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Recent Bootcamp Materials: Visual Studio.NET 2008 Tips, Tricks, a...

Last Thursday evening (Feb 5th), SSE sponsored a local developer bootcamp covering VS.NET 2008. We had a great turnout and a lot of great discussion and questions. If you are in the St. Louis area and ...

Testing Your Website With Different Browser Versions (IE, Firefox...

In a response to local company email about IE 8 RC, I took some time to write an email to the internal mailing lists of Raya about testing websites with different browser versions. I found it good to share ...

A mocking framework especially designed for Visual Basic .NET

I was pleased to see the Typemock folks have delivered a special VB.NET API to use Typemock 5.2 for unit testing. This handles the differences in VB9 vs C# 3.0 around Lambdas (VB9 is restricted to functions ...

The weekly SyncToBlog: #1

I find it very therapeutic to “sync to paper” on a regular basis. Yesterday I was grumpy as I had way too much in my head and in my Inbox. Late last night I grabbed my trusty Moleskine and wrote it all ...

MBUnit Plugin for Resharper

To run the tests that use MBUnit, you should install the following plugin for resharper: MbUnit Plugin Resharper, in this case you'll never fail again when you choose 'Run Unit Tests' in the context menu ...

My list of useful free software for windows developers

In the UK I am the technical editor for the MSDN Flash. This weeks edition was a special focused on free software. I gathered together some of the best downloads based on recommendations from friends, ...

Sat am problems for Google

If you happen to be using Google search engine on Saturday am from 9:30 to 10:30 am, you probably got a warning which stated "this site may be harmful to your compute". My wife was doing a search and alerted ...

Validate eMail address using MailAddress.ParseValue

We have Regular Expression validator to validate the eMail address, specified by the users. It usually warn user about some common mistakes. But sometimes eMail address passes validation , but later causes ...

ASP.NET Web Developer Checklist

The following is a simple checklist you can use when building web applications. Much of this still applies to other technologies and can easily be extended. I try not to get too specific on technology ...

Yesterday's Google Outage Was Cause by Basic Errors.

Google's 40 minute outage, which I reported, was caused by 'human error' according to a report by the BBC. Reading the account it seemed that several basic tasks weren't done. 1) The Live site is not checked ...

My Latest Book – Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX

I just got back from a business trip and sitting there on the counter was a copy of my latest book from Wrox! This book (my 20th) is titled Professional ASP.NET 3.5 AJAX. This was a fun book and I wrote ...

Google Chrome Updates and Running on Windows 7

I’ve been playing around a bit with Google Chrome lately. I switched back to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8 as it answered a lot of the frustrations that I was having with Google Chrome (some key pages ...

Google Is Having Issues!

I notices that all my searches on google where coming up with ... "This site may harm your computer" message. So, I got Google to do a search on itself and this is the result ... The BBC has now picked ...

What sites do you visit? Directly.

I realized after a discussion at work today that I don't view news and information sites in a browser that often. I find that I use an RSS reader more than actually going to the sites. I did not think ...

Phoenix Silverlight User's Group Meeting on February 4, 2009

Get your Geek On! Come out to Interface Technical Training near Central and Thomas in downtown Phoenix on Wednesday evening February 4, 2009 at 6pm. Steve Commisso of Zleek.com and http://bragosphere.blogspot... ...

Cookies anyone?

So, yesterday I was asked to create a cookie to store some information that could be used latter on. I have never worked with cookies before and it was a nice surprise when google told me it was quite ...

JQuery and IETester

I've had a tip off to check two killer apps. First is JQuery. It was plugged to me as the new mootools! Completly supporting older browsers, it's on-site samples and documentation are ment to be excellent. ...

SQL Server - Moving data across servers using a linked server

Tonight I have to stay late at work to finish up some migrations and to handle a customer request that's a few days old. This post is regarding the aging customer request. I need to create a reproduction ...

Receive location sometimes loose connection when using WCF-Custom...

I'm currently working in a BizTalk project where we are using WCF adapters with SAP bindings to communicate with SAP. We "randomly" finds that our receive locations loose the connection to SAP. In BizTalk ...

Caparea.Net F# Meeting

I had a chance to learn a bit about F# last night at the Caparea.net Users Group meeting. Not really knowing anything about functional programming or F# going into it, I wasn't sure what to expect. Matthew ...

Visual Studio 2008 - Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SE...

I have encountered a number of errors with visual studio 2008, which i'm now getting convinced are bugs. The first i will talk about is the Exception from HRESULT: 0x8001010A (RPC_E_SERVERCALL_RETRYLATER) ...

A Developers Guide to Servers. What you need to know but were afr...

Servers are the backbone of enterprise computing today, most websites for example run on either Apache or IIS and will be running on a server of some description. Perhaps because of servers ubiquity it ...

Can you tell me the meaning of the word "Polymorphism"?

This is one interview question I ask in every interview, and I get a lot of grief for it. I've done it for years. I used to work for a guy who was primarily a Delphi developer, and he as much as ordered ...

Code reviews and coding recommendations

We don't have code reviews, but sometimes I have to tell the team quite obvious coding recommendations. There are a few examples: 1. We should do the check if array element is available before access it: ...

A Complete Moron’s Guide to Deploying a Simple Site Across ...

Hi, I’m Mark and I’m a moron. Every time I think I have a handle on how to do even the most simple things in SharePoint I find out I have to jump through hoops to get things to work just right. I’m hoping ...

