Tales from the Evil Empire
Bertrand Le Roy's blog
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Some ASP.NET compiler black magic
In the work we’ve been doing with Rob on the Kona commerce app, our quest for extreme pluggability has led us to look at quite a few interesting features of ASP.NET compilation. Features I didn’t know about before Dmitry and David pointed them out for me. I thought I’d share… -
asp:menu fix for IE8 problem available
Internet Explorer 8 is a unique release in the history of Internet Explorer in more than one way, but the decision to make standards mode the default means that authors of existing sites are impacted by it, if only to set the compatibility mode to IE7. -
Some MIX talks
Stephen Walther just published links to the video, slides and sample code for his Ajax talk at MIX09: -
Microsoft Ajax 4.0 Preview 4 now available
The Microsoft Ajax team made the fourth preview of the 4.0 version available on CodePlex. This is an important release because it enables the full client data story, complete with the ability to get changes back to the server automatically.
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The PlayStation’s Flower power
Yesterday, I bought Flower for the PS3 and played it through in one sitting (the game is really short but still, couldn’t get my hands off the controller once I started). -
VirtualAlbion using Deep Zoom and SeaDragon Ajax
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VsDoc for jQuery 1.3.1 now available
John Resig tells us he just uploaded the VsDoc file for jQuery 1.3.1 to jquery.com. This enables IntelliSense for the latest available jQuery.
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How to choose a client template engine
Disclaimer: I worked on the Microsoft Ajax 4.0 template engine, so my criteria are of course heavily influenced by our own design. -
Alternating styles in DataView
A few months ago, I showed how you can alternate styles using CSS in a server-side ListView, by selecting the class depending on the remainder of the division of the data index by two.
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How to reflect over a delegate’s signature
I’ve done some tricky work with delegates recently and I’ve had a hard time trying to reflect over the signature of a delegate type. I feel a little silly now that the solution to this has been provided to me by Eric Lippert. It’s actually quite simple, just reflect over the Invoke method: