Using the Silverlight Accordion Control

The Silverlight Toolkit contains the Accordion control, the control that functions similarly to its AJAX equivalent. We'll examine this control and explore is various features, looking at what Silverlight offers over its AJAX equivalent....Full Article.

LINQ to SQL and ADO.NET Data Services: Working Together

In this article, Sergey examines the relationship between LINQ, SQL and ADO.NET data services with the help of a sample project. He begins by demonstrating the procedures used to detect key fields in a data model and to update data including the steps required to implement the IUpdatable interface....Full Article.

Url Rebasing in ASP.NET 2.0

In Asp.Net 2.0 masterpages are introduced to help develop websites with standardized and consistent design across all pages. The introduction of masterpages has enabled a new concept called URL rebasing. This article explains URL rebasing and its connection with masterpages. This article also clarifies what the purpose of URL rebasing is and the reason for its emergence. Finally, the article lists some interesting points about URL rebasing....Full Article.

Using ASP.NET 3.5's ListView and DataPager Controls: Editing Data

The GridView and DetailsView controls offer built-in editing functionality that can be turned on with the tick of a checkbox. Without writing a line of declarative markup or server-side source code, the page developer gets a decent out of the box editing interface. Namely, each field in the GridView or DetailsView is rendered in its editing interface; BoundFields display a TextBox control while CheckBoxFields display an enabled checkbox. Moreover, a CommandField is added, which displays t...Full Article.

"Out Of Memory" Does Not Refer to Physical Memory

What does the optimize switch do?

I was asked recently exactly what optimizations the C# compiler performs when you specify the optimize switch. Before I answer that, I want to make sure that something is perfectly clear. The compiler's "usage" string is not lying when it says:

/debug[+|-]     Emit debugging information
/optimize[+|-]  Enable optimizations

Emitting debug information and optimizing the generated IL are orthogonal; they have no e...Full Article.

Tip# 77: Did you know. How to enable Page Level Tracing for your ASP.NET pages?

Enabling tracing at page level gives you a bunch of information that can be useful while debugging your application.Tracing helps understand which control uses more view state,  start/end of PreInit, start/end of Init, start/end of Render, etc. This information appears at the bottom of the page. By default page level tracing is disabled.

Tracing can be enabled at Page Level and also at Application Level

To enable Tracing at Page Level select DOCUME...Full Article.

Tip #75: Did you know.How to maintain scrollposition after post back?

When web pages are posted back to the server, by default user is returned to the top of the page. On a large web page, you might have a requirement to scroll down the user automatically to the last position on the page.

MaintainScrollPositionOnPostBack page property can be used to achieve this  in one of the following ways. 

1. Application level: To set the property by default for all pages in the website, open web.config and add the attribute to t...Full Article.

Tip #76: Did you know. How to hide a non-visual control in your designer?

Some times as you are building your web page, you may want to hide all the non-visual controls like Timer control so that the page looks close to how it would be rendered on your browser.

Our Designer can toggle between displaying and not displaying Non-visual controls using

 Ctrl+Shift+N

Display ASP.NET Non-visual controls turned on:

Tip# 78: Did you know. How to navigate using Document Outline?

Document Outline window can be launched from the menu View -> Document Outline, or via short cut key Ctrl-Alt-T. The Document Outline window displays a nested, hierarchical tree of the elements and scripts on the page. It gives you a good overview of the page's content and its layout.

Double-clicking any element listed in the Document Outline window will highlight the corresponding markup for that element in the source view or the element display ...Full Article.

ASP.NET MVC Installer For Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 And Roadmap

A little while ago I announced our plans for ASP.NET MVC as it relates to Visual Studio 2010. ASP.NET MVC wasn't included as part of Beta 1, which raised a few concerns by some (if not conspiracy theories!) ;). The reason for this was simple as I pointed out:

One thing you'll notice is that ASP.NET MVC is not included in Beta 1. The reason for this is that Beta 1 started locking down before MVC 1.0 shipped. AS...Full Article.

And Get Rid Of Those Pesky Programmers

Every now and then some email or website comes along promising to prove Fred Brooks wrong about this crazy idea he wrote in The Mythical Man Month (highly recommended reading!) that

June 7th Links: ASP.NET, AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, Visual Studio

Download the New IIS SEO Toolkit Beta

The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta is now available - It is a brand new free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites' relevance in search results....Full Article.

Download the New IIS SEO Toolkit Beta

The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta is now available - It is a brand new free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites' relevance in search results....Full Article.

The Misfit Geek Podcast with Joe Stagner is Now Live!

Microsoft's Joe Stagner hits the airwaves with a brand new podcast. In his first segment he interviews Scott Hunter, a Senior Program Manager Lead on the ASP.NET team. Hear about the future of Web Forms, ASP.Net Futures, and more, directly from the team that drives much of ASP.NET....Full Article.

The Misfit Geek Podcast with Joe Stagner is Now Live!

Microsoft's Joe Stagner hits the airwaves with a brand new podcast. In his first segment he interviews Scott Hunter, a Senior Program Manager Lead on the ASP.NET team. Hear about the future of Web Forms, ASP.Net Futures, and more, directly from the team that drives much of ASP.NET....Full Article.

Alas, Smith and Jones

We have a feature in C# which allows you to declare a " friend assembly". If assembly Smith says that assembly Jones is its friend, then code in Jones is allowed to see "internal" types of Smith as though they were public(*). It's a pretty handy feature for building a "family" of assemblies that share common implementation details.

...Full Article.

Alas, Smith and Jones

We have a feature in C# which allows you to declare a " friend assembly". If assembly Smith says that assembly Jones is its friend, then code in Jones is allowed to see "internal" types of Smith as though they were public(*). It's a pretty handy feature for building a "family" of assemblies that share common implementation details.

...Full Article.

Fabulous Adventures In Russian

I am pleased to announce that a bunch ...Full Article.