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• October 10th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, jQuery, IIS

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page and Silverlight Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Best Practices for Creating ASP.NET websites with IIS 6.0: Omar Al Zabir, author of the excellent Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5 book, has a great article that details best practices to follow when setting up a site on IIS 6.0.  Definitely worth reading and book-marking. ASP.NET Dynamic Data Videos using VB: Bill Burrows has put together an awesome series of videos that show off how to use the new ASP.NET Dynamic Data support provided in .NET 3.5 SP1.  You can find more links to ASP.NET Dynamic Data tutorials in my last link post here. Exploring Caching in ASP.NET: Abhijit Jana has a nice article that discusses caching options with ASP.NET.  If you are interested in another nice (but not well known) caching technique, you might also want to check out my prior Tip/Trick post on "Donut Caching" using the ASP.NET 2.0 Output Cache Substitution feature. Routing with WebForms: Wally McClure has a nice podcast that describes how to use the new ASP.NET routing infrastructure in .NET 3.5 SP1 with Web Forms based pages.  A lot of people mistakenly think this feature only works with ASP.NET MVC applications - when in reality it also works with web forms pages (in fact all ASP.NET Dynamic Data sites use it). ASP.NET Continuous Integration and Deployment using CruiseControl.NET, Subversion, MSBuild and Robocopy: Omar Al Zabir has another great article - this time on implementing continuous integration with ASP.NET. ASP.NET AJAX and jQuery An Introduction to jQuery (Part 1): Rick Strahl has posted an excellent article that introduces jQuery, and walks-through how to take advantage of it within ASP.NET pages. New AJAX Support for Data-Driven Web Apps: Bertrand Le Roy has written a great MSDN article that describes some of the new ASP.NET AJAX features available in preview form today.  Also check out his blog posts here and here to learn more about how the new client-side data templating feature support. Using jQuery to enhance ASP.NET AJAX progress indication: Dave Ward has a cool article that describes how to integrate jQuery functionality with the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel control to enable better progress indication status. ASP.NET AJAX: Enabling Bookmarking and the Browser's Back Button: Scott Mitchell continues his excellent series on ASP.NET AJAX and discusses how to add history points to an AJAX-enabled web page so that visitors can bookmark it, as well as to enable back/forward browser navigation.  This is a new feature added to ASP.NET in .NET 3.5 SP1. 46 ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Tutorials: Christian Wenz has published 46 super useful tutorials in both VB and C# that show of how to perform common scenarios with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. Microsoft Web Platform Web Platform Installer: Make it easy to setup for web development: Scott Hanselman has a nice post that shows off the new "Microsoft Web Platform Installer" we are building that provides an easy way to quickly install every Microsoft web component out there - and quickly get a machine ready for web development. Hope this helps, Scott Posted Friday, October 10, 2008 4:53 AM from ScottGu's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Atlas, Community News, Link Listing

• December 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, ASP.NET MVC, .NET, VS 2008

