http://aspalliance.com/ Recent articles on AspAlliance.com. This is the first in a series of articles that will develop an ASP.NET application that uses the Entity Framework 4. This article will demonstrate how to use Visual Studio 2010 and the Entity Framework 4 to create a database in a step-by-step approach. The database created in this article will then be used in future articles to demonstrate how to add, update, delete, and select records using the Entity Framework. http://aspalliance.com/1912_ASPNET_40_and_the_Entity_Framework_4__Part_1__Create_a_Database_using_ModelFirst_Development Vince Varallo Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT A few weeks ago, I was working on an ASP.NET web application and needed a simple horizontal menu with a submenu. I decided to use ASP.NET's Menu control: Just drag and drop the control on to the page. Simple enough, but the control did not provide access key and target window support on menu items. I have put together a tutorial on how to include an access key attribute, include a target attribute, and include a site map path. http://aspalliance.com/1916_ASPNET_Horizontal_Menu_Control Bryian Tan Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT There are many products available for creating directory style web sites, but web masters prefer simple ones that contain features relevant to them. In this review, Anand puts the Pro version of qlWebDS software to the test. He examines the various features and provides suggestions for improving the quality of the product. http://aspalliance.com/1911_Product_Review_qlWebDS_Pro Anand Narayanaswamy Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Solution to Asp.net theme conflict with FCKEditor http://aspalliance.com/1908_Solution_to_ASPnet_Theme_Conflict_with_FCKEditor shahriar Iqbal Chowdhury Wed, 20 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT Recently, I was working on a Silverlight application and one of the pages contained a graphic. One of the requirements was that the graphic should contain clickable regions (Hotspots) and display a dynamic navigation menu when clicked on. An image that contains one or more Hotspots or clickable areas is called an image map. I have put together a simple tutorial on how to get this done. http://aspalliance.com/1913_Silverlight__Creating_Image_Map_with_Hotspots Bryian Tan Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT In this article, the author discusses the client-centric approach for AJAX using the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit. In general, server-centric (use of Update panel) is very popular in this field. But when it comes to performance, the client-centric approach is preferred. Sandeep also demonstrates how to call a webservice using javascript. http://aspalliance.com/1909_Client_Centric_Approach_of_AJAX_using_Toolkit Sandeep Acharya Tue, 12 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT In this article, Scott examines the usage of Strongly Typed Html Helpers included with ASP.NET MVC 2. He begins with a short description of the existing HTML Helper method in ASP.NET MVC 1 and discusses the new methods, providing screenshots and a detailed listing of these new methods. http://aspalliance.com/1915_ASPNET_MVC_2_Strongly_Typed_Html_Helpers_ Scott Guthrie Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT In this article, Scott examines some of the improvements being made around Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4. After a brief introduction to SEO Toolkit, he delves deep into the usage of the Page.MetaKeywords and Page.MetaDescription properties and the Response.RedirectPermanent() method. He also gets into URL Routing with ASP.NET Web Forms. http://aspalliance.com/1914_ASPNET_4_SEO_Improvements_VS_2010_and_NET_40_Series_ Scott Guthrie Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT For the past few years, image sliders, slide-shows, and ad rotator scripts have become increasingly popular for web pages. There are thousands of these scripts on the Web but is difficult to find one that can fit your requirements. Ideally, you would want a script that is flexible enough for to use as an ad rotator, for slide-shows, or for image rotators with navigation controls and extract the slides information from XML file. After spending some time researching for it, I found the jQuery based slideshow with navigation controls from Dynamic Drive and the article reading-xml-with-jquery. I have put together a step by step tutorial on how I have accomplished this. http://aspalliance.com/1900_ASPNET_Slideshow_Control_with_jQuery_and_XML Bryian Tan Tue, 05 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMT In this article, Scott provides a basic introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit recently released by Microsoft. He outlines the usage of the toolkit and then demonstrates the functionality. Towards the end of the article, he provides the steps required to download and install the kit along with relevant links for further learning. http://aspalliance.com/1910_Search_Engine_Optimization_SEO_Toolkit_ Scott Guthrie Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMT