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Friday, September 29, 2006 10:41 AM

ComponentArt Atlas Controls

ComponentArt just released a version of their Web.UI suite, which is built for ASP.NET AJAX (aka “Atlas”). Web.UI 2006.2 for ASP.NET AJAX is “the most advanced AJAX framework available. ComponentArt Web.UI for ASP.NET AJAX is the first
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:11 PM

Atlas Contest Winners Announced

Microsoft’s Mash It Up With Atlas contest has ended , and the grand prize winner was DotNetSlackers and Alessandro Gallo (aka Garbin). Congratulations! See all the winners here : http://atlas.asp.net/default.aspx?tabid=47&subtabid=475 Share
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Thursday, September 28, 2006 11:06 AM

Your Computer On Your Thumb Drive

Something I’ve wanted for a while now is the ability to keep my computer, or at least my email and some other critical files, on a USB drive — the ultimate in “ultra-portable” — which I could then use from any computer. I’ve
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Monday, September 25, 2006 5:10 PM

Source Control Structure

How do you like to set up your source control for a project? My personal preference is sort of a work in progress, and I do not have a great deal of experience with branching and versioning, so my design doesn’t take this into account, but I would
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Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:39 PM

Conditional Attribute and TRACE in ASP.NET 2.0

In ASP.NET 1.x I had created some helper classes that wrapped the ASP.NET Trace class. These included methods like this one: [Conditional("TRACE")] public static void Write(string category, string message, Exception myException) { context = HttpContext.Current;
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Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:22 PM

Strange Issue with HttpContext.Current with WebDevServer

I’m working with a Trace class that I wrote back in .NET 1.1 that wraps System.Diagnostics and System.Web tracing. The class looks like this: public static class Trace { private static HttpContext context = null ; static Trace() { context = HttpContext.Current;
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Saturday, September 16, 2006 1:13 PM

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Thursday, September 14, 2006 11:59 PM

Ultimate ASP.NET Base Page Class

I'm working on a base page for a new application and it seems like this is about the 5th or 6th time I'm building one of these things, so it's getting a bit repetitive. In this case, it's for an ASP.NET 2.0 app, but I have base pages in
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Monday, September 11, 2006 1:29 PM

Microsoft Shrugs Off Atlas Name

Scott Guthrie today announced that the "Atlas" code name for the ASP.NET team's rich client framework and set of server controls and JavaScript extensions will be retired and replaced with not one, but three separate names: As part of releasing
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Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:50 PM

Windows Principles Editorial

An editorial piece of mine was published in a local paper Tuesday: Microsoft opens a window to entrepreneurs Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:05 PM

Upgrading TFS from RC to Workgroup Edition

Today I came into work and my build/source control server, which I thought I remembered installing the RTM of TFS Workgroup Edition, was complaining that my license had expired. When this happens, the error message looks something like this: "TF30072:
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Friday, September 01, 2006 10:08 AM

Caching in O/R Mappers and Data Layers

Frans Bouma , creator of LLBLGen , MVP, and all around very smart guy, wrote yesterday about the ‘myth’ that caching inside an Object-Relational (O/R) mapper makes queries run faster or makes the O/R mapper more efficient . I think he’s
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