Archives
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Visual Studio 2005 Profiles and a Few Tweaks I like to Make
One of the new features in VS 2005 is the support for “profiles” in the IDE. Profiles provide the ability to define pre-set defaults for options, menus, key-bindings, and command-bars across the tool-set. VS 2005 ships with several built-in profiles out of the box including: VB, C#, C++, Web, Test, and a General Development Settings similar to 2003. When VS launches the very first time it prompts a user to pick which of these profiles to use by default (note that you can build all app types and even use all languages regardless of which profile you pick).
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Online ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer Video Training
MSDN has posted some good getting-started video material on ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Web Developer. Highlighted today is a course on using the new data access features (including the new ObjectDatasource, GridView, and FormView controls). You can check them out in both VB and C# versions here: http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/vwd/videos/default.aspx
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Great Site Navigation,TreeView and Menu Content
Danny Chen on the ASP.NET product team has been blogging some really great content on the new Site Navigation, TreeView and Menu features in ASP.NET 2.0. Definitely worth checking out -- these features can save a lot of time with common web-site navigation:
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How to add a Login, Roles and Profile system to an ASP.NET 2.0 app in only 24 lines of code
I’ve seen a few questions in the forums lately looking for examples on how to use the CreateUserWizard control to create new users in the ASP.NET 2.0 membership system, and then as part of the registration process assign the new user into custom roles and/or collect and store custom profile properties about them (country, address, gender, zipcode, etc).
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Tons of MSDN Content on the new ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model
This will all be linked heavily on MSDN starting tomorrow, but I got the ok to forward the already-live links tonight. :-)
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Cassini V2 with source code available
Dmitry published V2 sources for the Cassini web-server a few weeks ago at: http://blogs.msdn.com/dmitryr/archive/2005/09/27/474534.aspx
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Web Hosting Upsize Tool for SQL Express
Brad and Polita on my team have been working on a cool tool for hosting providers that will enable developers to easily deploy and manage ASP.NET 2.0 database driven applications written using SQL Express on a hosted web-server.
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Async Pages in ASP.NET 2.0
One of the cool new advanced features in ASP.NET 2.0 is support for pages that execute otherwise blocking operations asynchronously. This allows ASP.NET to re-use the worker thread while waiting for a completion (for example: calling a remote web-service and waiting for the response) and allows the server to execute much more efficiently.
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Update: A newer post about this can be found here.