ScottGu's Blog
Scott Guthrie lives in Seattle and builds a few products for Microsoft
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Drag and Drop ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in FireFox (with Atlas)
One of the cool features that the recent March CTP drop of Atlas enables is drag/drop support with FireFox for ASP.NET 2.0 WebParts. This doesn't require any coding changes -- all you need to-do is update your web.config file with a few Atlas entries, and then you'll be able to have drag/drop for both IE and FireFox.
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Access to a page's head element using ASP.NET 2.0
One of the small, but nice, feature additions in ASP.NET 2.0 is support for a <head runat="server"> tag that you can access via the page object's "Header" property. This is added by default to a page when you create a new one with Visual Web Developer or VS 2005. You can then programmatically access it like so:
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Using .NET to Build Cool Games for XBox
In case you missed the cool news from earlier this week, it will be possible to build games for the XBox using managed code (C# or VB) and a new .NET API for the XBox graphics engine.
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Efficient Data Paging and Sorting with ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL 2005
I posted two articles on doing efficient data paging with ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL 2005 earlier this year:
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Atlas Presentation and Samples
4/2/2006 Update: I posted more great Atlas information + demos/samples (including pointers to a cool video I did) here.
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Great ASP.NET 2.0 Tutorial Videos Online
Last week we published a series of great ASP.NET 2.0 “How do I?” videos on MSDN. These videos are code-focused videos (no slides or marketing at all – pure code) that walkthrough using some of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer (which is free).
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ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources
I usually try and spend at least an hour or two each night hanging out on the ASP.NET Forums answering questions. The last week or so I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Security Forum answering a lot of “how to” questions about some of the new features in ASP.NET 2.0 (in particular the new ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Role Management and Login Controls) and pointing people at resources and samples around the web about them. What I thought I’d try and do with this post is consolidate a lot of pointers to different ASP.NET 2.0 security resources in one place.
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Great Step By Step Guide on how to build an ASP.NET "WaitScreen" Server Control
Daniel Fisher recently forwarded me a pointer to an excellent step-by-step blog post he wrote that walks through how to build an ASP.NET Server Control that provides "wait-screen" functionality for long-rendering pages (note: this can be used to avoid users becoming impatient, hitting refresh, only to restart a long running request).
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Awesome ASP.NET 2.0 RSS ToolKit Released
Dmitry on the ASP.NET Team posted an awesome RSS Toolkit for ASP.NET 2.0 on his blog earlier tonight. It provides a ton of great support for both consuming and exposing RSS from ASP.NET 2.0 applications, and ships with full source code.
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ASP.NET 2.0 Wizard Control
One of the useful new controls in ASP.NET 2.0 is the <asp:wizard> control, which allows developers to easily create multi-step UI (with built-in previous/next functionality and state management of values).