The Smallest xmlHttp I Could Do And Still Get It Wrong
Monday 29 September 2008 @ 9:11 am
I’ve just started my journey into the land of JavaScript for real and am learning things most of you already know.  For example, as the Silicon Valley Code Camp coordinator and web site author, I just recently decided to add a Virtual Earth Map showing attendees and speakers (see the home page).  I wrote a [...]

LINQPad is Totally Awesome at Testing and Writing LINQ Queries
Saturday 20 September 2008 @ 9:25 pm
http://www.linqpad.net/ - Use with Microsoft .Net for building Query type expressions with LINQ I’m not a wizard at writing LINQ expressions so I often find myself in Google looking for something similar to what I want, then I put it into my application and run it. This has worked pretty well, but it takes [...]

Create a Simple WCF Web Service and Use In JavaScript With Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5
Sunday 14 September 2008 @ 12:20 am
Microsoft has made building a WCF Web Service to communicate with JavaScript very easy in Visual Studio 2008.  In this post, I’ll go through the basics of building this app and demonstrate it working.  Included is the project file which might be a help so you can run it yourself.  I have found a lot [...]
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View a Generic List with ASP.NET MVC. Step by Step With Preview 5
Tuesday 9 September 2008 @ 1:35 pm
I’ve just started (within the past 2 days) learning and building a prototype with Microsoft’s new MVC platform.  It’s really just another project type in Visual Studio 2008, but it changes the way you write asp.net applications.  So far I like it, but I’m still on the honeymoon.  I have not really tried to do [...]

ToLambda Refactor From ReSharper is Just Too Cool!
Tuesday 9 September 2008 @ 11:07 am
  Can hardly contain my excitement.  I was just cleaning up a business object to post in my MVC article and of course was using JetBrain’s Resharper 4.1.  Not sure if any of you remember, but when I started learning ASP.NET I developed some nice business objects to use with my MSDN articles.  One of [...]
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How to User HttpHandler such as .ashx file with IIS7 Integrated Mode, Webfarm Environment
Saturday 6 September 2008 @ 10:20 am
Recently, we’ve moved our hosting for the Silicon Valley Code Camp to MOSSO, which is a hosted web farm.  In order to run modules and handlers, it seems it’s necessary to run in IIS7’s integrated mode.  Once this is set, other small issues creep up like for example you can no longer run HttpHandler’s [...]