Visit http://www.dreamincode.net for answers to all your programming questions.

TechWeb - The company hopes to attract the 20 million to 30 million knowledge workers who have some technical proficiency but aren't quite professional programmers.

The Jobs Site Starter Kit (JSSK) has been updated to demonstrate many features of ASP.NET 3.5 including themes, master pages, data controls, membership, roles, profiles and AJAX. JSSK is a web application that provides a platform for candidates seeking job and the employers to share their needs.

InfoWorld - Web gateway filtering specialist Finjan is reporting a new toolkit that uses randomized JavaScript to stay hidden from virus crawlers and deliver its payload via compromised Web sites.

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Original Url: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2008/01/14/asp-net-podcast-show-108-challenges-for-the-corporate-developer-with-timothy-narron.aspx

Show Notes:

• Tim Narron
• Community Credit.com
• MVP Points.
• iToilet Paper.
• DevCares.com
• Orcsweb.com

I've been using StumbleUpon to find interesting web sites about web development and yesterday I found a site that will generate a poster of your CSS.  It creates an image that resembles a class diagram. I think it is a great way to document your style sheets. One of my style sheets produced such a massive and confusing diagram that I think I'll show it to my client so I'll look like a genius.

Tonight I finally solved my problems with Visual Studio. I had both the Standard version and the Professional version installed. It was the Standard version that was trying to repair itself. I uninstalled the service pack for Visual Studio 2005 Standard version and I have not seen the Windows Installer start up since.

Today I learned how to create a tag cloud using ASP.NET 2.0. I may try to create tag clouds for YouTube vloggers using the Google API for YouTube. I'm really involved in the YouTube community because it is the most effective social networking site. Anyone who thinks of YouTube as just a video sharing site is missing its true significance. Many vloggers now feel unappreciated by the company that runs the web site. Some users have even threatened to create their own web sites. I fear they'll be posting ridiculous projects on RentACoder to clone YouTube for $500. However it did get me to thinking that it would be interesting to work on a social networking site. But if you want to keep on top of new developments in social networking then you should investigate social broadcasting. .NET Rocks should consider creating a show on one of the many social broadcasting sites. It creates a very strong sense of community and a lot of the audience do work in the IT industry.

If you use web sites instead of web application projects and load an user control dynamically, it can be hard to set the properties from code behind since you can´t cast the instance.

What to do? WHAAAAT TO DOOOO??? Well, first of all, take a beer and chill. After that you can take a look at reflection, and especially PropertyInfo.SetValue(...).

Magic: 

using System.Reflection;

void DoMagic()
{

UserControl meLiek = LoadControl("tehcontrolz.ascx");
Type meLiekTehTajp = meLiek.GetType();
PropertyInfo prop = meLiekTehTajp.GetProperty("waevvah");
prop.SetValue(meLiek, "lolz0rz", null);
ControlHolder.Controls.Add(meLiek);

}

More info:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa330197(VS.71).aspx

"The Next Web Now"... well almost (d-50)

Here is a new Countdown sequel... not from me this time!

This nice little gadget uses Silverlight!

Download the MIX08 Countdown Gadget here.

Watch a video by Chris Pels about working with cookies, a video by Noam Ben-Ami about the ADO.NET Entity Designer, and 3 more videos in the LINQ series by Scott Stanfield.

This article discusses how to create an HTML Editor server control for use within an ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 environment.

From February 11 to 13 will take place the Microsoft TechDays France 2008. It will be the main Microsoft event of the year in France, with no less than 280 sessions.

LINQ will be one of the major subjects covered this year: seven sessions will be related to LINQ. I'll be presenting two of them. The first one will be an introduction to LINQ. The second one will cover the ADO.NET Entity Framework and LINQ.

 

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Du 11 au 13 février 2008 ont lieu à Paris les Microsoft TechDays France 2008. Il s'agit du principal événement Microsoft de l'année en France, avec pas moins de 280 sessions.

 

Cette année, un des sujets majeur sera LINQ : sept sessions parleront de LINQ. C'est un sujet que je commence à connaitre, après avoir passé près de deux ans à travailler dessus pour écrire LINQ in Action !

J'animerai deux sessions en duos le lundi 11 février :

• Tout d'abord, rendez-vous de 11h00 à 12h00 avec Philippe Mougin pour une introduction à LINQ.
  LINQ apporte une petite révolution dans les développements d'applications .NET. Venez découvrir et comprendre, dans cette session à but pédagogique, les mécanismes de bases d'une technologie principalement basée sur les évolutions des langages de programmation. Nous vous montrerons progressivement comment passer de C# 2.0 et VB 8.0 à C# 3.0 et VB 9.0 pour tirer parti de LINQ et des nouvelles orientations des langages.
  
• Ensuite, on se retrouve l'après-midi de 14h30 à 15h30 avec Sébastien Ros pour vous présenter ADO.NET Entity Framework et LINQ.
  Il s'agit de la troisième session du parcours "Symposium DNG 2008". Nous vous montrerons Entity Framework et ses fonctionnalités en pratique. Nous verrons ensuite comment LINQ peut être utilisé avec Entity Framework pour en profiter au maximum. Nous discuterons ensuite de ce qu'Entity Framework apporte par rapport aux autres outils de mapping objet-relationnel.
  

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This isn't my first post in 2008, but I'll still dedicate this post to wishing you a Happy New Year. May it be successful for your business, work, and family plans.

2007 was certainly a busy year for me - especially due to the book that will be published at the end of this month - but I have no doubts that 2008 will keep me equally busy, if not more.
One of the first things on which I'll focus this year is the Microsoft TechDays France 2008 event. More about this in my next post.
Another big project for this year is the business development of Proagora.com. The site started well, even if it's true mostly for its French part, but we have more plans for it this year. Stay tuned, and don't forget to create your profile!
2008 will also see the release of long due new versions of SharpToolbox.com and JavaToolbox.com. Again, several new features are in the works. I'll keep the surprises for now, but you can expect to see them come to life soon. Of course, the additions of tools and components will continue. I still have a long list of submissions to process...

Let the new year begin and success continue!

If you have any trouble using the toolbox items in visual studio, just delete the hidden files:

 toolbox.tbd, toolbox_reset.tbd, toolboxIndex.tbd, toolboxIndex_reset.tbd

 
in

<drive>:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\<VS version>

Ex:

C:\Documents and Settings\JAVIER.VILLARREAL\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0
 

Start Visual Studio, and it will reset the toolbox items, in the correct form. 

A customizable log provider system that allows you to harness your existing logging system to log client side messages to your server. Includes a Silverlight interface and Log Viewer.

I suspect that most ASP.NET developers would like to get started with Silverlight development. For most of us, it's a question of finding the time, overcoming some inertia, and getting over a touch of anxiety about the learning curve. Adam Nathan 's Silverlight 1.0 Unleashed is a good way to get your fingers into Silverlight code and feel your way around - much the way you did when you first encounter any new platform. Keep in mind that this is a book for developers who prefer to work directly in...(read more)

Perform ImageMagick operations in ASP.NET using command line

Expandable/Collapsable rows in grid using Javascript to show and hide.