas and functions.
- If you need a working introduction of PHP Excel implementation in XAMPP localhost, you can refer to this tutorial: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/PHP-Excel-Implementation-in-XAMPP-Localhost/ Configuring to output an Excel Spreadsheet with formulas When you install the PHP Excel library in your Wi...

The Code Project Latest Articles: Fully JavaScript Enabled Editor

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:57:00 -0500

Fully JavaScript enabled editor which also contains some server coding

MSExchange.org: The Offline Address Book (Part 1)

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:00:03 -0500

A detailed look at understanding how the Offline Address Book is created and distributed via web-based distribution in Exchange 2010.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: Simple Two-Factor Authentication using ASP.NET

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:34:36 -0500

Using SMS tokens for extra security.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: MVC Experiment - An Alternative to Captcha

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:34:36 -0500

Dean explores using a CAPTCHA alternative in MVC.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1 – Razor Syntax

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:34:36 -0500

The following article demonstrates how to use the new syntax in the Razor view engine in ASP.NET MVC 3 Preview 1.

Open Source Web Development Tutorials - RSS Feeds: Google Gives Buckyball a Tribute Doodle in HTML5

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:21:31 -0500

Google dedicates a very cool tribute doodle to Buckminster Fuller's Buckyball. Developers, take note...it's all HTML 5.
- Google makes an art form out of holidays by changing their logo to suit the mood. Almost one-upping their Pac-Man anniversary logo, they have created a Buckyball in full animation using only DHTML and, more specifically, HTML 5. Google's doodles are always a hit, and the Pac-Man Doodle was certain...

ASP.NET Daily Articles: ASP.NET MVC: ModelBinding Multiple File Uploads to an Array

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:34:36 -0500

In this article, Ashic Mahtab shows how to model bind multiple file uploads to a single array action parameter in ASP.NET MVC.

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: Escaping Form Values - Understanding The ColdFusion htmlEditFormat() Life Cycle

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:53:00 -0500

When users can interact with your website by submitting content, it opens your site up to potential harm. In the worst case scenario, this might provide malicious hackers with a way to execute Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks; in the best "bad" case scenario, it might simply mess up your site's layout and lead to a poor user experience. All of these outcomes can be avoided if you understand how data output gets rendered, where it needs to be escaped, and how to escape it. When it come ... Read More »

The Code Project Latest Articles: an easy way to implement asp.net callback

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:14:00 -0500

Implementing callback inside User Control , choosing between client callback and Ajax framework,

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Code Review and Code Optimization - ASP.NET

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:42:10 -0500

In this article you will learn how to use Code Review and Code Optimization in ASP.NET.

SitePoint.com: OAuth for PHP Twitter Apps, Part I

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:35:00 -0500

Twitter recently turned off basic HTTP authentication for its API. This means that Twitter app developers now need to use OAuth to access Twitter. In this first tutorial of a two-part series, Raj shows you how to authorize your PHP app to post automated tweets to a specified account.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Working with Managed path and Site Collection in SharePoint

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:19:37 -0500

Here I am showing you how to work with Managed path and site collection in central administration of share point. This will be useful if you want to create a site collection under an existing web application.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Collection Initializer in C# 3.0

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 01:07:01 -0500

Collection initializer is new feature of C# 3.0.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Toying with the C# 4.0

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:33:57 -0500

In this article, I will expose those two issues not thought the theorist manners but thought real cases via some implementation techniques.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Validation

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:34:36 -0500

An overview of validation in ASP.NET MVC 2.0.

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: Scope Behavior When Using CFThread Inside Of ColdFusion Components

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:10:00 -0500

The other day, I was using CFThread to call a ColdFusion component method asynchronously. Typically, when I use CFThread, I define my CFThread tags in the controller. In this case, however, I was making the asynchronous call from within the context of the component itself. This works very well. But, but there are some minor variances in scope-behavior that depend on how the asynchronous method is invoked. Before we get into the CFThread / scope interaction caveats, however, I thought I' ... Read More »

The Code Project Latest Articles: New Features in .NET 4.0

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:41:00 -0500

This article breifly explains New Features in ASP.NET 4.0 and C Sharp 4.0

The Code Project Latest Articles: Documenting the Life Cycle of an ASP Page

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:34:00 -0500

A simple framework for documenting the events of master and child pages and web controls.

