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If you look at Figure 15-1 in ASP.NET 3.5 For Dummies , you'll notice that there's an almost-hidden question mark (?) behind the AJAX Control Kit's ValidatorCallout control. The arrow in the picture points to the mistake (bug) in the book. At the time I took the screenshot , I couldn't figure out how to get rid of the underlying validator's error message text. I left the question mark with the intention of getting back to it but I never did. I figured out the problem by the time I shipped the bo... [read more]

I was running into an issue where one of my webmethods was taking a large amount of time to return a small set (5-10 objects). I was using LINQ to SQL. I noticed that the LINQ to SQL query was returning all of the rows. After looking into the table a bit further, I noticed that the table included some columns with a larger type (old text column, image column, etc). So, I decided to modify my select to contain just the columns I needed. It improved my response time from roughly 8 seconds to 250 m... [read more]

  Silverlight 2 Beta2 is vandaag op de markt gelanceerd. Je kunt de toolondersteuning voor Silverlight 2 beta1, Visual Studio en Expression Blend hier downloaden. Aan de Beta2 zijn heel wat functies toegevoegd (meer details hieronder). Toch is het nog steeds een download van 4.6MB, met een downloadtijd van minder dan 10 seconden. Software van het .NET framework of andere software is niet nodig om ermee te kunnen werken. Ook werken alle functies cross-brows... [read more]

Splash screens are all the rage. They’re cool, they’re fun, and they can be a pain to program right. I though I would share a native Win32 splash solution with you on this rainy night in June (well, it is June here and it is raining from where I am, YMMV). This is slightly different from your typical splash screen as it’s done using the Win32 API calls and it’s fired off before the .NET Forms engine even gets started. As a result it’s quick and snappy and doesn’t intrude on your normal WinForm... [read more]

It has been quite a while, i wrote something usefull here. Main reason is, that i simply dont find time to write blog. I try it, but there is allways something to do. But, this is worth for breaking the stride.  ReSharper 4.0 Release Version is out. JetBrains developed a great product. They waited quite a while, to released new power to the marked. Guess, mainly because they really tested the software to be perfect in use for new .NET frameworks.   It nice to see, my Visual Studio sid... [read more]

Le mardi 27 Mai est sorti la Preview 3 du framework MVC d'ASP.NET. Scott Guthrie avait parlé, le mois dernier, d'une version interne chez Microsoft qui incluait pas mal de fonctionnalités de cette preview. Cette version contient néanmoins des fonctionnalités que celle du mois dernier n'avait pas dont quelques améliorations et perfectionnement en plus des outils pour Visual Studio 2008. Vous pouvez télécharger un installeur pour la Preview 3 du framework MVCd'A... [read more]

Je viens juste de publier un poste sur la Preview 3 du framework ASP.NET MVC et j'ai oublié de signaler quelque chose de tout même important à propos de cette version : elle est compatible aussi bien avec Visual Studio 2008 qu'avec Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (version gratuite). La version SP1 de Visual Web Developer Express supporte maintenant aussi bien les projets de création de librairies que les projets web (avant, elle ne supportait que les projets web). Cet ajou... [read more]

There are so many updates coming in the near future, I'd love to hear which one you are most excited about.  I'll give a brief list here, but feel free to include other things also if you are so inclined. ASP.NET Dynamic Data ASP.NET MVC Read More......(read more)

In the I raised the question of "Too loosely coupled design". There's a lot to discuss about it, and I am not going more time on it, except showing one more sample that IMHO shows the benefits and outcomes of the principle being applies, or consequences of not doing so. Table 1namespace Local.ADL.Home { public class HomePresenter : IPresenter { private readonly IHomeModel model; private readonly IHomeView view; public HomePresenter(IHomeView view): thi... [read more]

If you've ever had me as an instructor for a DotNetNuke class , or heard me present at a user group or conference you've likely heard me say that I always use the DotNetNuke Install package when performing upgrades on my DNN sites. I rarely use the Upgrade package, the main reason for this WAS that the upgrade package came without a web.config file being defined. The ease of the upgrade package was that you could just extract it directly over your existing site and things would upgrade, the prob... [read more]

I have found a random PHP script for creating captcha images using the GD Library and I've converted it to C# as promised in my previous blog post. I learned something new on this project. The first color in a new image will be the background color but only if the image is not using TrueColor. I have to admit that this is just an idle exercise. I have no real need for this. I waste a lot of time on idle exercises, although sometimes previous research is useful later on. I think I need to be mor... [read more]

Read this excellent blog post about how to link the OS CRT (C Runtime Library) instead of the ever changing VC++ CRT.

