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ASP.NET Podcast: Routing with ASP.NET by Jason N. Gaylord

Wally is at it again (finally). He just released his latest podcast after being away since mid-August. Anyway, his podcast is about a new feature in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (formerly the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions) called Routing. Routing can be done using System...
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My Syndication at FeedBurner – Using Your Domain by Jason N. Gaylord

Awhile back, one of my friends over at Telligent , Scott Watermasysk , posted a message regarding FeedBurner and hosting your own RSS feeds . FeedBurner is a web application owned by Google that hosts syndicated feeds and provides statistics based on...
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DirecTV Needs Staging and Testing by Jason N. Gaylord

As a software developer, you know that best practices recommend testing and even staging environments. Evidently, DirecTV lacks that or is really missing something. Sometime today, they released a software update that sent nearly all of their HD receivers...
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Debugging ASP.NET MVC Routing by Jason N. Gaylord

One of the most critical pieces to MVC is routing users to the proper controller. During the development process, you must keep in mind that routes will take users to the first pattern that matches. It’s not that difficult to create patterns that are...
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Microsoft MVP… Again! by Jason N. Gaylord

I just received word that I’ve been awarded with the Microsoft MVP award for ASP.NET for 2009. I’ve been a Microsoft MVP since 2003. It’s always nice to receive the MVP award, but it’s even better to see the impact that you have on the community. Six...
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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...
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Installing Team Foundation Server 2008 on SQL Server 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord

One of the prerequisites for TFS 2008 is that it must be installed to work with SQL Server 2005 SP2 or SQL Server 2008. However, TFS 2008, by itself, will not work with SQL Server 2008. You’ll receive an error message that your SQL Server instance is...
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My MVC Talk at Philly.NET Code Camp 3 by Jason N. Gaylord

I’ll be presenting at the third code camp of 2008 for the Philly.NET code camp. Apparently, several other Microsoft MVPs and ASPInsiders will as well. It should be a great time. Be sure to register on phillydotnet.org. Anyway, if you’ll be coming to my...
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Pandora to be Released for Windows Mobile by Jason N. Gaylord

The full letter from Tom Conrad, CTO of Pandora, is available at http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=627 . Basically, Tom has stated that a version for Windows Mobile devices will be coming out, but he refuses to guarantee when. One would assume it would be sooner...
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IE8 CSS Improvements by Jason N. Gaylord

The IE team posted a blog entry yesterday at http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/09/08/microsoft-css-vendor-extensions.aspx . Apparently they are now going to support certain CSS properties and attributes to comply with CSS 2.1 by tagging them with...
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