Working with Fiddler on LocalHost - Scott Cate's WebLog

submitted by crpietschmann 2 days, 10 hours ago

weblogs.asp.net — Then last month while speaking at Orlando ASPConnections, I was demoing some AJAX calls on stage, and an audience member told me that Fiddler will work on 127.0.0.1 with a trailing . on the IP address. So the address ends up like ... read more...

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Creating widgets for BlogEngine.NET 1.4

submitted by crpietschmann 3 days, 15 hours ago

blog.madskristensen.dk — The new BlogEngine.NET 1.4 let’s you easily create and distribute widgets like the ones you see on the right hand side on this page. Widgets are basically just small pieces of content and you can leverage the entire .NET Framework to create them. They can pull data from BlogEngine.NET itself or from external sources like web services or remote XML files. Everything is allowed and possible. read more...

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How to use the IHttpAsyncHandler in ASP.NET

submitted by crpietschmann 6 days, 18 hours ago

blog.madskristensen.dk — Basically, the IHttpAsyncHandler interface allows you to serve content asynchronously from a HTTP handler. This is great when you need to free up the worker thread to do processing like IO work etc. ASP.NET actually uses fewer threads when it runs asynchronously, which is great for performance and scalability. That’s because each thread is returned much faster to the thread pool. read more...

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Community Coding Contest to start July 1 - Chance to Win MSDN Premium!

submitted by crpietschmann 9 days, 16 hours ago

pietschsoft.com — The Community Coding Contest will run from July 1 through Sept. 30, 2008. The community will vote to decide the winners. The top 3 entries will each be awarded 1 MSDN Premium Subscription with Visual Studio Team Suite, and the 4th place entry will be awarded Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 and Visual Studio 2008 Professional. Here's an awesome chance to write some code and win some awesome prizes! I am also looking for sponsors to donate additional prizes to give away. read more...

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Gold Coast : WPF and Virtual Earth revisited

submitted by crpietschmann 10 days, 15 hours ago

blogs.msdn.com — I worked on a more creative/reusable approach to hosting Virtual Earth in a WPF application. If you have looked at any of my previous samples showing how to host Virtual Earth in a WPF app, you'll recall I was using the WinForms WebBrowser control to host an html page that in turn hosts Virtual Earth. Additionally, I used the WebBrowser control's ability to enable communication between managed code and JavaScript. One of the frustrations with this approach is that when using WinForms interop, all WinForms controls take the highest z-order in your app which means you cannot render WPF elements on top of the map. The other thing that has always bothered me about my sample is although it showed how to implement the general approach, it did not wrap all the functionality into a reusable WPF Virtual Earth control. Good news! I have an updated sample. read more...

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Visual Studio Smart Tag Expansion Tip

published 10 days, 12 hours ago, submitted by crpietschmann 11 days, 17 hours ago

haacked.com — I used to find the smart tag really annoying in Visual Studio because it is such a small target to hit with the mouse. Silly me, trying to expand a smart tag with a mouse. When you highlight the tag with your mouse, it tells you that the keyboard combination of ALT + SHIFT + F10 will expand the menu. read more...

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ASP.NET AJAX support in custom controls

submitted by crpietschmann 14 days, 20 hours ago

codeproject.com — This article will be useful for any custom component developer who wants to update his/her controls so they will work correctly with ASP.NET AJAX. First, we will describe the most common problems that occur during such customizations and then propose the solution for those issues. read more...

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Plot ZipCode Boundaries on Map: Part1 - Make sense of U.S. Census Data

submitted by crpietschmann 15 days, 16 hours ago

pietschsoft.com — The data I'll focus on here is the Census 2000 5-Digit ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) in ARC/INFO Ungenerate (ASCII) format. Even though these files are in their own "special" format, described here, they are still just plain ASCII and easily converted into CSV files to be imported into a database. Well, you could look at the ARC/INFO Generate (ASCII) Metadata Cartographic Boundary File Format definition and write a parser that then saves in in a CSV format. Or, you could just download and use the one I wrote for this article. read more...

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