Here's an analogy I came up with to explain the difference between unit tests and integration tests. Imagine going to a restaurant with a bunch of your friends. there are some couples there as well as singles. At the end of the meal, it is time to pay. Unit testing is like giving a separate bill to each couple or single. Each person knows only what they needs to pay as well as tip, but do not care what anyone else had, or what the total meal amount is. as long as they pay what they need, they c... [read more]

  Probablemente se ha dado cuenta que dentro de ciertas ventanas, como el Explorador de soluciones (Solution Explorer), no puede acceder la barra de herramientas utilizando las Teclas de dirección o Tab. Para acceder la barra de herramientas de este tipo de ventana utilizando el acceso directo del  teclado, debe marcar Mayús + Alt (Shift + Alt) en esta orden.  Alt+ Mayús (Alt + Shift) no funcionará.       Contenido sindicado de  Sara Ford’s Weblog  &n... [read more]

I heard once that a company allows for their employees to use 20% of their time to work on whatever project they like! Well that is definitely true in kindergarten they give you a lot of time to use it on whatever project you want and everybody will be very supportive :). However when it comes to an actual organization it is very hard to see employees not aligned with their company objectives or just coming up with ideas that make no sense. It is not even healthy for an organization to have ve... [read more]

I met Jose from Cynergy Systems when I was in Sydney and now there is a video of one of his demos out. He basically built his own socket server to push the coordinates of the mouse in a Deep Zoom image to another machine, using Windows Live Messenger Library he could have used our infrastructure to do this (and chats about that option w/ the Delicate Genius) He talks about it ~ 7 mins in. Jose has also been working on some secret stuff and it should be out some time soonish – i’ll release t... [read more]

Once you have mastered using Vim to replace Notepad.exe, it is time to starting taking advantage of what Vim has to offer.  Doing so can increase your productivity.  Below are most of the commands I use most frequently.  It is important to note that Vim has a veritable cornucopia of commands and thus supports many different usage styles.  What is presented here are just a fraction of the available commands. Many commands in Vim have a similar format.  This format is [rep... [read more]

Seleccione la ventana que desea mover. Presione Alt+Menos (Alt+Minus) para acceder el menú de la ventana. Presione Flecha abajo (Down Arrow) para seleccionar el comando Mover (Move) y presione ENTRAR (Enter). Ahora puede controlar el movimiento de la ventana con las teclas de dirección. Para acoplar la ventana simplemente utilice las teclas de dirección (arrow keys) donde desea acoplar la ventana y presione ENTRAR (Enter). Contenido sindicado de  Sara Ford’s Weblog    T... [read more]

The June 2008 CTP of  the Managed Services Engine is now available for you to download from CodePlex.  For those not familiar with MSE, it is a framework for developing Enterprise SOA : The MSE fully enables service virtualization through a Service Repository, which helps organizations deploy services faster, coordinate change management, and maximize the reuse of various service elements. In doing so, the MSE provides the ability to support versioning, abstraction, management, r... [read more]

  Cuando la ventana no está acoplada... Presione Alt. Presione Barra espaciadora (Spacebar).  Esto le mostrara el menú estándar del sistema con los comandos Mover y Tamaño (Move and Size).  Seleccione Tamaño (Size). Ahora simplemente mueva el cursor al borde de la ventana para cambiarle el tamaño.  Presione ENTRAR (Enter) para confirmar, o presione Esc para cancelar. El comando Mover (Move) evitará que aparezcan los marcadores para acoplar la ventana.  Si desea ver ... [read more]

I'll deliver a session about "Developing with Dynamics Mobile 2008" in our Microsoft INNOVATION DAYS event. It will be delivered in Madrid (June 3rd) and Barcelona (June 5th). My session content will cover topics like: - Dynamics Mobile 2008 introduction - Dynamics Mobile Sales (Sample Application) - Developing with the Dynamics Mobile Development Framework (How to create TASKLETS, WIZARDS and ORCHESTRATIONS) - Mobile Server (WCF Services, SQL Sync, Servers Architecture, etc.)... [read more]

The contrast between software and basic human aspects of life has quite a resemblance that it struck me while writing a piece of code. I just kept seeing code in a different way when I gave a deep thought around how software is an extension from our human nature. Definitely I am not the first to come up with this, but just the deep thinking I did made me realize that for any piece of software to be successful it needs to take into consideration certain aspects that are part of our every day lif... [read more]

Dear readers, Thank you for all of your suggestions and feedback to this blog. There will not be any new posts to this blog in the near future. To see more about what is going on now in Outlook, I highly recommend the Outlook Team blog, where my collegues and I post regularly. Thanks, Melissa

Hi <redacted>, I’m Angus Logan and I work for the Windows Live Platform team. When I was using <redacted> I saw you were screen-scraping Hotmail and Gmail and lots of other places. Did you know we have a Contact API which provides you richer information, is much more secure for the end user and is less effort for you? See http://dev.live.com/contacts One more thing – even though you tell people you won’t be storing their password, any proxy server or device on the network al... [read more]