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. Several people have pinged me asking for the download location of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions Preview.  We were hoping to post it on the web Friday, but unfortunately found a late bug that we felt needed to be fixed.  The team is working this weekend to sign off on the new build.  We hope to be able to post it as soon as this is done - apologies for the delay. ASP.NET Using the new ASP.NET ListView Control: Matt Berseth has a great post that talks about how to use the new ASP.NET ListView control in .NET 3.5.  Data Navigation with the ListView, DataPager, and SliderExtender Controls: Matt Berseth has another great follow-up post that describes how to use the new ListView and DataPager controls in .NET 3.5 together with the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit's SliderExtender to implement nice data paging support. Building a Product Listing Page with Clean CSS using the ListView Control: This is one of my own posts from earlier this summer that covers the ListView control.  It also details how to use the new CSS editing features in VS 2008 to stylize it. Taking an ASP.NET Application Offline: Scott Mitchell has a good article on 4GuysFromRolla that discusses a few approaches you can use to temporarily take down ASP.NET applications for updates/maintenance.  ASP.NET AJAX Work Smarter: Microsoft AJAX's JavaScript Type Extensions: Dave Ward has a great post that describes some of the ASP.NET AJAX JavaScript client-library functionality.  In this article he discusses using Array.contains, Date.format and String.format. Sys.Debug in ASP.NET AJAX Framework: Roman Nikitin has a nice post that describes how to use the Sys.Debug feature of ASP.NET AJAX to easily instrument, debug and trace your AJAX applications.  Download Free ASP.NET AJAX In Action Chapter: I'm a big fan of the ASP.NET AJAX in Action book that was published earlier this summer (I also wrote the forward to the book).  You can download a free PDF copy of chapter 2 from it here and buy it on Amazon.com here. Cool Skin for the TabContainer Toolkit Control: Matt Berseth has a great post that details how to build a really attractive looking CSS skin for the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit's TabContainer control. Surrounding your Data Table and Dialog Controls with Styled Panels: Matt Berseth has another nice post that describes how to add styled borders to ASP.NET data grid controls using CSS and some of the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit controls. ASP.NET MVC TDD and Dependency Injection with ASP.NET MVC: Phil Haack from the ASP.NET team writes about how to use TDD (test driven development) with the new ASP.NET MVC Framework.  He uses StructureMap and RhinoMocks to enable the Dependency Injection and Mocking support. .NET Want to See the .NET Framework Source Code?: We are shortly going to post instructions on how anyone can browse and debug into the .NET Framework source code.  If you want to help try this out before the general public and test our servers that will be supporting it please send email to: fxrefsrc@microsoft,com and we'll give you instructions on how to use it now. Hidden Gems in Visual Basic 2008: Amanda Silver from the VB team has an awesome post that discusses some of the new hidden gems with Visual Basic in VS 2008.  I actually learned a few of them for the first time reading her article!  Highly recommended reading. Extending Base Type Functionality with Extension Methods: Scott Mitchell has a nice article that discusses how to use the new Extension Methods feature of VB and C# to add custom helper methods to existing classes. LINQ to Active Directory is Here: Bart De Smet from my team has been working on a cool LINQ to Active Directory provider (previously called LINQ to LDAP) in his spare time.  You can learn how to use it in his series here, as well as read about how he built it (and learn a lot about how to build LINQ providers). Visual Studio Ten Tips for a Happy Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008: Jon Galloway has a useful blog post that provides a complete list of recommended steps to take if you are upgrading a machine from VS 2008 Beta2 to the final RTM release. Organizing Big Solutions using Visual Studio Solution Folders: This tip of the day describes a useful technique that you can use in Visual Studio to easily organize large solutions that are full of many sub-projects.  Use this approach to easily find and filer your projects more effectively. Use DebuggerBrowsable attribute to clean up class view in a debugger: This tip of the day demonstrates how you can apply the DebuggerBrowsable attribute to clean up how fields and properties are displayed within Visual Studio when you are debugging your code. Hope this helps, Scott Posted Saturday, December 08, 2007 3:14 PM from ScottGu's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Community News, Link Listing, MVC

