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Central Coast Code Camp 2010 is here!

SLO .NET Users Group Presents Date:  5/22, 8am Location: Cal Poly College of Business Building 3, San Luis Obispo Registration Starts at 8am Tomorrow! Central Coast Code Camp is...

VS2010 tip: Cannot find the HttpUtility on .NET 4.0?

Now that Visual Studio 2010 is here with more options and better colors, there are a few things that have changed a little and might confused you a bit. For example the good HttpUtility, if you are cr...

About This Site

I'm a software engineer working in Southern California for ESRI. I was awarded the Microsoft ASP.NET MVP on July 1st 2007, July 1st 2008 and again on July 1st 2009. This blog always runs the latest v...

If you can only read one book this year: Professional C# 4 and .NET 4 from wrox is the one.

I just read the Professional C# 4 and .NET 4 from wrox, wrote by Christian Nagel, Bill Evjen, Jay Glynn, Karli Watson and Morgan Skinner. This is a complete book in whats in .NET 4 as well as a gre...

Is it to late for Windows Phone 7 after the iPhone 4.0 comes out?

This year has been an incredible year for mobile devices, from the release of the iPad to the reveal of the Windows Phone 7 from Microsoft to compete with the well establish Apple iPhone. M...

Problems with Silverlight 3 Bitmaps

As many people move to Silverlight 4, some of us that still have old projects in Silverlight 3, I havent found any solution to the below problem just yet, just a workaround for now. Still when using ...

Poll: What kind of computer should a corporate provide to their developers.

  I have been collecting a poll to almost any developer I find on my way as well as business owners. I have been looking to see what a small development shop, medium size company and a big corp...

Copy and Paste problems in Visual Studio 2010

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';After installing Visual Studio 2010 I started having problems with Copy and Paste. Trying to find out how many users are being affected by this bug. The use case to rep...

Road Trip with Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell

I was lucky enough to got invited to join Carl and Richard on their road trip from Redlands to Phoenix. You can be the lucky one on their next stop. What an experience to share 5 hours on a RV wit...

Everything you need to know about Silverlight 4

Silvertlight 4 got release this week and with that blogs and social media got a fantastic coverage of the details, hopefully I got the ones that will help you to get started fast. Step 1: Install ...

Apple reveals the iPhone 4.0 multitasking

Finally Apple decided to add multitasking to the iPhone to compete with all the new devices coming up and existing. At an Apple press event, CEO Steve Jobs announces multitasking support in the ne...

The Digital Video Recorder (DVR) is old news, the IP TV is the new generation.

Its been more than 10 years since the first DVR came out in the US, the idea that you wont be wasting time by programming your video to record a show. Tivo was the first company to bring the idea of a...

Is the Apple iPad for you now or should you wait until the iPhone 4 is released?

The iPad came to the market last Saturday and as always with the Apple marketing came the big lines and small tents that never seen a camp site but the Apple stores. There are the people that want one...

My First Windows Phone 7 Application

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Scott Guthrie started the thread of creating a Windows Phone 7 Twitter application in the Mix, followed by Miguel de Icaza creating an iPhone Twitter Client. So I thoug...

Playing with Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual'; Installation tips. If Visual Studio 2010 Professional or higher is already installed on your development computer, an add-in for Visual Studio 2010 Professional is a...

VS2010 is a game changer with WPF & Silverlight/WP7 Silverlight.

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft makes crystal clear that they are pushing Silverlight to be the platform for developers to use to write it once, run everywhere. What started as a brow...

Whats new in Silverlight 4

Thanks to the Mix for all the content showing what is coming out with Silverlight 4. Its amazing how much work Microsoft accomplished in such a short amount of time, feels like Silverlight 3 was relea...

Visual Studio 2010 Launch with DotNet Rocks and ESRI

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/blog/visual-studio-2010-launch-with-dotnet-rocks-and-esri/';tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';.NET Rocks is coming to town for the The Visual Studio 2010 launch will...

March 22-25th 2010 ESRI Developer Summit

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';In 2 weeks the ESRI Developer Summit will start in Palm Springs, if you havent register, there is still time.   Created for Developers by Developers Prepare...

Comparing LINQ to SQL vs the classic SqlCommand

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/blog/comparing-linq-to-sql-vs-the-classic-sqlcommand/';tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';When you are coming from using SqlCommand and SqlConnection is difficult to ...

The new Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 in Visual Studio 2010 RC without Geometry Types.

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/blog/the-new-microsoft-sql-server-compact-edition-3-5-in-visual-studio-2010-rc-without-geometry-types/';tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';With the goodies coming wit...

Difference between ASP.NET Sessions, Application variables and Cache objects.

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/blog/difference-between-asp-net-sessions-application-variables-and-cache-objects/';tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';When developers start with ASP.NET Web Forms the...

The Orchard Project as my new blog engine.

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/blog/the-orchard-project-as-my-new-blog-engine/';tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Orchard is an open source CMS web application that will allow you to create any we...

Making your ASP.NET application work as a service.

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Now this post by the title already says is controversial or a hack, I take the second one, what that means is Im recommending not to use the code in the post as anything...

Arrived to the Microsoft MVP Summit

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';   Once again back to Seattle for the MVP Summit, this year is a pretty exciting one with all released they had. A few blurry pictures from the first day.  ...

