April 2006 - Posts
I had a good friend chat with me this morning about SharePoint and eventually the converstation got to a point he mentioned that FrontPage is being discontinued . That is the second happy statement I have seen this week! As someone who has offered web
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Today I started my morning reviewing blogs and news sites and saw a link on www.asp.net for handling the enter key on Web Forms. This has been an ongoing issue for me over the years. I have tried some JavaScript solutions, just like everyone else, but at some point they all seem to fail. Today I have a solution!
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Since setting up my new dual core pentium last month I noticed a few items just do nto work quite right in Visual Studio. Nothing more troublesome than the style builder disappearing right after I chose build style from the context menu.
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I have really been struggling lately with the Gridview. Most of the time I like to use a label, literal or placeholder in a template column so this does not really affect me. But I still use a BoundColumn for some fields, like a date or price type thing. In DataGrids I always was able to use DataFormatString="{0:c} for a currency format and DataFormatString="{0:d}" for a date.
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I recently completed a complete ASP.NET 2.0 upgrade of one of my long time customers, Golden Creek Kennels. Crawford and Susan run a superb Golden Retriever Kennel on a small farm n the middle of RTP.
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OK, I keep posting these things as I find them today. If you want an XBOX 360 and you are just dying to show the world how good you are with ATLAS/AJAX here is your chance, ATLAS Mashup Contest . Best of luck, one of these days I may just enter one of
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If you are wanting to get your sites into AJAX, Microsoft is working on the release of ATLAS, it's new AJAX framework. I found they have posted their control toolkit for Atlas . The "Atlas" Control Toolkit is a collection of samples and components that
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If you have been searching for an introduction to VB.NET 2005, you can download one from Microsoft for FREE, Introducing Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 for Developers . It looks like it a pretty decent little introduction to the latest in VB.NET.
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I found where Microsoft is promoting another developer contest. This time you just have to submit your idea to the contest. They will then select 12 finalist, and they will compete head to head to win $10,000. Check out the detials at http://www.madeinexpresscontest.com/
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Just found this post about a possible shopping site from Microsoft . This would be a site similar to Froogle.com, Google's shopping search engine. I like these things, especially when they offer a way to feed the product information in via a web service.
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So you noticed I have not posted much lately. I have been busy! Last week we (this is a joint project with Envisage Software) completed work on the membership center for the University of New Mexico Lobo Club. This is an ASP.NET 2.0 web site. Unfortunately, unless you are a member of the Lobo Club you will not be able to login and use it.
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Charles Petzold has done it again. The king of the Windows API has unveiled the next generation language for Microsoft platforms, CSAML. It drastically simplifies the syntax of C# by merging it with XAML. Great read ;).
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Unfortunately I could not make the Mix '06 conference, but really wish I had gone. I am not much on the social web, and MySpace.com. If you have not heard of it, i.e. you were born before 1985, it has become the biggest thing on the net today. It uses ASP.NET 2.0 to run.
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Most of you know I have been very active with our area user group, www.trinug.org. We have been very blessed to have many great leaders in the Microsoft development world visit and speak to our group. This week we were extra blessed to have Jeff Prosise visit the group.
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Last night I was reading some Blogs and stumbled across a great blog, ASP.NET Podcast Blog. I have really begun to get into Podcast lately, especially since I met Carl and Richard with DotNetRocks back in November.
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If you are like me, and develop primarily server-side code, client-side JavaScript can be just a headache. If you need to create the JavaScript to include parameters or values you derive at run-time it can be even more confusing. ASP.NET provides the RegisterClientScriptBlock and RegisterStartupScript to help, but they may not always work best.
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