A rule driven engine for colorizing html, css, javascript etc

The big news out of the ALT.NET Conference so far are from Scott Guthrie, who did a full hour on introducing the new MVP Framework for ASP.NET.

My take away - finally they get it. I wish there were more guthries out there in the b0rg.

The framework if built and designed with testability in mind, which also means it is extensible and pluggable. It could well be a MonoRail killer and the semantics are very easy to use and understand.  Jeffery has more technical info on it here.

It also allows plugging in existing Dependency injection frameworks like Spring and Windsor and there are interfaces for all the important objects that present dependencies (Request, response etc..).

he even showed unit tests with Nunit that ran against controllers. I like it.

I was secretly thinking of asking whether people from the P&P team helped with this, but didn't. I later found out that indeed, a couple of P7P guys helped with the design. that makes me happy because it means things may be starting to change for the better in way of testability and listneing to the community.

This is the best conference I've ever been to.  I'll have a full post on it later.

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.

For developers using ASP.NET AJAX we show how to build a custom AJAX server control, refresh an UpdatePanel using JavaScript, and determine whether an asynchronous postback has occurred. We also use Visual Studio Team System to discover application changes prior to deployment.

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.

Everyone is always saying Microsoft is evil, right?

I think I can prove that they are conclusively, depending on your political opinions.

To start, remember how I pointed out that Even every version of XP Home is fully internationalized....?

Well, to that bit of knowledge add the [reported in Language Log] issue that multilingualism is evil (according to some).

Thus as Microsoft strives with each version to be more fully supportive of all languages, it becomes more and more evil.

In fact, in my position as the software developer who made the initial checkin of the new setup manifests that install all language support by default in Vista, one might even call me as sort of בעל זבוב (Beelzebub) of this enduring campaign of evil.

I wonder if I can trade in the blue T-shirt with bull's horns they gave me for doing all setup those manifests in Longhorn M6 for one that says "I helped ensure Microsoft would be considered enduringly evil, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt!"

Though I would settle for a "Bad to the ⻣" T-shirt. Or at least recognition of being a Vista anti-hero? :-)

 

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Scott Mitchell presents five new tutorials covering a range of advanced data access scenarios, including taking a closer look at using stored procedures and user-defined functions, and protecting sensitive information in the Web.config file.

Microsoft employees leading the SQL Server Community within Microsoft and many external passionate SQL Server gurus from across the globe have launched an independent world-wide Microsoft SQL Server Community . Saleem Hakani had spoken to be about this during the MVP Summit last year and it's great that he and his team have made this possible. Details below Microsoft SQL Server Community World Wide Community for SQL Server Professionals WWW.SQLCOMMUNITY.COM Share and Scale your SQL Server knowledge...(read more)

Today we are proud to introduce the redesigned Microsoft ASP.NET Web site. The ASP.NET Web site is dedicated to providing developers with the tools, information, and support needed to stay at the leading edge of Web development.

With the redesign we seek to strengthen our commitment to the ASP.NET community—a commitment recognized by our site’s honorable mention in this year’s asp.netPRO Readers’ Choice Award for Best Community Resource.

For this week’s ASP.NET AJAX Videos Joe Stagner takes another look at implementing the Persistent Communications Pattern, this time using ASP.NET AJAX and Web services, and then provides further tips on using the UpdatePanel. We then see how Visual Studio Team System enables us to test production ASP.NET applications.

This week we learn how to localize text, date, and number information in an ASP.NET AJAX application, using the browser’s language settings and making use of globalization resources back on the server.

I think I've used GridViews in pretty much every application I've built using ASP.NET, and as such they are something that I always end up styling via CSS. They render as a table which makes it easy to apply the same style right across your application to keep a consistent lok throughout your site. I recently stumbled across a site at http://icant.co.uk/csstablegallery which has a list of ready made CSS designs for tables which you can freely download. There's some good designs on there and it's...(read more)

The Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July 2007) Release is a refresh of the earlier May 2007 release, providing developers with a preview of new functionality for ASP.NET and Silverlight. For developers using ASP.NET AJAX, this new release extends History support and improves CSS-based element selection, along with the Media and XAML controls.

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.

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

If, like me, you post pieces of code for others to view, I imagine you'll often do so in the language of your choice (and more than likely it will be C# or VB.NET). However, for some beginners it's often quite hard to grasp these examples if they are written in a language you are not familiar with. I had this scenario when one of the visitors to my site wanted to see an example in C#, but I had written the article using VB.BET. It wasn't too hard for me to convert it, but it did mean that I had to...(read more)

I had this error each time I browse media folders in Vista :

"This problem is caused because of codecs and other COM components installed by various softwares that aren't fully Vista-compatible, like some versions of DivX or Nero."

Thanks to the How-To-Geek here is the solution :
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/fix-for-com-surrogate-has-stopped-working-error-in-vista/

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

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.

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