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I just gone through an interesting website which is exclusively for System.Net.Mail!

http://www.systemnetmail.com/

Also, there is another website from them - http://www.systemwebmail.com/ which is for System.Web.Mail (.NET Framework 1.1)

After the upgrade of my Internet Explorer, I tried the IE toolbar and realized the fact that it is not working anymore. IE8 do not support IE Developer Toolbar.

But a happy news is Developer Tool is available in IE8 itself. Simply use Shift+F12

Well, I do not see all the features which IE Developer Toolbar had. Let me explore more…

I see IE8 is really a ‘beta’ and is having lot of bug fixes to include. One major thing is, IE8 rendering engine not correctly rendering many major websites. Nice that there is an “Emulate IE7″ button on the toolbar . Let the team fix these and make a powerful Internet Explorer 8! New features are pretty useful.

Here is a good article on LINQ, SQLMetal and SqlTac by Steven R. McCabe.

http://www.simple-talk.com/dotnet/.net-tools/exploring-linq,-sqlmetal-and-sqltac/

One of the things that many people have asked for over the years with ASP.NET is built-in support for developing web applications using a model-view-controller (MVC) based architecture.

Here are two interesting links:

ScottGu - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/14/asp-net-mvc-framework.aspx

Scott Hanselman - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottGuMVCPresentationAndScottHaScreencastFromALTNETConference.aspx

URL: http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight/resources/installationfiles.aspx?v=2.0

SDK for Silverlight 2 Beta 1 is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=1840cab5-196c-4264-b55d-562242a72625&DisplayLang=en

You can download Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for Windows Vista, Server 2008, XP2, Server 2003 Sp2 from here

Screenshots of installation and new features are available at techtalkz.

How do I make my site ‘light up’ with Internet Explorer 8?

This tool allows you to generate random keys for valdiation and ecnryption/decryption of the view state. It builds a element which you need to include in your web.config file.

Sample:

 
<machinekey validationKey=“DE4B082DFE27D4FDF89849ED7D29FDB8050970B0C084107C4ECD6DA62E8EC850638E1630076FDA24B7008ED8A27AD68829F5E25F0059E0CFDB09A2446CB00B53″
decryptionKey=“809C6E2E73E009DE58E13F513696D634864491C70E80B8A2″ validation=“SHA1″ />

URL: http://www.aspnetresources.com/tools/keycreator.aspx