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Microsoft Donates the ASP.NET Ajax Library Project to the CodePlex Foundation

Microsoft Donates the ASP.NET Ajax Library Project to the CodePlex Foundation

The CodePlex Foundation has announced the formation of the ASP.NET Open Source Gallery and the acceptance of the ASP.NET Ajax Library as the first project in the Foundation. The ASP.NET Ajax Library consolidates ASP.NET Ajax and the Ajax Control Toolkit into a single open source project making it easy for developers to use the Ajax programming model in their Websites and Web Applications. For more information visit the ASP.NET Ajax Library project site.

 

Download Silverlight 4 Beta Today!

Download Silverlight 4 Beta Today!

At PDC09 Silverlight 4 Beta was unveiled with numerous new features, including support for webcam, printing, and trusted application support. Find out more and download the beta today.

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David Ebbo

T4MVC 2.5.01: added support for Html.RenderAction and Html.Action

To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page on CodePlex   MVC 2 Beta introduces two nice helpers called Html.RenderAction and Html.Action.  Phil Haack described them in detail on his blog , so you...

Bill Staples

Lot’s of new software for IIS, ASP.NET, AJAX and PHP this week

Wow, what a week of innovation for the Microsoft Web Platform.  This week we released a ton of new software which, if you haven’t already, you’ve got to check out.  Here is a quick overview:   IIS Search...

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ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation

This is the third post in my series ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta and its new features. ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released (Release Announcement) Html.RenderAction and Html.Action ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation In this post I will cover...

Brad Abrams

PDC09 Talk: Building Amazing Business Applications with Silverlight 4, RIA Services and Visual Studi...

I had a great time at my talk today at PDC2009 .  I was able to spend much of the time in a demo…   Here is a summary of that demo so you can walk through it on your own machine: What you need to get...

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Customizing ASP.NET Menu Control to use jQuery,Superfish and CSS Friendly Control Adapters

In this article I will share the steps on how to hook up the Superfish jQuery Menu plug-in into your ASP.NET website to beautify your ASP.NET Menu control.

How to Create an ASP.NET Modal Popup Login

In this article, I demonstrate how to create a modal popup login page in ASP.NET. By using Login controls, AJAX Extensions, and the AJAX Control Toolkit, you can easily accomplish this task without much coding. The demo project is based on Visual Web Developer Express 2008 and the .NET Framework...

Database Documentation, API for Pre- and Post-Conditions, Blogs and More

Scott Mitchell's November 2009 Toolbox column in MSDN Magazine

Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control with ASP.MET MVC

As you delve more into ASP.NET MVC you start to come across a whole new way of doing things that Web Forms development didn't really expose you to. Inversion of Control (IoC) and Dependency Injection (DI) are two phrases that crop up a lot in the MVC space. So what are they all about? And should...

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