Thursday, February 15, 2007

Community Server Quickly: The Perfect Community Server Guide

csq.png Anand
has contributed a very clear and straightforward guide to bring Community Server, a powerful solution
for online communities to audience having no prior experience or knowledge about
system administration or ASP.NET. Community
Server is a powerful and an award-winning solution for online communities built
on Microsoft’s .NET Platform and is the most trusted solution for many companies
including Microsoft, Dell, Conde Nast and Match.com.

This book is a perfect
guide for people who want to get started with their own online community website
and manage it without having any prior experience. This book covers most of the
fundamentals about Community Server, brief and detailed information about its
features and a step-by-step guide to installation, administration,
customization, and deployment of Community Server. So if you are looking for
quick start guide to start off with your very own community website then this
book is for you.



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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Cool ASP.NET AJAX Goodies

The ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Documentation is available for download and can now be easily downloaded for offline usage and Nikhil has updated his cool UpdateHistory Control for the final version of ASP.NET AJAX. This allows developers to add history entries
to the browser's navigation stack selectively for some post-backs.

The package contains the following controls, which includes the initial release of a couple of new controls.

UpdateHistory
This is a non-visual control that allows you to add history entries
to the browser's navigation stack selectively for some post-backs, and
not for some others. This helps fix the back button to make it work,
and allows you to implement Ajax patterns such as "logical navigation"
and unique URLs.
StyledUpdatePanel
A simple derived UpdatePanel that adds CSS class semantics. A
simple addition, but a useful feature, nevertheless, that didn't make
the feature cut.
AnimatedUpdatePanel
Another derived UpdatePanel that displays new content using a
variety of animations or effects: slides, wipes, cross-fades as well as
a visual highlight. This allows you to implement the "visual
notification" Ajax patterns such as the one second spotlight and one second mutation.

Downloads: Binaries, samples and source code | Video on Channel9