ASP.NET News

Learn ASP.NET MVC with New Videos and Tutorials

ASP.NET News — Thursday, 21 Aug 2008

The MVC page has been redesigned and updated with 15 new videos, 8 new tutorials, and free sample chapters from 5 of the upcoming ASP.NET MVC books.

Six New Podcasts Added

ASP.NET News — Wednesday, 20 Aug 2008

Visit the podcasts page to listen to six new podcasts from .NET Rocks!, Hanselminutes, Polymorphic Podcast, and ASP.NET Podcasts.

Three Showcases Added to ASP.NET AJAX Showcase

ASP.NET News — Monday, 18 Aug 2008

The ASP.NET AJAX Showcase shows how ASP.NET AJAX is being used to push the performance and usability of Web-based applications. The additions include Fuelstart, Hamilton Island, and eFLOW Web Forms. If you have a cool Web site that leverages ASP.NET AJAX, please let us know.

NET 3.5 SP1: Now Available for Download

ASP.NET News — Monday, 11 Aug 2008

The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is available as a free download and contains exciting new features such as ASP.NET Dynamic Data, ASP.NET AJAX Script Combining and ASP.NET AJAX History to help developers build powerful web applications faster.

Five New ASP.NET Videos

ASP.NET News — Thursday, 7 Aug 2008

Chris Pels shows how to use skins with CSS for a flexible and maintainable ASP.NET web site and how to use MSBuild to automate the ASP.NET compiler and merge utilities. Joe Stagner shows how to work with data access layers, DataSets and filters, and how to manually bind data.

New Updates to the ASP.NET Wiki

ASP.NET News — Wednesday, 6 Aug 2008

The Wiki continues to grow with updated Wiki Articles on Design Patterns, Generics, controls, and more. Share your knowledge and earn Community Recognition points by contributing to the ASP.NET Wiki.

Four Upcoming Webcasts

ASP.NET News — Tuesday, 5 Aug 2008

Register for an upcoming webcast to hear directly from the product team and industry experts on current and upcoming technologies, or watch the archived webcasts.

Three New ASP.NET Security Videos

ASP.NET News — Monday, 4 Aug 2008

Joe Stagner reviews ASP.NET Membership, a built-in way to validate and store user credentials. He also shows how to configure SQL Server to work with Membership Schemas and how to change Membership settings in ASP.NET's default Membership schemas.

Final Installments in the Master Pages Tutorials Series

ASP.NET News — Wednesday, 30 Jul 2008

Scott Mitchell finishes his Master Pages tutorials series with 2 new tutorials covering nested master pages and specifying the master page programmatically. Be sure to follow all 10 tutorials to sharpen your Master Pages skills. Tutorials and code are available in both C# and VB.

Four New Control Gallery Additions

ASP.NET News — Tuesday, 29 Jul 2008

Learn how to generate ASP.NET 3.5 applications with Data Aquarium's Framework for ASP.NET and AJAX and check out YUIAspNet's Button, Slider, and ColorPicker controls. Try these and many others in the Control Gallery.

New Podcasts Have Been Added

ASP.NET News — Friday, 25 Jul 2008

Visit the Podcasts page to learn from well-known .NET developers in the community. Listen to hours of radio shows from .NET Rocks!, Hanselminutes, Polymorphic Podcast, ASP.NET Podcast, and more.

Four New ASP.NET Videos

ASP.NET News — Thursday, 24 Jul 2008

Chris Pels shows how to implement command buttons for individual items, use the Fixednames option with the aspnet_compiler.exe, use a hidden field to store and manipulate client-side information, and add controls to an ASP.NET web page programmatically.

New Updates to the ASP.NET Wiki

ASP.NET News — Tuesday, 22 Jul 2008

The Wiki continues to grow thanks to community member article updates on sending email in ASP.NET, HttpWebRequest class, ASP.NET Tracing, and new articles about AJAX and CSS, JSON and more. Share your knowledge and also earn community recognition points by contributing to the ASP.NET Wiki.

New Security Video Series

ASP.NET News — Wednesday, 16 Jul 2008

Joe Stagner introduces a new security video series designed to compliment the ASP.NET Security Tutorials. Watch as Joe demonstrates how to use custom principal objects, add custom data to the authentication method, setup and use cookie-less authentication in an ASP.NET application and more in this exciting new video series.

Employee Information Starter Kit

ASP.NET News — Wednesday, 16 Jul 2008

The Employee Information Starter Kit demonstrates the use of simple CRUD operations for maintaining a company's employee information. It is being developed by ASP.NET community members as a guideline for building enterprise level projects.