After a bit of a hiatus, I’ve rebuilt my website, and am in the process of moving my MSDN blog posts over here as well. In any event, it’ll take a few days to get everything set up, but it’s on the way. PEte Read More...

I've decided to move my blog to my own site, so you can find me at... http://PeteLePage.com/blog PEte Read More...

Funny enough but I am here to confess that I did not realize that I had set “Comments Auto-Approve” to off on my blog since I don’t know when…  And as I use Windows Live Writer to write my blogs I never care to go to the blog dashboard for nearly anything… Anyways, for whatever reason I thought I will go and check if I was missing out on some new features of blogger so I logged in and realized that I had several hundreds of comments piling up waiting for moderation… So first of all sorry for the dumbness and secondly I ask you to be patient while I weed through all the comments that are accumulated so far… I am hoping that over this next week or two I will be able to get through them all but if you need anything urgently then do not hesitate...

The last time I wrote about one of my hiking adventures, it started off great, but really didn’t end well . But I survived, so on that scale, yes it did end well! It’s a matter of perspective. On Saturday, I went on my first hike of the spring to Lake Serene and Bridal Veil Falls . This hike is really two hikes in one. The main destination is Lake Serene, but there’s an absolutely wonderful half mile (1 mile round trip) side trip to the Bridal Veil Falls on the way to Lake Serene. The trail starts in the small town of Index in the county of HomeController ( sorry, I couldn’t resist ). The entire trail is lush with greenery as you would expect in the pacific northwest. All along the trail are many little waterfalls and river crossings like the...

As part of migrating my sites, blogs and other online web presence to one place, I just moved all of my fine art printing notes to the “Fine Art Photography Reference” section… How To How To: Develop Black & White Film How To: Flash Paper How To: Test Paper Sensitivity How To: Pre-Development Bleaching How To: Split Grade Print How To: Use Read More...

Here is the latest in my link-listing series .  Also check out my VS 2010 and .NET 4 series and ASP.NET MVC 2 series for other on-going blog series I’m working on. [In addition to blogging, I am also now using Twitter for quick updates and to share links. Follow me at: twitter.com/scottgu ] ASP.NET MVC How to Localize an ASP.NET MVC Application : Michael Ceranski has a good blog post that describes how to localize ASP.NET MVC 2 applications. ASP.NET MVC with jTemplates Part 1 and Part 2 : Steve Gentile has a nice two-part set of blog posts that demonstrate how to use the jTemplate and DataTable jQuery libraries to implement client-side data binding with ASP.NET MVC. CascadingDropDown jQuery Plugin for ASP.NET MVC : Raj Kaimal has a nice...

The original NerdDinner Sample was very simple. Two samples, simple, in fact. Perhaps it's the new Northwind, as it's a good way to start working with ASP.NET MVC. However, it's not a perfect sample or an idealized example on how to do many things that users want to do. Fortunately, there's been lots of cool folks in the community who have "forked" NerdDinner and done interesting stuff with it. Each of these samples is usually focused on a specific scenario, so they won't necessarily be merged with the trunk, but they are educational nonetheless. Four Five NerdDinners - Each Accessing Data Differently When NerdDinner was originally done, I did it in Linq To SQL as L2S was fast, easy, had a 1:1 relationship between...

The original NerdDinner Sample was very simple. Two samples, simple, in fact. Perhaps it's the new Northwind, as it's a good way to start working with ASP.NET MVC. However, it's not a perfect sample or an idealized example on how to do many things that users want to do. Fortunately, there's been lots of cool folks in the community who have "forked" NerdDinner and done interesting stuff with it. Each of these samples is usually focused on a specific scenario, so they won't necessarily be merged with the trunk, but they are educational nonetheless. Jon Galloway and I have also added a few things to NerdDinner, taking it in a more social direction, as Jon's MVC Music Store today is a better "getting started"...

Microsoft Developer Support or ("CSS" - Customer Support Services) is where you're sent within Microsoft when you've got problems. They see the most interesting bugs, thousands of issues and edge cases and collect piles of data. They report this data back to the ASP.NET team (and other teams) for product planning. Dwaine Gilmer, Principal Escalation Engineer, and I thought it would be interesting to get some of that good internal information out to you, Dear Reader. With all those cases and all the projects, there's basically two top things that cause trouble in production ASP.NET web sites. Long story short, Debug Mode and Anti-Virus software. Thanks to Dwaine Gilmer, Doug Stewart and Finbar Ryan for their help on this...

A beginner emailed me last night and I had forgotten about this little ditty ! When you create a NEW project and immediately try to run the Web Site Administration Tool you will get this error. The solution is easy – BUILD FIRST ! I remember being very confused the first time I got this :) Read More...