Archives
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Upcoming ASP.NET Releases in April
I was chatting with someone at the MIX conference who mentioned he’d love to have an easy way to stay up to-date with all of the things Microsoft is coming out with in the ASP.NET space. To help folks better track things I’ve decided to try and do a monthly “coming soon” post that outlines the list of things we are working on releasing from the team in the weeks ahead.
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Pointers to Great ASP.NET Atlas Content
June 21st Update: Here is a pointer to even more content.
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Great Atlas Map Mashup Tutorial
Jonathan Hawkins from the Atlas/ASP.NET team just posted a nice tutorial walking through how to build a map-based mashup using the Atlas Virtual Earth control and some custom web-services that serve up mountain information (note: Jonathan is an avid hiker!). You can read and download his tutorial here. You can also learn about the great Atlas Mashup Contest here (and win a free XBox 360!).
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New Publish Feature with VS 2005 Web Application Projects
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Upcoming ASP.NET and IIS Deployment, Debugging and Operations Web-Casts
There are some excellent web-casts scheduled over the next few weeks that you should consider watching and joining (registration and attendence is free). Some of them are being held by senior engineers on Microsoft.com, who will share tips and tricks about hosting one of the most heavily visited web-sites in the world. You can learn more about the web-cast topics and register here.
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RSS ToolKit for ASP.NET 2.0 Update
Dmitry just posted an updated version of his RSS Toolkit for ASP.NET (you can read all about it in my previous blog post).
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Handling 1.5 Billion Page Views Per Day Using ASP.NET 2.0
One of the highlights for me at the MIX conference earlier this week was being able to chat with customers about the success they’ve had with sites they’ve built on top of ASP.NET 2.0 and IIS 6.
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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.