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Bring back the HTML Designer in Visual Studio 2010
Here's a simple but maybe not so obvious tip. In Visual Studio 2010 the HTML Designer is not enabled by default.
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Our iPhone Powered Coffee Pot
Last year my co-worker and I ordered Electric Imp developer boards and came up with an iPhone powered Coffee Pot.
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Responsive Design and Mobility Tools
Recently while viewing the Pluralsight course Single Page Apps with HTML5, Web API, Knockout and jQuery I came across three handy tools for testing web...
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Juice UI: Open source ASP.NET Web Forms components for jQuery UI widgets
Here's a helpful resource for anybody using ASP.NET Web Forms and jQuery UI. In this blog post, Jon Galloway highlights JuiceUI, a new open source project...
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Web applications are now helping you ditch your mouse!
Being a heavy keyboard only user in many instances and having written desktop applications that focus heavily on keyboard tab order, hot keys, etc.
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Using HTML5 Web Storage in ASP.NET
This article does a great job at showing you a simple example of how to use local browser web storage in conjunction with ASP.
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Get the root part of a domain in .NET
Need to get the .com, .us, .biz, etc. part of the domain name in .NET? Here's how:
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Visual Studio 2010 Code Metrics Viewer
What is Code Metrics Viewer? - Matthias Friedrich highlights his Visual Studio 2010 Code Metrics Viewer extension which plugs into VS 2010 Professional...
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Ajax-based data loading using jQuery in ASP.NET
Great article to check out! Ajax-based data loading using jQuery.load() function in ASP.
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The Microsoft Kinect SDK has arrived!
 The official Microsoft Kinect SDK beta is now out and available...
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Visual Studio 2010 Web Standards Update adds HTML5 and CSS3 support
Yay!! Microsoft has released a Web Standards Update for Visual Studio 2010 that adds full support for HTML5, CSS3 and new Javascript features like...
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Tutorial for getting started with ASP.NET, WCF and jQuery
I have been doing some work lately with jQuery, WCF, HTML5 and ASP.NET and it's been actually pretty fun challenging and fun.
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Simple Wordpress Page Redirect Hack
I recently was looking for a way to setup a Wordpress Page that actually was just a link/placeholder for an external site.
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Rename an email attachment before sending in .NET
I recently had the need to send an email with a file attachment from disk. The problem I faced was that the filename was not very user friendly at all.
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How to use the My Namespace in C#
When I was first trying to transition from VB.NET to C I found it pretty odd that the "My" Namespace wasn't available in C.
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Use ASP.NET and DotNetZip to Create and Extract ZIP Files
I recently came across this article from Scott Mitchell, that shows how to use DotNetZip to create and extract ZIP files in an ASP.
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Easily Disable JavaScript Debugging in Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio 2008 is not without its faults. They did however add some nice features in the 2008 release such as JavaScript debugging.
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CMAP Main Meeting - Tuesday, December 7th - IIS Express, Razor, and WebMatrix, OH my!
CMAP Main Meeting - Tuesday, December 7th - IIS Express, Razor, and WebMatrix, OH my! - G.
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Forcing a user to read (or scroll through) all text before accepting terms
If you've used a computer before you've undoubtedly scrolled through and agreed to some sort of agreement.
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Dynamically re-size an iFrame's height across browsers
A while back I had a need to dynamically re-size an iFrame's height and found a solution using a jQuery plug-in called autoHeight.
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Visual Studio 2008 is a piece of shit!
It's been one of those weeks :( !visual-studio-wait It should be noted that I was able to take a screen shot, upload it to Wordpress and make this blog...
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MS Reporting Services Report Viewer Control printing errors with IE8 and Vista
We use SQL Server 2008's Reporting Services for all of our site's reports here at work.
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Going for MCTS certification on Visual Studio 2008
I have been dragging my feet for the past few years in regards to finishing up my Microsoft development certification.
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Ways to optimize your ASP.NET applications
I've spent quite a bit of time recently optimizing our ASP.NET application to help improve performance.
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Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2008
Since we have been developing with SQL Server 2008 here at work on my latest project I have been keeping an eye on its available updates and fixes (at...
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SQL Server (2008) Performance Tuning Resources
Here is a (running) list of some SQL Server Performance Tuning resources that I've compiled over the past week or so.
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JavaScript Reporting Services ReportViewer control error fix
I have been going back and forth banging my head against a wall trying to fix a JavaScript error that was happening on my Reporting Services ReportViewer...
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SQL Server 2008 RTM released!
Not that I think I'm breaking any news here, but SQL Server 2008 has been officially RTM (released to manufacturing).
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What's wrong with my LinqDataSource? - Method not found!
I've been having a very weird problem in Visual Studio 2008 when trying to use the automatic operations for the Linqdatasource (insert, update or delete).
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2008!!
Wow, it's been quite a while since I've posted. It was just into 2008 back in January. Wow how time flies!
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Testing email when working with no SMTP server
Happy New Year! While this tip isn't my own, it still seems as though it will be very helpful.
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VB.NET RC4 Encryption for database storage
I recently had to upgrade some Classic ASP code to .NET for some data encryption. The routines use RC4 encryption and make the result database friendly.
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CMD Email updated
The email command line utility I wrote (and discussed here), CMD Email, has been updated. The latest release supports email attachments.
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CMD Email - command line email utility
I've completed my first open source project. I have been wanting to put something out on Codeplex for a while and finally got around to it.
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Learn how to write better code for free!
Use FxCop to write better code. I've been using it for a little while now and it definitely has helped me out. This article tells you how and why!
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How to enable IntelliSense in .skin files in Visual Studio 2005
A co-worker of mine shared this with me recently. It was one of the biggest annoyances in Visual Studio 2005 if you ask me!