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Seven New Control Gallery Entries

Thursday, July 03, 2008

Resize your images with a server control, try Aspose.Recognition for .NET to save your PDF into a Word doc, RTF and more. Check out the new controls from SharpPieces ASP NET which include OptGroupDropdownList component, ImageCheckbox and LiveGrid control. Visit the Control Gallery to see these new controls and many more.

Two New Videos on ASP.NET

Thursday, June 26, 2008

Chris Pels shows how information can be passed from one page to another using a query string and how to use the aspnet_merge.exe utility to combine assemblies that have been compiled using the aspnet_compiler.exe utility.

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Latest Microsoft Blogs

How I got started in programming.

Thursday, July 03, 2008 by Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [Syndicated]

Well, Dave Ward tagged me in Michael Eaton’s software development meme that’s been going around. As far as blog-chain-letters go, this is a great one. It’s interesting to see how many diverse backgrounds lead us in the...

WPF Composite Application Guidance is Live

Thursday, July 03, 2008 by Brad Abrams

A very common pattern for business focused applications is the "Composite Application Pattern". Over the last few months our P&P team has been working with industry leaders and the product...

Visual Studio 2008 Web Server Here shell extension

Thursday, July 03, 2008 by ASP.NET Debugging

This has to be one of the coolest shell extensions that I have seen yet. It is right up there with the Command Prompt Here one. This adds a addition to the right-click menu for a folder for “ASP.NET Web Server...

The Weekly Source Code 30 - VB.NET with XML Literals as a View Engine for ASP.NET MVC

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - ASP.NET

I was literally in the middle of writing the post when I saw a message from Andrew Davey about how he had implemented the same idea ! Of course, his is way better, so I got to code via subtraction. That means...

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Article of the Day

Rating and labelling your ASP.NET website

Thursday, July 03, 2008 by Balamurali Balaji

ICRA (the Internet Content Rating Association) is part of the Family Online Safety Institute, an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. This article details how to go ahead with the steps of creating labels and incorporate them in your...

Build a Web Chat Application using ASP.Net 3.5, LINQ and AJAX

Tuesday, July 01, 2008 by Junnark Vicencio

We will build a very simple web chat application using the latest ASP.Net 3.5, LINQ, and AJAX from scratch just for fun and see how fast we can build it using LINQ. The web chat will: be accessible anywhere, be flicker-free, not use frames, not use application variables.

Complex Data Binding with the Accordion Control

Monday, June 30, 2008 by Brian Mains

The Accordion control is a flexible way to group data output to the screen. This article demonstrates the usage of the control to data bind information in ASP.NET. Brian clearly examines each step in detail with the help of database structure diagram, relevant explanation, and plenty of source code.