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 [...]

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 [...]

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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Long Live the Semicolon and Why I Love it!
Saturday 24 October 2009 @ 8:23 am
  OK, so we all want to be somewhat popular, and it seems that my last article, “To Brace Or Not to Brace”, seems to have gotten a lot of attention, so, here goes my opinion on the popular semi-colon argument.  First, I’m not against any languages in particular, but I have found that [...]
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Visiting Our First Silicon Valley Code Camp Platinum Sponsor for 2009
Sunday 16 August 2009 @ 11:23 am
  This past Thursday evening, my wife Tammy and I went to visit our first platinum sponsor of 2009,
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Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts
Monday 27 July 2009 @ 12:59 pm
  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 [...]

In ASP.NET, How To Create a DropDownList from an ENUM
Tuesday 16 June 2009 @ 4:05 pm
  So, you have an enum defined as follows: public enum CompanyAddressType { Unknown = 0, Primary = 1, Warehouse = 2, [...]

780 Requests Per Second Verses 110, You Really Need to Compile your LINQ to SQL (LINQ2SQL) Queries
Monday 8 June 2009 @ 10:21 pm
  So, I’ve been on kind of a rant lately about how slow uncompiled LINQ2SQL. So, to put some more substance behind my claims, I’ve written a small test application using Visual Studio 2008 that compares the performance of using LINQ2SQL compiled verses non-compiled on a trivial web page. Here are some [...]

Come See Me at VSLive in Las Vegas, June 9th (2 Sessions)
Friday 17 April 2009 @ 5:27 pm
  I’m doing two sessions at Peter Kellner Intermediate Need a web application that has the responsiveness and interactivity of a forms app but still looks and feels like a web? One of the best kept secrets (at least to the Microsoft community) is ExtJS. It’s a different paradigm then we [...]

How To Access Content From MasterPage in ASP.NET
Friday 20 March 2009 @ 9:41 am
  So, you want to access some content from inside a page that you created from an existing

Arrived at Microsoft MVP Summit for Four Days of Fun and Learning
Monday 2 March 2009 @ 1:21 am
  This is my third Rich Kaplan, and one from

First Blood, Windows 7. Shock and Awe!
Sunday 15 February 2009 @ 2:44 pm
(Microsoft recently sent me two DVD’s (a 32bit and a 64bit).  Since I have a 64bit machine with 4gig of RAM, I figure I should test the 64bit.  So, here we go. The Installation Process If you have ever installed a Microsoft OS before, the steps are basically the same.  Put the disk [...]

How to Retrieve a GridView Based on a CheckBoxList of Items with Asp.Net using ObjectDataSource with a little LINQ Thrown In
Sunday 7 December 2008 @ 1:08 am
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

How To Tell If Ajax is working on your site with ASP.NET’s ajax UpdatePanel and other Controls
Sunday 12 October 2008 @ 8:36 pm
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

How to do URL Rewrites with ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 on IIS6 and IIS7 and What is Wild Card Mapping
Sunday 24 August 2008 @ 10:19 pm

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.