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A Look At ASP.NET MVC 4

ScottGu's presentation online:http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechDays/Techdays-2012-the-Netherlands/2364And the blog post about ASP.NET MVC 4 beta:http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2012/02/1...

.NET Memory Management Poster

Have a look at nice poster describing .NET memory management:http://www.red-gate.com/products/dotnet-development/ants-memory-profiler/learning-memory-management/memory-management-posterShare this post...

ASP.NET Custom Errors Security Flaw: Please Read!

See Steve Smith's blog post for details http://stevesmithblog.com/blog/asp-net-custom-errors-security-flaw/Summary: You should have custom errors enabled or HTTP error response codes&nbs...

Are you aware of .NET Reflector Pro?

I'm sure many of my readers know Reflector, that tool to decompile the assemblies to see what it contains, maybe investigating what Microsoft has done with the base assemblies in .NET or maybe try...

Book review coming soon...

After a long silence, I will continue blogging on .NET. The becoming post will be a book review (one is confirmed for now). Timeframe is in a few weeks.Tech tips are still on hold, it's harde...

Silverlight 3 is released

See ScottGu's post for details:http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/07/10/silverlight-3-released.aspxShare this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it...

Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers

Simone has created a survey to better understand Ajax usage among .NET developers. It would be nice if You could also complete it, if you haven't done so yet, as there are also MS people inte...

What's new in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 1 (from BCL Team blog)

Interesting stuff : http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2009/05/22/what-s-new-in-the-bcl-in-net-4-beta-1-justin-van-patten.aspxMy favorite features are parallel extensions, code contracts (I was fam...

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit - May Preview is available

Thanks to Bill Evjen for informing about this. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=752cb725-969b-4732-a383-ed5740f02e93The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET...

Do You Want To Give Feedback on ASP.NET 4.0 Beta 1?

If you do, then head to ASP.NET Forums / ASP.NET Beta 1 ForumAnd if you look for where to get VS2010 / ASp.NET 4.0 Beta 1, then have a look at here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it!...

Sharepoint Designer is now free!

Late to this game, as usual but still adding here. From: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspxSharepoint Team made Sharepoint Design...

Release time: Silverlight 3 beta, ASP.NET MVC 1.0, IE8...

You're blessed to be web developer nowadays :-)Lots of interesting releases by MS lately:ASP.NET MVC 1.0http://haacked.com/archive/2009/03/18/aspnet-mvc-rtw.aspx download: http://www.mic...

"Security Guidance for Writing and Deploying Silverlight Applications" whitepaper released

Do you have concerns with Silverlight's security aspects? MS has just released the whitepaper "Security Guidance for Writing and Deploying Silverlight Applications"Download it from ...

Techdays 2009, Finland

I attended Techdays 2009 at Helsinki on 5th of March. It was the biggest MS event in Finland so far, measured purely by the number of audience. I had the honor to participate on Thursda...

-2147467259.Message:Unspecified error when installing Business Intelligence Development Studio (SQL2008, 64bit)

Definately, long time no see!I was setting up my new work machine, and during installation of Business Intelligence Development Studio in SQL2008 64-bit, I got the aforementioned e...

Calling WCF service asynchronously from ASP.NET

I was recently asked how to call WCF Service asynchronously from ASP.NET. Here's my sample code:1) WCF Service Library Implementationnamespace WcfServiceLibrary1 { [ServiceContract] p...

Silverlight 2 released

See ScottGu's announcement at: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/10/14/silverlight-2-released.aspxShare this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it...

Microsoft announces jQuery support in ASP.NET Ajax

I just noticed a very interesting announcement by Scott Guthrie. Microsoft will officially start co-operating with jQuery development community, adding support for jquery in ASP.NET Ajax, and which al...

Book Review: High Performance Web Sites, Steve Souders, O'Reilly

Author: Steve SoudersPublisher: O'ReillyISBN-10: 0-596-52930-9ISBN-13: 978-0-596-52930-7September 2007, 168 pagesO'Reilly's web site:http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529307/Comp...

Is "Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control." causing you grief?

If you seem to get "Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control." in a case where it doesn't seem to make any sense, my...

Pattern for ASP.NET Cache and the new Cache.Insert overload in 3.5 SP1

David Penton, a fellow AspInsider, has published an excellent article on AspAlliance how to take pattern-like approach to ASP.NET cacheA New Approach to HttpRuntime.Cache Managementhttp://aspalliance....

VS2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1

Yes, now it is released and you'll get it at: http://www.asp.net/downloads/3.5-sp1/Interesting point regarding some old posts of mine e.g Potential solution for "Validation of viewstate MAC f...

If your XML is somehow always written using UTF-16 (in .NET) , no matter what you try...

I suggest you have a look at Kirk Allen Evan's blog post:XmlWriterSettings Encoding Being Ignored?http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/08/11/xmlwritersettings-encoding-being-ignored.aspxShor...

Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008

Look no further: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-06SQLServer2008PR.mspx"REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 6, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufactu...

Who are the ASPInsiders?

I'm also member of AspInsiders. In case you've wondered who they are and what they do, see Rob Chartier's blog post. There's nothing mystical in AspInsiders, it's just a ...

ASP.NET MVC CodePlex Preview 4 is here (or there) :-)

See Phil's post: http://haacked.com/archive/2008/07/16/aspnetmvc-codeplex-preview4.aspxAnd of course ScottGu's post: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/07/14/asp-net-mvc-preview-4-rel...

