Joe Stagner - Frustrated by Design !

While looking for some cut and paste utilities for Visual Studios I found this great MSDN Magazine Article. Ten Essential Tools Visual Studio Add-Ins Every Developer Should Download Now James Avery TestDriven.NET GhostDoc Smart Paster CodeKeep...

It’s great that NotePad is there on any machine that you step up to, but doing as many demos as I do I often want to do a “View Source” to show folks what’s going on in the code. I also like to be able to change the editor depending...

Getting your database deployed : The Database Publishing Wizard enables the deployment of SQL Server 2005 databases into a hosted environment on either a SQL Server 2000 or 2005 server. It generates a SQL script file which can be used to recreate...

John Says… “I’ve decided to stage a friendly takeover of Microsoft. As of January, 2007 my new work address will be Building 42 at Microsoft. I’ll be working in the CLR team to help bring the love of dynamic languages out to...

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MS AJAX developers need to be able to tell their users when the browser is waiting for a response from a network call. Usually the text message is accompanied an animated .GIF like this one. Here is a cool web site that lets you just choose your...

Are you using a MS AJAX timer control to auto refresh content on your page but want to reset the timer when a user action forces a refresh. In your server side code you can reset the timer by adding two lines like this: Protected Sub ButtonResetTimer_Click...

When you are using an MS Ajax popup that is not displayed by default, are you seeing yor popup FLASH for a second when the page loads ? Try this. Define CSS classes for the item to be poped up. Make sure the default CSS class has a visibility:hidden...

Port80 Software, a Microsoft partner, has released a new survey showing that the Microsoft Internet Information Services 6 Web server has overtaken the Apache open-source Web server among Fortune 1000 Web sites. In the survey released on Oct. 11, Port80...

From ScottGu’s blog. ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 Released Last month I posted about the official new name for “Atlas,” and discussed the roadmap plan for shipping a free, fully-supported, v1.0 release that works on top of ASP.NET 2...

Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX version 1.0 Beta Released Friday, October 20, 2006 The first public Beta release of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 (code-named “Atlas”) is now available for download. ASP.NET AJAX is a free framework for creating client-centric...

Whew ! One day, 20 tracks !! My Microsoft AJAX talk materials can be found here. http://www.joeon.net/downloads/TulsaTechFest.zip

Sorry for forgetting to post these sooner. Here are the demos and PowerPoint from my How-Do-I webcast on Roles & Membership. http://www.joeon.net/downloads/LFR-Membership.zip

Thanks to everyone who tuned into my Life-From-Redmond webcast on Programming with the Microsoft AJAX Client Library. You can download a .ZIP file with the PowerPoint and Demo code HERE . http://www.joeon.net/downloads/LFR-MSAJAX-Client.zip

(via Mikhail Arkhipov ) Can I use Visual Web Developer Express for the project I am planning? Do I need to buy Visual Studio or is free Express edition sufficient for my needs? Which features are missing from Visual Web Developer Express? Here is...

Make sure debug=false is set in the <compilation> section in config. Then the web resource URLs will be cached (like the client libraries). The “t=” in the web resource URLs represents the assembly's last modified date. As long...

My office is across the driveway from my home, and three days a week, when my beautiful wife Jill loads the kids in our mini-van to take them to pre-school - I run down from my office to kiss the girls goodbye. This morning my wife asked me “Do I Look...

I know that I said these would be available. Please accept my apologies. Due to some mysterious organisational crap the Live-From-Redmond webcasts that I’ve already done can’t be published for download. I will record all future ones...