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 [...]

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  For the past couple years, I’ve used a product called FinalBuilder from subversion into that directory All My Visual Studio Solutions are built All the config files (web.config,app.config, etc.) are updated with appropriate parameters (connection strings, etc.) The Web Site is copied to the [...]

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  Not sure how many times I’ve pressed the “Show All Files” menu choice on a http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAL16

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  Not sure why this was hard, but I wanted to make a trivial command file to deploy my database (or any change to it).  For those of you that don’t know the DataDude project, I have to say it’s one of the coolest tools that has come out the Microsoft Visual Studio Team [...]

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  Several years ago, I was invited to a special showing of what was going to be the new SqlServer 2008 database in San Francisco.  I had expected a sales demo but was hugely surprised by the quality of the presenter and his deep understanding of issues facing real developers like us.  Over the [...]

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  I’ve done a bunch of Lat/Long type mapping programs over the years and one of the problems always ends up around performance.  A common problem is that you keep redrawing the same line over and over and over.  The pixels you are drawing don’t get any darker so all you are doing is [...]

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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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  Inside the Microsoft® Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (PRO-Developer): Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi, William Bartholomew: Books

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As a developer who has spent much of my life doing DBA type work, I really appreciate the simplicity and elegance of what SqlManager to manage my data.  I can continue to do that, then when I’ve made my changes, I can simply connect VS2008 Database Edition to my updated development database and it will [...]

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  So, you want to do an update but are wondering what the hec LINQ is doing.  Turns out it is really easy.  All you have to do is run in the debugger and add the Log option to your data context. Here is an example: DataClassesGeneralDataContext db3pLogicContext; [...]

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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 a couple iterations to get it right. It occured to me that someone probably has written a LINQ interpreter so I just guessed the name, Ben Albahari, (which [...]

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Seems, I keep forgetting where the temporary files

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Downloads for my presentation to BAADD titled “Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications”.

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This article discusses the CSS Friendly Adapters and how they are integraged with the ASP.NET 2.0 menu control. It shows the default html created by a sample menu control without the Friendly Adapters, as well as showing the html created using the Friendly Adapters.

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Beth did a great job of presenting new features in Visual Studio 2008 at the Bay.Net Meeting in San Francisco.

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This article shows a good way to manage connection string and appsettings values in your web.config file. It shows how to use include files and talks about how to set defaults so moving to production from testing or development can be less painful

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See how to get the DataItem out of a ListView Control which is part of asp.net 3.5. Compare ListView to repeater in this regard.

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In this post, the option for how to show all files in the solutions explorer is demonstrated.

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Bookmarks in visual studio 2008 are not quite what I remember from visual studio 2005. Read on to see what I’ve found.

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