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[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

[PODCAST] Deploying Web Applications with Vishal Joshi

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Friday, 25 Jul 2008

Wally talks with Visha Joshi regarding deploying ASP.NET Applications.

[VIDEO] How Do I: Use the Fixednames Option with the Compiler Utility for Maximum Flexibility

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Thursday, 24 Jul 2008

In this video Chris Pels will show how to use the fixednames option with the aspnet_compiler.exe utility to produce a consistent file names in compilation output. First, see how the compilation output of the aspnet_compiler.exe utility generates output files for an ASP.NET web site that represent the different components including pages, themes, and the folders in the site. See how the components are named and what they contain in relation to the original web site. Then, see how to use the fixednames option to standardize the output file names based upon the source files upon which they are based. Next, learn about considerations for using each of the compilation options when deploying updates to compiled web site, focusing on which components are most likely to be updated.

[PODCAST] ASP.NET MVC + ASP.NET AJAX

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Thursday, 24 Jul 2008

Jess Chadwick describes how to integrate the ASP.NET AJAX framework with ASP.NET MVC. With a few tricks up his sleeve, Jess makes it easier than it seems.

[VIDEO] How Do I: Implement Command Buttons for Individual Items

Learn ASP.NET - Latest Content — Thursday, 24 Jul 2008

In this video Chris Pels will show how to handle events associated with a button control in each item of a data-bound control like a ListView control. First, see how these data-bound controls have standard button event handlers for standard operations like Edit or Delete. Next, learn how to add a button which performs a custom action and how to handle events for this custom button action. Finally, see how to pass data to the custom event handler for identification of the item where the button click originated.