I was surprised and happy to receive notification of being awarded the MVP for ASP.NET 2.0. During the past 18 months, I’ve spent a lot of time both learning the technology as well as being involved in the community that it supports.

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A question that frequently comes up in the asp.net forums is how to have a gridview show the the last record added highlighted. This articles gives a technique for doing this. It only works with SqlServer but could could be modified for other databases.

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In this article we will demonstrate a technique used to automatically add Wiki Pages to PBWiki using the not quite released API provided by the peanut butter guys. The demonstration will involve integrating scheduled presentations at our Silicon Valley Code Camp on October 7th and 8th each with its own Wiki Page. Without the API, creating and linking the presentation to a Wiki page would have to be an ugly manual process involving the dreaded cut and pasting of URL’s.

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This article will compare the difference between rendering images using an HttpHandler and IIS. It will show the different request processing times for a small, medium and large bmp file. It also discusses using the DefaultHttpHandler.

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It’s Monday, August 21st, we have our CodeCamp scheduled for October 7th and 8th in Los Altos California and we realize we need to have our web site to sign up and running yesterday! For those of you who don’t know what a codecamp is, basically, it’s a developer to developer weekend meeting where high quality presentations are given to an audience of enthusiastic developers. Typically, 30 or 40 speakers running simultanious presentations to 300 or so attendees. Codecamps are all Volunteer, all free, and always on a weekend. So, our web site needs to allow sign ups for speakers and their presentations, attendess to let us know they are coming, provide information about the Venue as well as ultimately provide scheduling information about classes. Most importantly, it needs to do it with style and pizazz.

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Inserting Programmatically with ObjectDataSource ASP.NET 2.0 ( ObjectDataSource1.Insert(); )   ObjectDataSource’s are great for building your own middle tier between your aspx web page and your database (or any other datastore for that matter). By binding the datasource to a databound server control like detailsview, you auto-magically get the insert behavior you are looking for. If however, you [...]

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Membership Editor Works With Atlas March Community Technology Preview IE and Firefox! In two previous postings I used the January version of Atlas. At MIX06, Microsoft released the next version which is known as the

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Two Articles on ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Published in MSDN. (Both can be viewed at this blog)

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