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Lawson's Smart Office: WPF Eyecandy heaven

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:54:07 GMT

WPF at everything else: "who's your daddy?". Be check the video interview to see this baby LIVE

Visual Studio Shell 2008: Bringing More .NET Languages into the Fold

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:16:03 GMT

Visual Studio Shell was released in January of 2007 without much fanfare. Even though it's free to download, at the time it was not very useful for most developers as few packages had yet been written for it. Now eight months have gone by and quite a few projects are sporting free Visual Studio interfaces. In this article I discuss Visual Studio Shell itself as well as several of the languages which are currently developing shells.

What if it's not in Environment.SpecialFolder?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:31:02 GMT

The correct way to find the location of system folders not listed in Environment.SpecialFolder.

TypeLibBuilder.exe Frequent Crashes in Visual Studio 2008 FIX

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:34:30 GMT

I first thought it was due to ASP.NET MVC being still in alpha phase (using preview 5) but the root-cause was something not related to .net or windows or anything!

Google Chrome and Web Standards

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:16:02 GMT

How does the adoption of Google Chrome affect cross browser compatibility? Are web standards a solution? How can I easily move to standard compliant pages?

Documents 2.0 - Consumable Documents

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:46:02 GMT

Sidar discussing the need for more agile documents in business environments.

List of countries, cities, languages

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:31:03 GMT

You will find in the following links list of countries, cities, and their languages in CSV format, you can import into any database:

FxCop for Ajax Code

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:31:03 GMT

FxCop is a great tool to help ensure consistency of .NET code and to help push quality upstream in the development process by reinforcing design guidelines and flagging some potential issues that can be detected through static analysis of your assemblies

Yonkly: Open source twitter built on ASP.NET MVC

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:46:05 GMT

A cool new open source microblogging (twitter clone) platform.

ASP.NET Dynamic Data - Simple 5 Table Northwind Example

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:31:09 GMT

Excellent summary of what you can do with Dynamic Data - a huge timesaver for most common CRUD-style sites

How to Search And Replace values in SQL across All Tables

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:15:50 GMT

My website got hacked. I got several html code injections inside the database. Here is how i fixed the issue very quickly.

Courting a Developer

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:05:15 GMT

How to get developers to adopt new technology, and maybe get some action too.

New Image Generator control in ASP.Net 3.5

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:16:02 GMT

This week Microsoft have released a new control called ASP.NET Generated Image control to display image in ASP.Net page. This article will give you a kick start on this control and some of its features.

Exploring System.Web.Routing

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:31:11 GMT

An overview of the new System.Web.Routing namespace that was included in .net 3.5 SP1.

Lutz Roeder's Weblog: The Future of .NET Reflector

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:16:02 GMT

After more than eight years of working on .NET Reflector, I have decided it is time to move on and explore some new opportunities. I have reached an agreement to have Red Gate Software continue the development of .NET Reflector. Red Gate has a lot of experience creating tools for both .NET and SQL Server. They have the resources necessary to work on new features, and Reflector fits nicely with other .NET tools the company offers. Red Gate will continue to provide the free community version and is looking for your feedback and ideas for future versions.

Easily build powerful client-side AJAX paging, using jQuery

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:31:14 GMT

An in-depth example of using jQuery to build client-side paging, including progress indicators, to page into any server side data source that can be JSON serialized by ASP.NET AJAX.

jQuery and the ASP.NET MVC Framework

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 17:46:02 GMT

With WebForms, integrating with Ajax libraries other than ASP.NET AJAX was slightly painful. With the new ASP.NET MVC Framework, however, you can use jQuery without these additional headaches.

Visual Studio Tip: Split Views

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:01:08 GMT

There are a couple of ways to get a split view in Visual Studio. Both are incredible time savers that I use daily. The first is one that most developers will be aware of, but the second seems to be one that many do not seem to know about.

Clone Detective for Visual Studio

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:16:03 GMT

Clone Detective is a Visual Studio integration that allows you to analyze C# projects for source code that is duplicated somewhere else. Having duplicates can easily lead to inconsistencies and often is an indicator for poorly factored code.

7 principles of clean and optimized CSS code

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:01:02 GMT

With the popularity of CSS layouts and JavaScript-enriched web page experiences, it's not uncommon, particularly for large sites, for the CSS files alone to grow in size, but there are some principles to consider during and after you write your CSS to help keep it tight and optimized. Optimization isn't just minimizing file size - it's also about being organized, clutter-free, and efficient. You'll find that the more knowledge you have about optimal CSS practices, smaller file size will inevitably come as an direct result of their implementation. You may already be familiar with some of the principles mentioned in this article, but they are worth a review. Being familiar with this concepts will help you write optimized CSS code and make you a better all-around web designer.

13 features I'd like to see in BlogEngine.NET

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:46:15 GMT

As you probably know by now I use BlogEngine.NET as my blogging platform. In order to become more powerful engine I suggest thirteen (more or less) common features, like ability to unsubscribe from comment notifications, group comments&trackbacks and much more.

Open popup windows in IE/Firefox and return values using ASP.NET

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:31:16 GMT

This article explains how to transfer values between the Parent page and a Pop-up window. The code has been tested against IE7 and Firefox.

Visual Studio Theme Generator

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:16:02 GMT

A fun little ASP.NET MVC Application I wrote to generate Visual Studio themes based off of 3 given colors. I have always felt that selecting every color to make a decent theme is way too repetitive. This web application automatically chooses complements / contrasts based off your initial color selections (and uses jQuery to let you preview your theme before creating). Check it out and let me know what you think.

Reduce ASP.NET Page size and complexity using JQuery-Part 2

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:16:02 GMT

This is part 2 of my series for ASP.NET AJAX and JQuery comparison. You can read part 1 here. In my last 2 articles (Dynamically create ASP.NET user control using ASP.NET Ajax and Web Service and Dynamically create ASP.NET user control using JQuery and JSON enabled Ajax Web Service), I explained how to access JSON data from ASP.NET AJAX script service using ASP.NET AJAX client side framework and JQuery. In this post I will compare response/ request for these two implementations.

Simple Static Tooltip Widget using jQuery.UI

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 18:11:31 GMT

Simple Static Tooltip Widget using jQuery.UI.