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Dan Maharry

Recent Posts

• What would you like to see in the next edition of Programming ASP.NET?

  Posted: 01 Dec 2008 at 16:05

  With the .NET 3.5 cycle out of the way and ASP.NET 4.0 on the horizon, it's time to try and figure out a way to incorporate the many new features and techniques that have emerged \ been released into the next editions of ASP.NET books. So then, what would you put in 'Programming ASP.NET 4.0' and wha

• Links for 2008-10-29 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 30 Oct 2008 at 00:00

  Fast AJAX, Faster AJAX Alik Leven presents a cae study using script-callable web services to increase productivity and performance.

• Links for 2008-10-27 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 28 Oct 2008 at 00:00

  Summary Data Access from A to Z Paul Gielens summarizes the PDC Pre-conf day on Data Access

• Links for 2008-10-23 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 24 Oct 2008 at 00:00

  Brad Abrams : Building a Great Ajax application from Scratch Quick all the way through tutorial to building up a ASP.NET AJAX site How to use Windows 2008 on your laptop Kzu points to a good guide for runnign Win2008 as a workstation along with how to install Live Writer on the OS too

• Links for 2008-10-21 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 22 Oct 2008 at 06:00

  Introduction to ASP.NET Dynamic Data Quick walkthrough for building a Dynamic Data websiteNo Empty Selector in jQueryHow To Write Testable ASP.NET UserControlsHow To Write Testable ASP.NET WebFormsDesign Patterns on dotNetSlackers First of an ongoing series on using and implementing design pattern

• Links for 2008-10-20 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 21 Oct 2008 at 00:00

  Guide to Freeing up Disk Space under Windows Vista Nice little list of ways to free up space on your hard drive from Vista's standard operating procedure. The comments add a few more too. Good for the virtual spring cleaning ASP.NET MVC Beta Released Release notes from ScottGu for the

• Gallio \ MbUnit v3.0.4 Released

  Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 00:44

  Jeff Brown has announced the release of Gallio \ MbUnit v3.0.4.Today we are releasing v3.0.4 of Gallio and MbUnit.  This release incorporates many new features as well improvements for robustness. New asserts, assertion diffs, 0rdered tests, Rollback, Repeat, ThreadedRepeat, R# 4.1, VSTS, CSUnit, T

• Links for 2008-10-16 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 17 Oct 2008 at 00:00

  Web Platform Installer Phil Haack introduces Microsoft's all-in-one installer for web related technologies on (currently) Vista and Server 2008. Win2003 and XP are being looked into apparently. But IIS7 doesn't work on those does it? How to Find or Validate an Email Address Lookin

• MbUnit.Framework v2 Docs October CTP

  Posted: 13 Oct 2008 at 21:54

  Well, it's been a while and as Jeff leads Gallio into the autumn sunshine, it's time to push out a little something for those still using MbUnit v2. You may recall, back in August last year, we launched docs.mbunit.com. Regrettably, it's been quite static since then but now the monster is complete t

• Links for 2008-10-07 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 08 Oct 2008 at 06:00

  Exclude Files and Folders from WDP Output Quick tutorial on using the MSBuild file that is a web deployment project to exclude or remove directories from a website's output directory once VS has been asked to build it.

• Links for 2008-09-30 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 01 Oct 2008 at 06:00

  Subversion Best Practices for Web Applications Kyle Beyer's best practices for organising web applications in source control

• Links for 2008-09-21 [del.icio.us]

  Posted: 22 Sep 2008 at 06:00

  Disused Stations on London's Underground Site dedicated to the stations and closed off bits of the London Tube Subterranea Britannica Site dedicated to structures buried under the UK's surface. Bunkers, train stations etc

• Expressing the Meme

  Posted: 06 Sep 2008 at 18:22

  Chris Hart has tagged me, so here are six random facts about me which are moderately interesting. I have, at various points, been referred to as 'Bamber', 'The Milky Bar Kid' and 'Beep', mostly in a friendly way. Sometimes not. The worst holiday I ever had was in Nice (sic). I intend one day to retu

• Programming ASP.NET 3.5 Is Slated For PDC

  Posted: 01 Sep 2008 at 21:31

  Well, it’s been a while coming but it looks like Programming ASP.NET 3.5 will finally hit the shelves in late October just in time for this year’s PDC. Hurrah! So, to take a leaf out of John Papa’s blog, it’s time to take a few seconds out and thank those who were involved in its creation. First of

• Red Gate Reflector

  Posted: 21 Aug 2008 at 08:20

  Well, it looks like one of the best .NET utilities out there has changed hands. Lutz Roeder, the original creator and developer of Reflector has agreed with Red Gate software (they of SQL Compare and SQL Toolkit fame) to let them continue development of it from now one. An interview with both Lutz a

• RadioButton Groups, Table Rows And NamingContainers

  Posted: 14 Aug 2008 at 16:42

  (In which AJAX-enhanced CheckBoxes become more useful than RadioButtons but inheritance saves the day, and a simple RadioButton-derived control establishes the purpose of a control's naming container) The RadioButtonList. Very handy for inviting users to select just one item from a list although bec

• Three Different Ways To Find The Currently Edited Row In A GridView

  Posted: 05 Aug 2008 at 16:06

  The GridView, and indeed all the other templated data bound controls, are lifeblood to an ASP.NET developer when it comes to creating websites. A little DataSource control here, a GridView there and even if it isn't exactly what you want, you've got a prototype page up and running in no time to star

• Is this the truth of it?

  Posted: 04 Aug 2008 at 20:49

  Achieving perpetual mass for any community only takes place if the underlying purpose of the community is appealing to enough users that they decide to contribute some of their cognitive surplus to its furtherance. More of that discussion here. Discuss

• Enabling SSL Certificates on any Given HTTP Port

  Posted: 01 Aug 2008 at 10:45

  Following on from my travails with HttpListeners not working as a non-admin user, it turned out that the Cardspace samples (download them here if you're interested) had one more sticking point up their sleeve before everything worked. The main example demonstrates how a simple Security Token Service

• Enabling HttpListeners for Non-Admins

  Posted: 28 Jul 2008 at 12:50

  I've just started working through the Cardspace samples to learn some more about online identity layers (download them here if you're interested). The first example demonstrates a web service running on http://localhost:4123 requesting a certificate from a client. However, as a non-admin, I get the