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May 2008 - Posts

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Expanding Upon Getting the Days in a Month
I was perusing the ASP.NET forums tonight and saw an entry where the person was asking on help on getting the number of days in a month in .NET . While the asker was making a simple mistake and could not see the forest for the trees, it got me thinking Read More...
Front-End Performance and Philly Code Camp
This morning I had the pleasure of doing my Front-End Performance presentation based on the great Steve Souders book, High Performance Web Sites . Again I cannot emphasize enough how I think every web developer, independent of platform, should read this Read More...
Links of the Week May 12th 2008
OK, so work is picking up quite a bit, but I am still checking out articles everywhere. I just do not have the right amount of time to post them on the Blog. Serving CSS from IIS 7 - This could be a common issue for the uninitiated admins. Twitter thinking Read More...
Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1 - Go Get It
I am not going to even bother talking about what is in it, I am reading it like everyone else! But go get it, install it into your favorite virtual machine development environment and see for yourself. Scott Gu Talks about Visual Studio 2008/3.5 SP1 Download Read More...
Stop Telemarketers with ASP.NET
So I found this really neat new site this morning written in ASP.NET, CallerComplaints.com . The site allows you to look up complaints about a phone number and report the number The site is a vigilante site that will allow you to blow off some steam when Read More...
Type 'ASP.global_asax' is not defined.
I am honestly not sure how I created this error, but I know this I did not find much out there on how to solve the issue. I think part of the reason this occurred is I was adding existing pages from another site to reuse in a new web site. But I have Read More...
‘ScriptManager’ is ambiguous in the namespace ‘System.Web.UI’
I suddenly found myself getting this error the first time I tried to run a freshly minted ASP.NET 3.5 web site with the ScriptManager in place on the Master Pages. I did a quick search, but only found some references from the time before 3.5, and they Read More...
Raleigh Rollout for Visual Studio 2008 LINQ Demos
Last week I had the pleasure of showing the attendees at the Raleigh Hero's Happen Here event an introduction to LINQ. I hated I only had about 15 minutes to introduce this great new feature of .NET 3.5. I was able to demonstrate a few simple aspects Read More...