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Category: Uncategorized (8)
- MVP Award From Microsoft for ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  February 1, 2007, 18:33
  I was surprised and happy to receive notification of being awarded the MVP for ASP.NET 2.0. During the past 18 months, I've spent a lot of time both learning…
- Have GridView Highlight Last Inserted Record in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  December 7, 2006, 16:41
  A question that frequently comes up in the asp.net forums is how to have a gridview show the the last record added highlighted. This articles gives a technique…
- Integrating PBWiki with .Net Using the New PBWiki API, The Start of a .Net API by: Peter Kellner
  September 18, 2006, 12:04
  In this article we will demonstrate a technique used to automatically add Wiki Pages to PBWiki using the not quite released API provided by the peanut butter…
- Rendering Images With IIS Verses an ASP.NET 2.0 Handler by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2006, 22:38
  This article will compare the difference between rendering images using an HttpHandler and IIS. It will show the different request processing times for a…
- Zero to Professional Web Site in Two DaysUsing Microsoft's Visual Studio Design Templates by: Peter Kellner
  August 28, 2006, 18:19
  It's Monday, August 21st, we have our CodeCamp scheduled for October 7th and 8th in Los Altos California and we realize we need to have our web site to sign up…
- Inserting Programmatically with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2006, 13:21
  ( ObjectDataSource1.Insert(); ) ObjectDataSource's are great for building your own middle tier between your aspx web page and your database (or any other…
- Membership Editor Works With Atlas March CTP by: Peter Kellner
  March 24, 2006, 20:17
  Membership Editor Works With Atlas March Community Technology Preview IE and Firefox! In two previous postings I used the January version of Atlas. At MIX06,…
- Published in MSDN! by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2006, 14:50
  Two Articles on ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Published in MSDN. (Both can be viewed at this blog)
Category: .Net 2.0 (41)
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Login Failing with IE10 (Fixed Now) by: Peter Kellner
  September 20, 2011, 10:10
  Scott Hanselman posted a while back about a browsers definition problem with some ASP.NET sites that causes problems. Microsoft has articles on…
- ReSharper 5.0 Adds New “Add Parameter” Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  April 26, 2010, 11:38
  In this post, I’ll show a simple example of how when you add a parameter to C# method, ReSharper gives you a simple prompting to ask if you want to add a…
- OData Query Option top Forces Data To Be Sorted By Primary Key by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2010, 11:24
  This post show a simple WCF Data Service (Formerly known as ADO.NET Data Services) project that retrieves data using the Reflection Provider for accessing…
- A Book Review of Manning's Windows PowerShell In Action by Bruce Payette by: Peter Kellner
  April 7, 2008, 11:24
  A book review of Windows PowerShell in action by Bruce Payette
- In C#, When to use String verses string by: Peter Kellner
  December 29, 2007, 11:12
  Just a short ramble on when to use string verses use String in C#. Basically they compile to the same IL code
- Using Using in c# ado.net business classes used with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  October 29, 2007, 18:28
  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…
- How to Set the Default Value of a DropDownList in an ASP.NET Page by: Peter Kellner
  October 17, 2007, 10:44
  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…
- Logging From an ASP.NET 2.0 Application to a Local File by: Peter Kellner
  August 12, 2007, 17:54
  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…
- Always Set Stop On Exception While Doing Debugging in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 by: Peter Kellner
  August 10, 2007, 09:05
  This article discusses a best practices method for automatically having the debugger stop on unhandled exceptions in visual studio 2005 or 2008
- TechEd Orlando, Visual Studio Tracing Tricks by: Peter Kellner
  June 4, 2007, 09:48
  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.
- Have GridView Highlight Last Inserted Record in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  December 7, 2006, 16:41
  A question that frequently comes up in the asp.net forums is how to have a gridview show the the last record added highlighted. This articles gives a technique…
- How To Show All Items Using a DropDownList and a GridView Control in ASP.NET 2.0 with VS2005 by: Peter Kellner
  October 14, 2006, 11:35
  This article will show how to implement a showall item in a DropDownList using GridView with ASP.NET 2.0. It does it by dynamically changing the SelectParamete…
- Integrating PBWiki with .Net Using the New PBWiki API, The Start of a .Net API by: Peter Kellner
  September 18, 2006, 12:04
  In this article we will demonstrate a technique used to automatically add Wiki Pages to PBWiki using the not quite released API provided by the peanut butter…
- Rendering Images With IIS Verses an ASP.NET 2.0 Handler by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2006, 22:38
  This article will compare the difference between rendering images using an HttpHandler and IIS. It will show the different request processing times for a…
- Fourth MSDN Article Published! "Adding Personalization with Profiles to the ObjectDataSource" by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2006, 11:55
  This article explains how the encapsulation of Membership can be extended to include Profile (personalization) information for users. The designers of…
- Fast Access to Small Lists On ASPX Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  August 30, 2006, 07:13
  How to reference small lists of data on an aspx page in asp.net 2.0. The proposed solution here demonstrates a technique taking advantage of the ObjectDataSour…
- Zero to Professional Web Site in Two DaysUsing Microsoft's Visual Studio Design Templates by: Peter Kellner
  August 28, 2006, 18:19
  It's Monday, August 21st, we have our CodeCamp scheduled for October 7th and 8th in Los Altos California and we realize we need to have our web site to sign up…
- The Ultimate CAPTCHA Custom Server Control by: Peter Kellner
  August 20, 2006, 19:26
  In this article, the basic usage of a CAPTCHA custom server control will be discussed. This control is for use in ASP.NET 2.0 only. It is provided in source as…
- How To Set a Date Format In GridView Using ASP.NET 2.0(Using HtmlEncode Property) by: Peter Kellner
  May 24, 2006, 11:57
  (AKA, the DataFormatString="{0:M-dd-yyyy}" Problem) A very common desire is to set a column of a GridView to display just the month, day and…
- Adding Personalization via Profiles to the ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2006, 17:33
  This article explains the mechanics involved in extending the ObjectDataSource (developed in the previous article in this MSDN Membership Security Series) to…
- AJAX Meets ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Management For IIS by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2006, 12:34
  This article extends one of the web pages developed in Part II of this series using Microsoft's implementation of AJAX called Atlas. You can view a live…
- Membership Management Newly Styled GridView by: Peter Kellner
  January 27, 2006, 10:46
  Mikhail Lukyanau has been kind enough to provide a redesigned version of the membership.aspx page
- Using Membeship ObjectDataSource For Returning ProviderUserKey (ForeignKey Use) by: Peter Kellner
  January 10, 2006, 09:54
  This article gives an example of how to modify the Object DataSource in the previous article (Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IIS Part 1:…
- Published in MSDN! by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2006, 14:50
  Two Articles on ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Published in MSDN. (Both can be viewed at this blog)
- Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IISPart 2: Implementation by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2006, 12:27
  With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, there is no "out of the box" solution for maintaining the Membership and Role databases in Microsoft IIS.…
- Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IISPart 1: Security and Configuration Overview by: Peter Kellner
  January 8, 2006, 15:07
  This article is the first of two articles describing the secure use and setup of a three tier solution for managing ASP.NET Membership and Roles. This first…
- Roll your own ObjectDataSource Presentation, Seattle Code Camp October 23, 2005 by: Peter Kellner
  October 24, 2005, 23:48
  Roll your own ObjectDataSource, Seattle Presentation Oct 23, 2005
- ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IIS by: Peter Kellner
  July 18, 2005, 08:56
  With the current incarnation of Beta 2 of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey), there is no “out of the box” solution for maintaining the membership…
- Category: ObjectDataSource (20)
  - With ASP.NET WebForms, How to Keep / Stop a Data Control Like GridView From Retrieving Data by: Peter Kellner
    August 1, 2011, 14:35
    The What and Where Something that may not be obvious is if are creating an asp.net WebForms project and you put a datasource such as SqlDataSource or…
  - Adding a List of Recent Posts To The Silicon Valley Code Camp Home Page (From RSS Feed) by: Peter Kellner
    September 12, 2010, 14:44
    There are 10,000 ways to do this. Back way back when (ASP.NET 1.1) days, we would have created either a custom control to do this, then added a Repeater…
  - ExtJS Meetup Tonight in San Francisco, Sample URLs of Running Code Here by: Peter Kellner
    May 14, 2009, 07:47
    At tonight's meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in ExtJS version 3.0. For my short presentation, I will be…
  - How to Retrieve a GridView Based on a CheckBoxList of Items with Asp.Net using ObjectDataSource with a little LINQ Thrown In by: Peter Kellner
    December 7, 2008, 01:08
    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…
  - Assigning a Custom Label Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource by: Peter Kellner
    August 6, 2008, 07:10
    In my previous post, Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource, I discussed how to put a DropDownList value in a GridView.…
  - Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource by: Peter Kellner
    August 5, 2008, 16:57
    As a moderator in the asp.net forums, I often see the same or similar questions. The answer to this question is pretty straight forward but not 100%…
  - Using Using in c# ado.net business classes used with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
    October 29, 2007, 18:28
    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…
  - How to Set the Default Value of a DropDownList in an ASP.NET Page by: Peter Kellner
    October 17, 2007, 10:44
    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…
  - Silicon Valley Code Camp Integrates the DevExpress Cloud Control for Sessions by: Peter Kellner
    September 4, 2007, 12:11
    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…
  - Microsoft ASP.NET Member/Role Management with IIS (VB Version) by: Peter Kellner
    February 15, 2007, 13:08
    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…
  - Rock And Roll Code Camp Presentation by: Peter Kellner
    February 1, 2007, 19:13
    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…
  - Improved Fast Access to Small Lists On ASPX Pages by: Peter Kellner
    October 27, 2006, 12:34
    The article below has a minor improvement to the previous article listed on this web site. Specifically, the previous article used the DropDownList as a…
  - Get SqlDataSource To Retrieve DefaultValue of Current User (ExpressionBuilder with ASP.NET 2.0) by: Peter Kellner
    September 18, 2006, 09:50
    This article shows how to use Expression Builders in ASP.NET 2.0 to retrieve the current logged in user. DataBinding will not work so Expression Builders is…
  - Rendering Images With IIS Verses an ASP.NET 2.0 Handler by: Peter Kellner
    September 4, 2006, 22:38
    This article will compare the difference between rendering images using an HttpHandler and IIS. It will show the different request processing times for a…
  - Fourth MSDN Article Published! "Adding Personalization with Profiles to the ObjectDataSource" by: Peter Kellner
    September 4, 2006, 11:55
    This article explains how the encapsulation of Membership can be extended to include Profile (personalization) information for users. The designers of…
  - Third Article Published on MSDN! ASP.NET 2.0, Membership Meets Atlas by: Peter Kellner
    August 2, 2006, 15:30
    Microsoft published my third article in a series on how to use Membership in ASP.NET 2.0 with an ObjectDataSource. That is, extending Membership into three…
  - Inserting Programmatically with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
    June 7, 2006, 13:21
    ( ObjectDataSource1.Insert(); ) ObjectDataSource's are great for building your own middle tier between your aspx web page and your database (or any other…
  - Adding Personalization via Profiles to the ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
    March 13, 2006, 17:33
    This article explains the mechanics involved in extending the ObjectDataSource (developed in the previous article in this MSDN Membership Security Series) to…
  - Membership Management Newly Styled GridView by: Peter Kellner
    January 27, 2006, 10:46
    Mikhail Lukyanau has been kind enough to provide a redesigned version of the membership.aspx page
  - Using Membeship ObjectDataSource For Returning ProviderUserKey (ForeignKey Use) by: Peter Kellner
    January 10, 2006, 09:54
    This article gives an example of how to modify the Object DataSource in the previous article (Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IIS Part 1:…
Category: ASP.NET 2.0 (37)
- Creating a 1024x768 Video On A High Res Monitor With Macro Express Pro Helping by: Peter Kellner
  April 11, 2013, 17:49
  I’ve recently started my journey as a Pluralsight author and, as is know surprise, I’m spending a lot of time getting my tools set up. …
- Volunteering At Html5DevConf In San Francisco Today, Pictures and Commentary by: Peter Kellner
  April 1, 2013, 11:24
  I started at 7AM today as a volunteer at the HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco. As the organizer of Silicon Valley Code Camp (an event…
- Great .Net Education Day Coming April 19th, 2013 in San Francisco, CodeMastery! by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2013, 10:01
  Magenic, a leading consulting company in the .Net space is having a free education day in San Francisco on April 19th. I’m going to be speaking doing a…
- Converting ASP.NET WSP (Web Site Projects) to WAP (Web Application Projects) with VS2012 by: Peter Kellner
  December 30, 2012, 16:32
  Background There are quite a few articles written on the differences between WSP’s and WAP’s. In this article, I will not go into the…
- Integrating BitBucket and GIT with ssh (no password required for push) by: Peter Kellner
  December 9, 2012, 18:43
  I’ve just gone through the process of integrating GIT with BitBucket so that when I sync I do not have to type in my username or password. …
- Adding Design Time (Blend and Visual Studio 2012) Support to the Windows Store App Blog Reader Sample by: Peter Kellner
  November 25, 2012, 23:06
  Background and Original Sample From Microsoft Microsoft has put a huge amount of work into building hundreds of sample apps for us developers who are…
- Building a Windows 8 Touch application with WinRT JavaScript and Html5 by: Peter Kellner
  November 19, 2012, 09:01
  Introduction With the introduction of WinRT (which replaces the Win32 API we are all use to), Microsoft has provided JavaScript programmers first…
- varchar(max) means 2GB in SqlServer, not 8092, EF CodeFirst Gets it right by: Peter Kellner
  July 6, 2012, 10:04
  I wasted about 30 minutes wrestling with a EF CodeFirst type issue today. I was creating an attribute for what I wanted to be a large text field and not…
- Making Your Meetup™ a Community Sponsor of Silicon Valley Code Camp by: Peter Kellner
  June 11, 2012, 07:31
  v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} …
- Details On The ExtJS Application to Build Simple CRUD operation Using Models and Stores by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2012, 17:00
  Part 1 Basics (mostly server side) Part 2 (this) ExtJS Client Side Details *For those who are intersted in this, I just…
- EntityFramework 4.3 CodeFirst Trivial One File Example – Part 1 by: Peter Kellner
  February 17, 2012, 11:47
  Introduction This three part series demonstrates a very simple example of using Entity Framework Code First (Version 4.3) to create a SqlServer Table…
- EntityFramework Code First 4.3, Adding a Single Default Column to a Migration Enabled Project, Part 3 by: Peter Kellner
  February 17, 2012, 11:46
  Introduction This three part series demonstrates a very simple example of using Entity Framework Code First (Version 4.3) to create a SqlServer Table…
- EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.3, Adding Data Migration To Simple Example (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  February 17, 2012, 11:41
  Introduction This three part series demonstrates a very simple example of using Entity Framework Code First (Version 4.3) to create a SqlServer Table…
- MACBook PRO running VMWARE Fusion with Visual Studio by: Peter Kellner
  February 7, 2012, 13:59
  I’ve been a macbook user for about 2 weeks now. As a Microsoft guy, it’s really important to me that the Macbook run Windows 7 really well. So…
- Take Defaults! (not customizations) When Installing Software by: Peter Kellner
  January 31, 2012, 22:55
  Some Background Years ago, my friend Bill Venners of Artima told me a life long lesson that I always seem to forget. He said that when people…
- PC verses MAC (let the debate continue) by: Peter Kellner
  January 24, 2012, 12:14
  So, I know it’s hard to believe, but I am actually considering getting a Macbook to use as my main development computer. The reason is I’m…
- Testing Help From the Twitter Sphere, Anyone have an IPad1 Handy? by: Peter Kellner
  December 22, 2011, 18:13
  I’ve been working on an HTML5/CSS3 SenchaTouch project for many months now and near the end we our finding that we have problems on an IPad1 only and all I…
- Boost Your SEO And Promote Silicon Valley Code Camp At The Same Time! by: Peter Kellner
  September 21, 2011, 19:24
  Introduction We have new page on the under the // ABOUT menu on the Silicon Valley Code Camp web site. It’s called “Live Referral Links” and…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Login Failing with IE10 (Fixed Now) by: Peter Kellner
  September 20, 2011, 10:10
  Scott Hanselman posted a while back about a browsers definition problem with some ASP.NET sites that causes problems. Microsoft has articles on…
- WinRT in Windows 8 CLR Confusion by: Peter Kellner
  September 15, 2011, 10:01
  I’m here at the Microsoft BUILD conference in Anaheim and am very much enjoying all the announcements surrouding the next major release of Windows (at least…
- With ASP.NET WebForms, How to Keep / Stop a Data Control Like GridView From Retrieving Data by: Peter Kellner
  August 1, 2011, 14:35
  The What and Where Something that may not be obvious is if are creating an asp.net WebForms project and you put a datasource such as SqlDataSource or…
- How To Format Bytes in GridView Using ASP.NET (Custom asp:BoundField Server Control) by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2010, 08:35
  (AKA, how to not use templates to do a simple GridView Column Formatting) This post is inspired by another post on did on GridView date…
- Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 15:51
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverligh…
- Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 (Article 3 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2010, 12:41
  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…
- How to Get a Stack Trace from C# without throwing Exception by: Peter Kellner
  December 21, 2009, 09:48
  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…
- Long Live the Semicolon and Why I Love it! by: Peter Kellner
  October 24, 2009, 08:23
  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,…
- Visiting Our First Silicon Valley Code Camp Platinum Sponsor for 2009 by: Peter Kellner
  August 16, 2009, 11:23
  This past Thursday evening, my wife Tammy and I went to visit our first platinum sponsor of 2009, Falafel Software in Capitola California. Lino Tadros,…
- Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2009, 12:59
  Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed…
- In ASP.NET, How To Create a DropDownList from an ENUM by: Peter Kellner
  June 16, 2009, 16:05
  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 by: Peter Kellner
  June 8, 2009, 22:21
  *Note 10/22/2011 (2+ years later): Microsoft is fixing this problem in EntityFramework 4.5! See my post here about it: http://peterkellner.net/2011/…
- Come See Me at VSLive in Las Vegas, June 9th (2 Sessions) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 17:27
  I’m doing two sessions at VS-Live in June. Both sessions are in the asp.net track. One is on High Speed performance in ASP.Net, and the other is on…
- How To Access Content From MasterPage in ASP.NET by: Peter Kellner
  March 20, 2009, 09:41
  So, you want to access some content from inside a page that you created from an existing master page? The most clean way to do this is to create a public…
- Arrived at Microsoft MVP Summit for Four Days of Fun and Learning by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2009, 01:21
  This is my third MVP Summit and it’s really starting out with a bang (and a little rain). I arrived today around noon to register. Immediately,…
- First Blood, Windows 7. Shock and Awe! by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2009, 14:44
  (Windows 7 Beta, Build 7000 put through the paces) Background I don’t seem to have a pile of computers laying around anymore so testing new operating…
- How to Retrieve a GridView Based on a CheckBoxList of Items with Asp.Net using ObjectDataSource with a little LINQ Thrown In by: Peter Kellner
  December 7, 2008, 01:08
  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…
- How To Tell If Ajax is working on your site with ASP.NET's ajax UpdatePanel and other Controls by: Peter Kellner
  October 12, 2008, 20:36
  So, I suppose you should just be able to see the fact that Ajax is working by the lack of page flashing. That may be true on a normal page on a slow…
- How to do URL Rewrites with ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 on IIS6 and IIS7 and What is Wild Card Mapping by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2008, 22:19
  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…
Category: ASP.NET 3.5 (50)
- Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2012, 12:40
  Introduction People often ask me if I use MVC or WebForms for my Microsoft ASP.NET projects. I always tell them MVC, but I don’t use…
- With ASP.NET WebForms, How to Keep / Stop a Data Control Like GridView From Retrieving Data by: Peter Kellner
  August 1, 2011, 14:35
  The What and Where Something that may not be obvious is if are creating an asp.net WebForms project and you put a datasource such as SqlDataSource or…
- Installing Umbraco To Windows 7 Ultimate – Step By Step by: Peter Kellner
  July 10, 2010, 09:29
  I’m planning on launching some small consumer software products in the next couple months and to support this effort, I need to have a CMS, Forums Software,…
- Returning JsonResult From ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Controller and Unit Testing by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2010, 21:19
  * I’m adding this comment after the post has been written to let anyone coming here know of another great post that goes further to explain no only what…
- ReSharper 5.0’s LINQ Refactoring Continues to be Amazing! by: Peter Kellner
  April 21, 2010, 17:46
  In this post, we’ll take a straight forward procedure based set of code and convert it to LINQ using a ReSharper from JetBrains suggestion. …
- How To User StreamReader to Open A File ReadOnly in C# (.NET) by: Peter Kellner
  December 7, 2009, 18:14
  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…
- Fun Times at “Ask the Experts” table at PDC09 Today by: Peter Kellner
  November 16, 2009, 15:56
  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…
- At PDC09 Windows Bootcamp (Monday 11/16) Doing Table Top Demos of ASP.NET Dynamic Data by: Peter Kellner
  October 26, 2009, 11:33
  Microsoft’s big developer conference (PDC http://microsoftpdc.com/) happens about every other year when Microsoft has big announcements. Turns out,…
- Using LINQ to Convert an Array Into a Generic List with C# by: Peter Kellner
  October 14, 2009, 17:35
  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…
- How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+) by: Peter Kellner
  September 6, 2009, 17:27
  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,…
- Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2009, 12:59
  Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed…
- In ASP.NET, How To Create a DropDownList from an ENUM by: Peter Kellner
  June 16, 2009, 16:05
  So, you have an enum defined as follows: public enum CompanyAddressType { Unknown = 0, Primary = 1, Warehouse = 2, …
- My Two Presentations Today at VSLive in Las Vegas (ExtJS, Then High Performance ASP.NET Web Sites) by: Peter Kellner
  June 8, 2009, 22:41
  Today was my first time doing 2 presentations during the same day at a professional conference (VSLive, Las Vegas). Both sessions were fun to present and…
- My ExtJS Presentation at Microsoft’s Office in San Francisco Last Night by: Peter Kellner
  May 21, 2009, 12:07
  Last night, I gave a 90 minute presentation on how to use ExtJS with ASP.NET serving up the data at the San Francisco Microsoft Office to what seemed to be…
- LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) by: Peter Kellner
  May 6, 2009, 10:23
  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…
- How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters by: Peter Kellner
  May 3, 2009, 16:42
  Programmatically setting JavaScript into an ASP.NET page is very straight forward when you do it in code. That is, in my case, I simply put it in the…
- Speaking Wednesday May 20th, 6:30PM, Microsoft Office San Francisco on ExtJS and ASP.NET Membership! by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2009, 21:59
  Come hear about how to see ExtJS integrated with ASP.NET for awesome Membership and Profile Management! I will speaking at the Microsoft Office…
- Not Using Session in ASP.NET means Session Affinity/Sticky Sessions Not Necessary in Web Farms! by: Peter Kellner
  April 3, 2009, 21:51
  So, I’ve always incorrectly thought that somehow, the cookie stored in asp.net was somehow tied to the Session provider in asp.net. Turns out I’m…
- A Great Telerik Training Coming Up in Capitola, CA 4/13-4/15 by: Peter Kellner
  April 3, 2009, 21:41
  Falafel Software is putting a three day training course in their new training facility in Capitola from Monday to Wednesday April 13-15th. As many of you…
- Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!) Part 6 by: Peter Kellner
  March 27, 2009, 12:40
  Article Series Article 1: Best Practices for Building an ASP.NET quality web site Article 2: Multi Level ASP.NET…
- ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer (Book Review) by: Peter Kellner
  March 25, 2009, 14:04
  Andrew Siemer has written an excellent book about how to best use .Net (specifically with asp.net as the front end web technology) to build a social networking…
- How To Access Content From MasterPage in ASP.NET by: Peter Kellner
  March 20, 2009, 09:41
  So, you want to access some content from inside a page that you created from an existing master page? The most clean way to do this is to create a public…
- How to Retrieve a GridView Based on a CheckBoxList of Items with Asp.Net using ObjectDataSource with a little LINQ Thrown In by: Peter Kellner
  December 7, 2008, 01:08
  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…
- How To Tell If Ajax is working on your site with ASP.NET's ajax UpdatePanel and other Controls by: Peter Kellner
  October 12, 2008, 20:36
  So, I suppose you should just be able to see the fact that Ajax is working by the lack of page flashing. That may be true on a normal page on a slow…
- LINQPad is Totally Awesome at Testing and Writing LINQ Queries by: Peter Kellner
  September 20, 2008, 21:25
  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…
- Create a Simple WCF Web Service and Use In JavaScript With Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 by: Peter Kellner
  September 14, 2008, 00:20
  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…
- View a Generic List with ASP.NET MVC. Step by Step With Preview 5 by: Peter Kellner
  September 9, 2008, 13:35
  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…
- ToLambda Refactor From ReSharper is Just Too Cool! by: Peter Kellner
  September 9, 2008, 11:07
  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…
- How to User HttpHandler such as .ashx file with IIS7 Integrated Mode, Webfarm Environment by: Peter Kellner
  September 6, 2008, 10:20
  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…
- How to do URL Rewrites with ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 on IIS6 and IIS7 and What is Wild Card Mapping by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2008, 22:19
  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…
- Convert Garmin 705 Navigator TCX Format using LINQ to XML and Data Objects - Article 1 by: Peter Kellner
  August 16, 2008, 16:51
  In this post, we will discuss what is necessary to convert the file created from a Garmin 705 navigator to C# .net Data Objects. We will use LINQ to XML to…
- Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource by: Peter Kellner
  August 5, 2008, 16:57
  As a moderator in the asp.net forums, I often see the same or similar questions. The answer to this question is pretty straight forward but not 100%…
- Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt OutsBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5) by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 08:33
  Combining two mailing lists with LINQ, then removing a third is demonstrated in this post. Using C# 3.0 with .Net 3.5 allows us to leverage LINQ to make this…
- Making the RSS Feed From the web site Discoverable by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 09:09
  This post shows how to use a cool tool to making a RSS Feed Discoverable on a web page. It involves creating an entry in the header tag of the page.
- Creating a Modal Login Window Using the Telerik Modal RadWindow ComponentBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 4) by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 08:47
  This article shows how to create a modal windows (not a popup) that displays a login windows (asking for username and password) in the middle of whatever…
- Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NETBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 3) by: Peter Kellner
  May 25, 2008, 15:17
  In this post, we discuss how to use themes and skins together in an ASP.NET web site. A complete example is shown including the web.config, a master page and…
- A Book Review of Manning's Windows PowerShell In Action by Bruce Payette by: Peter Kellner
  April 7, 2008, 11:24
  A book review of Windows PowerShell in action by Bruce Payette
- Best Practices for Configuring ASP.NET ConnectionStrings and AppSettings in Web.Config by: Peter Kellner
  February 23, 2008, 14:25
  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 Get the DataItem out of a ListView in Asp.Net 3.5 (compared to Repeater) by: Peter Kellner
  February 18, 2008, 06:51
  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.
- How to know if LINQ is working efficiently with SQL? by: Peter Kellner
  February 16, 2008, 08:29
  In this post, we look at how to log from LINQ to SQL to see the actual sql generated by the LINQ engine.
