ASP.NET

For some time now, Microsoft use the UserVoice platform for gathering feedbacks from some of their products, which mostly target developers. UserVoice is really good for that task and its looks even better than Connect for feedback, which is still use for bugs and technical issues. But I don’t they are any list detailing theses site. So here’s my short list, and if you found one, let me know!

• ASP.Net
• Expression Encoder
• Expression Super Preview
• Expression Web
• Microsoft Advertising
• Silverlight
• Visual Studio
• WCF RIA Services (Thanks Colin!)
• Windows Phone (Users)
• Windows Phone (Developers) and the WP7 application for this site
• Windows Phone Interoperability

As I previously highlighted, an ASP.Net vulnerability can be exploited by malicious individuals. Here is a demo exploiting it on the DotNetNuke platform.

For all those who have ASP.Net sites, all versions included, please pay special attention to this security issue: details on this entry from ScottGu.

The 0.5 beta version of the Orchard project has just been released. Here are 4 points that I really like about this engine:

1. ASP.Net MVC
2. Allows multiple Wikis under the same site
3. Management of static pages
4. AND ABOVE ALL, the ability to translate posts and pages into different languages!! Which is quite rare in this field.

You can download the source code or simply install it with WebPI

VS2010 is now available (Trial, Express and for MSDN subscribers). Scott Hanselman has written an excellent article summarizing all the new features of this new version, now it’s your turn to play!

Rick Strahl saved my day with his post “Making sense of ASP.NET Path” especially the following line:

<script src="<%= Url.Content("~/scripts/new.js") %>" type="text/javascript"></script>

The Orchard Project can now be installed via the Web Platform Installer (WebPI). Just follow the instructions!!

The source files are still available on CodePlex.

The Orchard Project aims to create an application and reusable components using ASP.NET. Additionally, in the short term, it will provide a CMS application based on .NET.

Having tested it several times, it seems very promising, but still too immature to consider using it as my Blog engine. But we’ll see….

The source code is available on CodePlex

If you ever use the Oracle ODP.Net component with SqlDataSource and get the ORA-01036 Illegal variable name/number error, it is mainly due to the fact that your number of parameters does not match the number in your Insert, Update, or Delete query. I had this problem using a ComposedKey with the ASPxDataGridView from DevExpress. You need to remove the ComposedKey field before executing the query.

Here is the conversation on ASP.Net that helped me resolve this issue.