AJAX has been very popular over the past few years, but I've seen it primarily used by developers to reduce page refreshes and to do background data-loading.  Both of these uses are great uses of the technology, but one of the features that I like the best is the ability to do Drag-and-Drop functions.  Users have gotten accustom to this ...

I just came upon a great little add-on for Visual Studio 2005/2008 by Mikhail Arkhipov.  It's a spell checker for ASP.NET and HTML pages, meaning that it's smart enough to ignore the script and focus on the text for spell checking.  I haven't had a chance to use it yet, but I thought that I would share the find with you all.   ...

The MSDN folks have been releasing short "How to" videos over the past few months.  Recently they've released a series of "How Do I" Security videos for Developers of .NET Solutions.  They are nice and short and you can learn very simple things that you can do to make your .NET Applications (especially your web apps) ...

If you are like me, you hate hand editing HTML and XML!  But unfortunately, as a .NET Developer you often find yourself doing it, and if for no other reason, you have to do it for parts of the Web.Config and Application.Config files.    Well today, I finally got fed up and said to myself: "Self, there has to be a free/low cost ...

If you are an ASP.NET developer and have either Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 and want to learn how to build web applications using AJAX, then this is the site for you.  The Microsoft ASP.NET team has made available about 30 videos (ranging from 3 minutes to 30 minutes) that show to use most if not all of the ASP.NET AJAX ...

Visual Studio 2008 (and the .NET Framework 3.5) is set to release to manufacturing in a few weeks (November timeframe).  I've been working with it for about 6 months myself, and once you get pass the BETA ''issues'' it is a nice upgrade over Visual Studio 2005 in a variety of areas. I specifically like these news features: Multi-targeted ...

This is a nice (short) article that shows you how to integrate search; in this case: Live and SharePoint, but you could use similar code for ''Other'' very popular search engines, but I work for Microsoft so we won't discuss them. :)  It's got some sample code that you can download and customize for your use and a few useful screen ...

The fourth and most likely final (they take a lot of time to write) part of this workshop series tackles one of the most common questions that I run into with SharePoint developers.  The question revolves around creating, sending (via email), and handling tasks within SharePoint.  In this workshop, I build on the ''How-to'' knowledge ...

This question came up at the Public Sector Developer Conference in Anchorage, AK.  I'm trying to answer all customer questions like this via my blog so everyone has the benefit of the answer.  There are a number of ways to do it, but my favorite (because it so darn easy) is to use an ASP.NET AJAX control extender Dan Wahlin built.  ...

In Part 2 of this workshop series, I focused on how to allow Administrators to set the ''Default Behavior'' of a document workflow using the Association Form.  For this (Part 3) of the workshop series I will focus on how to prompt a normal (non-Administrator) user for information before the workflow starts.  This is done using a ...