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Alternate way to select ASP.NET server controls using jQuery

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:31:39 GMT

Another simple tip when working with jQuery and ASP.NET Web Forms

Don't lose your code - 3 methods that can help

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:22:34 GMT

Inevitably, you'll lose power to your computer, have a hard drive crash, have lightening strike, accidentally delete code that hasn't been checked in, or encounter some other crazy scenario that I can't even imagine. What is your plan? Read on if you want some solutions that may just save your code.

DimeCasts.NET - Free education vidoes.

Sat, 03 Jan 2009 15:01:02 GMT

DimeCasts.NET offer free education vidoes in field of various Microsoft related technologies. Advantage is most of these vidoes are 10 minutes or less in length.

Choosing Between WebForms and MVC

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:46:04 GMT

Another take on what to consider when making a decision between Asp.Net WebForms or Asp.Net MVC.

An idea on how-to avoid spam in Dot-Net-Kicks

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:16:20 GMT

The "Upcoming Stories" RSS in Dot-Net-Kicks is full of SPAM. Here's a idea on how to avoid it: Use a .NET captcha: ask questions that are difficult to guess but easy to answer. Read and Kick. It will help us all.

Top 5 Useful Utilities / Applications for Developers

Sat, 06 Dec 2008 14:16:02 GMT

A simple list of 5 incredibly useful appliacations for developers / support experts / power-users. These get installed on almost every pc i touch!

Differences between Silverlight and Flash/Flex

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:26:51 GMT

Silverlight Flash Silverlight Limitations: Now, we got moonlight for Linux user This limitation doesn't exist with Flash. Silverlight will (naturally) be using the WMV and Silverlight will add to the use of the WMV file format. Using the WMV video format essentially makes Silverlight useless for the vast majority of video websites such as YouTube. It cannot play .avi and .mov file. Flash Video turned Flash into a mechanism for delivering media with far more potential than any other solution that is .flv, no doubt Flash has also limitation to play other video file. For that Flash required codex for that player installed on Client machine. Now, we are able to read the data from web services (including RESTful service), XML from URL. Silverlight 2 supports Socket communication too. Even flash is also lacking this area. Flash can read data source in terms of XML or text from some URL and can use it. Same thing silverlight also can read. The standard controls are included in Silverlight 2 beta1. Flash has rich set of control library. Once the accessibility features are provided with Silverlight versions, any existing test tools that support driving UI through Accessibility will be fully enabled to automate Silverlight applications Edit: I'm not sure about this but I don't think that we can't automate the UI. I think Windows Hooking will do. Flash test tools are already in place. Silverlight 1.0 does not support GIF-file format. Even it doesn't support BMP and other file format. It supports only JPG and PNG file format. Support all image formats. Can't do sound processing. With some media file sound processing can possible. Silverlight 2 supports Socket communication too. Flash allows creating XML Socket object. Per pixel bitmap editing, bitmap filters (convolution, color matrix, etc), bitmap effects (drop shadow, blur, glow) cannot be done. Can do that. Webcam and Microphone support it not there. Flash supports it. Built in file upload/download support is not available. Inbuilt Upload/download support is there. The performance of Silverlight and Flash will be nearly the same. While Silverlight is using XAML as description language in a non-compressed format size of Silverlight component is large.In practical implementation of similar component in Flash and Silverlight it has found that size of Silverlight component is approximately 10-20 times larger than Flash component. Size of flash component is smaller. We got .xa

Workflow Foundation .NET 4.0 not quite the cousin of WF .NET 4.0

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:54:15 GMT

Check this out, it appears that WF 4.0 is a completely new framework, not related in any way to WF 3.0/3.5. Good news is that you can still use old 3.0/3.5 activities as long as you wrap them in a interop activity.

LINQ to SQL..... she is dead, deceased .. just something in the past

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:47:23 GMT

Following bunch of announcements about .NET 4.0, ADO.NET team makes a not so surprising announcement that LINQ to SQL is dead in favour of the .NET Entity Framework (http://blogs.msdn.com/adonet/archive/2008/10/29/update-on-linq-to-sql-and-linq-to-entities-roadmap.aspx).

