In this video Chris Pels will show several aspects of defining and using master pages in an ASP.NET web site. First, see how to create master pages declaratively using the ASP.NET master page model and learn what information is best suited to a master page compared to an individual content page. Nex

(Tess Fernandez) So we finished the first round of performance issues, crashes and memory leaks. This time we are going to dive in to a high CPU situation and I know that this is giving it away a little but before you go through the lab you might want to have a look at my GC Pop Quiz to familiarize

(Scott Guthrie) Last September we shipped Silverlight 1.0 for Mac and Windows, and announced our plans to deliver Silverlight on Linux. Silverlight 1.0 is focused on enabling rich media scenarios in a browser, and supports a JavaScript/AJAX programming model.

(Jim Mischel) In .NET, every class inherits from Object, and therefore inherits implementations of several methods. One of those methods is ToString, which returns a string that represents the current object. The default implementation isn’t very helpful, though. If you don’t override ToString, then

(Paul Kimmel) A lot of very smart and friendly people from Microsoft help me. For this reason, I try not to be critical and limit criticism to constructive criticism. This doesn’t mean everything that comes out of Redmond is perfect, but much of it is exceptional.

(Brian Mains) Lambda expressions reduce the amount of work needed when iterating through data. All enumerable data is queryable through LINQ through the use of a SQL-like query (what I mean by that is the query looks like SQL, but is a different flavor). LINQ has an in-built mechanism to loop throu

(Mike Pope) I only recently ran across this, and it surprised me: when you use a grid control (DataGrid, GridView, and now even ListView) that supports both selection and paging, selection is persisted incorrectly as you navigate between grid pages.

(Rod Stephens) I was surfing the web the other day, looking for Visual Basic questions to answer, when I stumbled across an old FAQ that explained why Visual Basic no longer has arrays with non-zero lower bounds. I don’t really buy the explanation given by Paul Vick at (it seems like the needs of th

(Scott D. Smith) Go to any travel or event booking website and you’ll find the same user interface for collecting date information: the Calendar. Providing such an interface in an ASP.NET application is a breeze, thanks to the built-in Calendar Web control. There are two downsides to ASP.NET’s Calen

(Tess Fernandez) Anyways, on to the lab review… the original lab was posted here and my comments are in-line in red.