January 2008 - Posts

• Restore Machine.Config file

  If you made any changes to machine.config file and wish to restore it to its default , the .NET 2.0 framework provide a backup for this file incase you wish to reset it. You will find two files in the framework installation path (\%SystemRoot%\Microsoft .NET\Framework\%VersionNumber%\CONFIG\) : - machine.config.comments : contains a descriptive comments for each key in the machine.config along with it's default or recommended value. - machine.config.default: contains the original machine.config values To restore the original file just copy the content or copy the file and rename it. (BTW : this post belongs to do more with less using .NET series which I promised to continue) Posted Jan 30 2008, 07:31 AM by Hosam Kamel with 3 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET Tips & Tricks, ASP.NET Deployment, do more with less using .NET 2.0 series

• Port 25

  I have passed by this web site while browsing the Microsoft Open Source Home page , Port 25 Is a  Microsoft's open source software lab which contains many posts and interviews about open source software. Posted Jan 29 2008, 08:44 AM by Hosam Kamel with no comments Filed under: Community Projects, Microsoft, Open Source

• The Logging Framework for JS

  A small article explains the uses of  log4js which is a free library similar to the Net logging framework Log4net but it's especially to ASP.NET(AJAX) developers to allow them adding  logging abilities to JavaScript. Read a brief intro here Posted Jan 29 2008, 08:21 AM by Hosam Kamel with 2 comment(s) Filed under: ASP.NET, AJAX, JavaScript, Logging

• 17 Ways You Can Use Twitter: A Guide for Beginners, Marketers and Business Owners

  Twitter is a micro blogging platform which allows you to publish short messages of less than 140 characters through different mediums like IM, cellphones and the web. It has a social element as well, as it allows users to befriend and monitor each other’s messages or updates. So what you have here is a publishing tool that can be either public and private. It is similar to an IRC channel although messages are displayed less rapidly. Some have called it a slower version of Internet messengers.   Really a wonderfully article Read more here ... Posted Jan 28 2008, 01:17 AM by Hosam Kamel with no comments Filed under: Twitter

• Free : Jordev Visual Studio 2008 Training Invitation!

  Are you living in Jordan , a free training will be organized by Jordev.net community about Visual Studio 2008. here is the announcement by Najeeb Jarrar   Read the full announcement and follow the training details here Jordev Posted Jan 26 2008, 05:02 PM by Hosam Kamel with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Visual Studio 2005 Tips, Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft, MEA (Middle East and Africa)

• MSDN Reader

  The MSDN Reader allows you to browse through MSDN Magazine articles like never before. Read through articles, view figures and code snippets in an intuitive and easy-to-use experience. The complete source code for the reader is also provided for you here. Download MSDN Reader Posted Jan 24 2008, 11:04 PM by Hosam Kamel with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Free Tools, .NET 3.0 & .NET 3.5, Geek tools, WPF

• Got Tech Posters?

  A list of technology posters and charts for developers available on MSDN collected by Chris Bowen   Get the whole posters and read the post Posted Jan 24 2008, 09:43 PM by Hosam Kamel with no comments Filed under: .NET 3.0 & .NET 3.5, Microsoft, Silverlight

• Dropping a User's Default Database in SQL Server 2005

  A good tip by David Douglass about what happened if your drop the default user's database and how to fix the generated error below . Dropping a User's Default Database in SQL Server 2005 Posted Jan 20 2008, 10:51 AM by Hosam Kamel with no comments Filed under: SQL Server 2005 tips, SQL Server 2005

