Jon shows that you don't need javascript to display silverlight in the browser and he then goes on the explain what the silverlight js files are doing.

Sample chapter from the book "The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology". Many nice tricks to improve the performance of you site/app.

Jon Galloway describes a number of techniques for integrating Gravatars into your project.

Jon walks us through setting the default button for a form using the Form control's DefaultButton and DefaultFocus attributes. And then talks about a Gotcha' for setting the defaults via a templated control, like the Login Control.

Phil Haack announces their new ASP.NET book written by some famous .NET community members.

Good CSS design starts with structured HTML. Here's how to do that, with an emphasis in ASP.NET.

Are SELECT * queries bad? Sure, everyone know that. But, why?

Don't wait until you have something perfect - ship something that's good enough, then listen to your customers and ship something even better.

Jon Galloway writes about a cool way of binding your asp controls back to object properties using subsonic. Ever heard of LoadFromPost?

When tools, practices, or methods become mainstream it’s time to get contrarian; time to look for new ways of doing things; time to shake it up. The minute Entity Framework surpasses NHibernate, I mean the very instant it empowers me to better express my intent, so long NHibernate. It’s been real, i...

We've heard some good guesses as to what Microsoft will be announcing at MIX07. What do should they be announcing?

Identicons are a unique way to anonymously represent an IP Address graphically. Now there's an open source implementation for .NET on CodeProject.

Simple Javascript function which adds the DotNetKicks counter button to your pages.

Jon discusses the merits (and a couple of techniques) for only showing ads to selective users... namely the bandwidth hogging one-timers who get to your site via search engine and/or social bookmarking sites.