Whether you want to jump-start your own web site or simply view the code of a complete ASP.NET application, an open-source project is a great place to start. Check out the My Web Pages starter kit, the Codeplex Club starter kit, and the ScrewTurn Wiki project.

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit provides a set of AJAX controls to spice up your Web site, and as a shared-source project you can use its infrastructure to create your own cool controls and extenders. Be sure to grab the newest release of the Control Toolkit, as it contains a number of bug fixes.

BlogEngine.NET is a full-featured blogging engine built with simplicity as its primary goal. The software is free and open source, and can run against XML files or SQL Server. Use it as is, or use it as the basis of your own projects, all under the Microsoft Permissive License.

javascript+AJAX solution for inline edititng in grid.

Yesterday I got my copy of Silverlight 1.0 published by Wrox, authored by Devin Rader, Jason Beres, J. Ambrose Little, and Grant Hinkson.

Of course, my attention was immediately drawn to the full color cover of the book.  We are all accustomed to the traditional black & white photos of authors in Wrox books - so this was a pleasant surprise.  As hoped for, this was preview of what to expect in the book itself - full color screen captures and code syntax.  As far as I am concerned, this has set a new bar of expectations for the reader.  I have so much enjoyed seeing code in color, I don't know if I want to purchase another book with dreary black & white samples ever again.

Anyway, I enjoyed the layout of the content itself.  For ASP.NET 2.0 developers who have never experimented with Silverlight, this is a great starting point!  Highlights for me personally were the chapters regarding Expression Blend 2 and using Silverlight with ASP.NET and Ajax.  The appendices include references for the Silverlight and XAML.

With stunning color, progressive topics, and relevant content, I recommend this book to any new Silverlight developers.

This is how much conversation there is on the ALT.NET Mailing list in the past couple of days:

Very good content, great people. It's been a while since I've had a list keep me so busy so long.

Using ASP.NET, C#, Framework 1.1 to show a master/detail grid with javascript to expand & collapse.

For some background lean on Google.

No, it does not.

I have been explaining, helping and coaching others with principles and best practices over the last few years. You will find some of them on Roy’s list. I enjoy being a part of and learning from the leading enterprise and innovative communities. I was even lucky enough to learn from the best of breed on two occasions.

Sow seeds that benefit others. Please, don’t take yourself too seriously in the process.

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.

This is a WebControl that provides an easy way to prepare an ASP.NET GridView to be paged and printed in the browser.

Visual Studio Team System provides many ways for developers to extend the application build process, and in these videos we demonstrate how to automate builds, automate tests, and automate deployments. On the ASP.NET AJAX Videos page we learn how to implement the Persistent Communications Pattern and how to use the Conditional UpdateMode of the UpdatePanel.

ASP.NET AJAX is designed to be extended, and in this week’s ASP.NET AJAX videos we learn how to build both an AJAX extender control, and a custom server control that works with or without ASP.NET AJAX. Be sure to also view the CSS Friendly Control Adapters video.

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.

Glenn asks:

Hey Michael...

I have a question about the culture info and these settings in the registry. Seeing you have posted a lot of info about this on your blog I was hoping you could help me out a bit :) The question :

I was wondering if I could somehow change the settings of following Registry : HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Internation by means of the use of a CultureInfo I've created in C# using a LCID ?

In other words can I manipulate this through use of any .Net class ? Or do I really have to copy all values ?

Any thoughts ?

Greets
Glenn

There is no .NET way to modify this account's settings (basically the LocalSystem account), though there is one programmatic way: if you have code running in that account you can call SetLocaleInfo (which does really stink but can be useful in this scenario) to update settings.

Note that this will only work for the "current user" of the LocalSystem account, which is what this registry key contains. And although the registry is undocumented, the SetLocaleInfo functionality is not.

Of course, impersonation is (generally speaking) out of the question for security reasons, so you do have to be running within the account; perhaps you were there anyway. Though caution is warranted in that case, because you are exposing the surface area a bit in case there is any flaw or vulnerability in your code. So be very careful about running as such a privileged user!

 

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Demonstrates the concept of how to build an old MFC application in a .NET application, to replace the MFC MDI Framework with the modern WinForms or the WPF Framework and to integrate MFC Views and Dialogs in it.

If you are new to ASP.NET, you may think that your only options to handle processing events are during Page_Init and Page_Load in your .aspx page. Yet there are many application events before and after your .aspx page is processed, and in this week’s video you will learn how you can execute code during these events.

The .NET Framework 3.5 is shipping later this year at the same time as Visual Studio 2008. The .NET Framework 3.5 is an additive release, meaning that it adds functionality in terms of classes in assemblies to the previous versions 3.0 and 2.0 of the...(read more)

Yet another list pager, but this one can use LinkButtons or simple hyperlinks, provides scrolling within an ASP.NET Ajax UpdatePanel, and behaves similarly to the paging found on Amazon.com.

ConwayControls.zip

The .zip file above contains a custom RadioButton control that works inside a DataGrid or GridView.

Can be used for both 1.1 or 2.0!

A very efficient reader-writer lock class in C++ that is similar to the .NET ReaderWriterLock one