AppDev: Something You Should Know by Irena Kennedy

SYSK 249: Choosing the Right Microsoft Integration Technology There are a few good sources on this topic, including: 1. “Choosing the Right Technology for Integrating Systems” presentation by Kris Horrocks, Sr. Technical Product Manager of Microsoft...

Are you getting Microsoft JScript runtime error: Sys.ScriptLoadFailedException: The script '/YourSiteName/ScriptResource.axd?d=ebUIu-RsatQBXvExgP5y3pvOqX2PbIJ6uav4Avk4QzmounX74siwLINKKPmlFz54oTPVrGJa4XpgCYiosTExfEdJoHleHTQaH7TE19A6Hqg1&t=632986009464531250...

Since the introduction of the file system based web projects, the developers life has been greatly improved… That is unless you have to do a demo, or have other reasons why you don’t want to run Visual Studio in the background. So, your options are: ...

Last weekend, I was playing around with an AJAX.NET application, and I notices that browsing for a simple page like this: <% @ Page Language ="C#" AutoEventWireup ="true" CodeFile ="Default.aspx.cs" Inherits ="_Default" %> < html xmlns...

During debugging and troubleshooting web applications, there are times when you need to decrypt a string that was encrypted by ASP.NET (see my yesterday’s post, http://blogs.msdn.com/irenak/archive/2006/11/02/sysk-232-why-are-there-four-http-get-requests...

A master page is normally comprised of a header, footer and a content placeholder. Keeping a header at the top is very straight forward to implement; so is keeping the footer at the bottom (just set the position attribute to fixed and bottom attribute...

Imagine being able to create applications that leverage parallel processing capabilities of computers by simply adding a #pragma directive… Before you get too excited, at this time, this is only available for Visual C++. Yes, there are features...

Did you know that .NET 2.0 and later versions support URL mapping? Say you have a page with several tabs… You can give virtual page name to each tab, but still have all the code implemented in one physical .aspx file. Or, if you have a page that...

The documentation about System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch class describes it as following: “[Stopwatch] provides a set of methods and properties that you can use to accurately measure elapsed time.” I’ll be the first one to admit that I frequently took...

Say, you’ve got a bunch of read-only documents in .pdf format that you allow your web site users to view. And what you’d like to do is to create links that jump to certain sections of the document, but without making any changes to the original document...

1.) Use the “FOR XML AUTO, ELEMENTS” syntax. You can use joins for any relationships. For Example: SELECT * FROM Table1 ON LEFT OUTER JOIN Table2 ON Table1.pk_id = Table2.fk_id FOR XML AUTO, ELEMENTS 2.) Copy and paste the resulting...

If you need to find out the number of weeks in a month, or the number of weeks between two given dates, and you need to includes partial weeks, not just full weeks as done by the T-SQL datediff(wk, d1, d2) function, then the code snippet below should...

The other day I watched a webcast by Brad Abrams, Group Program Manager for .NET framework, titled “Choosing the right Microsoft presentation technology, a.k.a. Smart Client Roadmap”… Below is a summary of Brad’s recommendations as of late 2006. ...

Here is all that it takes: Navigate to http://www.ajaxload.info/ Choose an indicator type from 27 available options (as of 11/12/2006) Type in the desired background color or click ‘Transparent’ checkbox Enter the foreground color Click...

Did you ever copy and paste some content from a web page into a Word document, just so you can remove the navigation column, or may be remove a header or footer before you print it? I have… many times… And it’s all because those web sites do not take...

Did you notice that all samples (at least all I’ve come across) show how to use Notification Services interface running locally, i.e. on the SQL Server computer? The code snippet below shows getting a list of subscribers: Microsoft.SqlServer.NotificationServices...

Few days ago I came across the following post published by Chris Brumme back in 2004 at http://www.eggheadcafe.com/community/aspnet/2/9568/here-is-what-chris-brumme.aspx : "We don't expose the managed size of objects because we want to reserve the...

Now that Windows Vista is here, it might be a good time to figure out which version is the best fit for you and the other family members. If just want to do the basics: email, web browsing, document creation and editing, and are not interested in...

Are you getting a bit frustrated about not being able to do certain things that administrator should be able to do, like run ipconfig /release , and many other commands and tools, and being prompted left and right just so you can say “yes, go ahead and...

Ok, so, probably are not going to be able to go to every professional conference… Which one should you choose? My personal view, formed based on content from previous conferences (read: this is not an official Microsoft statement) is that the PDC...