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MSSQL SERVER 2008 New Features for Developers

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:31:02 GMT

MSSQL SERVER 2008 New Features for Developers

Ajax with the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:31:03 GMT

This post presents a few basic Ajax features (similar to partial rendering and behaviors in terms of concepts) running on top of the ASP.NET MVC framework... some early ideas, experimentation and app-building results.

Ruby.NET 0.9 released (first community OS version)

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:31:02 GMT

Ruby.NET is a compiler that translates Ruby source code into .NET intermediate code. They are close to a release (I think Msft licensed some of their code for IronRuby) and it might be worthwhile investigating if you can't wait for the DLR and IronRuby.

Nested Master Pages in VS 2008

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 00:31:02 GMT

A short example video of Nested Master Pages in Visual Studio 2008.

Exploring L-Systems with F# and C#

Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:16:03 GMT

In this post I'm going to show a little program for displaying graphical representations of L-Systems using turtle graphics implemented in F#, C# and WPF.

Don't Be a Validation Nazi

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:31:02 GMT

"Postel wrote that in an RFC that defined TCP, but it applies much more broadly. It's natural that developers, used to the exacting nature of writing code for a compiler, where even the most minor of typos can bring a program screeching to a halt, have a tendency to apply such exactitude on their users."

Reading other people's .NET code

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:01:02 GMT

Places to find great examples of .NET code

Creating Efficient ASP.NET AJAX Applications

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:01:02 GMT

Tips to use update panels in ASP.NET AJAX

How do you know if all of your ajax calls have completed?

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:46:02 GMT

When you are doing multiple asynchronous calls to the server in succession, how do you know when they are all completed so you can move on to the next page? Here is an example of how to solve this problem using the Asp.Net Ajax library.

Calling event handlers in JavaScript

Sat, 12 May 2007 14:04:37 GMT

In JavaScript, the keyword 'this' in the event handler method body refers to the object that has fired the event; not the object in which the event handler is defined.

Part 1 - Leveraging Workflow Foundation - It is just an API

Mon, 14 May 2007 01:16:01 GMT

To help you limit the amount of rusty washers you will run into with Workflow Foundation, I wanted to share our team's experience in working through Workflow. In this multiple part series we'll look at some of the challenges the team faced and how we solved some of these. I say "some" of these because we took side steps around the rusty washers we found due to our short time frame. Hopefully this brain dump of information will save others time who are about to start using Workflow Foundation. I'll cover some of the in and outs where you will want to look into workflow and some of the pitfalls we had to work around (the rusty washers).

Javascript and ASP.NET

Mon, 14 May 2007 18:31:01 GMT

Some thoughts on script support in ASP.NET how it evolved.

SubSonic: Move to Subversion is now complete

Mon, 14 May 2007 02:46:01 GMT

SubSonic has now been successfully moved to Google Code, and thus Subversion source control.

SubSonic Starter Site is Out!

Fri, 11 May 2007 05:01:01 GMT

Check out the new SubSonic starter site, complete with CMS, membership, and more.

Is reinventing the wheel sometimes the right thing to do?

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 14:46:01 GMT

When developing a software framework we can often leverage 3rd party frameworks - but is it always the best option ?

The launch of BlogEngine.NET

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 05:01:01 GMT

BlogEngine.NET is a full featured blog engine targeted at .NET developers. It is light weight and very simple to modify and extend.

VB.NET/ASP.NET XML String to Dataset

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:28:04 GMT

XML String to Dataset

The Power of Dynamic SQL: DynamicQuery class - Introduction

Tue, 03 Apr 2007 00:31:01 GMT

Building provider independent data-driven applications that uses static queries can be a lot of work. Even more work needs to be done to use dynamic queries, specially in parsing and validating user input, and building the command string. The DynamicQuery class can do all of that work for you and much more!

Use Response.Filter to intercept your HTML

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 05:46:02 GMT

You can use Response.Filter to get a reference to the final HTML that will be sent to the client

Intro to JSON with .NET

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:31:01 GMT

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

HOWTO: Enable Default Enter Button in ASP.NET 2.0

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:31:01 GMT

A problem that existed in ASP.NET 1.x was that you could not specify a default enter button unless you provided some custom code. In ASP.NET 2.0 you can do this very easily, unfortunately its not that widely used, much less known. The best part is, IS SUPER SIMPLE...

Speed Test: Switch vs If-Else-If

Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:31:01 GMT

The .NET framework and the C# language provide two methods for conditional processing where multiple discrete values can be selected from. The switch statement is less flexible than the if-else-if ladder but is generally considered to be more efficient.

Snippets Collection

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:16:01 GMT

Big collection of snippets for Visual Studio

First look at Orcas

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:16:01 GMT

ScottGu gives us a first look at Orcas. It looks pretty good. Multi-targeting of projects. Rich HTML/CSS WYSIWYG Designer. ASP.NET AJAX and JavaScript. Significantly Improved Data Support. I'm quite excited about the LINQ support.

Ten SQL Server Functions That You Hardly Use But Should

Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:16:01 GMT

A list of little-known but useful T-SQL functions