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ASP.net File Uploader with Overwrite Message

The Code Project Latest Articles — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Intranet File Upload dialog box with overwrite prompt and file archiving....

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Raleigh Developer Dinner Post Event Blog

Federal Developer Weblog — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Thank You! to everyone who attended the developer dinner. It was great to have the opportunity to finally do this in the Raleigh area and you should expect us to do more of these types of events. As promised here are some resources: Someone mention AJAX support, here is a sample from my co-worker Marc Schweigert: http://cid-1f72da7294089597.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/ASP.NET/MVC/MvcAjaxSamples.zip Here are some additional resources concerning AJAX MVC: ASP.NET MVC Slide decks...

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Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Evaluation: Trial Experience for IT Professionals / Developers

Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Download SQL Server 2008 180-day Trial Software. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a database platform for large-scale online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, and e-commerce applications; it is also a business intelligence platform for data analysis and reporting solutions.SQL Server 2008 is a trusted, productive, and intelligent data platform for all your data needs. SQL [...]...

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ASP.NET Podcast Show #129 - Caching with .NET 3.5 SP1

ASP.NET Podcast — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Subscribe to All! Subscribe to WMV. Subscribe to M4V (iPod). Subscribe to MP3.Download WMV.Download M4V (iPod).Download MP3.Show Notes:New Caching Support in .NET 3.5 SP1.Source Code: protected void Page_Load(object sender, e) { string Output = .Empty; if (!Page.IsPostBack) { ...

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ESRI Sample Flex Viewer with Source Code

Al Pascual — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Esri posted at the code gallery a sample of their Flex map viewer. Its a must have. This sample viewer was designed to showcase some of the core capabilities of the ArcGIS Platform through a simple, modern, Web2.0 style user interface. This sample may be used in compiled form with simple modifications to its configuration file, or its source code can be used by application developers to further explore and understand some of the best practices and programming patterns of the ArcGIS API for Flex....

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Moonlight 1.0 Public Beta 1

JohnPapa.net — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Moonlight 1.0 beta 1 has been released! You can read more about it here. We are getting close to being able to run Silverlight 2 applications on Linux. The roadmap for Moonlight is is a good reference point to check out the where they are taking it. ...

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Leeroy Jenkins in Software Development

K. Scott Allen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Jenkins video always makes me laugh. Its the short and sad tale of a man who doesnt have the patience for planning, nor the stamina for statistical analysis. Hes a man who leaps into action without thought of consequence. To Leeroy, there are no 50,000 foot views, no discussions, and no tomorrow. In the video you can watch as Leeroys guild is decimated by dragons who take advantage of the chaos provided by Leeroys thoughtless actions. You might be thinking Im going to liken Leeroy to the developer...

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Tabbing within Visual Studio

Thom Robbins .NET Weblog — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Tabs are everywhere within Visual Studio. By default each time a new window is opened a new tab is creates. Many times a lot of tabs can make moving around quickly seem a bit difficult. Within Visual Studio the <CTRL> + <TAB> key open a dialog similar to the Windows Alt-Tab dialog that shows all the open documents.

Using this dialog you can choose files to open by pressing the <CTRL> + <TAB> again. Also, the arrow keys allow the selection of the Active Tool Window.

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The Silverlight Application Corner

Method ~ of ~ failed — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

One of the things that we have heard in feedback is the need to surface more end-to-end samples. While the atomic learning videos/samples are great as are more in-depth tutorials, there is still a desire to see how to package all these things up into a single application. Seeing from start to finish helps absorb the learning process and see how these atomic things fit together and interoperate. Today we added the application corner to the Silverlight community site. Yes, I know the name is less...

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FIX: Some elements that contain space characters in a message may be reset to empty when you use the BizTalk Server Adapter for WSE 2.0 in BizTalk Server 2004 or in BizTalk Server 2006

kbAlertz.com :: BizTalk Server 2004 — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

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TIP: VS keyboard shortcut for editor tooltip

The Moth — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It is Ctrl+K, Ctrl+I (just place your keyboard cursor on a variable and try it). You could have found this out on your own via the Tools->Options menu: Unfortunately there isn't one for the datatip when debugging. Instead you can show the equivalent (and older) "Quick Watch" via Ctrl+Alt+Q or even better Shift+F9. If you really are determined to show the datatip via the keyboard(and I do mean if you really are fixated with that goal) there is a post here by Rob with a hack. Comments about this post...

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CodeMash 2009

Steven Smith — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The 2009 Conference Season kicks off early in Ohio with CodeMash 3.0. This is the third year of the event and promises to be a valuable experience with a diverse mixture of software development technologies. This year Im happy to report that I will be speaking about techniques to improve web application performance, a topic Ive spoken on frequently to ASP.NET audiences and one which Ill be expanding to include techniques applicable to a variety of web platforms.

In the course of registering for the event, I was please to note that they actually got their Company Size field right! Ive blogged in the past about off-by-one errors in various surveys that discriminate against companies (like mine) that have exactly 10 employees. CodeMash makes us feel warm and fuzzy and accepted:

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ASP.NET MVC at DogFood Developers Conference

Steven Smith — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

I gave a presentation a couple of weeks ago at the Columbus Ohio Microsoft Dogfood Developers conference. Danilo, the main organizer of the event, snapped a couple pictures of me during the talk. This was my first time presenting on ASP.NET MVC and I want to definitely thank ScottGu, ScottHa, Phil Haack, and Jason Gaylord for their great presentations on this subject, from which I borrowed and added my personal spin and perspective. Jason was kind enough to let me use his simple blog application as the basis for my demos, which I extended by making it fundamentally more testable. I apologize for taking so long to get the slides and demos posted its been a crazy couple of weeks (hence the lack of blogging). The files are up now:

ASP.NET MVC Presentation and Demos

If you were there and had any questions that I wasnt able to address, feel free to post a comment or contact me and Ill be sure to find you the answer.

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Tampa Code Camp This Saturday!!!

JohnPapa.net — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

This Saturday is the Tampa Code Camp 2008. The session lineup looks great so far, so be sure to stop by and spend some time learning, networking and just hanging out with a great group of people. I will be presenting a session on Astoria and Silverlight in the morning at 9:40am. It should be a lot of fun, so please stop by and check it out. This is the last time I will be presenting this topic before the release of my book (its getting close!!!) Practical ADO.NET Data Services with...

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Isolation frameworks lessons from the wild

ISerializable — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Im in the process of teaching another TDD master class in Oslo this week, and in the past two days we went over the major Isolation frameworks in .NET (I refuse to say Mocking frameworks anymore. the Mock work is too overloaded as it is). We covered NMock, Rhino Mocks, Moq and Typemock , and alos as a start we used hand written mocks and stubs, and NUnit.Mocks for entry level learning. Several things can be gleaned from how students reacted to using these frameworks (in random order of thought)...

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lowering the adoption barrier for unit testing: doctest in python

ISerializable — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

One area that I didnt know about was brought to me by an attendee in one of the conferences I was in. Its a simple idea, really: write the tests for a method as part of the methods documentation. but make them executable. In python, they have something called doctest (thanks to Alf Lervg for the emails!) heres a PDF with more in. With the upcoming WPF editor in VS 2010, we could find a good use for such a thing. I think it might ease adoption of unit testing becuase its much easier to...

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Small interview with me about blogging

Frans Boumas blog — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Andreas Håkansson did a couple of interviews with various people from the .NET blog community about... blogging . The interview with me is now available here. ...

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Known Installation Issues With ASP.NET MVC

youve been HAACKED — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Im working to try and keep internal release notes up to date so that I dont have this huge amount of work when were finally ready to release. Yeah, Im always trying something new by giving procrastination a boot today. These notes were sent to me by Jacques, a developer on the ASP.NET MVC feature team. I only cleaned them up slightly. The sections below contain descriptions and possible solutions for known issues that may cause the installer to fail. The solutions have proven successful in most...

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WCF Workflow services in business applications

Pablo M. Cibraro (aka Cibrax) — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

It's pretty interesting to see how useful workflow services can be sometimes, specially for business applications that require orchestrating several back-end services calls. As one of the programmers involved in the development of the WS-I Sample application for .NET, an application that demonstrates how to build interoperable web services in .NET using the WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 (Each vendor in the WS-I working group basically implemented the same application using its development platform,...

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The Wrap Panel

Jesse Liberty - Silverlight Geek — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

The Silverlight Toolkit includes a wrap panel that allows you to add elements to it and will automatically wrap those elements either horizontally or vertically as required to fit them within the size of the panel. All you need to play with WrapPanel is a source of numerous controls and the easiest way to do that is to generate them programmatically. To do this, I'll borrow the code I used to create words in this blog entry on obtaining a lot of words, and put it to use here. To keep...

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