Firefox 3.0 and (ASP.NET) caching observations

1. Have a page with code in Page_LoadProtected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load         Response.Cache.SetAllowResp...

What's for VB.NET in the Future, interesting to see...

By being momentarily pissed off to the level of job I needed to do with classes working with DB and business logic in a project, I made suggestion in Connect, a while ago Ability to spe...

Using the information your (development) environment provides - is allowed!

Huge title while the subject or the example in this case is actually very simple and straightforward. I saw a question on newsgroups which went something like:- poster states he doesn't know much ...

Book Review: C# In Depth by Jon Skeet (Manning)

Author: Jon SkeetPublisher: Manning Publications Co.ISBN: 1933988363April 2008, 424 pageshttp://www.manning.com/skeet/The book focuses on C# 2 and C# 3, but goes a bit relevant things on building on C...

VB.NET or C# - which one to choose? I choose BOTH :-)

Joe Stagner discusses in a blog post based on reader feedback, if one should choose VB.NET or C# and he ends with that it doesn't matter. Well, I sort of disagree, but let me first ...

Microsoft's "Velocity" project

Some skillful people at Microsoft have started yet one interesting project to increase our toolbox. It's "Velocity" which targets to help dealing with caching - local and distribute...

Scott Hanselman releases BabySmash

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingBabySmashAWPFExperiment.aspxBabySmash is an application - written with WPF - for all the kids who share interest in computing (or keyboards :-) ) and for their...

Repairing SQL 2005 Business Intelligence Studio after uninstalling VS2005

I've lately crushed on SQL2005's business intelligence. See, it's nice to learn the greatest features of a product when new version is almost out there. :-)Well, as pro...

VS2008 and .NET 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta now available

See: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-fx-3-5-sp1-beta-available-now.aspxEdit: ScottGu has also a post about the SP: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/...

A word of warning related to Session variables

I see a lot on forums and newsgroups that Session variables are constantly recommended to pass state between ASP.NET pages. Yes, it is simple mechanism, reliable with out-of-process modes and really n...

I have Framework 3.5 installed, why does my IIS show only ASP.NET 1.1/2.0?

I've replied a lot to these questions lately. I'm not going to go to very deep with this, Scott Hanselman has excellent post covering this, see that: How to set an IIS Application or AppP...

Unspecified Error with MSDN Library for VS2008 in IE7

My MSDN for VS2008 started suddenly to raise this error.and I had no idea why. This occurred on my home machine which is XP Pro with latest upgrades. I tried following steps:- I uninstalled ...

Did you know Red Gate gives SQL Log Rescue for free?

I thought I mention this, since these types of tools are rarely needed, but when they are, they are also seriously saving your ass. :-)SQL Log Rescue is basically undo tool which analyzes transaction ...

A few more solutions to the dreaded "Validation of ViewState MAC failed"

I posted about this some time ago. My previous post:Potential solution for "Validation of viewstate MAC failed"http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joteke/archive/2007/08/14/Potential-solution-for-_22...

Visual Studio 2008 and IIS 7.0

Mike Volodarsky has put up a nice article about VS2008 and IIS 7.0 together. Check it out: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/387/using-visual-studio-2008-with-iis-70/Share this post: email it! | bookmar...

Peter Blum's Peter's Data Entry Suite

Peter Blum has upgraded his web control suite. He previously had Professional Validation and More and also Peter's Date Package which are the two most popular of his products. Now&n...

From Dave Reed's blog: TRULY Understanding ViewState, the comment index

A reader of Dave Reed's blog (a great source of ASP.NET knowledge btw) has created an index of Dave's replies to questions/comments in Dave's "Truly Understanding ViewState&...

VS2008: Targeting ASP.NET 2.0 and ASP.NET Ajax 1.0

MS has released ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax templates for VS2008. See: http://blogs.msdn.com/brada/archive/2007/12/19/using-vs2008-to-target-net-framework-2-0-with-asp-net-ajax.aspxShare this post: email it...

Generic Controls in ASP.NET pages

Eilon has demonstrated a nice way to allow you to have generic controls in ASP.NET pages. Check it out.http://weblogs.asp.net/leftslipper/archive/2007/12/04/how-to-allow-generic-controls-in-asp-n...

Uninstalling previous version of VS2008

I suspect there could be some VS2008 beta uninstallation going on becoming days and weeks. :-) I found following instructions on http://www.microsoft.com/express/support/uninstall/default.aspxThi...

ASP.NET: trigger cross-page postback on ListBox selection change

Asked originally on newsgroups, snippets of the question "A page have a ListBox and I want that on the OnSelectedIndexChanged event a second page be called passing the value of the selected ...

ASP.NET: clear user control output cache

As per the subject, here's a simple sampleglobal.asax <%@ Application Language="C#" %><script runat="server">    void Application_Start(object s...

Attention: VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely!

In case you use VS2008 Beta 2 VPC, you should note that Visual Studio 2008 VPCs are expiring on November 1st, 2007 Please see: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/10/25/vs2008-beta2-vpcs-ex...

About default collection-related imports in ASP.NET 2.0

It's funny when you get reply to things you don't remember you've asked for. :-)I had given feedback somewhere Oct 2006 in Microsoft Connect about System.Collections.Generic not being...

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