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February 2008 - Posts

Sunday, February 24, 2008 9:56 PM

SilverLight 2.0 Tutorials by Scott Guthrie

Scott Guthrie added a series of tutorials on Silverlight 2.0. You can find them here: Part 1: Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008 Part 2: Using Layout Management Part 3: Using Networking to Retrieve Data and Populate a DataGrid Part
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 8:18 PM

Two New Videos on ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions

Two news videos has been added by Joe Stagner on the AJAX Technology by MSFT. Check them out, really valuable (as always): #65 | How Do I: The AJAX Toolkit Reorder Control #66 | How Do I: Retrieve Values From Server Side AJAX Controls Hope this helps,
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:43 PM

LINQ to SQL Beta 2 to RTM Changes

I had a LINQ to SQL code for one of my article coming soon in a magazine where I wrote the code during the Beta 2 of the LINQ to SQL. Now when I try to run the same code on VS 2008 I got errors on the "Add" and "Remove" method of the entities inside the
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 1:05 PM

Client Application Services - Article Series

I have just finished uploading my 3-articles series on Client Application Services on www.aspalliance.com . Client Application Services were introduced by Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 to allow Windows client applications and WPF applications to access
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Monday, February 18, 2008 7:08 AM

How to Postback Asynchronously from inside a GridView

I have posted a new article on the ASP.NET Wiki and the article is titled as: How to Postback Asynchronously from inside a GridView Check it out and have your comments and improvements! Regards
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 7:50 AM

Job Opportunity - Software Engineer

A respectful company, based in Beirut - Lebanon, is curently searching for a software engineer that develops custom solutions for major clients involving new technologies. The basic job function is as follows: Researching, designing, writing and testing
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Sunday, February 17, 2008 3:33 AM

Bind Listbox's DataValueField/TextField to multiple columns

A very common question on the ASP.NET Forums is how to bind the DataValueField and DataTextField to multiple columns. I provided a solution to his problem at the ASP.NET Wiki. You can reach the solution here: http://wiki.asp.net/page.aspx/291/bind-listcontrol39s-datavaluefield-textfield-to-multiple-columns/
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 10:06 PM

New Videos for Uploading Files in ASP.NET/AJAX

Check out the following videos by Joe Stagner: #32 | How Do I: Simple File Uploads in ASP.NET 17 minutes, 17 seconds #33 | How Do I: Multiple File Uploads in ASP.NET 16 minutes, 9 seconds #34 | How Do I: Multiple File Uploads in ASP.NET 15 minutes, 41
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Monday, February 11, 2008 7:43 AM

Intellisense for JQuery in VS 2008

The hotfix mentioned in a previous post of mine among the things that it fixed, was an intellisense problem with JQuery. I started newly working with JQuery and seems a promising library. Jeff King has some additional tips and tricks on the integration
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 9:34 PM

HotFix: Performance and Editor fixes for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer Express 2008

The Visual Studio Web Tools team added a new HotFix for the Visual Studio Web environment. You can read all the details about the fix here and download the hotfix from here . Regards
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Saturday, February 09, 2008 1:16 AM

Event "XXX" on interface type "XXX" for instance id "XXX" cannot be delivered.

If you working with Windows Worflow Foundation and it happens that you get such an exception, add a try/catch exception on the event that the host is firing and check the innerException message. I am working on a WF application and had this exception
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:11 AM

Google do mistakes too!

Always google guys in my work environment attack Microsoft for the bugs that come up here and there. I would like to dedicate this bug to all google guys all over the world ;) I opened my Gmail account today and had this displayed, no need to comment!!
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