I was chatting with Billy Hollis about how we often use new technology to do the same old thing and how I was seeing lots of folks doing this with WPF and Silverlight.

He mentioned that he had done a video in UI Design with WPF.

Check it out, its great for WPF and SIlverlight aficionados.

DNR-TV Show #115 | 6/20/2008

Billy Hollis on Getting Smart with WPF

Billy Hollis shows us some clever ways to make a clean, efficient user interface in Windows Presentation Foundation.

A couple of folks have emailed me because that haven't been able to reconstitute the Video Database I've been using in the Data Access video tutorials.

Here is a .zip file.  http://www.misfitgeek.com/downloads/SQLDATA_VideoDirectory.zip

It contains a .mdf as well as a .sql script and the data exported to an Excel file.

Hope it helps.

The first three videos are live.

#1 | Data Access Layers in ASP.NET Applications

#2 | How to Manually Bind a Dataset to a Datagrid

#3 | How to Work with Datasets and Filters from an ASP Application

More coming soon.

[ Get them here. ]

#8 | Changing Membership Settings in the Default Membership Schema

#9 | Configuring SQL To Work with Membership Schemas

#10 | Understanding ASP.NET Memberships

[ Get them here ]

Please checkout the first videos in my new Web Developer's Security Video Series.

http://www.asp.net/learn/security-videos/

I'm hoping to do 100 Videos this year !

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Spring is ugly in my job. From early March until late June I'm on the road. Conferences, Meetings, etc.

Then when I finally get done my spring traveling.... There is "make up" work to do.

I have to "make it up" to my two little princess and my wife. Work my way through a whole spring filled "Honey Do List".

And then, there is the repair work. Winter is hard on everything. There is lots to do on the house, my office building, the yard, etc. after the winter weather (and my pack of German Shepherds) does its winter damage.

And then of course there is the work I have to do on my body. After nearly four months on the road I'm left feeling old, fat, ad out of shape. At 47 by body brings me new challenges and as someone who spent his whole life in a kickboxing gym, my metabolism refuses to adjust to a sedentary lifestyle.

Well, I'm caught up !

For the rest of the summer and fall I'm going to be primarily focused on developing developer training and guidance in the form of Videos and Webcasts on the following topics.

• Web Security - The first of these videos will be up later this week and the series will continue. The topics will be of interest to ASP.NET developers as well as Slveright developers, IIS users, and Rich Client Developers using REST and SOAP services.
• Data Access - BOTH ADO.NET and LINQ (and not JUST to Microsoft SQL Server).
• Dynamic Data - The cool new technology for ASP.NET Developers.
• Web Forms - With all the hype around ASP.NET MVC, I think it's important to focus on the Web UI technology that MOST of us will continue to be using :)

Comments, Suggestions ?

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Most people haven't had a chance to play with Microsoft Surface.

It's one of the coolest technologies in a long time !

[ Click HERE to watch the video. ]

#71 | How To Dynamically Change CSS Using the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel

#72 | How To Dynamically Add Controls to a Web Page (and not have them disappear when you post-back)

We've added a new comments feature to all the Videos posted at www.ASP.net .

Complete with a RSS feed for the comments.

Check it out and tell us what you think !

Here is the latest in my AJAX How-Do-I Video Series

Hope you like them !

How Do I: Retrieve Values From Server Side AJAX Controls

How Do I: The AJAX Toolkit Reorder Control