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...

So you started using Silverlight and you wanted to download a RSS feed, talk to a web service or download a few images from a website to realize that many of the requests you made come back to you empty or you get the 404 error. How do I get the error when I know that web page or image is there? There...

Yesterday I blogged about the cause of ASP.NET validators and validation summary slowness . At that point I wasn't aware of the existence of the XHTML conformance configuration (thanks Nuno ). With the XHTML conformance configuration set to Legacy , the rendering of controls works like it worked in ASP...

When building ASP.NET pages, if you use too many validators and validation summaries your pages can become very slow. Have you ever wondered why? Lets build a simple page web page with a few validators. Something like this: The page is composed of: 2 TextBox es 1 RequiredFieldValidator for each TextBox...

Web Client Software Factory 2.0 February 2008 Release Resources MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory Community site: http://www.codeplex.com/websf About the Deliverable The Web Client Software Factory (WCSF) provides a set of guidance for architects and developers building enterprise...

Hey All, Working on my current project I implemented paging using a listview and a datapager. I then decided it would be much nicer to use AJAX for my paging so wrapped all this up in an updatepanel. Next step was the issue when you would goto a page, select a product and hit the browser back button...

Hey All, Was having some wierd issues with asp.net ajax in firefox. If for example you put a textbox and a button in an updatepanel and put in a value and click the button. Then you hit F5, in IE the value will be gone, but in FireFox the value is still there. This is due to firefox caching input values...

Needing a solution to fix transparent PNG in IE6 I came to start using one of the many javascript based solutions to do this. But when it came time to use ajax and populating new images in my postbacks this obviously broke. So I created a custom ASP.NET Component to help me do this... Control: I created...

Just a quick plug to the community. I've gotten to the Alpha release of my AuctionSite Starterkit and have published a release on Codeplex http://www.codeplex.com/auctionsk It's designed and produced in .net 3.5 utilizing some cool features like LINQ, the new Listview, the .NET membership, full CSS design...

What a great time to be had a development conferences. Putting that many smart people in one room should be illegal honestly. Two solid days of .NET energy (and one adobe flex talk, ...<blink>) - Culminated with a 4 hour presentation by Scott Guthrie on the new Visual Studios 2008 / .NET 3.0 and...