Silverlight Map Stats 2.0 released

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Finally this weekend I had time to work in the Map Stats to bring it to an useful tool.  It was overdue in a face lift. MapStats is a simple script that when adde...

How to keep yourself interested as a developer.

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';   I can only speak for myself in this one, I have seen other people master the balancing world of development without much ado, in my case, is being a lifetime ...

RT : VS 2010 / .NET 4 Release Candidate

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Always waiting until the official notice comes out before opening my mouth. Scott Guthrie just did that, Release candidate for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 is out. You...

Should developers go to conferences? What to expect at the Microsoft MVP Summit 2010

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Feels like there are millions of conference that developers need to go every year. There is the MIX2010 that by the way Shawn Wildermuth will be presenting. If you haven...

Aint matter what expert say, the people has spoken: The iPad is going to be huge.

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Many experts came out after the announcement disappointed by the iPad, after the big hype is understandable. Yet why Apple wants to follow a different formula that got t...

Graffiti CMS 2.0 development is now getting started

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';The open source Graffiti CMS 1.3 project started a new trunk on the source control to make room to the effort for Graffiti CMS 2.0 development. Telligents Graffiti coord...

Error accessing svc services on IIS.

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';I got many questions and emails from people about my previous post about problems running windows communication foundation .svc in Windows 7 upgrade Looks like many sys...

Developers start thinking about .NET 4 with Visual Studio 2010 and of course Silverlight 4.

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Soon the .NET 4 final release will be here with Visual Studio 2010 to be the application youll be using 80% of your time at work. The date hasnt been confirmed by Micros...

Communicating between ASP.NET and Silverlight using JavaScript

tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Getting more and more people asking about communication between Silverlight and ASP.NET UIs, when you have different controls created in ASP.NET and you dont want to red...

Is subscribing to a blog is a concept of the past?

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/blog/is-subscribing-to-a-blog-is-a-concept-of-the-past/'; tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual'; January 2010 Great Blog Links Maybe we are starting moving away from r...

Code Snip: Removing non ASCII characters in C#

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/blog/code-snip-removing-non-ascii-characters-in-c/';tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';   C# Tip. To make sure you clean your string from non ASCII charact...

Become a Green Geek and save money

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/blog/become-a-green-geek-and-save-money/';tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Because you are a geek, does not mean your carbon footprint is allowed to be bigger than ...

Deploying a CLR Trigger

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/blog/deploying-a-clr-trigger/';tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';Back in July last year I posted how to create and deploy a CLR Trigger for MS SQL to add your busine...

Upgrading to Graffiti CMS 1.3 Open Source Version

tweetmeme_url = 'http://alpascual.com/upgrading-to-graffiti-cms-1-3-open-source-version/'; tweetmeme_source = 'alpascual';   Finally this weekend I had the time to start looking at Graffiti 1....

Upgrading from .NET RIA Services to WCF RIA Services

So the new WCF RIA Services are here for Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and with that the older applications created with the preview .NET RIA Services back in July need a few work to be updated. If you crea...

What to win a free trip to the MIX?

Mix 10K Challenge Inspire the World with Just 10K What could you create for the Web if you only had 10 kilobytes of code? It's time to exercise your minimalist creativity and get back to basic...

ASP.beer Seattle on February 16th

 Re Blogging http://blog.lozanotek.com/archive/2009/12/13/ASP.beer_Seattle.aspx Can you answer at least one of the following questions: Are you an ASP.NET or related web technology ent...

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) Preview 8

I have been using MEF Preview 6 for Silverlight since the moment the came out, I have been really happy at that release, allows me to load XAP files dynamically in order to speed up the starting ti...

Adding Images on Silverlight 4 using drag and drop and the web camera.

Silverlight 4 brings a few features that I could use since version 2, the biggest improvement in my case is Drag and Drop support, I really see many different use cases for that particular feature. I ...

Do you need one of those Experts in Social Media?

If you got lost on the title, you are not the only one, I did as well, I shall add a subtitle. Who are those experts in Twitter and Facebook? Easier now? Easier for me to wrap my head around it. All a...

A few issues with Silverlight 4 after Installing Visual Studio 2010

Silverlight 4 beta just came out and is better than I expected. This is the first post of many about my experience with this beta and the road blocks Ill find during my expedition. This version of Sil...

Silverlight 4 all about Media, Business Applications and calling your COM objects as trusted application!

Had to stream the PDC from Vienna, Austria, that was pretty cool that Microsoft gave that feed for people that didnt make it to the PDC this year, yet I lost the chance to get my free laptop. Silverl...

The ArcGIS API for Microsoft Silverlight/WPF version 1.1 is now available.

Great news this morning, the new ESRI API for Silverlight when up on the Resource Center. This is the build I have been waiting for, the biggest change I think is the added Map Viewer that you can per...

The ESRI Dev Summit 2010 hosted in Palms Springs CA is open for registration.

My favorite conference/summit is now open for registration. If you are a developer in GIS or even just getting into mapping and location, this is a must go. Youll find how to use the ESRI Silverlight ...

How to fix Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException in ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0

I have been receiving a few emails about my old post how to fix the javascript error Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManagerParserErrorException on ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0. Looks like google maybe is not lo...

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