NorCal Weekly .Net is Up Now! Catch All for the .Net Events in Northern California!
Wednesday 10 March 2010 @ 9:54 pm
  I’ve always wanted a place that I could look through to find what Bay.Net in San Francisco,  has just put together such a site. It’s: 
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CLEAR 4G WiMax Developer Conference
Wednesday 3 March 2010 @ 9:23 am
  Yesterday, I went to the Newton Chan (Professor Foothill College) sniffed out the perfect place to be to get free stuff. 
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Great ExtJS Meetup in Palo Alto Tonight at ExtJS’s New Office
Wednesday 24 February 2010 @ 11:46 pm
  Yet another great meetup with the ExtJS San Francisco Group (though not meeting in San Francisco this time).  ExtJS has moved it’s main office and developers out here to Palo Alto, California and volunteered to host our meetup.  They provided pizza and beer and I’d say it was our most successful event so [...]

Small LINQ Trick for Converting List<String> to String Text List
Wednesday 24 February 2010 @ 2:58 pm
  Here is a shorthand way for converting a list of strings defined as follows: List<string> strings = new List<string> [...]
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How To Fix Windows 7 Boot Loader (Boot.ini) When Goes Awry
Tuesday 9 February 2010 @ 10:06 pm
  I got this tip from the
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Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7)
Monday 25 January 2010 @ 4:25 pm
      Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post [...]

Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7)
Monday 25 January 2010 @ 4:22 pm
    Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight (This Article) 7 Minutes Part 2 Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With  VS 2010 Tooling 14 Minutes Part 3 Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS [...]

Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7)
Monday 25 January 2010 @ 4:20 pm
      Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight (This Article) 7 Minutes Part 2 Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With  VS 2010 Tooling 14 Minutes Part 3 Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS [...]

Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7)
Monday 25 January 2010 @ 4:16 pm
    Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post [...]

Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7)
Monday 25 January 2010 @ 3:51 pm
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight (This Article) 7 Minutes Part 2 Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With  VS 2010 Tooling 14 Minutes Part [...]

How To Convert From Request With Parameter to No Parameter in ASP.NET (Server.Transfer)
Sunday 24 January 2010 @ 2:59 pm
  The problem is that I’m trying to keep track of the exact URL a person selects including the request parameter.  That is, I have a URLs that can be played as follows: http://video.peterkellner.net/TestPage.html?src=P1_Intro.wmv http://video.peterkellner.net/TestPage.html?src=P2_BasicRIANoTooling.wmv   I’ve actually got 7 videos that I want people to be able to play.  [...]
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Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 (Article 3 of 7)
Saturday 23 January 2010 @ 12:41 pm
      Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight (This Article) 7 Minutes Part 2 Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With  VS 2010 Tooling 14 Minutes Part 3 Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS [...]

Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7)
Wednesday 20 January 2010 @ 12:12 pm
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using PDC09 presentation here and am very thankful for the help.  I’m personally very excited about the opportunities Silverlight 4.0, RIA Services, I’m back and very excited.  [...]

How To Set Arbitrary Delay Into FinalBuilder Script (Using Variable)
Tuesday 19 January 2010 @ 9:55 am
  I’ve blogged before about how much I like The Question On Finalbuilder Forums The Delay action does not seem to let me put a %delayseconds% type variable in the counter fields for setting.  I want to set the delay to x number of minutes based on some variable.  How can I do [...]
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Will Be Presenting at Bay.Net Users Group Wednesday 1/20/2010 RIA Services in Silverlight 4 With VS2010
Wednesday 13 January 2010 @ 8:13 am
NOTE ADDED 1/25/2010 by PETER KELLNER:    Just finished 7 blog posts that each have video that basically follows was was done in the presentation.  They are linked here on this blog at:  http://peterkellner.net/category/ria-services/ I just volunteered to present at the next Bay.Net Meeting (San Francisco, [...]

Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Book Review, Now Available! (Windows Azure Platform by Tejaswi Redkar)
Monday 11 January 2010 @ 9:09 am
  For those of you that have been sleeping for the past year, Cloud computing is Hot!  Amazon more or less lead the way with their cloud computing platforms for the longest time with new comers like GoGrid, Google and Microsoft coming along with their own offerings more recently.  The offerings are quite complex, [...]

Lunch With Mats Bryntse Today, Author of Ext Scheduler. Talked about Code Camp Integration and January 7th Meetup
Wednesday 23 December 2009 @ 4:11 pm
  Mats and I met today in Palo Alto for lunch to talk about the upcoming Ext Core Developer, and of course seeing old friends. We also talked about Mats incorporating his schedule component into the
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How to Get a Stack Trace from C# without throwing Exception
Monday 21 December 2009 @ 9:48 am
  Say you have some logging in your code that finds something unusual going on.  In my case, I have a DataContext that I check to make sure it’s not already open before I open it.  The method that I call the DataContext in is a utility method that is buried many layers down.  [...]
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Another Cool Resharper Refactoring
Saturday 19 December 2009 @ 6:52 pm
  So, if you are like me, it’s easy to make mistakes on whether to use && or || when combining variables on if statements.  I hate to just start nesting if statements because the code gets bulky, but if not, I have to think three times about whether I got it right. [...]
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Book Review – Programming Entity Framework (EF) by Julie Lerman
Monday 14 December 2009 @ 10:36 am
  You all know that I’ve blogged quite a bit about LINQ2SQL.  That technology has saved me a huge amount of programming effort verses using ado.net directly.  We all know that LINQ2SQL is really just a stepping stone to Visual Studio 2010 beta 2.  It’s obviously not done, but from what I’ve seen, when [...]

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