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New Free Components in the ASP.NET Control Gallery

New Free Components in the ASP.NET Control Gallery

We've added over a dozen new controls, including free components for picking colors, editing photos, and displaying treeviews. Try these controls and others in the Control Gallery.

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Brad Abrams

Bytes by MSDN: Brad Abrams Interview with Billy Hollis: Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010

Bytes by MSDN is doing a bunch of really interesting interviews with folks behind the technology.   In this interview I talked to Billy Hollis about Silverlight 4, RIA Services and VS2010. Tune in with Brad...

Brad Abrams

Field Level Access with RIA Services

There are lots of reason you may need to customize the access to given fields within an entity.  For example, HIPPA compliance requires that some data not be exposed to only employees with a need to...

James Senior

Building Twitter Search using the ASP.NET Ajax Library Beta – Part II

In the first installment of this two-part series we explored how you can consume JSONP data sources using hardly any code thanks to the ASP.NET Ajax Library and the powerful networking stack that lies within.  This...

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Localizing ASP.NET MVC Validation

This is the fourth post in my series on ASP.NET MVC 2 and its new features. ASP.NET MVC 2 Beta Released (Release Announcement) Html.RenderAction and Html.Action ASP.NET MVC 2 Custom Validation Localizing ASP.NET MVC...

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Search and Filter Items of an ASP.NET DropDownList using jQuery

In this article, I will demonstrate how to search and filter items of an ASP.NET DropDownList using jQuery

Ajax with Postback Ritalin

Recently I noticed a simple and nice control giving more functionality to partial postback, it is Postback Ritalin. This is built on top of ASP.NET Ajax extensions and offers a nice solution to a common problem i.e. disabling button during partial postbacks.

Building N-Tier Apps with EF4

This article looks at some features coming in the second release of the Entity Framework (EF4) and how you use them to implement the Self-Tracking Entities and Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) n-tier patterns.

Dynamic Meta Description and Keyword Tags for Your MasterPages

Take a look at a technique for dynamically inserting meta tags into your master pages. By taking control of the head tag and inserting your own HtmlMeta you can easily customise these tags.

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