August 2008 - Posts

Improvements in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I was just checking out the improvements the team has made in beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. While I haven't had time to mess with all of the improvements, I see lots of opportunities to create enhancements for my sites to allow visitors to get what...
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Discovering Adobe Kuler - Color Themes Gallery by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Chris Love , posted a tweet today about Adobe Kuler. Kuler is a web/flash based application that allows developers and designers to upload and download color swatches for Adobe Photoshop. It's a great way, as Chris put it, for developers to pick up...
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Velocity Podcast by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Want to learn more about Microsoft Velocity and how this distributed caching system can improve your web applications? Then you'd better check out the new Velocity podcast at ASP.NET Podcast. You can download the MP3 at http://www.aspnetpodcast.com...
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How to Override Cassini's Virtual Path in Visual Studio by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

On one of the email lists that I'm on, someone had posted a question about running a website using the root path "/" or a different virtual path than the project name that is populated by default. James Crowley pointed out a blog entry from...
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Windows 7 at the PDC? by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Sounds like Windows 7 might be previewed at the PDC. If not, significant details will surely be shared. No, I didn't escape one of the Microsoft buildings with their business plan but rather came across the team's new blog at http://blogs.msdn...
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Known Issues with Service Pack 1 in ASP.NET 3.5 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Scott Galloway from the Microsoft DevDiv team has posted a couple of known issues with Service Pack 1 in ASP.NET 3.5 on the ASP.NET forums at http://forums.asp.net/t/1305800.aspx . The issues he currently has on the post are: Issue:  The HtmlForm...
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Use LINQ to XML to Generate Excel Documents by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I was looking for a quick and easy solution to export data from SQL into an Excel format from within my ASP.NET application. I came across a great video posted by Beth Massi on the asp.net website (Video #7 at the bottom at http://www.asp.net/learn/linq...
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ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Formerly "ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions") Released by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, which was formerly called the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions, has been released. The NetFX update was available as part of the SQL Server 2008 download available on Friday. Now it is available as a separate download. There are quite...
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Known Postback Issue with AJAX Controls by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I came across a postback issue while using the CascadingDropDown AJAX control. I had a web page with 3 DropDownList controls. The data for these controls was populated from the CascadingDropDown which would bind the data at runtime. The issue with this...
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Tip: Set the SelectedValue on a DropDownList that is populated by a CascadingDropDown by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

When using a DropDownList, you can set the selected item by using the SelectedIndex property. However, if your DropDownList is being populated by the CascadingDropDown control (from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit), that doesn't work. Instead, you...
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Clearspring Widgets Don't Work on 64-Bit Platform by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Unless you are using IE 32-bit, don't expect the Clearspring widgets to work. Clearspring is one of the leaders in building widgets for social networks and Vista. The reason their widgets do not work is because Flash is not yet supported on 64-bit...
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Visual Studio Fonts and Colors by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

For quite some time I've been working with a modified version of Scott Hanselman's "Dark Theme" for Visual Studio. The reason for my modifications is that the HTML and CSS settings were very difficult to read. Here is the complete list...
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Microsoft Releases SQL Server 2008 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

SQL Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing (RTM'd) today. For more information about this release, be sure to visit Microsoft's press release at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-06SQLServer2008PR.mspx . Read More...
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Amazon introduces Kindle by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Amazon released a new portable device called Kindle to their marketplace today. Kindle has the ability to read thousands of books that are available in the Amazon marketplace. Users have the ability to preview books before they decide to purchase them...
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Who are the ASPInsiders? by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Rob Chartier blogged about the ASPInsiders late last week. If you are unfamiliar about the group, it's purpose, and it's members, be sure to visit http://weblogs.asp.net/rchartier/archive/2008/08/01/who-are-the-aspinsiders.aspx . Read More...
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