Archives
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Visual Studio Add-in - RockScroll
A few months ago Scott Hanselman bring to all community fellows a new Visual Studio add-in called RockScroll.
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DreamSpark
"DreamSpark is simple, it's all about giving students Microsoft professional-level developer and design tools at no charge so you can chase your dreams and create the next big breakthrough in technology - or just get a head start on your career"
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Tech'Ed EMEA 2009
Tech'Ed EMEA 2008 its over but the next year event is already schedule to 2-6 November 2009.
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Tech·Ed EMEA 2008 Developers: Meet Me In Barcelona
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ASP.NET Health Monitoring - Building an EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 3
On my previous posts on this health monitoring series I explain to you how and why I made my own EventLogWebEventProvider and which benefits you can achieve by using this provider or by making your own.
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ASP.NET Health Monitoring - Building an EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 2
In the first post of this series I've manage to find the correct eventId for each Web Event type, and by this time the major problem has been solved, but I cannot yet write a correct entry into the EventLog.
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SQL Server - Undocumented Stored Procedure sp_MSforeachtable
I'm not an every day SQL Server user but I use SQL Server regularly since 7.0 version until the 2005 version (not yet tried 2008 in a serious way) and from time to time I still find some nice hidden gems.
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ASP.NET - Health Monitoring and EventLogWebEventProvider - Part 1
The ASP.NET health monitoring enables you to add instrumentation to Web applications by using the so called Web Events. These Web events give us information about health status.
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ASP.NET - EventMappingSettingsCollection bug on Contains method
Recently, while digging on ASP.NET 2.0 Health Monitoring I found a bug in the EventMappingSettingsCollection.Contains class method.
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NunoGomesControlToolkit - Improving Web Apps performance
A few weeks ago I told you about a control toolkit I was making.
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ASP.NET Controls - Improving automatic ID generation : The ShortIDs Naming Provider (Part 4)
In the previous posts on this subject I wrote about why automatic ID generation should be improved and how we can improve it. Now I will step forward and show you my own implementation of a specific naming provider.
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ASP.NET Controls - Improving automatic ID generation : Architectural Changes ( Part 3)
Naming container controls are a subclass of standard controls, that differ in the ability to manage child controls' ID, in fact, these naming container controls are the key to unique ID generation. To become a namingcontainer a regular control must implement the INamingContainer interface.
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Less MSIèrables - Extract the content of a .MSI file
Yesterday, I decided to spent some time reviewing the WindowsLiveWriter plugin gallery and search for a replacer for Steve Dunn CodeFormatter plugin. I've been using this plugin since the beginning of the year but it reveal some problems composing the Html.
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ASP.NET - Dynamic Control Mapping
I already posted here about Tag Mapping and how helpful it can be, but naturally there's are a few improvements that I would like to see available in future framework release.
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ASP.NET ListView Control
Some time ago I needed to render hierarchical data to a <ul>/<li> elements structure and also be able to render a special attribute to the <li> Html elements.
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ASP.NET Controls - Improving automatic ID generation : Concept ( Part 2)
Before proceeding to the implementation details, let's discuss a little about how ASP.NET handles automatic Id generation.
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ASP.NET Controls - Improving automatic ID generation : Introduction ( Part 1)
Some time ago, while developing a large corporate ASP.NET application with high complex layout requirements and thus, many custom composite controls, I was faced with the following problem:
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.NET Framework 2.0 SP1 - TagMapping Undocumented hotfix
While searching a way to solve the HtmlControls tag mapping problem I found that the new SP1 bring an extra undocumented hotfix.
This undocumented hotfix changes MainTagNameToTypeMapper.GetControlType method so that, for every tag name regardless is kind, a tag type mapping is always performed.
This little change enables us to tag map HtmlControls the same way we map WebControls and UserControls. Here is an example: [more]