Creating Custom Page Templates with Unique Code Behind Classes in Visual Web Developer Express or Visual Studio

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Monday 01/18/2010 21:22 in: Articles - ASP.NET 3.5
Visual Studio (2005 and later) has a nice feature to create your own templates that appear in the Add New Item dialog of a web site. This feature enables you to create new files, such as a Web Form, to your liking and then export it as a template so you can base new items on it.
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Handling Disabled Links in ASP.NET 4

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Wednesday 12/09/2009 22:45 in: Articles - ASP.NET 4
In my (quite possibly very short) series on "things I discovered today in ASP.NET 4", today I am discussing disabling links in ASP.NET 4.
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Look Ma: No Code - Using Sorted Styles in ASP.NET 4

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Tuesday 12/08/2009 21:23 in: Articles - ASP.NET 4
The cool thing about working with beta technology such as Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4 is that you discover something new every day. Today I found the Sorted Styles that enable you to define the looks of sorted columns and headers in an ASP.NET GridView control.
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Comparing Collections of Type BusinessCollectionBase

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Sunday 11/29/2009 17:11 in: Articles - ASP.NET 3.5
A while ago (actually a long while ago but I didn't have the time to post this earlier), I was approached by Amanda Myer with a question about comparing and sorting BusinessBase objects in collections that inherit BusinessCollectionBase, discussed in my article series on N-Layer design in .NET 3.5.
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Fixing Issues with HTML Help Workshop

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Sunday 11/29/2009 13:23 in: Articles - .NET General
I am working on an application that ships with documentation in the form of a Windows Compiled Help file. To build the help file I use Sandcastle and the excellent Sandcastle Help File Builder. Building the help file is part of a continuous integration plan so the help file is always up to date.
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My Book in Other Languages

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Sunday 11/29/2009 13:08 in: Blogs - Imar's Blogs
I was pleasantly surprised when the other day I received a package containing three copies of my book Beginning ASP.NET 3.5 - in Hebrew!
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Want to Win a Copy of Professional Enterprise .NET?

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Sunday 11/29/2009 12:53 in: Blogs - Imar's Blogs

Due to some confusion and delays at the publisher, I ended up with two review copies of Professional Enterprise .NET by Jon Arking and Scott Millett, the book I recently reviewed on this web site.

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Book Review: Professional Enterprise .NET

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Sunday 11/29/2009 11:58 in: Blogs - Book Reviews
Prior to reading Professional Enterprise .NET by Jon Arking and Scott Millett, I read Scott's Wrox Blox titled "NHibernate with ASP.NET Problem–Design–Solution" which I found to be an excellent introduction to using NHibernate. If you haven't read that eBook yet, and you're interested in learning NHibernate, check it out at the Wrox web site; at a price of under 10 dollar, it's money very well spent. Considering Scott's writing style and the depth of information found in the Blox, I was having high expectations of the book Professional Enterprise .NET. Having read it now, I can say I am certainly not disappointed.
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Using the ASP.NET Login Controls with Mail Servers that Require SSL

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Saturday 11/28/2009 20:54 in: Articles - ASP.NET 3.5
Some of the Login controls that ship with ASP.NET, such as CreateUserWizard, ChangePassword and PasswordRecovery enable you to send e-mail to your users without writing a lot of code. You just drag and drop a control, assign a mail body template and you're pretty much done. However, as soon as your mail server requires you to use SSL (as, for example, GMail does), things become a little trickier. In this short article I'll show the code and configuration needed to send mail to servers that require SSL.
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My New Project - Beginning ASP.NET 4

Posted by: Imar Spaanjaars at Sunday 10/25/2009 17:21 in: Blogs - Imar's Blogs
I meant to announce my new project earlier, but once again, Amazon and the official Wiley site beat me to it.
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