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Formatting Your WPF Data - String.Format Is In the House!

Fri, 29 May 2009 13:45:02 GMT

How to format your Binded Data

Creating Gapped and Bulleted Shapes in WPF/Silverlight

Tue, 26 May 2009 07:00:03 GMT

How to create a shape with bullets on the joints of it's segments

Parameter count mismatch Error

Thu, 21 May 2009 19:22:17 GMT

Yesterday, I spent a whole day chasing a very weird and strange error - I was getting an exception at the main method. The error description was: "Parameters count mismatch".

How To: Clean Up ASP.NET JavaScript Tags

Thu, 07 May 2009 20:35:19 GMT

In April of '08, I wrote a post about cleaning up the ASP.NET head tag using control adapters. I've got some great feedback from it, and I'm glad that I'm not the only one that is horrified when looking at the source of an ASP.NET rendered web page. From the comments of that article I was recently asked how to clean up JavaScript tags.

GridView Plugin For JQuery

Thu, 07 May 2009 17:06:48 GMT

Starting out we are going to keep this pretty simple and as it progresses we'll add more features. For now we are going to start with a hand coded HTML table and CSS. In a later post we'll look at populating the grid from a data source. In this post today we'll apply the CSS to the table but will expand this to a skinning system later on. We'll also be applying the row selection feature today.

Adding Default Assemblies, Namespaces and Control Prefixes in Config

Wed, 06 May 2009 06:16:05 GMT

The fact that you can assign namespace and assemblies in your web.config file is one of the most underused features of ASP.NET

Building a simple voicemail system with Twilio and ASP.NET MVC, Part 1

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:11:14 GMT

How to build a simple voicemail system using Twilio's TwiML and ASP.NET MVC

4 Grea Tips for Custom WPF Controls Developers

Tue, 05 May 2009 14:31:02 GMT

4 great tips for WPF Custom control designers

Beginning JQuery - Cool Menu with Master Page

Mon, 04 May 2009 01:59:18 GMT

I came across a really slick menu on the Queness website and have adapted it to work with a regular ASP.NET master page. A download link to a working Web Application Project for this is provided below.

The HttpWebRequest and Using Client Certificates

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:20:31 GMT

So you may have found yourself in a similar situation, needing to make a TCP/IP request to a 3rd party API possibly using SSL. Well, that is a quite simple task. It can however, be complicated if this 3rd party requires the use of certificates for communication to its API server.

Using of JSON Result in Asp.net MVC 1.0

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:30:04 GMT

In a post few month back , i showed how can i simulate a callback using JQuery and ASP.NET with my experimental FlickrXplorer project. More detail on this can be found at the following URL http://weblogs.asp.net/mehfuzh/archive/2008/10/13/using-jquery-to-do-ajax-form-posts-in-asp-net-mvc.aspx Now, what i have done here is basically, i did an AJAX call to the controller and rendered the view result in a div. One thing about this way is that i am able to make the view strongly typed as i first rendered view using standard way with all the strongly type ViewData.Model. It is nice for rendering views with small amount of html in it (Like , tag lists), but slow for big outputs. The best practice for all these is to use the JSONResult. Here, i will show a small example of how i render the comment list in FlickrXplorer using JSON result and JQuery $.Post in conjunction to make the AJAX request.

How to Create A JQuery Plugin

Tue, 28 Apr 2009 22:01:45 GMT

A small tutorial about creating JQuery Plugins

A DelegateQueue Class

Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:08:26 GMT

Last year, I wrote a toolkit for creating state machines. One of my goals for the toolkit was to provide the option of having each state machine executing in its own thread; I wanted state machines to be active objects. To realize this goal, I needed an event queue. State machines would use event queues to enqueue events sent to them and later dequeue th

LINQ to Objects: Debugging

Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:07:43 GMT

Declarative language constructs like query comprehension syntax often worries imperatively trained developers. I hear this quite a bit, and the excuse of "It Just Works" is often not satisfactory for most of them :-). Combine this with interesting behavioral differences like lazy evaluation and lots of developers get lost in paradise.

No Character Encoding Declared at Document Level

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:38:11 GMT

I really like the developer toolbar in IE8 although I'm still getting familiar with it. I am in the process of putting the finishing touches to a new site for a client and was validating the CSS and the XHTML.

Another List of 5 Great and Useful Visual Studio Shortcuts

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:16:13 GMT

a while back we had 2 great posts and one page about visual studio shortcuts. The first one had a list of 10 Visual Studio Shortcuts and the second one had 11 Visual Studio Shortcuts. We also have a Visual Studio CheatSheet with all the Keyboard shortcuts Visual Studio has.

Project Kobe community feedback

Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:31:02 GMT

A project that we recently worked on in my team is Kobe , a Web 2.0 service development resource kit. The goal of the resource kit was to provide a collection of resources in the form of presentations, white papers, and a working sample application to enable business and technology decision makers to develop a good foundational understanding of Web 2.0 services, a conceptual architecture of a Web 2.0 service, challenges to think through when embarking on a new Web 2.0 service development project, and Microsoft platform implementation assets that are available and can be applied to materialize Web 2.0 services.

Kobe - Oh Dear Lord Why?!

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:31:02 GMT

Karl Seguin weighs in on the latest MS ASP.NET MVC sample app

5 Useful Visual Studio C# Snippets

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 05:31:02 GMT

The title says it all. Save yourself sometime by using these snippets.

OpenSuse vs. Ubuntu for .Net Developers

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:31:03 GMT

Many .Net developers are playing with Linux on the side because it is free but which Linux should you choose to use if you are a .Net developer?

Creating A Tabbed Menu Control For ASP.NET MVC

Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:16:05 GMT

Tab menus are a fairly common thing that I use in a lot of my applications. I like tabs because they help break up large chunks of, usually, related information.

5 Blogs ASP.NET MVC Developers Should Be Following

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:46:07 GMT

Everyone knows that Phil Haack, Rob Conery, Scott Hanselman, and Scott Guthrie all provide good ASP.NET MVC content on their blogs. I wanted to provide a list of excellent resources on ASP.NET MVC that are a little less well known.

Finding Text in SQL Server Stored Procedures

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:51:44 GMT

So, I'm sure you have been met with a similar scenario during development. You know the one that you have to rename a column or even drop a column in the database. This can be quite annoying if you are doing stored procedure based data access for your application.

C# Design Patterns - The Visitor Pattern

Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:31:02 GMT

One principle that I really like is the Open/Closed principle which says that an object should be open to new functionality but closed to structural changes. The visitor pattern helps facilitate this principle by giving us the means to perform operations against an object without changing the objects structure. Looking back at a previous pattern we wanted to adjust the registration cost for a dog if they had been picked up by the dog catcher.

DebuggerDisplay and DebuggerBrowsable - Two Debugger Attributes to kno

Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:31:20 GMT

two very useful debugger attributes any programmer should know