June 2008 - Posts

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CodeStock coming August 9th to Knoxville by Jason N. Gaylord

CodeStock is coming August 9th to Knoxville, Tennessee and you should see the speaker line-up! Jeff Prosise will present the opening keynote and Alan Stevens will mediate the open spaces. There's a ton of great presenters that will be at CodeStock including...
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Getting Started with the AjaxDataControls in Visual Studio 2005 by Jason N. Gaylord

Sonu Kapoor just posted about getting started with the AjaxDataControls in Visual Studio 2005 . The AjaxDataControls can be found on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/AjaxDataControls/ . Included in the controls are a JavaScript version of the Repeater...
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AJAX Tip: Don't forget about the Async Web Service Calls! by Jason N. Gaylord

FireFox. Internet Explorer 8. Both have great JavaScript debugging tools. Thanks to those tools, I only spent 5 minutes on an issue that could have taken hours to figure out. It was one of those moments when you know its something simple but you can't...
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LINQ to SQL and MS Small Business Server 2008 Talks at .NET Valley by Jason N. Gaylord

The next .NET Valley User Group event will be on June 18th at Scranton University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. There will be two talks that evening. The first will begin at 6pm and will be presented by Michael Murphy. Michael will talk about the ins and...
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Performance Tip: Return Only Necessary Columns Using LINQ by Jason N. Gaylord

I was running into an issue where one of my webmethods was taking a large amount of time to return a small set (5-10 objects). I was using LINQ to SQL. I noticed that the LINQ to SQL query was returning all of the rows. After looking into the table a...
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A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type 'XXX' by Jason N. Gaylord

I ran into an issue earlier when trying to return an entity class through a web service for use in an AJAX page. After some quick research, I came across a post by Darren Neimke that referenced Rick Strahl's post about LINQ to SQL and Serialization ....
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Worldwide Developer Conference News by Jason N. Gaylord

If you're looking to pick up the latest happenings from the Worldwide Developer Conference, check out this: http://www.macrumorslive.com/
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DirecTV: The Saga Continues... by Jason N. Gaylord

I received an email from DirecTV about my blog post. They gave a 1-800 number and a 4-digit code so I can reach their team directly. I tried using that number and sat in a queue for nearly 20 minutes. Finally, someone answered and had no clue what my...
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Need "Out of the Box" AJAX Functionality for Your Data Controls? by Jason N. Gaylord

I've been using the Ajax Data Controls (ADC) for 9 months. I recently joined their development team to convert the controls to VS 2008/.NET 3.5. It's a really cool control set that uses AJAX for the complete data transaction. The documentation is pretty...
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Establishing a VPN on Windows Mobile 5 by Jason N. Gaylord

Many have found it difficult to establish a VPN connection on Windows Mobile 5. There are quite a few blog posts out there with instructions, but none are really that complete. Before you can establish a connection from your mobile device, you need to...
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