Archives
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Tip/Trick: Handling Errors with the UpdatePanel control using ASP.NET AJAX
Luis Abreu is an ASP.NET MVP who has a great blog on the http://msmvps.com blog site. Earlier today he posted a great tutorial post that describes how to use some of the new features in the ASP.NET AJAX Beta1 release to add more robust error handling into your application. I highly recommend reading and bookmarking it for future use.
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CSS Control Adapters Update (Beta3)
I've blogged in the past about the great CSS Control Adapters that Russ and Heidi have been working on. These adapters use a new built-in extensibility mechanism in ASP.NET 2.0 called "control adapters" that allow you to plug-in into any ASP.NET server control and override, modify and/or tweak the rendering output logic of that control.
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I'm presenting at the North Dallas .NET User Group on November 2nd
I'm very excited to have the opportunity to present at the North Dallas .NET User Group on November 2nd (next Thursday).
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Tip/Trick: Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios
I've been having some fun playing around with the ASP.NET AJAX Beta release this weekend.
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ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 Released
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Great IIS7 Blog
Mike Volodarsky from the IIS 7.0 team recently created a new blog and has been posting up a storm of great IIS 7.0 related posts. Mike owns the "integrated pipeline" and "server core extensibility" aspects of IIS7 - which among other things now allow you to write ASP.NET/.NET HttpModules that can participate in any web request to the server (for example: you could implement forms auth and role security for ASP, PHP, Java requests). This gives you more power than ISAPI extensions/filters today - and best of all you can use any .NET language to build them. I definitely recommend subscribing.
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Visual Studio for Database Professionals and other Cool Data Management Tools for .NET
Earlier today CTP6 of the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals was made available for free download.
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Tip/Trick: Source/Documentation for Simple ASP.NET 2.0 SQL Providers Published
One of the most popular features in ASP.NET 2.0 was the introduction of the "provider model" for the built-in ASP.NET Application Service APIs. The provider model ensures that the storage/implementation for services like Membership, Roles, Profiles, Health Monitoring, Session State, and Site Navigation is extensible, and it allows a developer to easily plug-in alternative implementations if they want.
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Upcoming free "Live from Redmond" webcast talks
Simon Muzio recently posted a link to free upcoming webcast talks for .NET. These are free webcast presentations that anyone can join over the web. You can find archived versions of past webcast events on the http://www.asp.net/learn site here.
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Gotcha: Fixing Error with VS 2005 SP1 Beta and older Web Application Project Templates
Two weeks ago we released the VS 2005 SP1 Beta. You can download it for free by visiting and registering on the Microsoft Connect Site.
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Tip/Trick: Adding Authorization Rules to Business and Data Layers using PrincipalPermissionAttributes
Earlier this summer I posted two tutorials on using Windows Authentication with ASP.NET: Enabling Window Authentication within an Intranet ASP.NET Web Application and Implementing Role Based Security within ASP.NET using Windows Authentication and SQL Server. I also linked to Scott Mitchell's great ASP.NET 2.0 Security, Membership and Roles Tutorials that cover how to use Forms Authentication and the new Membership/Roles APIs in ASP.NET for Internet based web applications.
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Attend ASP.NET Connections in Las Vegas in November
November 6th-10th are the dates for this fall's ASP.NET Connections Conference at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas.
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German and Chinese sections launched on www.asp.net
Today we launched a Chinese and German content section on the www.asp.net web-site (so you can find localized articles, blogs, forums and other community sites). This adds to the Spanish, French and English versions already available. You can switch your language preference in the top-right of the site to filter the content of the www.asp.net site, or link to them directly here: