A big thank you goes out to Joe for this exciting opportunity to blog with a great group of folks on the ASP.NET blogs.

This blog will be primarily focused on ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, Silverlight, VS 2008 and other related technologies.

I look forward to sharing my thoughts and reading your feedback.

Hope you enjoy!

ASP.NET GridView which only displays as many rows as many the user is willing to fill on the client-side. Implements ASP.NET, C#, JavaScript, CSS, HTML

Microsoft employees leading the SQL Server Community within Microsoft and many external passionate SQL Server gurus from across the globe have launched an independent world-wide Microsoft SQL Server Community . Saleem Hakani had spoken to be about this during the MVP Summit last year and it's great that he and his team have made this possible. Details below Microsoft SQL Server Community World Wide Community for SQL Server Professionals WWW.SQLCOMMUNITY.COM Share and Scale your SQL Server knowledge...(read more)

custom client side javascript sorting using generic function

I had this error each time I browse media folders in Vista :

"This problem is caused because of codecs and other COM components installed by various softwares that aren't fully Vista-compatible, like some versions of DivX or Nero."

Thanks to the How-To-Geek here is the solution :
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/fix-for-com-surrogate-has-stopped-working-error-in-vista/

If you are still using HTML <table> elements to create page layouts, Chris Pels shows you why you should start using Cascading Style Sheets and <div> elements. We then learn how to create a custom membership provider and a custom profile provider for your ASP.NET application.

TechWeb - Beginning next month, Virgin America travelers can watch BoingBoing.net editors Xeni Jardin and Mark Frauenfelder deliver daily video reports.

Object Oriented AJAX class and objects structured for ease of use and maintainability for multiple requests.

This past month has been a major lull for www.SingingEels.com, as we are all working professionals and this month has been very busy for all of us. We have a lot of things in the mix, including primarily more articles on LINQ, .NET 3.5 and other fun topics.

We're also planning on a full re-write into a .NET 3.5 environment with rich AJAX integration. We like to "eat our own dog food" so to speak, and I realize that we've had several articles on AJAX, LINQ, proper CSS design and the like... so we're going to re-focus and give the community a powerful and informative resource.

-Timothy Khouri

Tim Heuer has done a really nice Sidebar Gadget Template for Visual Studio.

The structure you get when creating a new Web Site/VistaSidebarGadget from VS :

Note that it creates one local folder (en-US) so you can easily add some more later, and it comes with lots of comments on the code (html and js). You also get a nice utils.js file full of JavaScript functions!

The link to the vsi template is on his post:
http://www.timheuer.com/blog/archive/2007/03/11/14010.aspx

A simple Application in ASP.Net to demonstrates the use of Generics

This week on the Silverlight site Shawn Wildermuth presents three videos that demonstrate how ASP.NET and Silverlight work together, with a focus on using ASP.NET to generate dynamic, reusable XAML.

There are a well known issue with the UnfoldTemplateAction which is provided in the GAX Library. Basically this action able you to unfold .vstemplate files by hand but it has a ugly issue in where you can't do any parameter replacements than the default ones . In fact is not a bug into the action so the issue resides in that is using the AddFromTemplate method from the DTE automation model and there's no way to pass any replacement dictionary using that method directly. So I wrote an action in order...(read more)

If, like me, you post pieces of code for others to view, I imagine you'll often do so in the language of your choice (and more than likely it will be C# or VB.NET). However, for some beginners it's often quite hard to grasp these examples if they are written in a language you are not familiar with. I had this scenario when one of the visitors to my site wanted to see an example in C#, but I had written the article using VB.BET. It wasn't too hard for me to convert it, but it did mean that I had to...(read more)

For the past year I've been writing blogs on my website using an old outdated version of Community Server.  A few weeks ago I was about ready to just write my own for the heck of it.. but we all know how that turns out when you:

• Start a new job
• Going to be a dad in five weeks
•  evade ninjas on a daily bassis

So I say thank you to Joe, who just set this blog up for me. I will be filling this new blog with all my old articles... but new content will come soon.... yes very soon...

 Expect to see posts regarding :

• ASP.NET
• Ajax
• Ninjas
• C#
  
• IIS
• SilverLight
• Ninjas in Spandex
• Trogdor
• My future kid

 

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