Update, 1 Year Later: Why Silverlight will Fail
Last April, I wrote a post listing some reasons why I felt Silverlight would not succeed. I was inspired to revisit this topic after reading Robert... more »
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Why Should You Wrap Your ASP.NET Session Object
ASP.NET provides mechanisms for storing information for a single user session or across multiple sessions. This is done using the HttpSessionState and... more »
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Beginning Silverlight - First Steps
I decided to get adventurous and see what all the fuss was about. So, I'm going to record my experiences as I try to "do something" with Silverlight!... more »
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Wake up ASP.NET developers!
A rant about the ASP.NET developers attitude towards the semantic web
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jQuery Examples - Horizontal Accordion
In this example, I have created an accordion effect that reveals a caption for each thumbnail. I’ve done similar navigations like this in flash, so I... more »
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ASP.NET Tips: What to gather to troubleshoot – part 3 – Crash
A Crash in IIS occurs when an IIS process (INETINFO.EXE, DLLHOST.EXE, W3WP.EXE) terminates unexpectedly. A Crash typically happens when there is an... more »
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Understanding Model-View-Controller
Like everything else in software engineering, it seems, the concept of Model-View-Controller was originally invented by Smalltalk programmers. More... more »
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5 Minutes of Innovation in C# - Episode #1 - Generics
It's been a long time in the works, but I have finally started my new Screencast series, 5 Minutes of Innovation in C#. This is the very first... more »
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Silverlight Behaviors
This post introduces a similar behavior semantics for Silverlight and XAML-based UI as well. The mini-behavior framework I have prototyped allows... more »
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How To Fix Video Slowing Down Your Page Load Time
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the problem here is that putting such a huge file on our page will slow down the other page elements that are also trying to load at the same time.... more »
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Some basic but useful C# methods implemented in JavaScript
Some basic but useful C# methods implemented in js: Cach object (ok, it is not a method), String.Format(), String.IsNullOrEmpty(), StartsWith(),... more »
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MVC Storefront, Part 8: Testing Controllers, Iteration 1
In this episode I finally ready up the demo, setting up my CatalogController to work with my test repository, and using the DRY principle with Helpers... more »
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Code Based Repeater for ASP.NET MVC
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I think we can do better than a foreach loop. A foreach loop doesn’t help you handle alternating items, for example. My response to this story is,... more »
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Silverlight's Fate
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While Microsoft is busy churning out the newer versions of Silverlight and we are all learning to cope with plurality and continunal changes in the... more »
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Agile vs. Waterfall Video
A little flash video of an agile team vs a waterfall team. The message: Join the agile revolution.
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Take a screenshot in Flex and send it to ASP.NET
In Adobe Flex 3, you can get a bitmap image of any control by using this code (you'll need to import "mx.graphics.ImageSnapshot"):
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An Absolute Beginner's Tutorial In Flex 3
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With Web users expecting richer and more complex interfaces, Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) are seeing a huge increase in popularity. Adobe Flex is... more »
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Flex Skinning: Programmatic Skins (Part 2)
When last I left off, I'd given a general introduction to Flex skinning by defining some terminology and then showing you how to use CSS styling and... more »
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5 advice for developing RIA and WEB application in Flex
Compared with Flash development environment, the component library of flex is more attractive. But because of fully function, the size of program... more »
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Do you Really Want to Be a Development Team Leader?
Hopefully most will have actually considered the change of role and be looking for new challenges and ways to contribute more to their chosen... more »
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Using NHibernate as an ORM Solution for .NET
NHibernate is an ORM (Object-Relational Mapping) solution for .NET that provides an easy to use framework for mapping an object-oriented domain model... more »
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Silverlight 2 (beta1) Known Issues and workarounds (if any)
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The following is the list of known issues for Silverlight 2 beta 1. But this is not something new. If you keep on reading Silverlight Forum, you... more »
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Setting up authentication in asp.net MVC
I wanted to setup user authentication in asp.net MVC, and I wanted it to tie in with the built-in IIdentity and IPrincipal support that is already in... more »
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How can you load .NET assemblies dynamicly.
The first Time i start to develop a .NET Application i had to load a DLL dynamicly. Puh... I don't know how but i wrote a Function to do... more »
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Simplified ASP.NET AJAX Custom Control Development With VS Item Template
At work today I had a friend (Blair) have issues with trying to get a browser alert to popup on the page during an ASYNC post back. I told him I would... more »
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