October 2007 - Posts

27 October 2007
Hebrew and Arabic Silverlight support
Justin-Josef has built a new codeplex project that aims to support Hebrew and Arabic text rendering on Silverlight. There are already some support materials over Justin's site that will help you get started: online lab and demo 20 min, web cast complete tutorial Nice work Justin! Read More...
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26 October 2007
Deployment problems with ASP.NET AJAX applications
In the last days I've seen several guys reporting problems while deploying ASP.NET AJAX applications to servers which only have ASP.NET 2.0 + ASP.NET AJAX 1 installed. Generally, the error that has been reported is: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0... One... Read More...
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22 October 2007
Changes on the configuration of WCF to use JSON
A long time ago I wrote a post on how to configure a WCF service so that it uses JSON as its serialization format. It seems like things change in the last CTP. I still didn't had the time to look into everything but it seems like now you don't add a <bindings> element in order to use JSON... Read More...
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18 October 2007
ASP.NET AJAX: another trick that might help in some specific scenarios
Today I've found another interesting post at the AJAX forums (yep, this is the only forum you can say I read frequently nowadays). The scenarios looks like this: a web app has a main page which is uses as the main entry page )lets call it page a) after clicking on a button, the user is redirected... Read More...
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17 October 2007
ASP.NET AJAX: some ideas on how to export the contents of a GridView to an excel file without a full postback
In the last few days I've returned to the ASP.NET AJAX forums. One of the most requested features I've seen is generating "excel responses" (do you think i should copyright the term? :) ) from data presented on a gridview. There's already a known strategy for doing this kind of... Read More...
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16 October 2007
You shouldn't call $create from within a component to create another component
After another busy day at work and half an hour swimming, I went to the ASP.NET AJAX forums to chill out befire going back to the IIS 7 online docs . Today I've found a cool post )man, you gotta love these forums! :) ) which asked why creating a component through the $create method within the initialize... Read More...
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15 October 2007
Getting the UpdatePanel "responsible" for the postback
Sometimes, you might need to get a reference to the UpdatePanel which was "responsible" for the partial postback. It's important to understant that a postback will always be started by an existing HTML control and that the panel will only be used for delimiting the places where a partial... Read More...
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14 October 2007
IIS 7 and its integration with the ASP.NET engine
Until the release of IIS 7, it was fair to say that the ASP.NET application had its own life cycle, which wasn't really integrated with IIS. For instance, when you're using IIS 6, a request will have to be authenticated by IIS before it's forwarded to the ASP.NET engine. After getting the... Read More...
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13 October 2007
Going crazy while trying to open the config files of IIS
Currently, I use VS 2008 to write all the code and Notepad2 to read txt files. I do also use Notepad2 when I just need to take a quick look at some file. It's been a long time since I have used Notepad. In fact, I've already forgotten about it until today :) Let me explain this better... While... Read More...
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10 October 2007
The localhost. trick for intercepting no longer works on windows vista?
A long time ago I learnt a cool trick for using fiddler with the internal server that comes with VS. Well, when I made the transition to Vista, it simply stopped working and I no longer got the page on IE. I did managed to get it working but it seems like some of my friends started getting this error... Read More...
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10 October 2007
No, you cannot call Server.Transfer on an ASP.NET AJAX enabled page
Even though ASP.NET AJAX has been here for some time, this question still pops up on the forums. So I thought I should put a post here and redirect future questions on the subject to it. Well, to be precise, what you cannot do is call Server.Transfer (or other transfer method - btw, if you're using... Read More...
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10 October 2007
Book review: ASP.NET AJAX in Action
[Disclaimer: I've received a free copy of the book and I'm a friend of one of the authors. However, I can assure you that none of these things influenced my avaliation of this book] I've just finished reading my copy of ASP.NET AJAX in Action . What can I say? If you're after a book that... Read More...
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09 October 2007
At the end of the day, AJAX classes are functions
While I was hanging around the AJAX forums, I found this interesting thread . The problem was a stack overflow, but the interesting thing was what was causing that error in the first place. here's the scenario: a top page has a method that receives an object. It also has an iframe which loads another... Read More...
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09 October 2007
Wilkinson cool video
Check it out here . Read More...
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09 October 2007
Are you using the new TransferRequest?
If so, then read on because you might get caught by some issues associated with the ASP.NET session state. If you haven't heard about this new cool method, then you don't know what you're loosing. The first thing you should know before hand is that you will only be able to use the method... Read More...
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06 October 2007
Workaround for Safari on dual monitor Windows OS
Today I've received a mail with a comment for an old post I've written about Safari not being ready for dual monitor systems. It seems like Justin Megawarne has got a decent workaround for that problem. here are the necessary steps: Maximize Safari on second monitor Press ALT+SPACE to drop down... Read More...
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03 October 2007
MS will release the source code for the .NET platform
Read more about it here . Read More...
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03 October 2007
Getting along with Access 2007...
well, not really :) It's a fact of live that I have never really enjoyed Access, specially when you use it as database. Unfortunately I had to work with it again, after so many years of joy with SQL Server. Ok, so it seems like Office 2007 introduced new drivers for OLE DB and ODBC drivers. This... Read More...
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01 October 2007
MVP for 2008
It seems like my MVP award for ASP.NET has been renewed :) hurray! Thank you MS. Congrats to all those that have also renewed and to the new ones that have just become MVP for the first time! Read More...
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