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Suggestions for distributing CTPs as VirtualPC images
I finally got around to trying the Sept. CTP of Orcas. I loaded up the VPC images on VPC7 Beta (which seems to perform much better than VPC2004). If this is going to be the way that MS is going to...
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Using IronPython for Dynamic Expressions.
We recently had this question posted to our forums over at LVS:Dear Forum Experts: I am looking for very specialized solution: I have various Items which I store into a table in a Relational DB.I would...
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Parallels adds "Express Windows Installation"
I just ran across this over on parallels site:http://parallelsvirtualization.blogspot.com/2006/11/installing-windows-on-mac-is-now.htmlThis sounds like a great feature for their virtualization product....
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Scott Guthrie presents at NDDNUG
Scott gave a whirlwind presentation to a standing room only crowd at the North Dallas Dot Net User Group tonight. A wide range of topics were covered from IDE tips and tricks to ASP.NET tips to MS AJAX...
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LearnExpression.com is live.
We recently launched our video tutorial site for Expression Web Designer. Dustin, our resident graphic artist is pumping out the video tutorials as well as designing the site using the tool. It's good...
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A VS.NET Macro to Generate Machine Keys.
I needed to create a new machine key for an asp.net site. I found a couple of command line utils out on the web that would create a new key but I thought it would be easier to just have it avail in...
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Fix ReturnUrl When Sharing Forms Authentication with Multiple Web Applications
Scenario: You have two web applications www.mydomain.com and login.mydomain.com. The login site provides a centralized login application and www contains any number of web applications that should use...
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VS.NET Macro To Group and Sort Your Using Statements
I try to follow a coding standard for organizing my using statements. System.* goes at the top and then other namespaces grouped together like this:using System;using System.Collections.Generic;using...
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A Quick Fix for the Validator SetFocusOnError Bug
The ASP.NET validators have this nice property called "SetFocusOnError" that is supposed to set the focus to the first control that failed validation. This all works great until your validator control...
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LINQ - The Uber FindControl
With a simple extension method to ControlCollection to flatten the control tree you can use LINQ to query the control tree:publicstaticclass PageExtensions {publicstatic IEnumerable<Control>...
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Merry Christmas Indeed!
Janice went all out this year and got me an Ibanez JS1000 (Joe Satriani series) guitar, a Line 6 POD X3 Live effects board and a pair of Roland CM-30 amplified monitors. My fingers are all tore up now...
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Interesting finds 3/13/2009
As soon as I get some time I need to look at these a little closer:http://www.codeplex.com/FluentValidationhttp://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/
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ASP.NET MVC ModelState should work like TempData
I prefer to have the actions that forms post to just process the posted data and then redirect to a different action for viewing the results. So in order to pass validation errors back to the form...
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ASP.NET MVC – Multiple buttons in the same form
I keep seeing this question in forums and on twitter so I thought I’d post all the various ways you can handle this and what the pros and cons are.The ScenarioImagine you have a user signup form. There...
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Certificate error with Web Platform Installer
A friend of mine was having an issue getting the Web Platform Installer to work on his Windows Server 2008 R2 box. He said there was some sort of cert error and asked me to try...
View ArticleConvert Thunderbird Email to Windows Mail
I've been converting my thunderbird email boxes to Windows Mail on Vista. To do this you need to use a tool that convert the mbox format to .eml format. I found this free one that seems to work pretty...
View ArticleGreat interview on IronPython...
I just watched this interview on IronPython: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/screenroom/ironpython_flv.htmlThis is really great stuff and it reminds of why its such an exciting time to be a developer...
View ArticleApple finally delivers some of my most wanted features...
Looks like the new iTunes will have the cover art browsing that I've been wanting. Also the iPods (and iTunes a guess) now support gapless playback. I have alot of music that really needs this (Pink...
View ArticleWhat's in a name? The developer vs programmer non-issue.
I remember seeing the "Developers vs Programmers" article on digg recently. I did think at the time that it was a bit over the top. Mike has managed to capture my exact feelings on this subject in this...
View ArticleASP.NET AJAX 1.0 (excitement builds)
I just downloaded beta 1 of ASP.NET AJAX today. Wow! Lots and lots of changes. The type system has been greatly simplified. I like this. The move to prototypes over closures was a good decision. The...
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