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How to Take Screen Shots From An Android Phone or Tablet
Taking screen shots of an application is essential to the development and marketing process. You really need something to reference to any marketing or advertising that people can see. After all how will I have a good idea if your application will actually Read More...
It’s Pronounced ‘Mo-sjun’
Today I am very excited to announce Moesion , Tellago Studios latest product. Not only did I work on this product with a great team loaded with fellow Microsoft MVPs, I have wanted this product since I placed my very first server online well over a decade Read More...
Remote Desktop Administration Options
When you are a web developer you are ultimately dependent on server administration. This means at some point you will need to access your web server to update configurations, manage web sites & databases. If you are like me and got into the hosting Read More...
Introducing SO-Aware, the WCF Management Tool Everyone Needs
Today is the day, Tellago Studios officially launches with our first software offering, SO-Aware.SO-Aware is a RESTful WCF Registry solution. So what does that mean? In short SO-Aware is a web based WCF management tool that also does monitoring and automated Read More...
Testing E-Mail Functionality
One of the most common questions I see on ASP.NET forums relates to sending E-Mail. I have addressed many of those issues already, so I wont get into how to send E-Mail from an ASP.NET web site. This week I have been working on testing applications and Read More...
Control TextBox’s AutoComplete Action
Today I was working on a Web Form and noticed a property in the TextBox control called AutoCompleteType . I had never noticed it before and my interest was piqued. My first thought was it must be an injected property from an AutoComplete extender on the Read More...
Steve Souders Front-End Performance on DotNetRocks
One of my favorite web development books is Steve Souders High Performance Web Sites from O’Reilly. In fact I created a session I give from time to time at Code Camps and never have enough time! Yesterday’s DotNetRocks episode is an hour long discussion Read More...
Looking for a Lot of .NET Code Samples – They Are Right Under Your Nose!
So I have been having a problem designing a rather odd LINQ to EF statement the past week and I decided to contact my friend on the Entity Framework team, Erick Thompson. he said oh yah, I created something like what you are looking for in the 101 sample Read More...
Chemistry and Dictionary(of TKey, TValue)
In college I majored in polymer chemistry and I thought I would use some of that chemistry today to demonstrate how to use Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) (VB.NET), Dictionary<TKey, TValue> (C#) class. The generic Dictionary(of TKey, TValue) class is Read More...
Making Velocity Start When You Reboot
Microsoft announced a new distributed caching application, code name ‘Velocity’, at TechEd. Since then I have been sort of toying with it and I have my issues and dealing with the learning curve. One thing I kept noticing and had a hard time finding was Read More...
Search Engine Optimization for ASP.NET Web Sites
Most of the last two years of my career I have been developing applications behind the firewall and let’s face it most ASP.NET applications sit behind the firewall. This is unfortunate because ASP.NET offers the most scalable and performant (yes that Read More...
Creating a Background Thread to Log IP Information
Trolling the ASP.NET forums this afternoon I came across this thread about creating a custom httpHandler to log IP information to a database . What the requester was trying to do was call a remote site’s ( www.ShowMyIP.com ) REST API to get information Read More...
Using Regions in Code Files
Recently I have been confronted with a movement that seems to hate using #Regions in source code files. Personally I really like using regions and I absolutely like the ability to collapse sections of code I am not directly working with. The opposing Read More...
The 7 Virtues of Reading eBooks
Recently I was able to publish my first two eBooks via WROX BLOX, httpModules and httpHandlers . Each of these books gave me an opportunity to share some valuable information, experience and demonstrations on each of these niche topics that might otherwise Read More...
A New ASP.NET Blog from Down Under
The web is great, it has helped me build relationships with folks from all over the world. Recently Bartek Marnane contacted me to let me know he was kicking off a new Blog about ASP.NET. Bartek is from Australia, which I am going to visit one day before Read More...
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