Dec 23
Merry Christmas everyone
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And a Happy New Year!
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Dec 21
Making your ASP.NET 2.0 app work in IIS 7
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Another great post by Mike Volodarsky that presents some problems that migh occur when you deploy a 2.0 ASP.NET app on IIS 7.
Dec 21
For those that don”t know, xUnit is a new unit test framework for .NET. The xUnit extensions do have an installer that will help you installing the xUnit Resharper plugin. Unfortunately, it won”t work if you”re using Windows Vista (at least not with UAC on). The problem is that it checks for the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE for […]
Dec 20
Targeting ASP.NET 2.0 from VS 2008
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Brad Abrams has announced new templates for targeting ASP.NET 2.0 from Visual Studio 2008.
Dec 17
Book review: About Face
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I”ve just finished reading my copy of About Face 3: The essentials of Interaction Design written by the famous Alan Cooper. Even though the book has some cool stuff on it, there is something about the writing style that made some chapters really boring. There”s also something about the quality of the paper and the […]
Dec 15
The Techdays site is up!
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Techdays is the biggest Portuguese IT event and it will take place next year (12-14 March) in the Centro de Congressos de Lisboa.
Dec 14
IDLogin control: why I''m not using it
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As you may know, MS has released the Windows Live SDK some time ago. In a recent project, I was asked to use the Windows Live ID authentication on a web application. Well, using it turned out to be really easy, so I”m not going to bore you with the details. A few days after […]
Dec 10
ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions released
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Scott has just announced the release of the 1st preview of the ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions. hurray!!!
Dec 03
MSBuild debugger
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Are you using MSBuild? Having problems building your script? ok, then this is what you need :,,)
Dec 01
Parallel CTP available
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I”ve just read (in Joe Duffy”s blog) that the first release of Parallel FX is out. There”s already a dev center which contains some pointers on this new framework. Daniel Moth has also done a cool video that shows the role of the framework and how it fits on the .NET framework.
Nov 25
Changes on the authentication service
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Now that the 3.5 version of the platform is out, it”s time to start digging in with Reflector. Since I was experimenting with the authentication service to try to answer a question that was posted on the forums, I couldn”t stop noticing that on ASP.NET 3.5 the AuthenticationService is now… a WCF service. Besides that, […]
Nov 22
Stop the nonsense: don''t put the System.Web.Extensions.dll inside your bin folder
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First, if you”ve already installed the last version of the framework, you can relax since it will automatically put the ASP.NET AJAX assembly on the GAC. Ok, if you”re still using ASP.NET 2.0, then keep reading. As we all know, ASP.NET AJAX was introduced as an add-in to the ASP.NET 2.0 platform. During the early […]
Nov 22
Making the AuthenticationService.get_isLoggedIn() work correctly
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[Update: this will only happen if you don”t set up the web.config properly. You don”t need to do this – ie, call the RegisterStartupScript – if you add the <authenticationService enabled=”true” /> to the web.config file] The ASP.NET AJAX platform has some client services which you can use from your client Javascript code to perform […]
Nov 20
Xaml and Media controls: giving them a new chance
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A long (long) time ago I”ve downloaded one of the ASP.NET future CTPS and was really annoyed with the Xaml and Media controls. Why? simple: they injected object tags on the page instead of generating JS code to perform those operations. The problem: you got one of those nasty “click to activate” messages when the […]
Nov 19
Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite is out
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Go get it while it”s hot!
Nov 15
By now, everyone knows that you should use the RegisterXXX methods of the ScriptManager class to insert a script block during a partial postback (that is, when you”re using ASP.NET AJAX and UpdatePanels). Even though this is “common knowledge”, what most don”t know is that using one of those methods and associating a script block […]
Nov 13
ASPInsider
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It seems that after a long and “interesting” process :,,) I”ve been invited to join the ASPInsider group. It should be lots of fun! Thanks guys.
Nov 12
Click to activate gone from IE
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Hurray! Pete has just announced (like in “a few days ago”:) ,,)this on his blog. Good news for the SL ASP.NET controls I”ve kept badmouthing in previous posts…
Nov 12
Changing the contents of the UpdateProgress control
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Today I”ve answered a question on the ASP.NET AJAX forums that asked something like this: how do I get a reference to the controls defined inside an UpdatePanel or UpdateProgress controls? The first part is easy: just use the ID of the control. The second is not as easy as it might seem at first. […]
Nov 11
Today, I”ve noticed an entry on the JScript blog that gave some advice on how to get intellisense for your fields. I just have one thing to say about it: DON”T even think about using it. It”s completely wrong. Ok, slowly: it”s WRONG. Declaring fields on the prototype object has a different meaning than declaring […]
Nov 09
What do you think about this new concept from Peugeot? I like it (but again, I”m already a fan of the new Audi TT…)
Nov 09
.NET Framework 3.5 namespace poster
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Brad Abrams has posted a link to a nice looking .NET 3.5 namespace poster.
Nov 09
Where is the Windows Sidebar
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On the Windows 2008 Server? I”ve already installed the Desktop Experience pack and I”m able to find the Windows SideShow, but I can”t seem to find the Windows Sidebar anywhere…
Nov 09
In these last weeks I”ve been having some fun on the ASP.NET AJAX forums (don”t ask me why but I do really enjoy trying to understand why something doesn”t work as expected). Today I”ve noticed that I”ve reached the *magical* 100 number and I”ve decided to put it here to record it for posteriority:,,) (do […]
Nov 07
As I”ve said in previous entries, I”m updating my ASP.NET 2.0 book to the new version. One of the controls that will be added to the platform is the LinqDataSource control. The control will let you perform any LINQ expression against any IEnumerable data source. Scott Guthrie has already a cool post that shows how […]
Nov 07
PowerShell v2.0 CTP is here
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When v1.0 was in beta, I used to really love it (and I still do!). The PowerShell blog has just announced that the 2.0 CTP is out. Go get it now :,,)
Nov 07
Windows Live Writer 2008 available
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You can find more info about it here.
Nov 07
The new ListView control has two properties that you might confuse when you start using the control. As you may have guessed by this post, they have different purposes (but they”re both templates). The EmptyDataItem lets you set the aspect of the control when its DataSource property is null ,,)ie, the control will render that […]
Nov 05
The var keyword
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In these last days, I”ve been looking at LINQ. I”m still not sure if this will help me build applications easily or if the new features introduced on the C# language are making it a lot more complex than it should be (when I make up my mind, I”ll let you know :),,). Anyway, LINQ […]