The Code Project Latest Articles: Single Sign On (SSO) for cross-domain Asp.net applications, a simple implementation model

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:01:00 -0500

Architectural approach of a domain independent Single Sign On implementation for Asp.net applications

Open Source Web Development Tutorials - RSS Feeds: MVC and the Zend Framework

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 08:00:05 -0500

In this four-part article series, you'll learn about the model-view-controller (MVC) design architecture, why its use is a best practice when building web applications, and how using the Zend framework for PHP lets you make the most of this architecture. This article is excerpted from chapter 25 of the book Beginning PHP and Oracle: From Novice to Professional, written by W. Jason Gilmore and Bob Bryla (Apress; ISBN: 1590597702).
- Even at this likely early stage of your Web development career, chances are you're already attempting to sketch out the features of a long-desired custom application. An e-commerce store perhaps? An online community forum devoted to stamp collecting? Or maybe something a tad less interesting but non...

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Cascading Dropdown in Share point using JQuery

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:18:25 -0500

Here I am showing how to make a cascading drop down in share point using JQuery have created two lists Stationary and Items. In Items list Stationary be a look up column from Stationary.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Windows Application Using WPF

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:19:58 -0500

In this article you will learn how to use Windows Application Using WPF. in C#.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Reading and Saving Images from/to a Database using C#

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:50:13 -0500

In this article you will learn how to use Database Programming and ADO.NET in GDI+.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: .NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension)

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:21:14 -0500

This FAQ deep dives in to .Net 4.0 MEF fundamentals (Import and Export) and also explains when to use MEF over DI / IOC. This article also explains step by step on how to use MEF in various technologies like Silverlight, WPF and ASP.NET.

MSExchange.org: How to move from a Single Server to High Availability with DAG

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:00:12 -0500

How to move from a Single Server to High Availability with DAG.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Build Dynamics CRM mobile apps that work on WM, TabletPC, iPhone or iPad

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:46:25 -0500

Resco MobileCRM Studio is a developer platform that assists in the development of mobile applications which are used as extensions to Microsoft Dynamics CRM.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Adding Hyperlink in Data view web part

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:36:19 -0500

In this article I am showing how to make hyperlink in Data view web part

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Add Controls Dynamically to Silverlight Page

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:33:38 -0500

Article teach about how to add Controls dynamically to silver light page

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Creating a Blog Application Using Silverlight and WCF

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:52:22 -0500

The web is demanding more sophistication in its applications, and Silverlight is the answer to this demand. This article will step you through the details of creating a blog application in Silverlight.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Photo Viewer in Silverlight 4 using SQL Server 2008

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:40:42 -0500

This article will describes you how to use photo viewer in Silverlight using SQL Server 2008 database. I had search many time but could get more samples using SQL Server. So I decided let’s use Silverlight with SQL Server 2008. So here is my first article in Silverlight with SQL Server 2008.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: PrintPreviewControl in C#

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:49:28 -0500

PrintPreviewControl control represents the raw part of print preview of a document that is ready go to the printer. In this article, I will discuss how to use a PrintPreviewControl control to display print previews of documents in Windows Forms applications.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: A Beginner's View : Web.config

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:34:36 -0500

In this artcle, I will be explaining the common and mostly used web.config tags, their different sections and also will discuss about securing the the config file.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Consuming URL Shortening Services – bit.ly

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:11:24 -0500

This is a very hot article that you can’t leave without checking it first. This article is talking about the most popular and powerful URL shortening service ever, bit.ly. Today, we are going to talk about bit.ly API, its functions, and how you can access them from your .NET application. Don’t forget to download the sample code at the end of the article. Let’s go!

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Focus Color on Textbox controls

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:36:03 -0500

In this article you will learn how to use Focus Color on Textbox controls in C#.

The Code Project Latest Articles: Unlimited Query string - ASP.NET

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 12:44:00 -0500

Unlimited Query string Solution for Web Application.

