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Monday, November 24, 2008 12:13 PM

Looking back at MicrosoftPDC.com (from the inside)

I had the privilege of working on the MicrosoftPDC.com website as lead developer for the past several months. The process hasn’t been kind to my blogging schedule lately, but the experience definitely taught me quite a bit: working with the top-notch...
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:41 PM

Subtext 2: OpenID Login Support

The recent Subtext 2 release includes a feature I worked on: OpenID login support. Let’s take a quick look at how you use it, then we’ll talk about the how the code works and why it’s a useful feature. What’s OpenID? I’m a big fan of digital identity...
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 12:02 AM

ASP.NET Themes Don’t Like IE8’s X-UA-Compatible header; Neither Do I

Summary I ran into an interesting issue a few months ago with IE8 support on sites which use ASP.NET Themes. I’ll talk about the issue and how to fix it. More important, though, I’ll talk about how this small example fits into the whole IE8 / X-UA-Compatible...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 9:30 PM

Using <body> Classes To Fight CSS Class Explosion

I previously wrote about taking CSS beyond a simple style library by writing HTML that’s easy to style. I’d like to go into one point in a bit more detail – avoiding class explosion by leveraging descendant selectors : You might think that really stylable...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:50 PM

TechEd 2008 Keynote Summary

Here are the highlights from the TechEd 2008 Keynote (as seen from afar by watching the TechEd 2008 Keynote and reading posts and press): Via Microsoft PressPass , here are the key announcements (with my notes): Internet Explorer 8 beta 2 will be available...
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:05 AM

Video.Show 1.0 - A Ready To Run Solution For Hosting Video On The Web

I'm really excited to announce that Video.Show has officially been released. It's been available on CodePlex (under the liberal MsPL license) since our beta release back in November , but today it's officially been blessed as a 1.0 release. While we were...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 10:19 PM

Getting JavaScript and ASP.NET talking (outside of AJAX)

Passing values between ASP.NET and JavaScript code is messy A lot of effort has gone into simplifying the AJAX pattern, in which your JavaScript code calls methods on the server without requiring a full page post. You don't hear much about the synchronous...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:03 PM

ASP.NET Menu and SiteMap Security Trimming (plus a trick for when your menu and security don't match up)

Summary ASP.NET 2005 introduced a pretty solid menu which is integrated with a configuration driven sitemap. The cool part is that the menu can be hooked in with your security roles, so you don't have to worry about hiding or showing menu options based...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:46 PM

Writing a custom ASP.NET Profile class

We made heavy use of the ASP.NET membership and profile system for Video.Show (a Silverlight 1.0 video community website system, available on CodePlex ). In addition to storing basic profile information, we created a custom profile with some additional...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:13 AM

Large file uploads in ASP.NET

Uploading files via the FileUpload control gets tricky with big files. The default maximum filesize is 4MB - this is done to prevent denial of service attacks in which an attacker submitted one or more huge files which overwhelmed server resources. If...
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