- My first LINQ Experience. How to do a simple COUNT() with LINQ to SQL by: Peter Kellner
  December 24, 2007, 11:12
  This post has some sample code using LINQ to do a simple SQL count function. It compares the code to a non-LINQ version. It's my first actual LINQ code do…
- Pro ASP.NET 3.5 and C# 2008 Released! Another Master Piece by: Peter Kellner
  December 18, 2007, 18:25
  A short book review of Pro ASP.NET 3.5 and C# 2008 by Mathew MacDonald, one of my favorite authors.
- Book Review: Pro LINQ Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joseph C. Rattz, Jr. by: Peter Kellner
  December 17, 2007, 07:54
  A book review on one of the first LINQ books published. IMHO, an excellent book to add to your library
- Why can I not Bind to a value on a DropDownList in a GridView with ASP.NET 2.0 or 3.5? by: Peter Kellner
  December 13, 2007, 17:26
  Learn how to bind a DropDownList in an asp.net 2.0/3.5 GridView Edit Row. This will show you how to get the data back to the database and learn why Bind does…
- Category: MVC (9)
  - Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult by: Peter Kellner
    April 10, 2012, 12:40
    Introduction People often ask me if I use MVC or WebForms for my Microsoft ASP.NET projects. I always tell them MVC, but I don’t use…
  - Meetup At Sencha Headquarters Tomorrow (Tuesday 8/23) in Redwood City Talking MVC in JavaScript! by: Peter Kellner
    August 22, 2011, 17:21
    Tomorrow night (Tuesday, August 23rd), we are having another meetup to talk about using MVC inside of Sencha’s JavaScript products. I (Peter Kellner)…
  - DevConnections Presentation Orlando, How To Make Your Browser fly by: Peter Kellner
    March 29, 2011, 14:08
    (About 100 People) The Presentation was broken down into three parts. Part 1 Created a windows razor project that cached in image on a web site using…
  - MVC3 Unable To Return Large JSON Even with Web Config Patch, Using LargeJsonResult Instead by: Peter Kellner
    March 21, 2011, 11:11
    I’m trying to download a base64 encoded image that is about 4 Megabytes embedded inside a JSON object. When I first tried this from my MVC3 Web application,…
  - Installing NuGet on VS2010 (first blood) by: Peter Kellner
    March 2, 2011, 17:11
    So, here are the steps necessary to install NuGet on my windows laptop computer. I’ve got vs2010 (not sp1) installed, I’ve disabled both Resharper…
  - Returning JsonResult From ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Controller and Unit Testing by: Peter Kellner
    May 14, 2010, 21:19
    * I’m adding this comment after the post has been written to let anyone coming here know of another great post that goes further to explain no only what…
  - Is There A Need For End-To-End ExtJS to Microsoft Server (MVC-C#, LOB) 4 Day Class? (Poll Enclosed) by: Peter Kellner
    May 4, 2010, 19:54
    Over the past couple years, the focus of the web development I’ve been doing involves building highly flexible, highly scalable and straight forward web…
  - How To View JSON in a Pretty Way by: Peter Kellner
    November 6, 2009, 09:49
    Cutting to the chase, I choose Vladimir Bodurov’s Color Formatter! For the past year or so, I’ve been working on a project that uses Microsoft’s ASP.NET…
  - View a Generic List with ASP.NET MVC. Step by Step With Preview 5 by: Peter Kellner
    September 9, 2008, 13:35
    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…
Category: Atlas/AJAX (7)
- How To Tell If Ajax is working on your site with ASP.NET's ajax UpdatePanel and other Controls by: Peter Kellner
  October 12, 2008, 20:36
  So, I suppose you should just be able to see the fact that Ajax is working by the lack of page flashing. That may be true on a normal page on a slow…
- The Smallest xmlHttp I Could Do And Still Get It Wrong by: Peter Kellner
  September 29, 2008, 09:11
  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…
- Best Practices for Building an asp.net quality web siteBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 1) by: Peter Kellner
  May 13, 2008, 11:06
  In this article, the first steps for building a professional web site are documented. These steps include building requirements, working with a designer and…
- Really good Ajax using asp.net Book By Alessandro Gallo, ASP.NET AJAX in Action by: Peter Kellner
  November 26, 2007, 11:29
  Alessandro Gallo has written a great book on Ajax in ASP.NET. I strongly recommend this book. Read on for more details.
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Integrates the DevExpress Cloud Control for Sessions by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2007, 12:11
  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…
- Third Article Published on MSDN! ASP.NET 2.0, Membership Meets Atlas by: Peter Kellner
  August 2, 2006, 15:30
  Microsoft published my third article in a series on how to use Membership in ASP.NET 2.0 with an ObjectDataSource. That is, extending Membership into three…
- Atlas Membership Management Upgrade (June CTP) by: Peter Kellner
  July 17, 2006, 23:52
  Atlas is still in beta from Microsoft and because of this, code that worked in previous CTP versions of Atlas may not work with later CTP's. This is exactly…
Category: Best Practices (21)
- Using Redgates Sql Compare for Complex Migrations with EF’s CodeFirst by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2012, 11:44
  Introduction As many of you know, I’ve been quite the fan of Entity Framework CodeFirst for quite some time. It does a great job of reducing the…
- LINQ and “Possible Multiple Enumerations of IEnumerable” Warning / Resharper To the Rescue! by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2012, 09:17
  In the most recent version of Resharper 7 from JetBrains, the brilliant team has gone one step above and beyond. Not only do they show this error which…
- How To Safely Display Data From ASP.NET TextField Inputs by: Peter Kellner
  October 16, 2011, 16:35
  Let’s say you have a user input field that you want the user to type data into which will be later displayed back to the user. You don’t want the…
- SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 15:24
  Introduction If you’ve started using SqlAzure for your SqlServer with your Azure application, you’ve probably discovered that you get a reasonable number…
- To Brace or not to Brace in C# ifs and other Constructs by: Peter Kellner
  October 19, 2009, 08:24
  In my last post, I found a use for inverting if statements. That is, I postulated that it is better to have an explicit else when it’s impossible for…
- LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) by: Peter Kellner
  May 6, 2009, 10:23
  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…
- A Great New Book on Business Intelligence Solutions and Sql Server 2008 by Lynn Langit by: Peter Kellner
  February 23, 2009, 17:42
  I’m sure many of you know Lynn Langit. Her role at Microsoft has been a Developer Evangelist of many of the business software offerings from Microsoft…
- First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I love it!!! by: Peter Kellner
  January 17, 2009, 15:06
  As a developer who has spent much of my life doing DBA type work, I really appreciate the simplicity and elegance of what Microsoft Visual Studio Team has put…
- View a Generic List with ASP.NET MVC. Step by Step With Preview 5 by: Peter Kellner
  September 9, 2008, 13:35
  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…
- How to User HttpHandler such as .ashx file with IIS7 Integrated Mode, Webfarm Environment by: Peter Kellner
  September 6, 2008, 10:20
  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…
- How to do URL Rewrites with ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 on IIS6 and IIS7 and What is Wild Card Mapping by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2008, 22:19
  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…
- Refactoring With ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# fixes I often use by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 06:59
  One of the really nice features I enjoy using in Resharper 4.0 is the refactoring that converts inefficient (and unpleasant to read) syntax into nice efficient…
- Creating a Modal Login Window Using the Telerik Modal RadWindow ComponentBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 4) by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 08:47
  This article shows how to create a modal windows (not a popup) that displays a login windows (asking for username and password) in the middle of whatever…
- Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NETBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 3) by: Peter Kellner
  May 25, 2008, 15:17
  In this post, we discuss how to use themes and skins together in an ASP.NET web site. A complete example is shown including the web.config, a master page and…
- Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control AdaptersBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  May 19, 2008, 15:38
  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…
- Best Practices for Configuring ASP.NET ConnectionStrings and AppSettings in Web.Config by: Peter Kellner
  February 23, 2008, 14:25
  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…
- In C#, When to use String verses string by: Peter Kellner
  December 29, 2007, 11:12
  Just a short ramble on when to use string verses use String in C#. Basically they compile to the same IL code
- Media Browser Using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Leverage Software's REST API by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 18:24
  Searchlight was born from the desire to show the outstanding ability of Silverlight to create a compelling web application using existing infrastructure techno…
- Code Camp Presentation Coming 10/27-28/2008 on Silverlight, Los Altos, California by: Peter Kellner
  September 12, 2007, 22:06
  I'll be presenting a session at the upcoming Code Camp in Silicon Valley's Foothill College on October 27th-28th. Details can be found at http://www.siliconva…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Integrates the DevExpress Cloud Control for Sessions by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2007, 12:11
  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…
- Always Set Stop On Exception While Doing Debugging in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 by: Peter Kellner
  August 10, 2007, 09:05
  This article discusses a best practices method for automatically having the debugger stop on unhandled exceptions in visual studio 2005 or 2008
Category: Book Reviews (17)
- My Presentation in San Francisco This Past Wednesday Night to Bay.Net by: Peter Kellner
  March 18, 2011, 22:14
  This past Wednesday, I presented a front end performance session for how to make web sites work well. I primarily covered the content from from Steve…
- Learning Ext JS 3.2 From PACKT Is Another Winner! by: Peter Kellner
  January 2, 2011, 18:46
  The same authors who write the original Learning Ext JS are back and definitely with a winner here. Just to start out, the book is about a third longer,…
- “Programming Windows Azure” By Sriram Krishnan / O’Reilly Book Review by: Peter Kellner
  December 21, 2010, 10:43
  I’ve been slowly building up my Azure experience over the past few months and actually plan to release a product using Azure during the next month or…
- Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Book Review, Now Available! (Windows Azure Platform by Tejaswi Redkar) by: Peter Kellner
  January 11, 2010, 09:09
  For those of you that have been sleeping for the past year, Cloud computing is Hot! Amazon more or less lead the way with their cloud computing platforms…
- Book Review – Programming Entity Framework (EF) by Julie Lerman by: Peter Kellner
  December 14, 2009, 10:36
  You all know that I’ve blogged quite a bit about LINQ2SQL. That technology has saved me a huge amount of programming effort verses using…
- Book Review of Object Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov by: Peter Kellner
  August 30, 2009, 07:55
  For the past year or so, I’ve been spending part time learning JavaScript. My reason has been we use ExtJS extensively in my company and it’s…
- ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer (Book Review) by: Peter Kellner
  March 25, 2009, 14:04
  Andrew Siemer has written an excellent book about how to best use .Net (specifically with asp.net as the front end web technology) to build a social networking…
- A Great New Book on Business Intelligence Solutions and Sql Server 2008 by Lynn Langit by: Peter Kellner
  February 23, 2009, 17:42
  I’m sure many of you know Lynn Langit. Her role at Microsoft has been a Developer Evangelist of many of the business software offerings from Microsoft…
- A New Book on Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Server by: Peter Kellner
  February 12, 2009, 12:03
  William Bartholomew just published a new book on MSBuild and TFS. There is a great forward by Richard Hundhausen (Famous TFS Author and top MS…
- An ExtJS book just published!!! (Learning Ext JS By Shea Frederick, Colin Ramsay and Steve Blades) by: Peter Kellner
  November 28, 2008, 21:00
  ***(This book has been replaced by a new one from the same authors titled Learning Ext JS 3.2 and you should order that one and not this one) I've been…
- My Two JavaScript Favorite Books:, "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" by: Peter Kellner
  October 11, 2008, 09:20
  I've been working on a project lately that requires a lot of JavaScript, and if any of you are like me, you've had trouble learning the language well. …
- C# In Depth by Jon Skeet Book Review by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 12:22
  Jon Skeet published a great book titled C# In Depth by Manning Publishers. I strongly recommend getting this book
- A Book Review of Manning's Windows PowerShell In Action by Bruce Payette by: Peter Kellner
  April 7, 2008, 11:24
  A book review of Windows PowerShell in action by Bruce Payette
- Pro ASP.NET 3.5 and C# 2008 Released! Another Master Piece by: Peter Kellner
  December 18, 2007, 18:25
  A short book review of Pro ASP.NET 3.5 and C# 2008 by Mathew MacDonald, one of my favorite authors.
- Book Review: Pro LINQ Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joseph C. Rattz, Jr. by: Peter Kellner
  December 17, 2007, 07:54
  A book review on one of the first LINQ books published. IMHO, an excellent book to add to your library
- Really good Ajax using asp.net Book By Alessandro Gallo, ASP.NET AJAX in Action by: Peter Kellner
  November 26, 2007, 11:29
  Alessandro Gallo has written a great book on Ajax in ASP.NET. I strongly recommend this book. Read on for more details.
- Pro WPF by Matthew MacDonald Book Review by: Peter Kellner
  August 9, 2007, 18:32
  A must buy book if you are learning WPF
Category: C# (71)
- Why ReSharper Is Worth Using (reason #879) by: Peter Kellner
  April 14, 2013, 08:47
  I often email the folks at JetBrains (the makers of ReSharper) letting them know that one of their refactors is wrong. They often email me back…
- ImageResizer, Amazon’s CloudFront and ASP.NET’s MVC4 Razor Helper Methods by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2013, 19:36
  Well, the title is certainly a mouthful and hopefully a honey trap for SEO. The thing is, I’m really going to talk about all those things. …
- Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 08:32
  Three Part Series (Part 1) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- CodeIt.Right Takes Refactoring To The Next Level by: Peter Kellner
  November 22, 2012, 10:42
  Background I’m a big believer in using refactoring tools to help improve the quality of the code I right. I just added another tool to my arsenal…
- Simple Type Safe Coding in Microsoft’s C# by: Peter Kellner
  November 2, 2012, 14:19
  I often like to show programming tips around simple things. Over the years, I’ve found that it is easy to get Lazy and do cutting and pasting…
- Using LINQ ForEach To Populate Generic List in C# AND Enum to List by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2012, 07:00
  A C# trick I first had trouble wrapping my head around is using the LINQ ForEach operator to populate a list. I was originally inspired by some source I…
- In C# Passing Delegate As Parameter, Then Executing on Return by: Peter Kellner
  August 30, 2012, 15:40
  I did not know that it is possible to have a delegate as a call to a method, then have that method actually execute that delegate at it’s convenience. …
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 19:02
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction (this) Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots …
- Deeply Nested Null Checking in C# verses Assert with no nesting by: Peter Kellner
  May 24, 2012, 17:07
  One of the code smells that particularly bothers me (though I often find myself doing it anyhow) is when I defensively program against nulls in C# (though…
- Building a Simple Window Service Application in Visual Studio 2010 That Runs, Sleeps and Stops by: Peter Kellner
  March 26, 2012, 11:24
  Introduction The goal is to create a simple Service in Windows 7 (or other similar OS’s) with Visual Studio 2010 that simply starts, sleeps for 15 seconds,…
- Test First Development Walk Through with Visual Studio 2011 Preview by: Peter Kellner
  March 18, 2012, 16:14
  Introduction Many of us know we should be using test first development, however it is hard to break old habits. I have to admit, I started to solve this…
- Using The DataContext In EntityFramework To Retrieve Nested Objects by: Peter Kellner
  November 27, 2011, 11:41
  I’m always somewhat amazed when I read something from documentation that is not straight forward and it actually works. So amazed and excited that I…
- Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? by: Peter Kellner
  October 30, 2011, 18:36
  Normally, when we stick a JSON file up on an IIS web server, all we have to do to get to is is to set the Mime type. One easy way to do it is to add to…
- Using ASP.NET Web Forms, Passing Primary Key to RowCommand Event by: Peter Kellner
  September 5, 2011, 08:01
  I know this is old hat, but after recently having a conversation with one of the ASP.NET Team guys about how easy Web Forms is to use, I thought I’d…
- Getting ExtJS 4 Date Format To Behave Properly in Grid Panel with ASP.NET MVC3 by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2011, 11:52
  Introduction and Problem Converting Data Formats back and forth between browser and back end servers can be a little confusing. In my case,…
- With ASP.NET WebForms, How to Keep / Stop a Data Control Like GridView From Retrieving Data by: Peter Kellner
  August 1, 2011, 14:35
  The What and Where Something that may not be obvious is if are creating an asp.net WebForms project and you put a datasource such as SqlDataSource or…
- How To Read All The Bytes From A File in C# and Put Them Into A Byte Array by: Peter Kellner
  March 20, 2011, 11:32
  I normally don’t blog about such simple things, but somehow, I’ve always done this in about 5 lines of code and I ran into at eggheadcafe in one line this…
- What is the Difference Between Path.GetTempFileName and Path.GetTempPath by: Peter Kellner
  February 17, 2011, 17:40
  Getting filenames to use as scratch files is usually very straight forward. Well, today, I found out “not so much”. I decided today was a good…
- SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 15:24
  Introduction If you’ve started using SqlAzure for your SqlServer with your Azure application, you’ve probably discovered that you get a reasonable number…
- A Simple MultiThreading Pattern For C# With No Statics. Shows Compressing A File With GZip by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2010, 08:09
  Background This post shows a very simple technique for processing a gzip compression on a background thread using c# with Visual Studio 2010. What is…
- Using SHA256Managed to Generate SHA256 Hash with Microsoft .Net Cryptography Namespace / Memory Usage Implications by: Peter Kellner
  December 3, 2010, 12:33
  Background And Conclusion In my very last post I talked about how using SHA256 seemed to not be affected by whether you use Buffered or Not Buffered…
- Efficiently Generating SHA256 Checksum For Files Using C# by: Peter Kellner
  November 24, 2010, 11:01
  * I just added another post on similar topic and added more details on performance and a case where buffered memory usage really did matter: http://peterk…
- Building a Simple Azure Blob Tree Viewer With Azure StorageClient API by: Peter Kellner
  November 12, 2010, 18:36
  Understanding how Azure Blob Storage can be used to simulate directory structures is a little tricky to say the least. I’ve got a long forum thread on…
- If You Use BackgroundWorker in .Net, Make Sure You Wrap Your Worker Method In Try (or risk missing the exception thrown) by: Peter Kellner
  November 9, 2010, 14:57
  So, just a short post in case someone runs into the same problem I had today that cost me about 2 hours using Visual Studio 2010. Basically, if you are…
- A Refactoring I Should Have Been Doing for Years but Forgot, AppSettings by: Peter Kellner
  October 18, 2010, 10:30
  So, It’s always annoyed me that when I want to check an AppSettings variable from app.config or web.config I’ve had to go through code like the following:…
- How To Override ToString() in a Simple C# Class by: Peter Kellner
  July 26, 2010, 11:25
  So, you have a simple class that has a bunch public properties and you want to be able to use ToString() on it to show some data? It’s easy. All…
- A Handy Refactoring with CodeRush (InLine Temp) by: Peter Kellner
  July 2, 2010, 07:34
  I’ve recently started using CodeRush with Visual Studio 2010 and am so far very impressed with the convenience it adds to coding. One thing that is…
- ReSharper 5.0 Adds New “Add Parameter” Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  April 26, 2010, 11:38
  In this post, I’ll show a simple example of how when you add a parameter to C# method, ReSharper gives you a simple prompting to ask if you want to add a…
- OData Query Option top Forces Data To Be Sorted By Primary Key by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2010, 11:24
  This post show a simple WCF Data Service (Formerly known as ADO.NET Data Services) project that retrieves data using the Reflection Provider for accessing…
- Small LINQ Trick for Converting List<String> to String Text List by: Peter Kellner
  February 24, 2010, 14:58
  Here is a shorthand way for converting a list of strings defined as follows: List<string> strings = new List<string> { "a","b&…
- Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:25
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:22
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In…
- Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:20
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 15:51
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverligh…
- How To Convert From Request With Parameter to No Parameter in ASP.NET (Server.Transfer) by: Peter Kellner
  January 24, 2010, 14:59
  The problem is that I’m trying to keep track of the exact URL a person selects including the request parameter. That is, I have a URLs that can…
- Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 (Article 3 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2010, 12:41
  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…
- Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 20, 2010, 12:12
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using Silverlight 4…
- Another Cool Resharper Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  December 19, 2009, 18:52
  So, if you are like me, it’s easy to make mistakes on whether to use && or || when combining variables on if statements. I hate to just start…
- Combining JavaScript and CSS to Make Pages Load Faster by: Peter Kellner
  November 10, 2009, 13:26
  We are in the process of “speeding up” our ExtJS application. I’m just finally figuring out the rules of the road for doing this. Here are a…
- Converting From System.Data.Linq.Binary to String and Back by: Peter Kellner
  November 8, 2009, 10:49
  Just a quick post in case anyone is wasting 10 minutes figuring out how to do this. For me, this came up because in Sql Server 2008, NVARCHAR(MAX) is…
- I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! by: Peter Kellner
  November 2, 2009, 17:47
  For the past couple years, I’ve used a product called FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies to automate my build processes. Since I’ve been…
- At PDC09 Windows Bootcamp (Monday 11/16) Doing Table Top Demos of ASP.NET Dynamic Data by: Peter Kellner
  October 26, 2009, 11:33
  Microsoft’s big developer conference (PDC http://microsoftpdc.com/) happens about every other year when Microsoft has big announcements. Turns out,…
- To Brace or not to Brace in C# ifs and other Constructs by: Peter Kellner
  October 19, 2009, 08:24
  In my last post, I found a use for inverting if statements. That is, I postulated that it is better to have an explicit else when it’s impossible for…
- Using ReSharper, I’ve Always Wondered Why They Had the “Invert if” refactor by: Peter Kellner
  October 18, 2009, 08:33
  Well, now I know. Here is an example of some code I just wrote: if (doDeficitCalc) { throw new ApplicationException("Need…
- Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus by: Peter Kellner
  October 14, 2009, 21:02
  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…
- Using LINQ to Convert an Array Into a Generic List with C# by: Peter Kellner
  October 14, 2009, 17:35
  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…
- LINQPad Help For Creating Nasty Group by Query in Native SQL by: Peter Kellner
  September 28, 2009, 09:51
  I often speak very highly of LINQ and also LINQPad. This morning, I was struggling with some sql that would let me do a count by DateTime while…
- Using LINQ2SQL, Use Group By To Get List of Top Occuring Values by: Peter Kellner
  September 3, 2009, 16:05
  So, I’m really enjoying using LINQ and specifically LINQ2SQL. I’ve got a current problem where I want to get from a long list of loads (potentially…
- In ASP.NET, How To Create a DropDownList from an ENUM by: Peter Kellner
  June 16, 2009, 16:05
  So, you have an enum defined as follows: public enum CompanyAddressType { Unknown = 0, Primary = 1, Warehouse = 2, …
- Interesting LINQ side affect, Pass in empty List<int> using Contains and Get Where 0 == 1. Hmm by: Peter Kellner
  June 14, 2009, 08:21
  We’ve built a data access layer on top of LINQ2SQL for dynamically building the layer we call for data access. It’s convenient because we pass in a…
- 780 Requests Per Second Verses 110, You Really Need to Compile your LINQ to SQL (LINQ2SQL) Queries by: Peter Kellner
  June 8, 2009, 22:21
  *Note 10/22/2011 (2+ years later): Microsoft is fixing this problem in EntityFramework 4.5! See my post here about it: http://peterkellner.net/2011/…
- Not Sure If I’ve Said Often Enough.. I LOVE LINQPAD!!! by: Peter Kellner
  June 4, 2009, 06:30
  I’ve been doing a lot of LINQ2SQL lately and just in case I have not said it loud enough how enthusiastic I am about LINQPAD written by Joseph Albahari. …
- How Fast are In Memory LINQ Evaluations for Doing Simple Things? by: Peter Kellner
  June 3, 2009, 18:27
  So, I recently blogged about the huge penalty for not compiling your LINQ2SQL. This problem is so big that it occurred to us that maybe all of LINQ has…
- How to Create a Generic Integer List From a List of Objects Using LINQ by: Peter Kellner
  June 3, 2009, 10:02
  So, this is very straight forward, but I sometimes forget it. I figure I’ll do a short blog post on it so next time I search for it, I’ll probably…
- Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values by: Peter Kellner
  June 1, 2009, 12:04
  So, I’ve struggled some with this and did not have much help with searching. Here is the problem. You have a declaration that looks like this:…
- ExtJS Meetup Tonight in San Francisco, Sample URLs of Running Code Here by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2009, 07:47
  At tonight's meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in ExtJS version 3.0. For my short presentation, I will be…
- LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) by: Peter Kellner
  May 6, 2009, 10:23
  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…
- Come See Me at VSLive in Las Vegas, June 9th (2 Sessions) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 17:27
  I’m doing two sessions at VS-Live in June. Both sessions are in the asp.net track. One is on High Speed performance in ASP.Net, and the other is on…
- Using Method.Invoke to avoid a lengthy Case Statement in C# (Using Reflection) by: Peter Kellner
  April 9, 2009, 15:02
  So, I asked the following question in at http://forums.asp.net/t/1408631.aspx The problem is, I’ve got 30 methods that all have the same signature, but…
- Not Using Session in ASP.NET means Session Affinity/Sticky Sessions Not Necessary in Web Farms! by: Peter Kellner
  April 3, 2009, 21:51
  So, I’ve always incorrectly thought that somehow, the cookie stored in asp.net was somehow tied to the Session provider in asp.net. Turns out I’m…
- Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!) Part 6 by: Peter Kellner
  March 27, 2009, 12:40
  Article Series Article 1: Best Practices for Building an ASP.NET quality web site Article 2: Multi Level ASP.NET…
- How To Access Content From MasterPage in ASP.NET by: Peter Kellner
  March 20, 2009, 09:41
  So, you want to access some content from inside a page that you created from an existing master page? The most clean way to do this is to create a public…
- How to Retrieve a GridView Based on a CheckBoxList of Items with Asp.Net using ObjectDataSource with a little LINQ Thrown In by: Peter Kellner
  December 7, 2008, 01:08
  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…
- Create a Simple WCF Web Service and Use In JavaScript With Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 by: Peter Kellner
  September 14, 2008, 00:20
  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…
- View a Generic List with ASP.NET MVC. Step by Step With Preview 5 by: Peter Kellner
  September 9, 2008, 13:35
  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…
- ToLambda Refactor From ReSharper is Just Too Cool! by: Peter Kellner
  September 9, 2008, 11:07
  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…
- How to do URL Rewrites with ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 on IIS6 and IIS7 and What is Wild Card Mapping by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2008, 22:19
  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…
- How to find your temporary asp.net executing assemblies location by: Peter Kellner
  August 18, 2008, 12:22
  Seems, I keep forgetting where the temporary files asp.net uses. The reason it's nice to know is sometimes you may want to open them with Reflector to see the…
- Using MapPath with WCF Service, Setting aspNetCompatibilityEnabled to true by: Peter Kellner
  August 18, 2008, 10:05
  I'm just starting out using WCF in an application for the first time. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 sp1 and created an asp.net web site from the standard…
- C# In Depth by Jon Skeet Book Review by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 12:22
  Jon Skeet published a great book titled C# In Depth by Manning Publishers. I strongly recommend getting this book
- Refactoring With ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# fixes I often use by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 06:59
  One of the really nice features I enjoy using in Resharper 4.0 is the refactoring that converts inefficient (and unpleasant to read) syntax into nice efficient…
Category: Charity (2)
- Microsoft MVP Summit, GeekGive! (3rd year for me) by: Peter Kellner
  February 26, 2012, 22:12
  For the past two years, a day before the Microsoft MVP Summit a GeekGive has been organized where about 50 or so of us all go to some location and help with…
- Untangle Partners with InstallFest Fro Schools at LinuxWorld San Francisco, Free Conference Day! by: Peter Kellner
  August 4, 2008, 08:50
  Untangle, a network software company in San Mateo California, specializing in open source firewall software, has partnered with IDG World Expo to donate…
Category: Code Camp Web Site Series (10)
- New Awesome Session Interest Viewer On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site by: Peter Kellner
  June 11, 2011, 07:29
  Checkout the new session viewer we put together for Silicon Valley Code Camp. Using one of the very cool Sencha demonstration pages (Forms Dashboard), we…
- Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2009, 12:59
  Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed…
- Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!) Part 6 by: Peter Kellner
  March 27, 2009, 12:40
  Article Series Article 1: Best Practices for Building an ASP.NET quality web site Article 2: Multi Level ASP.NET…
- One Week to Go Before Silicon Valley Code Camp! 118 Sessions, Over 1000 Registered (11/8,11/9) by: Peter Kellner
  November 1, 2008, 13:18
  Things are really heating up here. We just did our walk through of Foothill College to insure we have room for everyone and all the food. (Coffee…
- Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt OutsBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5) by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 08:33
  Combining two mailing lists with LINQ, then removing a third is demonstrated in this post. Using C# 3.0 with .Net 3.5 allows us to leverage LINQ to make this…
- Making the RSS Feed From the web site Discoverable by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 09:09
  This post shows how to use a cool tool to making a RSS Feed Discoverable on a web page. It involves creating an entry in the header tag of the page.