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: Creating Base64-Encoded Data URLs For Images In ColdFusion

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:31:00 -0500

Typically, when we want to include an image in a web page, we use an IMG tag with a SRC value that points to a file located on the server (ex. my_image.jpg). Modern browsers, however, allow us to embed images directly in the page markup as Base64-encoded "data urls." For caching and performance reasons, you generally wouldn't want to use data urls to define your images; however, in some cases, it's tremendously useful to serialize and reference an image without needing an additional HTTP requ ... Read More »

Open Source Web Development Tutorials - RSS Feeds: PHP: Rendering Web Pages Using the Composite View Design Pattern

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:00:08 -0500

Welcome to the conclusion of a five-part series on the Composite View design pattern. This article will focus on a way to make use of this design pattern when you're building dynamic web pages. It involves a simple two-step rendering process.
- As you probably know, one of the great commandments of good object-oriented programming says that whenever possible, Composition must be used over Inheritance, as the latter is an overrated way of reusing code. While its fair to admit that this principle should be used with due caution and, for obvi...

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Reading and Parsing a CSS file in ASP.Net

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:30:58 -0500

In this article I am going to show how we can read and parse a CSS file in asp.net.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Introduction to Structure Map

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:16:09 -0500

This article will give basic idea about structure map.

The Code Project Latest Articles: .NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension)

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:00:00 -0500

.NET 4.0 MEF FAQ (Socket, Plug and extension)

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Connect to an SSIS package and consume its data from .Net application

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:44:42 -0500

In this article, I will show how to connect to a Data reader destination component within a given SQL Server Integration Services package.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Extension Methods for Daily Use

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:24:20 -0500

Extension Methods allows the programmer to extend the functionality of a type without having to derive from the type.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: Populating ASP.NET TreeView Control Recursively

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:34:36 -0500

The TreeView control in ASP.NET is used to populated hierarchical data structure. There are scenarios in which we are not aware of the number of nested collections in the data source. In those circumstances it is wise to use recursion and populate the TreeView control. In this article we are going to demonstrate how to populate the TreeView control with N levels.

4GuysFromRolla.com Headlines: Displaying Files and Folders in a GridView

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:00:00 -0500

The .NET Framework provides a variety of classes in the System.IO namespace that simplify working with the file system. Using these classes it's possible to delete files and folders, to create new files, to edit existing files, and more. These classes, combined with ASP.NET's suite of Web controls and databinding syntax, make it quite easy to present information about the files on the web server's file system to visitors to your website. With a bit of markup and code, it's possible to add a simple file browser to a web page that allows users to view the files and folders from a particular directory on the web server. Such file browsers are useful if you let users upload content to the website and need to let them view their uploaded content. If you have a folder that contains user-accessible content like images, PDF files and Word documents, a file browser offers a quick and easy way for users to see what content is available and to view content of interest.

Back in 2003 I wrote an article titled Displaying the Files in a Directory using a DataGrid that showed how to list the files of a particular folder in a DataGrid Web control. This dated article still attracts a decent amount of traffic and questions from readers, so much so that I thought it worthwhile to update the content to use the latest technology, namely ASP.NET 4 and the GridView Web control. I also added some new features. For example, the file browser now lists both files and folders, allowing users to view the files in subfolders. Also, I moved the markup and code into a User Control, which simplifies adding the file browser to an ASP.NET page. This article walks through this new, updated version; the complete, working code is available for download at the end of this article. Read on to learn more!
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The Code Project Latest Articles: Using ASP.NET AJAX Controls to Create Great Web 2.0 Experiences

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:20:00 -0500

Infragistics delivers ASP.NET AJAX controls that are robust, lightweight, high-performing across browsers, and that leverage their expertise in creating superior user experiences for your application’s user interface. The ASP.NET AJAX controls in NetAdvantage for Web Client give you what you need t

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: Using jQuery's Proxy() Method In Event Binding And Unbinding

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:56:00 -0500

Yesterday, I explored the use of jQuery's native event management in the creation of object-oriented publication and subscription (pub/sub) functionality . In order to do this, I had to make use of jQuery's new proxy() method that allows function callbacks to be executed in the context of an object instance rather than a DOM node (which is typical ... Read More »

Open Source Web Development Tutorials - RSS Feeds: Joomla Layouts: Customizing Your Website

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:00:08 -0500

This is part two of a series on Joomla web development in Ubuntu. In the first part, you learned the basic but very important website development skills in Joomla. In this part, you'll learn how to work with templates and other aspects of creating a customized Joomla-based website.
- Just to refresh your memory, the skills covered in the first part included the following: Changing your password in phpMyAdmin (in case you forget your administrator password). Changing the default and uploading Joomla templates. Working with and activating new Joomla templates. Working wi...

