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I've been working on a new MVC project and man has it been enlightening! It's my first MVC project, so I get to go through all the things I thought I knew from reading Pro ASP.NET MVC Framework (Apress by Steve Sanderson) to realizing I don't...
I really like CodeSmith, a great tool for generating templates. It comes with a variety of default templates, all managed in a Visual Studio-like environments, complete with intellisense that's good, but not quite as powerful as Visual Studio. I do...
If you have used the Facebook FQL syntax to query the location column of a table, or have requested the location parameter from the friends_get or other API methods, what you need to know is location is a complex object consisting of the following properties...
Facebook supports a variant of SQL called FQL, or Facebook Query Language. If you know anything about Facebook's data storage center, Facebook has moved away from the traditional relational database and created their own custom application for storing...
I recently submitted a Facebook development article to ASP.NET Pro magazine. It was quite the challenge initially to get it started. But once I got going (I think I'll blog on this later), I was off and running but there aren't a lot of examples...
This post assumes you are familiar with TypeMock's Arrange-Act-Assert method of test creation. If you are not, please read my overview at: http://dotnetslackers.com/articles/designpatterns/TypeMocks-Arrange-Act-Assert.aspx . When creating your fakes...
I'll probably come back and update this post, but I wanted to post some excellent addons or tools that can be used with Firefox/Firebug, available here: 10 Firefox Add-Ons for Web Designers: http://www.10voltmedia.com/blog/2009/05/10-firefox-add-ons...
I needed to be able to compress my JavaScript files, and I like to use the YUI compressor to do this. Found an even easier way to do this using Visual Studio, by creating an external tool as mentioned in this blog: http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2009...
I found something out with the RadNumericTextBox control: for the GroupSeparator, it will accept an empty string, but not for the DecimalSeparator property. This is important, as the RadNumericTextBox behaves in a certain way. If you try to set: <tel...
SlickEdit has a nice backup tool that captures backups of files on a regular basis. Whenever you need to restore a backup of a file, simply go to the backup explorer tool window (on the same side as the solution explorer) and select one of the backups...
Attached to this blog post is an image of the product Resharper, a refactoring tool for the .NET 3.5 framework and Visual Studio 2008 (not including the backward compatibility). The image labels three sections that illustrate some of the highlighting...
The point of this article is not to point out how hard it is to use JQuery or anything like that; rather, JQuery is very easy and efficient to use. However, as with any third-party JS library (I happen to be using JQuery at the moment), using this library...
I didn't find any documentation on this, so I thought I'd throw something out there. When using the Telerik RadMultiPage, each page view can be accessed on teh client like so: var multiPage = $find("<%= mp.ClientID %>"); var views...
To show an empty message in the RadGrid control requires setting the EnableNoRecordsTemplate to true. When this value is set to true, when no records are bound to the RadGrid, the NoRecordsTemplate appears. The template appears only when a non-null, empty...
If you happen to use the <% %> notation in your ASP.NET applications while using Telerik for scripts, I'd recommend using the <tel:RadCodeBlock> or <tel:RadScriptBlock> elements. For instance, if you have ASP.NET AJAX script that...
I recently got the error Telerik is undefined in the $create definition of the RadAjaxManager. I couldn't figure out why I was getting this; I had everything setup correctly (all web.config settings and all). I read this: http://www.telerik.com/community...
SlickEdit is a popular development tool, with a lot of great features. One of these features is the ability to restore from a local backup. While SlickEdit taps into your source control to provide some excellent comparison operations, the tool I'm...
Related to recurring appointments, if you attempt to export appointments that recur, there are some things you should know that will generate exceptions when in outlook compatibility mode. To start, Outlook doesn't support all of the recurrence patterns...
Telerik has a RadScheduler control that operates similar to Outlook; while this is a great control, I experienced an issue with exporting of appointments existing in the scheduler. To summarize these features though, two important features that the RadScheduler...
The tool Resharper has some nice validation features I wanted to talk about. Like Visual Studio, Resharper monitors your keystrokes, looking for errors as you type. One of the nice features I like about Resharper is its ability to identify errors in code...
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