On March 11th Microsoft released the RTM Version of ASP.NET MVC 2.  It has been almost a year since the released of version 1 last year of the now very popular alternative to writing web applications on the .NET Framework using the Model-View-Controller pattern (MVC). Please remember you can install ASP.NET MVC 2 side by side with ASP.NET MVC 1. Please follow the links below in order to dow... [More]

4 days ago Microsoft released ASP.NET MVC 2 Preview 2.  The last update to the upcoming update to the now popular MVC Framework for ASP.NET.  Please head over to this link to download it. Remember that this preview can be installed side by side with ASP.NET MVC 1. Happy programming

It's been a while since my last post.  Things have been kind of hectic at work and in life itself.  Overall is for the best.  But enough of me, today I saw that the AJAX Control Toolkit just got updated to a new version with a couple of new controls.   Please head to Codeplex to download the binaries and source code from this version. The new controls that were added to t... [More]

Telerik, a company that has been developing rich UI controls for the Microsoft .NET Framework released today its Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC.  The extensions are Open Source, a first for Telerik as it embraces this approach hosting this solution on the Microsoft Open Source site Codeplex. This released is marked as a CTP (Community Technology Preview) and provides a nice UI extensio... [More]

Microsoft recently released the RC version of its now famous Web Platform Installer.  The Web Platform Installer is a compilation of powerful frameworks, servers, tools, database and popular open source web applications that can be installed from a single package and prepare your Windows machine to become a powerhouse in web development. You can download the Web Platform Installer directly h... [More]

A new customer for one of my web applications requested to make a change.  They wanted to execute a STA COM object to retrieve some values from another system in order to keep this application updated.  Having done that in the past I said 'ok'. I remember the old AspCompat attribute of the Page directive could help.  All I needed was set the attribute to True and execute the page.&... [More]

The Microsoft AJAX Framework (formerly known as Atlas) is Microsoft's response to the ASP.NET web developers that wanted to build more responsive and dynamic web sites using AJAX technology.  Since its very beginning this framework has gained a lot of popularity and many web sites nowadays built with ASP.NET have some kind of AJAX behavior in their design. The Microsoft AJAX Framework comes ... [More]

Most ASP.NET developers know their way around Microsoft SQL Server.  From a fresh installation of Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer they can start building data driven applications targeting this Database software.  Sometimes SQL server is not a choice we have; or perhaps the SQL Server space that the host provider is offering is just not enough for our web application needs but the ... [More]

Back in the late 1990s when Classic ASP was Microsoft's Flagship Web Development Programming Language today's Debugging tools were still in concept and a web developer had to resort to a very simple but yet powerful tool in the ASP library:  The Response.Write method. The Response.Write purpose was not for debugging as it was the primary way to output information in dynamic web applications ... [More]