This is probably something pretty simple, hardly worth blogging about, but it took me a little while (15 minutes)  to figure out how to open a file C#. Say you have a block of code like the following for simply reading all lines of a file: StreamReader streamReader = new StreamReader("myfile.txt") string [...]

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  One of the fun parts of being an MVP is that occasionally we get asked to help at Microsoft events and answer questions around topics that are just fun to talk about regardless (and usually includes a free lunch).  Today, I was sitting at the ASP.NET Dynamic Data table.  We probably had about [...]

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  Cutting to the chase, I choose ExtJS which gives us high quality “forms like” user interactions and MVC for getting the data.  That is, the Application looks like this: The data retrieval URL used by the JavaScript look like: bing or http://www.bodurov.com/JsonFormatter/ ) (more information at:

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  Microsoft’s big developer conference (PDC Dynamic Data Feature built into asp.net.  Basically, what Dynamic Data gives you in a nut shell is the ability to easily make web apps easier for showing all kind of different data types. For example, if you happen to have a picture stored with each user’s profile, [...]

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  This is just going to be a short post, but I bet it’s something I do a large number of times so I thought I’d blog it.  Say you get back from something like a web service an array of objects. In my case this:cmRateResult[] cmRateResults = TransiteUtils.MakeRateRequest(_cmRateRequest); .csharpcode, .csharpcode pre { font-size: small; color: black; font-family: consolas, “Courier [...]

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  So, this is kind of embarrassing, that it took me a while to figure this out.  I have not been doing pure asp.net server control programming for a while, but I figure since it took me a while, maybe there is someone else in the same boat. So, you have a GridView [...]

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  Many of you know of http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com Please figure out why SqlServer 2008 is not letting me access catalog MyStuff1 from user 3p1 and fix Please make a replicate of website MyWeb1.com including the sqlserver catalog’s and put it on MyWeb2.com on server .149 Please [...]

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  So, you have an enum defined as follows: public enum CompanyAddressType { Unknown = 0, Primary = 1, Warehouse = 2, [...]

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  Today was my first time doing 2 presentations during the same day at a professional conference (

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  Last night, I gave a 90 minute presentation on how to use ExtJS with ASP.NET serving up the data at the Bay.Net locally lead by Kim Greenlee for sponsoring the event, Thanks to ExtJS for giving a free developer license.

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In this article, it is shown how important it can be to use the CompileQuery class when using LINQ to SQL. Doing a simple query in LINQ to SQL verses ADO.NET is shown to run 37 times slower without taking advantage of the Compile feature in LINQ to SQL. If you are doing the same query over and over in LINQ to SQL, this is a no brainer. I’m surprised I did not know this myself previously.

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  Programmatically setting ExtJS project that requires me to show some details on a page that I want to show with

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  Come hear about how to see Microsoft Office at a meeting of ExtJS JavaScript Interface When:  Wednesday, 5/20/2009 at 6:30 PM Where:  Microsoft Office, 835 Market Street, Suite 700, San Francisco Event Description In this session, we will demonstrate building a super rich JavaScript interface [...]

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  So, I’ve always incorrectly thought that somehow, the cookie stored in Stefan Schackow, a Microsoft employee who is an expert on all things secure around

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  Telerik’s best partners.  I hope you can make it! For more information, check out the link here:

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  I always intended to put the source code for this project online, however I just kept not getting around to it.  In this article, I’m attaching a Visual Studio 2008 Solution that includes both the modified CSS Friendly Control Adapter as well as a sample application that demonstrates the technique in this series.  [...]

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  Structure Map (IOC) Error Handling Social Network Schema Designs (Friends and Groups) Messaging Data Layers (

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  So, you want to access some content from inside a page that you created from an existing

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So, the problem is you have a list that you want to retrieve from that contains multiple values.  Say for example, you have a list of 5 cities and you want to retrieve a list of people in some combination of those cities.  If you use the class SelectValue method with ControlParameter in

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So, I suppose you should just be able to see the fact that Fiddler, or you can do the cheap trip about I’m about to explain. Simply, add a sleep statement to your page_load event (Thread.Sleep(3000);) and run your page.  If you are using

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