Object Oriented AJAX class and objects structured for ease of use and maintainability for multiple requests.

If you are still using HTML <table> elements to create page layouts, Chris Pels shows you why you should start using Cascading Style Sheets and <div> elements. We then learn how to create a custom membership provider and a custom profile provider for your ASP.NET application.

A big thank you goes out to Joe for this exciting opportunity to blog with a great group of folks on the ASP.NET blogs.

This blog will be primarily focused on ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, VS 2008 and other related technologies.

I look forward to sharing my thoughts and reading your feedback.

Hope you enjoy!

Script.NET is a control which allows you execute custom code in run-time.

There are a well known issue with the UnfoldTemplateAction which is provided in the GAX Library. Basically this action able you to unfold .vstemplate files by hand but it has a ugly issue in where you can't do any parameter replacements than the default ones . In fact is not a bug into the action so the issue resides in that is using the AddFromTemplate method from the DTE automation model and there's no way to pass any replacement dictionary using that method directly. So I wrote an action in order...(read more)

This week on the Silverlight site Shawn Wildermuth presents three videos that demonstrate how ASP.NET and Silverlight work together, with a focus on using ASP.NET to generate dynamic, reusable XAML.

Here are two book reviews that I did for DotNetSlackers recently:

• ASP.NET AJAX in Action
• Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials

Both are excellent books on the topic.

Seems Microsoft wants us to see their code, with comments, pretty cool:
 

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx 

Javascript for Submitting/Closing modal popup on Enter/Esc keypress..

For the past year I've been writing blogs on my website using an old outdated version of Community Server.  A few weeks ago I was about ready to just write my own for the heck of it.. but we all know how that turns out when you:

• Start a new job
• Going to be a dad in five weeks
•  evade ninjas on a daily bassis

So I say thank you to Joe, who just set this blog up for me. I will be filling this new blog with all my old articles... but new content will come soon.... yes very soon...

 Expect to see posts regarding :

• ASP.NET
• Ajax
• Ninjas
• C#
  
• IIS
• SilverLight
• Ninjas in Spandex
• Trogdor
• My future kid

 

Joel Oleson, on the SharePoint Team Blog has posted a sample deployment plan for a MOSS installation. Looks pretty comprehensive.

http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2007/10/05/office-sharepoint-server-deployment-plan-sample.aspx

At a glance:

- 6 Months
- Resources:
   - Database Administrator
   - Desktop Administrator
   - Education/Training Lead
   - End Users
   - Intranet/Internet Administrator
   - Project Manager
   - Test/QA Lead
   - Workspace Coordinators
- Overall methodology seems to be MSF-esque with phases:
   - Envisioning
   - Planning
   - Deployment, Implementation and Configuration Management
   - Post-Implementation Operations, Optimization and Business Review

They have clearly tried to make this all things to all deployments which is nice. I expect my shop will probably start out with this and whittle it down a little into something that looks like what we actually do. I think that we'll also set up some task notes or links within tasks to point to specifications and guidance.

Additionally, this does not cover anything related to significant custom feature deployments. I wouldn't really expect that though.

Overall, good stuff.

This article shows how to enforce single application instancing, and perform interprocess communication (IPC) using pure .NET code.

An article on how web standards can be used in ASP.NET control development

An easy way to publish your own news feed in ASP.NET

custom client side javascript sorting using generic function

The most advanced works which you can do with GridView in ASP.NET 2.0.

On Wednesday, Scott Guthrie announced that beginning with version 3.5 of the .NET Framework (and VS2008), the base class libraries will be browsable and can be used for debugging purposes.

On Tuesday I found out that I received the MVP award again. Congrats to all of the other new and renewed MVPs out there!

On Monday we invited a new member, David Barkol, to join the ASPInsiders. Our group is expanding and a few more developers will be added in the upcoming months.

ASP.NET GridView which only displays as many rows as many the user is willing to fill on the client-side. Implements ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

CodeIt.Right is a tool to find code and performance issues in your projects. Read more and download here.......(read more)

The answer is simple... Set the DataFormatString property of the BoundField to the desired format and set the HtmlEncode property to false.

Replace the ColumnName value with the name of your column.

Replace DataFormatString property with the format string of your choosing.  A good reference for .NET string formats is available at http://john-sheehan.com/blog/index.php/net-cheat-sheets/

<asp :GridView ID=“GridView1″ runat=“server”>
    <columns>
        <asp :BoundField DataField=“ColumnName”
            DataFormatString=“{0:M-dd-yyyy}”
            HtmlEncode=“false”
            HeaderText=“ColumnName” />
        </columns>
</asp:GridView>