October 2007 - Posts

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View In Browser by Palermo4

I have been developing in ASP.NET since the beginning. I have been training in Visual Studio since I can remember. I have learned many keyboard shortcuts over the years. I cannot believe it has taken me this long to discover a keyboard shortcut for one...
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Book Review: Silverlight 1.0 (Wrox) by Palermo4

Yesterday I got my copy of Silverlight 1.0 published by Wrox , authored by Devin Rader, Jason Beres, J. Ambrose Little, and Grant Hinkson. Of course, my attention was immediately drawn to the full color cover of the book. We are all accustomed to the...
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ASP.NET AJAX Class in Dallas, Texas by Palermo4

I am returning to Phoenix today after teaching ASP.NET AJAX in Dallas, Texas. Thanks to everyone who attended the class! About 50% of my students were from the same company, and were already using AJAX technologies. One in particular had experience with...
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Writing Technical Content by Palermo4

I just read a blog post from Jeff Putz on "Why you should (or shouldn't) write a programming book". From my own experience, I can instantly provide one reason you may *not* want to write a technical book - to make money directly. Oh you can make some...
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Silverlight Plugin Unable to do Height Percentage in Firefox by Palermo4

I recently published a video on resizing Silverlight controls . I just observed an odd behavior in the Firefox browser when setting the height of the plugin to any percentage (10%, 50%, 100%). I can set the width to 100%, as the screenshot below indicates...
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Video: The Effect of Resizing on Silverlight Controls by Palermo4

What happens to a Silverlight control if the browser window is resized? What happens to the Silverlight control if its containing HTML is resized? What happens if the inner content of the Silverlight control is resized? This video demonstrates the answers...
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Jaiku by Palermo4

My Jaiku landing page is http://palermo4.jaiku.com/ For rss feeds, use http://palermo4.jaiku.com/feed/rss .NET community channel is http://jaiku.com/channel/DotNetCommunity
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Create An Application To Test XAML Dynamically by Palermo4

My first Silverlight video is now available at the Silverlight.net site. Create An Application To Test XAML Dynamically (source code)
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HttpRequest Using IsAjax & IsJson Extension Methods by Palermo4

Although the ScriptManager has a property named IsInAsyncPostBack to determine an AJAX call, the control is scoped to the page it is contained in. If writing code in a custom HTTP module, what if I need to know in the BeginRequest event whether the current...
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