The second Central Coast Code Camp will be held September 27th and 28th, 2008, at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo, CA. Register for free here I’ll be presenting Saturday 27th at 3:45 pm follow by a Geek Dinner. On Sunday I won’t miss Woody Pewitt’s presentation about Microsoft Live . Code camps...

GeoRSS is a great way to share geographic information that updates all the time, sending simple geography (points, lines and polygons to a consumer. GeoRSS is RSS with a collection of points, as flexible as RSS with the advantage of providing location to your information. A great tool that I personally...

  You can add Geotwitter.NET to your website or blog with a simple JavaScript include and will provide two functions: You can see the last 10 users using Twitter the have a location as well as you can only show your last location. The code to add on your website is: <script type= "text/javascript"...

I have recently being a twitter user, not proud that I become a user or better said a reader. I have blogged before about twitter , but after forcing myself to use it I have a much better opinion about such a service. I like to read some people’s microblogs at twitter. It’s like a big chat...

LINQ to SQL came out with 3.5 and I am still amazed that many people accomplished to stay away from that simple technology. When you ask them, they've heard about but they are not sure how everything works together. Instead of looking it up to learn to see if there is something that may improve their...

Last year I wrote a fix for AJAX 1.0 on my old blog, looks like many people found it helpful, I wanted to make sure people understood that issue only happened with ASP.NET AJAX 1.0. I cannot reproduce the same problem with AJAX 3.5. You will encounter this issue when mixing callbacks and postbacks, as...

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 request is AJAX or JSON? How nice it would be...

In our AJAX QuickBuild event yesterday, Simon Allardice demonstrated for everyone how to access the value of a server control from client-side script. Let me share with you his tip/trick. It is quite simple. Here is the markup of a content page - notice the script tag: <% @ Page Language ="C#" MasterPageFile...