MSExchange.org: Protecting and managing accounts in Exchange Server 2010/Windows Server 2008 R2 (Part 1)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:00:10 -0500

Some basic steps to protect your environment against accidental user deletion; combining both Windows Server 2008 R2 features as well as Exchange Server 2010 for more flexibility when dealing with object exclusion.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Checklist for Automating Software Testing

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:52:42 -0500

In this article you will learn how to use Checklist for automating software testing.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Overview of Data Recovery

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:46:19 -0500

This short article includes an overview of data recovery in general and also includes some handy advise.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Div Layout vs. Table Layout - Web Designing

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:35:50 -0500

Most of the web designers directly chose the table based layout for their websites. Reason behind this is it's very easier to design a webpage rather than going for div based layout or the web designers are not that much familiar with CSS.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Chess Knight Tour with C# GDI+

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:42:51 -0500

In this article you will learn how to wrap the Graphics object to create a Board class to render and maintain the state.

The Code Project Latest Articles: A Silverlight Expense Report Module using View Model (MVVM)

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:15:00 -0500

This module allows you to easily gather, and process Expense Reports, from users in your DotNetNuke portal

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: ListBox in C#

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:11:50 -0500

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a ListBox control at design-time as well as at run-time. We will also see how to create multiple columns ListBox control with single and multiple selections. This article also covers most of the properties and methods of the ListBox control.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: Asynchronous Form in ASP.NET MVC 2

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:34:36 -0500

This article describes how to create an asynchronous form in ASP.NET MVC 2 with DataAnnotations and jQuery Validation plugin (custom validation attributes included).

Developer Tutorials: Website Management on the go with the iPad

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:58:01 -0500

If you are a webmaster, developer or designer and currently own, or plan on getting, an iPad here are 9 apps that I have found particularly helpful for general website management. Some of these apps are free and some require a one-time fee.

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: Powering Publish And Subscribe Functionality With Native jQuery Event Management

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:50:00 -0500

Let's face it - jQuery's native event management is straight-up awesome! Between multi-type binding, name-spaced events, proxied callbacks, and function-specific unbinding, there's not much that it can't do (and do well, for that matter). Without a doubt, it's better than any event management that I could write. As such, I wondered if I could use the native jQuery event management to power publish and subscribe (pub/sub) functionality within my Javascript applications. ... Read More »

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Consuming URL Shortening Services - Cligs

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:50:39 -0500

This is another article that talks about URL shortening services. Today we are going to talk about Cligs, one of the popular shortening services on the web.

Open Source Web Development Tutorials - RSS Feeds: PHP: Creating Dynamic Web Pages with the Composite View Design Pattern

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:00:08 -0500

In this fourth part of a series, I demonstrate how to use all the composite view classes defined previously for generating a simple yet dynamic web page using a single rendering method. This example shows the real functionality of the Composite View pattern when it comes to rendering individual web page sections (partials) by using uncluttered, easy-to-follow client code.
- Sharing nearly the same logic as its counterpart Composite (at least at a basic level), Composite View is a clever design pattern that takes full advantage of the functionality provided by Composition to manipulate single and multiple elements of a user interface through the same set of methods. W...

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Bind ScrollBarToTextBox and TextBoxToScrollBar in Silverlight

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:58:25 -0500

Thisarticle is all about binding of scrollbar to textbox and textbox to scrollbar with small piece of code in silverlight.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: TreeView control in asp.net 3.5

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:53:15 -0500

In this article I am going to discuss how to create Treeview control in asp.net 3.5.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Silverlight Picture Slideshow Using XML

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:11:01 -0500

This article demonstrates you how to make pictures slideshow, pictures list, pictures paging, pictures rotating in Silverlight 4.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Photo Slideshow in Silverlight 4

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:11:01 -0500

This article demonstrates you how to make pictures slideshow, pictures list, pictures paging, pictures rotating in Silverlight 4.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Combining VS 2008 and VS 2010

