I installed CE 6.0 R3 on my laptop when it was initially released and had created an application that uses the new SWE for 6.0 R3 API. I have seen a few questions about creating applications, so I figured I would post a small application that I created...

We have just released Windows Compact 7 CTP which includes the latest release of Silverlight for Windows Embedded. Because of this, we have decided to also create a new blog that will focus on Silverlight for Windows Embedded topics, tips and tricks and...

The project I've been working on since my last blog posts has finally been released! There is some fantastic documentation out on MSDN that can get you familiar with the new Silverlight for Windows Embedded API and how to create applications: Silverlight...

Thought I would share out this quick tip on how to define page level permissions on a sharepoint wiki site. If you go to the Pages view where you see all the pages, you can click on the drop down and click "Manage Permissions". Then you can add/remove...

The team I used to work on (and my last contributions there) just launched today. It is Microsoft's social bookmarking application. Check it out: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/bookmarks/

Well, I've moved teams to the Windows Embedded team, so the content of my blog will most likely change. Stay tuned!

If you would like to override a method in javascript that uses the Microsoft Ajax Library (such as the control toolkit), you can do the following (with the control toolkit as the base which we are overriding): Type.registerNamespace('AjaxControlToolkit...

The team I'm working on just released our latest version of MSDN/TechNet Search, Profile and Forums. For Search this is the latest release and includes the following new features ( http://search.msdn.microsoft.com/ ): Auto-complete hit highlighting...

Recently I was working on a problem, and after testing the solution I thought it would make a good blog post. Here is what I was trying to solve: Fill the cache with a large set of data (approx. 1M items). Have the original request to the website...

I've been working with Linq lately and thought I would post 2 examples on casting with Linq. Most of the ways that you get data back from linq is in the IEnumerable<> type. So, here's two ways to cast to an object that you can use: Linq to SQL...

Lately I've been doing a lot of research and development around patterns and unit testing. One pattern in particular, Model View Presenter (MVP), I found to be a very good pattern for doing web development. The only thing, is that if you want to learn...

I wanted to get my hands dirty with Silverlight Alpha 1.1 and so I decided to make a DJ table with two turntables where you can match two beats in different songs. You can click the button on the bottom right of each turntable to get the music started...

If you are having issues with your ASP.NET Ajax application after you deployed it in a web farm and you notice that your partial page refreshes are not working, or you have javascript null reference errors, the problem lies in a config setting. By default...

I've been working on building MSDN style documents for my assemblies and wanted to automate this into my build script. If you follow the example that comes with the Sandcastle download, it has a .bat file that executes commands for all transformations...

The team I am working on just finished a re-write of MSDN and TechNet search. The MSDN and TechNet search pages now allow users to get to their answers faster than ever! Some key enhancements to the search are: Refinements and prescoping of search...

I was looking at a post on Mike Harsh's blog about a utility that turns XAML into javascript and I didn't entirely agree with what this utility accomplished. A while back I posted an entry about hooking in web services, Silverlight (WPF/E) and ASP.NET...

If you have ever worked with ASP.NET and binding data to a repeater control or placing content inside master pages, you're probably familiar with how ASP.NET renames the control to make it unique. This makes web developers have many headaches as they...

Recently I've been working with WPF/E and extending some code that I have to make it more visually enhanced. To display the proper data on the page I wanted to do the following: call a web service asynchronously, have it return to me an arrary of a complex...

I was using an XML file to generate a cs class for a project I was working on and everytime I changed the xml file I had to go through the vs command prompt and generate a new cs file and import it into my project. What a pain! So, I wrote a Visual Studio...

I saw today that Microsoft released an XML editor (even though it looks like it was released on 9/1). I'm glad there's finally a tool out there that allows you to see xml in this format and apply transformations. I'm sure that a lot of developers have...

While re-writing the team's build tool I have come across some strengths and weaknesses of using msbuild. Our sample solution to build contains basically one project of every type that you can create in Visual Studio 2005. There are many goals on writing...

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