Professional ASP.NET - Chris Love's Official Blog

During the Raleigh Code Camp you may have noticed the earth shook for a split second as Brian Hitney announced to the throngs gathered at the closing session for the Code Camp that our very own, and good friend of mine, Jim Duffy has been made a Microsoft Regional Director. Jim is now one of an elite 120 very special developers in the world, yes ...

I came across this interesting reflective post looking back at 1994, The Internet Year in Review - 1994, which was one of the most definitive years in my life. I found the Internet in 1992 at NC State, Go Wolfpack!, and just could not get away from it. In fact the first official date I had with my wife I spend an hour showing her how to find ...

It amazes me that in today's high tech world that any legitimate company can not have their caller id display correctly. It amazes me even more that the number can not be displayed. Generally these tatics are used by tele-marketers, so I never answer the phone. Some even have left me messages, thanks to Vonage I have MP3 files of each one in ...

I just found this article about a little hidden application in Windows XP that allows you to create a custom font library.

I was just checking out the Movers and Shakers at Alexa and noticed the #1 Mover was a new Development Site.  I checked out the use graph and it is off the chart, which makes me wonder how it do so much attention in the past two days.  I will have to investigate.... Anyway, it has some stuff about .NET development and Visual Studio ...

I just saw the announcement about the release of the ASP.NET AJAX framework (Code name Atlas - they should just call it that, ugh) Beta.  AJAX is of course the hottest development thing going for web developers right now, and we have been anxiously awaiting any AJAX updates from Microsoft.  So This should be a great weekend for all of ...

Lately it seems like Microsoft is really producing some great learning material and sites for all the great new technologies.  Today I found out about .NET University.  Currently the site provides materials for Windows Presenation Foundation, Windows Communications Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation and Windows CardSpace.  ...

I saw last week that Google released their Code Search tool, which I thought was pretty interesting.  I tought it was having a hard time returning relavent coding samples for .NET, I honestly could not qualify results for other languages.  It really frustrated me getting other languages returned for search queries with VB.NET or C# ...

I had a great time at the Richmond Code Camp this past weekend.  Frank, Andy and the Virginia user group leaders did a pretty good job organizing the event.  I gave three presentations, ASP.NET performance, Data Controls and URL ReWriting.  The first two I have preseneted to TRINUG in the past year, so it was great to finally get to ...

I am always looking for good references on the net and one of the things I tend to have problems with is dealing for date formatting.  Katy Kam has a great entry on her blog which should serve as a great reference for Date formatting in .NET.