Tafiti is a cool search engine written in Silverlight. It features amazing graphics and drag and drop functionality. There is even a cool spinning treeview for the results.

Check out http://www.tafiti.com

 

Register now for ASP.NET Connections and Visual Studio & .NET Connections on November 5 — 8 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas. Learn all about the new features in Visual Studio 2008 from Microsoft and industry experts.

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.

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The VB team has released some compelling performance numbers for Visual Basic 2008.  A few dramatic ones:   VB 2005 (ms) VB 2008 (ms) Build a large multi-project solution (explicit build operation) 1,618,605 57,543 Responsiveness after opening a project 255,551 38,769 Responsiveness after adding a member to a class 327 36 Invoke Intellisense to see a list of types (first time) 1,192 530 Lots more data and some links at the [...]

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Create browser-independent gradients dynamically with an ASP.NET IHttpHandler

We've added 3 new controls to the Control Gallery, including ASP Spell Check, ASPNetToolTip, and SPAW Editor v.2 .NET Edition. Find these and over 900 more controls and components to use in your own ASP.NET applications in our Control Gallery!

This article helps to understand the OOP concepts focusing on .Net/ C#. This is written in the form of asking questions and writing answers to them, making it easy to understand.

Session state is a very useful tool for an ASP.NET developer. I use the Session object in every project. I use it to store information related to the current user that I need quick access to throughout their visit. It's important not to overuse the Session object but rather to store quick bits of information that need to persist over a single, or multiple, post-backs. The most painful part of using the Session object built-in to the ASP.NET framework is the error prone nature of getting and setting...(read more)

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

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One day, late night I've been browsing around the web, searching for some interesting articles to read and again that old idea came up - start running own blog, yeah, sounds great but lot's of thing to do, lack of time, study, etc and as always I've almost suppressed that idea, but... it came up again and again. Hm, supposed to be like somekind of a sign I thought, ok, I decided to start running a blog on one of my fav sites and with a help of Joe Stagner I'm here today with you.

So, enjoy your stay and let's get started ;-)

 

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Learn how ASP.NET 2.0 makes it simple to implement Web site navigation by combining Menu and TreeView server controls with SiteMap data controls. Also discover how to associate client behavior with a server control using the ASP.NET AJAX extender framework.

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Well, I’m all registered for MIX08.  Flights are booked.  Hotel is booked. I vote that Treasure Island be the unofficial offsite Canadian MIX hotel.    It’s a 4-star hotel.  I got a room for around $120/night.  Maybe it’s the Scottish in me, but I couldn’t bring myself to pay for a room at [...]

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An application for users to play Circular Chess over the internet based on Silverlight, ASP.NET Ajax, WCF Web Services and LINQ to SQL

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.

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.

 If you are in the Los Angeles area and have some free time during the weekend of January 26th and 27th the next Southern California Code Camp is being held at Cal State Fullerton.

I will be there on Sunday the 27th. Send me an email at craig@polymorphicpodcast.com or comment on this post and let me know if you want to catch up! 

This article shows you how to bring revolutionary UI provided by MS Silverlight to the world of ASP.NET control development with the help of recent released ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP

Chris Pels will show how to create event handlers for ASP.NET web pages and web server controls, as well as how to extend the standard health monitoring events in ASP.NET to create custom events.

Silverlight 2.0 (1.1 alpha) introduces powerful new features that could revolutionize web development and Visual Studio 2008 makes them easy to use.