An easy way to publish your own news feed in ASP.NET

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

One of my biggest passions in the development world has always been networked programs. For the longest time I've had bitter sweet feelings about Remoting in .NET. Basically, remoting is one of the most beautiful and powerful architectures that .NET has pioneered. The one issue that I've had has been that Remoting in .NET was limited to a "one-way" architecture.

I can't even explain how excited I was when I learned about WCF (released in .NET 3.0 about a year ago) and the "duplex" capabilities thereof... take five minutes, read this article: http://www.codeproject.com/WCF/WCF_Duplex_UI_Threads.asp

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.

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.

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.

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.

I think today is the start for great things to come. And why? Because I had my first article published today, thats why! You can find it over at Dotnetslackers : http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/silverlight/HelloSilverlightStartYourSilverlightJourneyToday.aspx. It basically is the walk through I was looking for when I was curious about Silverlight, but could never find.

It discusses what you need to start developing in Silverlight, what makes up your average Silverlight project, and walks you through a simple example.

If you found my article useful, I also found another good Silverlight article today at the codeproject :  http://www.codeproject.com/silverlight/BeginningSilverlightPart1.asp

happy coding 

Use Ajax to retrieve data from a SQL Server database and then update that database using Ajax

A fast dynamic proxy library with support for .NET Generics

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.

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.

This article describes using the Model-View-Presenter pattern within ASP.NET 2.0 to encourage proper separation of concerns between presentation and business logic