Over the years I’m done hundreds of videos showing tips, tricks, techniques and methods for building ASP.NET applications. One drawback of videos, especially as we move toward Hi-Def is that there is still much of the world’s developers lack the bandwidth to view streaming videos. Some folks have he...

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Have you heard about ASP.NET WebMatrix ? There is a new dev tool and installer, a new syntax for developing ASP.NET Web Pages, IIS, SQL Compact. Here are links to the first two videos in a new series for learning WebMatrix Development. Getting Started with WebMatrix Beta and ASP.NET Web Pages Introduction...

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Verizon sold the territory I live in to Fairpoint. FIOS will never be available where I live (at least not in my life time.) Comcast has always made be pay for two separate broadband accounts. (2 buildings – pay twice.) Well. The company she worked for was a Microsoft service provider. When Microsoft...

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I have this GREAT Site Manager that manages the release mechanics of my content on the ASP.NET web site (THNAKS TERRI !) Here is a list of content that went live this week: Videos · ASP.NET MVC For the Rest of Us: Part 4 (Monday, July 19) · Tailspin Spyworks - Adding User Product Reviews (Wednesday,...

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I’m building a drop-in page library for administering ASP.NET Application Services (Membership, Roles, etc) on a public web site. On the default.aspx page in my Admin folder I wanted a I didn't want a top menu, a fancy tree view, etc. using ASP.NET buttons. I’m using buttons because the click event can...

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I’ve always found Visual Studio to provide me with all that I need for ASP.NET development, so I’ve never really integrated a significant Add-In to my personal software development process. But, I keep downloading source code projects that contain ReSharper project files, so I thought I’d give it a try...

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Scenario – a developer wants to restrict unauthorized access to a we service in his application. WARNING: This method is easy but not bulletproof !!!! The level of security desired is modest and the developer does NOT want to use SSL, WS-* extensions or any other certificate based infrastructure. A customer...

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I wanted to let my readers know about a cool giveaway for .NET developers happening tomorrow (July 22, 2010). Tomorrow only, Telerik will be giving away free licenses for JustCode and JustMock to EVERYONE that attends their  “What’s New” webinar. Anyone that registers for the free event and joins...

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When you create an ASP.NET Web Forms project using the default template, the web.config file specifies where users will “Log In” to the site. Code Snippet < authentication mode = " Forms " > < forms loginUrl = " ~/Account/Login.aspx " timeout = " 2880 " /> <...

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ScottGu forwarded me an email from a developer this weekend who wanted to use ASP.NET Membership in an application deployed on a shared hosting account that allows only one SQL Server database. It’s not all that difficult to add ASP.NET membership (as well as other ASP.NET services) to your existing...

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