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New Article on ASP.NET ViewState Intricacies
Dave Reed has written an article on Truly Understanding ViewState that describes exactly how to plan ASP.NET control initialization and creation when working with child controls, dynamically added controls or when developing custom controls. Proper ViewState usage will keep page sizes smaller, leading to much greater performance and scalability for ASP.NET applications.
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.NET Live from Redmond Presentations Coming in Aug/Sept
The .NET product teams at Microsoft have announced a second series of Live Meeting presentations for .NET developers, "Live From Redmond", taking place throughout August and September. The presentations are technical in nature, rather than a marketing pitch for various new Microsoft products, as they come directly from the Product Team members at Microsoft.
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Avoid 10 ASP.NET Pitfalls
Jeff Prosise, renowned author/trainer and co-founder of Wintellect, has written an article in the July issue of MSDN Magazine outlining 10 common pitfalls ASP.NET developers fall prey to. This article is a must-read for ASP.NET developers. Jeff's suggestions range from performance tips, to techniques to avoid obscure errors that could cost days or weeks of debugging time, to database profiling.
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Reflection and DynamicMethods
While most .NET developers have heard of reflection, many have not implemented reflection in their applications to its fullest potential. Essentially, reflection is the run-time examination of an object's members. One article provides sample code and a few suggested uses for reflection, including ORM and code generation, and discusses the new, faster DynamicMethods approach in .NET 2.0
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Atlas June CTP Released
Microsoft has released a new Community Tech Preview (CTP) of Atlas, Microsoft's AJAX framework for ASP.NET. Note that Atlas can also be used with other web technoloogies such as PHP or ColdFusion via the Atlas client-script libraries.
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.NET Framework 3.0 June CTP is out
The June CTP of the .NET Framework 3.0 (formerly, WinFX) is now available for download. This is an update since the Beta 2 release, and is intended for use with Windows Vista build 5456. Note that there is no Go-Live license available for this release.
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Opinion: ASP.NET 2.0 makes it harder
Daniel Solin, faced with some limitations in ASP.NET 2.0 has blogged a criticism of the framework, concluding that "my feeling about ASP.NET 2.0 is that it's good for simple, common tasks. It makes trivial tasks even more trivial, but this at the cost of making the more complex (and more realistic) tasks even more complex."
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WinFX renamed to .NET Framework 3.0
Microsoft Corporate Vice-President S.Somasegar announced last week that WinFX would be renamed to the .NET Framework 3.0. "The .NET Framework has always been at the core of WinFX, but the WinFX brand didn't convey this."