This posts covers how to best optimize the build performance with Visual Studio 2005 when using web projects. If you are experiencing slow buildsor want to learn how to speed them up please read on. Quick Background on VS 2005 Web Site Projectand VS 2005 Web Application Project options VS 2005 supports two project-model options: VS 2005 Web Site Projects and VS 2005 Web Application Projects. VS 2005 Web Site Projects were built-in with the initial VS 2005 release, and provide a project-less based model for doing web development that uses that same dynamic compilation system that ASP.NET 2.0 uses at runtime. VS 2005 Web Application Projects were released as a fully supported download earlier this spring, and provide a project model that uses...(read more)

how to call a web services dynamically by useing the JAX-WS.
Please let me give some examples.

Mask Pro 4 provides a complete collection of Photoshop plug-in tools that allow users unprecedented flexibility when tackling the most challenging masking job. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Andy Warhol Pop Art Silkscreen Effect — is a sample chapter from the Photoshop Digital Studio Cookbooks, courtesy of O'Reilly Media. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

There are quite a few resources out there to help with learning the Toolkit. Whether you're a new user ora Toolkit Pro, there's something to learn for everyone here. If I've missed anything, let me know: Joe Stagner's great How-Do-I videos (I count 13 Toolkit videos in the list): http://www.asp.net/learn/videos/default.aspx?tabid=63#howdoi Mohammed Azam has a good tutorial worth reading: http://aspalliance.com/830_Working_with_ATLAS_Control_Toolkit__Part_1 The walkthroughs available from the Toolkit itself, see the menu in the lower left corner: http://atlas.asp.net/atlastoolkit/ Marc has a video showing how to use the Toolkit in ASP.NET 2.0 Applications up on Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=199266 Enjoy! Read More......(read more)

This is a must read for administrators. It will help define valuable terms and help you master important techniques from moving a user's mail file to setting up roaming users.

One of the cool new controls provided with the ASP.NET AJAX Extensions (aka "Atlas") is the UpdateProgress control. This control allows you to automatically cause UI to display on a page while an AJAX callback is in progress, and also allows you to provide UI to enable a user to optionally cancel the AJAX callback if it is taking too long. To use this control on a page, simply declare it like so: atlas:UpdateProgressID="progress1"runat="server">ProgressTemplate>divclass="progress">imgsrc="indicator.gif"/>PleaseWait.../div>/ProgressTemplate>/atlas:UpdateProgress> The content within the ProgressTemplate> will then display while an AJAX callback is occuring. You can use CSS rules to position the content displayed anywhere...(read more)

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If you find yourself using @URLEncode() along with Unescape() you'll need to take character sets in to account. Here's how. Ooh, and there's a free news ticker database.

There are 2 really good Photoshop tutorials at Veerle's blog. One steps you through creating seamless background patterns, which are great for blog layouts, and the other is a nice clear tutorial on how to create a grunge brush. Here are the intros and links... (posted by Jennifer Apple)

The Vintage Halloween set contains 5 brushes of halloween images, including pumpkins. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

My latest collection of Photoshop tips, tricks and tutorials. Includes new Camera Raw 3.5. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Here is the latest Photoshop Plugin Review by Jay Nelson, the editor-in-chief of Design Tools Monthly.(posted by Jennifer Apple)

My latest collection of Photoshop tips, tricks and tutorials. Look for collage artist Maggie Taylor article - she's very cool. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Regulatory compliance, litigation support and storage management all begin with an efficient e-mail archiving process. In this tip, storage consultant Bill Tolson offers 10 detailed best practices for effective e-mail archiving.

When you send an email, Lotus Notes allows you to choose if you want to save a copy in a folder. ?This is configured in File - Preferences - User Preferences, under Mail - General.



You can choose to never have messages be automatically saved, always saved, or you can be prompted to choose on each email you send.



To help keep my mail file small, I choose "Never". ?However, of course there are times when I do want to save an important email. ?In those cases I simply hit "Send and File..." as opposed to just "Send".



Alternately, when you are done composing an email you can hit the Escape (Esc) key on your keyboard, and then choose to Send Only, Save Only (goes to your Drafts folder), or Send and Save.



I blogged about using "Esc" previously in Closing Documents, if you would like to read about more details on this feature.

David has a great post on using DynamicPopulate. Check it out! Read More... Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!...(read more)

Wow - last week was a push to get this baby out there. Growing pains! But we did it and I'm sure this is our best release yet. Between the bug fixes, the incorporation of community feedback, and the great new features, it's really something special. I'm looking forward to hearing some feedback on NoBot. I know so many people that have had to turn off comments on their blogs due to spam. With a little luck, NoBot will help minimize some of that. Slider is just a super-useful little control. There are so many times when you want to let users use this type of UI. Another great thing about Slider is that it's a 3rd party contribution, from Garbin, who did a great job on it. Finally, Ted's Animationpackage is already making waves. Beyond just adding...(read more)

SearchDomino.com member Rishikesh Sahi provides step-by-step instructions on how to delete documents over the Web using Ajax and JavaScript -- and without having to refresh the current open window.

The latest refresh of the Atlas Control Toolkit, which is a great library of useful ASP.NET AJAX-enabled controls built on top of the core ASP.NET AJAX runtime, was posted late last week. You can run samples online as well as download it here. As I have mentioned in earlier posts, what is cool about the Toolkit is that it includes several controls contributed by non-Microsoft developers. For example, new in this release is a cool new "Slider" control (click here to see a demo of it in action)that was contributed and which enables smooth client-side range-picking support: Also included with this release of the Toolkit is some of the new client-side animation support that is starting to come online.The animation package can be used both directly...(read more)