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Folks,  I stumbled upon this set of tools today while browsing the internet for .NET components. (Yeah. Fun!)I found one called Gaia which has a rich set of components that look really good. Here are some of my favorite demos that show off the really nice functionality.  1. All Demos 2. Page Flakes (Like Google's but looks better) ...

Well, I was getting ready to write this cool, earth shattering blog entry, but I was beat to the punch in a fancier fashion. So instead, I will summarize, and point to the resources :-) .NET 3 is a collection of technologies and addons to the 2.0 Framework. It is not in my opinoin, and confirmed now a bunch of new bcl or clr stuff. It's ...

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 ...

Found a nice newish article on MSDN about creating provider like features, not just extending them. ''The ASP.NET provider-based features rely on a common set of public types and helper classes. Stefan Schackow shows how to author your own provider-based features by leveraging the provider model support in the .NET Framework 2.0 to quickly and ...

Well, i was looking at the content api, and noticed, settings are reptitive in a few objects, and they need to support different types. i was working on it a bit, and came up with something like this... i hope to get some feedback, because filip and i are moving along, and the base code once in place, wont change for a bit as we proced, as ...

I have been hanging out on forums a lot this year, rainbow forums, asp.net forums, and a littl eon the msdn forums, as well as a few other places, and I am noticing a few things. Mainly, most people do not put any thouht into posting their forum questions. It is almost like the forums have become an ''easy'' way to get some homework done for ...

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 ...

Recently, I have been doing a lot of work in making controls have some design time support, I am creating composite controls, and it's a whole different world from user controls i have to say :-) I have made them before, but really only used them in code or in things i needed and jsut manipulaed, never worrying much about designer support, ...

In asp.net 2 there was a new page directive added, 'MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback'    MaintainScrollPositionOnPostback=''true'' This looks like it would be very similar to the old not so great smart navigation, however it is not. It is directly focused on one task, and it seems to work on all the browsers I tried so far. It ...