- Creating a Modal Login Window Using the Telerik Modal RadWindow ComponentBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 4) by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 08:47
  This article shows how to create a modal windows (not a popup) that displays a login windows (asking for username and password) in the middle of whatever…
- Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NETBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 3) by: Peter Kellner
  May 25, 2008, 15:17
  In this post, we discuss how to use themes and skins together in an ASP.NET web site. A complete example is shown including the web.config, a master page and…
- Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control AdaptersBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  May 19, 2008, 15:38
  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…
- Best Practices for Building an asp.net quality web siteBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 1) by: Peter Kellner
  May 13, 2008, 11:06
  In this article, the first steps for building a professional web site are documented. These steps include building requirements, working with a designer and…
Category: CodeSmith (1)
- Implementing Simple Cache for CodeSmith and NetTiers (ASP.NET 2.0) by: Peter Kellner
  November 2, 2006, 08:12
  In this article, I will show a simple way to implement Cache for a GetData type call in the SqlClient layer of the generated code. I won't go through all the…
Category: Community (82)
- Last Nights Meetup At Sencha HQ In RWC Excellent! by: Peter Kellner
  May 1, 2013, 06:57
  Last nights meetup at Sencha Headquarters in Redwood City with Jacky Nguyen presenting was excellent, and as usual very fun. Jacky talked about tons of…
- Great .Net Education Day Coming April 19th, 2013 in San Francisco, CodeMastery! by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2013, 10:01
  Magenic, a leading consulting company in the .Net space is having a free education day in San Francisco on April 19th. I’m going to be speaking doing a…
- Speaking Wednesday, February 27 About SPA apps and WebAPI in Mountain View Microsoft Office by: Peter Kellner
  February 21, 2013, 20:47
  ASP.NET’s WebAPI and SPA’s (single page apps) are all the rage! In our brave new world, many web apps are now Single Page Applications written…
- Sencha’s Architect’s Perfect Storm, Easy To Use and Incorporates Hand Written Code Gracefully by: Peter Kellner
  February 4, 2013, 13:49
  Introduction Wednesday night this week, our local meetup (happening at Sencha’s headquarters in Redwood City) is featuring the Sencha Architect engineers…
- Tuesday (Tomorrow) Night, At The Microsoft Office in SF, I'm talking SYNC SYNC SYNC by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2013, 21:26
  It seems like every project I’m involved in at some point turns into a sync project. Tomorrow night, I’ll talk about the different efforts Microsoft…
- Another SF Bay Area Sencha/ExtJS Meetup Done / CMD, Fastbook and PracticeFusion by: Peter Kellner
  December 17, 2012, 22:22
  It was good to see the our Meetup in action again. It’s been too long since our last one. Aditka from Sencha did a great job of presenting both…
- Talking Tomorrow Night (11/27/2012) in Mountain View About Experience Submitting To Windows 8 AppStore by: Peter Kellner
  November 26, 2012, 22:50
  Tomorrow night, I’m leading a meetup to discuss my experiences at getting my first app (AgelessEmail) into the windows 8 app store. I’m planning on…
- Awesome First Xamarin Meetup in San Francisco Last Night by: Peter Kellner
  September 21, 2012, 08:10
  As the organizer of a new meetup, it’s always a little nerve racking when the first one happens. One wonders weather you and two other people will…
- Leading BOF Session on Building SenchaTouch 2.0 App Coming to Mountain View May 25, 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  May 11, 2012, 09:43
  I’m leading a 3 hour hands on lab titled "MindSource Birds of a Feather 55 (BoF) - Developing Mobile Applications using SenchaTouch 2.0" on May…
- Presenting In San Francisco 3/21/2012 (Wednesday): First Blood With Windows 8 Metro Programming in JavaScript and HTML5/CSS3 by: Peter Kellner
  March 19, 2012, 10:23
  http://baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=520&mid=49 Microsoft San Francisco Office 835 Market Street, Suite 700…
- Our First Windows 8 Metro JavaScript Meetup Tonight by: Peter Kellner
  November 8, 2011, 00:04
  Today we had our first meetup of the Windows 8 Metro JavaScript Group. http://www.meetup.com/The-Silicon-Valley-Windows-8-Metro-Development-in-JavaScri…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp V6, 2011, is Just 4 Days Away! by: Peter Kellner
  October 4, 2011, 10:57
  As the primary organizer for Silicon Valley Code Camp, I’m very excited to say things are really going well for this year. Our attendance looks…
- Meetup At Sencha Headquarters Tomorrow (Tuesday 8/23) in Redwood City Talking MVC in JavaScript! by: Peter Kellner
  August 22, 2011, 17:21
  Tomorrow night (Tuesday, August 23rd), we are having another meetup to talk about using MVC inside of Sencha’s JavaScript products. I (Peter Kellner)…
- Presenting Tonight In San Francisco on Windows Azure Development Real World Experiences by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2011, 11:35
  Tonight, at the Microsoft office (see this announcement for more details: http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-NET-User-Group/events/21982451/?a=cr1p_grp&…
- New Awesome Session Interest Viewer On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site by: Peter Kellner
  June 11, 2011, 07:29
  Checkout the new session viewer we put together for Silicon Valley Code Camp. Using one of the very cool Sencha demonstration pages (Forms Dashboard), we…
- Building Hugely Performant Websites: Taking advantage of HTML5 Storage, 3rd DevConnections Orlando Presentation by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2011, 05:08
  For my final of 3 presentations at DevConnections Orlando is about building a hugely performant web application with html5 storage. The app we…
- DevConnections Orlando, Build Advanced Web UIs with a Rich JavaScript UI Language by: Peter Kellner
  March 30, 2011, 07:26
  To build fully-featured web applications that support complex interaction in a reasonable amount of time requires a high-end JavaScript library. Someday,…
- DevConnections Presentation Orlando, How To Make Your Browser fly by: Peter Kellner
  March 29, 2011, 14:08
  (About 100 People) The Presentation was broken down into three parts. Part 1 Created a windows razor project that cached in image on a web site using…
- Presenting 15 Web Performance Tips: Getting things Right on the Client March 16th at Bay.Net in San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  March 5, 2011, 15:47
  Register Here: http://www.baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=480&mid=49 When: Wednesday, 3/16/2011 at 6:30 PM…
- Another Fun Bruno Azure Meetup In San Francisco (The Windows Azure AppFabric) by: Peter Kellner
  January 31, 2011, 18:49
  Bruno Terkaly, the meeting organizer and local Microsoft Evangelist, did a great job of organizing as well as presenting. Over the holidays, Bruno built…
- Defending Yourself From the Internet, Presented at the Kendal Retirement Community in Northern Ohio at Oberlin by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 19:38
  I had a great time tonight presenting to about 40 people at Kendal, an awesome retirement community in Northern Ohio, at Oberlin. This was my first ever…
- My Interview With DevExpress Regarding Silicon Valley Code Camp by: Peter Kellner
  June 17, 2010, 13:59
  Last week, while at Microsoft’s TechEd 2010, Mehul Harry, Technical Evangalist for Developer Express, interviewed me about our upcoming Silicon Valley Code…
- My Habitat For Humanity Day Before TechEd 2010 in New Orleans by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2010, 08:49
  Yesterday, I spent the day building what I think are stantions (piles of blocks held together by mortar) to hold a house 5 feet above the ground. Through…
- More Sessions At Central Coast Code Camp, Ruby/Cloud Computing by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2010, 15:35
  Should Your Application Run In The Cloud I’m back and sitting in Steve Evans Session, Should Your Application Run In The Cloud. He’s now explaining…
- Just Finished My Presentation at SLO! (Central Coast Code Camp At Cal Poly) by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2010, 12:33
  I love code camps! This is my first time to San Luis Obispo’s Central Coast Code Camp and I’m really enjoying it. It started last night with…
- NorCal Weekly .Net is Up Now! Catch All for the .Net Events in Northern California! by: Peter Kellner
  March 10, 2010, 21:54
  I’ve always wanted a place that I could look through to find what .net events are going on in Northern California. I’ve found that there is a core…
- Great ExtJS Meetup in Palo Alto Tonight at ExtJS’s New Office by: Peter Kellner
  February 24, 2010, 23:46
  Yet another great meetup with the ExtJS San Francisco Group (though not meeting in San Francisco this time). ExtJS has moved it’s main office and…
- Will Be Presenting at Bay.Net Users Group Wednesday 1/20/2010 RIA Services in Silverlight 4 With VS2010 by: Peter Kellner
  January 13, 2010, 08:13
  NOTE ADDED 1/25/2010 by PETER KELLNER: Just finished 7 blog posts that each have video that basically follows was was done in the presentati…
- Fun Times at “Ask the Experts” table at PDC09 Today by: Peter Kellner
  November 16, 2009, 15:56
  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…
- Left Home 0Dark100, arrived LAX 8AM, New Friends Lead the Way by: Peter Kellner
  November 16, 2009, 11:42
  So, for those of you that don’t know me well, suffice it to say, I have less than no sense of direction. I always manage to make my way home, but often…
- At PDC09 Windows Bootcamp (Monday 11/16) Doing Table Top Demos of ASP.NET Dynamic Data by: Peter Kellner
  October 26, 2009, 11:33
  Microsoft’s big developer conference (PDC http://microsoftpdc.com/) happens about every other year when Microsoft has big announcements. Turns out,…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp V4 is a wrap! by: Peter Kellner
  October 4, 2009, 20:39
  Words can’t begin to describe this years 4th Silicon Valley Code Camp. The energy of the speakers, volunteers and organizers was just awesome. …
- We Are On Our Final Silicon Valley Code Camp Trajectory (10/3-10/4 Reality Check) by: Peter Kellner
  October 2, 2009, 10:30
  We’ve got a huge session line up (147) and a huge attendance (1700+), awesome weather predicted and tons of food coming. We just printed our final…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Schedule Published! by: Peter Kellner
  September 27, 2009, 21:57
  I have not blogged a lot about Silicon Valley Code Camp this year, not because a lot has not been going on, but actually, because a lot has been going on and I…
- A Break From the Madness, Fun Times at Plug and Play by: Peter Kellner
  July 17, 2009, 18:20
  The company I work for, 3PLogic, recently moved into a cubicle 4 pack at Plug and Play here in Sunnyvale, California. We are a leading edge development…
- My ExtJS Presentation at Microsoft’s Office in San Francisco Last Night by: Peter Kellner
  May 21, 2009, 12:07
  Last night, I gave a 90 minute presentation on how to use ExtJS with ASP.NET serving up the data at the San Francisco Microsoft Office to what seemed to be…
- Another Great ExtJS Meetup in San Francisco! by: Peter Kellner
  May 21, 2009, 11:45
  Last week, we had our 5th Meetup of the San Francisco ExtJS Meetup Group at ClickTime. Xiaohui Chen and I both presented different aspects of some new…
- ExtJS Meetup Tonight in San Francisco, Sample URLs of Running Code Here by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2009, 07:47
  At tonight's meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in ExtJS version 3.0. For my short presentation, I will be…
- Great JavaScript Meetup In San Francsico Last Night! by: Peter Kellner
  April 30, 2009, 10:48
  My guess is 75 people showed up at Dolores Labs last night for this meetup. It lasted about two hours and had about 6 great presentations. …
- Come See Me at VSLive in Las Vegas, June 9th (2 Sessions) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 17:27
  I’m doing two sessions at VS-Live in June. Both sessions are in the asp.net track. One is on High Speed performance in ASP.Net, and the other is on…
- Come to Portland Code Camp and see me Present ExtJS with ASP.NET Membership (May 30th) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 17:18
  http://portlandcodecamp.org/default.aspx Portland Code Camp - May 30, 2009 at Reed College Building asp.net Membership with ExtJS (Super Rich JavaScript…
- Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 09:03
  Over the past week, I met lots of people I know from the ExtJS forums. It was great fun. I also met two of the authors of “Learning Ext JS”…
- My First Video Blog Interview! by: Peter Kellner
  March 27, 2009, 13:42
  Several weeks ago I went to the MVP summit to learn and share with my fellow MVP’s (Microsoft Most Valuable Player). Suzanna Moran, my MVP lead asked…
- Great ExtJS Meetup Last Night! Chris Scott, Core ExtJS Developer Joined Us by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2009, 11:28
  Last night was the 4th Meeting of our San Francisco ExtJS Meetup hosted by Untangle. We had about 20 or so people come! It was a special…
- Arrived at Microsoft MVP Summit for Four Days of Fun and Learning by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2009, 01:21
  This is my third MVP Summit and it’s really starting out with a bang (and a little rain). I arrived today around noon to register. Immediately,…
- Slides and Demo Code From Southern Cal Rock and Roll Code Camp (ExtJS was the topic) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2009, 16:25
  It was fun to do my first presentation on ExtJS at the Southern California Rock and Roll Code Camp at Fullerton. It was also great to see so many…
- First San Francisco Meetup of ExtJS Group by: Peter Kellner
  December 10, 2008, 12:08
  http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-ExtJS-Meetup-Group/ As many of you know, I'm learning the JavaScript library ExtJS. It's basically a very rich…
- One Week to Go Before Silicon Valley Code Camp! 118 Sessions, Over 1000 Registered (11/8,11/9) by: Peter Kellner
  November 1, 2008, 13:18
  Things are really heating up here. We just did our walk through of Foothill College to insure we have room for everyone and all the food. (Coffee…
- Speaking At Silicon Valley Code Camp on Sunday 11/9. High Performance ASP.NET Web Sites by: Peter Kellner
  October 24, 2008, 14:53
  I will be speaking in a couple weeks at the Silicon Valley Code Camp in Los Altos, California on November 9th. The camp is both Saturday and Sunday. …
- Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications Downloads by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 13:44
  Downloads for my presentation to BAADD titled "Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications".
- Speaking Next Week (Wednesday 6/25) At Microsoft Office in San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  June 17, 2008, 09:02
  Speaking at 835 Market Street, Suite 700 on Building High performance ASP.NET web applications - In this meeting, Peter Kellner will present on and discuss…
- Microsoft TechEd 2008 Orlando MVP Community Meeting Place by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2008, 10:06
  Helping out at the MVP Community Location at Microsoft's TechEd 2008 Meeting in Orlando. One of the volunteer game show hosts!
- Best Practices for Building an asp.net quality web siteBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 1) by: Peter Kellner
  May 13, 2008, 11:06
  In this article, the first steps for building a professional web site are documented. These steps include building requirements, working with a designer and…
- Spreading the word with Technorati! by: Peter Kellner
  April 16, 2008, 09:45
  So, I'm at MVP Summit in Redmond and last night, while talking with Scott Guthrie, he was telling us about his Technorati rank, and how he had millions of…
- Another ASP.NET Ask the Experts Session Coming May 1st, 2008 by: Peter Kellner
  March 30, 2008, 02:40
  Come by and ask the ASP.NET experts!
- Microsoft CodeTrip Launches From Venetion Parking lot at MIX08! by: Peter Kellner
  March 6, 2008, 20:33
  The CodeTrip Launches From MIX08's Venetion Hotel on a 3 week journey. Lots of fun pictures!
- What's New in Visual Basic 9, Beth Massi at Bay.Net In San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  March 5, 2008, 22:04
  Beth did a great job of presenting new features in Visual Studio 2008 at the Bay.Net Meeting in San Francisco.
- Join me today at the Microsoft Hero's Virtual Launch event by: Peter Kellner
  February 28, 2008, 04:54
  Join me for the Microsoft 2008 Products Launch Event Chat
- Silicon Valley Code Camp 07 at Foothill College, Great Success!!! by: Peter Kellner
  October 29, 2007, 20:13
  We all really out did ourselves this year. Not only did we attract an outstanding panel of speakers, an awesome collection of attendees, but the local…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Presentation Sunday 10/28, 1:15 at Foothill College by: Peter Kellner
  October 22, 2007, 15:25
  Please come join me for my presentation at Foothill College this coming weekend on Silverlight.
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Schedule Almost Ready! by: Peter Kellner
  October 20, 2007, 18:46
  Silicon Valley Code Camp Schedule Almost Ready... come back in a couple days.
- Silverlight Dev Camp San Francisco, Saturday, The Main Show! by: Peter Kellner
  September 16, 2007, 17:09
  On Day 2 of the Silverlight Dev Camp In San Francisco there were lots of great presentations. I gave one on adding animation to a silverilght application…
- Silverlight Dev Camp San Francisco, Friday Night Opening Ceremonies! by: Peter Kellner
  September 15, 2007, 09:49
  Silverlight Dev Camp starts out with a bang! Lots of attendees and lots of fun.
- Speaking Saturday 9/15 4PM at Silverlight DevCamp, San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 22:24
  Topic: Building animation into "Community Media Browser" for Leverage Software with Silverlight Alpha 1.1
- Media Browser Using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Leverage Software's REST API by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 18:24
  Searchlight was born from the desire to show the outstanding ability of Silverlight to create a compelling web application using existing infrastructure techno…
- Code Camp Presentation Coming 10/27-28/2008 on Silverlight, Los Altos, California by: Peter Kellner
  September 12, 2007, 22:06
  I'll be presenting a session at the upcoming Code Camp in Silicon Valley's Foothill College on October 27th-28th. Details can be found at http://www.siliconva…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Integrates the DevExpress Cloud Control for Sessions by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2007, 12:11
  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…
- Announcing Silicon Valley Code Camp, Los Altos, CA 10/27-10/28/2007! by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2007, 11:52
  Announcing Silicon Valley Code Camp at Foothill College October 27th and 28th. Please come and enjoy the free sessions, or present one yourself. Here is the…
- My Interview on Channel 9 at MIX by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2007, 09:40
  Anand Iyers's Channel 9 Interview of me (Peter Kellner) and Elisa Johnson of the ADO.NET team at MIX07.
- Third ASP.NET MVP Chat Coming! April 19th 11:30AM PST by: Peter Kellner
  April 8, 2007, 21:15
  Third ASP.NET MVP Chat Coming! April 19, 2007 11:30AM to 1:30PM US Pacific Standard Time
- I'm Presenting WPF and XAML with Cal In Palo Alto April 4th! by: Peter Kellner
  March 28, 2007, 21:15
  Next Wednesday, April 4th, Cal and I will be presenting an overview of WPF adn XAML at the Cubberly Community Center in Palo Alto for SDForum's Windows SIG.…
- MVP Summit Days 2 and 3, Gates, Hejlsberg, Guthrie, Goldfarb and more Moderators! by: Peter Kellner
  March 14, 2007, 22:15
  Yesterday and today were packed with information, presentations, old friends and new ones. Tuesday started with Bill Gates describing the future.
- MVP Summit Day 1, Where have all the Moderators gone? by: Peter Kellner
  March 12, 2007, 23:29
  Today was the first day of the Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Player) Summit. Lots of meeting other MVP's as well as a very fun dinner. Included is a picture…
- Vista Gadget Presentation at Vista Party, Foothill College by: Peter Kellner
  February 26, 2007, 09:12
  Vista Gaget presentation at Foothill College in Los Altos. This presentation by Peter Kellner was an overview of live and sidebar gadgets. Attended by about…
- Presentation to Bay.Net Users Group In San Francisco, ObjectDataSource and NetTiers by: Peter Kellner
  February 22, 2007, 10:57
  Last night, I presented to the San Francisco Bay.Net Users Group my talk on integrating ObjectDataSource and .NetTiers.
- Boise Idaho Code Camp, Standing Room Only! by: Peter Kellner
  February 11, 2007, 08:30
  A short report from Boise Idaho Code Camp. i did a new ObjectDataSource with .NetTiers DAL presentation to a standing room only audience.
- I've been Tagged! (my five things) by: Peter Kellner
  February 4, 2007, 13:19
  I've been Tagged! my 5 things (click on more for details) 1. I started my career as a rocket scientist 2. I played the violin for 5 years (OK, sort…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp 2007 Announcement at Vista/Office Exchange MSAM Launch Event by: Peter Kellner
  February 2, 2007, 13:22
  Announcing Code Camp 2007 coming again later this year at Foothill College in the heart of Silicon Valley California.
