ASP.NET Hosting Tutorial Set Completed

   Follow me on Twitter:   Doug Caverly   July 2nd, 2009

These days, when you buy almost anything, a set of instructions comes included.  The “How To” threads are usually stickied at the tops of Internet forums.  And the “Self Help” sections of most book stores are pretty big.  So it may interest ASP.NET professionals to know that the final six installments of a tutorial set are now available.

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ASP.NET Performance Optimization Automation

   Follow me on Twitter:   Mads Kristensen   June 19th, 2009

I’ve been working lately with some ASP.NET performance optimization automation HTTP modules. In one of them I needed to know if the last-modified header had been set through the Response.Cache.SetLastModified(DateTime) method.

For some reason, there is no API available anywhere within the BCL to retrieve the last modified date of a response - you can only set it.

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Block The IIS SEO Toolkit Through ASP

   Follow me on Twitter:   Ross Dunn   June 5th, 2009

I was just reading more about the IIS SEO Toolkit when I came across the following interesting tutorial on how to block competitors from running the IIS SEO Toolkit on your servers.

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Understanding The Fundamentals Of ASP Developers

   Follow me on Twitter:   Mads Kristensen   May 22nd, 2009

In the past 6 months I’ve been involved in hiring a lot of ASP.NET developers. It was very interesting to learn just how different skill sets ASP.NET developers have. It also made it more and more clear that every developer we talked to would fit into one of three categories:

  • The web developer
  • The developer who build websites
  • The ASP.NET super hero

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Using ASP.Net As A Database

   Follow me on Twitter:   Mads Kristensen   May 15th, 2009

I have a very clear view on what ASP.NET is and what it isn’t. I’ve never given it much thought until recently when I learned that my view was different from a lot of other ASP.NET developers’. It started at an ASP.NET session at the MVP summit where a presenter asked whether or not people in the audience used the Entity Framework or Linq2Sql.

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Optimizing Your Site For Mobile Devices With ASP

   Follow me on Twitter:   Mads Kristensen   May 1st, 2009

When I was building the mobile TV guide I found that there are a couple of things needed to make the website look better on the iPhone and iPod. They both have some extra capabilities that is easy to utilize when you know how.

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Learning The Ins And Outs Of ASP

   Follow me on Twitter:   Shabbir Bhimani   April 10th, 2009

ASP contains text, HTML tags and different scripts. These scripts in an ASP file are executed on the server.Before learning ASP one should have knowledge of VBscript or Java script.ASP means Active Server Pages and this pages runs on Internet Information Services .ASP file is the same as HTML file it contains HTML, XML, and scripts and these scripts are executed on server.ASP files are saved with extension.asp.

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DotMobi Invites Developers To Test DeviceAtlas

   Follow me on Twitter:   Doug Caverly   March 20th, 2009

Developers who build sites with Microsoft ASP.NET got a nod from dotMobi this week. The Dublin-based company gave a sort of late St. Patrick’s day present as it moved forward with the latest version of its DeviceAtlas mobile device database and invited people to join the beta trials.

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Omniture Developer Connection Announced For ASP

   Follow me on Twitter:   Manoj Jasra   February 27th, 2009

Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), announced the launch of Omniture Developer Connection, available to customers and partners at developer.omniture.com, a place for developers to connect, collaborate and innovate as a community to deliver the next generation of online marketing applications

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How To Choose WebForms Or MVC To Build Your ASP.NET Sites

   Follow me on Twitter:   Mads Kristensen   February 13th, 2009

I’ve read a lot of posts and articles about why and when you should choose WebForms or the MVC framework to build your ASP.NET websites. They are all pretty good, but for some reason they forget or ignore the obvious third option - standard ASP.NET without the WebForm.

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