A lot of sites today have the ability for users to sign in to show them some sort of personalized content, whether its a forum, a news reader, or some e-commerce application. To simplify their users life they usually want to give them the ability to log on from any page of the Site they are currently looking at. Similarly, in an effort to keep a simple navigation for users Web Sites usually generate dynamic links to have a way to go back to the page where they were before visiting the login page...(read more)

This article explains how to make a Skype bot in .NET.

Can't use WebControls in ASP.NET MVC anymore? Not quite. This post discusses some options that you have in MVC for creating "WebControls" by using Extension Methods, IDisposable or a "Super Secret" method.

MVC style search engine friendly URLs using ASP.NET routing, which comes as an enhancement in SP1 of ASP.NET 3.5.

How to use the Debug Interface Access (DIA) Application Programming Interface to locate the debug symbols file referenced by an assembly.

A simple silverlight control that creates an image button with zoom and reflection.

This article discusses how to create an HTML editor server control specifically for the Microsoft AJAX environment.

jLinq is a Javascript query language that makes it easy to work with large arrays of information. Today, jLinq 2.2.0 is released which offers new commands, bug fixes and more!

For those of you who read my blog and don’t know (anybody out there?) I work for Notion Solutions.  Today Notion announced v1.1 of the Notion Tools for Team System. In addition to a few bug fix, support in the primary tools (e.g., Timesheet and the Work Item Control Library) for VS 2005, we’ve added a new tool targeting prioritizing work based on business objectives and a web version of Timesheet for the non-Visual Studio users.

Development and testing of this new release has been one of our team’s primary focuses over the past few months.  We do all of our time tracking and much of our other planning and work item activities using it.  If any of this sounds slightly interesting, check out the formal release: http://www.notionsolutions.com/Products/Pages/NotionToolsforTeamSystem.aspx

It is relatively inexpensive and you can get free trials if you’re interested.  Hope you enjoy the fruits of our labor!

Work with Excel files, create charts, try out some web parts and more in this week's additions to the ASP.NET Control Gallery.

ASP.NET generates a lot of junk that some developers would like to remove from their page. By overriding the Render method and using some regular expressions a developer can completely transform the output from their pages. This post explores some ways you can customize the content you send to the c

Just got some news: tomorrow's Michael Jackson memorial is going to be broadcast live in 720p Smooth Streaming by Sympatico / MSN inMusic . The feed is originating from Canada, but is not georestricted! I think this is the first globally available Live HD Smooth Streaming event. The event kicks off at 10am Pacific Daylight Time (GMT -8). It will hopefully be up as on-demand for 24 hours after, but we're still confirming the rights for that. Check back tomorrow AM for any updates. P.S. The...(read more)

This is a simple ASP.NET web application that can determine how users can view a single page with single content in the many browsers with custom presentation and styling

Daily tech links for .net and related technologies - July 5-8, 2009 Web Development The MVC in JavaScriptMVC AutoMapper in NerdDinner How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner Blumin’ Dynamic Data ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources Sending Free SMS Text Messages From Your Application HandleUnknownAction in ASP.NET MVC – Be Careful How to use Host Header with Development Server SubForum.net Is An Open Source ASP.NET MVC Discussion Forum Web Design HTML 5 and CSS 3: The...(read more)

Scott Hanselman took me in for a 30 minute interview about Unit Testing Dos and Don’ts in his podcast, Hanselminutes. It was a pleasure, and I hope to be there once more about other topics. Maybe in TechEd Berlin..

Have a listen

Learn Silverlight with a simple tac-tac-toe game application. This article will explain how to build your first application and user control in Silverlight by creating a simple tic-tac-toe game complete with artificial intelligence.

Visual WebGui Web & CLoud Platform version 6.3.8 was released today and can be downloaded here . This is a further stabilization of 6.3.x that includes some resolved button behavior issues, as well as features such as Flash 10 uploading compatibility and the ability to configure a virtual directory. The full v6.3.8 change log can be found here . Click here to download Visual WebGui 6.3.8......(read more)

Learn how to bypass the limitation that Silverlight has with not supporting a multivalue converter.

‘In-Progress’ Message & Disabling controls in ASP.Net Pages using Javascript

The Functional Programming for the Real World book explains essential concepts of the functional programming paradigm using examples in C# 3.0 and F#. In this article we look at one very important advantage of using one of the core functional concepts - immutability.