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Well, that's done. The last few weeks have definitely been "interesting".
I've been involved in the launch of two new sites for MSDN: Oslo and Azure (and the WCF REST Starter Kit, but that's just a...
Are you test-driven? Agile? Are you up on all the latest three letter acronyms (IoC, BDD, DRY)? Or are you just a curious sort who wants to know more about developing using these technologies? If so, ...
The bits move on, and only the code keeps changing.
My complaints in the last post are no longer valid. As of the 4/16 release of the MVC framework, VB no longer has that weird behaviour. Now, all ac...
Don't ask why, but I decided to try to use the porridge that was "just right" in VB while trying to create a site using the new ASP.NET MVC framework. As I will no doubt forget the syntax to use in ...
While these pages are in Flash, they can/should also be inspirational for those working in Silverlight. Probably even for WinForms and ASP.NET developers.
As the good Jon Galloway pointed out the oth...
Or at least an effort.
I went down to the regional district office last week for one of their planning meetings. The masses had gathered to determine a vital matter for the three communities of the v...
I see that my second (and for now at least final) article on SubSonic is up on DotNetSlackers. Hopefully someone will find it useful and informative. This one is intended to be more practical than the...
Thanks to Sonu (and Karl, and the rest of the DNS team), my (first) article on SubSonic is now up on DotNetSlackers. This one is intended to be an introduction, and I'll hope to continue professing my...
I was working on a site (that shall remain nameless), and one of the goals was to have a nice background for one of the rows in the layout table. (yes. moving on.) I naively did this:
<tr class="...
While all the cool kids are off in TO for "The Game", and the mondo-cool kids are heading to Vancouver for "The Teach", I find myself back once again in the Casa Nobura-Spafford in Winnipeg. What'...
One worry that many have is the information in the web.config file, especially items you might have in your appSettings and/or connectionString sections. It might be older news to some, but you can lo...
Web pages are funny things. They *seem* like they're standalone thingies hiding behind URLs, but they're actually a mess of possibly multiple requests that are rendered independently. It's a wonder th...
Right now, I'm a little conflicted about the session. Personally, I think it was awful, but they seemed to be more or less happy with it. Most of my conflict is around the act of training in general....
Apart from the fact that line isn't really "Ironic" (I really don't think), it's been in my head lately. You see, I managed to snag a Popfly invitation, so I've been trying to create a cute/hot/what...
I see that there are a few new interesting pages on MSDN this morning. I can tell they're sexy, because they have a black background. And there are reflections! (Reflections are the new black). While ...
SQL error message today:
The CLR has been unable to transition from COM context 0x1a0508 to COM context 0x1a0678 for 60 seconds. The thread that owns the destination context/apartment is most likely ...
Scott definitely needs a hug, or something. Having said that, I agree with his comments and conclusions 100%. I'm willing to admit that I've really not been interested in Vista throughout its developm...
Darren has an excellent post for virtual workers of all stripes. As my current "job" starts around 7am, and often ends around 11:40, I'm finding I need to relearn how to stop working. The danger in ...
When I first saw that Alex was moving his blog off of blogs.msdn.com, I was thinking of posting my own rationalle, but decided against it as I was sour on blogging. Then Brian mentioned that he had si...
A few days ago, I was going to write a complaint about people not putting the Last-Modified and ETag headers on their HTTP Handlers, and/or not putting something rational in their Last-Modified. I was...
Probably old news/code, but I couldn't find it when I went looking for it. I wanted to have an XSLT stylesheet that only displayed 'n' items from the source (in this case RSS). Here's the important bi...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/02/CuttingEdge/OK, I barely remember "Name that tune", but I think the meme is widespread enough for even the average juvenile dev to know. (for those eve...
If you post source code to the Web, you simply *must* download Wilco Bauwer's SyntaxHighlighter. It's an ASP.NET control that formats, colourizes and generally makes said code look good. Incredibly ea...
First he provided the incredible GeoTagIt! mashup (written by Alessandro Gallo [Garbin]), now he's added a nice touch for rating content. The items have stars that you can use to rate the content. Cli...
There's an interesting thread on Tim O'Reilly's blog today that can basically be summarized as, "Are there two perspectives on Ajax?"
The basic fault line is between web developers who are comforta...
