Chris Love's Official ASP.NET Blog

Introducing SO-Aware, the WCF Management Tool Everyone Needs

Chris Love — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:54:17 GMT

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)

A Custom jQuery Selector to Retrieve Labels for Inputs

Chris Love — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 23:30:16 GMT

This afternoon @DamienGuard asked how to select labels that are associated with input elements. I think I have an answer for him, or at least something that should be able to get him on the right track. If not, oh well its still pretty neat. One of the...(read more)

Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 4 Adding A Master Page

Chris Love — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:29:25 GMT

In my three previous posts about using the Microsoft WebMatrix tool I showed how to create a form, add database interactivity and automated E-Mail functionality. Today I want to start making the site take a more usable form by adding a site layout. Create...(read more)

Why I Love Working for Tellago

Chris Love — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:31:00 GMT

Last November I made the decision to join Tellago full-time. I was recruited by my friend Don Demsak for about 4-5 months before joining. It meant doing a lot of travel and essentially relocating to a South Florida the majority of time, a place I had...(read more)

Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 3 Adding E-Mail Support

Chris Love — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:01:11 GMT

This is the third in a series of posts on using the new ASP.NET WebMatrix tool. Today we are going to add automated E-Mail functionality. Again the Html Helpers make this a very easy task. Creating the Contact Form Adding Database Storage Continuing where...(read more)

Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 2 Adding Database Support

Chris Love — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:49:05 GMT

Yesterday I posted the first in a series on using WebMatrix to build web sites . The first post created a basic contact form and collected the submitted values. Now I am going to add a database and a table to store the site’s contact form submissions....(read more)

Intro To WebMatrix: Create a Contact Form Part 1

Chris Love — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:40:14 GMT

Earlier this week Microsoft released a Beta version of WebMatrix , as web development tool aimed at new developers, hobbyist and those new to the Microsoft web stack. Today I am going to walk through building a standard contact form using WebMatrix ....(read more)

Microsoft’s WebMatrix, The Simple ASP.NET Editor

Chris Love — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:13:29 GMT

Remember the days of Classic ASP? You know when you could build an entire application in notepad and some simple VBScript? Then Visual Interdev came along and well 12 years later we have a mountain range of classes and Visual Studio 2010 along with other...(read more)

The query parameter '$format' begins with a system-reserved '$' character but is not recognized

Chris Love — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:36:00 GMT

Tuesday morning I was ranting on Twitter , well really whining, about how WCF Data Services does not support JSON format out of the box. Fortunately I was shown the answer in replies to my rant. So I want to share this with you. First, I made the mistake...(read more)

What Would You Select?

Chris Love — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:20:00 GMT

Software development is a collection of trade offs; performance for speed to market, quick & dirty vs. maintainable, on and on. Most tend to sacrifice user experience at some level for time to market, other do not consider maintainability, reliability....(read more)

10 Ways to Debug JavaScript in IE 8

Chris Love — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:12:00 GMT

I know, I know use FireBug and FireFox . I hear it all the time. I say meh, everyone does that. As I wrote last year, in IE 8 press F12 and Bazinga !!! You get the IE Developer tools. Read more about using the IE developer tools in my old post. But I...(read more)

Still Stuck With IE 6? Consider Just Jumping to IE 9

Chris Love — Fri, 21 May 2010 04:21:06 GMT

Odds are if you are viewing this Blog with IE 6 you are in a large, slow moving corporation. I really doubt normal folks reading this Blog would still have IE 6 installed on their home or small business computers. If so, Bad Geek, Bad Geek, now go think...(read more)

JavaScript The Good Parts – Book Review

Chris Love — Thu, 20 May 2010 11:00:00 GMT

Over the past 18 months or so I have become a heavy jQuery programmer. You can say a lot about using jQuery, one thing I thought I would never say is I love working with JavaScript, er I mean ECMAScript. As you start working with jQuery and JavaScript...(read more)

jQuery Tutorial: Validation with the jQuery UI Tabs Widget

Chris Love — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:25:00 GMT

This is so long overdue, but I told Dave Ward last Summer I would post this Blog and well I have not been so good on that commitment. If you want to validate a form that is organized using the jQuery UI Tabs widget you probably need to perform validation...(read more)

5 UX Resources for Developers

Chris Love — Tue, 04 May 2010 13:30:00 GMT

I have been getting more and more questions about resources I use for various things. Today I was asked about User Experience (UX) resources and to be honest I was just not ready for the question. I do not consider UX to be a component of design or development....(read more)