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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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Sunday, February 03, 2008 1:59 AM

January 2008 Recap

I've had a policy against posting on big news that's likely to be common knowledge in the Microsoft development community, since nobody needs another post saying "Big News, Visual Studio 2008 is out today!" But I think I'm going to break that policy once...
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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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Monday, January 14, 2008 11:49 PM

Registry setting keeps Windows from wigging out when you open lots of IE7 tabs

Summary Opening too many tabs in Internet Explorer 7 can cause the Windows shell to switch to "Evil Mode". Fortunately, there's a registry setting that fixes the problem by increasing the Windows heap size. The Problem Internet Explorer starts to go nuts...
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:49 AM

Inkscape to support XAML export

Today, Adam Kinney gave me the tip off to some cool news: Inkscape is adding XAML export . Great, what's Inkscape ? Glad you asked! Inkscape is an open source vector graphics editor, like Adobe Illustrator. Rather than drawing in pixels (like you'd do...
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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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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:03 AM

Ten Tips for a Happy Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 (Release)

Visual Studio 2008 has been out for over a week. I've upgraded three machines (two Vista, one XP) from Beta 2 to RTM, then upgraded a couple of projects. I've also been watching blog posts and listening in at the Twitter water-cooler to hear about other...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:30 AM

Silverlight doesn't require any JavaScript

Summary It's easier to understand Silverlight when you understand that, at its heart, it's a simple browser plug-in. JavaScript is extremely useful for browser detection, and it's the only way to interact with Silverlight 1.0, but JavaScript not at all...
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:18 AM

Gravatar 201: Advanced Gravatars in ASP.NET

I know that's a dumb title. I just couldn't help myself. This post wraps up my Gravatar trilogy: Part 1: Adding Gravatars to your ASP.NET site in a few lines of code - It's easy to add avatars to your site Part 2: Avatars? Isn't that some kind of D&D...
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Monday, September 24, 2007 11:15 PM

Avatars? Isn't that some kind of D&D comic book stuff?

My previous post dug into using the Gravatar service to add avatar images to your community website. Afterwards, I realized that I didn't really make the case for why you should care about avatars. Yeah, the word avatar may make you think of fantasy gamers...
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