A Step by step tutorial on how to use WildCard Mapping for processing URL requests. It includes how to set it with IIS6 and IIS7. It also discusses the theory behind how it works and talks about a great open source packaged called URLRewriter.Net. Basically, how to resolve http://mydomain.com/Home to http://mydomain.com/HomeSite/Home.aspx which looks so much nicer.

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Seems, I keep forgetting where the temporary files asp.net uses. The reason it’s nice to know is sometimes you may want to open them with Reflector to see the generated code.  Also, sometimes, you want to delete those files because asp.net is confused and is reusing old ones.  So, here is the magic lines of [...]

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I’m just starting out using WCF in an application for the first time.  I’m using Visual Studio 2008 sp1 and created an asp.net web site from the standard create project wizard.  I then created a simple AJAX–enabled WCF Service as follows: I then added some code to the service that looks like the following (using MapPath): [ServiceContract(Namespace [...]

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In this post, we will discuss what is necessary to convert the file created from a Garmin 705 navigator to C# .net Data Objects. We will use LINQ to XML to perform this function

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In my previous post, Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource, I discussed how to put a DropDownList value in a GridView.  As I explained, my motivation was to answer a common question that appears on often on the forums.  If you are wondering what my process is for deciding what to [...]

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As a moderator in the asp.net forums, I often see the same or similar questions.  The answer to this question is pretty straight forward but not 100% obvious so I thought I’d do a post about in the hopes that with a couple key words, people will find the answer.  The title basically says it [...]

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Untangle, a network software company in San Mateo California,  specializing in open source firewall software, has partnered with IDG World Expo to donate used laptops to schools in need.  In exchange, those that donate their computers will get a free conference day at LinuxWorld.  Below is a clipping from today’s San Jose Mercury News Advertising [...]

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Customize your Twitter options so that you see any time anyone (even someone you do not follow) Tweet’s with your name in the @reply field

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