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.

Thanks to Joe Stagner who helped me start up this blog. I have been working with .NET for almost six years,  and despite working as J2EE developer I still can’t get enough of it.  I have been always fan of Microsoft gurus such as Joe, Scatt, Andres and all Microsoft engineers who always impress me with their talents.

 

I do have my Arabic site www.mostasharok.net where I used to post some articles about asp.net and other technologies, but now with this blog I hope to post more entries about  asp.net in particular and .NET in general to join my ASP.NET fellows,

 

Happy Coding and Blogging everyone,

 

Setup a simple and cheap computer controlled watering system using VB.Net or C# and a parallel port relay controller.

Check out an article from Red Canary on Agile Development Methodologies where I participated in a bit of a round table discussion with MVP James Kovacs, and Kent Alstad, CTO of Strangeloop.

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)

ASP.NET Control for the Google Password Strength API

Did you know that there is an open contribution model for submitting new controls in the AJAX Control Toolkit ?

This document provides some guidelines on how you could get your custom ASP.NET AJAX control added to the toolkit and therefore used by developers around the world !

The document also contains pointers on how to submit fixes and feature additions for existing controls.

Contributing to the Toolkit

The AJAX Control Toolkit is a shared source project released under the Microsoft Permissive License and built on top of ASP.NET AJAX. It has a set of over 35 controls, many of which were written by members of the ASP.NET AJAX community. The Toolkit has matured into a stable and feature complete product through work with the community over the past year. We would like to continue our organic growth by defining a process for all Toolkit contributions.
Contributions should add sound value to the Toolkit and serve its customers' needs. Anyone wishing to contribute should be committed to a high quality bar and take responsibility for their code. There are two ways that our users can contribute to the Toolkit: use the Toolkit Patch Utility for bug fixes and new features for existing controls, or become a Toolkit contributor by adding new controls.

If you already have a great control and would like to share it with us or if you would like to write a new control from scratch this is a great opportunity to challenge yourself to write great reusable controls, show-off your technical and design skills, get plenty of visibility, learn more about Shared Source at Microsoft.

If your control goes into the AJAX Control Toolkit - email me, I'll do a video about it !

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)

My ex-partner of crime Mehfuz recently wrote an excellent article on how to develop a custom Linq Provider. In this article he shows how to interact with the popular photo sharing site Flickr with a custom Linq provider. Check it out.

 For those who want to quickly learn Visual Studio 2008, don't miss the great resources at http://www.visualstudio2008.defyallchallenges.com/

We published another version of the .NET Framework common Namespaces and Types poster . It's an XPS format file which prints over 16 individual pages. This will allow you to put the poster on your wall, with the help of some tape and scissors....(read more)

The "modeling edition" of Service Factory was released yesterday on the Codeplex site:

The Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of resources designed to help you quickly and consistently build WCF and ASMX Web services that adhere to well-known architecture and design patterns. These resources consist of models with code generation in the form of tools integrated with Visual Studio 2005 and patterns and architecture topics in the form of written guidance.

patterns & practices: Web Service Software Factory - View Release

If you are looking for a way to build several WCF based enterprise services in a fast, consistent way but with great flexibility, you should look at this package which plugs into VS2005. A VS2008 version shouldn't be far away.

I've been using the previous version of Service Factory since for almost a year, and it's been working just fine. One thing I was missing was a good modeling tool for designing our services, and now it's here.

Check out Don Smith's video of an earlier version of Service Factory if you want to get a hunch of what it is all about.

TechWeb - The application converts videos to QuickTime and can be used to distribute AJAX and HTML Web sites or multimedia resumes directly on the iPhone.

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

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

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.

Provdes cryptographic services including secure encoding and decoding of data, as well as hashing and random number generation, and new methods for JavaScript native objects.

 

How can you make one UIElement in Silverlight appear behind or in front of another? How can you provide transparency effects to shapes, text, or videos? How can you clip geometric sections off of visual objects? In this video, you will learn how to accomplish these tasks with common graphic properties.