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ASP.NET Data Access FAQ
[Note: This blog post is a preliminary version of a document that has been published on MSDN....
Date: 08/14/2012
SQL Server Connection Strings for ASP_NET Web Applications
[Note: This post is a preliminary version of a document that has been published on MSDN. The...
Date: 08/14/2012
Choosing a SQL Server Edition for ASP.NET Web Application Development
[Note: This post is a preliminary version of a document that has been published on MSDN. The...
Date: 08/14/2012
Choosing Data Access Options for ASP.NET Web Forms Applications
[Note: This post is a preliminary version of a document that has been published on MSDN. The...
Date: 08/14/2012
ASP.NET Data Access Content Map
[Note: This post is a preliminary version of a document that has been published on the ASP.NET...
Date: 08/14/2012
Visual Studio 2012 RC Deployment Documentation Published
Visual Studio 2012 RC introduced a number of enhancements to deployment functionality: Visual Studio...
Date: 06/12/2012
Deployment in Visual Studio 2012 RC Using Entity Framework Code First Migrations
In the Entity Framework version 4.3, Microsoft introduced Code First Migrations. Code First...
Date: 06/12/2012
Enterprise Deployment Tutorial Series Published
A new series of tutorials about how to configure deployment of ASP.NET web applications in a...
Date: 05/18/2012
ASP.NET Security Extensibility Whitepaper Published
This month we published a white paper written by Stefan Schakow that describes changes to the...
Date: 03/27/2012
Visual Studio Deployment Tutorial Series Published
A new series of tutorials about how to deploy an ASP.NET web application has been published on the...
Date: 11/17/2011
ASP.NET Web Pages - Quick Sheet Documentation Example (Feedback Needed)
This post provides a Quick Sheet documentation example that provides select example code, scenarios,...
Date: 06/08/2011
Entity Framework Code First Tutorial Supplement: What is Going on in a Fluent API Call
In the new Entity Framework Code First MVC tutorial series there are some examples of what has come...
Date: 05/04/2011
MVC Entity Framework Tutorials Published
The third series of Entity Framework tutorials, Getting Started with the Entity Framework Using...
Date: 04/15/2011
More Entity Framework Tutorials for ASP.NET Developers
The second series of Entity Framework tutorials, Continuing with the Entity Framework and ASP.NET,...
Date: 01/26/2011
Entity Framework Tutorials for ASP.NET Developers
We have been working on new tutorials intended to introduce ASP.NET developers to the Entity...
Date: 12/07/2010
WebMatrix – Method Chaining
When you want to create a new chart, you can combine a set of method calls for the Chart helper that...
Date: 10/21/2010
WebMatrix - Positional and Named Parameters
This post provides details and code examples related to Microsoft WebMatrix (Beta). The code...
Date: 10/13/2010
Translated Captions for Silverlight Videos – It is Dynamic!
This post provides details and code about how to create dynamically translating video captions based...
Date: 08/13/2010
Overview of the ASP.NET API Class Library
When I was first getting started on the transition from Classic ASP to ASP.NET, one of the most...
Date: 07/19/2010
Response.End, Response.Close, and How Customer Feedback Helps Us Improve MSDN Documentation
Last December someone used the feedback link on the HttpResponse.Close method in MSDN to send the...
Date: 05/25/2010
Caching Application Data by Using Multiple Cache Objects in an ASP.NET Application
I am in the process of writing a Walkthrough document about How to use multiple cache objects to...
Date: 03/22/2010
Automated Deployment in ASP.NET 4 - Frequently Asked Questions
Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4 work with IIS Web Deploy to automate many deployment tasks for Web...
Date: 03/05/2010
Attributes and ASP.NET MVC
Anyone who wants to learn about ASP.NET MVC will quickly discover that MVC makes extensive use of a...
Date: 02/24/2010
First Steps with ASP.NET MVC
ASP.NET MVC is a new web application framework based of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) development...
Date: 02/24/2010
ASP.NET Topics on MSDN – The Top 10 List
Below are links pointing to the most popular ASP.NET topics on MSDN over the last year (02/2009 to...
