August 2008 - Posts

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Improvements in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 by Jason N. Gaylord

I was just checking out the improvements the team has made in beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. While I haven't had time to mess with all of the improvements, I see lots of opportunities to create enhancements for my sites to allow visitors to get what they...
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Discovering Adobe Kuler - Color Themes Gallery by Jason N. Gaylord

Chris Love , posted a tweet today about Adobe Kuler. Kuler is a web/flash based application that allows developers and designers to upload and download color swatches for Adobe Photoshop. It's a great way, as Chris put it, for developers to pick up color...
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Velocity Podcast by Jason N. Gaylord

Want to learn more about Microsoft Velocity and how this distributed caching system can improve your web applications? Then you'd better check out the new Velocity podcast at ASP.NET Podcast. You can download the MP3 at http://www.aspnetpodcast.com/PodcastFiles...
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How to Override Cassini's Virtual Path in Visual Studio by Jason N. Gaylord

On one of the email lists that I'm on, someone had posted a question about running a website using the root path "/" or a different virtual path than the project name that is populated by default. James Crowley pointed out a blog entry from...
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Windows 7 at the PDC? by Jason N. Gaylord

Sounds like Windows 7 might be previewed at the PDC. If not, significant details will surely be shared. No, I didn't escape one of the Microsoft buildings with their business plan but rather came across the team's new blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/e7...
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Known Issues with Service Pack 1 in ASP.NET 3.5 by Jason N. Gaylord

Scott Galloway from the Microsoft DevDiv team has posted a couple of known issues with Service Pack 1 in ASP.NET 3.5 on the ASP.NET forums at http://forums.asp.net/t/1305800.aspx . The issues he currently has on the post are: Issue:  The HtmlForm...
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Use LINQ to XML to Generate Excel Documents by Jason N. Gaylord

I was looking for a quick and easy solution to export data from SQL into an Excel format from within my ASP.NET application. I came across a great video posted by Beth Massi on the asp.net website (Video #7 at the bottom at http://www.asp.net/learn/linq...
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ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Formerly "ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions") Released by Jason N. Gaylord

ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, which was formerly called the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions, has been released. The NetFX update was available as part of the SQL Server 2008 download available on Friday. Now it is available as a separate download. There are quite...
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Known Postback Issue with AJAX Controls by Jason N. Gaylord

I came across a postback issue while using the CascadingDropDown AJAX control. I had a web page with 3 DropDownList controls. The data for these controls was populated from the CascadingDropDown which would bind the data at runtime. The issue with this...
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Tip: Set the SelectedValue on a DropDownList that is populated by a CascadingDropDown by Jason N. Gaylord

When using a DropDownList, you can set the selected item by using the SelectedIndex property. However, if your DropDownList is being populated by the CascadingDropDown control (from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit), that doesn't work. Instead, you must...
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