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  • How to Become More Successful

    How do you feel about people who are very successful? What’s your attitude toward the movers and shakers in your field? Do you admire and respect them? Do you speak highly of them? Or are you suspicious of them? Do you criticize or attack them? What’s the true role of these people in your life? What do they [...]
    10 hours, 40 minutes ago by Steve Pavlina
  • Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems

    In ASP.NET MVC, you can use a collection of SelectListItems to help build an HTML <select>. Just watch out for the HTML helper overloads. The question is – what is the prettiest code that can change a list of Products into a collection of SelectListItems? Tonight, you’ll be the judge in this first contest of charm, grace, and readability. Contestant #1 hails from the System.Web.Mvc namespace. It likes pina coladas and string literals, but is turned off by tattoos that look like programmin... [read more]
    23 hours, 44 minutes ago by scott
  • Check out the MSDN Home Page's evil twin!

    Want a peek at a couple things our designers and front edge team have been working on? These widgets were just short-term exercises that we hope will get you excited about the things to come. If you love it or hate it, let us know by hitting the feedback link at the bottom of the page!
    02 Jul 2009, 10:00 PM by MSDN: U.S. Local Highlights
  • ASP.NET MVC Talk in Reading UK July 3rd

    I’m in the UK today and tomorrow (on my way back from a trip to India for two days earlier this week), and am giving two tech talks while in town.  The first is this evening at a London .NET User Group event .  I’ll be presenting Silverlight 3.  Unfortunately the event is already over-registered – so if you haven’t registered yet you’ll need to catch it the next time I’m in town. The second talk is tomorrow (Friday) from 1-4pm at the Microsoft facility in Reading and is on ASP.NET... [read more]
    02 Jul 2009, 11:11 AM by ScottGu's Blog
  • ASP.NET WebForms: Taking Back the HTML

    There’s a lot of debate these days about the ASP.NET WebForms model vs. the newer ASP.NET MVC model. There are advantages to both. Disadvantages to both. Pick the one that best fits your needs. Nuff said. But sometimes that choice isn’t so obvious. MVC for example essentially gives you much more control over the generated HTML for the page. Well, complete control. But sometimes you don’t really need complete control, and the lack of an encapsulated control kind of sucks. HTML Helpers help, but t... [read more]
    02 Jul 2009, 2:44 AM by Infinities Loop : ASP.NET
  • Videos from the Norwegian Developer's Conference

    All of the talks at this year's Norwegian Developer's Conference were recorded, which is always a treat. I did four talks as well as a live .NET Rocks show. It was a crazy week. I also recorded a half-dozen great podcasts. Three are already live on Hanselminutes and I've got more in the hopper coming soon. The HaaHa Show - Hacking with Phil and Scott In this one, Phil is a hacker and he keeps breaking my websites. I fix them, and he breaks them again. Watch movie . .NET Rocks - Live!... [read more]
    01 Jul 2009, 11:41 PM by Scott Hanselman's Computer Zen - ASP.NET
  • Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know

    It’s possible to do a lot of work with ASP.NET and not know anything about IIS, particularly if you work with a large team where IT specialists keep the riff-raff away from production web applications. Ever since Visual Studio started shipping its own web server1, many people don’t rely on IIS for day to day development work (although many of us still do). For those of you who are just learning how to deploy in IIS, or those of you who n... [read more]
    02 Jul 2009, 2:37 AM by scott
  • Tip#85: Did you know… You can now do Multiple Selection of controls in your Designer with VS 2008 SP1?

    Visual Web developer 2008 SP1 supports multiple selection of controls on your designer using Ctrl+Click . You can see that the designer: Displays the primary selected control with a white tab. Button3 in the image below. Enable you to set property for...(read more)
    30 Jun 2009, 11:15 PM by Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer
  • Tip #86: Did you know… Visual Studio has several different search options?

    The standard methods for searching can be found under the Edit --> Find and Replace menu. The “Quick Find” method (Ctrl+F) allows users to search inside of the current document, all open documents, the current project, the entire solution, and the...(read more)
    30 Jun 2009, 11:24 PM by Tips & Tricks for ASP.NET, IIS, and Visual Web Developer
  • Check out the following on our Tips and Tricks Blog

    Tip#66: Did you know... how to insert quotes values automatically while typing the attrib values? Tip #67: Did you know the list of ASP.Net MVC shortcuts? Tip #68 Did you know… How simple it is to attach an existing style sheet to your web page? Tip #69: Did you know…The keyboard shortcut for View in Browser? Tip #70: Did you know… how to install win7 RC IIS through command script? Tip #71: Did you know... there are several new configuration settings available in FastCGI Extension 1.5 Beta Tip #... [read more]
    01 Jul 2009, 12:07 AM by Visual Web Developer Team Blog
  • T4MVC 2.2 update: Routing, Forms, DI container, fixes

    To get the latest build of T4MVC: Go to download page   This post is a continuation of various recent posts, most notably: A new and improved ASP.NET MVC T4 template The MVC T4 template is now up on CodePlex First, I’d like to thank all those who are using the MVC T4 template and sent me suggestions and bug reports.  Most issues have been addressed, and most suggestions have been integrated.  I’m up to the 8th CodePlex drop, and it’s only been a week! You can see the history of ch... [read more]
    01 Jul 2009, 2:42 AM by Angle Bracket Percent
  • New MSDN Article on RIA Services Published

    I saw Maurice de Beijer recently published a good introduction article on .NET RIA Services.  Getting started with the .NET RIA Services The post starts with a very good introduction: RIA, short for Rich Internet Applications, is a bit of an umbrella term for all sorts of applications delivered through the browser. The key aspect however is that they deliver some business function and are not just about flashy graphics. Business applications tend to work with data and other business resourc... [read more]
    01 Jul 2009, 3:05 AM by Brad Abrams
  • JUST RELEASED: p&p Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I - beta2

    Microsoft patterns & practices is excited to announce the latest addition to the p&p library of software engineering guidance: Acceptance Test Engineering Guide, Volume I (BETA 2) Codeplex site: http://codeplex.com/TestingGuidance Here is some of what it covers ! Common Scenarios – How to Plan for Acceptance Testing – What Kinds of Acceptance Tests to Run – How to Create and Run Acceptance Tests – Defining What “Done” Means – How to Justify Your Approach – How to Streamline Your Acceptan... [read more]
    01 Jul 2009, 3:28 PM by Misfit Geek: msft
  • I’m asked, how did you learn what you know ?

    I got this email today from Mark….. Hello Joe, First may I say thank you very much for all the information that have published on asp.net. I have learnt allot from it. I do follow you on twitter although I am interested to know how you started out, how you gained experience to the point that you are a Senior Program Manager for Microsoft. If you are able to spend any of your time replying to this message I would be very grateful. Many thanks Mark I get an email like this every few weeks so I tho... [read more]
    01 Jul 2009, 5:39 PM by Misfit Geek: msft
  • Watch a "How Do I Video?" on Getting Started with .NET Services

    .NET Services are a set of highly scalable building blocks for programming in the cloud. In this brief screencast, you'll learn about the registration process, the SDK and the built-in samples - everything you need to know in order to get started.
    29 Jun 2009, 11:00 PM by MSDN: U.S. Local Highlights
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