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VS 2010 Product Release Date? March 22, 2010
I don't recall Microsoft announcing a Visual Studio release date this far in advance. The official launch is March 22, 2010 . In the past there have been two product release dates for Visual Studio. The first was soon after release to manufacturing (RTM...
Posted 19 October 2009 05:41 PM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 1 comment(s)
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Animation on MSDN Web Pages? No Thanks
I may be fighting a losing battle against the Silverlight/Flash animation gurus. The Visual Basic Developer site on MSDN is showing off a preview of its proposed redesign . One of the “features” is a flashing, fading, distracting, and very annoying animation...
Posted 13 October 2009 08:26 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 2 comment(s)
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Fixing the ‘Telerik.WebControls.GridInsertionObject does not contain a property’ Error
I really like working with the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX controls. However, I keep forgetting about a problem in the RadGrid that occurs when trying to add a new record using EntityDataSource. If there aren’t any records yet, and you click Add Record, you...
Posted 02 October 2009 09:01 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | with no comments
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Congratulations Microsoft MVP!‏
I received a very nice email message this morning… “Congratulations, you are one of only a few thousand people around the world who have been recognized with a Microsoft MVP Award.” I’m proud of this award, and even though I’ve received it every year...
Posted 01 October 2009 07:40 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 5 comment(s)
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DropDownList Lookups Failing Due to SQL Char DataType
Here’s today’s episode of “Losing Time on Something Dumb”… In my ASP.NET 3.5 project (using Telerik’s AJAX controls) I filled a RadComboBox with Items and needed to set the selected item to the current value of the object (I’m using Entity Framework)...
Posted 30 September 2009 10:34 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | with no comments
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WebsiteSpark – Free Software? Not Exactly
Microsoft has an interesting new initiative called WebsiteSpark that features a 7,122-word legal agreement . The attraction of the programme for small web development and design companies is obvious, starting with free licenses for development and hosting...
Posted 24 September 2009 08:28 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 4 comment(s)
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Publishers Prepare for Year End .NET 4.0 Release
While Microsoft is coy about product release plans (“When it’s ready” is a common evasive answer to the question), book publishers frequently reveal their (and Microsoft’s) plans online. If you’re curious about when software like .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio...
Posted 13 September 2009 11:40 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 4 comment(s)
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Fixing the System.Data.UpdateException – DefiningQuery and no <InsertFunction> Error
Here’s another in my never-ending series of fixes for dumb mistakes. In this episode we lose time with an Entity Framework error. Here’s the error message: System.Data.UpdateException was unhandled by user code Message="Unable to update the EntitySet...
Posted 09 September 2009 06:56 PM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 8 comment(s)
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Generating PDFs in ASP.NET Pages – PDF Duo .Net
In my current contract, I need to generate database-driven PDFs on the fly. I’ve done the first prototypes with my copy of Aspose.Pdf for .NET *. It’s an enterprise-ready, robust, and extremely functional component with a rich API, XML content input,...
Posted 02 September 2009 09:05 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 5 comment(s)
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Resolved! Losing Hours to a Debugger Problem
Update 3 and Resolution: Good news and Bad News! The issue is resolved but it really looks like the problem was between the keyboard and the chair <shamefaced grin>. I happened to notice that the debugger was fine on pages other than the one I was...
Posted 13 August 2009 07:54 AM by Ken Cox [MVP] | 2 comment(s)
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