• October 8th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, and .NET

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET ASP.NET 2.0 Health Monitoring: ASP.NET 2.0 introduced a new "health monitoring" feature that enables you to automatically monitor and track how an ASP.NET application is doing in a production environment.  Scott Mitchell has written an excellent three-part article series that discusses: 1) the basics of health monitoring, 2) how you can automatically receive email notification of errors, and 3) how you can create and raise your own custom health events. Creating a Yahoo UI DataTable Styled GridView: Matt Berseth has a cool article that describes how you can style the ASP.NET 2.0 GridView control to have a really nice visual appearance. How Do I Video: Create a Custom Membership Provider: A new "how do I?" video on the www.asp.net site that covers how to create a custom membership provider.  For more about how to build ASP.NET providers, make sure to also check out this previous blog post of mine. How Do I Video: Create a Custom Profile Provider: A new "how do I?" video on the www.asp.net site that covers how to create a new custom profile provider.  For more about how to build ASP.NET providers, make sure to also check out this previous blog post of mine. BlogEngine.NET 1.2 Released: Mads Kristensen and team have published an updated version of the great BlogEngine.NET open source blogging system.  You can read more about it on Mads' announcement blog post here. ASP.NET AJAX ModalPopup with Multiple Cancel Buttons: Matt Berseth has a nice article that describes how to support both a cancel button as well as a close "X" button in the top right corner of a ASP.NET AJAX Modal Popup Dialog. ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit TabContainer Themes: Matt Berseth continues his great articles on the ASP.NET AJAX TabContainer Control with several more cool visual themes that you can use. Using CSS Image Sprites with the XP Themed TabContainer Control: Matt Berseth shows a cool technique you can use with CSS to create image sprites (where you save multiple images into a single .png file and then use offsets to show different image segments in different places on a page).  Silverlight Silverlight Unleashed Book Ships this Week: Adam Nathan's excellent Silverlight Unleashed book ships later this week (October 11th).  Adam wrote the best-selling WPF Unleashed book that has been one of the top selling programming books on Amazon this year, and he is also the core architect of the Microsoft PopFly service (which is built using Silverlight). I'm really looking forward to getting a printed copy of the new book! Awesome Quiksilver Video Experience: This is a really cool Silverlight site that shows off building a great video experience using Silverlight.  Very nice! Vectorform Labs Silverlight Examples: Vectorform has recently published some really nice Silverlight samples (with full source code) that are definitely worth checking out. Farseer Physics Engine: This free CodePlex project provides a nice 2D physics engine for Silverlight 1.1.  You can check out some online demos of it here. Deploying Silverlight in the Enterprise: David Tesar and Tim Sneath point to a good document that enterprise IT administrators can use to learn more about how to automatically deploy Silverlight in locked-down enterprise environments. .NET C# Coding Standard Guidelines: Juval Lowry from IDesign has published this excellent C# coding standards guideline document.  Extremely useful if you are looking for a concise checklist of good suggestions to keep your codebase clean. DevTeach Vancouver: The excellent DevTeach conference in Vancouver is coming up in November.  This is a great conference with a ton of session content. Hope this helps, Scott Posted Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:14 AM from ScottGu's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Community News, Silverlight, Link Listing

• September 23rd Links: VS, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, WPF

