New Book: Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference

Dino Esposito's latest book Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference is here! The 800-page book covers fundamentals of ASP.NET which include pages, controls, security, data binding, data source controls, caching, state management, intrinsics, a bit of internals, themes, profile, and ADO.NET.

Dino has revealed that he is currently writing the second volume of the book which will feature more advanced topics. Read his blog post here.

• Buy Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference (Paperback)

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FreeTextBox 3.1.1 Now Includes ASP.NET 2.0 Version

Creator of FreeTextBox (a popular ASP.NET HTML Editor), John Dyer has announced the release of FreeTextBox 3.1.1.  Besides bug fixes, native ASP.NET 2.0 version is now included.

• Download FreeTextBox 3.1.1
• Read Change Log

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NDoc for .NET 2.0

Jonas Lagerblad has posted an improved .NET 2.0 port of NDoc 1.3.1 to generate decent output for the MSDN and MSDN2 documenters.  There is C# generics output support but Jonas did hint that there is still room for enhancement. Do check it out!

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Just Out: NUnit 2.2.3

NUnit team member Charlie Poole recently announced the release of NUnit 2.2.3 unit-testing framework.  With this release, NUnit can now be installed and run under .NET 2.0 and used in conjunction with Visual Studio 2005.

Read the release notes at:
http://nunit.com/testweb/index.php?p=releaseNotes&r=2.2.3

Download NUnit from:
http://nunit.sf.net/  (SourceForge)

Related:
To learn concepts and techniques on test-driven development for .NET, get this book:
Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET by James W. Newkirk and Alexei A. Vorontsov

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Featured ASP.NET 2.0 Site: EventMingle.com

Built entirely using the ASP.NET 2.0 platform and Visual Studio 2005, EventMingle.com is a social networking service covering the trade show/conference space.

Software developer, Scott Hunter wants to know what you think of this site. Check it out!

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Debug And Release Builds in ASP.NET 2.0

Some of you must have been wondering why is there only "Debug" build for web projects in Visual Studio 2005. Scott Allen has a nice post on how debug and release builds work in ASP.NET 2.0.  Points to take home are that VS 2005 knows nothing about compiling a web application and that the ASP.NET platform takes care of the compilation responsibility now.

Scott also described how the new Web Deployment Projects changes the build scenarios for VS 2005.

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Here Comes GridViewGirl.com!

DataGrid Girl Marcie Robillard makes a comeback...this time as GridView Girl! (GridViewGirl.com)

Back in the .NET 1.x days, Marcie rocked the .NET world with a distinctly pink-colored site focusing on the DataGrid.  The "upgrade" to GridViewGirl seems natural with the release of .NET 2.0.  Let's look forward to seeing fresh GridView resources from Marcie in her new site.

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Enterprise Library for .NET 2.0 - November CTP now available!

Early last week, Tom Hollander announced the availability of November CTP of Enterprise Library for .NET Framework 2.0. Two notable ommissions in this release were highlighted; in particular, the configuration tool and the Cryptography Application Block.  A December final release is expected.

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URL Mapper with Regular Expressions Support in ASP.NET 2.0

One of the things that limits the usefulness of the built-in URL Mapping feature in ASP.NET 2.0 is the fact that it does not support regular expressions. Scott Guthrie tells why such support did not make it into this release.

Meanwhile, Christopher Pietschmann has posted a URL mapping solution which provides regex support for ASP.NET 2.0.

If you are looking for URL mapping/rewriting solutions for ASP.NET 1.1, see HOW TO: Rewrite URL.

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