Brian lets the world know: the control adapters are on the loose!These are not only great versions of a few of the ASP.NET 2.0 controls that fix (IMO) problems with table-heavy output, but they are al...
OK, I probably shouldn't have to make this post. As I keep making the mistake, there are only two possibilities: other people also make this mistake or I'm a unique idiot (as opposed to just another o...
Well, I survived my first ever CodeCamp (Victoria). I realized yesterday morning that I haven't spoken in public for "quite a while", certainly more than a few years. Also, barring telephone calls, ...
OK, now that a few of you (OK, probably everyone that reads this) have stepped into the parlour, a followup question. As a more practical question, which of these articles on GridVi...
How would you define 'best' for a piece of technical content? Is the 'best' piece on the GridView an introductory article that looked briefly at all the features? An in-depth piece on one or more feat...
Neat -- Karl's finally blogging. Good start (b*tching about documentation is always a good start). Karl wrote one of my favourite pieces (I will admit that I had more than a few favourite pieces) whil...
I've now been gone for a while, but I'm still seeing familiar looking articles flowing through the MSDN beast. Here are a few that seem to have been posted that I haven't seen elsewhere:
File Uploadi...
This will be quite handy, I think. A property window for editing CSS plugin in VS 2005 (sadly, I'm using VWD these days, so I can't really use it too much)Visual Studio 2005 provides some capabilities...
Haven't seen these in the RSS feed yet, but the copies of Nikhil's amazing series on creating Data Source controls is now on MSDN:
The Basics
Parameters
Asynchronous Data Access
Caching
Design Time F...
I forgot to mention when I posted about my leaving MSDN that my
position is open. If you're a writer who's keen and capable on ASP.NET,
C#, Team System and/or just about anything else Microsoft's Deve...
I missed sending this out yesterday, but for the launch, we also launched the new ASP.NET Dev Center. Slightly shinier, but mostly just streamlined. Also new on Monday was the new Visual Web Developer...
Rationale in a moment, but I thought I'd share with all of you (just don't tell anyone at Microsoft, I might get fired) what the ASP.NET Dev Center page views have looked like historically:
...
L is for Lulu
Sometimes spelled as it is pronounced, "looloo". Not to be mistaken for a "loo", which is a bathroom, although a looloo loo would be a large bathroom. Now that that bad joke is out o...
Only slightly new as one of these (Data Access) has been live for a while, but now we have both, and in "both official languages". These are neat training videos, that include interactive simulation...
Just as we published a whack o' content on providers in ASP.NET, Scott comes out with a great overview article on providers. Must be something in the air....
As many of you know, ASP.NET uses the provider model fairly heavily, but there's only been relatively limited information available on the existing providers, and how to create your own. Well, those d...
UPDATE 10/13: I forgot to give you the URL. Sorry about that.
Part 2 of Bill Evjen's ASP.NET 2.0 Jumpstart series went live today. Find out how the database for the Media Share Starter Kit was designe...
Nothing like an analogy that only works in Northern North America. I had debated trying something that worked a bit broader, but stuck with that one as I think it's pretty close to the topic of the th...
Check out this webcast on Friday, 7 Oct (1pm Pacific) about ASP.NET Security. Fritz and Keith know both ASP.NET and Security through and through, so you know it will be good. You even have overnight t...
We've got the first article in a new series by Bill Evjen. In this series, Bill will show you how to create a starter kit, starting with nothing. In this first article, he looks at the Media Share Lib...
A very cool online dictionary that uses ASP.NET and Ajax to give you word definitions, synonyms, or (my favourite) element information *as you type*! Showing once again that ASP.NET developers can com...
With PDC now behind us, it's time to turn my attention back to all the bugs in my queue, and recently published content on the ASP.NET Dev Center. The Brownies have been busy:
During the PDC, we parti...
This looks like a handy little tool. It lets you compare fonts for Web sites, showing what they will look like at various resolutions and styles. (via LifeHacker)...
I took off Friday morning. It's not like I saw any talks at PDC -- I spent most of my waking, non-drinking hours at the Coding4Fun booth. It was cool -- having the Phidgets guys there was great, I kep...
You've likely already read about many of the new dev features announced today at PDC, but I figured I'd highlight some of the ones I know about here.
Atlas! The technology preview of the ASP.NET team...
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