- The Vista/Office/Exchange MSAM Launch Event by: Peter Kellner
  February 2, 2007, 13:02
  Microsoft asked me to help out at the Launch event here near my home in San Jose, California. My job, was to hang out at the "Ask The Experts" community table…
- Rock And Roll Code Camp Presentation by: Peter Kellner
  February 1, 2007, 19:13
  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…
- Moderator Role Given by ASP.NET Forums by: Peter Kellner
  February 1, 2007, 18:50
  For the second time this year, first by awarded an MVP for ASP.NET, and now the community assigned to maintaining the integrity and consistency for the asp.net…
- MVP Award From Microsoft for ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  February 1, 2007, 18:33
  I was surprised and happy to receive notification of being awarded the MVP for ASP.NET 2.0. During the past 18 months, I've spent a lot of time both learning…
Category: CSS Adapters (2)
- Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!) Part 6 by: Peter Kellner
  March 27, 2009, 12:40
  Article Series Article 1: Best Practices for Building an ASP.NET quality web site Article 2: Multi Level ASP.NET…
- Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control AdaptersBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  May 19, 2008, 15:38
  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…
Category: Custom Controls (1)
- The Ultimate CAPTCHA Custom Server Control by: Peter Kellner
  August 20, 2006, 19:26
  In this article, the basic usage of a CAPTCHA custom server control will be discussed. This control is for use in ASP.NET 2.0 only. It is provided in source as…
Category: Dev Connections LV06 (1)
- Dev Connections Las Vegas 2006, Day 0 - The Keynote. RTM! by: Peter Kellner
  November 6, 2006, 23:29
  In the first event of Dev Connections, Microsoft announced office 2007 RTM'd and Atlas for ASP.NET 2.0 Beta 2. Also some good presentations including one…
Category: Gadgets (1)
- Gadget Overview at VSLive Orlando Presentation By Peter Kellner by: Peter Kellner
  May 10, 2007, 11:40
  Tuesday (May 8th 2007) I did a presentation at VSLive in Orlando Florida on Gadgets. Specifically Vista Sidebar Gadgets.&n…
Category: Garmin (1)
- Convert Garmin 705 Navigator TCX Format using LINQ to XML and Data Objects - Article 1 by: Peter Kellner
  August 16, 2008, 16:51
  In this post, we will discuss what is necessary to convert the file created from a Garmin 705 navigator to C# .net Data Objects. We will use LINQ to XML to…
Category: GridView (6)
- Using ASP.NET Web Forms, Passing Primary Key to RowCommand Event by: Peter Kellner
  September 5, 2011, 08:01
  I know this is old hat, but after recently having a conversation with one of the ASP.NET Team guys about how easy Web Forms is to use, I thought I’d…
- How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+) by: Peter Kellner
  September 6, 2009, 17:27
  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,…
- How To Access Content From MasterPage in ASP.NET by: Peter Kellner
  March 20, 2009, 09:41
  So, you want to access some content from inside a page that you created from an existing master page? The most clean way to do this is to create a public…
- How to Retrieve a GridView Based on a CheckBoxList of Items with Asp.Net using ObjectDataSource with a little LINQ Thrown In by: Peter Kellner
  December 7, 2008, 01:08
  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…
- Assigning a Custom Label Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource by: Peter Kellner
  August 6, 2008, 07:10
  In my previous post, Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource, I discussed how to put a DropDownList value in a GridView.…
- Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource by: Peter Kellner
  August 5, 2008, 16:57
  As a moderator in the asp.net forums, I often see the same or similar questions. The answer to this question is pretty straight forward but not 100%…
Category: How Things Work (8)
- Not Using Session in ASP.NET means Session Affinity/Sticky Sessions Not Necessary in Web Farms! by: Peter Kellner
  April 3, 2009, 21:51
  So, I’ve always incorrectly thought that somehow, the cookie stored in asp.net was somehow tied to the Session provider in asp.net. Turns out I’m…
- How to do URL Rewrites with ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 on IIS6 and IIS7 and What is Wild Card Mapping by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2008, 22:19
  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…
- Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt OutsBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5) by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 08:33
  Combining two mailing lists with LINQ, then removing a third is demonstrated in this post. Using C# 3.0 with .Net 3.5 allows us to leverage LINQ to make this…
- Creating a Modal Login Window Using the Telerik Modal RadWindow ComponentBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 4) by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 08:47
  This article shows how to create a modal windows (not a popup) that displays a login windows (asking for username and password) in the middle of whatever…
- Why can I not Bind to a value on a DropDownList in a GridView with ASP.NET 2.0 or 3.5? by: Peter Kellner
  December 13, 2007, 17:26
  Learn how to bind a DropDownList in an asp.net 2.0/3.5 GridView Edit Row. This will show you how to get the data back to the database and learn why Bind does…
- Get SqlDataSource To Retrieve DefaultValue of Current User (ExpressionBuilder with ASP.NET 2.0) by: Peter Kellner
  September 18, 2006, 09:50
  This article shows how to use Expression Builders in ASP.NET 2.0 to retrieve the current logged in user. DataBinding will not work so Expression Builders is…
- Zero to Professional Web Site in Two DaysUsing Microsoft's Visual Studio Design Templates by: Peter Kellner
  August 28, 2006, 18:19
  It's Monday, August 21st, we have our CodeCamp scheduled for October 7th and 8th in Los Altos California and we realize we need to have our web site to sign up…
- How Things Work - ASP.NET 2.0 - CodeBehind by: Peter Kellner
  July 12, 2006, 08:36
  In this article, a simple asp.net 2.0 page will be taken apart and shown how the actual page class is put together. As we know, when an http request comes into…
Category: JavaScript (30)
- Why We (Me Included) Need to Stick To JavaScript Programming Style Standards by: Peter Kellner
  April 1, 2013, 13:24
  I’ve listened multiple times to Douglas Crockford talk about the importance of following good programming style standards. I try to normally,…
- What Makes Sencha’s ExtJS Library So Powerful by: Peter Kellner
  February 14, 2013, 16:33
  For those that don’t know much about Sencha’s ExtJS JavaScript library, let me just simply describe it as a toolkit that helps you design applications that…
- Sencha’s Architect’s Perfect Storm, Easy To Use and Incorporates Hand Written Code Gracefully by: Peter Kellner
  February 4, 2013, 13:49
  Introduction Wednesday night this week, our local meetup (happening at Sencha’s headquarters in Redwood City) is featuring the Sencha Architect engineers…
- JavaScript, Go With the Flow! by: Peter Kellner
  January 19, 2013, 18:00
  As a technologist gluten, I probably spend too much time on different technologies and not enough time on any one particular one. It does find me often…
- Sencha Architect and Formatting Dates in GridPanel by: Peter Kellner
  November 30, 2012, 10:23
  Background I wasted about 10 minutes this morning being confused about why I could not enter the format attribute on a column of a GridPanel. Since I am…
- Source For Article “Building a Windows 8 Touch app with WinRT,JavaScript,HTML5” (From Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog Article) by: Peter Kellner
  September 11, 2012, 14:37
  On todays Microsoft MVP Blog, my article titled “Building a Windows 8 Touch Application with WinRT, JavaScript and HTML5” was published. Basically,…
- Passing Completion Functions With JavaScript (Windows 8 and XHR) by: Peter Kellner
  September 5, 2012, 20:16
  I recently did a post where I discovered a very cool trick done by the xamarin folks that had to do with executing an anonymous method in the call parameter…
- Creating Global Variables In a Windows 8 Metro JavaScript / HTML5 Application by: Peter Kellner
  June 24, 2012, 07:24
  The title of this seems ominous and potentially dangerous. For those that are ready to comment, first think about Globals as Constants, then post…
- Using Sencha Architect and Previewing a JSON feed For Inclusion In The App by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2012, 08:52
  I’ve been on the beta testers for the new version of Sencha Architect (formerly Sencha Designer) for the past few months and have really enjoyed learning it…
- INETA Speaker Gig Last Night at Fresno’s Central California .Net User Group on Windows 8 JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 Development by: Peter Kellner
  April 12, 2012, 13:41
  Let me start by saying three words. “CRASH AND BURN”. Well, I guess that makes it sound much worse than it really was, however I have to say that I…
- Presenting In San Francisco 3/21/2012 (Wednesday): First Blood With Windows 8 Metro Programming in JavaScript and HTML5/CSS3 by: Peter Kellner
  March 19, 2012, 10:23
  http://baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=520&mid=49 Microsoft San Francisco Office 835 Market Street, Suite 700…
- A SenchTouch2 Simple Example Using Tab Pages and Buttons by: Peter Kellner
  January 24, 2012, 22:47
  Again, I find myself going back to basics when trying to make my SenchaTouch2 Project work. Today, I updated my framework to Sencha’s latest alpha…
- Building a Simple 2 Card Carousel with SenchaTouch 2 by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2012, 14:58
  It was surprisingly difficult for me to build a very simple Carousel application with SenchaTouch 2.0 so I thought I’d make a short blog post with the…
- With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory by: Peter Kellner
  January 3, 2012, 14:25
  One of the standard things we programmers do is to read static files from our project directory. That is, say you put a json file such as /data/stats_data…
- Building A Windows 8 Metro Style JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS3 App Using ListView by: Peter Kellner
  December 27, 2011, 15:08
  Background The new Windows 8 Developer environment is seriously under documented at this point in it’s product life. Microsoft released a…
- Great ExtJS Meetup in Palo Alto Tonight at ExtJS’s New Office by: Peter Kellner
  February 24, 2010, 23:46
  Yet another great meetup with the ExtJS San Francisco Group (though not meeting in San Francisco this time). ExtJS has moved it’s main office and…
- Combining JavaScript and CSS to Make Pages Load Faster by: Peter Kellner
  November 10, 2009, 13:26
  We are in the process of “speeding up” our ExtJS application. I’m just finally figuring out the rules of the road for doing this. Here are a…
- How To View JSON in a Pretty Way by: Peter Kellner
  November 6, 2009, 09:49
  Cutting to the chase, I choose Vladimir Bodurov’s Color Formatter! For the past year or so, I’ve been working on a project that uses Microsoft’s ASP.NET…
- Book Review of Object Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov by: Peter Kellner
  August 30, 2009, 07:55
  For the past year or so, I’ve been spending part time learning JavaScript. My reason has been we use ExtJS extensively in my company and it’s…
- How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters by: Peter Kellner
  May 3, 2009, 16:42
  Programmatically setting JavaScript into an ASP.NET page is very straight forward when you do it in code. That is, in my case, I simply put it in the…
- Great JavaScript Meetup In San Francsico Last Night! by: Peter Kellner
  April 30, 2009, 10:48
  My guess is 75 people showed up at Dolores Labs last night for this meetup. It lasted about two hours and had about 6 great presentations. …
- Speaking Wednesday May 20th, 6:30PM, Microsoft Office San Francisco on ExtJS and ASP.NET Membership! by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2009, 21:59
  Come hear about how to see ExtJS integrated with ASP.NET for awesome Membership and Profile Management! I will speaking at the Microsoft Office…
- Come See Me at VSLive in Las Vegas, June 9th (2 Sessions) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 17:27
  I’m doing two sessions at VS-Live in June. Both sessions are in the asp.net track. One is on High Speed performance in ASP.Net, and the other is on…
- Framework Scanner, Written in ExtJS by Mats Bryntse by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2009, 09:55
  Mats Bryntse, a great web developer and ExtJS expert has written a very cool utility that let's you see how well the different JavaScript frameworks play with…
- First San Francisco Meetup of ExtJS Group by: Peter Kellner
  December 10, 2008, 12:08
  http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-ExtJS-Meetup-Group/ As many of you know, I'm learning the JavaScript library ExtJS. It's basically a very rich…
- Basic DomHelper with ExtJS Library, creating simple div tags and anchors by: Peter Kellner
  November 24, 2008, 10:48
  As I'm learning ExtJS I plan on publishing the things I figure out. For those that don't know, ExtJS is a very rich JavaScript library that gives you all…
- ExtJS Training with our leaders! by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2008, 18:53
  For my current project, I'm focused on delivering the fastest and best user experience possible for our web site. To deliver this, it is necessary to…
- My Two JavaScript Favorite Books:, "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" by: Peter Kellner
  October 11, 2008, 09:20
  I've been working on a project lately that requires a lot of JavaScript, and if any of you are like me, you've had trouble learning the language well. …
- The Smallest xmlHttp I Could Do And Still Get It Wrong by: Peter Kellner
  September 29, 2008, 09:11
  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…
- Using MapPath with WCF Service, Setting aspNetCompatibilityEnabled to true by: Peter Kellner
  August 18, 2008, 10:05
  I'm just starting out using WCF in an application for the first time. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 sp1 and created an asp.net web site from the standard…
Category: LINQ (29)
- LINQ Query Workaround for Comparing Dates (EF, LINQ2SQL,CodeFirst) by: Peter Kellner
  July 25, 2012, 19:59
  I seem to always get this error all the time (kind of like I never learn). Or, for you search engines reading: LINQ to Entities…
- LINQ To SQL Performance Getting Huge Improvement in EF5, Microsoft Does Listen! by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2012, 08:19
  The Original Problem Back in 2009, I discovered what I considered a fatal flaw in performance using LINQ2SQL with LINQ queries. I…
- Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next! by: Peter Kellner
  October 22, 2011, 18:57
  In May of 2009 I discovered some significant performance problems that I blogged about. In summary, I had tracked it down to the issue of LINQ2SQ…
- A Cool / Unexpected Refactoring around .Net C# Locking Issue by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2010, 07:32
  I’m constantly amazed by the insightfulness of ReSharper’s suggested refactorings (ReSharper is a Visual Studio Addin from JetBrains I use with C#). Today,…
- ReSharper 5.0’s LINQ Refactoring Continues to be Amazing! by: Peter Kellner
  April 21, 2010, 17:46
  In this post, we’ll take a straight forward procedure based set of code and convert it to LINQ using a ReSharper from JetBrains suggestion. …
- Small LINQ Trick for Converting List<String> to String Text List by: Peter Kellner
  February 24, 2010, 14:58
  Here is a shorthand way for converting a list of strings defined as follows: List<string> strings = new List<string> { "a","b&…
- Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:22
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In…
- Most Amazing ReFactor Using ReSharper EAP 5.0 I’ve Seen! by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2009, 11:27
  This one is just to amazing to not blog about. I’ve been a die heart ReSharper user for quite a while and recently have started using their…
- Converting From System.Data.Linq.Binary to String and Back by: Peter Kellner
  November 8, 2009, 10:49
  Just a quick post in case anyone is wasting 10 minutes figuring out how to do this. For me, this came up because in Sql Server 2008, NVARCHAR(MAX) is…
- Using LINQ to Convert an Array Into a Generic List with C# by: Peter Kellner
  October 14, 2009, 17:35
  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…
- LINQPad Help For Creating Nasty Group by Query in Native SQL by: Peter Kellner
  September 28, 2009, 09:51
  I often speak very highly of LINQ and also LINQPad. This morning, I was struggling with some sql that would let me do a count by DateTime while…
- Some Really Cool LINQ to Help Performance and Show Line Thickness by: Peter Kellner
  September 18, 2009, 10:49
  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…
- Using LINQ2SQL, Use Group By To Get List of Top Occuring Values by: Peter Kellner
  September 3, 2009, 16:05
  So, I’m really enjoying using LINQ and specifically LINQ2SQL. I’ve got a current problem where I want to get from a long list of loads (potentially…
- Interesting LINQ side affect, Pass in empty List<int> using Contains and Get Where 0 == 1. Hmm by: Peter Kellner
  June 14, 2009, 08:21
  We’ve built a data access layer on top of LINQ2SQL for dynamically building the layer we call for data access. It’s convenient because we pass in a…
- Combing LINQPAD with LINQ In Action From Manning by: Peter Kellner
  June 9, 2009, 09:08
  Last night, I had the honor of having dinner with three other VSLive speakers including Jim Wooley, one of the authors of the awesome book on LINQ titled LINQ…
- 780 Requests Per Second Verses 110, You Really Need to Compile your LINQ to SQL (LINQ2SQL) Queries by: Peter Kellner
  June 8, 2009, 22:21
  *Note 10/22/2011 (2+ years later): Microsoft is fixing this problem in EntityFramework 4.5! See my post here about it: http://peterkellner.net/2011/…
- Not Sure If I’ve Said Often Enough.. I LOVE LINQPAD!!! by: Peter Kellner
  June 4, 2009, 06:30
  I’ve been doing a lot of LINQ2SQL lately and just in case I have not said it loud enough how enthusiastic I am about LINQPAD written by Joseph Albahari. …
- How Fast are In Memory LINQ Evaluations for Doing Simple Things? by: Peter Kellner
  June 3, 2009, 18:27
  So, I recently blogged about the huge penalty for not compiling your LINQ2SQL. This problem is so big that it occurred to us that maybe all of LINQ has…
- How to Create a Generic Integer List From a List of Objects Using LINQ by: Peter Kellner
  June 3, 2009, 10:02
  So, this is very straight forward, but I sometimes forget it. I figure I’ll do a short blog post on it so next time I search for it, I’ll probably…
- LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) by: Peter Kellner
  May 6, 2009, 10:23
  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…
- ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer (Book Review) by: Peter Kellner
  March 25, 2009, 14:04
  Andrew Siemer has written an excellent book about how to best use .Net (specifically with asp.net as the front end web technology) to build a social networking…
- Logging your Sql with LINQ Update Commands. Simple Logging to your Visual Studio 2008 Debugger Output Console by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2008, 21:13
  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…
- LINQPad is Totally Awesome at Testing and Writing LINQ Queries by: Peter Kellner
  September 20, 2008, 21:25
  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…
- Convert Garmin 705 Navigator TCX Format using LINQ to XML and Data Objects - Article 1 by: Peter Kellner
  August 16, 2008, 16:51
  In this post, we will discuss what is necessary to convert the file created from a Garmin 705 navigator to C# .net Data Objects. We will use LINQ to XML to…
- Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt OutsBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5) by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 08:33
  Combining two mailing lists with LINQ, then removing a third is demonstrated in this post. Using C# 3.0 with .Net 3.5 allows us to leverage LINQ to make this…
- What's New in Visual Basic 9, Beth Massi at Bay.Net In San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  March 5, 2008, 22:04
  Beth did a great job of presenting new features in Visual Studio 2008 at the Bay.Net Meeting in San Francisco.
- How to know if LINQ is working efficiently with SQL? by: Peter Kellner
  February 16, 2008, 08:29
  In this post, we look at how to log from LINQ to SQL to see the actual sql generated by the LINQ engine.
- A TiVo Disk Space Viewer, It's all about LINQ to XML! by: Peter Kellner
  January 18, 2008, 19:16
  Do you ever want to know exactly how much space each TV show on your TiVo is taking on your hard drive? Do you ever wonder how much space is consumed by…
- My first LINQ Experience. How to do a simple COUNT() with LINQ to SQL by: Peter Kellner
  December 24, 2007, 11:12
  This post has some sample code using LINQ to do a simple SQL count function. It compares the code to a non-LINQ version. It's my first actual LINQ code do…
Category: Membership (12)
- Speaking Wednesday May 20th, 6:30PM, Microsoft Office San Francisco on ExtJS and ASP.NET Membership! by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2009, 21:59
  Come hear about how to see ExtJS integrated with ASP.NET for awesome Membership and Profile Management! I will speaking at the Microsoft Office…
- How to Set the Default Value of a DropDownList in an ASP.NET Page by: Peter Kellner
  October 17, 2007, 10:44
  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…
- Resetting Password with ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Multiple Providers by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2007, 08:39
  If you ever have wanted to be able to programmatically change (reset) a users password while at the same time continuing to be able to use the question…
- Have GridView Highlight Last Inserted Record in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  December 7, 2006, 16:41
  A question that frequently comes up in the asp.net forums is how to have a gridview show the the last record added highlighted. This articles gives a technique…
- Moving From Casini to IIS, Login Fails. How come? by: Peter Kellner
  October 20, 2006, 10:33
  What to do when an web application you wrote worked fine in developement (VS2005) but when you move it to IIS, you can no longer login using the Membership…
- Fourth MSDN Article Published! "Adding Personalization with Profiles to the ObjectDataSource" by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2006, 11:55
  This article explains how the encapsulation of Membership can be extended to include Profile (personalization) information for users. The designers of…
- Third Article Published on MSDN! ASP.NET 2.0, Membership Meets Atlas by: Peter Kellner
  August 2, 2006, 15:30
  Microsoft published my third article in a series on how to use Membership in ASP.NET 2.0 with an ObjectDataSource. That is, extending Membership into three…
- Inserting Programmatically with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2006, 13:21
  ( ObjectDataSource1.Insert(); ) ObjectDataSource's are great for building your own middle tier between your aspx web page and your database (or any other…
- Adding Personalization via Profiles to the ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2006, 17:33
  This article explains the mechanics involved in extending the ObjectDataSource (developed in the previous article in this MSDN Membership Security Series) to…
- AJAX Meets ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Management For IIS by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2006, 12:34
  This article extends one of the web pages developed in Part II of this series using Microsoft's implementation of AJAX called Atlas. You can view a live…
- Membership Management Newly Styled GridView by: Peter Kellner
  January 27, 2006, 10:46
  Mikhail Lukyanau has been kind enough to provide a redesigned version of the membership.aspx page
- Using Membeship ObjectDataSource For Returning ProviderUserKey (ForeignKey Use) by: Peter Kellner
  January 10, 2006, 09:54
  This article gives an example of how to modify the Object DataSource in the previous article (Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IIS Part 1:…
Category: MSDN Articles (5)
- Third Article Published on MSDN! ASP.NET 2.0, Membership Meets Atlas by: Peter Kellner
  August 2, 2006, 15:30
  Microsoft published my third article in a series on how to use Membership in ASP.NET 2.0 with an ObjectDataSource. That is, extending Membership into three…
- Adding Personalization via Profiles to the ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2006, 17:33
  This article explains the mechanics involved in extending the ObjectDataSource (developed in the previous article in this MSDN Membership Security Series) to…
- AJAX Meets ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Management For IIS by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2006, 12:34
  This article extends one of the web pages developed in Part II of this series using Microsoft's implementation of AJAX called Atlas. You can view a live…
- Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IISPart 2: Implementation by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2006, 12:27
  With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, there is no "out of the box" solution for maintaining the Membership and Role databases in Microsoft IIS.…
- Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IISPart 1: Security and Configuration Overview by: Peter Kellner
  January 8, 2006, 15:07
  This article is the first of two articles describing the secure use and setup of a three tier solution for managing ASP.NET Membership and Roles. This first…
Category: News Reader (1)
- Using Google Reader Offline by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2008, 07:08
  A review of using Google's offline news reader. The story of how I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader, then finally to the offline Google Reader
Category: Page Handlers (3)
- How to do URL Rewrites with ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 on IIS6 and IIS7 and What is Wild Card Mapping by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2008, 22:19
  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…
- Display Images with IIS7 in Vista or Windows 2008 by: Peter Kellner
  April 1, 2008, 05:38
  How to solve problem off image not appearing in iis7. css,gif's, etc.
- Display Images with the Silverlight Downloader in Alpha 1.1 by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2007, 21:38
  This article gives you a way to download images from remote servers on different domains using the downloader object of Silverlight. Without this, you can not…
Category: Performance (4)
- Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next! by: Peter Kellner
  October 22, 2011, 18:57
  In May of 2009 I discovered some significant performance problems that I blogged about. In summary, I had tracked it down to the issue of LINQ2SQ…
- How Fast are In Memory LINQ Evaluations for Doing Simple Things? by: Peter Kellner
  June 3, 2009, 18:27
  So, I recently blogged about the huge penalty for not compiling your LINQ2SQL. This problem is so big that it occurred to us that maybe all of LINQ has…
- Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications Downloads by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 13:44
  Downloads for my presentation to BAADD titled "Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications".
- Speaking Next Week (Wednesday 6/25) At Microsoft Office in San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  June 17, 2008, 09:02
  Speaking at 835 Market Street, Suite 700 on Building High performance ASP.NET web applications - In this meeting, Peter Kellner will present on and discuss…
Category: Presentations (19)
- INETA Speaker Gig Last Night at Fresno’s Central California .Net User Group on Windows 8 JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 Development by: Peter Kellner
  April 12, 2012, 13:41
  Let me start by saying three words. “CRASH AND BURN”. Well, I guess that makes it sound much worse than it really was, however I have to say that I…
- Presenting In San Francisco 3/21/2012 (Wednesday): First Blood With Windows 8 Metro Programming in JavaScript and HTML5/CSS3 by: Peter Kellner
  March 19, 2012, 10:23
  http://baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=520&mid=49 Microsoft San Francisco Office 835 Market Street, Suite 700…
- Building Hugely Performant Websites: Taking advantage of HTML5 Storage, 3rd DevConnections Orlando Presentation by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2011, 05:08
  For my final of 3 presentations at DevConnections Orlando is about building a hugely performant web application with html5 storage. The app we…
- DevConnections Orlando, Build Advanced Web UIs with a Rich JavaScript UI Language by: Peter Kellner
  March 30, 2011, 07:26
  To build fully-featured web applications that support complex interaction in a reasonable amount of time requires a high-end JavaScript library. Someday,…
- DevConnections Presentation Orlando, How To Make Your Browser fly by: Peter Kellner
  March 29, 2011, 14:08
  (About 100 People) The Presentation was broken down into three parts. Part 1 Created a windows razor project that cached in image on a web site using…
- My Presentation in San Francisco This Past Wednesday Night to Bay.Net by: Peter Kellner
  March 18, 2011, 22:14
  This past Wednesday, I presented a front end performance session for how to make web sites work well. I primarily covered the content from from Steve…
- Presenting 15 Web Performance Tips: Getting things Right on the Client March 16th at Bay.Net in San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  March 5, 2011, 15:47
  Register Here: http://www.baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=480&mid=49 When: Wednesday, 3/16/2011 at 6:30 PM…
- Defending Yourself From the Internet, Presented at the Kendal Retirement Community in Northern Ohio at Oberlin by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 19:38
  I had a great time tonight presenting to about 40 people at Kendal, an awesome retirement community in Northern Ohio, at Oberlin. This was my first ever…
- Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:22
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In…
- Will Be Presenting at Bay.Net Users Group Wednesday 1/20/2010 RIA Services in Silverlight 4 With VS2010 by: Peter Kellner
  January 13, 2010, 08:13
  NOTE ADDED 1/25/2010 by PETER KELLNER: Just finished 7 blog posts that each have video that basically follows was was done in the presentati…
- My Two Presentations Today at VSLive in Las Vegas (ExtJS, Then High Performance ASP.NET Web Sites) by: Peter Kellner
  June 8, 2009, 22:41
  Today was my first time doing 2 presentations during the same day at a professional conference (VSLive, Las Vegas). Both sessions were fun to present and…
- Slides and Demo Code From Southern Cal Rock and Roll Code Camp (ExtJS was the topic) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2009, 16:25
  It was fun to do my first presentation on ExtJS at the Southern California Rock and Roll Code Camp at Fullerton. It was also great to see so many…
- Heading to Southern Ca on January 24th to Talk about ExtJS at SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp by: Peter Kellner
  December 17, 2008, 08:25
  I just signed up to give a session at the SoCal Code Camp at CALSTATE Fullerton. I've been to this event before and it's totally awesome. Those…
- Speaking Next Week (Wednesday 6/25) At Microsoft Office in San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  June 17, 2008, 09:02
  Speaking at 835 Market Street, Suite 700 on Building High performance ASP.NET web applications - In this meeting, Peter Kellner will present on and discuss…
- Microsoft TechEd 2008 Orlando MVP Community Meeting Place by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2008, 10:06
  Helping out at the MVP Community Location at Microsoft's TechEd 2008 Meeting in Orlando. One of the volunteer game show hosts!
- Silverlight Dev Camp San Francisco, Friday Night Opening Ceremonies! by: Peter Kellner
  September 15, 2007, 09:49
  Silverlight Dev Camp starts out with a bang! Lots of attendees and lots of fun.
- Speaking Saturday 9/15 4PM at Silverlight DevCamp, San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 22:24
  Topic: Building animation into "Community Media Browser" for Leverage Software with Silverlight Alpha 1.1
- Code Camp At Foothill College on 10/7 and 10/8 is Going Great! by: Peter Kellner
  September 30, 2006, 08:08
  As many of you know, I've been organizing CodeCamp here in Silicon Valley (Northern California) for the past month or so. We are up to almost 700 attendees…
- Roll your own ObjectDataSource Presentation, Seattle Code Camp October 23, 2005 by: Peter Kellner
  October 24, 2005, 23:48
  Roll your own ObjectDataSource, Seattle Presentation Oct 23, 2005
Category: RSS (3)
- Adding a List of Recent Posts To The Silicon Valley Code Camp Home Page (From RSS Feed) by: Peter Kellner
  September 12, 2010, 14:44
  There are 10,000 ways to do this. Back way back when (ASP.NET 1.1) days, we would have created either a custom control to do this, then added a Repeater…
- Using Google Reader Offline by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2008, 07:08
  A review of using Google's offline news reader. The story of how I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader, then finally to the offline Google Reader
- Making the RSS Feed From the web site Discoverable by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 09:09
  This post shows how to use a cool tool to making a RSS Feed Discoverable on a web page. It involves creating an entry in the header tag of the page.
Category: Scalability (1)
- Speaking Next Week (Wednesday 6/25) At Microsoft Office in San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  June 17, 2008, 09:02
  Speaking at 835 Market Street, Suite 700 on Building High performance ASP.NET web applications - In this meeting, Peter Kellner will present on and discuss…
Category: Silverlight (20)
- Sitting At MIX10 In Michael Scherotter’s Presentation of the Silverlight 4 Search Analytics Framework by: Peter Kellner
  March 15, 2010, 14:53
  As usual, Michael’s doing a great job of presenting enthusiastically the new Silverlight Analytics Frameworks. I’m hugely impressed with how easy it…
- Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:25
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:22
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In…
- Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 15:51
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverligh…
- Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 (Article 3 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2010, 12:41
  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…
- Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 20, 2010, 12:12
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using Silverlight 4…
- Great Discussion With Nikhil Kothari About RIA Services by: Peter Kellner
  November 18, 2009, 21:58
  http://twitpic.com/pxclg One of my goals for PDC this year has been to better understand the Microsoft data story about how to work with clients…
- A Great 2 Day Silverlight Training Event with Michael Scherotter (AKA the Synergist) by: Peter Kellner
  June 15, 2008, 09:03
  Michael Scherotter does a great 2 day training presentation on Silverlight focussing on Expression Blend 2.5. Michael is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist and…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp 07 at Foothill College, Great Success!!! by: Peter Kellner
  October 29, 2007, 20:13
  We all really out did ourselves this year. Not only did we attract an outstanding panel of speakers, an awesome collection of attendees, but the local…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Presentation Sunday 10/28, 1:15 at Foothill College by: Peter Kellner
  October 22, 2007, 15:25
  Please come join me for my presentation at Foothill College this coming weekend on Silverlight.
- Silverlight Dev Camp San Francisco, Saturday, The Main Show! by: Peter Kellner
  September 16, 2007, 17:09
  On Day 2 of the Silverlight Dev Camp In San Francisco there were lots of great presentations. I gave one on adding animation to a silverilght application…
- Silverlight Dev Camp San Francisco, Friday Night Opening Ceremonies! by: Peter Kellner
  September 15, 2007, 09:49
  Silverlight Dev Camp starts out with a bang! Lots of attendees and lots of fun.
- Speaking Saturday 9/15 4PM at Silverlight DevCamp, San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 22:24
  Topic: Building animation into "Community Media Browser" for Leverage Software with Silverlight Alpha 1.1
- Media Browser Using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Leverage Software's REST API by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 18:24
  Searchlight was born from the desire to show the outstanding ability of Silverlight to create a compelling web application using existing infrastructure techno…
- Code Camp Presentation Coming 10/27-28/2008 on Silverlight, Los Altos, California by: Peter Kellner
  September 12, 2007, 22:06
  I'll be presenting a session at the upcoming Code Camp in Silicon Valley's Foothill College on October 27th-28th. Details can be found at http://www.siliconva…
- Display Images with the Silverlight Downloader in Alpha 1.1 by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2007, 21:38
  This article gives you a way to download images from remote servers on different domains using the downloader object of Silverlight. Without this, you can not…
- One Last Gotcha for debugging Web Service Projects with Silverlight by: Peter Kellner
  June 20, 2007, 18:09
  So you followed all my directions and you still can't debug your Silverlight Project with a web service? Read on.
- Integrating Web Services and Silverlight with .Net 1.1 Alpha by: Peter Kellner
  June 18, 2007, 18:18
  This article gives you a step by step of how to build a Silverlight .net Alpha 1.1 project that includes a web service. Its real goal is to help you set up an…
- My Interview on Channel 9 at MIX by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2007, 09:40
  Anand Iyers's Channel 9 Interview of me (Peter Kellner) and Elisa Johnson of the ADO.NET team at MIX07.
