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Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:55 AM

Did you know about protocol-relative hyperlinks?

Summary: (For normal humans) IE and Firefox show perplexing messages on some pages due to a potential security vulnerability in the site you’re visiting. I’ll talk about what it means and how you can get it to go away. (For web developers) Don’t perplex...
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Thursday, October 15, 2009 12:39 AM

The Designer/Developer Workflow Crisis (That Everyone’s Ignoring)

Let’s take an honest look at what passes for developer/designer workflow these days: Why are we okay with this? Sure, designers are fond using the programs they’ve used for years, and developers are busy debating DI vs. IOC , but we’re missing a bigger...
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Friday, December 12, 2008 2:41 PM

Silverlight Crossdomain Access Workarounds

I was testing out some typography with Silverlight and figured I’d try grab some text from Wikipedia. I started with the naive approach: private void GetText() { WebClient webClient = new WebClient(); webClient.DownloadStringCompleted += new DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler...
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 12:29 AM

Running Silverlight 2 on Google Chrome using the Chrome Dev Channel

When Google Chrome first came out and I read that it used Webkit, the same rendering engine that powers Safari, I tried browsing a few Silverlight 2 sites. It kind of worked, as long as the sites didn’t exclude browsers that weren’t on Microsoft’s official...
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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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Sunday, June 08, 2008 3:18 PM

Silverlight 2 (beta 2) and Firefox 3... so happy together...

If you've been holding off on using Silverlight 2 or Firefox 3 because they weren't playing well together , it's safe to come out now. One of the best "undocumented" features in Silverlight 2 Beta 2 is that it now works with Firefox 3. I've...
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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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