A Book Review of Manning’s Windows PowerShell In Action by Bruce Payette
Monday 7 April 2008 @ 11:24 am

A book review of Windows PowerShell in action by Bruce Payette

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In C#, When to use String verses string
Saturday 29 December 2007 @ 11:12 am

Just a short ramble on when to use string verses use String in C#. Basically they compile to the same IL code

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Using Using in c# ado.net business classes used with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0
Monday 29 October 2007 @ 6:28 pm
A short post and example on how to use the C# syntax Using. The example is for an ado.net business object that can be used with an ObjectDataSource. This saves you the trouble of disposing of your objects properly, as well as doing it at the right place.

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How to Set the Default Value of a DropDownList in an ASP.NET Page
Wednesday 17 October 2007 @ 10:44 am

This article shows how to set the default Value of a DropDownList Control when using asp.net 2.0. It uses the DataBound event to do it. A full page example which can be cut and paste is included

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Silicon Valley Code Camp Integrates the DevExpress Cloud Control for Sessions
Tuesday 4 September 2007 @ 12:11 pm
Using the DevExpress CloudControl in the ASP.NET 2.0 Silicon Valley Code Camp’s web site was easy. In this short post, you’ll hear about the details and see some code.

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Logging From an ASP.NET 2.0 Application to a Local File
Sunday 12 August 2007 @ 5:54 pm

In this article, a very simple method is demonstrated for logging text data in an asp.net 2.0 application. It’s safe, reliable, but not very elegant. Just what you need when you want to crank something out for testing or proof of concept. It uses StreamWriter and MapPath to get it’s job done.

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Always Set Stop On Exception While Doing Debugging in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008
Friday 10 August 2007 @ 9:05 am

This article discusses a best practices method for automatically having the debugger stop on unhandled exceptions in visual studio 2005 or 2008

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TechEd Orlando, Visual Studio Tracing Tricks
Monday 4 June 2007 @ 9:48 am
Day 1 at Teched in Orlando has been great so far. My helper, Steve Carroll, and a cool Visual Studio tip for doing tracking while debugging is explained.
Peter Kellner and Steve Carroll of Microsoft

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Microsoft ASP.NET Member/Role Management with IIS (VB Version)
Thursday 15 February 2007 @ 1:08 pm

Back in January of 2006, I published on MSDN an article and source code for managing ASP.NET 2.0 Membership users with an ObjectDataSource.  Since I'm not much of a VB person, I only published them in c#.  since then, I've had hundreds of requests for this code in VB.  Until now, I've had to send an excuse for not having it.  Now, thanks to Dave at Tangible Solutions Software, we now have a VB version.

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Rock And Roll Code Camp Presentation
Thursday 1 February 2007 @ 7:13 pm
Code Camp Presentation at LA’s Rock and Roll Code Camp. Lots of nuts and bolts about using ObjectDataSoruce including a real life example using the enterprise data block.

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