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For God sake, whoo's in charge of weblogs.asp.net? Telligent, Microsoft, the Pope, Madonna?

This is a custom webcontrol that shows the progress of long sequential tasks using AJAX to refresh the page.

This article is an introductory article on how to build a WPF/E simple web application that represents an analog clock.

Wilco Bauwer answered to one good thing about Silverlight 1.1 which make me thinking adopting this technology:

By default, Visual Studio 2005 generates and validates XHTML-compliant markup. This helps you build Web applications that are standards compliant and helps minimize issues with browser-specific rendering. Visual Studio .NET 2003 did not generate XHTML-compliant markup, so you might see validation and rendering issues with pages created in Visual Studio .NET 2003.

In this article, I show a class that can be used to find and display all of the urls on a web page. What for you may ask? Well, in my experience as a web developer, I have found a class like this to be very useful. Sometimes, you may want to use this class a a basis for a more complex application that crawls your site checking for bad or broken links. In other cases, you may simply want to check an individual page to make sure your links are formatted correctly, or don't contain any obsolete pages. You could also easily change this class to look for other items within your page, like specific text or tags. Who knows, this may be the start of a specialized spider that crawls sites on the internet looking for something specific.

Are you familiar with the Windows Communications Foundation? Take it one step further and learn how to create WCF Channels and Bindings.

There is an impedance mismatch between objects and normalized relational databases. Everyone knows this. Almost everyone has tried to fix it—think object-oriented databases—and some people have gotten famous off of proposed solutions. (Deservedly so or not.) Well, truth be told Microsoft is working on an ADO.NET Entity Framework to address this issue. The issue phrased using my words is getting data from databases into objects makes for better programming but is time consuming, tedious, and not altogether convenient. From what I know of LINQ, LINQ for Data, and the Entity Framework, they may really be on to something.