Nathan Brixius : ASP.NET

How to stop ModalPopupExtender flickering

Nathan Brixius — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 02:37:00 GMT

If you use the AJAX Control Toolkit's ModalPopupExtender you may have run into flicker issues. Thank you Matt Berseth!

http://mattberseth.com/blog/2007/08/how_to_stop_the_modalpopup_fli.html

ASP.NET AJAX Released

Nathan Brixius — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:24:00 GMT

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 was released today, read all about it on Scott's blog. I've been using the beta for some time now and it's great to see them finish it off.

Web services patterns and practices

Nathan Brixius — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 22:19:00 GMT

I noticed this link when I booted Visual Studio the other day and I recommend it: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa480534.aspx. It's a nice resource for developers who have managed code experience but are new to web services, or perhaps have experience only in one specific area. For example, if you have web development skills but are looking to understand more about business logic or database design.

“The Web Service Software Factory (also known as the Service Factory) is an integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct Web services that adhere to well known architecture and design patterns.”

It installs as an add-in to Visual Studio: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=db996113-6e92-4894-9b7e-0debb614d72f&displaylang=en
You have to install “Guidance Automation Extensions” first.

ASP.NET resources

Nathan Brixius — Tue, 12 Dec 2006 01:59:00 GMT

I recently compiled a list of ASP.NET resources for my team. Any other suggestions?

Books:

· http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/aspdotnetnut/ (as a reference)

· http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/6724.aspx

· http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/4825.aspx

Web resources:

· http://www.asp.net: a great resource containing tutorials, downloads, and docs.

· The QuickStart tutorials are good: http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/Default.aspx

· ScottGu’s blog is excellent, in particular: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/pages/ASP.NET-2.0-Tips_2C00_-Tricks_2C00_-Recipes-and-Gotchas.aspx

· Understanding the ASP.Net page lifecycle is important: http://codebetter.com/blogs/raymond.lewallen/archive/2005/03/10/59583.aspx

· Web Development Helper is a nice tool: http://projects.nikhilk.net/Projects/WebDevHelper.aspx

also

· http://nikhilk.net/ is always good.

· WebParts and Sharepoint: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2006/09/02/Writing-Custom-Web-Parts-for-SharePoint-2007.aspx