ASP.NET News

New Control Gallery Additions

ASP.NET News — Monday, 17 Nov 2008

Try Karamasoft UltimateMenu, an ASP.NET menu control to build advanced DHTML menus, check out ASP.NET Search Control, an index-based search engine control for ASP.NET web applications, or the RadScheduler for ASP.NET AJAX. Try these and many others in the Control Gallery.

Nine Upcoming Webcasts

ASP.NET News — Thursday, 13 Nov 2008

Register for an upcoming webcast to hear directly from the product team and industry experts on current and upcoming technologies, or watch the archived webcasts.

New Updates to the ASP.NET Wiki

ASP.NET News — Tuesday, 11 Nov 2008

The Wiki continues to grow with updated Wiki Articles on ASP.NET MVC Framework, ASP.NET Open Source Projects, Dynamic Data, and more. Share your knowledge and earn Community Recognition points by contributing to the ASP.NET Wiki.

Three New Videos on ASP.NET

ASP.NET News — Thursday, 6 Nov 2008

Chris Pels shows how to implement error handling when sending an email, how to embed an image in an email, and how to create a custom provider for the ASP.NET health monitoring system. Visit the Learn page to watch these and other videos on ASP.NET.

Announcing Microsoft BizSpark – A New Global Program that provides Software, Support and Visibility for Start-ups

ASP.NET News — Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008

Microsoft BizSpark provides entrepreneurs with fast and easy access to current Microsoft development tools (including Expression Studio and Visual Studio) and production licenses of server products (such as Windows Server and SQL Server) with no upfront costs and minimal requirements. In addition to a very generous software offer, BizSpark also provides professional support from Microsoft technical experts, as well as visibility on the BizSparkDB website. Read more about BizSpark…

Six New Videos on ASP.NET Dynamic Data

ASP.NET News — Monday, 3 Nov 2008

Joe Stagner introduces six new dynamic data videos to help you get started with dynamic data applications, learn how to edit the templates and modify your dynamic data application with URL routing. Learn how to enable in-line editing, enable table specific routing, and how to use attribute validation.

New Control Gallery Additions

ASP.NET News — Monday, 3 Nov 2008

Explore AxpDataGrid, an ASP.NET WebControl for SQL queries and .NET DataSources, check out To Do List, an ASP.NET task management web application using SQL Server, or the AlbumOnNet WebControl Suite. Try these and many others in the Control Gallery.

Straight from PDC: .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview Available

ASP.NET News — Tuesday, 28 Oct 2008

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio Team System 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Community Technology Preview (CTP) are available to download and install today.

Azure Services Platform community technology preview now available

ASP.NET News — Monday, 27 Oct 2008

Microsoft introduces its cloud computing and services platform, including an operating system and a set of developer services. Click here to download the SDKs, see demos, and get started building web applications for the cloud using your skill set in ASP.NET and the .NET Framework.

ASP.NET Preview now on Codeplex

ASP.NET News — Monday, 27 Oct 2008

The ASP.NET Preview is now available on Codeplex. The Preview contains the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 3, ASP.NET Dynamic Data 4.0 Preview 1.0, and ASP.NET MVC Beta, showcasing functionality the ASP.NET team is planning for possible inclusion in the next version of ASP.NET. The source code and binary files should be considered early alpha builds and as such are intended for experimentation only.

Three New Podcasts Added

ASP.NET News — Wednesday, 22 Oct 2008

Visit the podcasts page to listen to three new podcasts from Hanselminutes, Polymorphic Podcast, and ASP.NET Podcasts.

New Control Gallery Additions

ASP.NET News — Monday, 20 Oct 2008

Try Peter's Date and Time controls for flexible ASP.NET date/time controls, check out the EasyQuery.NET (WebForms) to allow your users to get the data they want without any assistance, or bring your projects to life with RIAnimation. Try these and many others in the Control Gallery.

ASP.NET MVC Beta: Now Available for Download

ASP.NET News — Thursday, 16 Oct 2008

The ASP.NET MVC Beta is available as a free download for developers interested in utilizing the Model-View-Controller pattern to create ASP.NET applications. It complements the ASP.NET Web Forms model and allows for greater separation between the presentation and business layers. Stephen Walther continues his tutorial series with three new MVC tutorials and four new videos on Pair Programming and check out Rob Conery’s latest videos for building the Storefront Application using MVC.

Silverlight 2 Released!

ASP.NET News — Tuesday, 14 Oct 2008

Install the final release of Silverlight 2. Click here to get started building Silverlight applications, watch the videos, download the tutorials. Install the Silverlight Tools for Visual Studio, the Silverlight 2 SDK, and Expression Blend 2 SP1 to build great Web experiences with Silverlight 2.

New ASP.NET MVC Data Access Tutorials

ASP.NET News — Thursday, 9 Oct 2008

Want to learn how to display database data in an ASP.NET MVC application? Stephen Walther continues his MVC tutorial series by showing how to create MVC model classes and format data with templates in these three new tutorials.