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Published on 20 Oct 2006 by Ziemowit
Not final release but quite close this time. The ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX, formerly known as the Atlas, has been released yesterday, with all the new look and feel. Changes are quite deep and important so all current Atlas pioneers should prepare themselves for a few hours to spend on migration. The new sol
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Published on 19 Oct 2006 by rdunaway
I’ve been working on a check list for a code review process we are starting. As a result I’m looking into all kinds of best practice opinions in books and online. One interesting opinion has been to avoid importing Microsoft.VisualBasic. The reason given was to force dev
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Published on 18 Oct 2006 by bennage
Every now and then I like to get a pulse on what people are using for their development environment. I'm continually picking after useful tools from reading other developer's posts. I'd like to know what your primary tools are, your list of favorites that you might not use ev
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Published on 16 Oct 2006 by Billy
It's common to populate a drop-down box with enum values or, similarly, to display an enum setting to the user. The problem is that enum values usually aren't very pretty to look at. (Memories of hoping QA wouldn't spot "OrderShipped" come t
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Published on 15 Oct 2006 by Dwhittaker
Not sure how many of you have had a chance to use the new app by Google called Google Docs (found at docs.google.com), but it is pretty cool. This application is a typical Google application, clean, simple and too the point.I started playing around with as soon as they made the public announce
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Published on 13 Oct 2006 by rdunaway
http://blogs.msdn.com/eugeniop/We are using the CAB fairly intensely. I'm not yet convinced it is the right solution for us but you might find it useful for you. There is so much complexity added to our solutions and I have yet to see any real benefit. We have been using it for
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Published on 13 Oct 2006 by rdunaway
Some Sad IT FactsThese are fairly known but often dismissed facts about the IT industry. If you see these facts presented you will find IT managers and developers nodding their heads in agreement. That is as far as it goes.I'm always amazed to see an IT manager hesitate to purchase a piece
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Published on 12 Oct 2006 by Dwhittaker
Recently I had a conversation about the best day of the week to go live with a new version of an application. In the context of my conversation we were talking about website, but I really don't think the type of application matters so much. Day by Day breakdown of my opinionMonday - I pers
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Published on 11 Oct 2006 by Bob Yexley
This is an interesting post, with a good tip for how to apply field labels to TextBox fields on web forms. I did however find one point that was made interesting and it made me think... The problem is how to design this form cause there are no tables by default and also tables are not state of the a
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Published on 10 Oct 2006 by brendan
I'm thrilled to announce Jobs.CodeBetter.Com; a new job board and job ad syndication service created by Eric Wise and myself over at CodeBetter. "Oh no, not another job site!" you're thinking. Yes, we were influenced by other new jobs posting sites, but we think we can
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Published on 10 Oct 2006 by Dwhittaker
Have you ever wanted to create a ‘Busy’ or ‘Working’ windows so that your background processing that takes some time to complete does not appear to take that long? The good news is that in .net there is a pretty simple way to accomplish this and you don’t have to
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Published on 10 Oct 2006 by Joe Niland
One for the utility library... Here's a small function I've found to be quite useful recently. It takes an enum type and returns a generic list populated with each enum item. public static List<T> EnumToList<T>() &nbs
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Published on 09 Oct 2006 by Billy
While working on winning Netflix' million, I came across a need to examine the raw XML returned by a third party web service. After a couple desk-pounding hours, I finally found a simple solution which works equally well in both Web and Windows apps.Install Web Ser
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Published on 09 Oct 2006 by Rob
In the last part I covered the basics of Xaml and how you can use it to define various UI constructs. When building a UI, one of the first issues you’ll deal with is how to arrange all of the UI pieces on screen. In previous MS technologies we have ha
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Published on 07 Oct 2006 by Stephen Wright
One problem that I frequently run into is trying to get my javascript URLs to point to the correct directory by using the "~" root for an ASP.NET application. Here's a handy function that helps with trying to get to the root of a webapp: Public Fun
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Published on 06 Oct 2006 by Bob Yexley
Had some fun today exploring Google's new Code Search engine... /** Windows has some of the most ridiculous HTTP_USER_AGENT strings */ # gad, this is getting ridiculous 175: Here is a ridiculous function, which uses all of the specialmeta-parameters: 99: we must resort to a different escape method.
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Published on 06 Oct 2006 by Bob Yexley
The Problem... For a (personal) project I'm currently working on, I decided to use the Logging and Instrumentation application block from the Enterprise Library to handle logging. The problem I ran into was that I wanted my log destination to be an XML file. Why is that a problem? Well, there
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Published on 06 Oct 2006 by Dwhittaker
As a long time WinForms developer I always have had the need to swap out the current cursor (mouse pointer, not some database cursor) for another cursor, normally the ‘wait’ cursor, while performing some task after things such as a button click. In the past I have used some pretty straig
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Published on 24 Oct 2006 by Jeff Perrin
A couple of months ago I commented on Eric Wise's post titled Know Your Role, wherein Eric expounded on the need for a DBA on software projects. I took exception to the rule that DBA's are required, which sparked several comments and blog posts that seemed to fall just short of calling me an
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Published on 24 Oct 2006 by Dwhittaker
Not sure how many of you have needed to use the Microsoft.Ink SDK, but I am currently learning how to use the SDK on my current project. I have to say, that the reconizition that they provide is really, really good. The Ink SDK comes with a TextBox and a PictureBox, but I only need the Text B
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Published on 24 Oct 2006 by Billy
Since embracing NHibernate, I've reveled in not writing any ADO code. On the other hand, I've become a bit rusty, and a bit nostalgic for that matter, with SQL these days. To my chagrin, I find myself having to look up bits and pieces of SQL that I used to be able to re
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Published on 25 Oct 2006 by Dwhittaker
So, today I needed to create a 'password' entry text box for my application at work. I needed to have this perform like every other password text box, but I also needed the text box to be MUCH larger than normal (the application is for Tablet PC and everything is over sized). I set the UseSy
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Published on 26 Oct 2006 by Jeff Perrin
This post was inspired by a comment I saw on another person's blog (which I couldn't find for the life of me, so no linky for them). The comment was in regards to Ruby on Rails use of pure ruby code in the .rhtml view files, and how this was seen as a bad thing. I've written a similar p
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Published on 01 Nov 2006 by Ziemowit
Welcome in the second and half post in the series dedicated adventures with Atlas Extenders. Originally, this series consist of three parts, but some changes in the world forces me to add one more post into the series: Introduction – what Atlas Extender is and how to create our own validation
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Published on 01 Nov 2006 by Dwhittaker
On my current project I wanted a way to help maintain our application after deployment. Sure I have added logging, I have added the ability to email the stack trace to an email account, but neither of these will tell me exactly what the user was actually doing at the time of the exception.&nbs
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