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Announcing the Microsoft SDK for Facebook (Facebook .NET SDK 3.0)

Announcing the Microsoft SDK for Facebook (Facebook .NET SDK 3.0)

This latest release of the Facebook .NET SDK supports the newest Facebook services delivered through the Facebook Open Stream API. Create applications for Facebook using any of your favorite Microsoft development platforms: Silverlight, WPF, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, and Windows Forms.

 

Five New Videos on ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010!

Five New Videos on ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010!

Microsoft's Joe Stagner kicks off his series of ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 "Quick Hits" videos. This series of short videos explains the new features of ASP.NET 4 and VS2010.

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Interface Inheritance Esoterica

I learned something new yesterday about interface inheritance in .NET as compared to implementation inheritance. To illustrate this difference, here’s a simple demonstration. I’ll start with two concrete classes, one...

Joe Stagner

Free ASP.NET 4 and VS 2010 Beta Hosting to help you get up to FOUR !

MaximumASP is offering a free hosting account so you can get started with ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010. On this account you can test ASP.NET 4 applications in a hosting environment and try out the new publishing...

Joe Stagner

ASP.NET 4 / VS 2010 “Quick Hit” Videos

Now that the “Dev 2010” wave of products is in beta and we’re getting closer5 and closer to release, I‘ve started publishing “Quick Hit” videos on the new features. These are not really tutorials (Not like the How-Do-I...

Brad Abrams

http://silverlight.net/riaservices/ is Live!

We have been working for a while to get a community site together where we can aggregate all the great buzz, resources and discussions about .NET RIA Services.   We hope you enjoy the content we already have...

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Getting Started with the ASP.NET MVC Framework

This article introduces the essential concepts of the ASP.NET MVC framework, dissects the MVC pattern, and provides real-world examples to illustrate how it works.

Improve Bandwidth Performance of ASP.NET Sites Using IIS Compression

Bandwidth performance is one of the critical requirements for every website. In today’s time major cost of the website is not hard disk space but its bandwidth. So transferring maximum amount of data over the available bandwidth becomes very critical. In this article we will see how we can use IIS...

Building Efficient Search Page Using QueryExtender control in ASP.Net 4.0

Building a search page is one of the very common and repeated tasks we do in any data driven websites. To do this, we will build a select query with where clause based on the search parameter suppplied through the input controls on the page. Understanding this need, Microsoft has introduced a new...

Mobile Device Detection and Redirection Using ASP.NET

This article explains two approaches to determine if an HTTP request is coming from a mobile phone and then redirecting the request to a page optimized for a mobile browser.

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Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework by Steve Sanderson

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