"Bizmon" [BizTalk Admin Console + HAT]

"Bizmon" [BizTalk Admin Console + HAT] - Aggregated monitoring of Biztalk Solutions. Richard Hallgren is developed and releasing first version of the tool on End of Feb 09. Bizmon tool having many features. ...

Feedburner, no Google…

*Moved to: Feedburner, no Google…As some of you may know, Feedburner (http://feedburner.com) was acquired some time ago by Google… But they are now actively migrating their content to Google servers (http://feedburner.google.com) ...

ASP.NET ajax/GridView gotcha

So, over the holidays I migrated the ASP.NET 1.1 web app to ASP.NET 3.5. I had initially wanted to use the migration tools provided by Microsoft but I also wanted to remove some junk controls that were ...

Getting Back to Writing with a little Dependency Injection rambli...

One of my goals for the new year was to post something here at least once a week. Well, I blew that already, didn’t I. About a year and a half ago, my team identified some low-hanging fruit in our applications ...

Behavior Driven Development Part 1 of n

To ease the transition from TDD to BDD, I have built my own little base class and stolen Scott Bellware’s extensions from SpecUnit.net to make my own BDD style specification framework. It keeps things ...

Are you really a fan of DotNetNuke?

If you are, do you have the cool DotNetNuke toolbar installed on your browser? The folks over at SmartThinker have this free toolbar for you if you want it. The toolbar is very useful if you are looking ...

Pasta alla Silana

The name of this pasta came from mount Sila (Calabria), in the southernmost part of the Italian peninsula ("on the other side of Italy" from where I live). I eated it in a restaurant when working for a ...

Tech Events in the Twin Cities this week

This week in the Twin Cities we have Jason Olson (Microsoft), coming all the way from Redmond, WA to talk to three of our local User Groups. If you get the chance, come check them out. TONIGHT: 1/12/09 ...

CodeMash 2009

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; ...

Windows CE 6.0: Using UIProxy

Starting with Windows CE 6.0 kernel mode drivers cannot call User Interface (UI) functions. To overcome this Windows CE 6.0 provides the UIProxy and a new function, CeCallUserProc(). Kernel mode drivers ...

JD Edwards – Partner Forum

Hi, on the 12th Feb I’m speaking at the UK JD Edwards partner forum on building Mobile Line Of Business Applications. More news on this as it breaks :-) ...

SharePoint Saturday Site Down

The SharePoint Saturday Site is down. If you need the Speaker Submission form you can e-mail me at SharePointSaturdayKC@gmail.... If you want to register for the event go directly to the click to attend ...

My Computer Industry Predictions for 2009

Unwrapping my new Wolves wall calendar I realized its time to do some prognosticating. I've blown the dust off my Nostradamus predictions book, taken some fresh tea leaves and smeared them all over my ...

Compiler for file type '*.xsd' failed

Today, after more than two weeks of vacation I run into a totally new error when trying to compile any BizTalk project. The error message was: Build failed. Compiler for file type '*.xsd' failed. Value ...

Breaking Into .NET (from scratch)

Lately I've had a few people approach me after speaking engagements or conferences and ask for some advice on becoming a .NET developer. Sometimes this has been moving into IT from an unrelated field or ...

2009 - Day 5 & 6

Day 5 of 2009 was pretty uneventful. I had a decent flight in from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls and drove the rest of the way in (roughly an hour.) The roads were clear and it wasn't overly windy, so that ...

Upload Photos to Facebook from Windows Live Photo Gallery

Ever felt like it would be cool to upload photos straight from Photo Gallery? Well I definitely have. I almost downloaded Google's Picasa 3 just to be able to do this. The upload tool that's provided on ...

MSDN Events coming to Baton Rouge, LA on 01/22/2009!

Honestly, my eyes lit up like it was Christmas all over again when I read the updated MSDN Events RSS on my google reader. Some Louisiana love is finally on its way this month, here is the low down: MSDN ...

New version of Hebrew and Arabic support for Silverlight was rele...

Please notice, that new version (RC1) of Bidi support for Silverlight was released. What’s new in this release? Initial version of bidi DataGrid Listbox, CheckBox, RadioButton, DatePicker, Tab and TabItem ...

Tickets Please

You know that instance, where you're sitting at home and that vital set of airline tickets or shopping list arrives to you by email, which you pickup on your mobile device (Windows Mobile, iPhone, Android, ...

Geocoding pictures automatically with Nokia E71 and gpicsync

Update: Since then I found a much better tool to geocode pictures and edit other information encoded directly within the picture: Microsoft Pro Photo Tools. I wrote a new blog post about this tool. Read ...

WTFNext's Most Helpful Posts of 2008

Here's a quick overview of what was most trafficked in 2008 on WTFNext. This is made possible by the results from Google Analytics and unique pageviews that have been recorded since early November. I'm ...

Blogging for the New Year

For 2009, I've resolved to start participating and giving back to the technical Internet community. For years I've been searching (even before Google - gasp) for technical info online, and selfishly (or ...

Conversion, while painful, is working

For about eight months I have been kicking my foot in the dirt trying to figure out if I really wanted to switch my primary browser. I have been using Maxthon for about three years and love many of the ...

ASP.NET Performance Tips

In the post below I am going to run down a short-list of some of the less-popular performance tips and the reasoning behind them. There are loads of blog postings and articles on asp.net performance enhancements, ...