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Velocity Podcast by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Want to learn more about Microsoft Velocity and how this distributed caching system can improve your web applications? Then you'd better check out the new Velocity podcast at ASP.NET Podcast. You can download the MP3 at http://www.aspnetpodcast.com...

Known Issues with Service Pack 1 in ASP.NET 3.5 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Scott Galloway from the Microsoft DevDiv team has posted a couple of known issues with Service Pack 1 in ASP.NET 3.5 on the ASP.NET forums at http://forums.asp.net/t/1305800.aspx . The issues he currently has on the post are: Issue:  The HtmlForm...

Use LINQ to XML to Generate Excel Documents by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I was looking for a quick and easy solution to export data from SQL into an Excel format from within my ASP.NET application. I came across a great video posted by Beth Massi on the asp.net website (Video #7 at the bottom at http://www.asp.net/learn/linq...

ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Formerly "ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions") Released by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, which was formerly called the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions, has been released. The NetFX update was available as part of the SQL Server 2008 download available on Friday. Now it is available as a separate download. There are quite...

Known Postback Issue with AJAX Controls by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I came across a postback issue while using the CascadingDropDown AJAX control. I had a web page with 3 DropDownList controls. The data for these controls was populated from the CascadingDropDown which would bind the data at runtime. The issue with this...
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Tip: Set the SelectedValue on a DropDownList that is populated by a CascadingDropDown by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

When using a DropDownList, you can set the selected item by using the SelectedIndex property. However, if your DropDownList is being populated by the CascadingDropDown control (from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit), that doesn't work. Instead, you...
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Need "Out of the Box" AJAX Functionality for Your Data Controls? by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I've been using the Ajax Data Controls (ADC) for 9 months. I recently joined their development team to convert the controls to VS 2008/.NET 3.5. It's a really cool control set that uses AJAX for the complete data transaction. The documentation...
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AjaxDataControls DLL for ASP.NET 3.5 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

The AjaxDataControls that have been developed by the DotNetSlackers team have been out for some time now. They were originally developed using the AJAX 1.0 libraries (pre 3.5 days). I've recently encountered some issues where they don't seem to...
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Adding QueryString Parameters to the SiteMapNode by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

There is no way to add querystring parameters to the SiteMapNode in a SiteMap control "out of the box." I'm quite surprised there is no option but luckily the SiteMap uses the provider model. After a Live search, I was able to find a solution...
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Retrieving SQL Type Image Using LINQ by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

LINQ views the Image type in SQL Server as Binary. So, there are a few options that we have. We can either (a) modify our LINQ to SQL class and change the property to Byte() instead of Binary or we can (b) convert the Binary to an array. To do the latter...
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Announced by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Scott Guthrie just posted about the 3rd preview of the ASP.NET MVC over on his blog. You can catch the full details here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/27/asp-net-mvc-preview-3-release.aspx . Read More...
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Using LINQ to SQL and ConnectionStrings in a Class Library by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I was looking to separate my LINQ to SQL data layer from the rest of my application. So, I decided to move the files to a class library. This way, when my application builds, all of my LINQ files are found in MyApp.DL or something similar. However, I...
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VS 2008 and .NET FX 3.5 SP1 Beta Available Now by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Soma just posted that SP1 for VS 2008 and .NET 3.5 is available. The full blog post on his site is at http://snurl.com/28i1z . Read More...
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Need To Set Bounds for onscroll to Work by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Sonu Kapoor over at DotNetSlackers.com has, not only a great site, but also some great AJAX controls. He's always looking to improve his controls and today he stumbled across something. He was working on a prototype where he had a div nested inside...
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Allowing a Server Control to Contain Custom Child Collection by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I've probably done this at least a dozen times, but when you don't do something everyday, you tend to forget. I created a custom control that I wanted to place into a control collection. So, I created the child control as a custom server control...
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IIS Stack in Windows Server 2003+ by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Apparently the IIS stack has changed in Server 2003. I've never noticed any issues with my ASP.NET apps, but in case you do, here's the full post: http://blogs.msdn.com/tom/archive/2008/03/31/stack-sizes-in-iis-affects-asp-net.aspx . Read More...
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API Libraries for Popular Web Applications by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Scott Hanselman just posted a really good collection of the APIs for many popular web applications such as DIGG, Twitter, Live Services, etc. You can read Scott's full posting by clicking here . Read More...
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Lightbulb: How to add a Custom Class to ViewState by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I was building a page today that allows an admin to do some configuration and doesn't save anything back to the server until the admin chooses. I could have used XML or a temporary SQL table, but I choose ViewState for now. I continually received...
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Lightbulb: How To Access the Item's Index in a DataList or Repeater by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Like every other day, I'm blowing through some really complex code trying to create hacks to get around difficult issues. Then, a road block. I have a mind freeze and oops, I forgot what the issue is. I had that earlier today when I forgot how to...
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Using Older AJAX Controls in Visual Studio 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I've been testing the DotNetSlackers' AJAX Data Controls for a little bit and they're definately cool. I ran into an issue, however, when trying to build an app with one of the controls in Visual Studio 2008 (.NET Framework 3.5). The assembly...
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