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.

Here you can find the last version of a sample application showing many of the security features and configuration of WCF in the fields of security.
I've just updated it in order to release it during my last WebCast about WCF Security for MSDN Italy.

In this sample you can see (adding/removing endpoints and configuration elements from the config file):

• Windows Authentication and Windows Authorization via transport level security on basicHttpBinding
• Windows Authentication and Windows Authorization via message level security on wsHttpBinding
• UsernamePasswordToken Authentication with ASP.NET Membership and ASP.NET Role Authorization via message level security on wsHttpBinding
• UsernamePasswordToken Authentication with custom validator via message level security on wsHttpBinding
• Authorization using a custom Authorization Policy
• Impersonation using Windows credentials
• Custom impersonation of custom Principal and Identity
• Handling of multiple identities (one Primary plus others)
• A quick and basic sample of interoperability with ASMX consumers using a custom UsernamePasswordToken over SSL, in the respect of WS-Security and WSS UsernameToken Profile 1.0 by Oasis, without using WSE

Enjoy and feel free to give me your feedbacks or further suggestions.

Demonstrates the addition of AJAX support to a TextBox in VS 2008

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!

Last week, ScottGu announced the releasse of a set of extensions to ASP.NET 3.5:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/12/09/asp-net-3-5-extensions-ctp-preview-released.aspx

Oh man, VS 2008 just came out and here are a cool new set of features to take a look at!

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.

Imagine cup is the world’s premier technology competition for students. Each year, students are provided with a theme – this year, the theme is extremely topical and relevant – “Imagine A World Where Technology Enables a Sustainable Environment”. Last year, we had over 100,000 students enter worldwide... think about that – that’s 100,000 bright young minds working to solve the world’s biggest problems.

 

This year, students can go in the draw to win internships, trips to France, cash prizes, xbox 360’s, HTC touch mobile phones and internships at Readify Consulting. This marks the biggest prize pool for Imagine Cup Australia to date, and provides a compelling reason for students to enter. There are 9 categories students can enter:

Software Design – Games Development – IT Challenge – Algorithm – Project Hoshimi Programming Challenge – Photography – Short Film – Interface Design – Embedded Development.

 

The Software Design category is particularly important, so if you know any young coders out there, please get them to visit http://www.microsoft.com/australia/imaginecup.

 

Cheers,

 

~Jen

The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit provides a set of AJAX controls to spice up your Web site, and as a shared-source project you can use its infrastructure to create your own cool controls and extenders. Be sure to grab the newest release of the Control Toolkit, as it contains a number of bug fixes.

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

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.

Over the past year the 'Go To Reflector' command has become a first class citizen inside TestDriven.Net. You will find the 'Go To Reflector' button on many different context menus inside Visual Studio. The ones I use most often during development are the 'Code Context' and 'Project Reference' menus. When I'm debugging I tend to use the 'Call Stack' and 'Modules' context menus.

For a long time I've put off attempting to add support for generics to the 'Go To Reflector' command. The Visual Studio CodeModel and StackFrames APIs don't really support generics, so I wasn't even sure if this would be possible. This was becoming a problem with more and more code being written that uses generics. I decided it was time to bite the bullet and see what could be done.

I'm happy to say that TestDriven.Net 2.10 now has pretty decent support for generics.

You can 'Go To Reflector' from your generic class definitions. Generic methods, classes, fields, properties and nested classes are all supported.

You can round trip and 'Go To Source Code' from inside Reflector. I often find using Reflector is the fastest way to navigate my own code.

 

When you're debugging you can 'Go To Reflector' from any stack frame in the 'Call Stack' window. This is particularly useful when the debugging option 'Just My Code' is turned off. When an exception is thrown you can quickly see what caused it by selecting the top of the call stack.

Note: For updated 'Go To Reflector' on 'Call Stack' support you will need to be using TestDriven.NET 2.10.2173 or later (I released this a few days after the original 2.10 build). You can read the release notes and download the latest version from here.

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.

C# and C++ source code for .Net application packer tool

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.

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.

By the release of Humax v0.2, this article is going to explain how to write and apply aspect-oriented/metadata driven programming in JavaScript

A couple of great posts from Aaron Ruckman detailing the .NET Framework 3.5 installation. Some good overview details about the .NET 3.0 SP1 and .NET 3.5 installers: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronru/archive/2007/12/13/net-framework-3-0-sp1-3-5-download-managers.aspx...(read more)

It is now possible for LinqExtender implemented providers to have anonymous type in the select query.

For example, consider the following

SqlContext<Book> context = new SqlContext<Book>();

var query = (from q in context
            orderby q.LastUpdated descending
            select new { q.ISBN, q.Title}).Take(1);

var book = query.single();

// do something useful

Console.WriteLine (book.ISBN   + "  " + book.Title);

This sample done using TinyLinqToSql custom provider made on LinqExtender. Here I have some books in database and i want the top 1 , latest book out of it, also I need only two items, ISBN and Title, which I just need to show to in my current scope, without declaring any formal type, in this case the anonymous type can be useful and can be done in the above way.

By the time , I am writing this post , I was having some problem with codeplex , for uploading the latest code of LinqExtender. Hope , it will be done , when you are reading this post.

Also, I have uploaded a new version Linq.Flickr , with latest LinqExtender, so you can have the taste of anonymous type in there as well. Though this is out of scope of the post, but need to say that, now you can get photos with order by Date_Posted/ Date_Taken  asc/dsc respectively. Flickr API also supports, other two properties Relevance and Interestingness, but these two only support sort by ascending , therefore , I omitted this half feature, hope they will come with both way order for these two parameters.

No need to say, you can download Linq.Flickr at www.codeplex.com/linqflickr and LinqExtender and TinyLinqToSql at www.codeplex.com/linqextender

Also, I found this cool post of Scott Gutherie for anonymous type, you might need to look at it as well.

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/05/15/new-orcas-language-feature-anonymous-types.aspx

Finally, an anon but cool guy from community named Reski Mills helped me implement this anon type real fast, thanks man!

Enjoy!!

During November Microsoft’s Ron Cundiff will be presenting a series of four “Soup to Nuts” webcasts in which he discusses the basics of using ASP.NET to create your first Web applications. More advanced developers are encouraged to check out the Webcasts page to register for upcoming presentations on ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, IIS, and SQL Server.

A high performance, full featured, multifunction visualizer allows detailed inspection of WPF, WCF, ASP.NET, XBAP's and WinForm applications. This includes viewing and drilling into public, protected and non-public members of any element or sub-element in the application.