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MosesOfEgypt.NET, My new domain and blog

2008-02-17T14:00:00Z

In the last 2 days I was successfully moved my blog. My new blog is http://www.mosesofegypt.net . I installed BlogEngine 1.3 and started to migrate few of my old posts. Successfully did that. And officially started my own blog on my own domain. My host is http://www.otechnology.net based on Australia. Actually they provided me with great host facility. Hope you'll like it the new blog, and soon new posts to come up on it....(read more)

ASP.NET AJAX ComboBox

2008-01-07T00:15:00Z

Back to April 2007 I posted about building an ASP.NET AJAX ComboBox. It was an attempt to rewrite a ComboBox Control I made to fulfil certain issues I faced with 3rd Party Controls. One of those issue was performance as most of 3rd Party control are rendering heavy HTML because of extinsive features they put on their controls which I do not need. So This post is supposed to be an extensions to my old post as well as my article about building Simple ASP.NET ComboBox. Attached to this post is the ASP...(read more)

Download: The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit

2007-12-13T12:21:00Z

Few weeks ago Microsoft released a useful training kit for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 containing Labs, Demos and PPTs. The Visual Studio 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5 Training Kit includes presentations, hands-on labs, and demos. This content is designed to help you learn how to utilize the Visual Studio 2008 features and a variety of framework technologies including: LINQ, C# 3.0, Visual Basic 9, WCF, WF, WPF, ASP.NET AJAX, VSTO, CardSpace, SilverLight, Mobile and Application Lifecycle...(read more)

SQL Server 2005, Clean your Database Records & reset Identity Columns, all in 6 lines!

2007-12-09T12:44:00Z

Well, I had a small issue regarding writing a script to clean a database we have and reset its identity columns in all tables. Although the database wasn't huge one (less than 100 tables) I had to trace relations to be able to delete child table's records before parent's ones because of the foreign key constraints. The solution is disable the foreign keys and delete records with no fear of any errors then enables the constraints again. Well, I found a solution to disable all constraints...(read more)

MSDN Magazine Cutting Edge: ASP.NET AJAX

2007-11-06T12:33:00Z

Dino Esposito wrote a serious about ASP.NET AJAX on MSDN Magazine Cutting Edge section. I would like to share these good links with you so here they are: AJAX Application Architecture, Part 1 AJAX Application Architecture, Part 2 Managing the User Experience in AJAX Happy AJAXfying...(read more)

Tip: Generating Local Resource Files

2007-11-04T15:12:00Z

As I was working on multingual User Interface project; it was needed to generate resource files for all aspx & ascx files. I knew that VS.NET 2005 has a local resource file generator. But it was weird when I select my ASPX page or user control and go to Tool menu and find that there are no Generate Local Resources command on the menu! It didn't take so much time, I found the solution on ASP.NET Forums . It was simple: "he menu ' Tools > Generate Local Resources ' is available...(read more)

Using Script# to build ASP.NET AJAX Enabled Controls

2007-10-24T19:14:00Z

Recently I’ve finished reading the marvelous book ASP.NET AJAX IN ACTION . After that I thought to start build some simple ASP.NET AJAX Enabled Controls. Unfortunately I’m not an advanced JavaScript developer and I consider most of the scripts I wrote a simple bad coding practice scripts. So ASP.NET AJAX Scripting framework would enhance my Scripting style! But again I’m not an advance JavaScript developer. I know JavaScript basics that would let me go ahead and would give a crash start. And I’ve...(read more)

ASP.NET AJAX In Action Book

2007-10-02T08:45:00Z

Currently I'm enjoying reading ASP.NET AJAX In Action Book written by Alessandro Gallo , David Barkol, and Rama Krishna Vavilala. As the time I'm writing this post, I've finished Part 1 and comming across Chapter 8. So far I found the book very informative with rich examples and samples in a tutorial like fashion. Beside I enjoy the writers way of delivering the information so the book is not boring. This is my first Book to read about ASP.NET AJAX so I cannot tell this is the best book...(read more)

MSDN Community Distribution June Release

2007-06-17T13:33:00Z

Current June CD release focuses on important fundamentals: Introductory lessons for programming newbies in C# and VB, webcasts on Windows SharePoint Services ("WSS") and Visual Studio Team System ("VSTS") as well as a look at functional programming with F#. Introductory Lessons Our starter kit helps to get a foot in the door of today's programming world. Choose an Express Edition and learn how basic Windows applications are created. These lessons focus on the language, object...(read more)

The WindowsClient.NET Community Site Launches

2007-05-16T15:18:00Z

WindowsClient.net , the community learning resource for Windows Forms and Windows Presentation Foundation. This site focuses on all aspects of rich client development on Windows using the .NET Framework. New content from both the Microsoft product teams and from the community will be added regularly to highlight the many user experience and developer productivity benefits of rich client applications on Windows....(read more)

New! Hands-on Labs for Windows Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET

2007-05-13T16:21:00Z

Windows Workflow Foundation is the programming model, engine and tools for quickly building workflow enabled applications on Windows. This download is a set of 10 Hands-on Labs for Windows Workflow Foundation in C# and VB.NET versions. These labs are suitable for a .NET developer with 6 months experience who wants to learn about Windows Workflow Foundation. Each lab is approximately 60 minutes of work. The download package includes lab manuals for each lab, pre-requisite files for the labs and sample...(read more)

Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (May 2007)

2007-04-30T23:01:00Z

The Microsoft ASP.NET Futures May 2007 (“Futures”) release contains an early developer preview of features providing a wide range of new functionality for both ASP.NET and Silverlight™. The functionality in the Futures release includes early experimental versions of features currently being considered for future versions of ASP.NET and the .NET Framework. The Futures releases assume prior knowledge of the core features of ASP.NET including the previous ASP.NET AJAX Futures January...(read more)

WebResourceAttribute And VB.NET, Not Like in C#!

2007-04-23T12:19:00Z

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...(read more)

Give your Custom Controls a Design-Time Support Part 1 & 2

2007-04-15T18:56:00Z

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...(read more)

Windows Workflow Foundation Web Workflow Approvals Starter Kit

2007-04-11T17:51:00Z

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...(read more)