Archives
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Yahoo Query Language (YQL)... Location ID vs WOEID for International Weather
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Use Build Events to rebuild a Windows Service without having to manually stop/start it
When you are working on a Windows Service and you have it running locally from the build folder, you need to stop it before you can build it.
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Microsoft Chart Controls
Here's something I wasn't expecting: Microsoft has released its own chart control.
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Redirecting without the exceptions...
I was doing some load testing the other year and noticed one of the counters was going off the charts - ASP.Net exceptions. I couldn't understand why my application, which was behaving fine in every other way, was throwing exceptions.
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People posting about Agility...
There's nothing more gratifying than seeing someone else say something about a product you build...
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Javascript IntelliSense FAQ (includes details about css references in User Controls, too).
One of the biggest pain points that I find with Visual Studio 2008 is its inconsistency with IntelliSense (arguably, and ironically, its best feature).
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Silverlight Databinding – The Observable Collection
If you’re coming from the ASP.Net world and you want to start building silverlight controls, databinding is one those things that works somewhat the same, yet somewhat differently from the standard DataSource, DataBind() world that you may be used to.
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A post on the Agility CMS blog...
Hi All-
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Silverlight 2 - Finally a version that can change the world!
Yes, folks - that title is not a joke. Silverlight can completely change how we think about the web.
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The Evolution of Client Side Data Binding in ASP.NET
Client side data binding, where we call a web service method via JavaScript and attach the resulting data to visual elements, is beginning to get a real foothold in this industry.
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Start using jQuery in your Asp.Net apps!
If you were waiting for this to be incorporated into Asp.Net AJAX, you have no more excuses. Scott Guthrie today announced in his blog that Microsoft will ship jQuery support with Visual Studio, and they will provide a vanilla and "intellisense-annotated versions," allowing for complete cooperation with the usage of the package.
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JavaScript in <a> tags: # vs javascript:void(0)
Often times when we get a set of html templates from a designer, we tend to see a lot of this:
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LINQ Architectures in 3 Layer, 3 Tier Applications
Before I get into the great features and great dangers of LINQ, lets get a couple thing out of the way:
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Storing Contextual Data in Web and non-Web applications
In Asp.Net apps, we are used to storing data in the current context. Objects that are specific to the currently executing Request, like a User object retrieved a database, or another object that you want to make globally available without requiring multiple database trips, can benefit from this.
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The Ubiquitous, Mobile Web: The Final Frontier
The web works better when web sites are tailored to the capabilities of the platform.
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iPhone Development
I have never been too excited about developing mobile websites, however the iPhone's browser, and the capabilities of css animation that it supports, is leading me in that direction.
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CSS Tutorials - Noupe
This is a great resource for CSS stuff.
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LINQ Love
I am in the midst of my first full-fledged application that has been designed and architected with the notion that the majority of the data access will go through LINQ-SQL. The first thing I did was add a logging layer on top of the DataContext (by setting the Log property to a custom Stream object) so that I could see exactly what the SQL looked like from various LINQ queries.
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Safari 3.1 (Windows) Developer tips...
Safari 3.1 is now a viable option for a browser on Windows. As an Asp.Net developer, you can take advantage of the nice features that this browser has for finding issues with your pages.
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Find/Replace in Visual Studio with Regular Expressions and Variables
This can be a major time saver when you want to find some text and perhaps duplicate it or manipulate it throughout a bunch of files in your project.
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Word 2007 as a blogging tool can't even compete with its free counterpart - Windows Live Writer
This is almost embarrassing. I have spent the last hour or so trying to get Word 2007 to upload my images to my blog here. I use Word for most of my day-to-day document editing (and for the book I am currently working on), so I really wanted it to work.
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The Server/Client Balance of Power Continues – Part 2
In my last post we talked the limitations of AJAX and especially the UpdatePanel as you get into more complicated situations. In this post I am going to explore one of the ways that you can avoid an overly complicated Control tree on the server and simply the HTML DOM on the browser side. This approach involves combining UpdatePanel with IFrames.
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The Server/Client Balance of Power Continues
I have had the unique pleasure of dealing with this conundrum countless times of the past eight years while architecting applications that operate in various web server and browser environments. The notion of a “rich client” experience has always been balanced with the capabilities of the client environment and the programming prowess of the developers. At one point it was java applets that allowed us to do client to networking calls back to the server without reloading the current webpage. Various other experimentation saw folks using hidden frames, xml data islands in IE and I’m sure a whole lot of other stuff.
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What is silverlight good for (yet)?
I have just passed up my first chance to build a silverlight component into a website. It was a tough choice, since everyone involved generally agreed that Silverlight was a great technology and would add a ton of bling to the site.