Archives
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Common Gotcha: Slow VS 2005 Web Site Build Performance Because of “Dueling Assembly References”
September Update: For more details on how to optimize web project build performance in VS 2005, please review this blog post I did here.
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Atlas “How Do I?” Video Series Begins
Earlier this spring we published a really popular series of short, focused, online ASP.NET videos that we called the “How Do I?” series. The series walked through how to use Visual Web Developer to take advantage of the cool new ASP.NET 2.0 features like Master Pages, Membership, Role Management, Profiles, 3-tier Data Access, Themes, Web Parts, etc.
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Rules to Better Software Development
I found this great guide to .NET best practices the other day from SSW discussing recommended coding standards. It provides a categorized list of best practices to follow when doing software (and specifically .NET) development. You can read the .NET best practices guide here. Very useful stuff.
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Recipe: Implementing Role Based Security with ASP.NET using Windows Authentication and SQL Server
You are building an Intranet expense report application for your organization, and want to enable role-based authentication and authorization capabilities within it. Specifically, you want to create logical roles called “approvers”, “auditors”, and “administrators” for the application, and grant/deny end-users access to functionality within the application based on whether they are in these roles.
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Recipe: Implementing Role-Based Security with ASP.NET 2.0 using Windows Authentication and SQL Server
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Recipe: Dynamic Site Layout and Style Personalization with ASP.NET
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Upcoming Free ASP.NET Team Webcasts -- "Live from Redmond"
Earlier this spring the ASP.NET Team presented several great MSDN web-casts. The response to those was so great that we've scheduled a bunch of new ASP.NET 2.0 talks over the next two months. Below is a list of them, along with a registration URL that you can use to sign-up to watch them for free:
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Building a Photo Tagging Application using ASP.NET 2.0, LINQ, and Atlas
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Building a Photo Tagging Site using ASP.NET 2.0, LINQ, and Atlas
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Remote Membership/Roles Management of ASP.NET 2.0 Applications
Peter Kellner recently published parts 3 and 4 of his popular how-to series on building a custom remote security management application for ASP.NET 2.0's Membership and Roles feature. Part 3 covers Ajax enabling it with Atlas, and Part 4 covers adding personalization support with profiles. You can find the entire series on MSDN here:
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Tip/Trick: Online Database Schema Samples Library
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Recipe: Enabling Windows Authentication within an Intranet ASP.NET Web application
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Tip/Trick: Fast HTML Editor Navigation within VS 2005
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Tip/Trick: Using Server Side Comments with ASP.NET 2.0
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Tip/Trick: Custom formatting HTML in Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio 2005
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Tip/Trick: Gathering Custom User Registration Information
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Blog Comments and RSS Subscriptions to Them
One of the things that I recently enabled for my blog was RSS feeds for individual post comments (I think I accidentally forgot to enable this when I switched over to the new Community Server blog software). This enables you to subscribe to the discussions around individual blog postings without having to bookmark or revist the post manually. Just look for the "Subscribe to this post's comments using RSS" link above the "Comments" section on a post to obtain the feed URL to subscribe.
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New Atlas CTP Posted (now includes updatepanel support in dynamic controls)
Last week we released the June CTP build of Atlas. You can download it now from the http://atlas.asp.net site.
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Tip/Trick: List Running ASP.NET Worker Processes and Kill/Restart them from the command-line
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