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Using Binding.StringFormat

Fri, 16 May 2008 18:44:37 GMT

.NET 3.5 SP1 added a new StringFormat to the Binding object... This article shows how to use it!

Supporting DTS in SQL Server 2005

Fri, 16 May 2008 17:31:55 GMT

DTS can be hard to get running under SQL Server 2005. This article presents a clear and concise list of instructions and troubleshooting advice.

JavaScript: Warning the user when CapsLock is on

Fri, 16 May 2008 16:26:58 GMT

Describes a method for warning a user that their caps lock is on using JavaScript. Also includes an ASP.NET control

Paging Made Simple with SQL Server 2005

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:48:30 GMT

I have been doing this for a while but found that a lot of my fellow developers were unaware that this is possible.

Visual Studio Usability Tip: Highlight Current Line

Fri, 16 May 2008 15:08:50 GMT

A small tweak you can make to your Visual Studio color scheme to help you navigate your code faster... maybe.

Video - PowerCommands for Visual Studio

Fri, 16 May 2008 14:33:51 GMT

PowerCommands is a set of extensions for Visual Studio. It adds some nice-to-have features to Visual Studio. I selected this toolset as the subject of my first ever published video. I have done a lot of presentations and public speaking but this is my first go at producing a video. Boy! was I nervous with just me listening to myself

S#arp Architecture: ASP.NET MVC with NHibernate and Spring

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:05:17 GMT

Architectural foundation for rapidly building maintainable web applications leveraging the ASP.NET MVC framework with NHibernate 1.2 and Spring.NET 1.1.1.

Meeting Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin and Paul Litwin: .NET Powerhou

Fri, 16 May 2008 13:04:51 GMT

A night to never forget. Thanks to Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin and Paul Litwin.

Writing code that you're proud of

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:24:36 GMT

Are you proud of the code you write? Take some extra time now and save yourself time down the road.

Web Request and caching

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:07:10 GMT

Tells how to cache a web page witha webrequest object

Windows Form Printing

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:59:55 GMT

Windows forms are quick and easy to create in any .NET language. By choosing the right project template, a developer can be dragging controls onto a Windows form, and have a professional looking user interface constructed in a matter of minutes. Printing the form, however, is a different matter. The programmer can leave the user to press Print Screen, and then paste the results into MS Paint, or a similar application. However, this is messy, and un-professional. Consider the case where the form contains multiple tabs, or where data in a list box cannot all be displayed at once. Using this approach, the user will be involved with clicking controls, an capturing screen prints for quite a while. Alternatively, the .NET development environment provides several controls to "help" with printing. Using these controls, the developer may listen for events, and respond by rendering output using GDI+. This approach can result in very professional output, but the drawback is the amount of time it takes to develop printing support on a form-by-form basis. When compared to the ease of dragging controls onto the form for the initial user interface, it appears cumbersome, costly, time consuming, and can be prone to bugs.

Unit Testing and Code Coverage - A Powerful Duo

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:55:18 GMT

Unit testing (using NUnit) and code coverage (using NCoverExplorer) make an amazing combination to not only run unit tests, but see how well your tests execute your code. All of this is made even easier by the TestDriven.net Add-in for Visual Studio.

ASP.NET MVC ActionResult TDD Helper

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:43:55 GMT

Simplyify asserting returned ActionResults with these handy extension methods.

Databinding In Silverlight With New ItemContainerStyle

Fri, 16 May 2008 10:26:41 GMT

Recently on OzSilverlight mailing list a question was asked about data-bindings. The issue was how do you use data-binding once you have replaced ItemContainerStyle for a ListBox. The answer is that you can replace the entire Template by giving it a new ControlTemplate and specify your bindings within the new template. I have created this example to illustrate this.

Intellisense Filtering in Visual Studio

Fri, 16 May 2008 09:22:04 GMT

A thought about intellisense filtering in Visual Studio.

Naming HTML Objects: Use Some Imagination

Fri, 16 May 2008 06:50:33 GMT

People often give name/id to their html objects like "body" or "text" or something like this. And this works for them until they try doing some manipulations with these objects using JavaScript. And then crazy things happen randomly.

Shell MegaPack.Net And Activex 2008

Fri, 16 May 2008 06:24:09 GMT

Shell MegaPack recreates the entire Windows Explorer file & folder browsing UI in your app in just a couple of seconds. It supports contextmenus,dragdrop,icons,virtual items,renaming,infotips and Thumbnail/Details/Group Views similar to Explorer but it is miles ahead with features like filtering, checkboxes and customization of context menus, displaynames and columns.

Try out the New features in WPF (3.5 SP1)

Fri, 16 May 2008 06:06:48 GMT

Try out the New features in WPF (3.5 SP1)... Its more like a 4.0 release

SQL Server 2008 - Change Data Capture (CDC)

Fri, 16 May 2008 04:29:28 GMT

Exploring the Change Data Capture (CDC) in SQL Server 2008

Your debugging experience - I want to hear from you

Fri, 16 May 2008 03:28:28 GMT

Tell me how you debug.. Help shape the future of troubleshooting.

Effects in .Net 3.5 SP1 for WPF « C# Disciples

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:26:45 GMT

Have you heard? The guys at Redmond impressed the world once again! .Net 3.5 SP1 is now Beta.. If you didn't already, I would suggest that you read this brilliant post from Tim Sneath to get more info on what's new in WPF. Today, I wanted to experiment a bit with the new Effects that were included in the SP1 Beta. These effects are the same as the BitmapEffects that were previously in WPF. One can also say that these are the replacement for the BitmapEffects. Why?

Customizing a Dynamic Data Site

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:09:06 GMT

Learn to create custom field templates, read UIHint arguments and work with 3rd party controls.

IronRuby In Action went into EAP

Thu, 15 May 2008 22:03:30 GMT

The book for Manning on IronRuby went in EAP today

Show hide system objects SQL Server's Enterprise Manager

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:25:32 GMT

If you want to show or hide the system objects in SQL server's enterprise manager such as "master database, system tables, system stored procedures":....

Useful Debugging tools from CodePlex

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:14:00 GMT

Some useful tools you can find on CodePlex.