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partial nested classes

"Partial classes" is on of the new features of v2 that, while I totally get why Microsoft wanted to add it, I didn't really see any use of them beyond the vstudio code gen world. "Nested classes" ...

Import Settings toy for VStudio

As you can tell by the sheer size of the c# formatting options area in vstudio 2005, different companies and people love their own personal code formatting style. However, that can present a pretty se...

yay @ atlas

The cat's out of the bag about Atlas. AJAX may actually get productive soon. Not to dismiss the other frameworks in place at all. ( AJAX.net has some great ideas there ) It's just easier to ...

Fooling Around With Media Center and Messenger

I took a little time last nite and today to put together something that i've been wanting since msn messenger 7 came out with its What I'm Listening To feature. See, I don't run any local-machine musi...

Marco-Polo as software development methodology

In one of the most infsightfull-tho-slightly-bitter posts i've seen in a while... Chuck Bryan brings together the seemingly seperate worlds of software development and childhood pool games....

Event handler declarations in the tag are the right thing

Teemu brought up the current event declaration behavior today, and even pointed to a bug report about it. I'm going to take the opposite stance. putting the onclick="whatever" attribute on the tag i...

Top 2 reasons why WMP10 isn't my audio player

1) No OGG support. Come on Microsoft, you can do it. I know you can. You were even willing to ( apparently ) pony up the money to include high bitrate mp3 encoding. You can't hire a contract/temp deve...

Composite controls that do their own databinding

Most databound controls are written from the perspective that they will be databound to something, but the control writer doesnt know what that would be. It is assumed that the controls container will...

The Death of DynamicImage

Of all the features cut from asp.net v2, the only one that I'm really going to miss is the loss of DyanmicImage and the Image Generation Service.  Not so much because it's a little harder to do d...

SP2 IE and about:mozilla

So one change in IE that came with sp2, that I haven't seen anybody comment on, is that about:mozilla is gone. Before I installed sp2, i had my homepage set to about:mozilla because it gave a nice col...

MetaBuilders and Telligent

It's not often that a contractor says, "wow, Im so incredibly happy about my latest client", but I see myself in that position. And seeing that I have a voice, I just need to tell yall. I recently s...

Web Control Developer Macro Goodness

I've had these control dev macros sitting around for a while, and I thought I'd share them finally. First I looked for a wiki I could post them to, but I was surprised to not find one for vstudio...

Firefox nonbug that caused me some grief today

I ran into a rather unfortunate issue today with a server control that I thought would probably be good to talk about. The issue is created by non-bugs that come together to make a bug. ...

Materials from my usergroup presentation

It's taken me a while to remember to do this... I gave a presentation on monday to the denver .net user group on developing asp.net server controls and i'm positing the presentation materials on for t...

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