- XamlWebPad, View Your Raw Silverlight XAML without Blend or VS. by: Peter Kellner
  May 13, 2007, 09:37
  XamlWebPad is a free tool build by Peter Kellner that allows you to see your own Silverlight Xaml rendered. Because Blend does not give us an easy way to tell…
Category: TiVo (2)
- Just the Exe's for the Tivo Summaries Executables! by: Peter Kellner
  April 7, 2008, 20:49
  The Exe files Tivo Summaries Graphs done in a previous article. Article on Developing TiVo graphs
- A TiVo Disk Space Viewer, It's all about LINQ to XML! by: Peter Kellner
  January 18, 2008, 19:16
  Do you ever want to know exactly how much space each TV show on your TiVo is taking on your hard drive? Do you ever wonder how much space is consumed by…
Category: Tools (7)
- How to Format HTML with Windows Live Writer by: Peter Kellner
  November 22, 2011, 17:10
  Ever since Microsoft released Windows Live Writer, posting articles to this blog (and others) has been really easy. Even though this blog is powered by…
- LINQPad is Totally Awesome at Testing and Writing LINQ Queries by: Peter Kellner
  September 20, 2008, 21:25
  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…
- ToLambda Refactor From ReSharper is Just Too Cool! by: Peter Kellner
  September 9, 2008, 11:07
  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…
- Using Google Reader Offline by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2008, 07:08
  A review of using Google's offline news reader. The story of how I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader, then finally to the offline Google Reader
- Refactoring With ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# fixes I often use by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 06:59
  One of the really nice features I enjoy using in Resharper 4.0 is the refactoring that converts inefficient (and unpleasant to read) syntax into nice efficient…
- Making the RSS Feed From the web site Discoverable by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 09:09
  This post shows how to use a cool tool to making a RSS Feed Discoverable on a web page. It involves creating an entry in the header tag of the page.
- Use Multiple Monitors? Checkout UltraMon from Realtime Soft. by: Peter Kellner
  January 6, 2008, 12:04
  A review of a great tool to help you manage multiple monitors, UltraMon.
Category: Training (3)
- Is There A Need For End-To-End ExtJS to Microsoft Server (MVC-C#, LOB) 4 Day Class? (Poll Enclosed) by: Peter Kellner
  May 4, 2010, 19:54
  Over the past couple years, the focus of the web development I’ve been doing involves building highly flexible, highly scalable and straight forward web…
- A Great Telerik Training Coming Up in Capitola, CA 4/13-4/15 by: Peter Kellner
  April 3, 2009, 21:41
  Falafel Software is putting a three day training course in their new training facility in Capitola from Monday to Wednesday April 13-15th. As many of you…
- A Great 2 Day Silverlight Training Event with Michael Scherotter (AKA the Synergist) by: Peter Kellner
  June 15, 2008, 09:03
  Michael Scherotter does a great 2 day training presentation on Silverlight focussing on Expression Blend 2.5. Michael is a Microsoft Developer Evangelist and…
Category: Twitter (3)
- Silicon Valley Code Camp V6, 2011, is Just 4 Days Away! by: Peter Kellner
  October 4, 2011, 10:57
  As the primary organizer for Silicon Valley Code Camp, I’m very excited to say things are really going well for this year. Our attendance looks…
- Just Created My Own Facebook Name http://facebook.com/peterkellner99 and http://twitter.com/pkellner by: Peter Kellner
  July 6, 2009, 06:29
  Nice job from both twitter and facebook on how to make badges for your web sites. Seems like there could be many other places this technology could be…
- Seeing All @Replies From Twitter by: Peter Kellner
  August 3, 2008, 14:52
  Customize your Twitter options so that you see any time anyone (even someone you do not follow) Tweet's with your name in the @reply field
Category: Vista (7)
- Using GoToMeeting with Windows 7 by: Peter Kellner
  February 28, 2009, 20:54
  I’ve been using Windows 7 now (Build 7000) for about 2 weeks and am very happy with it. I still get some strange behavior now and again, but overall,…
- SSD (Solid State Drives) Seemed Too Good To Pass Up by: Peter Kellner
  February 8, 2009, 07:55
  Some Background I recently notice on Amazon a discussion thread of about 15 people saying how absolutely wonderful SSDs are and how the brought new life to…
- Use Multiple Monitors? Checkout UltraMon from Realtime Soft. by: Peter Kellner
  January 6, 2008, 12:04
  A review of a great tool to help you manage multiple monitors, UltraMon.
- 3.67 Gig Available on XP Pro in VMWare Session! by: Peter Kellner
  December 12, 2007, 19:05
  Checkout what it looks like to run XP Pro in VMWare on a Vista-64 Host.
- Search In Vista, Email Preview Very Nice! by: Peter Kellner
  December 11, 2007, 18:05
  A short discussion on how to search for email and preview it in Vista
- Gadget Overview at VSLive Orlando Presentation By Peter Kellner by: Peter Kellner
  May 10, 2007, 11:40
  Tuesday (May 8th 2007) I did a presentation at VSLive in Orlando Florida on Gadgets. Specifically Vista Sidebar Gadgets.&n…
- My Vista Ultimate Upgrade Experience Series - Multiple Monitors and MaxVista by: Peter Kellner
  January 12, 2007, 07:10
  After going to many Microsoft shows and meetings and seeing all the cool new features in Vista, I finally decide to take the plunge. This plunge started…
Category: Vista-Upgrade (2)
- 3.67 Gig Available on XP Pro in VMWare Session! by: Peter Kellner
  December 12, 2007, 19:05
  Checkout what it looks like to run XP Pro in VMWare on a Vista-64 Host.
- My Vista Ultimate Upgrade Experience Series - Multiple Monitors and MaxVista by: Peter Kellner
  January 12, 2007, 07:10
  After going to many Microsoft shows and meetings and seeing all the cool new features in Vista, I finally decide to take the plunge. This plunge started…
Category: Visual Studio (36)
- Converting ASP.NET WSP (Web Site Projects) to WAP (Web Application Projects) with VS2012 by: Peter Kellner
  December 30, 2012, 16:32
  Background There are quite a few articles written on the differences between WSP’s and WAP’s. In this article, I will not go into the…
- Using LINQ ForEach To Populate Generic List in C# AND Enum to List by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2012, 07:00
  A C# trick I first had trouble wrapping my head around is using the LINQ ForEach operator to populate a list. I was originally inspired by some source I…
- Entity Framework Code First From Microsoft, Best and Worst Practices by: Peter Kellner
  July 16, 2012, 09:10
  Introduction I’ve been building a fairly sophisticated product that will need to sustain a high transaction rate using the shipping version of…
- With Visual Studio, Open Same File In Two Windows, Updates Reflected in Both by: Peter Kellner
  July 8, 2012, 07:39
  I’ve always been frustrated in Visual Studio (all versions I can remember including latest vs2012) with not being able to look at the top of a file and edit…
- Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2012, 12:40
  Introduction People often ask me if I use MVC or WebForms for my Microsoft ASP.NET projects. I always tell them MVC, but I don’t use…
- Test First Development Walk Through with Visual Studio 2011 Preview by: Peter Kellner
  March 18, 2012, 16:14
  Introduction Many of us know we should be using test first development, however it is hard to break old habits. I have to admit, I started to solve this…
- With Visual Studio 2010 (and vs2011 preview) Fast Launch Not Helpful Often by: Peter Kellner
  November 12, 2011, 10:06
  Let’s say I’ve created two Visual Studio Projects with the same name “WebApp” but reside in different directories as shown below (c:\temp\Proj1…
- With VS2010 Debugger, Step Into, From a Windows .Net App Directly into a Windows Azure Web Role Hosting a WCF Service In The Developer Fabric by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2011, 14:52
  OK, I think this is the longest post title I’ve ever made, but if you understand it, you’ll know why it needs to be so long. I discovered…
- Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  July 4, 2010, 09:42
  For the last few days, I’ve been using DevExpress CodeRush and am finding some very useful refactorings. Many I’m not blogging about, but there are a…
- A Handy Refactoring with CodeRush (InLine Temp) by: Peter Kellner
  July 2, 2010, 07:34
  I’ve recently started using CodeRush with Visual Studio 2010 and am so far very impressed with the convenience it adds to coding. One thing that is…
- A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service by: Peter Kellner
  June 18, 2010, 07:37
  MSDN has a very nice article on how to create a windows service that hosts a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. It explains all the details…
- Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:20
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:16
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! by: Peter Kellner
  November 2, 2009, 17:47
  For the past couple years, I’ve used a product called FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies to automate my build processes. Since I’ve been…
- Visual Studio 2008 Show All Files Does Not Always Work For Me by: Peter Kellner
  October 30, 2009, 14:30
  Not sure how many times I’ve pressed the “Show All Files” menu choice on a Visual Studio 2008 Project and nothing happens. Well, I think I…
- How to Automate a Simple Deploy Using DataDude (Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition) by: Peter Kellner
  October 24, 2009, 08:38
  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…
- Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus by: Peter Kellner
  October 14, 2009, 21:02
  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…
- Some Really Cool LINQ to Help Performance and Show Line Thickness by: Peter Kellner
  September 18, 2009, 10:49
  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…
- How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+) by: Peter Kellner
  September 6, 2009, 17:27
  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,…
- A New Book on Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Server by: Peter Kellner
  February 12, 2009, 12:03
  William Bartholomew just published a new book on MSBuild and TFS. There is a great forward by Richard Hundhausen (Famous TFS Author and top MS…
- First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I love it!!! by: Peter Kellner
  January 17, 2009, 15:06
  As a developer who has spent much of my life doing DBA type work, I really appreciate the simplicity and elegance of what Microsoft Visual Studio Team has put…
- Logging your Sql with LINQ Update Commands. Simple Logging to your Visual Studio 2008 Debugger Output Console by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2008, 21:13
  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…
- LINQPad is Totally Awesome at Testing and Writing LINQ Queries by: Peter Kellner
  September 20, 2008, 21:25
  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…
- How to find your temporary asp.net executing assemblies location by: Peter Kellner
  August 18, 2008, 12:22
  Seems, I keep forgetting where the temporary files asp.net uses. The reason it's nice to know is sometimes you may want to open them with Reflector to see the…
- Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications Downloads by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 13:44
  Downloads for my presentation to BAADD titled "Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications".
- Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control AdaptersBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  May 19, 2008, 15:38
  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…
- What's New in Visual Basic 9, Beth Massi at Bay.Net In San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  March 5, 2008, 22:04
  Beth did a great job of presenting new features in Visual Studio 2008 at the Bay.Net Meeting in San Francisco.
- Best Practices for Configuring ASP.NET ConnectionStrings and AppSettings in Web.Config by: Peter Kellner
  February 23, 2008, 14:25
  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 Get the DataItem out of a ListView in Asp.Net 3.5 (compared to Repeater) by: Peter Kellner
  February 18, 2008, 06:51
  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.
- Showing and Hiding Hidden Files in Visual Studio 2008 by: Peter Kellner
  December 31, 2007, 09:47
  In this post, the option for how to show all files in the solutions explorer is demonstrated.
- Bookmarks in Visual Studio 2008 verses Visual Studio 2005 by: Peter Kellner
  November 25, 2007, 22:39
  Bookmarks in visual studio 2008 are not quite what I remember from visual studio 2005. Read on to see what I've found.
- Speaking Saturday 9/15 4PM at Silverlight DevCamp, San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 22:24
  Topic: Building animation into "Community Media Browser" for Leverage Software with Silverlight Alpha 1.1
- Media Browser Using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Leverage Software's REST API by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 18:24
  Searchlight was born from the desire to show the outstanding ability of Silverlight to create a compelling web application using existing infrastructure techno…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Integrates the DevExpress Cloud Control for Sessions by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2007, 12:11
  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…
- Always Set Stop On Exception While Doing Debugging in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008 by: Peter Kellner
  August 10, 2007, 09:05
  This article discusses a best practices method for automatically having the debugger stop on unhandled exceptions in visual studio 2005 or 2008
- Noah Coad Presents Great Tools in VS 2008 at Tech Ed 2007 by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2007, 12:23
  Today, Noah, one of my Microsoft hero's in devland presented products from his groups today. I've always been a big fan of performance…
Category: web (8)
- vaasnet, Awesome First Experience. Need a VM Now, for just 2 hours? by: Peter Kellner
  January 19, 2012, 17:09
  I’ve known about vaasnet for quite a while. Basically, vaasnet is a way to almost instantly (OK, it took about 4 seconds to come up) grab a…
- SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 15:24
  Introduction If you’ve started using SqlAzure for your SqlServer with your Azure application, you’ve probably discovered that you get a reasonable number…
- Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 20, 2010, 12:12
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using Silverlight 4…
- Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2009, 12:59
  Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed…
- The Smallest xmlHttp I Could Do And Still Get It Wrong by: Peter Kellner
  September 29, 2008, 09:11
  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…
- View a Generic List with ASP.NET MVC. Step by Step With Preview 5 by: Peter Kellner
  September 9, 2008, 13:35
  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…
- Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource by: Peter Kellner
  August 5, 2008, 16:57
  As a moderator in the asp.net forums, I often see the same or similar questions. The answer to this question is pretty straight forward but not 100%…
- Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications Downloads by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2008, 13:44
  Downloads for my presentation to BAADD titled "Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications".
Category: Wiki (1)
- Integrating PBWiki with .Net Using the New PBWiki API, The Start of a .Net API by: Peter Kellner
  September 18, 2006, 12:04
  In this article we will demonstrate a technique used to automatically add Wiki Pages to PBWiki using the not quite released API provided by the peanut butter…
Category: WPF (5)
- Silverlight Dev Camp San Francisco, Saturday, The Main Show! by: Peter Kellner
  September 16, 2007, 17:09
  On Day 2 of the Silverlight Dev Camp In San Francisco there were lots of great presentations. I gave one on adding animation to a silverilght application…
- Speaking Saturday 9/15 4PM at Silverlight DevCamp, San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 22:24
  Topic: Building animation into "Community Media Browser" for Leverage Software with Silverlight Alpha 1.1
- Media Browser Using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Leverage Software's REST API by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 18:24
  Searchlight was born from the desire to show the outstanding ability of Silverlight to create a compelling web application using existing infrastructure techno…
- Pro WPF by Matthew MacDonald Book Review by: Peter Kellner
  August 9, 2007, 18:32
  A must buy book if you are learning WPF
- I'm Presenting WPF and XAML with Cal In Palo Alto April 4th! by: Peter Kellner
  March 28, 2007, 21:15
  Next Wednesday, April 4th, Cal and I will be presenting an overview of WPF adn XAML at the Cubberly Community Center in Palo Alto for SDForum's Windows SIG.…
Category: XML (2)
- Create a Simple WCF Web Service and Use In JavaScript With Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 by: Peter Kellner
  September 14, 2008, 00:20
  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…
- Convert Garmin 705 Navigator TCX Format using LINQ to XML and Data Objects - Article 1 by: Peter Kellner
  August 16, 2008, 16:51
  In this post, we will discuss what is necessary to convert the file created from a Garmin 705 navigator to C# .net Data Objects. We will use LINQ to XML to…
Category: MVP (1)
- Source For Article “Building a Windows 8 Touch app with WinRT,JavaScript,HTML5” (From Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog Article) by: Peter Kellner
  September 11, 2012, 14:37
  On todays Microsoft MVP Blog, my article titled “Building a Windows 8 Touch Application with WinRT, JavaScript and HTML5” was published. Basically,…
Category: ASP.NET 2.0 (50)
- How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+) by: Peter Kellner
  September 6, 2009, 17:27
  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,…
- Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2009, 12:59
  Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed…
- ExtJS Meetup Tonight in San Francisco, Sample URLs of Running Code Here by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2009, 07:47
  At tonight's meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in ExtJS version 3.0. For my short presentation, I will be…
- How to find your temporary asp.net executing assemblies location by: Peter Kellner
  August 18, 2008, 12:22
  Seems, I keep forgetting where the temporary files asp.net uses. The reason it's nice to know is sometimes you may want to open them with Reflector to see the…
- Assigning a Custom Label Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource by: Peter Kellner
  August 6, 2008, 07:10
  In my previous post, Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource, I discussed how to put a DropDownList value in a GridView.…
- Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt OutsBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5) by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2008, 08:33
  Combining two mailing lists with LINQ, then removing a third is demonstrated in this post. Using C# 3.0 with .Net 3.5 allows us to leverage LINQ to make this…
- Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NETBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 3) by: Peter Kellner
  May 25, 2008, 15:17
  In this post, we discuss how to use themes and skins together in an ASP.NET web site. A complete example is shown including the web.config, a master page and…
- Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control AdaptersBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  May 19, 2008, 15:38
  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…
- Best Practices for Building an asp.net quality web siteBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 1) by: Peter Kellner
  May 13, 2008, 11:06
  In this article, the first steps for building a professional web site are documented. These steps include building requirements, working with a designer and…
- Display Images with IIS7 in Vista or Windows 2008 by: Peter Kellner
  April 1, 2008, 05:38
  How to solve problem off image not appearing in iis7. css,gif's, etc.
- Why can I not Bind to a value on a DropDownList in a GridView with ASP.NET 2.0 or 3.5? by: Peter Kellner
  December 13, 2007, 17:26
  Learn how to bind a DropDownList in an asp.net 2.0/3.5 GridView Edit Row. This will show you how to get the data back to the database and learn why Bind does…
- Really good Ajax using asp.net Book By Alessandro Gallo, ASP.NET AJAX in Action by: Peter Kellner
  November 26, 2007, 11:29
  Alessandro Gallo has written a great book on Ajax in ASP.NET. I strongly recommend this book. Read on for more details.
- Display Checkboxes in ASP.NET 2.0 GridView using skins by: Peter Kellner
  November 23, 2007, 18:02
  This article shows how to take advantage of skin files to make checkboxes show up in gridview as checked, unchecked, enabled and disabled. It's tricky…
- Using Using in c# ado.net business classes used with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  October 29, 2007, 18:28
  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…
- How to Set the Default Value of a DropDownList in an ASP.NET Page by: Peter Kellner
  October 17, 2007, 10:44
  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…
- Speaking Saturday 9/15 4PM at Silverlight DevCamp, San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  September 13, 2007, 22:24
  Topic: Building animation into "Community Media Browser" for Leverage Software with Silverlight Alpha 1.1
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Integrates the DevExpress Cloud Control for Sessions by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2007, 12:11
  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…
- Logging From an ASP.NET 2.0 Application to a Local File by: Peter Kellner
  August 12, 2007, 17:54
  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…
- Display Images with the Silverlight Downloader in Alpha 1.1 by: Peter Kellner
  July 3, 2007, 21:38
  This article gives you a way to download images from remote servers on different domains using the downloader object of Silverlight. Without this, you can not…
- Microsoft ASP.NET Member/Role Management with IIS (VB Version) by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2007, 13:08
  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…
- Resetting Password with ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Multiple Providers by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2007, 08:39
  If you ever have wanted to be able to programmatically change (reset) a users password while at the same time continuing to be able to use the question…
- Rock And Roll Code Camp Presentation by: Peter Kellner
  February 1, 2007, 19:13
  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…
- Moderator Role Given by ASP.NET Forums by: Peter Kellner
  February 1, 2007, 18:50
  For the second time this year, first by awarded an MVP for ASP.NET, and now the community assigned to maintaining the integrity and consistency for the asp.net…
- MVP Award From Microsoft for ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  February 1, 2007, 18:33
  I was surprised and happy to receive notification of being awarded the MVP for ASP.NET 2.0. During the past 18 months, I've spent a lot of time both learning…
- Have GridView Highlight Last Inserted Record in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  December 7, 2006, 16:41
  A question that frequently comes up in the asp.net forums is how to have a gridview show the the last record added highlighted. This articles gives a technique…
- Encode and Display HTML Securely in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  November 22, 2006, 01:06
  I recently published an article at DotNetSlackers on how to securely collect and display HTML. For those that have not seen it, the URL is: http://dotnetslac…
- Implementing Simple Cache for CodeSmith and NetTiers (ASP.NET 2.0) by: Peter Kellner
  November 2, 2006, 08:12
  In this article, I will show a simple way to implement Cache for a GetData type call in the SqlClient layer of the generated code. I won't go through all the…
- Improved Fast Access to Small Lists On ASPX Pages by: Peter Kellner
  October 27, 2006, 12:34
  The article below has a minor improvement to the previous article listed on this web site. Specifically, the previous article used the DropDownList as a…
- Moving From Casini to IIS, Login Fails. How come? by: Peter Kellner
  October 20, 2006, 10:33
  What to do when an web application you wrote worked fine in developement (VS2005) but when you move it to IIS, you can no longer login using the Membership…
- How To Show All Items Using a DropDownList and a GridView Control in ASP.NET 2.0 with VS2005 by: Peter Kellner
  October 14, 2006, 11:35
  This article will show how to implement a showall item in a DropDownList using GridView with ASP.NET 2.0. It does it by dynamically changing the SelectParamete…
- Get SqlDataSource To Retrieve DefaultValue of Current User (ExpressionBuilder with ASP.NET 2.0) by: Peter Kellner
  September 18, 2006, 09:50
  This article shows how to use Expression Builders in ASP.NET 2.0 to retrieve the current logged in user. DataBinding will not work so Expression Builders is…
- Rendering Images With IIS Verses an ASP.NET 2.0 Handler by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2006, 22:38
  This article will compare the difference between rendering images using an HttpHandler and IIS. It will show the different request processing times for a…
- Fourth MSDN Article Published! "Adding Personalization with Profiles to the ObjectDataSource" by: Peter Kellner
  September 4, 2006, 11:55
  This article explains how the encapsulation of Membership can be extended to include Profile (personalization) information for users. The designers of…
- Fast Access to Small Lists On ASPX Pages in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  August 30, 2006, 07:13
  How to reference small lists of data on an aspx page in asp.net 2.0. The proposed solution here demonstrates a technique taking advantage of the ObjectDataSour…
- Zero to Professional Web Site in Two DaysUsing Microsoft's Visual Studio Design Templates by: Peter Kellner
  August 28, 2006, 18:19
  It's Monday, August 21st, we have our CodeCamp scheduled for October 7th and 8th in Los Altos California and we realize we need to have our web site to sign up…
- The Ultimate CAPTCHA Custom Server Control by: Peter Kellner
  August 20, 2006, 19:26
  In this article, the basic usage of a CAPTCHA custom server control will be discussed. This control is for use in ASP.NET 2.0 only. It is provided in source as…
- Third Article Published on MSDN! ASP.NET 2.0, Membership Meets Atlas by: Peter Kellner
  August 2, 2006, 15:30
  Microsoft published my third article in a series on how to use Membership in ASP.NET 2.0 with an ObjectDataSource. That is, extending Membership into three…
- Atlas Membership Management Upgrade (June CTP) by: Peter Kellner
  July 17, 2006, 23:52
  Atlas is still in beta from Microsoft and because of this, code that worked in previous CTP versions of Atlas may not work with later CTP's. This is exactly…
- How Things Work - ASP.NET 2.0 - CodeBehind by: Peter Kellner
  July 12, 2006, 08:36
  In this article, a simple asp.net 2.0 page will be taken apart and shown how the actual page class is put together. As we know, when an http request comes into…
- Inserting Programmatically with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2006, 13:21
  ( ObjectDataSource1.Insert(); ) ObjectDataSource's are great for building your own middle tier between your aspx web page and your database (or any other…
- How To Set a Date Format In GridView Using ASP.NET 2.0(Using HtmlEncode Property) by: Peter Kellner
  May 24, 2006, 11:57
  (AKA, the DataFormatString="{0:M-dd-yyyy}" Problem) A very common desire is to set a column of a GridView to display just the month, day and…
- Adding Personalization via Profiles to the ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0 by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2006, 17:33
  This article explains the mechanics involved in extending the ObjectDataSource (developed in the previous article in this MSDN Membership Security Series) to…
- AJAX Meets ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Management For IIS by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2006, 12:34
  This article extends one of the web pages developed in Part II of this series using Microsoft's implementation of AJAX called Atlas. You can view a live…
- Membership Management Newly Styled GridView by: Peter Kellner
  January 27, 2006, 10:46
  Mikhail Lukyanau has been kind enough to provide a redesigned version of the membership.aspx page
- Using Membeship ObjectDataSource For Returning ProviderUserKey (ForeignKey Use) by: Peter Kellner
  January 10, 2006, 09:54
  This article gives an example of how to modify the Object DataSource in the previous article (Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IIS Part 1:…
- Published in MSDN! by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2006, 14:50
  Two Articles on ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Published in MSDN. (Both can be viewed at this blog)
- Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IISPart 2: Implementation by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2006, 12:27
  With the release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, there is no "out of the box" solution for maintaining the Membership and Role databases in Microsoft IIS.…
- Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IISPart 1: Security and Configuration Overview by: Peter Kellner
  January 8, 2006, 15:07
  This article is the first of two articles describing the secure use and setup of a three tier solution for managing ASP.NET Membership and Roles. This first…
- Roll your own ObjectDataSource Presentation, Seattle Code Camp October 23, 2005 by: Peter Kellner
  October 24, 2005, 23:48
  Roll your own ObjectDataSource, Seattle Presentation Oct 23, 2005
- ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IIS by: Peter Kellner
  July 18, 2005, 08:56
  With the current incarnation of Beta 2 of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey), there is no “out of the box” solution for maintaining the membership…
Category: IIS7 (6)
- How To Convert From Request With Parameter to No Parameter in ASP.NET (Server.Transfer) by: Peter Kellner
  January 24, 2010, 14:59
  The problem is that I’m trying to keep track of the exact URL a person selects including the request parameter. That is, I have a URLs that can…
- First Blood Using the New Microsoft Web Platform Installer by: Peter Kellner
  April 4, 2009, 09:57