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. Visual Studio 11 Visual Studio 2005 IDE Tips and Tricks to Make You a More Productive Developer: Chinh Do has put together an excellent post that covers a bunch of VS 2005 Tips and Tricks that you can use immediately to optimize your developer workflow.  I actually learned a few new ones reading it! Highly recommended. Multi-threaded Debugging in Visual Studio 2008: Scott Hanselman has a quick post that shows a screen-shot of the new multi-threaded debugging features in VS 2008. ASP.NET Debugging Script: Dumping out ASP.NET Session Contents: Tess Ferrandez from the ASP.NET support team has an excellent post that details how to use the windbg debugger to dump out real-time information about the current state within the ASP.NET in-process session store (# of sessions, what their current timeout is, and the memory size of the objects within each session).  She has a great script you can just run "as-is" in this article, as well as an in-depth discussion about how it works.  Very useful if you are ever trying to figure out why your application is consuming a lot of memory, and suspect it might be session state related. Facebook.NET: Earlier this summer Nikhil Kothari from the ASP.NET team posted a really cool framework for developing ASP.NET based Facebook applications.  You can learn more about it from his blog post here, and download it from his CodePlex project here.  Steve Trefethen last week posted a VS starter kit for Facebook.NET which makes it even easier to get started. Useful ASP.NET Extension Methods: JD posts some nice extension methods that he has built for ASP.NET that use the new extension method language support coming with the VB and C# compilers in .NET 3.5.  I've been putting together my own list of cool extension methods as well and will post some in the months ahead. ASP.NET AJAX New ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit Released: David Anson blogs about the update to the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit that was released on Friday.  It contains a bunch of bug fixes and improvements.  The .NET 3.5 version of the control toolkit also now adds reference tags for the toolkit JavaScript files - which means you can now take advantage of VS 2008's JavaScript Intellisense support with them. Creating a YUI TabView Style Theme for the AJAX Control Toolkit's TabContainer Control: A nice post from Matt Berseth on how to build a Yahoo UI style look and feel for the TabContainer control within the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit. ASP.NET AJAX Exception Logging: Kazi Manzur Rashid blogs about his new AJAX Exception Logging CodePlex Project.  This project enables you to help catch client-side JavaScript errors and log them on the server. Animating the ModalPopupExtender: A cool post from Matt Berseth that walks through how to create a custom ModalPopupAnimationExtender control that adds animation support for ModalPopup scenarios. Inline Script Inside an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel: Dave Reed shows how to create a custom control to enable inline script to be emitted (and executed) within an <asp:updatepanel> refresh. ASP.NET AJAX In Action Book: Alessandro, David and Rama Krishna's ASP.NET AJAX in Action book is now showing up on book shelves.  This is a great technical book that covers ASP.NET AJAX very well. Silverlight Halo 3 Game Guide: Halo 3 ships this week, and no doubt many people will find themselves afflicted with a sudden illness that requires them to stay home one day this week.  To help get you ready, watch one of the High Definition Halo3 Videos here (for a lower resolution video click here), and browse the Halo3 Game Guide here.  Both are built with Silverlight 1.0.  WPF and Expression Blend Getting Started with Expression Blend and WPF: This is a really outstanding set of free videos that you can watch to learn how to get started with WPF and Expression Blend.  If you want to follow along, you can download a free trial of Expression Blend.  Expression Blend and Expression Web are also now included as free products in the MSDN Premium subscription. Hope this helps, Scott Posted Monday, September 24, 2007 1:24 AM from ScottGu's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Atlas, Community News, WPF, Silverlight, Link Listing

