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Anything and everything ASP.NET and more. Expect to see tips and tricks, opinions on new technology, and fun code samples, along with the occasional rant.

April 2007 - Posts

Silverlight announced at MIX
For those of us who aren't lucky enough to be at Vegas, here's the latest news from the trenches. ScottGu just announced the availability of Silverlight (with a go live license). Go to www.microsoft.com/silverlight and you'll see a 1.0 Beta download, Read More...
Posted: 30 Apr 2007, 13:16 | 0 Comments
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Another Lucky Winner
Congrats to Raman Tayal. Raman just won a subscription to NetAdvantage for .NET. His name was randomly chosen from a list of entrants following yesterday's Live From Redmond webcast. There is one LFR webcast left, scheduled for next Wednesday - and we Read More...
Posted: 27 Apr 2007, 13:21 | 0 Comments
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And the winner is...
If you joined us on yesterday's webcast, you were invited to enter a contents to win a fully licensed copy of NetAdvantage for .NET, which includes ASP.NET AND Windows Forms controls. It has now been 24 hours which means it's time to pick a winner! Congratulations Read More...
Posted: 20 Apr 2007, 11:59 | 1 Comments
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Live From Redmond - Episode 1 Code
For those of you who attended the live WebCast (or are watched the recorded version), here's the code for the example that I was putting together. About the Sample The neat part about this application is that is not only uses NetAdvantage controls inside Read More...
Posted: 20 Apr 2007, 11:21 | 5 Comments
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What do you mean I'm not Activated!?
After some deliberating, I finally convinced myself that I needed to upgrade my home computer from WinXP to Vista. I went for the clean install instead of the upgrade, so that I could keep my XP environment in palce, should I need to fall back - plus, Read More...
Posted: 19 Apr 2007, 15:28 | 4 Comments
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Live From Redmond Webcast Event
Tune in on Thursday, April 19, for the first of a series of webcasts hosted by Joe Stagner ( Joe On .NET ) and yours truly. This first webcast will show how you can use the UpdatePanel and NetAdvantage for ASP.NET to take your UI to the next level. To Read More...
Posted: 16 Apr 2007, 10:55 | 15 Comments
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Leave A Message...
When we were kids, we all tried to find secret ways to send each other messages - some more obvious than others. For some of us, ok - me, there's still a fascination with hidden messages. For the longest time, I refused to upgrade my version of AIM. My Read More...
Posted: 11 Apr 2007, 17:07 | 2 Comments
File Uploads - Where's the Ajax?
As with everything else Web related these days, wouldn't file uploads be better with Ajax? That's what most of us tend to think, but the devil is in the details! The short answer is, you cannot do the actual file transfer through an XMLHTTP request. ( Read More...
Posted: 09 Apr 2007, 17:52 | 25 Comments
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How Secure is Your AJAX?
If you've been following the news, you no doubtfully have heard about the latest AJAX Vulnerability to be found ( Read the eWeek article ). The article, and linked whitepaper by Fortify Software, talk about the vulnerability, but do not in my opinion Read More...
Posted: 04 Apr 2007, 16:04 | 4 Comments
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