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:21:58 -0500

This article discusses about how programmers can upgrade to VS2010 while the remaining team members on the current project are still using VS 2008.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Commerce Server 2007 - Sub Systems

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:01:16 -0500

This article gives you overview of the commerce server 2007 and the features of that. Commerce server 2007 mainly used in E-commerce and Portal based sites.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: MSChart - Drilldown Charts: Part I

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 02:33:46 -0500

In this article you will learn how to create MSChart - Drilldown Charts with simple random data.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: MSChart State Management

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:38:50 -0500

MSChart have a problem of maintaining data state during post back. When a post back happens the Chart will get blank or data get cleared.

ScottGu's Blog: August 29th Links: .NET, ASP.NET, IIS Express, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:23:36 -0500

Here is the latest in my link-listing series. Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on.

[In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu]

.NET/WPF/EF

5 Little C#/.NET Wonders that Make Code Better: Nice blog post from James that highlights 5 nice language/framework tips you can take advantage of within your apps. I’m betting a lot of people didn’t know about the StopWatch class.

WPF Ribbon Control Released: The WPF team recently released the final V1 release of the WPF Ribbon control. This makes it easy to build ribbon-based applications. Also read this WPF team blog post for lots of great details on what it enables.

EF4 .Include() Method w/ Lambda Support: Ever wanted to use a Lambda expression instead of a string parameter when eagerly loading associations in EF4 using the Include() method? This blog post shows you how you can.

ASP.NET

Performance Tuning tricks for ASP.NET and IIS7 Part 1 and Part 2: Mads has a nice set of posts that detail some great performance optimization tips you can use with ASP.NET and IIS7.

Better ViewState Management in ASP.NET 4 with the ViewStateMode Property: Scott Mitchell has a good article that discusses the new ViewStateMode property supported on ASP.NET 4 controls. This provides much more control over how viewstate is used within a page.

Filtering Data using ASP.NET 4’s QueryExtender Control: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that talks about the new control in ASP.NET 4 that makes enabling dynamic querying against a LinqDataSource or EntityDataSource really easy.

Techniques to Avoid Duplicate URLs: Scott Mitchell has another great article that discusses techniques you can use within ASP.NET to avoid exposing duplicate URLs to the same content within your web-sites. These can help improve your search engine traffic.

Automatically pre-populate fields for Insert in ASP.NET 4: Scott Hunter has a nice blog post that discusses how to specify default values for insert with data controls in ASP.NET 4.

ASP.NET MVC

MvcContrib Template Gallery: Download 58 pre-built ASP.NET MVC Template Gallery styles that you can use to customize the look and feel of your applications. All available under a Community Commons license.

Step into the ASP.NET MVC Source Code with the VS Debugger: Nice blog post by Gunnar that describes how to use VS 2010’s built-in symbol server support to enable you to step into the ASP.NET MVC Framework source code when debugging.

Installation Options for ASP.NET MVC: Jon has a good post that describes how to install ASP.NET MVC 2 on a server. There are a couple of options you can use for servers that don’t already have ASP.NET MVC installed – the easiest is to just enable the “Copy Local” flag on System.Web.Mvc.dll and install it in the bin directory.

IIS Developer Express

Visual Studio Support for IIS Express, SQL 4 Compact Edition, and Razor syntax: Channel 9 video with Damian Edwards and Scott Hanselman that discusses the support coming to enable IIS Express, SQL 4 CE, and Razor syntax support within Visual Studio 2010.

How to Use IIS Express with VS today: Kamran has a nice blog post that describes how you can use IIS Express with Visual Studio today – without having to wait for the official Visual Studio patch to enable it.

Silverlight and Windows Phone 7

Developers Roadmap for Windows Phone 7: The Windows Phone 7 team blogs about the release timeframe for Windows Phone 7 and the Visual Studio and Expression Blend tools for targeting it. The official developer release will be on September 16th.

Windows Phone 7 in 7 Minutes: Really nice set of 7 minute videos that enable you to quickly understand and learn Windows Phone 7 and the development fundamentals behind it.

Windows Phone 7 Jumpstart Training: Nice list of free training sessions you can watch online to learn how to build Windows Phone 7 applications using Silverlight and XNA.

