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October 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 11:34 PM

Staying in Athens

I have arrived to Athens last Tuesday after having attended the MVP Regional Summit for MEA in Egypt and staying for the next 12 days. What a lovely city to be in!! This is my third trip to Athens and yesterday I took a small walk under the tiny rain,
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 11:45 AM

this.Age++;

Today, October 22nd, I become 27 years old!! I feel now life has passed so quickly and years were moving one after one ... You feel happy and at the same time feel sad .... after all this is life!!   Happy Birth Day to me :) Regards
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Sunday, October 21, 2007 4:31 AM

Live from MEA MVP Regional Summit - Egypt

I am writing to you from Marriot Hotel in Cairo where I am attending the MEA MVP Regional Summit. This is my first visit to Egypt and I found it to be a lovely and nice place to live in!! The summit is going great, several sessions were delivered informing
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 9:58 PM

Best Practices in Developing .NET Web services

I have been researching for a while on the standards in developing ASP.NET Web services. I would like to share with you one of the practices that have shown to be a robust and organized one. To start developing your Web service, you should start with:
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Friday, October 12, 2007 11:52 PM

XML Schema Designer in VS 2008

I have been trying to find the XML Schema Designer in VS 2008 but couldn't locate it. Is it still there or has been removed?   Thanks
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Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:00 PM

SP1 for Telerik Controls Released - October Release

Telerik just released an SP1 for the September Q2 release. If you have a licensed copy of Telerik controls or free trials, you can download the new SP1 enhancements from their web site @ www.telerik.com   Regards
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 9:58 PM

Language translator from Live.com

I would like to point you to a new language translator from live.com. It is still in its Beta version, but not bad up to this point. I did some trials to translate English to Arabic (my native language) and any person who understands Arabic can make sense
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Tuesday, October 09, 2007 1:17 AM

Creating Custom Web Validation Textbox Series

I would like to point you to a series of articles on creating a Custom Web Validation Textbook control in ASP.NET 2.0. Check the link: http://www.themastech.net/Tutorials/ValidationTextBox/Part1.aspx Regards
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Friday, October 05, 2007 9:45 AM

New Videos on www.asp.net

I would like to inform you that there are 3 new videos published on the www.asp.net website: #17 | How Do I: Use Cascading Style Sheets for Web Page Layout? #18 | How Do I: Create a Custom Membership Provider? #19 | How Do I: Create a Custom Profile Provider?
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 9:36 PM

Inline-Edit Control Using ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions

I kindly invite you to check my latest article on the www.aspalliance.com .   In this article Bilal Haidar will show you how to develop a Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Inline-Edit control that can be used to provide on-the-spot text editing for specific
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 11:10 AM

ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX InlineEditLabel Control

Today, I will have a new article on inline-edit control using ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions published on www.aspalliance.com . That script I wrote was based on a script written by native AJAX. It was simply an ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Component and not a real control.
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 10:17 AM

Releasing Source Code for the .NET Framework Libraries

I was surprised to read a post on Scott Guthrie's blog that the .NET Framework Libraries have been released for public!!! You can now debug code and enter directly to the .NET Framework code, that is so cool from Microsoft!!!   Can we call the Microsoft
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Wednesday, October 03, 2007 4:10 AM

Private Field initialization in ASP.NET AJAX

I will be publishing my first version of the Inline-Edit control on October 4, 2007 on www.aspalliance.com . That control is based on another non-ASP.NET AJAX control. So two days ago I started working on a new version of the Inline-Edit control that
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