Date: 02/23/2010
ASP.NET Page Life Cycle Diagram
The following diagram shows some of the most important methods of the System.Web.UI.Page class that...
Date: 01/14/2010
Website User Authentication - ASP.NET 4 Web Applications
I am in the process of writing a Walkthrough document about the new Login templates that are...
Date: 01/12/2010
ASP.NET Web Application Projects vs. Web Site Projects in Visual Studio
[Note: This document is an advance copy of a new topic that will be released with the documentation...
Date: 12/14/2009
Sample Web Application Demonstrates Accessibility Techniques and ASP.NET Configuration System
I have posted on Code Gallery a Web application that was designed to demonstrate some techniques for...
Date: 11/02/2009
ASP.NET 4 (Beta 1) - Using the ASP.NET QueryExtender Control to Provide Search in a Web Page
Do you want to provide search in your Web page? Are you unfamiliar with data sources? Do you want to...
Date: 06/05/2009
Designing URLs in ASP.NET 4 Web Sites for Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
One of the best resources for learning how to increase traffic to your site is Rand Fishkin’s...
Date: 05/21/2009
How to find information in MSDN about ASP.NET and JavaScript
Most developers use the term “JavaScript” generically to refer to the language that’s formally known...
Date: 05/21/2009
Using AJAX to Dynamically Update a GridView, DataList, or any Data-bound Control – New Features in ASP.NET 4
ASP.NET server controls render HTML elements with id attributes that are often different from the ID...
Date: 05/21/2009
ASP.NET 4 AJAX Beta 1 Documentation
ASP.NET AJAX includes a library of client script functions that bring many of the advantages of...
Date: 05/20/2009
ASP.NET 4 Dynamic Data Beta 1 Documentation
ASP.NET Dynamic Data documentation has been updated to contain new information and examples. Also,...
Date: 05/20/2009
ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Released
Today at the Microsoft MIX09 conference in Las Vegas, Scott Guthrie (a Vice President in the...
Date: 03/18/2009
ASP.NET User Education team member blogs
Rick Anderson Rick’s blog focuses on Dynamic Data, including a FAQs and Dynamic Data samples. Most...
Date: 01/16/2009
Most Popular ASP.NET Topics on MSDN
Below is a list of links pointing to the twenty most popular ASP.NET topics on MSDN. The links below...
Date: 11/24/2008
By Example: Error Handling with the ASP.NET MediaPlayer for Silverlight
The MediaPlayer class provides a player that runs media (video or audio) using Silverlight in an...
Date: 11/07/2008
Read-Watch-Run: Using the ASP.NET MediaPlayer Control for Silverlight
The ASP.NET MediaPlayer server control enables you to integrate media sources such as audio (WMA)...
Date: 11/06/2008
ASP.NET Controls for Silverlight – Documentation
The MSDN Library provides a number of topics about ASP.NET controls for Silverlight. These topics...
Date: 11/05/2008
Walkthrough: Integrating XAML into an ASP.NET Web Site Using Managed Code
This walkthrough describes how to use the ASP.NET server controls for Silverlight to display a...
Date: 10/27/2008
Using System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager Example (VB.NET)
Imports System Imports System.Collections.Generic Imports System.Linq Imports System.Text Imports...
Date: 10/06/2008
Using System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager Example (C#)
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using...
Date: 10/02/2008
Configuration API: Using System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager
Introduction This post shows a console application that uses the ConfigurationManager class. The...
Date: 10/02/2008
How to: Customize Data Field Appearance and Behavior in the Data Model
ASP.NET Dynamic Data includes field templates that render the UI for displaying and editing data...
Date: 09/10/2008
Differences When Working with the ADO.NET Entity Framework to LINQ to SQL
.style1 { BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00 } When you use the ADO.NET Entity Framework to create a data...
Date: 09/10/2008
Welcome to the team blog for ASP.NET User Education!
Our team is responsible for the official Microsoft ASP.NET and Visual Web Developer documentation...
Date: 07/28/2008