Finally after a long beta phase the final version of DebugDiag 1.2 has been released. The Debug Diagnostic Tool (DebugDiag) is designed to assist in troubleshooting issues such as hangs, slow performance, memory leaks or fragmentation, and crashes...

Cross posting info about an important update for ASP.NET which will address an issue that affects all ASP.NET applications including SharePoint and MCMS. [cross post from Microsoft Security Response Center blog ] Today we provided advance notification...

ASP.NET webservices use XML 1.0 which restricts the character set allowed to the following chars: [2] Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] /* any Unicode character, excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and...

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (formerly known as Atlas) has been released. You can download it from here . If you would like to use it together with MCMS you should know this article .

Brief Description This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET™ 2003. Overview This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® .NET™ 2003. Fixes in this Service Pack concern stability and security...

As some of you might already heard of: Lim Mei Ying (MCMS MVP), Spencer Harber (MCMS MVP) and myself are currently working on a book that covers enhancing MCMS websites using ASP.NET 2.0 features. It will deal with all the glitches of properly installing...

[Via Somesegar ] ...we have decided to rename WinFX to the .NET Framework 3.0. .NET Framework 3.0 aptly identifies the technology for exactly what it is – the next version of our developer framework... Read more...

[Via Andrew Connell ] Now if this isn’t just damn cool!!! On this site you can add content to VS 2005 documentation topics and edit contributions from other users. Our goal is to extend the documentation with code examples, tips and tricks, and...

Andrew has compiled a nice list of version numbers and products to allow you to easily identify the patch level or your system. The list currently covers the following products: .NET framework SQL Server CMS SharePoint (WSS/SPS)

Tess explains in detail why you should not place a strong named assembly into the bin directory of your web application but have to place it into the GAC: ASP.NET: Strong named assemblies should not be stored in the bin directory A must read...

Tess explains in detail why you should never run a production site with debug enabled: ASP.NET Memory: If your application is in production… then why is debug=true A must read article!

A couple of customers reported problems when using the menu control with ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS. After analyzing one of the affected projects I identified that the reason for the problem is that the menu control seems to have a bug. It does not work...

[Via Spence ] With the recent release of Service Pack 2 for MCMS, it is now possible to take advantage of many ASP.NET 2.0 features within your MCMS applications. The ASP.NET 2.0 AdRotator control has been enhanced to allow for programatic population...

Usually I upload all my code samples to GotDotNet . Unfortunatelly since around 3 weeks I'm now unable to update my code samples or to upload new samples. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.

In the first part of this article I discussed how to implement a SiteMapProvider for an MCMS website. ASP.NET 2.0 ships with three new controls that can be used for site navigation: SiteMapPath Menu TreeView Problems with the TreeView...

This article replaces my earlier article about MCMS Navigation Providers which I have written while ASP.NET 2.0 was in Beta 2. After Beta 2 a couple of things have changed which prevent the earlier code from working properly with the final version of...

Breaking changes are changes in either the .NET Framework (runtime breaking changes) or Visual Studio (design/compile/project upgrade) that make certain application and development scenarios behave differently from the version 1.0 and 1.1 .NET Frameworks...

[Via Mark Harrison ] The November Community Technology Preview of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0 is now available to download .

MSDN subscibers around the world are now able to download and install any one of the retail versions of the Visual Studio family products from the MSDN subscriptions site. In additon the 32bit and 64bit versions of the .NET framework 2.0 and .NET framework...

[Via jhawk ] Kent Sharkey (who manages the ASP.NET Dev Center) says that the ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Model series of whitepapers are live on MSDN - 10 parts, 120 pages! The providers page at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/beta2/providers/default.aspx...

ASP.NET 2.0 makes it very easy to consume and display an RSS feed on an ASP.NET web site. Andrew Duthie demonstrates how to do this using a XmlDataSource control and a DataList bound control with a little XPath on Channel 9: http://channel9.msdn.com...

Mike Rousos has put together a great article series for the ASP.NET 2.0 tracing system. A must read for all ASP.NET 2.0 developers! A Tracing Primer - Part I Introduction Instantiating a TraceSource Adding Tracing Events Configuring...

ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidance Index http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/ASPNET2SecurityGuidanceIndex.asp?frame=true ASP.NET 2.0 Security Guidelines http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/PAGGuidelines0001.asp?frame=true...

J.D. Meier, Alex Mackman, Blaine Wastell, Prashant Bansode, Kishore Gopalan Microsoft Corporation August 2005 Security Guidance for .NET Framework 2.0 Summary This page explains the rationale behind the patterns & practices Security Guidance...

Todd has listed a couple of must have hotfixes for .NET framework 1.1 which should be applied to almost every web server running ASP.NET 1.1! http://blogs.msdn.com/toddca/archive/2005/08/23/455116.aspx

As all the sample code I have written is in C# a common question I receive in the newsgroup is how to convert this C# code to VB.NET. Here is a list of tools which allow to do this: C# to VB.NET conversion: http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/CodeTranslator...

[Via Mark Bower ] Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate is now available for download from the MSDN subscriber download site. The build is compatible with the September CTP of SQL Server. Both of these builds have been handed out to PDC attendees in...

I just found a really nice document on Security Practices for ASP.NET 2.0. Just have a look at the Index of practices to see how much good stuff these people have put together! Security Practices: ASP.NET 2.0 Security Practices at a Glance J.D. Meier...

[Via Mark Harrison ] In response to strong customer demand telerik has added two great new products to the r.a.d.controls suite - r.a.d.callback and r.a.d.dock. r.a.d.callback is a suite of AJAX-enabled UI controls, which allow you to update page...

The provider model is used throughout ASP.NET 2.0. It is a means of writing each of the technologies used so that new versions can easily be created and plugged in. For example, if you need to access a different database or authentication server, you...

Fritz Onion will be doing a web cast series introducing Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 to developers who are currently working with ASP.NET 1.1. During this 15-part series, learn the new features of this platform, which range from declarative data binding to storing...

As you convert your ASP.NET 1.x applications to the new ASP.NET 2.0 framework, you may encounter issues related to the changes introduced by the 2.0 framework. In this article, we will look at both the conversion process and some of the common issues...

In my previous article I explained what to do to get a read-only MCMS website working on ASP.NET 2.0. In this article I will go one step further and explain how to get a read-write MCMS website working with ASP.NET 2.0! First of all you need to ensure...

A couple of weeks ago I had the requirement to enable ASP.NET output caching programmatically rather than declarative using the <%@ OutputCache ... %> tag. I tried to follow the hints in the following KB: http://support.microsoft.com/default...

The .NET framework ships with a very flexible tracing feature provided through the Trace class in the System.Diagnostics namespace. Debug.Diagnostics.Trace.WriteLine("My Debug Output"); Whenever you need to write some debug output just use Trace...

Every developer or support engineer debugs applications at some stage in his or her career, yet debugging is often viewed as an arcane and difficult topic. While it is often difficult to determine why an application is hanging, leaking memory, or crashing...

[Via Milan Negovan ] Ever deployed a “debug” ASP.NET into production? Then, you might want to review this excellent article . A recommended reading for everyone building ASP.NET based web sites - including ASP.NET based MCMS sites.

Michael Graham has written a great article about quick troubleshooting for high memory ASP.NET issues: The only point I don't agree with - in context with MCMS - is about process recylcling. For MCMS it is very bad if the worker process gets recycled...