• September 16th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, IIS7, Visual Studio, Silverlight

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Creating a User Polling System with ASP.NET 2.0: Scott Mitchell has written a nice three-part tutorial series for www.4guysfromrolla.com that demonstrates how to implement a poll user control for ASP.NET that you can use to poll users on your site for their opinions on questions, and then display a graphical output of the poll results.  Here are part 2 and part 3 of the series. Debugging Script: Dumping out Current and Recent ASP.NET Requests: Tess Ferrandez from the ASP.NET support team has an excellent post that details how to use the windbg debugger to dump out real-time information about what requests ASP.NET is currently processing on the server (super useful when investigating failures).  She has a great script you can just run "as-is" in this article, as well as an in-depth discussion about how it works. Improve Column Sort Presentation for an ASP.NET GridView: Matt Berseth has a cool article on how to customize the column header format of an <asp:gridview> control to enable a really nice column sorting experience. Creating a GridView with Resizable Column Headers: Matt Berseth demonstrates a proof of concept on how to add support to an <asp:gridview> control to enable users to resize the column widths of the data being displayed.  Freezing GridView Column Headers with CSS and a Control Adapter: Matt Berseth has a cool article on how you can use CSS to implement a "frozen columns headers" feature with the standard <asp:gridview> control.  Note that this type of scenario is much easier with the new <asp:listview> control in .NET 3.5, which enables you to customize all of the html markup emitted. ASP.NET ListView - CSS Friendly: Kazi Manzur Rashid posts some cool samples showing off how to use the new <asp:listview> control with some nice CSS table designs.  Also check out my <asp:listview> Part 1: Building a Product Listing Page with Clean CSS UI post to learn more about how you can use the new VS 2008 CSS Editing features with the <asp:listview> control. ASP.NET AJAX Enable Client Side Actions Before and After Postback with ASP.NET AJAX: Rob Meade has a nice article that describes how you can execute client-side JavaScript before and after the <asp:updatepanel> control calls back to the server to handle an AJAX post-back. Creating JavaScript objects from ASP.NET Objects: David Betz has a nice blog post that describes a clean way to encapsulate client-side JavaScript helpers for ASP.NET server controls. How Do I: Create an ASP.NET AJAX Extender from Scratch: Chris Pels has a nice 15 minute video on www.asp.net that demonstrates how to create an ASP.NET AJAX extender control for a standard ASP.NET server control. How Do I: Building Custom Server Controls that work with or without ASP.NET AJAX: Chris Pels has a nice 19 minute video on www.asp.net that describes how to build an ASP.NET server control that can automatically integrate ASP.NET AJAX if it is installed, but fall back gracefully in the event that it isn't on the server machine. Update for the iPhone: Matt Gibbs blogs about a fix you can apply to ASP.NET AJAX to address a change in the iPhone 1.01 patch that impacts how regular expressions are parsed in the iPhone Safari browser.  Matt's fix enables you to continue targeting iPhone users with your ASP.NET AJAX applications. Visual Studio XML to Schema Inference Wizard for Visual Studio 2008: Scott Hanselman has a great blog post about a new item template wizard that makes it really easy to automatically infer an XML schema from a XML file or XML snippet.  He then shows how you can use the cool new LINQ to XML features in VB9 to get automatic LINQ to XML intellisense inside VS 2008 with it. IIS 7.0 Ten Reasons why IIS 7.0 Rocks: The Microsoft.com team has been running the entire www.microsoft.com site on IIS7 and Windows Server 2008 the last few months.  This blog post from them lists their top 10 favorite improvements in IIS7. Silverlight Ink Recognition and Silverlight: Loren has a really cool sample built with Silverlight that demonstrates how you can use the ink pen recognition support within Silverlight to enable tablet or mouse based Google searches using a Silverlight application.  A very cool mashup. Silverlight Spy Tool: Silverlight Spy is a small WinForms application capable of inspecting Silverlight 1.0 applications.  You can use it to navigate a XAML object explorer of a running Silverlight application, trace out messages from it, and enable easier debugging of it. HtmlTextBlock control for Silverlight: David Anson has published a really cool control for Silverlight 1.1 that provides an easy way to take HTML input and display it using the text/graphics stack within Silverlight. Online JavaScript Silverlight Design Tutorials: Jeff's web-site has a bunch of cool tutorials for Silverlight 1.0 that show off how to achieve nice design effects with Silverlight. Silverlight Dev Camp Chicago: Kevin Marshall is organizing an upcoming Silverlight DevCamp event in Chicago on September 28th-29th.  You can attend completely for free. Hope this helps, Scott Posted Sunday, September 16, 2007 8:40 PM from ScottGu's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Atlas, Community News, Silverlight, Link Listing

