Development Notes, News and Ramblings
Some aspects of ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005 remind me a little bit of the changes that happened to Access when it went from ver 2.0 to 95. For the uninitiated, Access was the absolute king of the hill for developers during a short period in the early 90’s. It was the only […]
Bertrand LeRoy points out that AJAX is available in ASP.NET 2.0 and the way it was implemented it actually works better than some of the 3rd party approaches out there.
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Reflector Diff, a very nifty assembly diffing tool that uses Reflector is now .NET 2.0 compatible. Good deal Sean!
Scott Mitchell has a whole mess of examples on the usage of the GridView control posted on MSDN.
link here
I just saw this on Phil’s blog and wanted to make a note of it for posterity. Something to read when there is a little bit of time. Article here
MikeG has a quick review of the Constable Authorization Engine. I like the idea behind this product a lot. The only other tool on the market that is somewhat similar is Desaware’s State Coder.
Both products are much better realizations of the “Wizard Tool” that ships with ASP.NET 2.0.
Both tools use a state machine […]
Frederik has a small note about the much anticipated SQL Dependency Cache in ASP.NET 2.0 / SQL Server 2005
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Fred discusses the changes in Configuration Section Handlers in .NET 2.0.
“…In this post I will write something about the new section handler feature. I have written about the new way of creating section handler before. But this time I will focus on how to create a collection of adding child elements by using the […]
Dino Esposito published this on MSDN. It does contain some interesting points about the underlying structure of controls in 2.0
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Christop Wille mentions that “…In the article The 80/20 Rule for Web Application Security, there is one security solution proposed to protect sensitive cookies: adding the httpOnly flag. This attribute prevents cookies from being accessed through client-side script, thus mitigating the risk of cross-site scripting.”
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A quick introduction to concepts and terminology about the connections feature within the ASP.NET Whidbey Web Parts Framework, followed by a discussion of building support for cross-page connections using the extensibility mechanisms, along with associated code to download and play with.
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So it appears that in 2.0 one can post to the server, receiveve a return value into Javascript without causing a full postback cycle on the page. Scott has an example.
Scott on Writing
Mike Gunderloy had a post of Saliks performance comparison. Very interesting results. It seems that Generics are wicked fast compared to the other 2 ways of building code.
Christian Wade had a nice small post about client call backs in Whidbey
“Client callbacks are supported by ASP.NET V2 (Whidbey). They work by submitting an asynchronous XML-HTTP request to the server. This request is processed by the server, but does not re-render the page. It is very lightweight because the form […]
There you have it. Straight from the horses mouth ahemmm Rocky’s blog. Kiss your ObjectSpaces good-bye.
Someone should really compile a history of this vaporware via all of the excited blog entries in the community.
So does this mean that MS has recognized that there are plenty of 3rd party tools that do this work […]
As seen on The Serverside - a link to an MSDN article about ADO.NET 2.0. Discusses performance improvements of the new version. Funny, I thought for some reason the asynchroneous bulk features had been dropped from v 2.0 Maybe I misunderstood.
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Just a link for MSDN web casts.
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1. Generics
2. Nullable Types
3. Iterators
4. Partial types
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Client Callbacks is a new feature in ASP.NET Whidbey(2.0). It allows calling server side events asynchronously, without causing postback. It is possible to do asynchronous call using XMLHttp Post in ASP.NET 1.0 itself, but now in ASP.NET 2.0 a clean framework is available to do this. This article describes how Client Callbacks works […]
MSDN has a nice overview of the Web Parts Framework available to ASP.NET 2.0 (and sharepoint servers of course)
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