Silverlight Panorama and Pivot Controls for Windows Phone 7: Jeff has a great post that discusses the awesome new Panorama and Pivot controls for Silverlight that will be part of the final Windows Phone 7 developer release.

Using XNA from Silverlight on Windows Phone 7: Good blog post from Mike that demonstrates how to use XNA APIs from Silverlight applications on Windows Phone 7. This post demonstrates how to use the XNA audio framework from Silverlight.

Creating High Performance Silverlight Applications for Windows Phone 7: This is a great whitepaper written by my team that discusses best practices for building Silverlight applications that run well on Windows Phone 7.

Performance of Silverlight on Windows Phone 7: A nice podcast with Scott Hanselman that discusses tips and techniques to enable smooth applications and great experiences on Windows Phone 7.

Book Recommendation

People often ask me for .NET book recommendations. Below is one book I always keep close by and find super-useful. If you are looking for a good one-volume C# and .NET Base Class Library reference, C# 4.0 in a Nutshell a great one:

Hope this helps,

Scott

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: New Features of WCF 4.0: Part V

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 01:18:16 -0500

In this series of article, I will illustrate each feature explaining the principles and showing some examples.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Create Restful WCF Service API

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:56:17 -0500

In this article I am going to explain you how to implement restful service API using WCF 4.0 . The Created API returns XML and JSON data using WCF attribute.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Create Restful WCF Service API

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:56:17 -0500

In this article I am going to explain you how to implement restful service API using WCF 4.0 . The Created API returns XML and JSON data using WCF attribute.

ScottGu's Blog: Patch for VS 2010 Find and Replace Dialog Growing

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:57:22 -0500

One of the top reported Microsoft Connect issues with VS 2010 has been an issue with the Find and Replace dialog – which grows 16px each time you use it (which is pretty annoying).

The Visual Studio team recently released a patch that fixes this issue. You can download and apply it here.

Hope this helps,

Scott

P.S. A few people reported issues installing the patch if they had an older version of the Silverlight 4 tools installed. If you see an error message that says you need an update to Visual Studio to support Silverlight 4, you can fix it by installing the latest Silverlight 4 tools release.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: HelpProvider in C#

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 23:24:22 -0500

HelpProvider control provides popup or online help for a control. In this article, we will discuss how to use a HelpProvider control to implement help for controls in a Windows Forms application.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: RichTextBox in C#

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:53:43 -0500

A RichTextBox control is an advanced text box that provides text editing and advanced formatting features including loading rich text format (RTF) files. In this article, I will demonstrates how create and use various features of Windows Forms RichTextBox control.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: Sorting Tabular Data in ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:34:36 -0500

In this post I will talk about how to use the tablesorter jQuery plugin in an ASP.NET MVC application to sort tabular data.

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: Reflections On My Client-Side MVC View-Rendering Hackathon

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:15:00 -0500

Yesterday, I spent about 10 straight hours exploring client-side MVC View-rendering in my first (of many) solo hackathons . I came up with a UI design, broke it out into HTML and CSS, and then coded a thick-client application on top of it; and, I did all of this under the pretense that the project would end up being a complete failure. As I explained before, I was embracing fail ... Read More »

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: GridView Sorting, Paging without using Session, ViewState or Cache

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:29:26 -0500

In this article you will learn how to use GridView Sorting, Paging without using Session, ViewState or Cache.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Create Rupee (INR) symbol for keyboard

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:59:25 -0500

Indian Rupee symbol has been launched but we still use rupee or INR. Because we don’t have current rupees symbol in our keyboard so what? Should we have to wait for that? The answer is NO, we are the developers and we can’t wait at all. So here I am showing you how to create Rupee symbol to include it in system char map.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: ASP.NET MVC 2.0 and AJAX Part 1

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:34:36 -0500

ASP.NET MVC makes working with AJAX really easy; it’s quite impressive how powerful the framework can be. JQuery adds extra features and makes AJAX calls really easy; we’ll see that all here soon.

The Code Project Latest Articles: Easy Mp3 Recording (also using iTunes)

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 08:18:00 -0500

Class library and working program allowing you to easily record mp3, wav and raw pcm files. Can also integrate with iTunes.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Google Ajax Search API with different techniques

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:13:53 -0500

In this article I am showing you the all search techniques of Google.

