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Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:37 PM

Ten Essential Tools: Visual Studio Add-Ins

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 PInvoke.NET
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Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:32 PM

Change the View Source Editor in Internet Explorer

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
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Saturday, October 21, 2006 2:24 PM

SQL Server Hosting Toolkit

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 the
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Friday, October 20, 2006 6:56 PM

John Lam (The RubyCLR Guy) Joins Microsoft

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 the
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Friday, October 20, 2006 2:43 PM

Curious about what features come with which version of Windows Vista ?

Get comparative info here ! http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/preview/resourcecenter.mspx
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Friday, October 20, 2006 1:44 PM

Animated .GIFs for your UpdateProgress Control

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 color
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Friday, October 20, 2006 12:31 PM

Rest the MS AJAX TimerControl's countdown.

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(ByVal
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Friday, October 20, 2006 11:33 AM

Does your MS AJAX Popup FLASH ?

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 attribute.
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Friday, October 20, 2006 11:23 AM

eWeek - IIS6 Overtakes Apache among Fortune 1000 Web sites.

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
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Friday, October 20, 2006 10:15 AM

Official ATLAS BETA Announcement

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 2.0 and Visual
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Friday, October 20, 2006 8:53 AM

ATLAS (MS AJAX) Goes Beta!

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, interactive
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Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:20 PM

The Tulsa TechFest was a whirlwind !

Whew ! One day, 20 tracks !! My Microsoft AJAX talk materials can be found here. http://www.joeon.net/downloads/TulsaTechFest.zip
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Sunday, October 15, 2006 11:11 PM

Live from Redmond - ASP.NET Roles & Membership

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
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:08 PM

Live from Redmond - Microsoft AJAX Client Library Webcast.

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
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Monday, October 09, 2006 10:37 AM

Which features are missing from Visual Web Developer Express?

(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 what
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Friday, October 06, 2006 4:40 PM

Miscroft AJAX and Caching

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 as you
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Friday, October 06, 2006 10:03 AM

She Asked me - Do I Look Fat ?

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
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Thursday, October 05, 2006 3:26 PM

Live From Redmond Webcasts - Where are the downloadable versions ?

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 on my
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