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I recently had the pleasure of tracking down why SSL wasn't working on a client's machine - After making sure everything looked good from a setup perspective and it still wasn't working I started look...
Today at the keynote for the partner conference Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 will launch together Febuary 27th 2008. Read full press release her...
We have a custom ASP.NET Server control that wraps all of our Virtual Earth Integration and we just got done upgrading it to work with the latest and greatest V5 of the API This approach has worked ve...
If your using the RewritePath to modify URL's in your ASP.NET application you might run across some problems with the URL's to any item being pulled from a theme folder. The reason for this is&...
AJAX Toolkit now has a tab control - as you start using it one of the things you might want to do is be able to switch tabs on the client side - from looking at the docs on the AJAXToolControl site th...
Recently I was doing some development work where I had to provide a .NET assembly that would be uploaded and stored. The only challenge is that I had multiple assemblies and the upload process w...
Couple days ago a new ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit was released it looks like a bunch of issues were fixed as well as a bunch of new features. http://www.codeplex.com/AtlasControlToolkit/Release...
I've been catching up on e-mail on a flight over to London and see that Microsoft will be rescheduling PDC 07 that was going to be later this year Read the full announcement here. I know se...
Microsoft just released an alpha site for building mashups (I still hate that term!) It's a cool tool that allows you to drag , drop and connect Gadgets, web pages, and applications. If you have 15 mi...
One of the things I've been doing is starting to look at being able to build the zip file that you need to upload to Silverlight Streaming. I want to be able to do that via an API, not using the...
Rob Bagby that I did the Denver Launch event with has some upcoming web casts on ASP.NET AJAX ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Object-Oriented Development (5/15/07 @9:00 a.m. Arizona time) ASP.NE...
TFS won't support WSS 3.0 out of the box till the Oracas release, but a release candidate of how you can do it today on TFS SP1 was just released - Brian Keller has the details on his blog here. There...
Late Sunday night - Soma announced that WPF/E will become Microsoft SilverLight - He also that this just sets the foundation for MIX where they will unveil the full end to end vision. The new SilverLi...
For those of you that attended my talk in Salt Lake City - here's the links I referred to in my talk - For those of you that didn't make it here's a great set of links! Scott Guthrie's - WPF/E Intro ...
Don't use <xhtmlConformance mode="Legacy"/> with ASP.NET AJAX - that Was ScottGu's message here. We recently saw this when using update panels on a converted application - "When using ASP.NET...
One critical issue as you start exposing more services that allow a web page to interact and provide a more rich experience - you also have to worry what others will do if they could call the service....
Today mid day the Virtual Earth team released the 6th major update since going live in 2005. We've been developing on it since it was released and this was by far the smoothest release yet. ...
Microsoft announced today that they are joining the OpenAJAX Alliance. The alliance now has 72 members including big names like IBM, Adobe, Oracle, BEA and Sun. Hey Google, join the l...
Hot off the press this just released on the 6th. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=90E2942D-3AD1-4873-A2EE-4ACC0AACE5B6&displaylang=en If you had been running the beta make...
Turns out the new CTP for WPF/E shippped a little early , good news for us, scramble for Microsoft - Tim S has a good post on the details of why it's early and how to install the new version her...
This week we started converting any app that was using the RC of AJAX to the RTM version - so far that has been pretty painless. The list of changes in the last round was pretty small compared t...
Congratulations to the ASP.NET team they shipped the 1.0 version of ASP.NET AJAX! ScottG has a good detailed post here. We've had several projects over the last year go live using some ASP.NET AJAX (...
Microsoft today released the first public CTP of Syncroniation Services for ADO.Net. I haven't had time yet to dig into it fully but from some of the early info it sounds really cool. It basical...
Yeah I put year end in the title, but don't think that means I'm ready to admit that 2006 is already over! Here's a few Team System things that are happening that I haven't blogged on. Version 1.2 of...
Windows Workflow Foundation comes out of the box with the ability to persist workflows into SQL Server and to use SQL Server to store tracking information. In order to use these on a Database you must...