  At MIX09 this year, Scott Guthrie presented the Web Platform Installer which seemed like an easy way to install specific technologies on an IIS server. …
- Not Using Session in ASP.NET means Session Affinity/Sticky Sessions Not Necessary in Web Farms! by: Peter Kellner
  April 3, 2009, 21:51
  So, I’ve always incorrectly thought that somehow, the cookie stored in asp.net was somehow tied to the Session provider in asp.net. Turns out I’m…
- First Blood, Windows 7. Shock and Awe! by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2009, 14:44
  (Windows 7 Beta, Build 7000 put through the paces) Background I don’t seem to have a pile of computers laying around anymore so testing new operating…
- How To Tell If Ajax is working on your site with ASP.NET's ajax UpdatePanel and other Controls by: Peter Kellner
  October 12, 2008, 20:36
  So, I suppose you should just be able to see the fact that Ajax is working by the lack of page flashing. That may be true on a normal page on a slow…
- How to User HttpHandler such as .ashx file with IIS7 Integrated Mode, Webfarm Environment by: Peter Kellner
  September 6, 2008, 10:20
  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…
Category: WebFarm (4)
- An Interesting Attack Vector On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site by: Peter Kellner
  October 7, 2011, 09:21
  I often look at the “Pages Not Indexed” report from web sites I manage and today I noticed a couple interesting ones. People are going after where…
- Load Balancing IIS Web Farm with EC2 by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2009, 21:08
  We’ve been looking to find the best Cloud based host to put our soon to be virally growing web site up on. Our requirements are it must run…
- Not Using Session in ASP.NET means Session Affinity/Sticky Sessions Not Necessary in Web Farms! by: Peter Kellner
  April 3, 2009, 21:51
  So, I’ve always incorrectly thought that somehow, the cookie stored in asp.net was somehow tied to the Session provider in asp.net. Turns out I’m…
- How to User HttpHandler such as .ashx file with IIS7 Integrated Mode, Webfarm Environment by: Peter Kellner
  September 6, 2008, 10:20
  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…
Category: WCF (4)
- Getting Fiddler to See you WCF Traffic by: Peter Kellner
  April 25, 2011, 17:48
  There are lots of articles on the internet if you search for WCF Fiddler however it’s not clear what the simplest path to follow is. For me, it turns out…
- A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service by: Peter Kellner
  June 18, 2010, 07:37
  MSDN has a very nice article on how to create a windows service that hosts a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. It explains all the details…
- Create a Simple WCF Web Service and Use In JavaScript With Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 by: Peter Kellner
  September 14, 2008, 00:20
  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…
- Using MapPath with WCF Service, Setting aspNetCompatibilityEnabled to true by: Peter Kellner
  August 18, 2008, 10:05
  I'm just starting out using WCF in an application for the first time. I'm using Visual Studio 2008 sp1 and created an asp.net web site from the standard…
Category: SQL Server (17)
- Using IntelliTrace With Entity Framework In Visual Studio 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  May 5, 2013, 19:15
  This is not a big deal, but I have recently bumped into several people that did not know about it so I thought I’d do a blog post just to show what it is and…
- Why I Can Never Leave ORCSWeb as My Web Hosting Company by: Peter Kellner
  January 29, 2013, 17:36
  Some Background and Getting Started Last weekend, a relatively new customer of mine moved their production hosting from a private dedicated server running…
- Using Redgates Sql Compare for Complex Migrations with EF’s CodeFirst by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2012, 11:44
  Introduction As many of you know, I’ve been quite the fan of Entity Framework CodeFirst for quite some time. It does a great job of reducing the…
- Entity Framework Code First From Microsoft, Best and Worst Practices by: Peter Kellner
  July 16, 2012, 09:10
  Introduction I’ve been building a fairly sophisticated product that will need to sustain a high transaction rate using the shipping version of…
- Gaining Some Control Back From Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, Name Your Own Foreign Keys! by: Peter Kellner
  April 7, 2012, 18:32
  Being a relative newbie to Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, there are things that I don’t like, things that I don’t understand, and well, just…
- Entity Framework CodeFirst Important Tip For SQL Execution Efficiency by: Peter Kellner
  April 5, 2012, 11:24
  Introduction I’ve now been using Microsoft’s Entity Framework CodeFirst for a month or two and am very impressed with how easily it…
- When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. by: Peter Kellner
  January 15, 2012, 11:58
  Problem So, if you have been doing development with Visual Studio 2010, Entity Framework CodeFirst, SqlServer or SqlServerCE for any amount of time,…
- Tip for Using SQLServer To Count By Alpha Names in a list by: Peter Kellner
  October 4, 2011, 22:11
  So, this is not a big tip, but worth at least 10 minutes to figure it out on your own. Here is to saving you 10 minutes: SELECT LEFT…
- My First Experience With SqlServer CE 4.0 by: Peter Kellner
  September 2, 2011, 08:57
  I have heard all the hype about how great Sql Server CE 4.0 and that it is now standard with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. I’ve got a small…
- Connecting To SqlServer From Web.Config Without a Password (Trusted Connection) by: Peter Kellner
  August 11, 2011, 09:19
  I often forget that the simplest way (IMHO) to connect to a Microsoft SqlServer 2008 database is to use the web.config connection for making a Trusted…
- SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 15:24
  Introduction If you’ve started using SqlAzure for your SqlServer with your Azure application, you’ve probably discovered that you get a reasonable number…
- Writing A Transact SQL (TSQL) Procedure For SQL Server 2008 To Delete Rows From Table Safely by: Peter Kellner
  April 29, 2010, 16:54
  In this post, we will show and explain a small TSQL Sql Server 2008 procedure that deletes all rows in a table that are older than some specified date. …
- Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2009, 12:59
  Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed…
- Load Balancing IIS Web Farm with EC2 by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2009, 21:08
  We’ve been looking to find the best Cloud based host to put our soon to be virally growing web site up on. Our requirements are it must run…
- A Great New Book on Business Intelligence Solutions and Sql Server 2008 by Lynn Langit by: Peter Kellner
  February 23, 2009, 17:42
  I’m sure many of you know Lynn Langit. Her role at Microsoft has been a Developer Evangelist of many of the business software offerings from Microsoft…
- First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I love it!!! by: Peter Kellner
  January 17, 2009, 15:06
  As a developer who has spent much of my life doing DBA type work, I really appreciate the simplicity and elegance of what Microsoft Visual Studio Team has put…
- LINQPad is Totally Awesome at Testing and Writing LINQ Queries by: Peter Kellner
  September 20, 2008, 21:25
  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…
Category: Sencha (34)
- Speaking Wednesday, February 27 About SPA apps and WebAPI in Mountain View Microsoft Office by: Peter Kellner
  February 21, 2013, 20:47
  ASP.NET’s WebAPI and SPA’s (single page apps) are all the rage! In our brave new world, many web apps are now Single Page Applications written…
- What Makes Sencha’s ExtJS Library So Powerful by: Peter Kellner
  February 14, 2013, 16:33
  For those that don’t know much about Sencha’s ExtJS JavaScript library, let me just simply describe it as a toolkit that helps you design applications that…
- Sencha’s Architect’s Perfect Storm, Easy To Use and Incorporates Hand Written Code Gracefully by: Peter Kellner
  February 4, 2013, 13:49
  Introduction Wednesday night this week, our local meetup (happening at Sencha’s headquarters in Redwood City) is featuring the Sencha Architect engineers…
- JavaScript, Go With the Flow! by: Peter Kellner
  January 19, 2013, 18:00
  As a technologist gluten, I probably spend too much time on different technologies and not enough time on any one particular one. It does find me often…
- How To Add Paging With a Filter Using Sencha Architect with ExtJS4 by: Peter Kellner
  May 8, 2012, 16:38
  Sometimes,the simplest things can seem complicated. Well, in this case, after struggling for a while, it turns out the simplest things can…
- Details On The ExtJS Application to Build Simple CRUD operation Using Models and Stores by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2012, 17:00
  Part 1 Basics (mostly server side) Part 2 (this) ExtJS Client Side Details *For those who are intersted in this, I just…
- Setting Values In a Form Using the Sencha Architect 2.0 (ExtJS 4.0) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2012, 17:01
  Let’s say you want to make a simple modal window that appears when you double click on a row in a Sencha Grid Panel. Let’s assume you have the panel…
- Building an Sencha’s ExtJS 4.0 MVC Application With Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC3 Series / Basics by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2011, 11:47
  Part 1 (this) Basics (mostly server side) Part 2 ExtJS Client Side Details *For those who are intersted in this, I just posted a…
- Meetup At Sencha Headquarters Tomorrow (Tuesday 8/23) in Redwood City Talking MVC in JavaScript! by: Peter Kellner
  August 22, 2011, 17:21
  Tomorrow night (Tuesday, August 23rd), we are having another meetup to talk about using MVC inside of Sencha’s JavaScript products. I (Peter Kellner)…
- New Awesome Session Interest Viewer On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site by: Peter Kellner
  June 11, 2011, 07:29
  Checkout the new session viewer we put together for Silicon Valley Code Camp. Using one of the very cool Sencha demonstration pages (Forms Dashboard), we…
- Building Hugely Performant Websites: Taking advantage of HTML5 Storage, 3rd DevConnections Orlando Presentation by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2011, 05:08
  For my final of 3 presentations at DevConnections Orlando is about building a hugely performant web application with html5 storage. The app we…
- DevConnections Orlando, Build Advanced Web UIs with a Rich JavaScript UI Language by: Peter Kellner
  March 30, 2011, 07:26
  To build fully-featured web applications that support complex interaction in a reasonable amount of time requires a high-end JavaScript library. Someday,…
- Learning Ext JS 3.2 From PACKT Is Another Winner! by: Peter Kellner
  January 2, 2011, 18:46
  The same authors who write the original Learning Ext JS are back and definitely with a winner here. Just to start out, the book is about a third longer,…
- Is There A Need For End-To-End ExtJS to Microsoft Server (MVC-C#, LOB) 4 Day Class? (Poll Enclosed) by: Peter Kellner
  May 4, 2010, 19:54
  Over the past couple years, the focus of the web development I’ve been doing involves building highly flexible, highly scalable and straight forward web…
- Great ExtJS Meetup in Palo Alto Tonight at ExtJS’s New Office by: Peter Kellner
  February 24, 2010, 23:46
  Yet another great meetup with the ExtJS San Francisco Group (though not meeting in San Francisco this time). ExtJS has moved it’s main office and…
- Lunch With Mats Bryntse Today, Author of Ext Scheduler. Talked about Code Camp Integration and January 7th Meetup by: Peter Kellner
  December 23, 2009, 16:11
  Mats and I met today in Palo Alto for lunch to talk about the upcoming Meetup January 7th (in two weeks) at ClickTime. We’re looking forward to…
- Awesome Ext Scheduling Component Built By Mats Bryntse by: Peter Kellner
  December 2, 2009, 19:10
  My friend Mats Bryntse, who you may know from our our San Francisco ExtJS Meetup group based in San Francisco, has written a very pretty impressive…
- Xmarks (Formerly FoxMarks) now Syncs Between IE8 as well as FireFox by: Peter Kellner
  August 15, 2009, 08:09
  I’ve been a very happy use of Foxmarks over the years for keeping my bookmarks in FireFox up to date. Turns out, they’ve renamed themselves to xmarks…
- My Two Presentations Today at VSLive in Las Vegas (ExtJS, Then High Performance ASP.NET Web Sites) by: Peter Kellner
  June 8, 2009, 22:41
  Today was my first time doing 2 presentations during the same day at a professional conference (VSLive, Las Vegas). Both sessions were fun to present and…
- My ExtJS Presentation at Microsoft’s Office in San Francisco Last Night by: Peter Kellner
  May 21, 2009, 12:07
  Last night, I gave a 90 minute presentation on how to use ExtJS with ASP.NET serving up the data at the San Francisco Microsoft Office to what seemed to be…
- Another Great ExtJS Meetup in San Francisco! by: Peter Kellner
  May 21, 2009, 11:45
  Last week, we had our 5th Meetup of the San Francisco ExtJS Meetup Group at ClickTime. Xiaohui Chen and I both presented different aspects of some new…
- ExtJS Meetup Tonight in San Francisco, Sample URLs of Running Code Here by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2009, 07:47
  At tonight's meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in ExtJS version 3.0. For my short presentation, I will be…
- How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters by: Peter Kellner
  May 3, 2009, 16:42
  Programmatically setting JavaScript into an ASP.NET page is very straight forward when you do it in code. That is, in my case, I simply put it in the…
- Speaking Wednesday May 20th, 6:30PM, Microsoft Office San Francisco on ExtJS and ASP.NET Membership! by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2009, 21:59
  Come hear about how to see ExtJS integrated with ASP.NET for awesome Membership and Profile Management! I will speaking at the Microsoft Office…
- Come See Me at VSLive in Las Vegas, June 9th (2 Sessions) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 17:27
  I’m doing two sessions at VS-Live in June. Both sessions are in the asp.net track. One is on High Speed performance in ASP.Net, and the other is on…
- Come to Portland Code Camp and see me Present ExtJS with ASP.NET Membership (May 30th) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 17:18
  http://portlandcodecamp.org/default.aspx Portland Code Camp - May 30, 2009 at Reed College Building asp.net Membership with ExtJS (Super Rich JavaScript…
- Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 09:03
  Over the past week, I met lots of people I know from the ExtJS forums. It was great fun. I also met two of the authors of “Learning Ext JS”…
- Day 0 of the ExtJS Conference in Orlando Florida by: Peter Kellner
  April 13, 2009, 21:20
  ExtJS is having it’s first conference. The JavaScript software company is releasing 3.0 of it’s flagship software. As many of you know,…
- Great ExtJS Meetup Last Night! Chris Scott, Core ExtJS Developer Joined Us by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2009, 11:28
  Last night was the 4th Meeting of our San Francisco ExtJS Meetup hosted by Untangle. We had about 20 or so people come! It was a special…
- Slides and Demo Code From Southern Cal Rock and Roll Code Camp (ExtJS was the topic) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2009, 16:25
  It was fun to do my first presentation on ExtJS at the Southern California Rock and Roll Code Camp at Fullerton. It was also great to see so many…
- Framework Scanner, Written in ExtJS by Mats Bryntse by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2009, 09:55
  Mats Bryntse, a great web developer and ExtJS expert has written a very cool utility that let's you see how well the different JavaScript frameworks play with…
- Heading to Southern Ca on January 24th to Talk about ExtJS at SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp by: Peter Kellner
  December 17, 2008, 08:25
  I just signed up to give a session at the SoCal Code Camp at CALSTATE Fullerton. I've been to this event before and it's totally awesome. Those…
- First San Francisco Meetup of ExtJS Group by: Peter Kellner
  December 10, 2008, 12:08
  http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-ExtJS-Meetup-Group/ As many of you know, I'm learning the JavaScript library ExtJS. It's basically a very rich…
- An ExtJS book just published!!! (Learning Ext JS By Shea Frederick, Colin Ramsay and Steve Blades) by: Peter Kellner
  November 28, 2008, 21:00
  ***(This book has been replaced by a new one from the same authors titled Learning Ext JS 3.2 and you should order that one and not this one) I've been…
Category: Database (6)
- Extending CodeFirst (EntityFramework) to Multiple Levels of 1 to 1 Relationships (Strongly Typed) by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2012, 07:15
  In my previous post, I showed how to take a simple relationship between Customers and an one Detail per customer build that into a relationship that eagerly…
- Working With Nested Class In Simple 1 to 1 Relationship with EntityFramework 4 CodeFirst by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2012, 06:47
  Surprisingly, (and happily) it’s not hard to reference all data inside a class using EF’s codefirst in a 1 to 1 type relationship. Let’s take…
- Getting ExtJS 4 Date Format To Behave Properly in Grid Panel with ASP.NET MVC3 by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2011, 11:52
  Introduction and Problem Converting Data Formats back and forth between browser and back end servers can be a little confusing. In my case,…
- How to Automate a Simple Deploy Using DataDude (Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition) by: Peter Kellner
  October 24, 2009, 08:38
  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…
- First Blood Using the New Microsoft Web Platform Installer by: Peter Kellner
  April 4, 2009, 09:57
  At MIX09 this year, Scott Guthrie presented the Web Platform Installer which seemed like an easy way to install specific technologies on an IIS server. …
- First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I love it!!! by: Peter Kellner
  January 17, 2009, 15:06
  As a developer who has spent much of my life doing DBA type work, I really appreciate the simplicity and elegance of what Microsoft Visual Studio Team has put…
Category: SSD (3)
- Nasty Problem With OCZ Vertex 3 SSD on Lenovo W520 Solved by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2011, 17:14
  Recently, I posted about the new SSD drive I have for my Lenovo W520 Core-I7 smokin’ fast notebook computer (OCZ Vertex 3) Clearly I was in the honey…
- Moving To Super Fast SSD OCZ Vertex 3 For My Lenovo W520 by: Peter Kellner
  May 12, 2011, 22:37
  Important Update 5/13/2011: .../nasty-problem-with-ocz-vertex-3-ssd-on-lenovo-w520-solved/ Let me get the fireworks out of the way first so you don’t need…
- SSD (Solid State Drives) Seemed Too Good To Pass Up by: Peter Kellner
  February 8, 2009, 07:55
  Some Background I recently notice on Amazon a discussion thread of about 15 people saying how absolutely wonderful SSDs are and how the brought new life to…
Category: Hardware (4)
- Always Wanting the Latest Fastest Lenovo ThinkPad. Info on W520 Follows by: Peter Kellner
  March 10, 2011, 15:58
  It seems that at the following location, you can see all the latest specs (no prices) on the upcoming Lenovo W520 ThinkPad. http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/tab…
- Using RSYNC to Replicate Synology NAS DS710+ to Windows 7 Hard Drive by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2010, 21:53
  Learn how to use a local backup drive on your windows 7 system to replicate the data on any or all of your directories on your Synology NAS (Network Hard Drive…
- Really Cool Feature in Windows 7 RC (Multi-Monitor Support) by: Peter Kellner
  June 27, 2009, 07:37
  I’ve finally moved my Lenovo W500 over to Windows 7 RC. What motivated me was my wireless networking was getting really really unstable. …
- SSD (Solid State Drives) Seemed Too Good To Pass Up by: Peter Kellner
  February 8, 2009, 07:55
  Some Background I recently notice on Amazon a discussion thread of about 15 people saying how absolutely wonderful SSDs are and how the brought new life to…
Category: MSBuild (1)
- A New Book on Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Server by: Peter Kellner
  February 12, 2009, 12:03
  William Bartholomew just published a new book on MSBuild and TFS. There is a great forward by Richard Hundhausen (Famous TFS Author and top MS…
Category: Windows 7 (15)
- Windows 7 Trick for Docking Application to Side of Screen by: Peter Kellner
  November 3, 2011, 11:21
  I think everyone but me knows this, but just in case, I thought I’d blog it. I’m currently sitting in the Sprint Developer Conference and don’t have my…
- Windows 7 SP1 Fails Install With Error Code 8024200D by: Peter Kellner
  July 19, 2011, 06:41
  It’s always disconcerting to have a windows update fail. I in general think of these updates as things that happen in the background that I don’t…
- In Windows 7, Make Your Current Window Grow to the Full Height, Leaving Width Alone by: Peter Kellner
  May 28, 2011, 19:11
  Did you know that in Windows 7, when you hover over the bottom edge of an application, you will get an arrow with both and up and a down on it. If you…
- Nasty Problem With OCZ Vertex 3 SSD on Lenovo W520 Solved by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2011, 17:14
  Recently, I posted about the new SSD drive I have for my Lenovo W520 Core-I7 smokin’ fast notebook computer (OCZ Vertex 3) Clearly I was in the honey…
- Windows 7 Has a Great Feature For Recovering a Lost Window by: Peter Kellner
  August 16, 2010, 19:14
  Ever have a program come up and you can only see a part of and can’t move it? That use to happen to me with Skype all the time, but I think they must…
- How To Fix Windows 7 Boot Loader (Boot.ini) When Goes Awry by: Peter Kellner
  February 9, 2010, 22:06
  I got this tip from the Acronis Knowledgebase which is very helpful. Basically, you can boot off of your original windows 7 DVD, chose repair, chose a…
- Left Home 0Dark100, arrived LAX 8AM, New Friends Lead the Way by: Peter Kellner
  November 16, 2009, 11:42
  So, for those of you that don’t know me well, suffice it to say, I have less than no sense of direction. I always manage to make my way home, but often…
- Windows 7 On My Lenovo W500 Not Quite Perfect (Built in Display Not Always Showing) by: Peter Kellner
  August 19, 2009, 12:56
  Yesterday, someone asked me if I had a chance to install Windows 7 on my Lenovo W500 notebook computer. Well, I said yet, three times. It started when…
- Just Repaved to Windows 7 RTM by: Peter Kellner
  August 15, 2009, 08:38
  I like this term I keep hearing (repaved) which means that I’ve wiped out all the information on my computer and reinstalled the operating system. The…
- What is the Difference Between the different Versions of Windows 7? by: Peter Kellner
  August 7, 2009, 10:30
  Well, somehow, yesterday when I tried to download from MSDN the latest version of Windows 7, Enterprise was showing as available. I always pick the…
- Can Not Find a Program Running in Windows 7? (helpful Keyboard Shortcuts) by: Peter Kellner
  July 2, 2009, 10:02
  So, if you run a notebook with different monitor configurations, you may find yourself unable to find a program you launched to a different monitor previously.…
- Getting Stuck in Windows 7 with Directory Showing 0-9,A-H,… Group By Problem by: Peter Kellner
  June 27, 2009, 18:02
  So, sometimes I feel like “how did I get myself here”. If you pushed some buttons and didn’t realize you did something, you may find your directory…
- Really Cool Feature in Windows 7 RC (Multi-Monitor Support) by: Peter Kellner
  June 27, 2009, 07:37
  I’ve finally moved my Lenovo W500 over to Windows 7 RC. What motivated me was my wireless networking was getting really really unstable. …
- Using GoToMeeting with Windows 7 by: Peter Kellner
  February 28, 2009, 20:54
  I’ve been using Windows 7 now (Build 7000) for about 2 weeks and am very happy with it. I still get some strange behavior now and again, but overall,…
- First Blood, Windows 7. Shock and Awe! by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2009, 14:44
  (Windows 7 Beta, Build 7000 put through the paces) Background I don’t seem to have a pile of computers laying around anymore so testing new operating…
Category: Review (6)
- Droid 4 Versus Samsung Charge by: Peter Kellner
  September 25, 2012, 16:01
  A Little Background As many of you know, I’ve been slowly pulled to the dark side and use both a macbook and IPad. I still use an android…
- Moving To Super Fast SSD OCZ Vertex 3 For My Lenovo W520 by: Peter Kellner
  May 12, 2011, 22:37
  Important Update 5/13/2011: .../nasty-problem-with-ocz-vertex-3-ssd-on-lenovo-w520-solved/ Let me get the fireworks out of the way first so you don’t need…
- Linux Web Hosting At HostGator Review, Thumbs Up by: Peter Kellner
  February 9, 2011, 17:01
  Background About a month ago, purchased to Level 3 VPS (Virtual Private Servers) running Linux for about a piece. I’m close to launching a…
- SPRINT Samsung Epic 4G First Impressions / HTC EVO Returned Yesterday by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2010, 09:42
  A Little History Let me start off by saying that the HTC EVO has raised my expectations of what to expect from a smart phone. …
- ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer (Book Review) by: Peter Kellner
  March 25, 2009, 14:04
  Andrew Siemer has written an excellent book about how to best use .Net (specifically with asp.net as the front end web technology) to build a social networking…
- First Blood, Windows 7. Shock and Awe! by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2009, 14:44
  (Windows 7 Beta, Build 7000 put through the paces) Background I don’t seem to have a pile of computers laying around anymore so testing new operating…
Category: Business Intelligence (1)
- A Great New Book on Business Intelligence Solutions and Sql Server 2008 by Lynn Langit by: Peter Kellner
  February 23, 2009, 17:42
  I’m sure many of you know Lynn Langit. Her role at Microsoft has been a Developer Evangelist of many of the business software offerings from Microsoft…
Category: MasterPages (1)
- How To Access Content From MasterPage in ASP.NET by: Peter Kellner
  March 20, 2009, 09:41
  So, you want to access some content from inside a page that you created from an existing master page? The most clean way to do this is to create a public…
Category: Telerik (1)
- A Great Telerik Training Coming Up in Capitola, CA 4/13-4/15 by: Peter Kellner
  April 3, 2009, 21:41
  Falafel Software is putting a three day training course in their new training facility in Capitola from Monday to Wednesday April 13-15th. As many of you…
Category: Security (1)
- Not Using Session in ASP.NET means Session Affinity/Sticky Sessions Not Necessary in Web Farms! by: Peter Kellner
  April 3, 2009, 21:51
  So, I’ve always incorrectly thought that somehow, the cookie stored in asp.net was somehow tied to the Session provider in asp.net. Turns out I’m…
Category: PHP (1)
- First Blood Using the New Microsoft Web Platform Installer by: Peter Kellner
  April 4, 2009, 09:57
  At MIX09 this year, Scott Guthrie presented the Web Platform Installer which seemed like an easy way to install specific technologies on an IIS server. …
Category: MySql (1)
- First Blood Using the New Microsoft Web Platform Installer by: Peter Kellner
  April 4, 2009, 09:57
  At MIX09 this year, Scott Guthrie presented the Web Platform Installer which seemed like an easy way to install specific technologies on an IIS server. …
Category: Reflection (3)
- Returning JsonResult From ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Controller and Unit Testing by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2010, 21:19
  * I’m adding this comment after the post has been written to let anyone coming here know of another great post that goes further to explain no only what…
- Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values by: Peter Kellner
  June 1, 2009, 12:04
  So, I’ve struggled some with this and did not have much help with searching. Here is the problem. You have a declaration that looks like this:…
- Using Method.Invoke to avoid a lengthy Case Statement in C# (Using Reflection) by: Peter Kellner
  April 9, 2009, 15:02
  So, I asked the following question in at http://forums.asp.net/t/1408631.aspx The problem is, I’ve got 30 methods that all have the same signature, but…
Category: Speaking (4)
- Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 20, 2010, 12:12
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using Silverlight 4…
- ExtJS Meetup Tonight in San Francisco, Sample URLs of Running Code Here by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2009, 07:47
  At tonight's meet up, we will be having several short presentations on the new features in ExtJS version 3.0. For my short presentation, I will be…
- Come See Me at VSLive in Las Vegas, June 9th (2 Sessions) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 17:27
  I’m doing two sessions at VS-Live in June. Both sessions are in the asp.net track. One is on High Speed performance in ASP.Net, and the other is on…
- Come to Portland Code Camp and see me Present ExtJS with ASP.NET Membership (May 30th) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2009, 17:18
  http://portlandcodecamp.org/default.aspx Portland Code Camp - May 30, 2009 at Reed College Building asp.net Membership with ExtJS (Super Rich JavaScript…
Category: outlook (3)
- Making Outlook 2010 Forget Cached Names in the To: CC: BCC fields by: Peter Kellner
  October 29, 2011, 19:27
  Do you ever find that after you have changed some ones name in your email, you keep getting the old address popping up in the two field? I’ve had…
- Using Outlook 2010, How to View The Headers by: Peter Kellner
  August 1, 2011, 05:53
  I’m not sure why I have trouble remembering this, but I always seem to. I think it’s because very version of outlook has changed how to do this. …
- How To Set Which Folders Get Synchronized With Outlook 2007 and IMAP by: Peter Kellner
  April 18, 2009, 14:37
  If you are using an IMAP client and you want to set certain folders to be synchronized when you are offline, you need to simply do the following while…
Category: imap (2)
- How To Setup Your Own Pop3/IMAP Email Server for Local Development Testing by: Peter Kellner
  March 11, 2012, 11:47
  For the past few months, I’ve been working on building an HTML5 email web client. It’s fundamentally server based for gathering email. That…
- How To Set Which Folders Get Synchronized With Outlook 2007 and IMAP by: Peter Kellner
  April 18, 2009, 14:37
  If you are using an IMAP client and you want to set certain folders to be synchronized when you are offline, you need to simply do the following while…
Category: Cloud Computing (2)
- Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Book Review, Now Available! (Windows Azure Platform by Tejaswi Redkar) by: Peter Kellner
