April 2009 - Posts

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Using the Generic Dictionary with JSON web services… by joelvarty

If you want to pass a name/value collection of untyped data to a webservice with JSON, do it like this guys, Joost van Schaik, says: http://dotnetbyexample.blogspot.com/2008/03/json-services-revisited-using.html   Here’s the meat of it really – how...
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Detect a security exception when using FormsAuthentication by joelvarty

If you are using the web.config to determine security for aspx pages, you may have noticed that you don’t get the chance to determine whether a security exception has been thrown.  The user will simply be return to the login page with a ReturnUrl...
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TFS Quick Tip: Use HTML in the History field for Work Items by joelvarty

I have just been editing the project templates to enable HTML in the description field.  As it turns out, the description field is locked down as plain text. This history field is HTML though, and if you want to add formatting to it, just enable...
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LINQ-SQL: Why I Love it and why I hate it by joelvarty

Love it: Generate a class structure based on database tables. Makes coding transactions really easy and seamless. Makes working with store procedures more like methods. Makes it easier to validate database field names at compile-time.   Hate it:...
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