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October 2007 - Posts

Monday, October 29, 2007 4:15 PM

DotNetSlackers - Ajax Data Controls

DotNetSlackers has just released Ajax Data Controls (ADC) as open source. The project is hosted at codeplex and there are several live examples which can be seen at the samples link below. The ADC contains an AjaxGridView, AjaxDataList, AjaxRepeater and
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Monday, October 29, 2007 11:50 AM

Are you making these 3 common ASP.NET AJAX mistakes?

Check out Dave Wards advice on Update Panels and Postabacks at Encosia HERE . http://encosia.com/2007/10/24/are-you-making-these-3-common-aspnet-ajax-mistakes/
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Monday, October 29, 2007 10:27 AM

Assembly for .NET Programmers

For us old timers that miss ASM, now we can code assembly for .NET. Check it out here. http://www.viksoe.dk/code/asmil.htm
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 8:52 AM

Jumptree - Why we chose ASP.NET to rn our startup!

Check out this interesting post on wy Jumptree selected ASP.NET as the technology on wich to base their internet startup ! http://blog.jumptree.com/2007/why-we-chose-aspnet-to-run-our-startup/
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Tuesday, October 23, 2007 9:00 AM

AJAX Style Image Cropper

This cool JavaScript image cropper came through my inbox this week. Check it out – easily integrated with MS AJAX and the ACT. http://www.defusion.org.uk/code/javascript-image-cropper-ui-using-prototype-scriptaculous
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Monday, October 22, 2007 10:59 AM

Do you PASS ?

My buddy Steve Simon has recently formed an official PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server) Chapter in Providence RI. They meet on the second Wednesday of every month at the New England Institute of Technology in Warwick, Rhode Island from 6:00PM
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Monday, October 22, 2007 10:32 AM

Microsoft releases CTP SQL 2005 Drivers for PHP

Microsoft has released a Community Technology Preview of its new SQL 2005 driver for PHP. Click HERE to get the bits. Click HERE to leave comments for the team.
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Monday, October 22, 2007 10:20 AM

Russ Returns to Boston !

10/24 – Waltham , Mass Microsoft Office MPR, 6:30-8:30 pm (Pizza, Beverages & Giveaways.) Topic: It’s All About The Tools – Episode 1 Organized by Ronald Thibeau, John Ross, Dan Stolts MVP and Microsoft's Neal Wadhwani Registration
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Friday, October 19, 2007 2:52 PM

Open Source does NOT exclude Windows !

eWeek.com has publoished an article / slide show: 10 Things You Should Know About Open Source. Especially check out slide 5 and 7 !!!!
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Friday, October 19, 2007 12:41 PM

WNAT A COOL JOB: Strategy Manager

This Strategy Manager will be part of a team driving high priority strategic initiatives, spanning growth and operations, directly contributing to significant positive changes for a HIGH PROFILE Technology Company. The Corporate Strategy group strongly
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Friday, October 19, 2007 12:22 PM

Is Comcast censoring my internet content.

I read today this alarming report on Yahoo News that Comcast admits to censoring and blocking Internet use of its subscribers. ( Story here.) My specific complaint is that where I live, Comcast is the only broadband provider. If there were an option that
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Friday, October 19, 2007 11:28 AM

Maturing .NET Code Base

I saw my first preview of .NET in 1999 and that means to me that the code base of the .NET development community includes code that is approaching a decade old (not considering code that was pulled forward from pre .NET code.) In the post DOT COM era
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:24 AM

Why are the How-Do-I Videos in Visual Basic ?

I get asked this question ALLOT ! Actually, the question usually comes wrapped in explicatives, or phrased less as a question and more as a command. We actually do the recordings in VB for a few reasons. 1.) There are more VB programmers than C# developers
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 2:40 PM

I'm asked: "Can you separate M$ lip service from fact for us? "

I’ve received a great number of emails in response to my “Scoble Gap” post. The first that has prompted me to white included this question. “Can you separate M$ lip service from fact for us? That has to be the toughest part of
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:53 AM

Getting Ready for Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5

Over the next few weeks I’ll be heads down recording How-Do-I Videos to be released for the “ORCAS” Launch. I’ll be primarly focusing on what’s new for Web Developers. By now you’ve had a peek or seen some previews,
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:45 AM

Why would anyone Scrum?

I just read “The Enterprise and Scrum” by Ken Schwaber and I’m left with a single burning question. WHY WOULD ANYONE DO IT ? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not talking about starting a new company or product unit and basing that
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007 9:30 AM

Russ' Toolshed at CT .NET User Group Teusday Oct, 23

My buddy Russ will be back in New England for a limmited tour of the laudable Russ’ Tooshed. VIsit here http://www.ctdotnet.com/ for details on his 11/23 Event.
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Monday, October 15, 2007 9:31 AM

The Scoble Gap ?

Robert Scoble and I have had agreements and disagreements. It’s not only one of the things that make me like him but one of the things that make him a “voice” in the industry. Reflecting on Robert's time at Microsoft, he was famous for
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Friday, October 12, 2007 1:12 PM

Microsoft appointed to OpenAJAX Steering Committee

During the week of October 1-5, the members of OpenAjax Alliance voted to fill three open slots in their seven-person Steering Committee. The members elected Microsoft, Nexaweb and TIBCO, who will serve two-year terms (from Oct 2007 to Oct 2009). Nexaweb
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Wednesday, October 10, 2007 12:09 PM

Microsoft and Zend taking PHP on Windows to the next level !

