With the release of ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 just around the corner, now is the time to discover the new features that will empower your Web development and make building great Web sites easier than ever.

 Paul Vick is once again supporting us VB.NET developers.  Seems VB.NET is the language of choice after all.

From Mark Jones, these should be required reading for all SharePoint development team leads, project managers and architects:

Architecture and Design Lessons Learned

SharePoint Development and Engineering Practices

 

I am stuck on this. I migrated a .Net 1.1 web application to .Net 2.0 and I want to take advantage of the Masterpage model. I don’t want to rewrite everything so I want to keep some user controls (like headers and footers) embedded in the Master page. However I don’t get the right way to set from my code (VB.Net) the public properties of my user control. Imagine something like this: Masterpage: <%@ Master Language="VB" CodeFile="MasterPage.master.vb" Inherits="MasterPage" %> <%@ Register...(read more)

The ASP.NET AJAX Showcase demonstrates how businesses are using ASP.NET AJAX to add functionality and provide greater user experiences in their Web-based applications. The three exciting new additions include Foonance, Lottery Post and RoundPegs. If you too have created a cool Web site leveraging ASP.NET AJAX, please let us know.

Three Implementations of Model-View-Presenter in ASP.NET 2.0

BEA has released a Technical Preview of WebLogic 10.1.3 . Some of my favorites features include the JMS .NET API and support for SAML 2.0....(read more)

I'm in Barcelona this week for TechEd EMEA. The talk I gave today was about getting Windows Workflow Foundation hosted in ASP.NET. It was based on a quickstart sample that we built a couple of months ago and was recently updated to run on Visual Studio...(read more)

With Microsoft Expression Encoder you can create Silverlight Media Web Projects. This projects can be zipped and uploaded to silverlight streaming service. Then you can embed the video in your webpage with iframe. My problem was, that i didnt find any option in Expression Encoder to prevent the automatic start of the video.

Workaround: you have to edit from expression encoder output folder the startplayer.js and set autoplay to false

 

 this._player = $create(   ExtendedPlayer.Player,
                                  { // properties
                                    autoPlay    : false,
                                    volume      : 1.0,
                                    muted       : false
                                  },

Save the file and create the zip. That have to be uploaded to streaming website.

You can also edit the file in the player templates, which change the defautl behaviour.

Recently read the post "Is Biztalk Dead?" at Kent Brown. He talks about Microsoft Oslo, its components, and why Biztalk is still not dead. Interesting post.

You can now find the open-source projects on one Starter Kits and Community Projects page. Check out the newly listed DinnerNow.net and Umbraco CMS for examples of building a connected application and a fast, flexible content management system

Here's the collection of posts I've been making about OpenForce07 here in Las Vegas. I'll update the list on Thursday as well OpenForce07 Wednesday Afternoon OpenForce07 Wednesday, the time has come and gone, My Session OpenForce07 Wednesday Morning OpenForce07 Tuesday Afternoon: DNN Development Security OpenForce Tuesday Afternoon: OpenForce Tuesday: Shaun's Keynote OpenForce Tuesday Morning: Scott Guthrie's keynote...(read more)

Using programmatically the SqlDatasource is a much better way than embedding the Select and Insert command in the Aspx page. Read here to know how to do this......(read more)

More about the technology but the demo app is ASP.NET

Since the MasterPage is derived fromUserControl and thus, does not support the method 'InitializeCulture()', a bit more coding is required in order to get the ASP.NET MasterPage running with Localization.

In this week's videos you will learn how to use the ASP.NET validation controls for both server-side and client-side validation and the basics of building a custom user control that can be reused across multiple pages.

We just completed the .NET Framework 3.5 update to the Commonly Used Types and Namespaces poster. Here's a link to the PDF if you want to grab it now and be the first on your block to get it on your wall. We'll be using it at a variety of places, if you...(read more)

In this article, Jagadish Chaterjee will focus on developing a WCF library which performs business logic (with CRUD operations) at the middle tier level and finally access it using ASP.NET 3.5. Read more......(read more)

This book by Juval Lowy has really got rave reviews from everywhere. Guess it's the best book to read when it comes to learning and implementing WCF. I recently bought this book on amazon, and found out to be really useful to me. One more review from Oreilly Press.

Do you have any other suggestions?