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Monday, April 28, 2008 5:04 PM

Regional Director Sidebar Gadget

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Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:51 PM

Tweak web.config To Set Compilation Debug False

ASP.NET applications should never run with <compilation debug="true"> in production. It can have drastic performance implications (of the negative kind). Obviously, in a perfect world, developers would always remember to verify this setting whenever
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Saturday, March 01, 2008 1:07 PM

AJAX Control Toolkit Update Released

Yesterday (Leap Day), the Ajax Control Toolkit team released an update to the toolkit . This release comes in two flavors, one for the 3.5 framework (which has AJAX baked into ASP.NET 3.5) and one for the AJAX 1.0 release that is an add-on to ASP.NET.
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:12 PM

Creating a New SQL Database

Today I need to set up a new database for a new web site I'm working on. Last week, I saw Rick's post about the "mousercise" that defines the typical table set up in SQL Server 2000 and 2005's table designer . I have to admit that I completely relate
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Friday, December 14, 2007 11:03 AM

Holiday Skins for .NET Controls

As the end of year holiday season approaches, it's fairly common for some web sites and products to re-skin their logos and applications to make them a little more festive or seasonal. Google has long been known for their creative variations of their
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Monday, November 05, 2007 1:54 PM

SimpleCMS on CodePlex

ASPAlliance SimpleCMS plugin is now available on CodePlex . You can use CodePlex to submit your feature requests and such now, which will help guide future releases of the plugin. Also, if you're interested in contributing to the project, let us know.
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Sunday, November 04, 2007 6:54 PM

DevExpress TechSummit

I'm in Vegas a few days early (before DevConnections ) to attend DevExpress's TechSummit2007, where they've invited a bunch of MVPs, authors, speakers, etc. to come and learn more about their controls and tools. Yesterday we saw some of what
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Friday, October 26, 2007 3:34 PM

BrowserHawk 11 Released

CyScape recently announced the latest version of their browser capabilities control, BrowserHawk 11 . While I haven't had a chance to review this new product yet, it touts some new features that at least appear to be pretty compelling. I use BrowserHawk
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 1:33 PM

Sharing Resources Between Projects in .NET

ASP.NET has some great support for Resources (for localization and internationalization, mainly), but unfortunately by default they're limited to the same project because they're generated with the internal keyword. I wanted to be able to share common
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:28 PM

Cruise Control Configuration File Editor

One of my developers is doing some work on our Cruise Control setup and found this gem that I'd somehow missed: CCNetConfig . A slick little GUI for editing your ccnet.config file ( screenshots ). Seems to work well enough for most of the common settings
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Monday, October 01, 2007 2:49 PM

Nice Products for Developers

We have a new intern starting with us at Lake Quincy Media today, and in the course of getting him set up, I thought I would mention of a few products we're using that work quite well for us here. The first one relates to training new interns with limited
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Friday, September 14, 2007 10:44 PM

Using PowerShell to Automate a SQL Task

I have a very large table in a SQL database that I need to clean up some old data on. I've already copied all of the data to another table in another database with a different schema. I have a legacy application that still uses the old data, but the data
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Monday, July 02, 2007 6:00 PM

Some Outlook Relief Perhaps

I get a lot of email, like many people in our industry. A lot of it is SPAM, but it's rare that any of that makes it to my inbox between SpamBayes and server-side anti-spam stuff running at ORCSWeb (the best hosting company around, IMHO). Nonetheless,
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007 2:24 PM

Free Remote Desktop Manager Tool

If you remote into many machines, this should appeal to you. Terminals is a free, open source project on CodePlex that allows much better management of remote desktop connections than the default XP/Vista experience. Check it out today, it’s a quick
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:53 PM

WebDevHelper Now Has Atlas Support

Nikhil has updated his WebDevHelper utility to include direct support for Atlas. His original WebDevHelper is a nice plug-in for the browser that provides a lot of similar functionality to the FireFox development toolbar combined with the Fiddler utility.
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