April 2007 - Posts
Three months ago I blogged about System.Web.UI.WebResourceAttribute Issue. Recently in ASP.NET forums I noticed a question about this issue! and in the question it is mentioned that the way I descriped didn't work. I noticed also that the guy was using VB.NET not C# on which I tested my post on
The deference, or the issue came up because C# & VB.Net treat or compile resources in deferent ways -this is my own observation-. Return to the issue post on ASP.NET Forums to know what was exactly the problem and how it was resolved.
I have a friend called Amr he started recently blogging about building Custome Controls and give these controls design time suppot. He is digging deep on to provide design time for custome controls. To have a closer view, visit his blog and read his design time support posts (Part 1 and Part 2).
Also you can read his aticle about buildin Progress Disk control it is realy awesome
Microsoft built a new starter kit for Workflow foundation and ASP.NET. It is a web application that includes task-oriented workflow using Windows Workflow Foundation.
This starter kit is a Visual Studio 2005 project that demonstrates using Windows Workflow Foundation for simple task-oriented workflow in an ASP.NET Web application. A workflow model is used to automate work order requests at a small example company. It includes three pre-defined roles which each play a part in the work order creation, approval and monitoring. The starter kit may be modified for other workflow models to suit other small Web-based task management systems
Check it out it might be useful.
You might read about and see WPF: Monitoring operations at Zürich Airport application on Channel 10. It is realy wonderful demonistration of WPF.
I was wondering if I could have the code of this application or be able to have it run on my local machine?! And Yes with help of my friends we were able to do that, it was simple.
I would like to share it, as well as I'm not able to upload it somewhere. The application size is about 5 MB and after zipping it become 1.3 MB.
If anyone interested you may contact me.
Tom Hollander's announced the release of Enterprise Library 3.0 which is available for download.
Enterprise Library on CodePlex Community
Enterprise Library on Microsoft
MSND April 2007 Edition is released and available for download for free.
The MSDN® Library is an essential resource of information for developers using Microsoft® tools, products, and technologies.
The file size is ~2.5 GB, note that the file size on the download section is incorrect at the time I post this. Anyway it worth to download. Bellow is an overview of the new release:
MSDN Library provides access to essential programming information, including technical reference documentations, white papers, software development kits and code samples necessary to develop web services and applications. This is an updated version of the MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005. Major updates in this library version include Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 documentation and Windows Vista™ Developer documentation.
Updated content sets in this April 2007 Edition include:
- Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 documentation
- Visual Studio 2005 general documentation updates
- Windows Vista Developer documentation
- Windows® Driver Kit (WDK) documentation
- SQL Server™ 2005 Books Online product documentation
- SQL Server 2005 Compact Edition Books Online
- Microsoft Knowledge Base
- And More...
Last month I wrote an article about how to build a simple ComboBox in ASP.NET. And I've mentioned the limitiations of the existing ASP.NET DropDownList control in my blog.
Now I'm going a bit further. Recenlty I thought about how ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 provide a simple way and rich client library to build Extended Server Controls with Client Interaction. ASP.NET AJAX didn't provide a mean to partially render your page or communicate with a web service from your client code, it also provide rich client library to enable us to build rich controls in order to enhance client experiance.
I thought of rebuilding ASP.NET ComboBox control using ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. I just gain benefit from the rich client libaray provided by ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. Later, I might add addition UI features e.g animations or any other UI effect that might seem applicable.
The ComboBox "AjaxComboBox" will allow auto complete which will search in the list items of the ComboBox.
Also I'll provide some keyboard contol which was missing.
Hope this will be avaiable soon and I'll post the code with comperhensive article.
Regards,
