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[VIDEO] How Do I: Use ASP.NET to Send Email from a Web Site

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Thursday, 28 Aug 2008

In this video Chris Pels shows how to create and send an email in an ASP.NET web site. First, learn about the core classes in the System.Net.Mail namespace for sending mail in an ASP.NET web site. See how to create an email message using the MailMessage class including how to use the MailAddress class for the From address and how to include one or more To addresses. Next, see how email is sent using the SmtpClient class. Finally, learn about the additional options for configuring the email message such as CC, BCC, Priority, and adding attachments.

[VIDEO] How Do I: Write Web Events to a SQL Server Database Using the SqlWebEventProvider

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Thursday, 28 Aug 2008

In this video Chris Pels shows how to use the ASP.NET health monitoring SqlWebEventProvider to log errors in a web site to a SQL Server database. First, learn the role of the provider and events in ASP.NET health monitoring. Next, see how to configure a SQL Server database with the necessary objects for recording health monitoring events using the aspnet_regiis utility, the same utility used to configure ASP.NET Membership. Then, learn how to configure health monitoring in the web.config file to record events in an ASP.NET web site to the newly created SQL Server database. As part of this configuration, see how the root web.config file in the .NET Framework 2.0 has both providers and events defined that can be leveraged when configuring your health monitoring. These fundamentals are a base upon which custom events can be created that log your own specific information to a SQL Server database in an ASP.NET web site.

[WEBCAST] geekSpeak: REST and Windows Communication Foundation 3.5

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Sunday, 24 Aug 2008

This geekSpeak is a very RESTful one. Distributed systems guru Adnan Masood introduces the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style and its design principles, and he discusses how they can be implemented using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 3.5. Adnan offers guidance and takes questions on when to choose a RESTful design over SOAP-based services and how WCF fits into the spectrum of Microsoft technologies that include ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) and ASP.NET MVC. Your hosts for this geekSpeak are Lynn Langit and Glen Gordon.

[WEBCAST] 24 Hours of Windows Mobile Application Development: Introduction to Windows Mobile Device Development

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Sunday, 24 Aug 2008

In this webcast series, you learn how to develop applications for Windows Mobile Devices. Attend this webcast for a high-level introduction to developing managed applications for Windows Mobile devices. We discuss the development tools that are available, explain how to install additional software development kits (SDKs), describe additional tools that you can download and install, and demonstrate the creation of applications for Windows Mobile 6 devices, using both Microsoft Visual C# and Microsoft Visual Basic .NET.

[VIDEO] How Do I: Determine Whether to Use a Web Site or a Web Application Project

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Friday, 22 Aug 2008

In this video Chris Pels will contrast the differences between an ASP.NET web site project and a web application project. Learn the considerations for using one type of project or the other. First, learn about the major attributes of a web application project including its folder basis. Next, see the major attributes of a web site project and its traditional Visual Studio project based nature which provides more granularity and flexibility including adding classes, dealing with namespaces, and referencing user controls or pages programmatically. The compilation model for each type of web site is then discussed along with alternatives that include the use of the aspnet_compiler.exe and aspnet_merge.exe utilities and the Visual Studio 2008 web deployment project.

[WEBCAST] geekSpeak: SharePoint Server 2007 Workflow

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Sunday, 17 Aug 2008

In this installment of MSDN geekSpeak, David Mann takes your questions about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 workflow. David provides an overview of workflow in SharePoint 2007 and then drills down into details such as when to use state machines versus sequentials, building custom activities, and how and when to use Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 for workflows. David also offers tips for building high performance workflow environments.

[PODCAST] Udi Dahan Scales Web Applications

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Tuesday, 12 Aug 2008

Udi Dahan is back to talk to the guys about scaling web applications. This is an area of expertise for Richard as well as Udi, so you know you'll get your money's worth out of this one!

[WEBCAST] geekSpeak: Going from Developer to 'Dev-igner'

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Sunday, 10 Aug 2008

Are you a developer yearning to become a "dev-igner," a developer/designer hybrid? The old cliché is that developers make poor designers, and many developers needlessly tremble at the site of designer tools such as Microsoft Expression or Photoshop. Graphic design is a process, just like software development. If you learn the basics, you can soon turn out better user experiences and find inspiration in the world around you. In this installment of geekSpeak, Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Frank La Vigne shares tips and techniques on how technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and XAML can help you retire the "battleship gray" UIs so often sported by applications. Turtlenecks and berets are optional.

[VIDEO] How Do I: Use Skins with CSS for a Flexible and Maintainable ASP.NET Web Site

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Thursday, 7 Aug 2008

In this video Chris Pels shows how to create skins for ASP.NET server controls and then incorporate CSS styles to control the appearance of the skinned controls. First, learn how to create a skin for an ASP.NET server control such as a Label that controls the appearance of labels throughout a web site. Next, see how to abstract the definition of the visual appearance for a skin to CSS styles. During this process learn the advantages of having the styling information for a skin in the CSS styles. Then see how to create multiple skins and corresponding styles for a single ASP.NET control such as a Label that can be used to standardize the appearance of certain types of labels throughout a web site. Finally, learn the advantages of applying a CSS style to multiple skins and the ability to apply it to a generic HTML element.

[PODCAST] Accessibility in Web and Rich Applications

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Tuesday, 5 Aug 2008

In this episode Scott talks to Saqib Shaikh, a developer for Microsoft Consulting Services in the UK, who is also blind. They chat about accessibility in Windows, on the Web and in the next generation of Web Applications written with AJAX and Silverlight.

[PODCAST] ASP.NET MVC with Phil Haack

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Tuesday, 5 Aug 2008

Phil Haack does a short demo of ASP.NET MVC Release 4.

[WEBCAST] geekSpeak: Windows Communication Foundation as the New .NET

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Sunday, 3 Aug 2008

The geekSpeak webcast series brings you industry experts in a "talk-radio" format hosted by Developer Evangelists from Microsoft. These experts share their knowledge and experience about a particular developer technology and are ready to answer your questions in real time during the webcast.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) provides off-the-shelf plumbing for connecting services together. The more granular the services are the more use the application makes of the WCF infrastructure and the less plumbing the developers have to write. Taken to the ultimate conclusion, every class and primitive should be a service to maximize the use of the ready-made infrastructure and to avoid handcrafting plumbing. In theory, this enables effortless transactional integers, secure strings, and reliable classes. However, is it viable in practice? Can Microsoft .NET support it? Will future platforms offer this option? In this geekSpeak webcast, industry expert Juval Lowy shares his thoughts on the state of the industry, what is practical and feasible today, and the future of the platform.

[TUTORIAL] Nested Master Pages

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008

Shows how to nest one master page within another.
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[TUTORIAL] Specifying the Master Page Programmatically

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008

Looks at setting the content page’s master page programmatically via the PreInit event handler.
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[WEBCAST] geekSpeak: Making SharePoint Not Look Like SharePoint

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Sunday, 27 Jul 2008