Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server

blog.donnfelker.com — Very handy... I'm forever looking this stuff up :-| read more...

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packaging and deploying a sharepoint 2007 web part

submitted by naspinski 2 months, 20 days ago

naspinski.net — you know how to make a web part, but do you know how to get it to your production environment in the proper way? A nice tutorial on how to package and deploy a web part that you have built using visual studio 2008 and SharePoint 2007 (wss 3.0). read more...

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Enhance your input fields with simple CSS tricks

published 3 months, 25 days ago, submitted by janko 3 months, 26 days ago

jankoatwarpspeed.com — We're all trying to build an effective and good looking web forms. But there are always a new challenges. If you read my previous articles on how to build a better web forms, you could have noticed there are so many details about it. This article will show you how you can make a usual, boring web forms more effective and exciting with just a few simple CSS tricks. read more...

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Introduction to LinqPad

dimecasts.net — Short screencasts that will on the Introduction to LinqPad In this episode we will learn how to use the LinqPad expression evaluator. read more...

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Speed up Firefox when using Development Server

published 5 months, 4 days ago, submitted by aloker 5 months, 5 days ago

blog.andreloker.de — Using Firefox on Vista to view websites hosted by the Visual Studio Development Server can be unbearably slow. Pages take aeons (i.e. several seconds) to load while viewing the same site under IE does not suffer from this issue. Here's how to solve the problem. read more...

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Using jQuery to directly call ASP.NET AJAX page methods

published 5 months, 24 days ago, submitted by gt1329a 5 months, 25 days ago

encosia.com — An example of how to use jQuery to call an ASP.NET AJAX page method, without using a ScriptManager. read more...

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EntitySpaces 2008- LINQ to DataTable?

entityspaces.net — I have always built architectures on top of ADO.NET DataTables, they're fast (yes), flexible, and the power it provides is really pretty good. Additionally, as new features are added to ADO.NET they can then be easily absorbed. We were able to add LINQ to SQL to EntitySpaces by simply turning a LINQ query into an ADO.NET DataTable. Once we exchange the LINQ query for an ADO.NET DataTable the EntitySpaces architecture functions as normal since its underlying data structure is a DataTable. Pretty sweet. Here's a nice little trick in case you are not aware of it. read more...

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Creating great thumbnails in ASP.NET

thebrainparasite.com — The built in function for creating thumbnails in ASP.NET is extremely convenient and very simple to implement. The trouble is that it produces relatively poor quality results and excessively large file sizes. The thumbnails tend to look very muddy when using this route, but many times it's good enough for whatever your needs may be. read more...

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