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Microsoft to Acquire DATAllegro

2008-07-24T19:19:12Z

Microsoft to Acquire DATAllegro Leaders in Data Warehousing Team to Provide Large Scale Business Intelligence Solutions. More here... Read More......(read more)

UserAgent Fix for the RSSToolkit 2.0.0.0

2008-07-24T19:16:02Z

I frequently use the RSSToolkit to consume and display RSS feeds from other blogs. Recently, I've noticed problems with the RSSToolkit not being able to display feed from some external sources. In particular, I've been having trouble consuming feeds from external blogs like Blogspot and Feedburner. The symptoms appeared over the past month or two and included the disappearance of consumed blogs and new blog posts. After some digging, I found this entry on Obishan's blog...(read more)

Having RadioButtons on a Repeater or DataList

2008-07-24T18:04:00Z

Repeaters are very powerful controls that allows us to present formated information from a datasource. Recently I needed to include some RadioButtons inside a Repeater so I could select one of the items from the repeater, but to my surprise, and old bug resurfaced. Reference to the bug can be found here but I will include some information regarding it: SYMPTOMS When you add a ASP.NET RadioButton control to the ItemTemplate of a data-bound Repeater server control, the RadioButton control that you...(read more)

The Anonymous Namespace Bug

2008-07-24T17:30:00Z

Actively participating in the development of a static code analyzer such as NDepend is a good way to learn about tricky Common Type System (CTS) details. Every feature have to be tested properly to cop with things like managed and unsafe unmanaged pointer types (ref out and *), open/close generic types, generic parameter types, methods with special name (.ctor() .cctor() get_ set_ add_ remove_...), all sorts of arrays combination, virtual/new/override methods, explicit interface implemented methods...(read more)

Reminder: Tallahassee .NET Architecture SIG Tonight

2008-07-24T17:19:00Z

If there's anyone out there who's in Tallahassee tonight, drop by our Arch SIG meeting. I'll be doing an introduction to dependency injection by demonstrating a simple ASP.NET MVC application. Hope to see you there! Read More......(read more)

Incarceration Log - Day 4

2008-07-24T16:52:42Z

It has been only four days since my self-imposed, month-long incarceration in the prison known as Corporate Calgary, but already the three walls of my cell close in around me. My oppressors continue their assault on my psyche with inhuman tortures such as "Death by 1000 Quick Questions" and "Let's Talk About Weather" and "We Meet Because We Can". My jailors mock me with bizarre acronyms and epic tales of projects past. Yesterday, I nearly screamed in terror when...(read more)

Using your app.config (web.config) to store your StructureMap settings

2008-07-24T16:51:55Z

With the most recent drop of StrcutreMap (2.4.9 -- aka 2.5) you now have the ability to put your wiring information inside the app.config file. Prior to this you needed to either use the StructureMap.config file or wire your dependencies up in code. So today I thought I would simply review how to use this new feature and show how simple and easy it is. ***** Disclaimer ***** Yes, I know that some people think that using attributes for IoC wiring is evil, but I like it. Also, because most of the stuff...(read more)

Reminder - DC ALT.NET Meeting 7/24/2008 - LINQ Deep Dive

2008-07-24T16:05:00Z

Just as a reminder from the previous post , the July meeting for DC ALT.NET will be on July 24, 2008 from 7PM-9PM. Check out our site and our mailing list for more information as it becomes available. This month, K. Scott Allen, of OdeToCode and a co-host of Herding Code , will present a deep dive into LINQ and a code-along so that we can follow along. The intent is to go as deep as we can with LINQ to find out what works, what doesn't and how to use it effectively. So, bring your laptops and...(read more)

Engage: Events Alpha.2 is released!

2008-07-24T14:31:00Z

We've released the next Alpha release of the Engage: Events module for DotNetNuke. Try it out and let us know what you think and what you'd like to see from this module. ...( read more ) Read More......(read more)

Made it to Brisbane for RDN Dev Day!

2008-07-24T14:03:14Z

I’m currently sitting on the 19th floor of Oaks Festival Towers in the Brisbane CBD doing a little bit of last minute preparation for my four talks tomorrow at the Readify Developer Network Dev Day. I managed to score a beautiful two bedroom apartment for the night (sadly I’m only here for a night) and [...] Read More......(read more)

SharePoint - Export using STSADM causing "Failed to compare two elements in the array"

2008-07-24T12:20:00Z

Today I faced a problem during the SharePoint server migration that I'm working on. First I made the backup for the database and restored it on the destination server, but it didn't work very well. The root site collection didn't work, I just received a "404 Page not found" error from it. So I chose to import/export every site collection from the entire web application, and surprise....another error. But this time I received the "Failed to compare two elements in the array"...(read more)

Caparea.NET: WCF in SharePoint 2007

2008-07-24T11:22:45Z

Advertisement : SharePoint 2007 Training by Sahil in Europe and United States ( more information ). August 26th, 7:00PM - 9:00PM Ladies and Gentlemen, mark your calendars – you probably don’t want to miss this. I intend on making this talk extra special with sprig of lemon on top. Next month, on August 26th, I will be presenting at the Caparea.net user group. Now, caparea.net is a pretty well established user group – I personally have had a relationship with them for many years now. In fact, that...(read more)

The CreateUserWizard and Validation ErrorMessages

2008-07-24T10:41:00Z

The CreateUserWizard control introduced in ASP.NET 2.0 makes it easy to create a new user account on a website that uses the Membership framework. (See my Creating User Accounts tutorial for more information on using this control.) Out of the box, the CreateUserWizard control offers a fully functional interface for creating new user accounts. You don't have to write a lick of code or declarative markup. Instead, just set a few properties and you're off and running. Teach Yourself ASP.NET...(read more)

Professional Visual Studio 2008

2008-07-24T10:10:36Z

As you may remember from the past, back in November 2007 and when I was working on my Professional Visual Studio Extensibility title, I eventually found authors of Professional Visual Studio 2008 book and was invited to their blog. As I stated at that time, our books are complementary and that was a good idea to join together. Even though our activity on Professional Visual Studio blog has fallen down recently but we hope that we can return with new posts very soon. Professional Visual Studio 2008...(read more)

Do you think about supportability?

2008-07-24T10:00:00Z

So I wanted to get a read on how people design their web sites. My thinking is that there isn’t much time spent in planning for supportability. There are a lot of other concerns that take priority, What is more important – Design or Content Read More......( read more ) Read More......(read more)