Contents tagged with .NET
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Minecrafter: The Minecraft Companion App for Windows Phone 7
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VSNewFile: A Visual Studio Addin to More Easily Add New Items to a Project
My first Visual Studio Add-in! Creating add-ins is pretty simple, once you get used to the CommandBar model it is using, which is apparently a general Office suite extensibility mechanism.
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Join the Dark Side of Visual Studio 2010
Hard to believe it’s been so long, but it was almost 4 years ago when I published Join the Dark Side of Visual Studio. That was when a lot of people were still using VS2003, and importing and exporting environment settings required a custom add-in, VSStyler, which has since fallen off the planet and is hard to find (link, anyone? Let me know). Three versions of VS later, and I’m still using and loving the dark side. Pleased, I am (haha). In fact, that article for one reason or another is still one of my most popular blog entries, thanks in part to a link from Scott Hanselman and a commenter on Coding Horror. I will point out selfishly that my article predates both of these :) But, yes, it’s sad when one of your top referrers is from a link in a comment on another blog. Not even the first comment, either.
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ASP.NET WebForms: Taking Back the HTML
There’s a lot of debate these days about the ASP.NET WebForms model vs. the newer ASP.NET MVC model. There are advantages to both. Disadvantages to both. Pick the one that best fits your needs. Nuff said. But sometimes that choice isn’t so obvious.
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Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX Released
Looking for an ASP.NET AJAX book? This one has been massively updated from its 2.0 version, to cover in detail the features added in 3.5, and not to be forgotten, 3.5 SP1. For example, Script Combining was a new feature in 3.5 SP1, and so was History support, so it's an important distinction! The 2.0 book was 307 pages, and this one is 552. History support, by the way, has a dedicated chapter. Script combining is a major portion of the chapter on the ScriptManager.
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The Event Handler That Cried Wolf
I ran into an interesting and unexpected behavior in ASP.NET AJAX event handling the other day. Once I figured out what was going on, I was almost positive it was a bug, so I started looking into what a solution would be. But just out of curiosity, I looked at what the behavior was for a server-side event. Much to my surprise, the behavior was the same. The behavior then was consistent with the server-side behavior, not a bug. But is it the "correct" behavior? Tell me what you think...
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ASP.NET AJAX 4.0: Observing updates to POJOs (Plain 'Ole JavaScript Objects)
First of all, if you haven't already done so, download the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 3 now and try it out! And after you're done with that, come back here, or there, or there, or there, and let us know what you think and what you like or don't like about it. We love feedback, and it really does have an impact on the product. We wouldn't go through all the trouble of releasing preview bits or presenting these things if it didn't.
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Visual Studio Tip: Disable F1!
Lately I've been using a laptop more often than a desktop to work in Visual Studio, and of course like most laptop keyboards, the keys are jammed close together. The most annoying thing I keep doing by mistake is hitting F1 instead of Escape, which of course begins the not-so-quick process of bringing up help. Every time I do it, I sigh, wait, and close it.
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Flickering UI From the ASP.NET AJAX Toolkit TabContainer while in an UpdatePanel?
UPDATE
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TRULY Understanding Dynamic Controls by Example
Many of the comments I've received in the various dynamic controls entries I've written have been questions for help with a specific scenario. A lot of those scenarios are similar. One in particular I keep hearing is something as follows: