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August 2008 - Posts

Friday, August 29, 2008 12:09 PM

Is this a Visual Studio IQ Test ?

Note that the IIS component list of items to install is EMPTY !!! And, I WAS running as Admin ! The real problem was that a CGI process that I was playing with stopped IIS. Sometimes we gotta laugh at ourselves :)
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:19 PM

Murach's ASP.NET Web Programming with VB.NET

Murach's ASP.NET 3.5 Web Programming with VB 2008: Anne Boehm: Books ISBN : 1890774472 ISBN-13 : 9781890774479 I love this book. If I were going to teach a course on ASP.NET Development with VB - THIS is the book I would teach it from ! Get a a copy !
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:28 AM

Peace through Code ?

Meet my friend Armin He's the handsome your Iranian dude wearing the MSDN Event Would Tour Tee-Shirt shown here at Kandovan in a city called Trabriz. Armin and I have been pen-pals for a couple of years now. We met when Armin emailed me to ask a programming
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:06 AM

The Importance of Community Driven Events - DevLink - OH WOW !!!

I go to ALOT of developer events. Usually, they are work - meaning I probably wouldn't go if I were a retired Millionaire. DevLink was AWESOME. It was kind of link that perfect summer back in school when all the right people were in the right place and
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:20 AM

Free Data Structures and Algorithms Book from the Slackers

Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples This book written by Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo is part of an effort to provide all developers with a core understanding of algorithms that operate on various common, and uncommon
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 26, 2008 10:03 AM

Billy Hollis on Making a good UI with Windows Presentation Foundation

I was chatting with Billy Hollis about how we often use new technology to do the same old thing and how I was seeing lots of folks doing this with WPF and Silverlight. He mentioned that he had done a video in UI Design with WPF. Check it out, its great
Posted by JoeStagner | 2 Comments
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Friday, August 15, 2008 11:18 AM

Free Edition of Kentico CMS for everyone!

Kentico CMS Free Edition Since the free license for .NET User Groups was very successful, we decided to release a Free Edition of Kentico CMS for everyone! It can be used for both personal and commercial projects. It’s intended for smaller corporate
Posted by JoeStagner | 4 Comments
Friday, August 15, 2008 9:46 AM

SQL Server files for my Data Access Videos

A couple of folks have emailed me because that haven't been able to reconstitute the Video Database I've been using in the Data Access video tutorials. Here is a .zip file.  http://www.misfitgeek.com/downloads/SQLDATA_VideoDirectory.zip It contains
Posted by JoeStagner | 2 Comments
Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:20 AM

Free AJAX Data Controls.

The Slackers have been busy ! Check out the Open Source project on CodePlex. http://www.codeplex.com/AjaxDataControls/ Not only is there a controls library and all the source code for the controls but a RICH set of demos that illustrate utilization. I'm
Posted by JoeStagner | 2 Comments
Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:09 AM

The flip side of Open Source ?

There is a reason they call me the Misfit Geek :) I've been doing PHP work for almost 10 years and I've worked at Microsoft for 7 of them. When I talk about Open Source, it's not form a "religions" perspective. I'm interested in the applications,
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 9:13 AM

Take Risks !

  Yesterday my wife and my children left the house and my 6 year old asked where they were going. When Jill told Mia they were going to the mall, Mia said "Good, I wanna get my ears pierced." She went through with it with no crying and
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Monday, August 11, 2008 12:44 PM

Free controls from DevExpress ?

60 Free controls are available from DevExpress. Some for ASP.NET and some for Windows Forms. Check them out at ...... http://www.devexpress.com/Products/Free/WebRegistration60/
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:16 PM

New Video Series on Data Access

The first three videos are live. #1 | Data Access Layers in ASP.NET Applications #2 | How to Manually Bind a Dataset to a Datagrid #3 | How to Work with Datasets and Filters from an ASP Application More coming soon. [ Get them here. ]
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Sunday, August 10, 2008 2:12 PM

3 New Security Videos Published !

#8 | Changing Membership Settings in the Default Membership Schema #9 | Configuring SQL To Work with Membership Schemas #10 | Understanding ASP.NET Memberships [ Get them here ]
Posted by JoeStagner | 2 Comments
Friday, August 01, 2008 11:41 AM

What is you don't wanna share your PHP code ?

Lots, even MOST PHP applications are Open Souce but what if you want to distribute your application but don't want to distribute your PHP Source Code ? Check out Nu-Coder from NuSphere. Nu-Coder converts the source code of PHP Script into compiled PHP
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
Friday, August 01, 2008 9:49 AM

44 Silverlight Videos

Mike Taulty recently uploaded and amazing collection of Silverlight 2.0 screencasts on how Silverlight works, controls, File IO, networking, UI design,  data-binding, interacting with HTML pages, and more. If you want to learn about Silverlight,
Posted by JoeStagner | 1 Comments
 
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