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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:36 AM

eWeek Says - Scott Guthrie the 28th most influential person in IT !

... or so says eWeek. [ HERE ] Scott is in fine company with 10 of the 100 most important (according to eWeek) being Microsofties. 3. Steve Ballmer CEO, Microsoft 6. Jean-Philippe Courtois President, Microsoft International, Microsoft 12. Kevin Turner
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 8:12 AM

Book: Murach's C# Updated for 2008

sIf you are an avid reader, like I am, then you know that different publishers tend to have different styles and specialties. Murach is unique. They don't publish TONS of books, but the ones they do publish fill an interesting space. Take this one......
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:11 PM

Free CMS and Hosting for .NET User Groups

Applied Innovations, Kentico Partner to Offer Unique Solution for .NET User Groups Kentico Software, maker of Kentico CMS, and Applied Innovations, a Microsoft Gold Certified provider of Windows-based Hosting solutions, announced today the two companies
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 9:43 AM

BOOK: Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials

This is another one of those "Sniper Topics" that I like, again from PAKT Publishing. Microsoft AJAX Library Essentials: Client-side ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Explained: Cristian Darie,Bogdan Brinzarea: Books ISBN : 1847190987 ISBN-13 : 9781847190987
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 11:50 PM

Microsoft patterns & practices Web Client Software Factory 2.0

I know this isn't "hot off the press" but I'm just Microsoft patterns & practices Web Client Software Factory 2.0 February 2008 Release Resources · MSDN site: http://msdn.microsoft.com/webclientfactory · Community site: http://www.codeplex.com/websf
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 6:03 PM

The Developer's Guide to loosing 20 pounds in 8 days !

Nope, this is not an infomercial. I've been on the road for lots of this spring. For the last two weeks I was in Seattle for the MVP Summit, then in Orlando for Dev Connections, then in Atlantic City for the Microsoft Health and Life Sciences. I got sick
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 4:06 AM

ASPConnections Orlando - Dynamic Data & Listview Talks

Thanks to all who attended my ASP Connections Talks last Monday in Orlando. It's great to see the interest in the new features! ASP.NET 3.5 Dynamic Data [ PowerPoint ] [ Demos ] ASP.NET ListView & DataPager [ PowerPoint ] [ Demos ] ..... and as promised,
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:55 AM

Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Event Presentations

Thanks to everyone who attended my AJAX Sessions at the Microsoft Health & Life Sciences Developer's Conference in Atlantic City last week. Here are links to the PowerPoints and Demos ASP.NET AJAX Security [ Demo Code ] [ PowerPoint Deck ] ASP.NET
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Monday, April 21, 2008 6:11 PM

BOOK: Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls: For .NET 3.5

I frequently am asked to server as a technical reviewer on development books. Time doesn't permit me to always say yes but I try to make time to agree to do the more interesting titles. This book is one I said yes to. Adam and Joel have done a great job
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 11:02 AM

Multiple UpdatePanels - Who caused the update ?

Does your client code need to know what control caused your update panels to update or which of several UpdatePanels contained the triggering control ? Try this.... (Or do the same thing with addbeginRequest();     1   < script
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Thursday, April 17, 2008 4:11 PM

2 New AJAX How-Do-I Videos Now Available

#71 | How To Dynamically Change CSS Using the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel   #72 | How To Dynamically Add Controls to a Web Page (and not have them disappear when you post-back)
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:26 PM

FREE - Professional Developer and Designer tools and Windows Server for Students.

Look at the stuff students can download for FREE ! This program was announced in February but it seems like alot of students still don't know about it. Students, get the details HERE.
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Monday, April 14, 2008 8:03 PM

Critical Security Fix for BlogEngine.net

Today, while sitting in a discussion about the new Microsoft MVC Framework at the Microsoft MVP summit, I got an email (reading on my phone) from Kevin Karasinski, a developer at Sandcastle Interactive . The subject line of the email was my blog password
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Sunday, April 13, 2008 7:56 PM

AJAX UpdatePanel - "Statefull" Control Update Trigger

I get an obscene amount of email. Since I've been working with the Developer Community at Microsoft for 7 years, my email address has been spread around a bit. I get about 1000 email a day. Very often from developers who what me to write code for them
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Friday, April 11, 2008 10:24 AM

Programmers - Start 'em young ?

Say hello to Alice. [ More info here. ] From their web site...... In Alice's interactive interface, students drag and drop graphic tiles to create a program, where the instructions correspond to standard statements in a production oriented programming
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:31 AM

ASP.NET Dynamic Data - Don't skip over it!

Today Scott Guthrie posted about the new preview availability of ASP.NET Dynamic Data. [ Click HERE to read his post .] I know, the pace of new releases makes it hard to keep up and you need to pick and choose which things you invest your time in! When
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Wednesday, April 09, 2008 1:50 PM

SlickEdit Tools for Visual Studio

$49 I'm a tools junkie! Anything that helps be work more efficiently is HUGE for me since every 10 minutes I can "save" in a day is 10 minutes with my Children, talking to my Wife, on my Harley, in the gym, etc..... I've been a Visual SlickEdit user for
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:23 AM

Do you translate ScottGu's blog in your head ?

Why not do it in writing. Scott's blog is one of the most widely read developer blogs in the world and is already translated into a few non-English languages. · Blog Posts in Chinese · Blog Posts in Japanese · Blog Posts in Spanish Would you like to translate
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:25 AM

Instead of buying Yahoo .......

Wendy Tanaka wrote an interesting piece in THIS Forbes on line article where she suggests that negotiating with Yahoo may not be worth the hassle and she suggests some other things that Microsoft could choose to do with the $40 Billion. Here are some
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:41 PM

Making nested ASP.NET applications work !

Have you ever tried to set up a web site and use 2 popular ASP.NET applications ? Did you get THIS ? I did. I set up BlogEngine.net in c:\inetpub\wwwroot - it worked fine ! Then I set up ScrewTurnWiki in c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wiki. Now, ScrewTurnWiki is
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 3:37 PM

Product - Visual AssistX for Visual Studio

  With more code to write than time to write it, I'm a huge fan of anything that helps me code. Someone recently sent me a link to Home Tomato's Visual AssistX for Visual Studio. This is a great example of how the 3rd party ecosystem makes the .NET
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