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Scott Guthrie posted about a cool new ASP.NET server control: Chart. It can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios. Read more over here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/11/24/new-asp-net-charting-control-lt-asp-chart-runat-quot-server-quot-gt.aspx
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While developing a page that was to be used through an inline wrapper, I got an error: "Validation of viewstate MAC failed". This error can usually be resolved by disabling event validation , viewstate encryption or viewstate for the MAC . In my case these solutions did not resolve the issue...
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We developed an ASP.NET page (A) to be wrapped in an existing PHP page (B) using an inline wrapper. After a few days in which both pages displayed nicely, our page (A) suddenly got displayed twice inside the existing page (B). And even weirder was that the postbacks of the first occurrence didn...
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StyleCop version 4.3 was released last tuesday. A short summary of what version 4.3 brings us: Various bugfixes, including fixes for VS integration issues Rules documentation is included and integrated into VS "Show Error Help" New rules, see blogpost for the rules Branding change from Source...
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Disclaimer: I'm no MS/.Net evangelist. I'm just a computer software developer that wants to share his experience working on a weekend project (actually 3 weekends...) As a bet between me and my wife, I took the challenge of developing grid computing software over the weekend. The aim is to basically...
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My previous employer used a tool to attach databases that were located on a substituted path. I needed this conversion logic in another kind of environment and used the almighty google. So I hit an article on Avner Kashtan 's blog titled Query SUBST information . His code sample proved very usefull but...
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Today I had a very annoying issue. I was debugging an application on an VS2005 instance of a computer that I did not prepare / installed myself. I wanted the "break on all exceptions" behaviour in the debugger. Normally you just go to the menu and select Debug -> Exceptions . But I was quite surprised...
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I found this really nice little to add a string as a resource . You just select a string in the editor, right click to get the context menu and select to add it as a resource. You then get a dialog in which you can specify the key value and the resourcefile the string should be added too. In most code...
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Just google a bit with the keywords compression plus viewstate and lots of articles are to be found about this subject like this one . The problem is that in most situations programmers are doing something that the webserver already can do for you. Not only does it compress the viewstate, it compresses...
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Today a collegue had me flabbergasted by using the & operator in a boolean comparison like the following example. return x & y; Both x and y were booleans and I said "Hey you just forgot an &! A single & is a bitwise operator.". And he responded that this would work but that the behaviour...
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I failed for the Microsoft 70-300 examen this afternoon. I am disappointed in the result because I expected to pass. When I saw the score it felt very weird to see I had failed. I really don't have a clue which questions I did wrong.... so it is almost impossible to improve my knowledge for the next...
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Yesterday I posted about a news scoop at Ars-Technica referring Game studio express . Microsoft already posted a press bulletin about this at their site ( here ). But I wasn't aware of this. Rob Tillie mentioned in the comments that he doesn't think that this is the successor. I don't think it has anything...
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I just received a notification that NDepend 2.0 beta is released by Patrick Smacchie. NDepend analyzes your dotnet 1.x assemblies and outputs a huge set of code metrics based on the IL. It can also create a nice dependancy chart of your assemblies where you can see the references to external (framework...
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So here we have our nice soap 1.2 messaging standard. All works fine with encryption, signing, policies, end-points, validation, schema's. Microsoft created most drafts for the WS-* specs I think and in time they were slowly change to requests from the market and WSE (wizzy) is a nice product of their...
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I read the Z-Buffer blog once in a while and the Z-man refers to an article at channel9 about the KPL . It remembers me to the days that I was programming in Amos on my Amiga 500. I made all sorts of small fun things and coding in Amos is indeed FUN. They try to achieve that with KPL too and maybe this...