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Windows Embedded CE6 R3 released including Silverlight for Windows Embedded

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:41 PM by BrettRobinson | 0 Comments

Sharepoint : page level permissions

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, April 24, 2009 11:52 PM by BrettRobinson | 1 Comments

Microsoft Social Bookmarking

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/ Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:55 AM by BrettRobinson | 1 Comments

Goodbye managed, hello again native

Well, I've moved teams to the Windows Embedded team, so the content of my blog will most likely change. Stay tuned! Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:26 PM by BrettRobinson | 0 Comments

Override javascript method in Microsoft Ajax Library

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'); Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 28, 2008 8:40 PM by BrettRobinson | 4 Comments
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New release of MSDN/TechNet Search, Profile and Forums

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. Now Read More...
Posted Friday, February 15, 2008 5:23 PM by BrettRobinson | 3 Comments

Fill server cache with a large data object and have the browser be responsive by using threads

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 fill Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:09 PM by BrettRobinson | 0 Comments

Casting with Linq

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 Once Read More...
Posted Friday, August 31, 2007 8:41 PM by BrettRobinson | 0 Comments

Model View Presenter - with base functionality

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 07, 2007 2:28 PM by BrettRobinson | 9 Comments

Be a Silverlight DJ - with my Silverlight Alpha 1.1 sample

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. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:27 PM by BrettRobinson | 0 Comments
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Quick tip for deploying ASP.NET Ajax to a web farm

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 15, 2007 5:09 PM by BrettRobinson | 0 Comments
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Sandcastle Target File (using March CTP)

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:59 PM by BrettRobinson | 1 Comments
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MSDN and TechNet Search Updated

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 terms Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 11:44 PM by BrettRobinson | 0 Comments
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Componentizing Silverlight - what I consider best practices

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 Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 18, 2007 6:02 PM by BrettRobinson | 2 Comments

Get at the ASP.NET Ajax control name with the BehaviorID property

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 Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 01, 2007 5:09 PM by BrettRobinson | 5 Comments
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