Hi folks! I’m posting this from the PDC09 keynote where I’m listening to Don Box show off Azure !

For web developers, I prepared 30 “Quick Hit” videos on stuff that’s new in the latest wave for ASP.NET Develoeprs.

It’s far from a complete list, and they are not meant to be real tutorials (They are NOT How-Do-I videos).

Think of them as “feature previews” with more learning based material coming in the near fututr.

Here is a partial list.

Have fun

www.asp.net/learn

ASP.NET 4

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – New Rendering Option for Check Box Lists and Radio Button Lists

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Persistent GridView Row Selection

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Table Free Templated Controls

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Easy State Compression

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Tableless Menu Control

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Imperative JavaScript Syntax for Microsoft Client Side Controls

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – The ScriptLoader

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – jQuery Syntax for Microsoft Ajax

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – AJAX Data Templates

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Hidden Field Divs

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Disabled Control Styling

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Declarative WebForms Routing

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Outbound WebForms Routing

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Auto Start

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Clean Web.Config Files

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Predictable Client IDs

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Selective View State

ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – The HtmlEncoder Utility Method

 

VS2010

Visual Studio 2010 "Quick Hit" – Code Search View Hierarchy

Visual Studio 2010 "Quick Hit" – IntelliSense Smart Lists

Visual Studio 2010 "Quick Hit" – Multi-Monitor Support

Visual Studio 2010 "Quick Hit" – New Web Project Template

Visual Studio 2010 "Quick Hit" – New Multi-Targeting

Visual Studio 2010 "Quick Hit" – Websites Instead of Web Projects

Visual Studio 2010 "Quick Hit" – Snippets IntelliSense

Build your own FaceBook applications with ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WinForms or Silverlight !

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• Facebook.dll: This is the main assembly that will be used by all applications. This has all the logic to handle communication with the Facebook application. This assembly also has specific support of XAML applications (Silverlight and WPF) to enhance the Facebook platform to make databinding and data caching easier.
• Facebook.Silverlight.dll: This is the Silverlight version of the main assembly that will be used by all Silverlight applications. This has all the logic to handle communication with the Facebook application. This assembly also has specific support of XAML applications to enhance the Facebook platform to make databinding and data caching easier. The REST API in this assembly is Asynchronous only.
• Facebook.Web.dll: This assembly should be used by Canvas applications. The main functionality supported in this assembly is to encapsulate the handshake between the Facebook application and a canvas application (both FBML and IFrame)
• Facebook.Web.Mvc.dll: Provide a support building canvas applications using ASP.NET MVC. Separated from Facebook.Web.dll to avoid all developers from needing to install the MVC bits.
• Facebook.Winforms.dll: This assembly provides support for writing Facebook applications using Winform technology. This provides a Component that wraps the API to make it easier to use from Winforms. This also contains some user controls to help display Facebook data easily. 

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Now that the “Dev 2010” wave of products is in beta and we’re getting closer5 and closer to release, I‘ve started publishing “Quick Hit” videos on the new features.

These are not really tutorials (Not like the How-Do-I videos) but rather just “quick” peeks to show you the new stuff.

I’ll start working on more detailed training  after PDC.

The first 5 videos are now live:

http://www.asp.net/learn/aspnet-4-quick-hit-videos/

• #1 | ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Chart Control
• #2 | ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Dynamic Metadata
• #3 | ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Permanent Redirect
• #4 | ASP.NET 4 "Quick Hit" – Imperative WebForms Routing

http://www.asp.net/learn/vs2010-quick-hit-videos/

• #1 | Visual Studio 2010 "Quick Hit" – Code Optimized Profile