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    Implementing Open Search (A9/Amazon) for IE 7
    Yesterday I setup Microsoft Gadgets and Microsoft 10 to use open search so you'd be able to use the search box in IE 7 to search those sites. It was very simple to do and I thought I'd shared. Create an XML file (I called mine search.xml) and put something...
    Attach Database Without Logins
    I was recently taking a SQL Server 2000 database and moving it over into SQL Server 2005. I did it the old fashioned way and unfortunately the login that our application used to access the DB wasn't in the new SQL Server. I was silly and tried adding...
    Guid.TryParse in .NET 2.0?
    Sadly, the answer is no. I submitted a feature request towards the beginning of the release of the product feedback center . A few minutes ago, I got a toaster message on messenger saying one of my items had been updated. I clicked it and even though...
    Posted: Jan 19 2006, 12:18 AM by HumanCompiler | with 2 comment(s)
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    Intellisense Not Working in Web.config w/ Visual Studio (Web Developer) 2005
    Just had to post this one more time. This is a hair saving post by Scott Guthrie on how to get intellisense to work again if it stops working in the web.config file and why it stops working, as well as just pointing out how cool the intellisense is in...
    Posted: Dec 02 2005, 10:16 AM by HumanCompiler | with 6 comment(s)
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    Upgrade Password Hashing From .NET 1.1 to .NET 2.0
    If you're having troubles upgrading your ASP.NET 1.1 app to 2.0 because of hashing your passwords "not working", my long time friend, Joe, figured it out .
    Posted: Nov 29 2005, 03:07 PM by HumanCompiler | with 4 comment(s)
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    Taking Advantage of Xml Data Type in Sql Server 2005
    There are a ton of interesting things you can do with the new Xml data type in Sql Server 2005. The first quick thing that came to mind was to pass in an Xml document into a stored procedure to have many rows deleted at one time in a batch without having...
    ASP.NET 1.x Error Message: Access is Denied
    Sometimes, I randomly get an error when developing ASP.NET apps saying that access is denied to some assembly in my bin directory. Specifically under C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\Temporary ASP.NET Files. A local guy I know from our user...
    Posted: Oct 12 2005, 11:00 AM by HumanCompiler | with 3 comment(s)
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    Hello Atlas
    So Wally posted how to get the JavaScript proxy to call a WebService from a page in Atlas. It's probably obvious to most, but I went ahead and did a little Hello World app in Atlas. Here are the steps to make a WebService call with Atlas. Note: You should...
    Dynamic Content on Safari
    We have some crystal reports we call to generate invoices. Basically just setting the content-type and content-disposition header, doing a BinaryWrite, passing it the byte array generated by the crystal report and calling Flash and Close on the Response...
    Posted: Aug 17 2005, 02:07 PM by HumanCompiler | with 1 comment(s)
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    Validation Groups in ASP.NET 1.1
    So in ASP.NET 2.0 you can have validation groups so one set of fields can be validated when a certain button is clicked and another set of fields on the same page can be validated when another button is clicked. I don't find myself needing this too often...
    Posted: Aug 15 2005, 02:48 PM by HumanCompiler | with 4 comment(s)
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