I’ve been talking to developers about PHP for a very long time and I’ve been talking to my peers at Microsoft about why Windows should be a great production platform for PHP for 6 years. I was tickled last year when Microsoft announced the partnership
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Friday, October 05, 2007 3:17 PM

Another Cool ASP.NET AJAX InLineEdit Label Control

Check out ANOTHER cool ASP.NET InLineEdit AJAX Control. http://encosia.com/index.php/2007/08/23/seamless-inline-text-editing-with-aspnet-ajax/ http://encosia.com/index.php/downloads/inline-edit-box-net/
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Friday, October 05, 2007 1:55 PM

Bilal's Cool ASP.NET AJAX InLineEdit Label Control

Check out this cool ASP.NET InLineEdit AJASX Control that Bilal Haidar recently released. http://bhaidar.net/cs/archive/2007/10/03/asp-net-2-0-ajax-inlineeditlabel-control.aspx
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Friday, October 05, 2007 1:24 PM

CoDe Magazine - Learn to Extend Visual Studio this month.

Special Focus issue on Visual Studio Extensibility Features Welcome Letter from the VSX Team History of the VS IDE Introduction to the Visual Studio 2008 Shell How XML Tools Use the Visual Studio SDK Visual Studio SDK Tips and Tricks Creating and Distributing
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 3:22 PM

Microsoft to release .NET Framework Library Source Code

ScottGu announced today! Not only a huge boon for debugging, but greatly for those of us that just HAVE TO get under the covers of stuff. Read all about it here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.asp
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:50 AM

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for AJAX & Silverlight Apps

First of all, if Nikhil Kothari’s Bog is not on yu rshort list – you should add it today ! Secondly – One of my several research topics this fall is SEO (I’m working on growing the www.asp.net community) Nikhil (who is just a really
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:27 AM

How-Do-I Videos for Visual Basic Programming

Beth Massi is doing Visual Basic focused How-Do-I videos. Topics include LINQ, Interop, DataBinding, Forms Over Data, and more. Check them out here : http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vbasic/bb466226.aspx
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:23 AM

Understanding Dynamic ASP.NET Controls

I was working on a demo of using MS AJAX and Dynamically adding ASP,NETControls to a page when I can across this great 4 part blog posting on the subject and wated to share it. http://weblogs.asp.net/infinitiesloop/archive/2006/08/25/TRULY-Understanding-Dynamic-Controls-_2800_Part-1_2900_.asp
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:38 AM

Web Client Validation Bundle Ships

You know that I love the work that the Patterns & Practices Guys do. Glen Block let me know about this new little gem for web developers. http://blogs.msdn.com/gblock/archive/2007/10/01/web-client-validation-bundle-shipped.aspx It uses AJAX methods
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:27 AM

BlogEngint.NET 1.2 Released

I’ve been a Subtext and DasBlog user for a long time and been happy with both, so I haven’t tried anything but those and CommunityServer for a lobg time. I keep hearing good things about BlogEngine.NET so I thought I’d give it a try.
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 2:16 PM

ASP.NET AJAX in Action - Download Exerpts.

If you’re an ASP.NET Developer – you MUST get this book. It’s simply one of the best Tech Books I’ve read and a GREAT tutorial on MS AJAX. (And forwarded by ScottGu & Bertrand Le Roy no less !) I’ll be publishing sample from the book here over the
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:27 PM

Demo's in a Shared Hosting Environment.

Some time ago I blogged about Soft Sys Web Hosting . http://www.softsyshosting.com/ I met Ruchir through on line correspondence and he really wanted to figure out how to provide great hosting at the most reasonable prices possible. (As a student he had
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:15 PM

Hosters Suporting IIS / FastCGI

Using a CGI based language on Windows (like PHP) ? Want a kick in the performance bucket ? IIS FastCGI is the tcket. DiscountASP ( http://www.discountasp.net/ ) CrystalTech ( http://www.crystaltech.com/ ) Hostway / Affinity ( http://www.affinity.com/
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Tuesday, October 02, 2007 12:05 PM

Blog your code !

Now that we’re adding new bloggers to weblogs.asp.net I’ve gotten several requests for how to post source code. The answer is simple: CopySourceAsHTML http://www.jtleigh.com/people/colin/software/CopySourceAsHtml/
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Monday, October 01, 2007 8:27 PM

Wanna be Microsoft's face for JavaScript ?

Microsoft makes JScript – our implementation of the ECMA 262 language specification. Browser script programming is “born again” with the popularity of AJAX and RIA style application building. So, Microsoft is looking for someone who can represent us and
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Monday, October 01, 2007 8:51 AM

Russ' Toolshed makes a (limited) return to New England

My Buddy Russ is Visiting New England – It’s All About The Tools Did you ever feel inundated with developer tools? Did you ever feel you are missing something that could make your life easier as a developer and as a power user? There are so
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