27 Free Must-have Online Collaboration Tools

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:46:12 GMT

hese days teams can be dispersed all over the globe. With outsourcing, telecommuting, distance learning and complex project collaboration, it's often helpful to have tools that can assist with the various collaborative tasks need to be done by dispersed teams. I've put together a great list of 27 free...

jQuery Intellisense Updates from Microsoft

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:46:21 GMT

With Microsoft's recent releases of the jQuery Intellisense file plus the hotfix released this week using jQuery in Visual Studio has become a lot easier and more convenient. Here is a little more detail on what you need and how it works.

How to Use Visual Studio jQuery IntelliSense Supported Through Hotfix

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 03:46:02 GMT

Jeff King, Program Manager for Visual Studio Web Tools blogged VS2008 SP1 Hotfix to Support "-vsdoc.js" IntelliSense Doc Files on Friday. The HotFix (VS2008 SP1 only) allows Visual Studio to find "-vsdoc.js" files that have commenting for IntelliSense in the same folder as a script file linked to from your document. In this post I am going to show you how to get IntelliSense working once the HotFix is installed in both a normal aspx page as well as ASP.NET MasterPage.

89 Ways for You to Become the Coolest Developer in the World

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:31:08 GMT

You can learn how to improve your programming skills, work better and enjoy it from this collection of advice from experienced developers.

Looking for a Lot of .NET Code Samples - They Are Right Under Your Nos

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:16:11 GMT

You have a wealth of code samples on your computer, here is how to find them!!!! An Easter Egg from Microsoft.

Microsoft new home page design

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:45:46 GMT

microsoft changed their home page design a little bit, now you can reach everything from the home page more easy and more clear.

Adding Controls dynamically to UpdatePanel control and Setting Trigger

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:53:41 GMT

Sometimes, we will require to create UpdatePanel dynamically and load the controls dynamically to it.

JQuery, the very very basics - Lesson 6

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:46:04 GMT

For every programming language, there is invariably string manipulation and array fiddling. No exception with JQuery. Being unobtrusive in principal and complimentary in nature, it does not try to replace the existing bulk of JavaScript functions with its own, rather, it simply adds some of the most sorely missed functions.

Extension methods

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 19:32:53 GMT

Explains how to use extension methods with a nice and simple real-life example while the information level is hign.

Speeding up ASP.NET with the Runtime Page Optimizer

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:31:08 GMT

An great new tool to automatically optimize your ASP.NET website.

Local or Remote JavaScripts?

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:14:43 GMT

Using Google's jQuery source or your own local copy?

Two Variable Swap

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 20:59:20 GMT

Learn the secrets of the two variable swap. Eliminate that wasteful extra temp variable!

Copy text from a MessageBox

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:31:02 GMT

How many times you wished you could copy text from the MessageBox. YOU CAN.

[fix] IIS Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred - Skype on Port 80

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:10:34 GMT

"Unexpected error 0x8ffe2740 occurred" is not a particularly helpful error message. It just means IIS can't start a website because port 80 is already in use.

Microsoft Silverlight 2 Released

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:45:40 GMT

Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president of the .NET Developer Division at Microsoft made the official announcement that Silverlight 2 was available. Surprises also included Eclipse support and the Silverlight XAML vocabulary being published.This is a significant event as it not only marks a huge milestone for the Microsoft Silverlight Team, but it also marks the date that Flash finally got a true competitor after years of complete domination. While Silverlight 1.0 was released last year, it was mainly a video only version, with some JavaScript/AJAX support that lacked the true power of .net. With the release of Silverlight 2, Microsoft has introduced a cross-platform, cross-browser version of the .NET Framework.

Getting .NET 3.5 apps to run on 2.0 hosting

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:20:16 GMT

Getting a .NET 3.5 based web-application to run on a hosting only supporting .NET 2.0