"Spotlight" - Microsoft’s official website www.asp.net

I am happy to inform that one of my article "Beginner’s Guide: How IIS Process ASP.NET Request" published at DotNetFunda.Com has been featured at Microsoft's official website www.asp.net as Spotlight .

This article has also been selected as "Article of the day" at asp.net site few weeks back. This time I am quite excited to see  the article in Spotlight section.

Thanks to DotNetFunda and Thanks to all of you for your good wishes.
You can read all of my article here

“Article of the day” @ Microsoft’s official website www.asp.net

It's great to see one of my another article "Beginner’s Guide: How IIS Process ASP.NET Request" has been selected as “Articles of the Day” in Microsoft’s official Web sitesite  asp.net . It’s always great to see any article as “Article of The Day” in asp.net site.

This article describes how IIS process any incoming ASP.NET request. This also described diiferent level of IIS, Application Pool, Worker Process and also how request flows from different HTTPModule, HTTPHanlder and finally starts the Page Lifecycle.

I have represent this articles with many diagrams, so it can helps beginners to learn and remember easily.

You can find complete article in DotNetFunda.com .

Visual Studio 2010 - Launch Date - Today

Finally the day has come. 12^th April(Today) is the launch date of .NET Framework 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010. VS 2010 Beta 1 was launched on 18^th may 2009. After five months Microsoft launched VS 2010 Beta-2 on 21^st October 2009.  Microsoft released the Release candidate (RC) Version of VS 2010 on 10th Feb 2010. Now, finally 12^th April -2010 is going to be biggest day for .NET world as Visual Studio 2010 launching today.

Visual studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 came up with many new features for next generation developers. Below are the few lists of features that are available with VS 2010

Visual Studio 2010 IDE and .NET Framework 4.0

• Call Hierarchy of methods


• A New Quick Search


• Multi-targeting


• Multi-Monitor


• Parallel Programming


• Visual Debugging


• XSLT Profiling and Debugging


• The XSD Designer


• Code Navigation in Class Files


• Code Identifier Highlighting

New ASP.NET features

• Static IDs for ASP.NET Controls


• Web.config transformation


• URL Routing and SEO


• Compressing Session Values


• MetaKeyword and MetaDescription


• Generating Client IDs


• Permanent Redirect

New C# features

• Dynamic Types


• Optional parameters


• Named and Optional Arguments

This are only few list of features, there are many more features available.  Over couple of months I came across many good articles on  Visual studio 2010 and .NET 4.0. Below are few of them. It may help many of guys who are just start working with VS 2010 or Thinking for start with

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/net/Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-4-IDE-Enhancements-Part1.aspx

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/net/Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-4-IDE-Enhancements-Part2.aspx

http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/net/Visual-Studio-2010-and-NET-Framework-4-IDE-Enhancements-Part3.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/30/cleaner-html-markup-with-asp-net-4-web-forms-client-ids-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/13/url-routing-with-asp-net-4-web-forms-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/29/add-reference-dialog-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/22/vs-2010-code-intellisense-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/05/asp-net-4-seo-improvements-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/01/27/extensible-output-caching-with-asp-net-4-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx

http://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNET/284_New_Features_in_ASPNet_40-PART_1.aspx

http://www.codedigest.com/Articles/ASPNET/285_New_Features_in_ASPNet_40-PART_1.aspx

http://www.asp.net/LEARN/whitepapers/aspnet4/

http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article815-whats-new-in-visual-studio-2010-.aspx

“Article of the day” @ Microsoft’s official website www.asp.net

Today morning I came across one news that,  my another article  “Filter GridView Records using AJAX Slider Control” has been selected as “Articles of the Day” in Microsoft’s official Web sitesite  asp.net . It's always great to see any article as "Article of The Day" in asp.net site.

This article shows, how to sort the gridview content using AJAX Slider control.

You can find complete article in DotNetFunda.com .