A new series of tutorials about how to deploy an ASP.NET web application has been published on the ASP.NET site: Deployment to a Hosting Provider . The tutorials show you how to deploy a web application project to a third-party hosting provider using...

This post provides a Quick Sheet documentation example that provides select example code, scenarios, tips and reference of an ASP.NET Web Pages helper.   Our team is interested in your thoughts and feedback. Here is a Quick Sheet documentation example...

In the new Entity Framework Code First MVC tutorial series there are some examples of what has come to be called fluent API method calls. This term refers to code in which a series of method calls are chained together. The Creating a More Complex Data...

The third series of Entity Framework tutorials, Getting Started with the Entity Framework Using ASP.NET MVC , has been published on the ASP.NET site. The tutorials create a sample application similar to the one that the two Web Forms series create ( Getting...

The second series of Entity Framework tutorials, Continuing with the Entity Framework and ASP.NET , has been published on the ASP.NET site. The tutorials build on the sample application that the first series, Getting Started with the Entity Framework...

We have been working on new tutorials intended to introduce ASP.NET developers to the Entity Framework. The first series,  Getting Started with the Entity Framework and ASP.NET , has been published on the ASP.NET site. The tutorials build a sample...

When you want to create a new chart, you can combine a set of method calls for the Chart helper that will include all the information needed to build the chart.  When you combine method calls to create an object in this way, it is called method chaining...

This post provides details and code examples related to Microsoft WebMatrix (Beta). The code examples used in the WebMatrix Getting Started guide show you how to call methods using two different techniques. You can either call a method using positional...

[This post is based on a document authored by Ben Grover (a senior developer at Microsoft). It is our intention to integrate this information into the MVC 3 documentation on MSDN. We hope to hear from you and welcome any suggestions you might have.] This...

This post provides details and code about how to create dynamically translating video captions based on the browser language. By implementing the details in this post you can create the following: A Web based solution that displays machine translated...

When I was first getting started on the transition from Classic ASP to ASP.NET, one of the most daunting tasks was learning the .NET Framework. Learning C# was comparatively easy, because a series of courses introduced the language gradually. But for...

Last December someone used the feedback link on the HttpResponse.Close method in MSDN to send the following comment: "Where is any context on use and what is actually occurring?" I maintain the HttpResponse class documentation, so this comment got...

I am in the process of writing a Walkthrough document about How to use multiple cache objects to cache application data in ASP.Net 4. This blog post is intended to be a precursor for the Walkthrough. When the Walkthrough is completed I intend to submit...

Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4 work with IIS Web Deploy to automate many deployment tasks for Web application projects. We have created how-to, walkthrough, and overview documents to cover this feature, some of which are already available (see ASP.NET...

Anyone who wants to learn about ASP.NET MVC will quickly discover that MVC makes extensive use of a relatively new feature of .NET called attributes. Many programmers who are new to ASP.NET MVC may also be new to the use of attributes. This article covers...

ASP.NET MVC is a new web application framework based of the Model-View-Controller (MVC) development pattern. Its purpose is to make large-scale web applications easier to maintain by decreasing inter-dependencies among application layers. ASP.NET MVC...

Below are links pointing to the most popular ASP.NET topics on MSDN over the last year (02/2009 to 02/2010). Rather than just providing a list of the top MSDN topics, I expanded the list by providing the top 10 for managed reference and general reference...

The following diagram shows some of the most important methods of the System.Web.UI.Page class that you can override in order to add code that executes at specific points in the page life cycle. It also shows how these methods relate to page events and...

I am in the process of writing a Walkthrough document about the new Login templates that are available in ASP.Net 4 and Visual studio 2010. This blog post is intended to be a precursor for the Walkthrough. When the walkthrough is completed I intend to...

[Note: This document is an advance copy of a new topic that will be released with the documentation for Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4. Comments are welcome and will be taken into account when the final version of the document is prepared for release...

I have posted on Code Gallery a Web application that was designed to demonstrate some techniques for conforming to accessibility guidelines in ASP.NET. The application is a Web site project that also demonstrates how to access ASP.NET configuration data...

[Note: This document is a preliminary version of a white paper that was released with the Beta 2 version of Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4. The revision with changes resulting from the comments and with information about Beta 2 enhancements to ASP.NET...

Do you want to provide search in your Web page? Are you unfamiliar with data sources? Do you want to want to take advantage of a query language without having to learn the query language? You want to provide search using declarative syntax? The new QueryExtender...

One of the best resources for learning how to increase traffic to your site is Rand Fishkin’s seomoz.org Among the many strategies Rand advocates is paying close attention to the structure and content of your URLs. The more search-engine-friendly and...

Most developers use the term “JavaScript” generically to refer to the language that’s formally known as ECMAScript . The name “JavaScript” refers to the implementation of this language originally done by Netscape, and the Microsoft implementation is known...