Manuel Abadia's ASP.NET stuff - ASP.NET

In this post I explain how to overcome the 2 big limitations when you bind data to a DropDownList: binding multiple properties and nested properties

A way to optimize ASP.NET web applications in order to improve search engine's ranking.

I have added a couple of enhancements to Josh Twist’s XHTML validation module.

An important update to my NHibernate custom membership and role providers...

My review of the NDepend tool.

A sample of how to use the Selenium tools to perform automatic web testing with C#.

Patents can be a source of information some times that can be difficult to find in other places...

Some challenges I had to face to be able to keep up with the growing of the business.

A fix for the infamous XHTML bug in the TreeView of ASP.NET 2.0

An update to my NHibernate Custome Membership and Role Provider with some bug fixes, a CreateUserWizardEx control and autounlocking.

Some great books I'm recommending.

Build providers do not work for web application projects and there is nothing showing that they will be fixed soon.

This is the first post on a series about the subtle differences between Web Application Projects and Web Site Projects in ASP.NET

The Parameter class is extensible, but adding a new parameter is a big problem in design time, because the parameter collection editor is not extensible... grrr

Some compatibility problems of Telerik's RADGrid and my ExtendedObjectDataSource control. Telerik told it was my fault and I blamed Telerik.

I have updated my Membership and Role provider that use NHibernate for data access. The changes are minimal. Now I'm using NHibernate 1.2.0 GA and a minor fix. The instructions and the code can be found here

This will be my last post until I return from London. Excuse me if I'm unable to reply to non critical emails in the next few days.

A detailed explanation of the problems to use a GridView with DataSourceControls when using read only properties.

A rant about the policies that Microsoft is applying when fixing bugs in the .NET Framewok and Visual studio.

Detailed information about how the ScriptModule works.

Detailed information about how the ScriptResourceHandler works.

Custom Membership and role providers for ASP.NET that can be used to store the membership and role data in your own tables using NHibernate.

I blog about the inconsistencies in the API for generic methods, the lack of support of the ObjectDataSource for generic methods and the problems surfaced when adding full generics support to my CompatObjectDataSource/ExtendedObjectDataSource components.

Some internal details of the generation of client side proxies to call web services for the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX extensions.

Some notes about the internals of the Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX extensions.

I explain how to use Generic Types with the ObjectDataSource and how to solve the problem to reference a type in the dynamically generated App_Code assembly.

Finally the ASP.NET AJAX Library (previouly named Atlas) has been officially released, and it comes with full source code!

Another year ends and a new one comes. Life goes as fast as usual and we’re keep on our way. It’s time to think about it… our actions, hopes, wishes, mistakes, etc.

I usually listen to a special song a few minutes after the start of the year. In the last few years I have been choosing "Aerosmith – Full Circle" because it has special connotations for me.

I wish you the best in the coming year.

My first impressions with the December CTP of WPF/E.

I'm playing with DebuggerVisualizers in order to add support for displaying trees to simplify debugging of complex algorithms based on trees.

Visual Studio.NET 2005 has a really cool feature called debugger visualizers. I provide an introduction to this feature and I talk about a set of debugger visualizers I created for the .NET data structures.

A long rant about the current incompatibilities between browsers and the CSS specification.

This posts completes the Microsoft AJAX library OOP enhancements, giving a lot of information that will be needed to fully understand the following posts about Components and Controls, Binding, Actions, the Runtime infrastructure, xml-script and more.

The health monitoring system is a cool new feature of ASP.NET 2.0. This post can help you to understand what is it, how to configure most of it and hopefully you'll end up using it in your applications.

Finally I have started to look at the Microsoft AJAX Library (Atlas).

This post is an indepth look at the OOP features of Atlas with a lot of internal details of the implementation.

I was going to start posting about Atlas, but as you have probably read here, now Atlas has a new name and the next version will have some changes to reflect the new product name.

I think it is better to wait for a few days to see if a new Atlas version gets released in order to create samples that work with the latest version. If the next version does not get released soon I'll start posting about atlas anyway so stay tunned.

NDoc was the de facto standard to create documentation for .NET but it has been discontinued.

Finally Microsoft has created the SandCastle project to provide a decent documentation tool for .NET developers.

I have been reading some books about business intelligence and I give my opinion about them.

I'm going on vacation until the end of august.

I'll be here and here most of the time.

Unfortunately I don't have internet access available but I'll be checking my email from time to time.

Of course I take a computer with me so I'll be learning something new this holidays (maybe Atlas or SSIS).

If you can understand portuguese I recommend you to take a look at Luis Abreu's webcasts about Atlas.

Have a nice month