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October 2007 - Posts

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How to Submit HTML and Markup in ASP.NET Forms by Controlling the ValidateRequest Setting
Hackers are ruthless and they do not care about your site or liabilities. They will try anything. Microsoft has gone a long way to help us, by default, protect against many of these attacks. Which is the way it should be. But there are times when you Read More...
Links of the Week Oct 29 2007
So many links building up I had to release them on Monday! There are some cool things out there this week. Please note if you are like me and using the Visual Studio 2008 VPC it will cease to work come Nov 1. So please make sure you back up your data! Read More...
Links of the Week Oct 24 2007
Not a whole lot of links this week. I have been pretty pushed getting some stuff ready for production. I should have some more technical entries posting over the weekend. Linq to Stored Procedures - Yes, Finally I am starting to get some time slices to Read More...
Thanks to the Charlotte Guild and the Richmond .NET Users Group
I want to thank my good friend's Andy Leonard and Bill Jones on organizing some excellent Code Camps this month. I was able to give three presentations in Richmond on October 6th and another presentation yesterday in Charlotte . I also had more time to Read More...
How to Publish Content from Another URL in a ContentPlaceHolder Control
It seems like every week I see a person asking a question about either placing content in the ContentPlaceHolder control dynamically or from another URL in the www.asp.net forums. By URL they typically mean another page from another site. I think many Read More...
Links of the Week Oct 15 2007
This is slightly overdue, due to the fact I w3as sick as a dog last week. But as usual there is a lot of good things to link to! Scott Hanselman documents the changes in the new .NET 3.5 framework And BCL Changes from 2.0 to 3.5 Changes in Orcas CTP New Read More...
How to Hide the DropDownList Behind Layer
A very common problem for modern web interface developers is displaying layers over a DropDownListBox. The DropDownListBox always wants to be displayed on top of any other control or layer in the page. This is because the DropDownListBox is actually a Read More...
FavIcon and Internet Explorer
One of the most frustrating thing over the years for me is the true lack of support for FavIcon in Internet Explorer. It still continues in Internet Explorer 7, which I really like in just about every way possible. I mean it has great security features, Read More...
The Identity Crisis - Are CardSpace and OpenId Viable?
I put together a presentation on Identity solutions for the Richmond for the Code Camp last Saturday. The main reason I wanted to give this presentation so I could learn more about the two authentication methods that are being developed to make our online Read More...
Charlotte Code Camp - October 20
I and several of my Triangle area buddies will be presenting at the upcoming Charlotte, NC Code Camp. I will be breaking out my ASP.NET Performance Tips and Tricks presentation. I will be adding some new things that I have picked up in the past few months Read More...
But I Don't Send SPAM - Or Do I?
SPAM infects all of our lives. As much as we actually get I bet your e-mail provider has probably blocked about 100-1000 pieces of SPAM you never saw. I host around 500 e-mail accounts and probably 900 actual addresses on my mail server. I block around Read More...
Intro to CardSpace and OpenId
I am giving a presentation on CardSpace and OpenId topics at the Richmond Code Camp tomorrow. Here are some resources for that presentation. I will not really be showing any of my own code per se in this talk, but these will be references to help everyone Read More...
Links of the Week October 5 2007
Setting Up Custom Web.Config files for Development, QA and Production Servers - Scott Guthrie shows us a very valuable set of tricks for Enterprise development. What's New in .NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 (Orcas) - You just do not see enough articles Read More...
.NET Source Code Available with 3.5 Release
In a major announcement today Scott Guthrie announced the release of the .NET 3.5 Framework source code . This will allow us to debug directly into the .NET source code to find issues with out application. For a long time now I have been generating source Read More...