But...why wouldn't you just use basic authentication?

<ajaxToolkit:TextBoxWatermarkExtender runat="server" TargetControlID="txtFirstname" WatermarkText="Enter Your First Name" />

Yeah, that's a lot of effort...;)

I'd be willing to pay almost any amount if they would release VS 2010 with NO other feature other than it is 10x faster. Building ASP.NET and switching between HTML view and design view I plan on waiting at least 1 minute. It is getting SLOWER and SLOWER with each release :(

Direct link: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2008/Sep-10.html

Yousing bad english is worst then usint it wrongly.

Just go here: :)
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/blog.donnfelker.com

Also you can use a settings file. Right click on your project and go to add new item "Settings File". You get strongly typed settings. And a handy dandy gui interface too.

How about the developer's guide to happiness:

Step 1) Work from home.

.NET?

You have to REGISTER to read the blog? Is there anyway you can ban entire sites from dotnetkicks?

I don't think "as" is faster.

"All MVC frameworks (not just the .NET ones) give you complete control over the HTML."

Because you have to write all the HTML yourself, correct? You can write all the HTML yourself in ASP.NET, just don't use any controls. Like you said: repeater works wonders. For many applications, you may need to do a lot of that. Depends on what you're doing.

"I found some things are just broken. I still have a site in production, with a single TextBox and asp:Button that will not work if you hit "Enter" in the TextBox."

For the case you mentioned you need to add defaultbutton="your button" to the form. This only is an issue with IE actually. Also, no offense but did you actually google this problem? e.g., google: "single textbox button submit onclick asp.net".

What else is broken?

# The ridiculous amount of time I spend in Reflector trying to figure out why things that are supposed to "just work" when wired up "just don't"

I don't think I've ever had to use reflector to figure out why something in asp.net isn't working. Really? You're CONSTANTLY in reflector? I find that hard to believe.

# Not having control over the HTML that is spit out.

HTML that is rendered by server controls you mean? Does MonoRail give you control magically over server control output, or do you just not USE server controls when using monorail? Either write your own controls or you could use control adapters.

Trying to do anything with AJAX or DHTML with the insane control names controlName.ClientID anyone?

Whatever.

Sheesh people are being pretty freaking harsh. Has anyone actually tried using EF yet?

I'm going back to sleep

Why is the password stored in plain text?