Shahed Khan (MVP C#)

ASP.NET, AJAX, Silverlight, .NET useful links

Source: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/08/october-8th-links-asp-net-asp-net-ajax-silverlight-and-net.aspx

October 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and .NET

Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past.

ASP.NET

• ASP.NET 2.0 Health Monitoring: ASP.NET 2.0 introduced a new "health monitoring" feature that enables you to automatically monitor and track how an ASP.NET application is doing in a production environment.  Scott Mitchell has written an excellent three-part article series that discusses: 1) the basics of health monitoring, 2) how you can automatically receive email notification of errors, and 3) how you can create and raise your own custom health events.

• Creating a Yahoo UI DataTable Styled GridView: Matt Berseth has a cool article that describes how you can style the ASP.NET 2.0 GridView control to have a really nice visual appearance.

• How Do I Video: Create a Custom Membership Provider: A new "how do I?" video on the www.asp.net site that covers how to create a custom membership provider.  For more about how to build ASP.NET providers, make sure to also check out this previous blog post of mine.

• How Do I Video: Create a Custom Profile Provider: A new "how do I?" video on the www.asp.net site that covers how to create a new custom profile provider.  For more about how to build ASP.NET providers, make sure to also check out this previous blog post of mine.

• BlogEngine.NET 1.2 Released: Mads Kristensen and team have published an updated version of the great BlogEngine.NET open source blogging system.  You can read more about it on Mads' announcement blog post here.

ASP.NET AJAX

• ModalPopup with Multiple Cancel Buttons: Matt Berseth has a nice article that describes how to support both a cancel button as well as a close "X" button in the top right corner of a ASP.NET AJAX Modal Popup Dialog.

• ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit TabContainer Themes: Matt Berseth continues his great articles on the ASP.NET AJAX TabContainer Control with several more cool visual themes that you can use.

• Using CSS Image Sprites with the XP Themed TabContainer Control: Matt Berseth shows a cool technique you can use with CSS to create image sprites (where you save multiple images into a single .png file and then use offsets to show different image segments in different places on a page).

Silverlight

• Silverlight Unleashed Book Ships this Week: Adam Nathan's excellent Silverlight Unleashed book ships later this week (October 11th).  Adam wrote the best-selling WPF Unleashed book that has been one of the top selling programming books on Amazon this year, and he is also the core architect of the Microsoft PopFly service (which is built using Silverlight). I'm really looking forward to getting a printed copy of the new book!

  

• Awesome Quiksilver Video Experience: This is a really cool Silverlight site that shows off building a great video experience using Silverlight.  Very nice!

• Vectorform Labs Silverlight Examples: Vectorform has recently published some really nice Silverlight samples (with full source code) that are definitely worth checking out.

• Farseer Physics Engine: This free CodePlex project provides a nice 2D physics engine for Silverlight 1.1.  You can check out some online demos of it here.

• Deploying Silverlight in the Enterprise: David Tesar and Tim Sneath point to a good document that enterprise IT administrators can use to learn more about how to automatically deploy Silverlight in locked-down enterprise environments.

.NET

• C# Coding Standard Guidelines: Juval Lowry from IDesign has published this excellent C# coding standards guideline document.  Extremely useful if you are looking for a concise checklist of good suggestions to keep your codebase clean.

• DevTeach Vancouver: The excellent DevTeach conference in Vancouver is coming up in November.  This is a great conference with a ton of session content.