Archives
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Tip/Trick: Url Rewriting with ASP.NET
People often ask me for guidance on how they can dynamically "re-write" URLs and/or have the ability to publish cleaner URL end-points within their ASP.NET web applications. This blog post summarizes a few approaches you can take to cleanly map or rewrite URLs with ASP.NET, and have the option to structure the URLs of your application however you want.
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WPF Text Reading and Flow Document Support, and the new NYTimes, Daily Mail, and Seattle Post-Intelligencer Reader Applications
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF aka "Avalon") is a massive step forward for Windows client development, and delivers a super-rich .NET UI framework that integrates vector graphics, rich flow text support, and 3D visualization with a powerful control model framework. You get WPF support with .NET 3.0 (which is built-in with Windows Vista and available as a separate download for other Windows OS versions).
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ASP.NET AJAX and SharePoint
One of the questions I was recently asked at a user group meeting in Europe was whether it was possible to use ASP.NET AJAX within SharePoint 2007 solutions. This was a common enough question that the SharePoint team recently blogged about their plans with ASP.NET AJAX to help answer it. You can read their post here.
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ASP.NET AJAX Tutorials, Disk Output Cache and RSS Toolkit CodePlex Projects, and Podcasts of Me
I am moving to a new house this week, so I unfortunately didn't get a chance to create any new original content this weekend. But thankfully a few people did forward me some good links that I haven't seen pointed to elsewhere that I highly recommend checking out:
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Free ASP.NET MVP Live Online Chat Tonight
Ryan Olshan and StrongCoders have helped put together a great ASP.NET live web chat for later tonight. It includes an all-star cast of MVP experts to field questions (I'll be there too to help answer questions).
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Free ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 "How Do I?" Videos (Updated for Final Release)
Joe Stagner on the ASP.NET team has been busy the last few weeks, and has just finished updating all 23 of his ASP.NET AJAX "How Do I?" videos to go against the final ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 release.
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My "First Look at Orcas" Presentation
One of the highlights of my recent trip to Europe was getting the chance to publicly show off some of the new features in our next release of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework (codename: "Orcas") for the first time publicly.
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ASP.NET AJAX Goodies: Documentation Download, Back Button Support, New Animation Control
Just a quick post to highlight a few cool ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 related downloads that have been posted over the last few days:
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ASP.NET 2.0 Tips and Tricks and ASP.NET, IIS7 and ASP.NET AJAX End to End Talks
I've finished my whirlwind speaking tour of Europe (Belgium, UK and Netherlands in less than one week), and was fortunate to have had the chance to present to several hundred people along the way. Many thanks to everyone who came out to attend my talks!