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A Quick Fix for the Validator SetFocusOnError Bug by findleyd

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...
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VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements by findleyd

I try to follow a coding standard for organizing my using statements. System.* goes at the top and then other namespaces grouped together like this: using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Configuration; using System.Data; using System...
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Scott Guthrie presents at NDDNUG by findleyd

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...

Using IronPython for Dynamic Expressions. by findleyd

We recently had this question posted to our forums over at LVS : Dear Forum Experts: I am looking for very specialized solution: I have various Items which I store into a table in a Relational DB. I would like to do a custom calculation, specific for...

Suggestions for distributing CTPs as VirtualPC images by findleyd

I finally got around to trying the Sept. CTP of Orcas. I loaded up the VPC images on VPC7 Beta (which seems to perform much better than VPC2004). If this is going to be the way that MS is going to release CTPs in the future here are a few suggestions...
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Problems with RewritePath and Search Engines. by findleyd

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...
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New version of LearnVisualStudio.NET launched by findleyd

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...

A great article on functional programming... by findleyd

http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html This article was a great overview of many of the aspects of functional programming. With what Micosoft is doing to the CLR and C# and VB it would seem that functional programming is making advances into the main...

Migrating from System.Web.Mail to System.Net.Mail by findleyd

I discovered how great the new System.Net.Mail namespace is this weekend. The now obsoleted System.Web.Mail was just a wrapper around CDONTS. It worked pretty well. It would churn out messages into the C:\InetPub\MailRoot\Pickup folder. So in a web farm...
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What should a "Stream" operator look like in C#? by findleyd

Streams were one of the core concepts that I latched onto with Cw. It elevated enumerable lists as a first class problem domain. The fact that int* really was IEnumerable <int> melted away as an implementation detail and allowed me to begin to think...
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