We've added over a dozen new controls, including free components for a forum and for chatting. Try these controls and others in the ASP.NET Control Gallery.

Joe Stagner continues his video series detailing the development process of the Tailspin Spyworks sample Web Forms applicaton, with videos on creating and using two user controls: Popular Products and Also Purchased.

We've added more shows to the Podcasts page. Listen to hours of new podcasts on issues of interest to all ASP.NET developers from Hanselminutes, .NET Rocks!, Coding QA, and the Polymorphic Podcast.

Joe Stagner walks you through chapters 4-6 of the WebMatrix tutorials, showing you how to work with forms, data, and files.

Scott Hanselman presents an 8-part beginner tutorial that introduces the basics of ASP.NET MVC. Learn how to create a simple web application that reads and writes from a database.

Expand and share your knowledge about ASP.NET Open Source Projects, speeding up Visual Studio, using SQL Server Compact 4.0 with ASP.NET 4, and more in the ASP.NET Wiki. Earn Community Recognition points by contributing!

Joe Stagner walks you through chapter 3 of the WebMatrix tutorial, which shows you how to create a consistent look for your ASP.NET web pages by creating reusable blocks of content (like headers and footers) and a consistent layout for all the pages.

Add a tree control, file compression, tag cloud, and more to your web applications with the newest components in the ASP.NET Control Gallery!

The ASP.NET team has released the beta of the ASP.NET Sprite Control and Image Optimization Framework to Codeplex.  Try it out today to decrease the amount of time required to request and display a page from a web server.

Joe Stagner presents three new videos on ASP.NET membership.  Learn how to add users, log in users, and add email verification to the registration process.

The ASP.NET team has dropped Preview 1 of ASP.NET MVC 3!  This preview release includes the new Razor syntax view engine, global action filters, improved dependency injection, and more. Read Scott Guthrie's blog post for more information on features and how to get the bits.

To supplement the written WebMatrix tutorials, Joe Stagner has begun a new series of videos which correspond one-to-one with the existing tutorials.  The first 2 videos show you how to Get Started with WebMatrix, and give you an overview of programming with ASP.NET Web pages using the Razor syntax

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Joe Stagner continues his video series detailing the development process of the Tailspin Spyworks sample Web Forms applicaton, with videos on adding and displaying user product reviews.

Expand and share your knowledge about uploading multiple files, ASP.NET MVC Best Practices, CRUD operations on a GridView, and more in the ASP.NET Wiki. Earn Community Recognition points by contributing!