• 40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS

  Nice Titles Revised An improved Nice Titles Tooltip Script with Accesskeys support.    A lightweight prototype based JavaScript tooltip    Nice Titles A classic. The script uses a background image.    AJAX-enabled Help-BalloonsHelp windows in baloon-design. AJAXified version is also available.    jTip – A jQuery Tool Tip Extensive AJAX-based tooltips with numerous functions and presentation possibilities.    jQuery plugin: Tooltip Enhances the jQuery Library.    qTip Works for all elements, not only for links in most browsers - IE 5.5+, Firefox, Safari and Opera.    Form field hints with CSS Tooltips t’s a basic example of how helpful a little JavaScript and CSS can be in a form. Instead of the input hints always showing and potentionally cluttering a very simple form, only the hint for the currently focused input will show. This article will show a way to do this.      JS Tooltip Displays customizable tool tip message for each link element on a web page. A tool tip that can be added to the anchor element unobtrusively by adding a class value to it. This was done by having the tool tip message pull from the specific title attribute of the anchor element that the tool tip was added too.      BoxOver Flexible DHTML-Tooltipp in numerous formats. Appears (almost) immedately and fades in during loading.  SuperNotes Converts footnotes to tooltips. Appears immediately and can be assigned with a fixed position in the browser window.  Tipster Multifunctional tool tips with JavaScript.    5 Tooltips by DHTMLGoodies First version is suppose to improve the usability of online forms:  The second technique uses AJAX.  Walter Zorns JavaScript, DHTML Tooltipps These tooltips can be used for different purposes; the code is well-documented and can easily be improved and modified.  clueTip This is a demo page for the new clueTip — a jQuery-based, AJAX-powered tooltip. The clueTip plug-in was inspired by Cody Lindley’s jTip script.    Mootools Tooltip Mootools Javascript example of using tooltips.    Sweet Titles JavaScript Fading Tooltips. Hover Tip Tooltip with menu-like capabilities. The tooltip layer will remain visible while the viewer hovers over it. This allows you to place clickable links inside tooltip content.    Multiline Tooltip with HTML, CSS and JavaScript This document explains how to make nice multiline tooltip for HTML documents, using simple and standard CSS, HTML and JavaScript.    overLIB This JavaScript-library can be used in a variety of ways; many positioning and appearance features are available.    Scriptaculous Effect.Tooltip The tooltip script from the script.aculo.us library.    Tooltip.js Tooltipps with AJAX. The library uses the Prototype JavaScript Framework. The demo doesn’t work any longer.    CSS-Based Solutions CSS Tooltips A simple demonstration of using custom CSS tooltips as a drop-in replacement for the browser-based title attribute.    CSS Technique for Tooltips CSS can create “faux tooltips” much the same as the JavaScript ones, but without all the (possibly) undesirable scripting. There are a few in’s and out’s involved, but surprisingly, the methods are rather easy to accomplish.   Unobtrusive and Slightly Accessible CSS Tool Tips on Semi Transparent CSS Menus The scripts creates half-transparent tooltips with shadows.   CSS Menu Descriptions This is a CSS technique that could be useful if you want to give users accessible added content such as tool-tips, notifications, or alerts, without adding unnecessary clutter to your page. And since it doesn’t rely of JavaScript, it should be useful to everyone, even disabled users.   Balloon Tooltip Demonstration Balloon tooltip demonstration.   CSS Tooltipps, lixlpixel Javascript Tooltips Similar scripts from the same source:   CSS Rollovers for Tooltips CSS Bubble Tooltips This example will show you how well this tooltip stretches for long descriptions.   Pure CSS Tooltips I   Simple, accessible “more” links - v2 CSS-based solution for displaying tooltips.   CSS Tooltips Another solution, based only on CSS.   Information Balloon PopUps Stu Nicholls delivers another CSS-based solutions. Further Solutions Snap.com Snap gives you a visual preview of each result before you click on it. And that improves your odds of picking the right search, without clicking back-and-forth several times.   DHTML Tooltips Popup a help tip or information layer onmouseover using this object-based DHTML tooltip code. The basic version, presented on this page, can contain plain text or rich html, images, or images and text. The tooltip can be displayed over a background image. It can move with mouse movement. And it is easy to customize and modify. Animated Tooltip Javascript   DOM Tooltip DOM Tooltip Script-Library   Yahoo! UI Library: Tooltip The Yahoo! UI Library Toolbox provides among other functions also tooltips.   Source : Smashing Magazine Posted Jan 19 2008, 09:53 PM by Hosam Kamel with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Free Tools, Geek tools, JavaScript

• 3D WPF to explore Amazon.com

  This is really cool, Sacha Barber has put a neat way to browse Amazon.com by using WPF's ability to do 3D. He has a detailed write up of the application over at Code Project. Sacha even has a video of the interface in action.   Source : Coding4Fun Posted Jan 19 2008, 09:33 PM by Hosam Kamel with no comments Filed under: .NET 3.0 & .NET 3.5, Microsoft, WPF