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Shrinking your SQL Server 2005 Transaction Log by joelvarty

I get this question all of the time, and there is a great support article from Microsoft on how to do this. One of the ways to truncate the log file is to simply detach the database and re-attach it without the log. I DO NOT recommend that unless it is...
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CNET News: Visual Studio 2010 to launch in March by joelvarty

According to this article from CNET News from October 19th, Visual Studio 2010 will launch in March, 2010.  This sort of follows the current timeline, where the Beta 2 has just been released, and we can probably expect another beta and/or a Release...

Closer to the finish line with VS 2010 and .Net 4.0! by joelvarty

Today on his blog, Scott Guthrie announced on the availability of beta 2 for VS 2010 and .Net 4.0. This is bug news for those of who have been waiting anxiously for a product that we can feel confident is close to the final version. I normally wait for...
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More URL Routing in Asp.Net 4.0… by joelvarty

We do our own routing with Agility CMS, however we are looking at switching to the more standardized routing built into Asp.Net (as of 3.5sp1).   I think the capabilities built into Asp.Net 4 will be what kicks us in the pants enough to update our...
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Getting excited about AJAX again (but will I use jQuery or Microsoft Ajax 4.0 – or both?) by joelvarty

Dave Reed has a great example of how to do few different things in Preview 5 of Microsoft Ajax 4.0. A fee highlights: Declarative binding of data to templates onitemrendering event (is this the same as onitembind?  it looks like it…) Dynamically...
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Always check for null on Request.UserAgent… by joelvarty

Personally, I love the “Browser Capabilities” project on codeplex ( http://browserdetection.codeplex.com/ ) that does a nice job of extracting the actual things that a browser can do, saving you from doing things the following: if (Request.UserAgent.IndexOf...
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A new blog I’ve started reading (and should have read earlier…) by joelvarty

I’ve started read Dave Reed’s blog “ Infinities Loop ”.  He’s a member of the ASP.NET team and has some great insight on what’s happening now and in the future of ASP.NET. Check it out!   More later - joel
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How JSONP works by joelvarty

There are a plethora of explanations for JSONP (JSON with Padding, I think it stands for) out there – just search for “how JSONP works” and you’ll get a ton of descriptions.  JSONP is provided as an alternative to normal JSON by jQuery on the client...
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TFS: Who edited this text? – Annotations in source control… by joelvarty

If you were ever looking at some code and wondered who actually changed the line of text you were currently looking at, there is a way to do just that! It is called Annotations, and it is a visual tracking of the history of that file’s history in source...
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Run threads and async handlers under the same impersonated identity as the website by joelvarty

When you run a background thread or async handler in asp.net, the thread will not run with the same identity specified in the impersonate tag of the web.config. You can easily get around this by grabbing the identity before the thread starts and either...
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