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The .Net Coffee Break Show - 15th of July - Tim Heuer - Silverlight and Data

2008-06-30T22:20:00Z

Join our next webcast! 15th of July 2008 Developers.ie invites all our members to attend our regular webcast. We think that during your coffee break is the right time to attend a short talk on various subjects, starting with Silverlight this month. Our speaker in July is Tim Heuer, Silverlight Program Manager for Microsoft . Tim will broadcast from Arizona! In this webcast, Silverlight and Data , we'll discuss the various ways Silverlight can consume and produce data and what are some best practices...(read more)

The .Net Coffee Break Show - we are looking for speakers talking over the wire!

2008-06-25T21:14:00Z

The first .Net Coffee Break Show has arrived in Ireland and we will have another go with Martha Rotter Thursday 26 at 15:00 GMT. Check www.developers.ie for the free registration. However now I am trying to gather a line of speakers for our monthly show. Good news, you don't have to travel! And you don't need to speak or be Irish (your english has to be good anyway ;-) As long as you have a laptop and a headset with a microphone, you have everything we need for our show. We are looking for experts...(read more)

Webcast - The Net Coffee Break Show

2008-06-19T13:43:00Z

Starting this month, Developers.ie invite all of his members to attend to a regular webcast. We think that a coffee break is the right time to attend a short talk on various subjects, starting with Silverlight this month. Our speaker in June is Martha Rotter, Microsoft Ireland . In this 15-minute webcast, you'll learn some of the fundamentals of Silverlight applications. We'll start by covering the basic techniques needed for most Silverlight applications including building and debugging in Visual...(read more)

LINQ in Multi-tier Applications

2008-05-11T13:30:00Z

If you had the chance to work with LINQ, the latest Object Relational Mapping tool (ORM) added to the .NET 3.5 platform, then you understand how LINQ maps your database structure into several classes in your application. It creates for each table an entity class that has its properties mapped to the columns of the table in context. The whole point of ORM tools is to bring the database structure up to the language’s level so that your code would be aware of the structure at compile time. Nowadays...(read more)

Dynamic UpdateProgress Control

2008-05-10T23:41:00Z

Jamie Pompu has spent the last week playing with the UpdateProgress control as part of the Ajax Extensions. For the most part, the control itself is quite nice to use but, there was one thing that he found to be a real pain;h e could not get the control to hide an area of a page while it was activated. Although this sounds trivial, it got to be a real pain trying to find areas in his page design that would lend well to an UpdateProgress being displayed and still be intuitive to the user what was...(read more)

Blogo.Net a blog application

2008-05-10T23:28:00Z

This article explains in detail how Ferdy Christant has developed Blogo.NET, a N-tiered blog application based upon the .NET 3.5 framework. Read more......(read more)

Gallery Server Pro - An ASP.NET Media Gallery

2008-05-10T23:25:00Z

Gallery Server Pro is a powerful and easy-to-use ASP.NET web application that lets you share and manage photos, video, audio, and other files over the web. Stable, production ready Use any web browser to organize your media files into albums you can easily add, edit, delete, rotate, rearrange, copy and move Easily add thousands of files using one-click synchronize and ZIP file upload functions. Thumbnail and compressed versions are automatically created Powerful user security with flexible, per-album...(read more)

Display an image loaded using Windows Imaging Component

2008-05-10T23:22:00Z

Windows Imaging Component (WIC in short) is the new platform to load, save and convert images between various image formats, including the latest HD Photo format designed and aggressively pushed by Microsoft, to be the JPEG2000 replacement. Unlike JPEG2000 which is plagued by various patents issues, HD Photo standard is a open standard which is free for all to use. HD Photo has a compression rate and picture qualities better than JPEG and JPEG2000. Windows Imaging Component is also a platform for...(read more)

Add Custom Configuration Sections into a Separate web.config

2008-05-10T23:17:00Z

Adding custom configuration sections lets you leverage built-in .NET configuration mechanism to employ strong-type objects to access the configuration content without taking care of manipulation of XML 1, 2 . This article introduces a tip about how to add your custom configuration sections in “another” web.config while not losing the support as in the web.config located at the root of Web applications. Read more......(read more)

LINQ TO SQL All Common Operations (Insert,Update,Delete,Get) in one Class

2008-05-10T23:14:00Z

Yazeed Hamdan has created a base class which encapsulates the most common logic for DB operations in the PROCESSES/OPERATIONS Layer instead of repeating the same code over and over for each class. Read more......(read more)

Improve Web Application Performance

2008-05-10T23:12:00Z

Adnan Aman shows some tricks and tips to improve the performance of web applications. Introduction In the IT world, software applications are being rapidly developed. Clients, and so employers, are just looking for those teams/individuals who can build up applications rapidly, just bothering to make their application live; but what often happens after an application goes live is that users start to use the application and it doesn’t respond well. At this point, clients start to lose users and business...(read more)

Search Ajax control

2008-04-13T10:22:00Z

Highrise and other new Ajax enabled tools have this feature that when you type in a search query, it automatically updates the search results below. It's almost like a Auto-Complete Box, but with full results on the page instead of a drop down list below the control. Unfortunately I didn't find anything like this in the Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax Toolkit. Read more......(read more)

Windows Mobile 6.1 Emulator Images

2008-04-12T16:07:00Z

The Windows Mobile 6.1 Emulator Images package adds emulator images to Visual Studio 2005 or Visual Studio 2008 that let you test applications for Windows Mobile 6.1. Read more and downlaod here......(read more)

Error logging techniques using Database

2008-04-12T16:02:00Z

Nowadays error logging becomes mandatory and there has been lots of techniques/API's to log the errors. We develop a ASP.NET application and it works fine on your development machine, and when we deploy the application to the production we set the <compilation debug="false" ...> element in your web.config , of course it is the best practice, which makes the error not visible to the end users. Well, now, we got some exception and we wonder what is that error and you don't have any clue about...(read more)

ASP.NET/Silverlight component development

2008-04-12T15:55:00Z

Almost all of the Silverlight demos you see out there are completely client-side, and invoke Web services to post/get data. This approach makes sense, but when you want to use Silverlight to functionally enhance your existing website, you may want to have some kind of integration between Silverlight objects and your server-side controls. You may also want to enable some kind of Silverlight object composition. Read more......(read more)