Yesterday (Leap Day), the Ajax Control Toolkit team released an update to the toolkit.  This release comes in two flavors, one for the 3.5 framework (which has AJAX baked into ASP.NET 3.5) and one for the AJAX 1.0 release that is an add-on to ASP.NET.  As always you can run through the live demos of the controls here.  This release ...

ASPAlliance SimpleCMS plugin is now available on CodePlex.  You can use CodePlex to submit your feature requests and such now, which will help guide future releases of the plugin.  Also, if you're interested in contributing to the project, let us know.  You'll find SimpleCms here now.

I'm in Vegas a few days early (before DevConnections) to attend DevExpress's TechSummit2007, where they've invited a bunch of MVPs, authors, speakers, etc. to come and learn more about their controls and tools.  Yesterday we saw some of what they're working toward in the WPF space, with some charts and grids that are not quite ...

 CyScape recently announced the latest version of their browser capabilities control, BrowserHawk 11.  While I haven't had a chance to review this new product yet, it touts some new features that at least appear to be pretty compelling.  I use BrowserHawk and CountryHawk for LakeQuincy's advertising solution, AdSignia, to ...

We have a new intern starting with us at Lake Quincy Media today, and in the course of getting him set up, I thought I would mention of a few products we're using that work quite well for us here.  The first one relates to training new interns with limited real world programming experience (Kent State University doesn't do us any favors here ...

Nikhil has updated his WebDevHelper utility to include direct support for Atlas.  His original WebDevHelper is a nice plug-in for the browser that provides a lot of similar functionality to the FireFox development toolbar combined with the Fiddler utility.  His new update includes some nice parsing features that make it much easier to ...

I’ve been interested in plug-in applications for ASP.NET for a while now.  I think it can be a very powerful way to quickly add new functionality to an existing site without significant rework of the site being extended.  The architecture that makes this possible is the HttpHandler and HttpModule combination that, in fact, is what ...

Frans announced yesterday that LLBLGen 2.0 has been released!  I’ve been using LLBLGen happily for several years now.  It is a very solid ORM tool and I’m looking forward to using the new version going forward.  You can read a list of new features and enhancements here.  If you haven’t used LLBLGen before, I ...

Ambrose posted about the ASP.NET Sandbox yesterday (which I saw in my daily DotNetSlackers new email), which prompted me to have another look at it.  Read Ambrose’s post first – he gives a nice overview of what’s there. The list includes some projects that have had big press, like Web Application Projects and Web Deployment ...

I really love charts and statistics.  Give me a decent reporting application and I can spend all kinds of time analyzing data this way and that, looking for trends.  The problem is, usually you have to have a separate reporting interface, away from your main application, which limits its usability.  One reason for this is that ...