Joel Varty

Sometimes you have to load jQuery, but you don’t know if it has already been referenced somewhere else in the website. 

This has been explained a bunch of times – most notably here – I just thought I would capture here what I did to update our TFS instance to solve this issue.

If you want to pass a name/value collection of untyped data to a webservice with JSON, do it like this guys, Joost van Schaik, says:

If you are using the web.config to determine security for aspx pages, you may have noticed that you don’t get the chance to determine whether a security exception has been thrown.  The user will simply be return to the login page with a ReturnUrl query string pointing back to the url they were trying to access.

I have just been editing the project templates to enable HTML in the description field.  As it turns out, the description field is locked down as plain text.

Love it:

There a ton of examples on the web of how you can force IE8 into IE7 compatibility mode using a meta tag in the header. 

Even if you want the user to be notified of the fact that an AJAX webservice call has errored out, don’t use an alert() to do it.