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Tip #51 Did you know… how to use VS2005 to debug with IE8?

VS2005 does not debug with IE8 by default, due to IE8’s LCIE feature ( http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/03/11/ie8-and-loosely-coupled-ie-lcie.aspx ).  To enable it, please follow the instruction in this thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com...
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Tip #50: Did you know…How to absolute position the controls in Visual Studio Designer?

Absolute positioning control(s) in the designer can seem confusing at first until you learn the visual cues. You can do one of the following two possible actions by dragging the control in the designer. Re-parent the control Change the controls position...
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The Four Pillars of ASP.NET

Paul Litwin posted an interesting article that discusses the four pillars of ASP.NET (Web Forms, MVC, AJAX, and Dynamic Data) to his blog. He provides a good a overview and comparison of these different approaches to building ASP.NET applications. According to the article, although Web Forms will always be an important Microsoft technology for building web applications, ASP.NET is no longer just Web Forms. And, this is a good thing :) You can read his blog entry here: http://weblogs.asp.net/paullitwin/archive/2009/03/30/the-four-pillars-of-asp-net.aspx Read More...
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New Web Site Monitoring Service.

When one of our sites is down, it's a "all hands on deck" scramble. I use several monitoring mechanisms to let me know if there are problems on one of the sites I work on. I recently added a service from APLUS Monitoring. Their services start at FREE !!! - and go up to $20.95 per month. Are customizable, send email alerts (there is an SMS option) and have good reporting. Here's how they describe their services. APlusMonitoring is a solution for your whole company. We monitor your website, server availability and performance externally from our worldwide network of monitoring locations, 24/7 and every day of the year. When your website or network fails to respond, we notify you instantly via Email, SMS/Text Messaging, RSS so...
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Help Shape the Future of ASP.NET

We, The ASP.NET team, are very interested in ensuring that the “top customer pain-points” within ASP.NET are considered or acted upon in every new release. I’d like to ensure that you have the opportunity to connect with the product team so that you can submit your top "pain points" and so that we get a consolidated (and ideally prioritized) list of such items from a number of avenues. As most of my readers are avid ASP.NET Developers, I'd love to hear from you. Here are some areas to consider: - Problems understanding, as the feature area is way too complex or cumbersome - Problems in coding, such as way to complex, or not possible, or involves way too much code” - Plain bugs in the product with either no or complex workarounds...
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03-31-2009, 1:28 AM

Book Plug: Essential LINQ

I was very happy to get a chance to look through my copy of Essential LINQ today.   While there are a number of books out there on LINQ , this one from Dinesh Kulkarni and Charlie Calvert is a must read!  They do an excellent job of explaining the core philosophy behind LINQ as well as its practice in a number of different domains including Linq to Sql, Linq to Entities, Linq patterns, etc.  Dinesh and Charlie were both intimately involved in the design of LINQ from the very early days.  Dinesh now leads our efforts on .NET RIA Services where we continue to carry the LINQ vision to its logical next steps  and Charlie continues to keep be an expert in listening to the C# and LINQ community!  Essential LINQ Enjoy...
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Some ASP.NET compiler black magic

In the work we’ve been doing with Rob on the Kona commerce app , our quest for extreme pluggability has led us to look at quite a few interesting features of ASP.NET compilation. Features I didn’t know about before Dmitry and David pointed them out for me. I thought I’d share… It starts with the <%@ Assembly src= %> and <%@ Reference virtualpath= %> directives which you may have seen show up in IntelliSense when building a page. But what are they doing exactly and what differentiates them? They both enable you to reference code that is in a different file in the site. With both of them, you get full IntelliSense on the referenced code, but they don’t reference the same kinds of files. @Reference is meant to reference a specific class...
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Tip #49 Did you know… how to set the editor to always place open braces on new line for functions in JScript?

In Visual Studio, click Tools -> Options. In the Options dialog on the left pane select Text editor -> JScript -> Formatting. Check Place open brace on new line for functions. Deepak Verma SDET | Visual Web Developer Read More...
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Tip #48 Did you know… that IIS7 application pool’s “Ping” settings may affect IIS7 based website or application debugging?

IIS7 app pool by default only can only have 1.5 minutes window for a non-responsive application.  During IIS web application or website debugging time, we may want to change its corresponding application Pool advanced setting’s “Ping Maximum Response...
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Migrating your Web Applications from IIS 6 to IIS 7

Did you know there is an easy(er) way ??? This article [ HERE ] explains how to use the Web Deployment Tool [ Get it HERE ] to migrate your web applications from IIS 6 / Windows Server 2003 to IIS 7 / Windows Server 2008 Read More...

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