Firefox for ASP.NET 2.0 Developers Video Series

David Betz has released part 1 of the Firefox for ASP.NET 2.0 Developers Video Series.  The first part is titled Setting up your Firefox Development Environment.  Also, don't forget to catch the introductory video - Introduction to the Firefox Web Developer Series. The video links are available at:

http://davidbetz.net/winfx/2005/12/part-1-firefox-for-aspnet-20.aspx

Watch out for more cool videos from David in the next few weeks!

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December '05 Atlas CTP Released

The December 2005 Atlas CTP has been released.  Check out Nikhil's post on this release.  In his post, he outlined the focus of the December '05 release of Atlas CTP bits, and walked through the key integration points with ASP.NET server controls to enable incremental enrichment of ASP.NET server-centric applications with scenarios such as incremental page refreshes, auto-complete, draggable panels etc.

The Atlas CTP bits, updated quick starts, and guided walkthroughs are available at http://atlas.asp.net

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VS 2005 Web Application Project Preview Now Available

VS 2005 Web Application Project preview release is now available for download. 

The download is 0.5MB in size.  The preview installs on top of Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition or higher; it is not supported with Visual Web Developer.  As this is only a preview, don't expect it to be feature-complete. 

Scott Guthrie has put up a simple website (http://webproject.scottgu.com/) that provides more information about the new project model option as well as download information.  There is even a C# tutorial. VB.NET tutorial will go live within the next few days.

Check out Scott's blog post on this preview release.

[Read our earlier post on the new Web Application Project for VS 2005.]

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Community Server 2.0 Beta 2 Now Available

Community Server 2.0 Beta 2 is now available for download. Besides a web installer, Beta 2 also includes an MSI Windows Installer.

Check it out here!

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Disk-Based Output Caching Module for ASP.NET 2.0

Dmitry has released an HTTP Module that implements Disk Output Caching for ASP.NET 2.0.

With disk output caching, output can be preserved across application domains and process restarts without using memory for cached responses.  Response.TransmitFile API is used to send cached responses directly from disk.

Note that Dmitry's disk output cache module is not based on the feature from the beta releases of ASP.NET 2.0; it implements similar functionality though. 

Check out Dmitry's blog for download details.

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CSS Properties Window Add-in for Visual Studio 2005

A new "Sandbox" tab has been introduced on the www.asp.net site.  This tab provides an opportunity for the VS team members to ship personal projects to the public.  The first download of this new section is the CSS Properties Window (an add-in package for Visual Studio 2005).  Using the CSS Properties Window, web developers can do the following:

• Display in-line styles and styles inherited from <style> blocks and linked style sheets.
• Edit in-line styles and styles in linked style sheets. (The CSS Properties window displays styles from <style> blocks, but does not enable you to edit them.)
• Display drop-down lists of styles and values to help you create valid style definitions.
• Drag style settings between different elements and to and from a style sheet.
• Edit styles for multiple elements.

The author of the download is Barry Tang from the Microsoft VWD development team.  Thanks Barry!

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New Web Project Model Option Coming for VS 2005

Scott Guthrie revealed that a new web project model option (tentatively called "ASP.NET Web Projects") for Visual Studio 2005 will be available for download in the next few weeks.

"The goal with this new project-option is to address some of the feedback we’ve heard from people who are finding migrating existing apps to the new web-site project model in VS 2005 more work than they’d like to-do (especially because of the new web site build semantics of compiling a web project into multiple assemblies).  The new project-type will also help enable some scenarios that web-site projects don’t handle as well today (for example: around sub-web projects where the sub-project isn’t an app in the ASP.NET/IIS sense, but rather feeds its generated assembly to a parent app’s \bin directory to run).  It also provides a model that will feel very familiar/identical for people who don’t want to change how they structure their web projects from VS 2003 today (for example: using a project file, etc)." - ScottGu

This is certainly welcome news for some web developers out there.  To find out technical information on the new project option and release plans, check out ScottGu's blog post.

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Community Server 2.0 Shipping Schedule Revised

Scott Watermasysk has announced a revised shipping schedule for Community Server 2.0 to allow more time for fine tuning. Beta 2 is expected to appear mid December and RTM is around mid February 2006.

Full announcement: http://communityserver.org/forums/505124/ShowPost.aspx

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