Contents tagged with Dummies
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Display ‘–Select–’ in an ASP.NET DropDownList
A purchaser of my book writes:
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Solving a Mystery About 'BC30205: End of statement expected'
A reader of my book ran into the strangest problem that had me going around in circles. He was working through one of the ASP.NET 3.5 examples in Visual Web Developer 2008 and was getting weird errors like these:
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Using the Silverlight Server Control in ASP.NET Pages
Microsoft makes available server controls that help you insert rich media such as Silverlight into your ASP.NET pages. If you’re confused about where to find the latest version of these controls, you’re in good company! Pre-release versions have appeared with various Community Technical Previews (CTP), ASP.NET Futures, and ASP.NET Extensions.
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Caught Up In a Language War
Alas, C#/VB language bigotry rears its ugly head again. My book, ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies got its first negative review from a purchaser on Amazon.com solely because I used VB instead of C# in the examples. As I stated in the book's introduction, I chose VB because the book targets beginners who generally find VB easier.
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My Book Excerpts at the Beginner Developer Learning Centre
Hey folks, Microsoft has licensed four chapters of my book, ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies! You can browse the chapters at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/cc409659.aspx in the Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions Beginner Developer Learning Centre.
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Soma, Scottgu, and I Are on the Same Page!
Ah yes, S. Somasegar, Scott Guthrie and Ken Cox. What an influential trio! It's kind of a geeky rat pack.
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Set a Validator's Display to 'None' for the ValidatorCalloutExtender
If you look at Figure 15-1 in ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies, you'll notice that there's an almost-hidden question mark (?) behind the AJAX Control Kit's ValidatorCallout control. The arrow in the picture points to the mistake (bug) in the book.
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Compliments for ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies
I'm still trying to get www.asp.net to include ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies in their Starter Books section. Not sure what's going on there. They list other Dummies books, so it can't be an anti-Dummies thing.
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ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies Published
I hope you'll forgive a bit of self-promotion. I haven't blogged much about my book ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies because it's a beginner's book. Most readers here are ASP.NET experts who could (and do) write advanced books and articles on ASP.NET.
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LINQing Up at the Victoria Code Camp
I'll be speaking on the topic "LINQ: Simplifying Data Handling in ASP.NET" at the Victoria .NET CodeCamp on January 26th.