Good PHP Tutorials - New Tutorials: Facebook to kill IE6 support for Chat on IE9 beta day

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:20:50 -0500

Facebook has announced that it will soon end Internet Explorer 6 support for Facebook Chat. The kill date is September 15—the same day Microsoft plans to release the first IE9 beta. Today's announcement comes just a week after Microsoft launched a beta version of Windows Live Messenger that integrates with Facebook Chat.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: ServiceController in C#

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:34:55 -0500

A ServiceController component allows us to access and manage Windows Services running on a machine. In this article, I will discuss how to a ServiceController class to load all services and get information about them in a Windows Forms application using Visual Studio 2010.

ASP.NET Daily Articles: Creating Master-Detail GridView Using jQuery

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:34:36 -0500

In the year 2005 we published an article about creating master-detail GridView control. jQuery was not a first class citizen during that time and most of the work was performed by either plain old vanilla JavaScript or the server side code. With the advent of jQuery we can now create cool master-detail effects easily in less time and less code. This article explains how to spice up master-detail using jQuery.

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: Using jQuery To Bind And Trigger Event Handlers On Detached DOM Nodes

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:00:00 -0500

Often times, we use jQuery to bind event handlers to DOM nodes that are children of the current document tree. When we do this, jQuery stores the event handlers in the given node's "events" collection . These bindings remain in place until they are explicitly unbound or ... Read More »

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Consuming URL Shortening Services - Tweetburner (twurl)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:51:24 -0500

Just another article of the URL shortening services series. Today, we are going to talk about another hot and easy-to-use service, it's Tweetburner. If you haven't used it before, then it's the time to. We’re going to discuss how to use Tweetburner first. After that, we’ll inspect its API and learn how to use it in your .NET application.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: Div and Web Design

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:29:53 -0500

If you develop web applications then surely you know about the Div tag but many of you guys never have a usuful look on it. As i know div tag is the backbone of a consistent css used website. Basically div is a section you can say which separate the sections in a webpage. But div not only separate the contents but it also provides the different formating for each section.

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: Saturday Hackathon: Client-Side MVC - The Wrong Way

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 10:23:00 -0500

Over the past week, I've heard a number of people talk about various hackathons, hack days, pitch days, and general all-night coding adventures. I've never attended one of these events and I have to say, hearing about them makes me more than a little bit jealous. I understand that a majority of the fun that people get out of these things is due to the fact that you have so many people together doing the same thing. But, I'm an impatient man and I believe that the next hackathon in my area is ... Read More »

The Code Project Latest Articles: WebService Routing (Soap Router)

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:04:00 -0500

This article explains WebService routing using WSE 3.0

The Code Project Latest Articles: Easy way to Implement Ajax using Jquery in Asp.net

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:04:00 -0500

Simple steps do an ajax operation using Jquery and asp.net

Ben Nadel ColdFusion And Web Development Feed @ BenNadel.com: jQuery Selectors - The Firebug Plugin Inserts A Hidden DIV Element

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:04:00 -0500

Last night, I was testing out someone's jQuery queue() and dequeue() code and I had a bug that was just driving me crazy; no matter how simple I made my test, my queued callbacks kept firing twice. To give you some insight into how simple my code was, take a look at this demo: ... Read More »

Developer Tutorials: Code Contracts in C# 4.0 – Part 1

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:00:23 -0500

Bugs occur. Once you accept that fact, you can do something about it. There are bugs in every piece of software with even a minimal level of complexity. Various options exist to address these. Manual testing is one, but it is often hard to reproduce, or just isn’t done. Automated testing is also possible, and useful, particularly with regards to test driven development. But even this has problems because poorly written tests require debugging themselves. In short, there is NO silver bullet. There are, however, more tools available.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: How you can use csv file as data source of gridview

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:13:47 -0500

Here I will show how you can use csv file as data source of gridview.

C-Sharpcorner Latest Articles: How to change Web Page Background Image from FileUpload Control

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:53:11 -0500

This article will guide you on how to change the background image of any asp.net web page by using a file upload control.

The Code Project Latest Articles: Under the hood of BuildManager and resource handling

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:23:00 -0500

An automatic resource translator for ASP.Net applications