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Seven New Control Gallery Entries
Resize your images with a server control, try Aspose.Recognition for .NET to save your PDF into a Word doc, RTF and more. Check out the new controls from SharpPieces ASP NET which include OptGroupDropdownList component, ImageCheckbox and LiveGrid control. Visit the Control Gallery to see these new controls and many more.
ASP.NET News
Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Two New Videos on ASP.NET
Chris Pels shows how information can be passed from one page to another using a query string and how to use the aspnet_merge.exe utility to combine assemblies that have been compiled using the aspnet_compiler.exe utility.
ASP.NET News
Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:00:00 AM

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ASP.NET AJAX
A free framework for quickly creating a new generation of more efficient and interactive Web experiences that work across all the most popular browsers.

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How I got started in programming.
Well, Dave Ward tagged me in Michael Eaton’s software development meme that’s been going around. As far as blog-chain-letters go, this is a great one.... More...
Microsoft's Opinionated Misfit Geek - Misfit Geek [Syndicated]
Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:57:52 AM
WPF Composite Application Guidance is Live
A very common pattern for business focused applications is the "Composite Application Pattern".   Over the last few months our P&a... More...
Brad Abrams
Thursday, July 03, 2008 6:20:49 AM
Visual Studio 2008 Web Server Here shell extension
This has to be one of the coolest shell extensions that I have seen yet.  It is right up there with the Command Prompt Here one. This adds a addi... More...
ASP.NET Debugging
Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:00:00 AM
The Weekly Source Code 30 - VB.NET with XML Literals as a View Engine for ASP.NET MVC
I was literally in the middle of writing the post when I saw a message from Andrew Davey about how he had implemented the same idea ! Of course, his i... More...
Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - ASP.NET
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 5:05:14 PM
ASP.NET MVC Tip #13 – Unit Test Your Custom Routes
In this tip, I demonstrate how you can create unit tests for the routes in your ASP.NET MVC applications. I show how to test whether a URL is being ma... More...
Stephen Walther on ASP.NET MVC
Wednesday, July 02, 2008 1:53:29 PM

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Featured ASP.NET MVP

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Curt Christianson
While I've been active in the web community for a number of years now I've actually been involved with computers in one form or another since the late 80s... more...

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TemplateBinding: a bridge between styles and templates
This is partially a follow-up to my last post contrasting control templates and styles. Like I mentioned before I've been working on an applicatio... More...
Devlicio.us
Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:30:09 PM
Expert Days Conference 2008 Israel
Expert Days Conference 2008   1. List of lectures 2. List of Workshops by subjects 3. My Workshops / Courses: 012 - Windows Communication Foundat... More...
ASP.NET Weblogs
Thursday, July 03, 2008 9:13:20 PM
Interesting Finds: 2008.07.04
.NET Deploy ASP.NET MVC on IIS 6, solve 404, compression and performance problems A Lap Around Microsoft "Velocity" - Cache It NOW! ASP.NET... More...
ASP.NET Weblogs
Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:15:34 PM
Get Your Func On
I've noticed that I have a 2 step pattern for learning new framework or language features. I'm guessing this is pretty typical for most people... More...
CodeBetter.Com - Stuff you need to Code Better!
Thursday, July 03, 2008 5:15:00 PM

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Installation and Setup
All about installing and getting ASP.NET running on your system.

Getting Started
The perfect forum for ASP.NET novices. No question too simple!

ASP.NET Futures
Use this forum to discuss ASP.NET AJAX Extensions, Dynamic Data Controls, Silverlight Controls for ASP.NET, ASP.NET Dynamic Language Support, and Search and Diagnostics Application Services.

Web Forms
All about building ASP.NET Pages - server controls, events, validation, etc.

Visual Studio 2005
General discussions of Visual Studio 2005.

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ASP.NET Code Gallery Samples RSS

FastMVC: Compress and Cache Dynamic and Static requests
Load dynamic pages 5 to 20 times faster by compressing response on the fly. Serve static files (js, html, css) 10 to 100 times faster by compr... more
MSDN Code Gallery
Monday, June 30, 2008 1:01:42 AM
Nuno Gomes
Various code samples from Nuno Gomes
MSDN Code Gallery
Saturday, May 31, 2008 4:23:25 PM
Zero Config Dependency Injection : Castle Windsor Trunk Edition
This Framework Extension allows most of your registration/configuration in a dependency injection framework to be done 'automagically' whe... more
MSDN Code Gallery
Monday, May 12, 2008 12:09:00 PM
Web Client Software Factory
The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise Web applications. The fact... more
MSDN Code Gallery
Friday, April 25, 2008 3:42:40 PM
Updating Application variables for all processes in Web Garden
If you use Web Gardens and you need to programmatically update an application variable, you can run into issues since the code is only running in one... more
MSDN Code Gallery
Wednesday, April 23, 2008 9:54:59 AM

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ASP.NET Projects from CodePlex RSS

.NET URL Rewriter and Reverse Proxy
Managed Fusion URL Rewriter is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on the Apache mod_rewrite extension. It is designed, from the ground up to bri... more
CodePlex
Saturday, June 28, 2008 7:24:13 AM
CASTCOM
CASTCOM for CAST Comunication and Organisation ManagementThe purpose of this website is to manage and plan anything relative to the organisation of Ai... more
CodePlex
Thursday, June 26, 2008 5:14:20 AM
MyForum
MyForum is yet another forum web application. But this one differs from others in several points.- It's well organised in an n-tier architecture-... more
CodePlex
Friday, June 20, 2008 2:14:26 AM
Snoo
Snoo is a domain-specific language for social networking applications, written in Boo. Its purpose is to provide a specialized language for quickly de... more
CodePlex
Friday, June 06, 2008 8:57:27 PM
HydrogenCMS
A minimalist CMS experiment using asp.net mvc.
CodePlex
Sunday, June 01, 2008 8:06:00 PM

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