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So, I tested out LinQ today, and found my way to Blinq which is an autogenerator admin tool for DB's generating a bunch of asp.net pages, linQ code, super fast, using a couple of cool things. All in all very nice, generating a site with the following info in a matter of about 4 seconds.   1: public Table<Category> Categories; ...

jHawk has a bit on control development and designer support if anyone is interested: http://blogs.msdn.com/jhawk/archive/2005/11/11/491951.aspx there is a download ''AMS351:Developing an ASP.NET Server Control with Design-Time Support ''   Some cool things he shows like : DataBoundControlDesigner Control Collections Embedded ...

I updated Jonavi.com with the latest Rianbow pre alpha 4 release... whatever that means. http://www.jonavi.com/DesktopDefault.aspx this includes membership and some other stuff. I kind of lost my user for now, until my host fixes my remote access to sql server, and this site upgrade somehow doesn't recognize my old user? hmm... bug... or did i ...

ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Caching (Part 1) This video is part one of a two-part series introducing the new caching features of ASP.NET 2.0. Page Output Caching followed by the new ASP.NET 2.0 Database Caching support for SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005.    ASP.NET HOW DO I Video Series: Caching (Part 2) Part ...

Kevin Downs the creator of NDoc has started working on NDoc for .NET 2.0 again. You can get the latest stable build at any given time from ndoc.sourceforge.net/ndoc-nightly.zip Currently he has added support for 2.0 iterators and anonymous methods. And I predict within the comming weeks we should see full support for 2.0 features like generics ...

An obscure, not very well known OS feature since Win 2000, the NTFS Junction is basically like a virtual or mapped folder so that you can have one folder in multiple locations at the same time, but in reality are just one folder, with one file collection. This is done at the kernel level, so it's invisible to all applications, including IIS, ...

A great little tool I have been using alot for documenting rainbow, and now alot of my code is this thing GhostDoc. It has plenty of features, but right out of the box you can quickly do ctrl+shift+d and it will interpret a method or paramater name (hint, name your properties and methods wiseley) and it will auto generate a template of ...

Themes: Using Global Theme is way to share Theme between different Apps.eg if you want to create a Global Theme called theme1 For Cassini server create a Theme1 folder inside framework folder like \WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.xxxxx\ ASP.NETClientFiles\Themes\ThemeName For IIS server create a Theme1 folder inside like ...

Reading some of my daily blogs today, I came across a nice post by Scott Guthrie, talking about Composite Controls. He explained something that I felt was worth mentioning, which I had not previously known. This is something that is actually going to help me explore some new possibilites in fixing the issues that were there with the ...

A little update: Eric sent me the latest AJAX dll, posted on the community files list. I have successfully configured my wizard to save settings and all that, however, I am still debugging the ajaxified version. Basically, I have the settings wizard implementing magic ajax, to add functionality. This works great, the wizard posts back using ...