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Classic ASP Support in IIS 7 and IIS 7.5 by Jason N. Gaylord

I’m working on reverse engineering an application that was written about 8 years ago in Classic ASP. When I first hit the site, one of the things I noticed was that the traditional error messages weren’t displayed. You can turn this on by double-clicking...

Minifying HTML and JavaScript Using Microsoft Expression Web by Jason N. Gaylord

I don’t get an opportunity to use Microsoft Expression Web that often, but when I do, I always discover new features. I was looking for a way to compress HTML and JavaScript files that I was generating for one of our affiliations. In Expression Web, simply...

UX Pattern Browser by Infragistics by Jason N. Gaylord

Infragistics , a User Interface Components company, has released a new UX Pattern website that allows users to view various patterns and submit their own to the library. The site can be found at http://quince.infragistics.com/ . If you haven’t checked...

Summary of the MSDN Freedom Roadshow by Jason N. Gaylord

For those not at the MSDN Freedom Roadshow in Scranton, PA today, you are missed a good show. Here’s what happened: David Solivan – David presented a talk called UI, UX, U confused? The purpose was to show the various options we have and to explain when...

Web Site Performance by Jason N. Gaylord

I came across a post on StackOverflow.com regarding web site performance . Quite often you can take a look at your application and find 10 different ways to make it more efficient. Depending on your environment, you may have many different ways to increase...

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...

Visual Studio Fonts and Colors by Jason N. Gaylord

For quite some time I've been working with a modified version of Scott Hanselman's "Dark Theme" for Visual Studio. The reason for my modifications is that the HTML and CSS settings were very difficult to read. Here is the complete list of changes...

Expression Web Fails Me by Jason N. Gaylord

I was using Expression Web to setup a basic CSS layout for a demo I was doing. I had a header, menu, 2 column body, and a footer. The two column body was setup using 2 divs inside of a parent div. Each div used a float attribute which floated the element...

VSIBuilder Version 1.0 Released by Jason N. Gaylord

I needed a way to programatically create a vscontent and vstemplate file for a few large web projects. So, I created a VB 2005 app that does just that. Earlier today I decided that I'd clean it up a bit, throw in a sponsorship plug, and create a click...

Theme Support in Web.config by Jason N. Gaylord

Another thing Scott Guthrie pointed out to me is that in order to get the Theme and the stylesheet to work across the site in design mode, I must set both the theme and syleSheetTheme properties in the web.config file. Otherwise, it will not render in...
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