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A Quick Fix for the Validator SetFocusOnError Bug
The ASP.NET validators have this nice property called "SetFocusOnError" that is supposed to set the focus to the first control that failed validation. This all works great until your validator control is inside a naming container. I ran into this recently...
Posted: Jun 29 2007, 09:03 AM by findleyd | with 2 comment(s)
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Fix ReturnUrl When Sharing Forms Authentication with Multiple Web Applications
Scenario: You have two web applications www.mydomain.com and login.mydomain.com. The login site provides a centralized login application and www contains any number of web applications that should use the auth ticket issued by the login site. The auth...
Posted: Feb 06 2007, 11:01 AM by findleyd | with 1 comment(s)
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A VS.NET Macro to Generate Machine Keys.
I needed to create a new machine key for an asp.net site. I found a couple of command line utils out on the web that would create a new key but I thought it would be easier to just have it avail in VS.NET. So, I threw together this little macro that will...
LearnExpression.com is live.
We recently launched our video tutorial site for Expression Web Designer . Dustin, our resident graphic artist is pumping out the video tutorials as well as designing the site using the tool. It's good to have some how to vids from a designers point of...
Posted: Feb 02 2007, 06:34 PM by findleyd
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Scott Guthrie presents at NDDNUG
Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX to LINQ and DLINQ (I still like to call it DLINQ...
ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (excitement builds)
I just downloaded beta 1 of ASP.NET AJAX today. Wow! Lots and lots of changes. The type system has been greatly simplified. I like this. The move to prototypes over closures was a good decision. The core scripts are much easier to read and comprehend...
Problems with RewritePath and Search Engines.
We just recently launched the new version of LearnVisualStudio.NET. The implementation uses the RewritePath method to serve up dynamic pages based on templates. All of our pre deployment testing showed that this was all working without a hitch. Once we...
New version of LearnVisualStudio.NET launched
It took us a while but the new version of LearnVisualStudio.NET is live. We've packed a lot into this redesign and we hope that you enjoy the improvements. I'll start with those items that you might not find all that interesting, but are a HUGE improvement...
Microsoft Product Name Generator
Lance and I were musing over some of the recent product renamings and it gave me the idea to throw together a product name generator. Here's my first stab at it: var pfx = new Array("", "Visual ", "Compact ", "Embedded ", "Expression "); var prd = new...
Patterns in .NET
Andrew makes some obversations about MVC in the .NET world. I too have been delving into OO principles and patterns over the last couple of years. I'm still getting my head around the ups and downs of page vs front controller. ASP.NET uses a page controller...
Posted: Jun 08 2006, 11:28 AM by findleyd | with 3 comment(s)
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