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Ben Robb on his MOSS 2007 experience
Ben Robb from cScape has written an excellent article about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, MOSS 2007, to develop a full featured public facing website. cScape was able to do this because of the dramatic redesign of MOSS 2007. Using ASP.NET Master Pages, CSS, WebParts, and the Office SharePoint Designer, they created a maintainable Web Site branded to very specific requirements.
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Easy Auto-completion with ASP.NET and AJAX
There is no doubt that AJAX is the future of web development. But can it be made easy enough for the average web developer. Brad Abrams demonstrates that is can.
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IronPython for ASP.NET
Microsoft has released an extension that allows IronPython to be used with ASP.NET. More importantly, they have created a route for other dynamic languages to tie into the ASP.Net framework.
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Extending IIS7 Through Integrated Mode
With the 3.0 release of the .NET framework the IIS7 webserver will now support a new mode called "Integrated Mode". Integrated Mode brings to .NET the ability to write the equivalent of ISAPI modules, however now developers can code in C# rather than C++.
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ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 released today
Today the Microsoft ASP.NET team announced the released of ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1. There are many changes from the previously released builds and announced support for the Safari web browser. An exciting additional note is promised support for a source modification license.
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InfoQ Video: Architecting Toronto.com with .NET Casestudy
Toronto.Com attracts over 700,000 unique visitors per month, and offers comprehensive and searchable access to business and event listings. Originally built in 1997, the previous J2EE foundation for the site was found hard to evolve in the face of new requirements. In this presentation, Scott talks about how the site was re-architected to .NET 2.0.
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Create Your Own ASP.NET Providers
With version 2.0, ASP.NET has allowed developers to create their own custom providers that plug into the website framework. These providers cover the areas of Membership, Roles, Site Map, Session State, Profile, Web Event, and Web Parts.
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WCF Live Service Trace Viewer
Craig and Vittorio release their Live Service Trace Viewer which is an enhancement to the one provided in the .NET 3.0 SDK. The differentiator: you can view the WCF interactions as they happen.
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Grasshopper 2.0 IL to Java bytecode Compiler Technology Preview
Mainsoft has released a preview of Grasshopper 2.0 that is compatible with Visual Studio 2005. Grasshopper allows Visual Studio developers to cross-compile IL into Java bytecode. Developers can then run their applications on a J2EE/Tomcat stack.
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CSS Control Adapter Toolkit Update Beta 2
The CSS Adapter Toolkit beta 2 update is out; it replaces the standard output of ASP.NET controls with CSS-friendly markup. A customizable style sheet is created for each control, allowing you to provide a consistent look and feel site-wide.
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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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New Blinq Prototype Generates ASP.NET CRUD site
Polita Paulus, a developer on the ASP.NET team last week posted Blinq to the sandbox. Blinq is a LINQ-based prototype for generating a CRUD data access layer and fully functional ASP.NET front end web application with sorting, paging, and relationship navigation.
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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."