(Jon Galloway) A lot of effort has gone into simplifying the AJAX pattern, in which your JavaScript code calls methods on the server without requiring a full page post. You don’t hear much about the synchronous case (SJAX?), though – how does your server-side code set values in JavaScript, and how d

(Scott Hanselman) More and more I find myself “skinning and themeing” my Visual Studio development environment in order to stay frosty. It’s surprising how changing your theme (fonts, colors, etc.) can re-energize me when I’m having trouble with some problem or motivation.

(Assessino) There are several kinds of mistakes you can make when you coding, no matter how skilled you are. It can be very hard to track down the problem in your code. Fortunately the .NET Framework SDK includes a lightweight debugger that is perfectly suited for this task. Together with Tracing an

(Bipin Joshi) In the previous lessons you developed HyperLinkGroup control. The control is working as expected but it has one limitation. It can’t retain its state information across post backs. For example, if you set the SourceFile property programmatically to some other XML file then across post

(Andy Patrizio) Paul Ferguson, a network architect with antivirus vendor Trend Micro, summed up Web 2.0 as thus: “We’re basically training our online users to be exploited.”

(Bill McCarthy) The ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview gives you a first look at some interesting paths ASP.NET might take in the coming year. The download includes the ASP.NET Model-View-Controller (MVC), ASP.NET Dynamic Data and ADO.NET Data Services, as well as additions to AJAX and some Silverlight

(Dino Esposito) In my spare time at conferences and training sessions, I often get asked questions regarding AJAX. Most of the time, these are about the role of partial rendering, tricks to optimize it, and the architectural points it misses out. The remark that sparked off this article regards the

(Tess Fernandez) It was nice to see that so many people downloaded the demo site already and checked out the lab instructions for the first lab, and thanks to Pedro for pointing out that the original demo site required .NET Framework 3.5… I’ve changed it now so the one that you can download from t

Before reading this tutorial you should be familiar with ASP.NET and C# or VB.NET (examples will be provided in both C# and VB.NET).

(John Charles Olamendy) In this article, I will cover at a glance the new features of Visual Studio 2008. I have been working with this new development environment for several days and want to share my experience with the community.