• August 30th Links: ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, IIS7, Visual Studio, Silverlight, .NET

  Here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials page for links to popular articles I've done myself in the past. ASP.NET Recreating the Google Analytics Table as an ASP.NET GridView: Matt Berseth has a great post on how you can templatize the <asp:gridview> control to provide really nice UI paging options.  ASP.NET Charting with NPlot: Olav Lerflaten has a great article on 4GuysFromRolla.com that describes how to use the free NPlot chart engine for .NET to create professional scientific charts of data using ASP.NET. Export GridView to Excel: Matt Berseth has another excellent post on how you can export data to Excel from within your ASP.NET application. How to use PayPal Payment System in ASP.NET: Alexandr Golovanov has a great article that details how to implement a paypal payment system within your ASP.NET applications. Using Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to Store Date/Time Values: Scott Mitchell has a useful article that describes how to use the UTC format to store date/time values within a SQL database so that it is transportable across timezones.  This is important to think about if your business operates in multiple geographic locations (or if your hosted web-server is located in a different time zone). Fixing Firefox Slowness with localhost on Vista (or XP with IPv6): One annoying issue I've run into with Firefox is that sometimes - when doing localhost development - it can take several seconds to connect back to a local page.  It turns out this slowness is caused by a Firefox IPv6 issue with DNS resolution.  Dan Wahlin has a good pointer on how to fix this. Microsoft Patterns & Practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications: The final release of the Microsoft PAG group's Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications has been posted.  You can learn more about this release from J.D. Meier's blog post here. ASP.NET AJAX Using the AJAX Timer Control as an UpdatePanel Trigger: Matt Berseth has a nice post on how to use the ASP.NET AJAX Timer Control to trigger AJAX updates of a page.  Seamless Inline Text Editing with ASP.NET AJAX: Dave Ward has a nice post on how to enable inline editing of content on a page using ASP.NET AJAX. ASP.NET AJAX Exception Logging: Kazi Manzur Rashid has a nice article that shows how to create an effective error logging system with ASP.NET AJAX to catch and record client JavaScript errors. The Ever-Useful $get and $find ASP.NET AJAX Shortcut Functions: Matt Berseth has another nice post on using the $get and $find JavaScript shortcut functions built-into ASP.NET AJAX. How Do I: Trigger an UpdatePanel refresh from a DropDownList Control: Joe Stagner covers how to use the SelectedIndexChanged event on drop-downlist controls to trigger AJAX refreshes of an ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel. How Do I: Localize an ASP.NET AJAX Application: Chris Pels provides an overview of the localization capabilities in ASP.NET, and then looks at how to use these with ASP.NET AJAX. How Do I: Implement the Persistent Communications Pattern using Web Services: Joe Stagner discusses ways to implement the persistent communications pattern for ASP.NET AJAX. IIS 7.0 Developing IIS7 Modules and Handlers with the .NET Framework: Mike Volodarksy from the IIS7 team has an excellent step-by-step blog post that describes how you can now write HttpModules and HttpHandlers using managed code that participate in all requests to a web-server.  This enables you to easily do scenarios that previously required custom C++ ISAPIs to achieve. LINQ LINQPad: Joseph Albahari has an incredibly awesome LINQ query expression tool that you can use to quickly try out LINQ expressions.  Think of it as SQL Query Analyzer - but with LINQ expressions as the queries.  Definitely a useful free tool to add to your toolbox. Visual Studio The SQL Data Tools in VS 2008: Rick Strahl talks about some of the new database schema comparison, data comparison and SQL Refactoring features within Visual Studio 2008. Open Folder in Windows Explorer in Visual Studio: Rick Strahl blogs about a small but cool feature addition to VS 2008 that enables you to easily open a Windows explorer view of a folder inside a VS 2008 project.  Also make sure to check out Bobby DeRosa's "Explore in Windows" Add-In for Visual Studio 2005 that you can download to enable this with VS 2005 today. Multithreaded Debugging Features in VS 2008: John Robbins has a nice blog post that describes some of the new multi-threading debugger features in VS 2008. Silverlight Recreating ITunes in Silverlight: Jose Fajardo has an absolutely fantastic blog with a ton of Silverlight content on it.  One of the projects he has been working on has been recreating Apple's ITunes Media Player using Silverlight.  Check out his multi-part blog series that discusses step-by-step how he built it.  Absolutely brilliant. New Halo3 Video using Silverlight: The new Halo3 preview video was recently posted to the web - using Silverlight 1.0 to build a custom viewer and stream a HD version of it.  Click here for a lower resolution version if you are on a slow network. Sudoku for Silverlight: David Anson has built a cool online sample using Silverlight that helps you play the popular Sudoku game.  Useful for both Sudoku addicts and developers wanting to learn Silverlight.   Font Embedding and RSS data in Silverlight: Tim Heuer has a cool blog post that shows how you can create your own font-type and embed it within your Silverlight 1.0 application.  He then has his application retrieve dynamic content from an RSS feed and use the custom font to display it.  You can run the finished application online here (all of the text here is dynamic - not a screen-shot). Silverlight Drag and Drop JavaScript Framework: Roberto Hernandez-Pou has a nice article and sample that describes how to implement a drag/drop mechanism for Silverlight 1.0 (using JavaScript).  This article is in both Spanish and English - scroll down if you are looking for the English version. Pascal Support for Silverlight: RemObjects Software now has a project template for VS 2008 that enables you to write Silverlight 1.1 .NET applications using Pascal.  It is kinda wild to see a screenshot of FireFox on the Mac, running a Silverlight application, written with a Pascal code-behind file built with VS 2008.  .NET Scott Hanselman's 2007 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows: This blog post is definitely one to bookmark.  It contains literally hundreds of great pointers to cool productivity savers for .NET developers.  BTW - Scott Hanselman officially joins my team within Microsoft next week.  Woohoo! LLBLGen Pro V2.5 released: Last week Frans Bouma released the latest version of LLBLGen Pro, which is an excellent ORM implementation for .NET.  New features include richer auditing, authorization, and dependency injection support. IronLisp: A new codeplex project has recently started that provides the beginnings of a LISP implementation for .NET which is built using the new DLR (dynamic language runtime) framework for .NET.  Earlier this month I was thinking to myself "I really need to spend some time using LISP or Scheme".  Now I can do it on .NET.  Sweet. Hope this helps, Scott Posted Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:40 AM from ScottGu's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: .NET, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, Community News, Silverlight, Link Listing