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January 2007 - Posts

Monday, January 29, 2007 1:19 PM

.netCHARGE Notes One Year Later

About a year ago, I was setting up a new site and wanted to be able to accept credit cards via an existing Authorize.Net account. One of my long-time partners and ASPAlliance.com sponsors is DotNetEcommerce , and one of their products is .netCHARGE .
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Monday, January 29, 2007 10:39 AM

Samsung i730 As Laptop Modem

I got this working once a year or so ago when I first got my phone but then haven’t messed with it since. So recently I thought about it again and now I’m using Vista so I wasn’t sure how challenging it would be. Turned out to be pretty
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Friday, January 26, 2007 10:47 PM

Coding Optimization Tip: Avoid Repeated FindControl() Use

In a project I’m working on I have a recursive FindControl() which is quite useful for finding controls that are hiding inside of templates like LoginView or CreateUserWizard . I’m working with some junior developers and trying to instill
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:46 PM

CodeFile or CodeBehind

I just fixed a problem on a coworker’s machine that was quite odd in that the fix involved simply changing CodeFile to CodeBehind in a user control (.ascx) file. The issue was that in the ASPX page I was doing a FindControl within a Repeater’s
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007 10:11 AM

Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.ReportViewer.WebForms

Ran into this error while deploying an application to production: Configuration Error Description: An error occurred during the processing of a configuration file required to service this request. Please review the specific error details below and modify
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:15 PM

Web Application Project Conversion Tips

I upgraded a major website (Visual Studio Web Site Project) to a Web Application Project on VS2005 SP1 today. I ran into three snags that are worth mentioning. Before I get to those, however, make sure if you’re going to do this conversion yourself
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Tuesday, January 23, 2007 12:15 PM

ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Released Today

Today, Microsoft released ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 . You can download it, as well as the latest AJAX Control Toolkit and Futures January CTP, from http://ajax.asp.net/ . Kudos to the ASP.NET team for making this happen! I know a lot of web applications have been
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Monday, January 22, 2007 3:13 PM

Zune Wishlist

Zunes, or some similar device, would work great with Windows Media Center. It would be sweet if they worked as Media Center Extenders, and could use their WiFi capability to play (but not store, necessarily, except in a temporary cache) anything that
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Friday, January 19, 2007 9:48 AM

CodeMash Scott Guthrie LINQ Keynote

One of the points in Scott’s keynote at CodeMash was the idea that declarative programming (saying “what I want”) has many advantages over imperative programming (“how I want to do it”). One advantage he noted is that as
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Friday, January 19, 2007 9:30 AM

CodeMash Day One Thoughts

Well, to start, Josh Holmes has said he’ll shave his head if Technorati has indexed at least 500 codemash blog posts by the end of the show this evening. So, this will bring him 0.2% closer to that… I didn’t make it to CodeMash quite
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Friday, January 19, 2007 9:10 AM

Outlook Feature Request

A heavy Outlook user had the following suggestion for Outlook improvement. She’s currently using Outlook 2003 but will likely upgrade to 2007 very soon, however she’s seen Outlook 2007 and it doesn’t address this yet. One thing that
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Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:33 AM

COPY One Table Row in SQL

I have a table with a bunch of columns in it that I wanted to be able to duplicate so that I could just change a couple of columns and not have to re-enter all of the columns and their values. I did some searching and the closest I came to what I wanted
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 5:49 PM

CCNET with MSBuild and AssemblyInfoTask

This afternoon I embarked on a quick (hah!) task to fix a problem with my CC.NET implementation. I’m using CC.NET running on my Team Foundation Server machine. It checks my TFS source control to see when anything in my project has changed, and if
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:09 PM

More DotNetNuke Installation Notes

Went with the 4.4 Source this time instead of the starter kit. Ran into an FAQ item regarding Name ‘Config’ is not declared but found the answer in this blog . Since I’m running this on Vista it had some issue with the app pool that
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:10 PM

History of ASP.NET AJAX

As we approach the long-awaited RTM (or RTW – Release to Web) of ASP.NET AJAX (formerly “Atlas”), here’s a brief history of the project: June 2005 – Development on what would become “Atlas” begins. Most of the
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Monday, January 15, 2007 9:38 PM

DotNetNuke 4 Experience

I want to create a quick, simple club website for a club I’m in. It’s been on my TODO list for a couple of years now and tonight I thought I’d just grab the latest DNN starter kit, set a few properties, add/remove a few modules, and
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Monday, January 15, 2007 2:02 PM

Interview with Scott Guthrie

I had a chance to watch this interview with Scott Guthrie on Channel 9 this weekend. It’s worth a watch. Scott talks about some various technologies his teams are working on, but to me the more interesting parts of the interview had to do with Scott
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Monday, January 15, 2007 1:30 PM

Real World Application Performance Tuning Example

Many of you know that I’m very much into high performance and scalability techniques. One thing you need to remember when applying performance tweaks is that as your application changes, your performance optimizations may need to change and evolve
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Sunday, January 14, 2007 3:45 AM

Five Things

Craig tagged me so now I don’t feel left out. Oh, and Keyvan did, too, but I’m just finding it. Sorry about that! Here’s five things you may not know about me. 1. Like Scott , I’ve never had a cavity (nor even fillings to prevent
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007 4:19 PM

Alienware End Of Life - What? So Soon?

I own an Alienware m7700 17” beast of a notebook computer. I bought it in December of 2004 as my big splurge after returning from a tour in Iraq (my buddies were all buying cars and Harleys, so I figured a laptop for work and games was pretty conservative
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Monday, January 08, 2007 2:27 PM

CodeMash - An Ohio Tech Conference

What's that you say? Ohio has no tech conferences? Well, we do now! Register quickly for CodeMash , happening next week in Sandusky, Ohio (not too far from Michigan and Indiana). CodeMash Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit!
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Friday, January 05, 2007 1:00 PM

VS2005 SP1 Update for Vista Beta Available

Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta Now available, this update fixes a bunch of issues with VS2005 (with SP1) running on Windows Vista. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, January 05, 2007 12:57 PM

Free Office Professional 2007 and Office Groove 2007

Here’s an exciting announcement related to the upcoming launch events for Windows Vista and Office 2007: Receive your FREE copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 and Microsoft Office Groove 2007* when you attend a Windows Vista, 2007 Microsoft
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Friday, January 05, 2007 12:22 PM

MIX07 Registration Open

I’m planning on attending MIX this year – last year I had to miss out due to an earlier speaking commitment. This year’s event will be held at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Here’s some more info: Registration opened today the Microsoft
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Friday, January 05, 2007 12:05 PM

Zune Doesn't Play When Connected to PC

If you have a Zune player that won’t play music while it’s charging (connected to the PC) and instead simply says ‘Connected’ you can correct the problem very easily. Simply close the Zune software on the PC and the Zune device
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Friday, January 05, 2007 12:01 PM

Zune Links

I’ve accumulated some links, mostly for video encoding stuff, for the Zune that I’d like to share here. PQDVD – commercial software for DVD ripping. Also will do DivX and other format converting, but I haven’t used that feature
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Thursday, January 04, 2007 9:49 PM

ASP.NET Hosting Recommendation

Recently I was asked if I could provide a reference for my hosting company, ORCS Web . After responding, I thought it would be worth spreading the love a little via my blog as well. So, now that I’m somewhat recovered from the holidays, here goes.
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