Tag archive for ‘ASP.NET’
How To: Use URL Rewriting in ASP.NET
URL rewriting is the practice publishing a cleaner URL for your ASP.NET pages. There are many reasons you might want to do this, including search engine optimization and human readability. Search engines actively try to ascertain information about the contents of a page based on the URL, and providing common keywords in it will increase your page ranking. This article will show you how to use URL rewriting to hide your ugly URL while retaining the power and structure of your existing ASP.NET application by using URL rewriting.
ASP.NET MVC Framework 1.0 Released
Today, Phil Haack reported that the ASP.NET MVC framework has been officially moved out of beta status and released to the world. It's good timing, too. If you're like me, you were waiting for the beta to end before really getting into ASP.NET MVC because you were afraid that each release would break your projects. Well, I guess its time to really dive in and I'm excited to do it. Read this article for more information and the download link.
ASP.NET MVC Hotfix for Add-in Compatibility
A few days ago, I posted about a new e-Book that's available to show you how to build a sample application with ASP.NET MVC. Well, I just found this post about a bug in Visual Studio when using ASP.NET MVC on Phil Haack's blog. Phil Haack is a a co-author of the book Scott Guthrie wrote [...]
Scott Guthrie's ASP.NET MVC E-book Tutorial, NerdDinner
A few days ago, Scott Guthrie posted an e-book tutorial for the new ASP.NET MVC framework that's been in beta for awhile.
Scott is a Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, and heads up the teams for ASP.NET, Silverlight, IIS, and so forth. He's also been working pretty closely with ASP.NET MVC, so I was really interested in [...]
Getting Started with ASP.NET (Part 3): Postbacks and Debugging
This three-part series is concluded with a lesson on advanced events. You'll construct a sample Employee Management application, and I'll throw a couple of tricks at you to teach you some lessons about real-life ASP.NET programming. We'll learn about postbacks and use the built-in Visual Studio debugger to solve the problems we run into. This article will complete your initial ASP.NET skillset and ready you to begin your own application development.
Getting Started with ASP.NET (Part 2): Code-behind and Events
Building upon the "Hello World" application created in the previous article, C# code is written into the backing code files to add functionality. The concept of events is explained and demonstrated through an example application that allows the user to interact with various controls on the page. This article is second in a three-part series aimed at helping new ASP.NET developers create real, live web applications with no perquisite knowledge.
Code Blocks Upgraded
I posted recently that I was finished making major changes to the site, and that I was calling it "finished" for the time being.
Apparantly, I spoke too soon. A good friend of mine commented that the copy-to-clipboard functionality was not working on the code block that I placed in the first article. I looked into the [...]
Site Launch
This website is now open and ready for business. Of course, most websites are works-in-progress, but today I can say that this one is complete enough to launch.
The motivation and goals behind this site are listed over the About page, but I'll provide an excerpt here:
As I was learning about C# and ASP.NET, and the [...]
Getting Started with ASP.NET (Part 1): "Hello World"
In this article, I'll show you how to create your first ASP.NET web application: the ubiquitous "Hello World" application. We'll skip the technology discussion and get right down into the tools and code you need get started developing web applications with ASP.NET. We'll explore three different ways to show "Hello World" to get you started. This article is the first in a series of articles to help developers get started using ASP.NET.

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