If your thinking of trying to upgrade your TFS server to WSS 3.0 - stop in your tracks....and read the following here from Jason Barile@MS The bottom line is it's not supported, and there's side ...
I still get frustrated when I come across classes that don't serialize - when there part of the framework that even makes it worse. Why can't we have a Serializeable set of generics out th...
Version 4 of the Virtual Earth SDK Launched yesterday and added some exciting things like 3D capabilities. You can read more about what's new in this release here. One side effect we...
I'm doing some dynamic injection of collaspable panels inside a custom server control and I had a some fun when it didn't work. Turns out where you do this is important with regard to the page l...
Drop 6 of the Web Client Software Factory is now posted on the CodePlex site here. If your not familiar with the WCSF it's from the PAG group and is intended to provide guidance on bu...
The rebranding of code name Atlas is taking real form in the release of Beta 1 of ASP.NET Ajax. Scott G has a good detail post here and if you have current applications on Atlas there's a migration do...
I've been doing a lot more Atlas...err... ASP.NET AJAX lately so expect to see more on the blog about that. I still am not convinced that not keeping the Atlas tag around isn't useful.&nbs...
Big news today was the release of beta’s of a couple of key items. Both of these are very timely for addressing some key items.
A beta of SP1 for Visual Studio 2005 is now on Connect http:...
Just in time for the long weekend Microsoft dropped the .NET Framework 3.0 runtime release candidate. You can find all the details on the Get The Beta site here.
If your .NET 3.0 application is ...
This is one of the errors I encountered when I wrote a sync process that created WorkItems in TFS at first I thought what a lousy error message - but the interesting thing is the details that you can...
After traveling most of June, and then some in July it’s been hard catching back up but almost there! I thought I would recap a few of the useful Team System posts that have flown around over th...
If you want to use VS2005 but are stuck on 1.1 you might want to check out MSBee. MSBee has been around for a little bit but now it’s out on CodePlex...
Currently when you put a stylesheet inside a theme in the app_themes folder it gets included in each page. Many times you might have a stylesheet page that is only used in a few pages. Tod...
On one of our projects today a very mysterious problem was introduced that wasn’t noticed till late in the day. The error was clear, a callback target couldn’t be found, but the caus...
Scott Hanselman’s latest podcast does a great job of giving an overview of Scrum. I think it’s important to understand the different agile methodologies and his podocast does a good ...
I think one of the cooler features of using Team Foundation Source Control is the Shelve command. Shelve lets you set aside some changes in the event that you need to work on another change. It&...
After speaking yesterday at the OKCPro.net user groups lunch and evening session we hit the road to head home. After 3 weeks on the road and 6 cities – you can’t imagine how great it...
If you attended my talk today @ VSLive Las Vegas I just posted the demo site that I used during my talk. You can find the download here.
I’m up here in Vegas till Sunday and then fly to Da...
I was in Barnes and Noble and thought I would check out to see if ASP.NET MVP Hacks and Tips made it to the shelf yet. To my surprise not only did we make it to the shelf, apparently we took ove...
After arriving Saturday night in Boston I can’t believe it’s already Sunday night! I spent all day today in meetings with the MVP and RD group and it was great to see some people I haven&r...
When I first read “.NET 3.0” I thought “April Fools? Did I miss the planning?” – but then after reading Soma’s blog post about the reasoning and what&rsq...
First of all if your not familiar with a CallOut in MS CRM it’s basically a way that you can implement business logic extensions to the MS CRM code. By that I mean that you can get control befor...
One of our clients had a problem in their test environment and they decided it would be best just to start fresh. I did them a favor and helped out their network guy finish off the install this ...
Here’s the link to download the VSTO CTP that matches Office 2007 Beta 2. For some reason it was harder to find than it should have been! Maybe I just looked in the wrong places…
I ...
I recently got a chance to see some of the #’s for what will get consumed @ TechEd pretty amazing – I can’t imagine being responsible for coordination of a large event like tha...
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