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Design Mistakes Made By Web Developers

I mentioned in a previous blog post that I’m doing one of my favorite sessions at TechEd again this year – Top 10 Design Mistakes Made By Web Developers.  I would consider myself a web developer, not so much a web designer.  I can make something that doesn’t look bad, but it’s typically doesn’t have Read More...

TechEd 2010 in New Orleans

I’m spending part of my memorial day weekend preparing for TechEd next week because I want to try something new and it’s going to require some extra work.  Thankfully the weather is pretty crumby here in Seattle this weekend, so it’s not like I’m missing a great weather weekend.  Ah well!  I guess I get Read More...

Protecting Your Sites & Content From ClickJacking

I was talking with a few friends the other day about content online, using iFrames to show other peoples content on what looks like another site.  For the bad guy, it’s basically “stealing” content and putting your ads and materials around it, so they get the money from the ads.  One way to protect your Read More...

Writing the tests for FluentPath

Writing the tests for FluentPath is a challenge. The library is a wrapper around a legacy API (System.IO) that wasn’t designed to be easily testable. If it were more testable, the sensible testing methodology would be to tell System.IO to act against a mock file system, which would enable me to verify that my code is doing the expected file system operations without having to manipulate the actual, physical file system: what we are testing here is FluentPath, not System.IO. Unfortunately, that is not an option as nothing in System.IO enables us to plug a mock file system in. As a consequence, we are left with few options. A few people have suggested me to abstract my calls to System.IO away so that I could tell FluentPath – not System.IO – to...

Trying Internet Explorer 9 Platform Previews

Over the last few months at conferences and events, it’s been fun to show off the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Previews!  People seem to get pretty excited about it, and understandably so! The engineering team has been super hard at work making sure that IE9 is going to rock, and to ensure that we’ve got stuff Read More...

Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW – Available Now

We are pleased to announce that the RTW version of Web Deployment Projects for Visual Studio 2010 is now available for download. If you’ve been using Web Deployment Projects in Visual Studio 2008 or 2005, you can upgrade to VS 2010 without hesitation with the availability of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW (for Visual Studio Professional and higher skus). Installation You can download Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects RTW from the download page (or simply click here to directly download the installer). Features in WDP 2010 RTW The RTW version of Visual Studio 2010 Web Deployment Projects preserves all the core functionalities of Visual Studio 2005 Web Deployment Projects and Visual Studio 2008 Web Deployment Projects...

My VS 2010 and ASP.NET 4 Talks Online

The past 7 years I’ve done an annual all day event in Arizona – organized by the most excellent Scott Cate (who always does a phenomenal job organizing the event and making it a great one). Earlier this month I visited and presented 4+ hours of content covering VS 2010, ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC 2.  NextSlide.com – a great .NET shop local to Arizona who has a great product for sharing presentations – volunteered to record the talks and publish them for free using their online presentation tool.  The recordings they did turned out really, really great – and their online player (which combines slides + camera of me + demos in one experience) is awesome.  Below you can watch the first two segments of my event – which cover VS 2010...

Starting at PeteLePage.com

After a bit of a hiatus, I’ve rebuilt my website, and am in the process of moving my MSDN blog posts over here as well. In any event, it’ll take a few days to get everything set up, but it’s on the way. PEte Read More...

Changing URLs

I've decided to move my blog to my own site, so you can find me at... http://PeteLePage.com/blog PEte Read More...

Fine Art Photography Notes Posted

As part of migrating my sites, blogs and other online web presence to one place, I just moved all of my fine art printing notes to the “Fine Art Photography Reference” section… How To How To: Develop Black & White Film How To: Flash Paper How To: Test Paper Sensitivity How To: Pre-Development Bleaching How To: Split Grade Print How To: Use Read More...