ASP.NET Tips, Tricks, Recipes and Gotchas From ScottGuu

Visual Studio 2005

* Tip/Trick: Optimizing ASP.NET 2.0 Web Project Build Performance with VS 2005
* Common Gotcha: Slow VS 2005 Web Site Build Performance Because of “Dueling Assembly References”
* Common Gotcha: Public Hotfix available for Slow Debugging Problems
* Tip/Trick: Changing the default browser used in VS 2005 and Visual Web Developer
* Tip/Trick: Creating Packaged ASP.NET Setup Programs with VS 2005
* Resource: VS 2005 Web Application Project Tutorials
* Recipe: Using VS 2005 Web Deployment Projects
* Tip/Trick: Custom formatting HTML in Visual Web Developer and Visual Studio 2005
* Tip/Trick: Fast HTML Editor Navigation within VS 2005
* Tip/Trick: How to Run a Root “/” Site with the Local Web Server using VS 2005 SP1
* Tip/Trick: Creating Re-Usable Project and Item Templates with VS 2005
* Tip/Trick: Creating Sub-Web Projects using the VS 2005 Web Application Project Option
* Tip/Trick: Spell Checker Plug-in for VS 2005 for ASP.NET and HTML Pages
* Tip/Trick: Using IIS7 on Vista with VS 2005
* Gotcha: Fixing Error with VS 2005 SP1 Beta and older Web Application Project Templates

UI

* Tip/Trick: Enabling URL Rewriting with ASP.NET
* Tip/Trick: Using Server Side Comments with ASP.NET 2.0
* Tip/Trick: Use the ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Control Adapters for CSS friendly HTML output
* Tip/Trick: How to Register User Controls and Custom Controls in Web.config
* Recipe: Dynamic Site Layout and Style Personalization with ASP.NET
* Tip/Trick: Advanced Article on ASP.NET 2.0 Master Pages

AJAX

* Tip/Trick: Handling Errors with the UpdatePanel control using ASP.NET AJAX
* Tip/Trick: Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios
* Links: ASP.NET AJAX and ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Articles
* Gotcha: Lost HTML Intellisense within ASP.NET AJAX Controls
* Gotcha: Don't use with ASP.NET AJAX
* Tip/Trick: UpdateProgress Control and AJAX Activity Image Animations
* Tip/Trick: Nikhil's WebDevHelper Utility and ASP.NET AJAX Support

Data

* Tip/Trick: How to Upload a .SQL file to a Hoster and Execute it to Deploy a Database
* Tip/Trick: Deploying a SQL Database to a Remote Hoster Environment
* Tip/Trick: Online Database Schema Samples Library
* Recipe: Great ASP.NET 2.0 Data Tutorials
* Recipe ASP.NET 2.0 RSS Tool-Kit
* Recipe: Paging through lots of data efficiently (and in an Ajax way) with ASP.NET 2.0
* Recipe: Efficient Data Paging with the ASP.NET 2.0 DataList Control and ObjectDataSource
* Tip/Trick: ListControl.AppendDataBoundItems Property in ASP.NET 2.0

Security

* Resource: ASP.NET 2.0 Membership, Roles, Forms Authentication, and Security Resources
* Recipe: Enabling Windows Authentication within an Intranet ASP.NET Web application
* Recipe: Implementing Role Based Security with ASP.NET using Windows Authentication and SQL Server
* Recipe: Configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Application Services to use SQL Server 2000 or SQL Server 2005
* Tip/Trick: Integrating ASP.NET Security with Classic ASP and non-ASP.NET URLs
* Gotcha: Always set the "applicationName" property when configuring ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and other Providers
* Common Gotcha: Don't forget to when adding providers
* Tip/Trick: Source/Documentation for Simple ASP.NET 2.0 SQL Providers Published
* Tip/Trick: Guard Against SQL Injection Attacks
* Tip/Trick: Gathering Custom User Registration Information
* Recipe: How to add a Login, Roles and Profile system to an ASP.NET 2.0 app in only 24 lines of code
* Gotcha: Authorization with the built-in VS 2005 Web Server (aka Cassini)
* Gotcha: Forms Authentication timeout default changed between ASP.NET 1.1 -> ASP.NET 2.0
* Tip/Trick: How To Share Authentication Cookies across ASP.NET V1.1 and ASP.NET V2.0 Applications
* Tip/Trick: Enabling SSL on IIS 7.0 using Self Signed Certificates

Deployment

* Gotcha: Don’t run production ASP.NET Applications with debug=”true” enabled
* Tip/Trick: Automating Dev, QA, Production Web.Config Settings with VS 2005
* Tip/Trick: Creating Packaged ASP.NET Setup Programs with VS 2005
* Tip/Trick: Patterns and Practices Guidance Explorer for .NET and ASP.NET
* Tip/Trick: App_Offline.htm and working around the "IE Friendly Errors" feature
* Tip/Trick: Show Detailed Error Messages to Developers (and only to Developers)
* Tip/Trick: Logging ASP.NET Application Shutdown Events

Performance

* Tip/Trick: Implement "Donut Caching" with the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution Feature
* Tip/Trick: Disk Based Output Caching Feature Now Available for ASP.NET 2.0
* Tip/Trick: Cache Manager

.NET 3.5 and VS 2008

* VS 2008 Multi-Targeting Support
* VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense
* VS 2008 JavaScript Debugging
* VS 2008 Code Editing Improvements
* VS 2008 Nested Master Page Support
* VS 2008 Web Designer and CSS Improvements
* VS 2008 Vertical Split View Support
* VS 2008 ASP.NET AJAX Control Extenders
* ASP.NET ListView Control (Part 1: Building a Product Listing Page with Pure CSS)
* ASP.NET AJAX in .NET 3.5 and VS 2008

LINQ and .NET 3.5

* LINQ to SQL (Part 1 - Overview)
* LINQ to SQL (Part 2 - Defining our Data Model Classes)
* LINQ to SQL (Part 3 - Querying our Database)
* LINQ to SQL (Part 4 - Updating our Database)
* LINQ to SQL (Part 5 - Binding UI using the asp:linqdatasource)
* LINQ to SQL (Part 6 - Retrieving data using stored procedures)
* LINQ to SQL (Part 7 - Updating our database using stored procedures)
* LINQ to SQL (Part 8 - Executing Custom SQL Expressions)
* LINQ to SQL (Part 9 - Using a Custom LINQ Expression with the control)
* LINQ to XML (How to Build a Custom RSS Reader with it)
* New Language Feature: Automatic Properties, Object Initializer and Collection Initializers
* New Language Feature: Extension Methods
* New Language Feature: Lambda Expressions
* New Language Feature: Query Syntax
* New Language Feature: Anonymous Types
* Recipe: Tagging Data using LINQ
* Null Coalescing Operator and using it with LINQ

Silverlight

* My Silverlight Overview Post
* My "Lap Around Silverlight" talk from TechEd
* Building Silverlight Applications using .NET
* Tip/Trick: Supporting Full Screen Mode with Silverlight
* VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense for Silverlight

Miscellaneous

* Resource: Credit Card Payment Processing with ASP.NET
* Tip/Trick: List Running ASP.NET Worker Processes and Kill/Restart them from the command-line