Contents tagged with General Software Development
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MS Expression Web 4 SuperPreview – Big Disappointment
I just downloaded Expression 4 and expected to see some improvements in the Web4 SuperPreview application. The one main function I was expecting to be in this release is the ability to enter data and click on links so pages of the sites could be assessed. There a many use cases where this functionality is needed and there were quite a few people vocal about it when MS first released the application.
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MS Ajax Libraries and Configured Assemblies
Use Case
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Worthless Anti-Spam (What can we learn)
I recently can across a site that had a “anti-spam” field at the bottom of the entry from. The first issue I had with it was that at 1280X800 you could not read the value you were suppose to enter (see below). You tell me, should you enter div, dlv, piv, or plv.
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Calling Web Services That Use Self-Signed Certificates
When you try to call a web service that uses a self-signed certificate from a client application you get the following error:
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LINQ TO SQL and PLINQO
From my limited experience with the EF and “LINQ To SQL” I have to agree that “LINQ To SQL” is the way to go if you application or web site only needs to connect to SQL Server databases. “LINQ To SQL” pretty feature rich as it is and although there will not be any major new features added to it, that does not mean it is not a viable option for .Net developers to use. “LINQ To SQL” is already used by to many people so it will be a part of the .Net framework for quite some time. And now developers have a way to get more features using “LINQ To SQL” by using PLINQO.
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Escaping/Unescaping XML Data
With as popular as XML is, when creating XML files you need to be able to escape certain characters that will not parse correctly if they are not escaped. Until recently I always did this like most other .Net programmers, I wrote a function to do it.
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Random Number in C#, Be careful of some of the samples you find.
I recently came across this code on the internet for generating a random number with C#.
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Social Networking Links using “AddThis” In Community Server Based Blogs
With the popularity of “Social Networking” it is becoming a popular feature to make it easy for user to Bookmark/Share blogs, articles, etc that they read online. Since this feature is not built into Community Server, you have to implement this yourself and it really is not hard to do. Since www.asp.net is uses a very customized version of Community Server the implementation described below can be used on your blog hosted on www.asp.net .