Take advantage of C#'s Item Templates to automate tasks that you find yourself having to perform on a regular basis....

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

The preparations for Fronteers 2008 proceed apace; it’s likely to become an excellent conference. (Amsterdam, 11 and 12 September.)...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

Hello everyone, I just came across an interesting upcoming webinar on 'Data Masking', which is to be held on August 27th at 11am PST. The speaker is Julie Lockner, Vice President of Sales Operations. She has more than 10 years of industry experience in engineering, sales and marketing with companies including Oracle, Verbind, Raytheon and EMC.  The Webinar is about creating non-production clones of enterprise applications for testing, development, or training. Data masking is a necessary...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

RedGate has aquired Reflector, a must have tool for every .NET developer.  They promise that a free version will be available but didn't they made the same promise for SQL Prompt? http://www.red-gate.com/products/reflector/...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

The Groupe d'usagers Visual Studio Montral has changed name for Communaut .NET Montral to better reflect it's activities. What's new?  A 4th meeting each month, this time at lunch hour.  It's called @Lunch and it will be less formal and more of a discussion type of meeting inspired by Open Space and Alt.NET meetings. Check out the new site here:http://www.dotnetmontreal.com  ...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

During my holidays my colleagues at U2U have released several pretty cool SharePoint tools/extensions. Im just going to list them, if you want to learn more about them, check out Karines blog. U2U List Properties Feature PackageThe U2U List Properties Package has been developed to ease the work of a SharePoint 2007 developer. It adds an hyperlink to the List Settings page displaying a page with detailed information about the list properties. U2U Site Properties Feature PackageThe U2U Site Properties...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

Hi All!We offer a new .Net component to convert PDF to Word (RTF) from ASP.Net (C#, VB.Net). The component names PDF Focus .Net (version 1.0.3):  http://www.sautinsoft.com/products/pdf-focus/index.phpThe component is absolutely standalone and doesn't require anything else. Requires only Net 2.0 or higher  platform.In this package there are samples of Web-application and C#, VB.Net console applications. To convert PDF to RTF you will need only two lines of code.The "1...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

Custom Alert Boxes using Javascript and the DOM...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

Hi,   Does anyone know where I can read/update the membership details at the database schema for a user so that I can add/remove him from a certain role?   For example, say I want to promote a user to "Trusted User" whenever he has more than 10 posts submited. I know where to find the # of posts, but I can't find the table and attribute for the user/role association.   Anyone know where is it?...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

Hi all,   I don't know why, but suddenly the post editor started to show up with x-small font while editing a new post or editing an existing post.   Most of times the post appears to users as regular normal font size after posting, but every once in a while the post itself appears as x-small as well.   Anyone know why and how to solve this?...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

I wanted to share a couple of updates about the Microsoft Architecture Journal: 1.  Issue 16 has just been released to the web!  You can find it here, and can also download a PDF version of the magazine here.  The theme of issue 16 is Identity and Access, and Diego explains more about the articles in his blog post. 2.  The call for papers for Issue 18 has just been released.  Again, Diego uncovers the details here, the theme of this upcoming issue is Green Computing. ...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

A Step by step tutorial on how to use WildCard Mapping for processing URL requests. It includes how to set it with IIS6 and IIS7. It also discusses the theory behind how it works and talks about a great open source packaged called URLRewriter.Net. Basically, how to resolve http://mydomain.com/Home to http://mydomain.com/HomeSite/Home.aspx which looks so much nicer....

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

After Richie released the Map Viewer Silverlight control I thought to provide the control with an SDK.  Completely write an SDK in Silverlight for queries and tasks would take a long time. However ArcGIS 9.3 comes out with the Rest Api and Silverlight can talk to Javascript without any problems. ESRI Javascript API uses rest to talk to the server. So I would use the Javascript API from Silverlight as the SDK. This is how a little application using the JavaScript API looks like <!DOCTYPE...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

Last week I started looking into a problem that causes my IIS Worker processes to have errors on shutdown. After some mind numbing debugging I finally seem to have traced the problem down to COM object invokation and a handle leak that results because of it. What I ran into here though is very odd as it appears to be not specific to my code but a general handle leak when instantiating EXE servers. First off let me say C++ and COM are not my forte especially now after having been away from it for...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

I will be attending Ahmedabad SQL Server Usergroup Meeting on August 30, 2008. I will be taking session about SQL Server CTE and Recursive CTE. The most important part of August Meeting is there will be presentation on “Transaction Isolation Levels and Locks in SQL Server” from user group President Jacob Sebastian. I invite all [...]...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

(excerpt from ASP.NET MVC in Action). Depending on how long youve been building web applications on the Microsoft platform, youll relate to some or all of the following pain. In the 1990s, developers built interactive websites using executable programs that ran on a server. These programs (CGI was a common technology at the time) accepted a web request and were responsible for creating an Html response. Templating was ad-hoc, and the programs were difficult to write, debug and test. In the late...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

Hi, got another problem with my upgrade of a site from CS 2007 SP2 to CS 2008 SP1, the view count is no longer being updated.  I've looked through everything I can think of, and it still doesn't want to play ball. The Job Reports page doesn't seem to want to work either.   I'm stumped, cause it's a really strange issue....

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

As per title, we have around 6,200 images in our galleries and are concerned what's going to happen to them should be we upgrade to CS2008. For reference they are all stored in the file system and we're on CS2007.1...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

I admit, up until now Ive largely ignored the BDD (Behavior Driven Development) Context/Specification style of writing unit tests. Its been touted as a more approachable way to learn TDD (Test Driven Development) and as a more natural transition from user stories to the actual code design. I guess my hesitation to give it a second thought was that I felt I didnt need a more approachable form of TDD. Recently, my Subtext partner in crime, Steve Harman, urged me to take another fresh look at BDD Context/Specification...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.

As you probably know by now (i.e. from Phill's blog), however both Routing and Abstractions are. MVC Preview 4, however, has its own version of both assemblies. In order to get MVC to use the new RTM bits of both assemblies (and avoid weird side-by-side errors), you just need to add the following binding redirect to the web.config file: <runtime> <assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"> <dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity...

Did you know that DotNetSlackers also publishes .net articles written by top known .net Authors? We already have over 80 articles in several categories including Silverlight. Take a look: here.