  January 11, 2010, 09:09
  For those of you that have been sleeping for the past year, Cloud computing is Hot! Amazon more or less lead the way with their cloud computing platforms…
- Load Balancing IIS Web Farm with EC2 by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2009, 21:08
  We’ve been looking to find the best Cloud based host to put our soon to be virally growing web site up on. Our requirements are it must run…
Category: Sql Server 2008 (11)
- Why I Can Never Leave ORCSWeb as My Web Hosting Company by: Peter Kellner
  January 29, 2013, 17:36
  Some Background and Getting Started Last weekend, a relatively new customer of mine moved their production hosting from a private dedicated server running…
- Entity Framework CodeFirst Important Tip For SQL Execution Efficiency by: Peter Kellner
  April 5, 2012, 11:24
  Introduction I’ve now been using Microsoft’s Entity Framework CodeFirst for a month or two and am very impressed with how easily it…
- Tip for Using SQLServer To Count By Alpha Names in a list by: Peter Kellner
  October 4, 2011, 22:11
  So, this is not a big tip, but worth at least 10 minutes to figure it out on your own. Here is to saving you 10 minutes: SELECT LEFT…
- A Quick Tip On How To Ignore Time When Querying From SqlServer by: Peter Kellner
  September 7, 2011, 09:15
  Seems like this comes up a lot so I thought I’d blog about a clean way I found to do this from a StackOverflow article. Basically, the problem is if…
- My First Experience With SqlServer CE 4.0 by: Peter Kellner
  September 2, 2011, 08:57
  I have heard all the hype about how great Sql Server CE 4.0 and that it is now standard with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. I’ve got a small…
- Connecting To SqlServer From Web.Config Without a Password (Trusted Connection) by: Peter Kellner
  August 11, 2011, 09:19
  I often forget that the simplest way (IMHO) to connect to a Microsoft SqlServer 2008 database is to use the web.config connection for making a Trusted…
- Writing A Transact SQL (TSQL) Procedure For SQL Server 2008 To Delete Rows From Table Safely by: Peter Kellner
  April 29, 2010, 16:54
  In this post, we will show and explain a small TSQL Sql Server 2008 procedure that deletes all rows in a table that are older than some specified date. …
- Using SqlServer 2008 and TSQL Subtract 1 Hour From All Values In a DateTime Column by: Peter Kellner
  April 28, 2010, 16:36
  In this post, we’ll go briefly the process of how you would update all rows in a SQL Server 2008 table such that a particular date column will be moved back…
- I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! by: Peter Kellner
  November 2, 2009, 17:47
  For the past couple years, I’ve used a product called FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies to automate my build processes. Since I’ve been…
- Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2009, 12:59
  Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed…
- Load Balancing IIS Web Farm with EC2 by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2009, 21:08
  We’ve been looking to find the best Cloud based host to put our soon to be virally growing web site up on. Our requirements are it must run…
Category: LINQ to SQL (13)
- LINQ Query Workaround for Comparing Dates (EF, LINQ2SQL,CodeFirst) by: Peter Kellner
  July 25, 2012, 19:59
  I seem to always get this error all the time (kind of like I never learn). Or, for you search engines reading: LINQ to Entities…
- LINQ To SQL Performance Getting Huge Improvement in EF5, Microsoft Does Listen! by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2012, 08:19
  The Original Problem Back in 2009, I discovered what I considered a fatal flaw in performance using LINQ2SQL with LINQ queries. I…
- Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next! by: Peter Kellner
  October 22, 2011, 18:57
  In May of 2009 I discovered some significant performance problems that I blogged about. In summary, I had tracked it down to the issue of LINQ2SQ…
- Is There A Need For End-To-End ExtJS to Microsoft Server (MVC-C#, LOB) 4 Day Class? (Poll Enclosed) by: Peter Kellner
  May 4, 2010, 19:54
  Over the past couple years, the focus of the web development I’ve been doing involves building highly flexible, highly scalable and straight forward web…
- Converting From System.Data.Linq.Binary to String and Back by: Peter Kellner
  November 8, 2009, 10:49
  Just a quick post in case anyone is wasting 10 minutes figuring out how to do this. For me, this came up because in Sql Server 2008, NVARCHAR(MAX) is…
- LINQPad Help For Creating Nasty Group by Query in Native SQL by: Peter Kellner
  September 28, 2009, 09:51
  I often speak very highly of LINQ and also LINQPad. This morning, I was struggling with some sql that would let me do a count by DateTime while…
- Using LINQ2SQL, Use Group By To Get List of Top Occuring Values by: Peter Kellner
  September 3, 2009, 16:05
  So, I’m really enjoying using LINQ and specifically LINQ2SQL. I’ve got a current problem where I want to get from a long list of loads (potentially…
- Interesting LINQ side affect, Pass in empty List<int> using Contains and Get Where 0 == 1. Hmm by: Peter Kellner
  June 14, 2009, 08:21
  We’ve built a data access layer on top of LINQ2SQL for dynamically building the layer we call for data access. It’s convenient because we pass in a…
- Combing LINQPAD with LINQ In Action From Manning by: Peter Kellner
  June 9, 2009, 09:08
  Last night, I had the honor of having dinner with three other VSLive speakers including Jim Wooley, one of the authors of the awesome book on LINQ titled LINQ…
- 780 Requests Per Second Verses 110, You Really Need to Compile your LINQ to SQL (LINQ2SQL) Queries by: Peter Kellner
  June 8, 2009, 22:21
  *Note 10/22/2011 (2+ years later): Microsoft is fixing this problem in EntityFramework 4.5! See my post here about it: http://peterkellner.net/2011/…
- Not Sure If I’ve Said Often Enough.. I LOVE LINQPAD!!! by: Peter Kellner
  June 4, 2009, 06:30
  I’ve been doing a lot of LINQ2SQL lately and just in case I have not said it loud enough how enthusiastic I am about LINQPAD written by Joseph Albahari. …
- How Fast are In Memory LINQ Evaluations for Doing Simple Things? by: Peter Kellner
  June 3, 2009, 18:27
  So, I recently blogged about the huge penalty for not compiling your LINQ2SQL. This problem is so big that it occurred to us that maybe all of LINQ has…
- LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery) by: Peter Kellner
  May 6, 2009, 10:23
  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…
Category: google (4)
- How To Permanently Turn Off Personal Search Results in Google by: Peter Kellner
  January 14, 2012, 17:47
  Not sure if you are like me, but I use both Bing and Google for search. Lately, my top 10 or so search results on everything I type are from my Google…
- New Google Analytics Real Time Statistics Pretty Amazing! by: Peter Kellner
  November 22, 2011, 11:10
  I just noticed that in the beta of Google Analytics, you can now see real time statistics of what is going on for a web site. As a numbers junky,…
- I’m really Getting Annoyed with GMAIL! I pay for a domain account and … by: Peter Kellner
  August 30, 2009, 16:39
  As the main organize for Silicon Valley Code Camp, I often do small mailings to certain groups of people. I expect that I should be able to send emails…
- Sending My Google T-Mobile Android G1 Phone Back to Google by: Peter Kellner
  May 21, 2009, 11:37
  For the past couple years, I’ve had the T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile phone. It’s been a nice phone but not great. It’s broken a couple times,…
Category: mobile (2)
- SPRINT Samsung Epic 4G First Impressions / HTC EVO Returned Yesterday by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2010, 09:42
  A Little History Let me start off by saying that the HTC EVO has raised my expectations of what to expect from a smart phone. …
- Sending My Google T-Mobile Android G1 Phone Back to Google by: Peter Kellner
  May 21, 2009, 11:37
  For the past couple years, I’ve had the T-Mobile Dash Windows Mobile phone. It’s been a nice phone but not great. It’s broken a couple times,…
Category: Operating Systems (1)
- Really Cool Feature in Windows 7 RC (Multi-Monitor Support) by: Peter Kellner
  June 27, 2009, 07:37
  I’ve finally moved my Lenovo W500 over to Windows 7 RC. What motivated me was my wireless networking was getting really really unstable. …
Category: facebook (1)
- Just Created My Own Facebook Name http://facebook.com/peterkellner99 and http://twitter.com/pkellner by: Peter Kellner
  July 6, 2009, 06:29
  Nice job from both twitter and facebook on how to make badges for your web sites. Seems like there could be many other places this technology could be…
Category: social networks (1)
- Just Created My Own Facebook Name http://facebook.com/peterkellner99 and http://twitter.com/pkellner by: Peter Kellner
  July 6, 2009, 06:29
  Nice job from both twitter and facebook on how to make badges for your web sites. Seems like there could be many other places this technology could be…
Category: Plug and Play (1)
- A Break From the Madness, Fun Times at Plug and Play by: Peter Kellner
  July 17, 2009, 18:20
  The company I work for, 3PLogic, recently moved into a cubicle 4 pack at Plug and Play here in Sunnyvale, California. We are a leading edge development…
Category: hosting (5)
- Why I Can Never Leave ORCSWeb as My Web Hosting Company by: Peter Kellner
  January 29, 2013, 17:36
  Some Background and Getting Started Last weekend, a relatively new customer of mine moved their production hosting from a private dedicated server running…
- vaasnet, Awesome First Experience. Need a VM Now, for just 2 hours? by: Peter Kellner
  January 19, 2012, 17:09
  I’ve known about vaasnet for quite a while. Basically, vaasnet is a way to almost instantly (OK, it took about 4 seconds to come up) grab a…
- Hosting The Same Windows Azure Web Project With Two Different Configurations by: Peter Kellner
  March 5, 2011, 11:50
  The Problem In my scenario, I have the same web project that I want to host in two different Windows Azure Data Centers (BTW, Steve Marx let me know it’s…
- Linux Web Hosting At HostGator Review, Thumbs Up by: Peter Kellner
  February 9, 2011, 17:01
  Background About a month ago, purchased to Level 3 VPS (Virtual Private Servers) running Linux for about a piece. I’m close to launching a…
- Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts by: Peter Kellner
  July 27, 2009, 12:59
  Many of you know of ORCSWeb either by reputation, or by way of Scott Forsyth, one of my ASP.NET MVP brothers. In case you don’t, they are a managed…
Category: Firefox (1)
- Xmarks (Formerly FoxMarks) now Syncs Between IE8 as well as FireFox by: Peter Kellner
  August 15, 2009, 08:09
  I’ve been a very happy use of Foxmarks over the years for keeping my bookmarks in FireFox up to date. Turns out, they’ve renamed themselves to xmarks…
Category: IE8 (2)
- In IE8, When File Download Completes, No Save Dialog Appears by: Peter Kellner
  May 31, 2010, 18:03
  For quite some time now, when I download file using IE8, the file finishes downloading and there is no pop up that allows me to open the containing folder, or…
- Xmarks (Formerly FoxMarks) now Syncs Between IE8 as well as FireFox by: Peter Kellner
  August 15, 2009, 08:09
  I’ve been a very happy use of Foxmarks over the years for keeping my bookmarks in FireFox up to date. Turns out, they’ve renamed themselves to xmarks…
Category: DetailsView (1)
- How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+) by: Peter Kellner
  September 6, 2009, 17:27
  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,…
Category: TSQL (4)
- Tip for Using SQLServer To Count By Alpha Names in a list by: Peter Kellner
  October 4, 2011, 22:11
  So, this is not a big tip, but worth at least 10 minutes to figure it out on your own. Here is to saving you 10 minutes: SELECT LEFT…
- Writing A Transact SQL (TSQL) Procedure For SQL Server 2008 To Delete Rows From Table Safely by: Peter Kellner
  April 29, 2010, 16:54
  In this post, we will show and explain a small TSQL Sql Server 2008 procedure that deletes all rows in a table that are older than some specified date. …
- Using SqlServer 2008 and TSQL Subtract 1 Hour From All Values In a DateTime Column by: Peter Kellner
  April 28, 2010, 16:36
  In this post, we’ll go briefly the process of how you would update all rows in a SQL Server 2008 table such that a particular date column will be moved back…
- LINQPad Help For Creating Nasty Group by Query in Native SQL by: Peter Kellner
  September 28, 2009, 09:51
  I often speak very highly of LINQ and also LINQPad. This morning, I was struggling with some sql that would let me do a count by DateTime while…
Category: Scrum (1)
- Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus by: Peter Kellner
  October 14, 2009, 21:02
  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…
Category: Agile (2)
- Scrum Developer Training Happening at Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus 11/2-11/6 – 2 for 1 Deal by: Peter Kellner
  October 25, 2009, 19:14
  The Scrum developer training is happening a week from Monday and I just got a notification that they are offering a 2 for 1 deal. Pretty amazing. I…
- Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus by: Peter Kellner
  October 14, 2009, 21:02
  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…
Category: Refactor (8)
- A Quick Thank you and At-A-Program For Resharper and Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  January 19, 2013, 19:05
  I had the following line embedded in an initializer: EmailAlerts = String.IsNullOrEmpty(emailAlerts) ? false : emailAlerts.ToLower().Equals("true"),…
- CodeIt.Right Takes Refactoring To The Next Level by: Peter Kellner
  November 22, 2012, 10:42
  Background I’m a big believer in using refactoring tools to help improve the quality of the code I right. I just added another tool to my arsenal…
- LINQ and “Possible Multiple Enumerations of IEnumerable” Warning / Resharper To the Rescue! by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2012, 09:17
  In the most recent version of Resharper 7 from JetBrains, the brilliant team has gone one step above and beyond. Not only do they show this error which…
- A Cool / Unexpected Refactoring around .Net C# Locking Issue by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2010, 07:32
  I’m constantly amazed by the insightfulness of ReSharper’s suggested refactorings (ReSharper is a Visual Studio Addin from JetBrains I use with C#). Today,…
- Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  July 4, 2010, 09:42
  For the last few days, I’ve been using DevExpress CodeRush and am finding some very useful refactorings. Many I’m not blogging about, but there are a…
- A Handy Refactoring with CodeRush (InLine Temp) by: Peter Kellner
  July 2, 2010, 07:34
  I’ve recently started using CodeRush with Visual Studio 2010 and am so far very impressed with the convenience it adds to coding. One thing that is…
- ReSharper 5.0 Adds New “Add Parameter” Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  April 26, 2010, 11:38
  In this post, I’ll show a simple example of how when you add a parameter to C# method, ReSharper gives you a simple prompting to ask if you want to add a…
- Using ReSharper, I’ve Always Wondered Why They Had the “Invert if” refactor by: Peter Kellner
  October 18, 2009, 08:33
  Well, now I know. Here is an example of some code I just wrote: if (doDeficitCalc) { throw new ApplicationException("Need…
Category: ReSharper (9)
- Why ReSharper Is Worth Using (reason #879) by: Peter Kellner
  April 14, 2013, 08:47
  I often email the folks at JetBrains (the makers of ReSharper) letting them know that one of their refactors is wrong. They often email me back…
- A Quick Thank you and At-A-Program For Resharper and Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  January 19, 2013, 19:05
  I had the following line embedded in an initializer: EmailAlerts = String.IsNullOrEmpty(emailAlerts) ? false : emailAlerts.ToLower().Equals("true"),…
- LINQ and “Possible Multiple Enumerations of IEnumerable” Warning / Resharper To the Rescue! by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2012, 09:17
  In the most recent version of Resharper 7 from JetBrains, the brilliant team has gone one step above and beyond. Not only do they show this error which…
- Deeply Nested Null Checking in C# verses Assert with no nesting by: Peter Kellner
  May 24, 2012, 17:07
  One of the code smells that particularly bothers me (though I often find myself doing it anyhow) is when I defensively program against nulls in C# (though…
- A Cool / Unexpected Refactoring around .Net C# Locking Issue by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2010, 07:32
  I’m constantly amazed by the insightfulness of ReSharper’s suggested refactorings (ReSharper is a Visual Studio Addin from JetBrains I use with C#). Today,…
- ReSharper 5.0’s LINQ Refactoring Continues to be Amazing! by: Peter Kellner
  April 21, 2010, 17:46
  In this post, we’ll take a straight forward procedure based set of code and convert it to LINQ using a ReSharper from JetBrains suggestion. …
- Another Cool Resharper Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  December 19, 2009, 18:52
  So, if you are like me, it’s easy to make mistakes on whether to use && or || when combining variables on if statements. I hate to just start…
- Most Amazing ReFactor Using ReSharper EAP 5.0 I’ve Seen! by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2009, 11:27
  This one is just to amazing to not blog about. I’ve been a die heart ReSharper user for quite a while and recently have started using their…
- Using ReSharper, I’ve Always Wondered Why They Had the “Invert if” refactor by: Peter Kellner
  October 18, 2009, 08:33
  Well, now I know. Here is an example of some code I just wrote: if (doDeficitCalc) { throw new ApplicationException("Need…
Category: Version Control (2)
- An Interesting Attack Vector On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site by: Peter Kellner
  October 7, 2011, 09:21
  I often look at the “Pages Not Indexed” report from web sites I manage and today I noticed a couple interesting ones. People are going after where…
- I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! by: Peter Kellner
  November 2, 2009, 17:47
  For the past couple years, I’ve used a product called FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies to automate my build processes. Since I’ve been…
Category: Build Products (1)
- I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies! by: Peter Kellner
  November 2, 2009, 17:47
  For the past couple years, I’ve used a product called FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies to automate my build processes. Since I’ve been…
Category: JSON (5)
- Wrestling All Day With WebAPI, NewtonSoft and JSON Date Formats by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2013, 14:56
  Half to document what I now believe and half to share my findings, I’m going to do a short post that shows the implications of changing the DateTimeKi…
- Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2012, 12:40
  Introduction People often ask me if I use MVC or WebForms for my Microsoft ASP.NET projects. I always tell them MVC, but I don’t use…
- MVC3 Unable To Return Large JSON Even with Web Config Patch, Using LargeJsonResult Instead by: Peter Kellner
  March 21, 2011, 11:11
  I’m trying to download a base64 encoded image that is about 4 Megabytes embedded inside a JSON object. When I first tried this from my MVC3 Web application,…
- Returning JsonResult From ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Controller and Unit Testing by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2010, 21:19
  * I’m adding this comment after the post has been written to let anyone coming here know of another great post that goes further to explain no only what…
- How To View JSON in a Pretty Way by: Peter Kellner
  November 6, 2009, 09:49
  Cutting to the chase, I choose Vladimir Bodurov’s Color Formatter! For the past year or so, I’ve been working on a project that uses Microsoft’s ASP.NET…
Category: ASP.NET Dynamic Data (1)
- Left Home 0Dark100, arrived LAX 8AM, New Friends Lead the Way by: Peter Kellner
  November 16, 2009, 11:42
  So, for those of you that don’t know me well, suffice it to say, I have less than no sense of direction. I always manage to make my way home, but often…
Category: Visual Studio 2010 (30)
- With Visual Studio, Open Same File In Two Windows, Updates Reflected in Both by: Peter Kellner
  July 8, 2012, 07:39
  I’ve always been frustrated in Visual Studio (all versions I can remember including latest vs2012) with not being able to look at the top of a file and edit…
- Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2012, 12:40
  Introduction People often ask me if I use MVC or WebForms for my Microsoft ASP.NET projects. I always tell them MVC, but I don’t use…
- Building a Simple Window Service Application in Visual Studio 2010 That Runs, Sleeps and Stops by: Peter Kellner
  March 26, 2012, 11:24
  Introduction The goal is to create a simple Service in Windows 7 (or other similar OS’s) with Visual Studio 2010 that simply starts, sleeps for 15 seconds,…
- Test First Development Walk Through with Visual Studio 2011 Preview by: Peter Kellner
  March 18, 2012, 16:14
  Introduction Many of us know we should be using test first development, however it is hard to break old habits. I have to admit, I started to solve this…
- Create A Simple MVC Button Click Listener in SenchaTouch2 by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2012, 21:14
  I do not even want to admit how much time I spent today in a more complex application trying to get a button to respond to a tap event in SenchaTouch…
- Using The DataContext In EntityFramework To Retrieve Nested Objects by: Peter Kellner
  November 27, 2011, 11:41
  I’m always somewhat amazed when I read something from documentation that is not straight forward and it actually works. So amazed and excited that I…
- With Visual Studio 2010 (and vs2011 preview) Fast Launch Not Helpful Often by: Peter Kellner
  November 12, 2011, 10:06
  Let’s say I’ve created two Visual Studio Projects with the same name “WebApp” but reside in different directories as shown below (c:\temp\Proj1…
- Microsoft ASP.NET presentations at Silicon Valley Code Camp on 10/8 and 10/9 by: Peter Kellner
  October 2, 2011, 15:01
  SV Code Camp is happening next weekend with well over 200 sessions. The conference is really technology agnostic and try hard to keep it that…
- With VS2010 Debugger, Step Into, From a Windows .Net App Directly into a Windows Azure Web Role Hosting a WCF Service In The Developer Fabric by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2011, 14:52
  OK, I think this is the longest post title I’ve ever made, but if you understand it, you’ll know why it needs to be so long. I discovered…
- Getting Fiddler to See you WCF Traffic by: Peter Kellner
  April 25, 2011, 17:48
  There are lots of articles on the internet if you search for WCF Fiddler however it’s not clear what the simplest path to follow is. For me, it turns out…
- MVC3 Unable To Return Large JSON Even with Web Config Patch, Using LargeJsonResult Instead by: Peter Kellner
  March 21, 2011, 11:11
  I’m trying to download a base64 encoded image that is about 4 Megabytes embedded inside a JSON object. When I first tried this from my MVC3 Web application,…
- How To Gracefully Stop and Windows Azure Deployment From Visual Studio 2010 by: Peter Kellner
  March 9, 2011, 10:00
  The way I do Windows Azure development is that I have OneClick Deployment setup on my Azure host. This means I can simply and quickly update what I have…
- Pinning Watch Variables While Debugging Visual Studio 2010, Awesome Feature by: Peter Kellner
  December 8, 2010, 11:11
  I just have to blog about what a helpful feature this is that the VS team added in VS2010. That is, as you are debugging, you can set a watch variable…
- A Simple MultiThreading Pattern For C# With No Statics. Shows Compressing A File With GZip by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2010, 08:09
  Background This post shows a very simple technique for processing a gzip compression on a background thread using c# with Visual Studio 2010. What is…
- Using SHA256Managed to Generate SHA256 Hash with Microsoft .Net Cryptography Namespace / Memory Usage Implications by: Peter Kellner
  December 3, 2010, 12:33
  Background And Conclusion In my very last post I talked about how using SHA256 seemed to not be affected by whether you use Buffered or Not Buffered…
- Building Job Ads Management Module With LightSwitch Beta 1 For Silicon Valley Code Camp by: Peter Kellner
  September 30, 2010, 08:34
  The End Result Motivation As you can imagine, The Silicon Valley Code Camp web site has lots of “back end” functions that need…
- How To View Your Blob Storage in Windows Azure by: Peter Kellner
  September 2, 2010, 06:20
  I’m just starting to use Windows Azure for a project and plan on using the Azure Blob Storage part. I won’t go into the details here, but let’s say…
- Creating New Overloaded Methods in Visual Studio C# is Really Easy with CodeRush by: Peter Kellner
  July 25, 2010, 18:48
  So, you want to add a couple extra parameters to an existing method in Visual Studio, while not having to change all your existing code to call the new method…
- Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  July 4, 2010, 09:42
  For the last few days, I’ve been using DevExpress CodeRush and am finding some very useful refactorings. Many I’m not blogging about, but there are a…
- A Handy Refactoring with CodeRush (InLine Temp) by: Peter Kellner
  July 2, 2010, 07:34
  I’ve recently started using CodeRush with Visual Studio 2010 and am so far very impressed with the convenience it adds to coding. One thing that is…
- A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service by: Peter Kellner
  June 18, 2010, 07:37
  MSDN has a very nice article on how to create a windows service that hosts a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. It explains all the details…
- Using Visual Studio 2010’s Debugger PIN Feature by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2010, 21:57
  One of the very cool new features in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to “Pin” a variable you are watching, right in the place you want to see it. …
- Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:25
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:22
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In…
- Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:20
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:16
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 15:51
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverligh…
- Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 (Article 3 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2010, 12:41
  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…
- Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 20, 2010, 12:12
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using Silverlight 4…
- Great Discussion With Nikhil Kothari About RIA Services by: Peter Kellner
  November 18, 2009, 21:58
  http://twitpic.com/pxclg One of my goals for PDC this year has been to better understand the Microsoft data story about how to work with clients…
Category: RIA Services (9)
- Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:25
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:22
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In…
- Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:20
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:16
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 15:51
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverligh…
- Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 (Article 3 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2010, 12:41
  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…
- Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 20, 2010, 12:12
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using Silverlight 4…
- Will Be Presenting at Bay.Net Users Group Wednesday 1/20/2010 RIA Services in Silverlight 4 With VS2010 by: Peter Kellner
  January 13, 2010, 08:13
  NOTE ADDED 1/25/2010 by PETER KELLNER: Just finished 7 blog posts that each have video that basically follows was was done in the presentati…
- Great Discussion With Nikhil Kothari About RIA Services by: Peter Kellner
  November 18, 2009, 21:58
  http://twitpic.com/pxclg One of my goals for PDC this year has been to better understand the Microsoft data story about how to work with clients…
Category: PLINQ (1)
- Using PLINQ for Managing Multiple Threads by: Peter Kellner
  December 2, 2009, 13:05
  I’m currently watching an online video (400 level, very high) from PDC while flying home from Chicago (and blogging about it). One of the common…
Category: VS2010 (14)
- VS2012 Web Deploy, Using Transforms For Connection String In Production (Web.Config) by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2013, 12:10
  Introduction I should have learned this a long time ago. I certainly have known about it since VS2010 when it was introduced, I’ve read about it…
- Building a Simple Window Service Application in Visual Studio 2010 That Runs, Sleeps and Stops by: Peter Kellner
  March 26, 2012, 11:24
  Introduction The goal is to create a simple Service in Windows 7 (or other similar OS’s) with Visual Studio 2010 that simply starts, sleeps for 15 seconds,…
- Microsoft ASP.NET presentations at Silicon Valley Code Camp on 10/8 and 10/9 by: Peter Kellner
  October 2, 2011, 15:01
  SV Code Camp is happening next weekend with well over 200 sessions. The conference is really technology agnostic and try hard to keep it that…
- With Visual Studio 2011, How To Add a Second Project To a Solution by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2011, 09:54
  Say you have an existing Microsoft Windows Forms Application and you want to create a class library for it to reference. For some reason, I’ve…
- How To Gracefully Stop and Windows Azure Deployment From Visual Studio 2010 by: Peter Kellner
  March 9, 2011, 10:00
  The way I do Windows Azure development is that I have OneClick Deployment setup on my Azure host. This means I can simply and quickly update what I have…
- A Simple MultiThreading Pattern For C# With No Statics. Shows Compressing A File With GZip by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2010, 08:09
  Background This post shows a very simple technique for processing a gzip compression on a background thread using c# with Visual Studio 2010. What is…
- A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service by: Peter Kellner
  June 18, 2010, 07:37
  MSDN has a very nice article on how to create a windows service that hosts a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. It explains all the details…
- Using Visual Studio 2010’s Debugger PIN Feature by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2010, 21:57
  One of the very cool new features in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to “Pin” a variable you are watching, right in the place you want to see it. …
- Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:25
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:22
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In…
- Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 (Article 3 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2010, 12:41
  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…
- Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 20, 2010, 12:12
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using Silverlight 4…
- Book Review – Programming Entity Framework (EF) by Julie Lerman by: Peter Kellner
  December 14, 2009, 10:36
  You all know that I’ve blogged quite a bit about LINQ2SQL. That technology has saved me a huge amount of programming effort verses using…
- Using PLINQ for Managing Multiple Threads by: Peter Kellner
  December 2, 2009, 13:05
  I’m currently watching an online video (400 level, very high) from PDC while flying home from Chicago (and blogging about it). One of the common…
Category: .NET 4.0 (32)
- Deeply Nested Null Checking in C# verses Assert with no nesting by: Peter Kellner
  May 24, 2012, 17:07
  One of the code smells that particularly bothers me (though I often find myself doing it anyhow) is when I defensively program against nulls in C# (though…
- Building an Sencha’s ExtJS 4.0 MVC Application With Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC3 Series / Basics by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2011, 11:47
  Part 1 (this) Basics (mostly server side) Part 2 ExtJS Client Side Details *For those who are intersted in this, I just posted a…
- Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? by: Peter Kellner
  October 30, 2011, 18:36
  Normally, when we stick a JSON file up on an IIS web server, all we have to do to get to is is to set the Mime type. One easy way to do it is to add to…
- Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next! by: Peter Kellner
  October 22, 2011, 18:57
  In May of 2009 I discovered some significant performance problems that I blogged about. In summary, I had tracked it down to the issue of LINQ2SQ…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Login Failing with IE10 (Fixed Now) by: Peter Kellner
  September 20, 2011, 10:10
  Scott Hanselman posted a while back about a browsers definition problem with some ASP.NET sites that causes problems. Microsoft has articles on…
- Using ASP.NET Web Forms, Passing Primary Key to RowCommand Event by: Peter Kellner
  September 5, 2011, 08:01
  I know this is old hat, but after recently having a conversation with one of the ASP.NET Team guys about how easy Web Forms is to use, I thought I’d…
- My First Experience With SqlServer CE 4.0 by: Peter Kellner
  September 2, 2011, 08:57
  I have heard all the hype about how great Sql Server CE 4.0 and that it is now standard with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. I’ve got a small…
- Getting ExtJS 4 Date Format To Behave Properly in Grid Panel with ASP.NET MVC3 by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2011, 11:52
  Introduction and Problem Converting Data Formats back and forth between browser and back end servers can be a little confusing. In my case,…
- Connecting To SqlServer From Web.Config Without a Password (Trusted Connection) by: Peter Kellner
  August 11, 2011, 09:19
  I often forget that the simplest way (IMHO) to connect to a Microsoft SqlServer 2008 database is to use the web.config connection for making a Trusted…
- DevConnections Orlando, Build Advanced Web UIs with a Rich JavaScript UI Language by: Peter Kellner
  March 30, 2011, 07:26
  To build fully-featured web applications that support complex interaction in a reasonable amount of time requires a high-end JavaScript library. Someday,…
- What is the Difference Between Path.GetTempFileName and Path.GetTempPath by: Peter Kellner
  February 17, 2011, 17:40
  Getting filenames to use as scratch files is usually very straight forward. Well, today, I found out “not so much”. I decided today was a good…
- “Programming Windows Azure” By Sriram Krishnan / O’Reilly Book Review by: Peter Kellner
  December 21, 2010, 10:43
  I’ve been slowly building up my Azure experience over the past few months and actually plan to release a product using Azure during the next month or…
- A Simple MultiThreading Pattern For C# With No Statics. Shows Compressing A File With GZip by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2010, 08:09
  Background This post shows a very simple technique for processing a gzip compression on a background thread using c# with Visual Studio 2010. What is…
- Using SHA256Managed to Generate SHA256 Hash with Microsoft .Net Cryptography Namespace / Memory Usage Implications by: Peter Kellner
  December 3, 2010, 12:33
  Background And Conclusion In my very last post I talked about how using SHA256 seemed to not be affected by whether you use Buffered or Not Buffered…
- Efficiently Generating SHA256 Checksum For Files Using C# by: Peter Kellner
  November 24, 2010, 11:01
  * I just added another post on similar topic and added more details on performance and a case where buffered memory usage really did matter: http://peterk…
- Building a Simple Azure Blob Tree Viewer With Azure StorageClient API by: Peter Kellner
  November 12, 2010, 18:36
  Understanding how Azure Blob Storage can be used to simulate directory structures is a little tricky to say the least. I’ve got a long forum thread on…
- If You Use BackgroundWorker in .Net, Make Sure You Wrap Your Worker Method In Try (or risk missing the exception thrown) by: Peter Kellner
  November 9, 2010, 14:57
  So, just a short post in case someone runs into the same problem I had today that cost me about 2 hours using Visual Studio 2010. Basically, if you are…
- Building Job Ads Management Module With LightSwitch Beta 1 For Silicon Valley Code Camp by: Peter Kellner
  September 30, 2010, 08:34
  The End Result Motivation As you can imagine, The Silicon Valley Code Camp web site has lots of “back end” functions that need…
- Adding a List of Recent Posts To The Silicon Valley Code Camp Home Page (From RSS Feed) by: Peter Kellner
  September 12, 2010, 14:44
  There are 10,000 ways to do this. Back way back when (ASP.NET 1.1) days, we would have created either a custom control to do this, then added a Repeater…
- How To Override ToString() in a Simple C# Class by: Peter Kellner
  July 26, 2010, 11:25
  So, you have a simple class that has a bunch public properties and you want to be able to use ToString() on it to show some data? It’s easy. All…
- How To Clear the Data From an Umbraco to Start From Scratch by: Peter Kellner
  July 12, 2010, 11:08
  In my previous post (http://peterkellner.net/2010/07/10/installing-umbraco-to-win7-step-by-step/), I detailed the steps to use WebPI to install a fresh version…
- Is There A Need For End-To-End ExtJS to Microsoft Server (MVC-C#, LOB) 4 Day Class? (Poll Enclosed) by: Peter Kellner
  May 4, 2010, 19:54
  Over the past couple years, the focus of the web development I’ve been doing involves building highly flexible, highly scalable and straight forward web…
- Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:25
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:22
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In…
- Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:20
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:16
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 15:51
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverligh…
- Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 (Article 3 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2010, 12:41
  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…
- Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 20, 2010, 12:12
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using Silverlight 4…
- Will Be Presenting at Bay.Net Users Group Wednesday 1/20/2010 RIA Services in Silverlight 4 With VS2010 by: Peter Kellner
  January 13, 2010, 08:13
  NOTE ADDED 1/25/2010 by PETER KELLNER: Just finished 7 blog posts that each have video that basically follows was was done in the presentati…
- Book Review – Programming Entity Framework (EF) by Julie Lerman by: Peter Kellner
  December 14, 2009, 10:36
  You all know that I’ve blogged quite a bit about LINQ2SQL. That technology has saved me a huge amount of programming effort verses using…
- Using PLINQ for Managing Multiple Threads by: Peter Kellner
  December 2, 2009, 13:05
  I’m currently watching an online video (400 level, very high) from PDC while flying home from Chicago (and blogging about it). One of the common…
Category: Entity Framework (20)
- Using IntelliTrace With Entity Framework In Visual Studio 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  May 5, 2013, 19:15
  This is not a big deal, but I have recently bumped into several people that did not know about it so I thought I’d do a blog post just to show what it is and…
- Using Redgates Sql Compare for Complex Migrations with EF’s CodeFirst by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2012, 11:44
  Introduction As many of you know, I’ve been quite the fan of Entity Framework CodeFirst for quite some time. It does a great job of reducing the…
- Entity Framework Code First From Microsoft, Best and Worst Practices by: Peter Kellner
  July 16, 2012, 09:10
  Introduction I’ve been building a fairly sophisticated product that will need to sustain a high transaction rate using the shipping version of…
- Extending CodeFirst (EntityFramework) to Multiple Levels of 1 to 1 Relationships (Strongly Typed) by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2012, 07:15
  In my previous post, I showed how to take a simple relationship between Customers and an one Detail per customer build that into a relationship that eagerly…
- Working With Nested Class In Simple 1 to 1 Relationship with EntityFramework 4 CodeFirst by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2012, 06:47
  Surprisingly, (and happily) it’s not hard to reference all data inside a class using EF’s codefirst in a 1 to 1 type relationship. Let’s take…
- Gaining Some Control Back From Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, Name Your Own Foreign Keys! by: Peter Kellner
  April 7, 2012, 18:32
  Being a relative newbie to Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, there are things that I don’t like, things that I don’t understand, and well, just…
- Entity Framework CodeFirst Important Tip For SQL Execution Efficiency by: Peter Kellner
  April 5, 2012, 11:24
  Introduction I’ve now been using Microsoft’s Entity Framework CodeFirst for a month or two and am very impressed with how easily it…
- LINQ To SQL Performance Getting Huge Improvement in EF5, Microsoft Does Listen! by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2012, 08:19
  The Original Problem Back in 2009, I discovered what I considered a fatal flaw in performance using LINQ2SQL with LINQ queries. I…
- EntityFramework CodeFirst and AutoKey Generation by: Peter Kellner
  January 15, 2012, 14:02
  This one had me a little stumped, and as usual, there are not enough examples in the Microsoft documentation to be very helpful. I’m using EntityFrame…
- When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. by: Peter Kellner
  January 15, 2012, 11:58
  Problem So, if you have been doing development with Visual Studio 2010, Entity Framework CodeFirst, SqlServer or SqlServerCE for any amount of time,…
- I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! by: Peter Kellner
  December 13, 2011, 22:20
  I’ve been using EntityFramework’s CodeFirst 4.1 on a new project I’ve been working. I plan to blog quite bit about it, but in the mean time I…
- Using The DataContext In EntityFramework To Retrieve Nested Objects by: Peter Kellner
  November 27, 2011, 11:41
  I’m always somewhat amazed when I read something from documentation that is not straight forward and it actually works. So amazed and excited that I…
- Entity Framework’s CodeFirst Automatically Generates Foreign Keys For you by: Peter Kellner
  November 10, 2011, 23:24
  I’ve been struggling with getting the EF CodeFirst right so that it automatically generates foreign keys when the tables are created. I had noticed that…
- Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next! by: Peter Kellner
  October 22, 2011, 18:57
  In May of 2009 I discovered some significant performance problems that I blogged about. In summary, I had tracked it down to the issue of LINQ2SQ…
- Is There A Need For End-To-End ExtJS to Microsoft Server (MVC-C#, LOB) 4 Day Class? (Poll Enclosed) by: Peter Kellner
  May 4, 2010, 19:54
  Over the past couple years, the focus of the web development I’ve been doing involves building highly flexible, highly scalable and straight forward web…
- Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:25
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverlight…
- Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 16:22
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In…
- Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 25, 2010, 15:51
  Title Of Each Article Video Included With Each Post Part 1 Introduction To RIA Services In Silverligh…
- Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7) by: Peter Kellner
  January 20, 2010, 12:12
  This series of video presentations goes through the process of building a Speaker and Sessions Viewer for Silicon Valley Code Camp’s data using Silverlight 4…
- Book Review – Programming Entity Framework (EF) by Julie Lerman by: Peter Kellner
  December 14, 2009, 10:36
  You all know that I’ve blogged quite a bit about LINQ2SQL. That technology has saved me a huge amount of programming effort verses using…
Category: Azure (16)
- Tuesday (Tomorrow) Night, At The Microsoft Office in SF, I'm talking SYNC SYNC SYNC by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2013, 21:26
  It seems like every project I’m involved in at some point turns into a sync project. Tomorrow night, I’ll talk about the different efforts Microsoft…
- Presenting Tonight In San Francisco on Windows Azure Development Real World Experiences by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2011, 11:35
  Tonight, at the Microsoft office (see this announcement for more details: http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-NET-User-Group/events/21982451/?a=cr1p_grp&…
- With VS2010 Debugger, Step Into, From a Windows .Net App Directly into a Windows Azure Web Role Hosting a WCF Service In The Developer Fabric by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2011, 14:52
  OK, I think this is the longest post title I’ve ever made, but if you understand it, you’ll know why it needs to be so long. I discovered…
- IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF There was a 1-click Deploy for a Windows Azure Web Sites by: Peter Kellner
  May 15, 2011, 15:00
  Microsoft’s Windows Azure is truly a revolutionary way to have web sites hosted. The beauty of it is practically all the IT type stuff is just taken…
- Steve Marx Of The Windows Azure Team Announces Massive IPad Cluster At MIX11 In Las Vegas by: Peter Kellner
  April 13, 2011, 22:46
  MIX11 In Las Vegas has been a really fun and exciting couple of days. For me, the sessions are interesting, but my feeling is I can always go…
- My Windows Azure Web Deploy Stopped Working Because My Certificate Expired by: Peter Kellner
  March 19, 2011, 15:47
  This is one of those things that you do once every year or so and it is very easy to forget how to do it the next time. I’d almost prefer my Cert’s to…
- How To Gracefully Stop and Windows Azure Deployment From Visual Studio 2010 by: Peter Kellner
  March 9, 2011, 10:00
  The way I do Windows Azure development is that I have OneClick Deployment setup on my Azure host. This means I can simply and quickly update what I have…
- Hosting The Same Windows Azure Web Project With Two Different Configurations by: Peter Kellner
  March 5, 2011, 11:50
  The Problem In my scenario, I have the same web project that I want to host in two different Windows Azure Data Centers (BTW, Steve Marx let me know it’s…
- Another Fun Bruno Azure Meetup In San Francisco (The Windows Azure AppFabric) by: Peter Kellner
  January 31, 2011, 18:49
  Bruno Terkaly, the meeting organizer and local Microsoft Evangelist, did a great job of organizing as well as presenting. Over the holidays, Bruno built…
- SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 15:24
  Introduction If you’ve started using SqlAzure for your SqlServer with your Azure application, you’ve probably discovered that you get a reasonable number…
- “Programming Windows Azure” By Sriram Krishnan / O’Reilly Book Review by: Peter Kellner
  December 21, 2010, 10:43
  I’ve been slowly building up my Azure experience over the past few months and actually plan to release a product using Azure during the next month or…
- Using Cloud Storage Studio From Cerebrata Software For Azure Storage Viewing by: Peter Kellner
  November 21, 2010, 11:13
  Just a quick shout out to the makers of Cloud Storage Studio Cerebrate Software. Thanks for a great product offering! I’ve been doing quite…
- Building a Simple Azure Blob Tree Viewer With Azure StorageClient API by: Peter Kellner
  November 12, 2010, 18:36
  Understanding how Azure Blob Storage can be used to simulate directory structures is a little tricky to say the least. I’ve got a long forum thread on…
- Is My Azure Blob Storage Container Name Valid? by: Peter Kellner
  October 15, 2010, 17:09
  I just spend about 2 hours wrestling with what turned out to be an invalid blob storage container name. I named a container “MyTest1” which did not…
- How To View Your Blob Storage in Windows Azure by: Peter Kellner
  September 2, 2010, 06:20
  I’m just starting to use Windows Azure for a project and plan on using the Azure Blob Storage part. I won’t go into the details here, but let’s say…
- Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Book Review, Now Available! (Windows Azure Platform by Tejaswi Redkar) by: Peter Kellner
  January 11, 2010, 09:09
  For those of you that have been sleeping for the past year, Cloud computing is Hot! Amazon more or less lead the way with their cloud computing platforms…
Category: Finalbuilder (1)
- How To Set Arbitrary Delay Into FinalBuilder Script (Using Variable) by: Peter Kellner
  January 19, 2010, 09:55
  I’ve blogged before about how much I like FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies. One thing that I’m really happy with is how good there forum support…
Category: 4G (2)
- 3G verses 4G, Interesting Truths by: Peter Kellner
  January 13, 2011, 09:19
  I just got back from CES and have been honestly quite confused about all the different claims for 4G verses 3G. Somehow, my T-Mobile phone I trialed (The…
- CLEAR 4G WiMax Developer Conference by: Peter Kellner
  March 3, 2010, 09:23
  Yesterday, I went to the CLEAR 4G WiMax Conference at the San Jose Convention Center. It’s the second conference like this I’ve been to. The…
Category: CLEARWIRE (1)
- CLEAR 4G WiMax Developer Conference by: Peter Kellner
  March 3, 2010, 09:23
  Yesterday, I went to the CLEAR 4G WiMax Conference at the San Jose Convention Center. It’s the second conference like this I’ve been to. The…
Category: OData (2)
- Is There A Need For End-To-End ExtJS to Microsoft Server (MVC-C#, LOB) 4 Day Class? (Poll Enclosed) by: Peter Kellner
  May 4, 2010, 19:54
  Over the past couple years, the focus of the web development I’ve been doing involves building highly flexible, highly scalable and straight forward web…
- OData Query Option top Forces Data To Be Sorted By Primary Key by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2010, 11:24
  This post show a simple WCF Data Service (Formerly known as ADO.NET Data Services) project that retrieves data using the Reflection Provider for accessing…
Category: WCF Data Services (1)
- OData Query Option top Forces Data To Be Sorted By Primary Key by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2010, 11:24
  This post show a simple WCF Data Service (Formerly known as ADO.NET Data Services) project that retrieves data using the Reflection Provider for accessing…
Category: MIX10 (1)
- Sitting At MIX10 In Michael Scherotter’s Presentation of the Silverlight 4 Search Analytics Framework by: Peter Kellner
  March 15, 2010, 14:53
  As usual, Michael’s doing a great job of presenting enthusiastically the new Silverlight Analytics Frameworks. I’m hugely impressed with how easy it…
Category: NAS (1)
- Using RSYNC to Replicate Synology NAS DS710+ to Windows 7 Hard Drive by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2010, 21:53
  Learn how to use a local backup drive on your windows 7 system to replicate the data on any or all of your directories on your Synology NAS (Network Hard Drive…
Category: rsync (1)
- Using RSYNC to Replicate Synology NAS DS710+ to Windows 7 Hard Drive by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2010, 21:53
  Learn how to use a local backup drive on your windows 7 system to replicate the data on any or all of your directories on your Synology NAS (Network Hard Drive…
Category: backup (1)
- Using RSYNC to Replicate Synology NAS DS710+ to Windows 7 Hard Drive by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2010, 21:53
  Learn how to use a local backup drive on your windows 7 system to replicate the data on any or all of your directories on your Synology NAS (Network Hard Drive…
Category: Office 2010 (1)
- Upgrading Office 2007 to Office 2010, First Look by: Peter Kellner
  April 27, 2010, 09:53
  In this post, I’m going to simply document the process of updating my MIcrosoft Office 2007. As almost anyone knows who has not been hiding under a…
Category: Transaction (1)
- Writing A Transact SQL (TSQL) Procedure For SQL Server 2008 To Delete Rows From Table Safely by: Peter Kellner
  April 29, 2010, 16:54
  In this post, we will show and explain a small TSQL Sql Server 2008 procedure that deletes all rows in a table that are older than some specified date. …
Category: SQL (3)
- Using Redgates Sql Compare for Complex Migrations with EF’s CodeFirst by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2012, 11:44
  Introduction As many of you know, I’ve been quite the fan of Entity Framework CodeFirst for quite some time. It does a great job of reducing the…
- When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. by: Peter Kellner
  January 15, 2012, 11:58
  Problem So, if you have been doing development with Visual Studio 2010, Entity Framework CodeFirst, SqlServer or SqlServerCE for any amount of time,…
- Writing A Transact SQL (TSQL) Procedure For SQL Server 2008 To Delete Rows From Table Safely by: Peter Kellner
  April 29, 2010, 16:54
  In this post, we will show and explain a small TSQL Sql Server 2008 procedure that deletes all rows in a table that are older than some specified date. …
Category: ASP.NET 4.0 (13)
- Converting ASP.NET WSP (Web Site Projects) to WAP (Web Application Projects) with VS2012 by: Peter Kellner
  December 30, 2012, 16:32
  Background There are quite a few articles written on the differences between WSP’s and WAP’s. In this article, I will not go into the…
- Using Fiddler To Replay an AJAX (xmlhttp) Request by: Peter Kellner
  October 27, 2012, 10:48
  The Problem I use to spend a lot of time writing throw away JavaScript code to test AJAX (XMLHttpRequest or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) type…
- How To Add Paging With a Filter Using Sencha Architect with ExtJS4 by: Peter Kellner
  May 8, 2012, 16:38
  Sometimes,the simplest things can seem complicated. Well, in this case, after struggling for a while, it turns out the simplest things can…
- Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2012, 12:40
  Introduction People often ask me if I use MVC or WebForms for my Microsoft ASP.NET projects. I always tell them MVC, but I don’t use…
- Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? by: Peter Kellner
  October 30, 2011, 18:36
  Normally, when we stick a JSON file up on an IIS web server, all we have to do to get to is is to set the Mime type. One easy way to do it is to add to…
- How To Safely Display Data From ASP.NET TextField Inputs by: Peter Kellner
  October 16, 2011, 16:35
  Let’s say you have a user input field that you want the user to type data into which will be later displayed back to the user. You don’t want the…
- Silicon Valley Code Camp Login Failing with IE10 (Fixed Now) by: Peter Kellner
  September 20, 2011, 10:10
  Scott Hanselman posted a while back about a browsers definition problem with some ASP.NET sites that causes problems. Microsoft has articles on…
- With ASP.NET WebForms, How to Keep / Stop a Data Control Like GridView From Retrieving Data by: Peter Kellner
  August 1, 2011, 14:35
  The What and Where Something that may not be obvious is if are creating an asp.net WebForms project and you put a datasource such as SqlDataSource or…
- MVC3 Unable To Return Large JSON Even with Web Config Patch, Using LargeJsonResult Instead by: Peter Kellner
  March 21, 2011, 11:11
  I’m trying to download a base64 encoded image that is about 4 Megabytes embedded inside a JSON object. When I first tried this from my MVC3 Web application,…
- Installing NuGet on VS2010 (first blood) by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2011, 17:11
  So, here are the steps necessary to install NuGet on my windows laptop computer. I’ve got vs2010 (not sp1) installed, I’ve disabled both Resharper…
- SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 15:24
  Introduction If you’ve started using SqlAzure for your SqlServer with your Azure application, you’ve probably discovered that you get a reasonable number…
- A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service by: Peter Kellner
  June 18, 2010, 07:37
  MSDN has a very nice article on how to create a windows service that hosts a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. It explains all the details…
- Is There A Need For End-To-End ExtJS to Microsoft Server (MVC-C#, LOB) 4 Day Class? (Poll Enclosed) by: Peter Kellner
  May 4, 2010, 19:54
  Over the past couple years, the focus of the web development I’ve been doing involves building highly flexible, highly scalable and straight forward web…
Category: Debugging (5)
- Using Fiddler To Replay an AJAX (xmlhttp) Request by: Peter Kellner
  October 27, 2012, 10:48
  The Problem I use to spend a lot of time writing throw away JavaScript code to test AJAX (XMLHttpRequest or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) type…
- Developing With Visual Studio 2011 and the Windows 8 Consumer Build With Metro and Two (multiple) Monitors by: Peter Kellner
  March 4, 2012, 19:27
  Wow, that’s a long title. Sorry, but I just wanted to be clear what you are getting into if you come here. In this article, I’m going to talk about…
- Pinning Watch Variables While Debugging Visual Studio 2010, Awesome Feature by: Peter Kellner
  December 8, 2010, 11:11
  I just have to blog about what a helpful feature this is that the VS team added in VS2010. That is, as you are debugging, you can set a watch variable…
- If You Use BackgroundWorker in .Net, Make Sure You Wrap Your Worker Method In Try (or risk missing the exception thrown) by: Peter Kellner
  November 9, 2010, 14:57
  So, just a short post in case someone runs into the same problem I had today that cost me about 2 hours using Visual Studio 2010. Basically, if you are…
- Using Visual Studio 2010’s Debugger PIN Feature by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2010, 21:57
  One of the very cool new features in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to “Pin” a variable you are watching, right in the place you want to see it. …
Category: Tips (3)
- How to Format HTML with Windows Live Writer by: Peter Kellner
  November 22, 2011, 17:10
  Ever since Microsoft released Windows Live Writer, posting articles to this blog (and others) has been really easy. Even though this blog is powered by…
- In Windows 7, Make Your Current Window Grow to the Full Height, Leaving Width Alone by: Peter Kellner
  May 28, 2011, 19:11
  Did you know that in Windows 7, when you hover over the bottom edge of an application, you will get an arrow with both and up and a down on it. If you…
- Using Visual Studio 2010’s Debugger PIN Feature by: Peter Kellner
  May 14, 2010, 21:57
  One of the very cool new features in Visual Studio 2010 is the ability to “Pin” a variable you are watching, right in the place you want to see it. …
Category: Code Camp (5)
- Silicon Valley Code Camp V6, 2011, is Just 4 Days Away! by: Peter Kellner
  October 4, 2011, 10:57
  As the primary organizer for Silicon Valley Code Camp, I’m very excited to say things are really going well for this year. Our attendance looks…
- Meetup At Sencha Headquarters Tomorrow (Tuesday 8/23) in Redwood City Talking MVC in JavaScript! by: Peter Kellner
  August 22, 2011, 17:21
  Tomorrow night (Tuesday, August 23rd), we are having another meetup to talk about using MVC inside of Sencha’s JavaScript products. I (Peter Kellner)…
- New Awesome Session Interest Viewer On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site by: Peter Kellner
  June 11, 2011, 07:29
  Checkout the new session viewer we put together for Silicon Valley Code Camp. Using one of the very cool Sencha demonstration pages (Forms Dashboard), we…
- My Interview With DevExpress Regarding Silicon Valley Code Camp by: Peter Kellner
  June 17, 2010, 13:59
  Last week, while at Microsoft’s TechEd 2010, Mehul Harry, Technical Evangalist for Developer Express, interviewed me about our upcoming Silicon Valley Code…
- Just Finished My Presentation at SLO! (Central Coast Code Camp At Cal Poly) by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2010, 12:33
  I love code camps! This is my first time to San Luis Obispo’s Central Coast Code Camp and I’m really enjoying it. It started last night with…
Category: Elevators (1)
- A Great Idea I Never Had. Better Elevator Automation, no Buttons in Elevator. by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2010, 08:23
  After my second year at engineering school (Cornell University), I spent the summer working in a dream job as an intern at the world famous Ford Design Center…
Category: Automation (1)
- A Great Idea I Never Had. Better Elevator Automation, no Buttons in Elevator. by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2010, 08:23
  After my second year at engineering school (Cornell University), I spent the summer working in a dream job as an intern at the world famous Ford Design Center…
Category: Habitat-For-Humanity (1)
- My Habitat For Humanity Day Before TechEd 2010 in New Orleans by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2010, 08:49
  Yesterday, I spent the day building what I think are stantions (piles of blocks held together by mortar) to hold a house 5 feet above the ground. Through…
Category: DevExpress (2)
- Creating New Overloaded Methods in Visual Studio C# is Really Easy with CodeRush by: Peter Kellner
  July 25, 2010, 18:48
  So, you want to add a couple extra parameters to an existing method in Visual Studio, while not having to change all your existing code to call the new method…
- My Interview With DevExpress Regarding Silicon Valley Code Camp by: Peter Kellner
  June 17, 2010, 13:59
  Last week, while at Microsoft’s TechEd 2010, Mehul Harry, Technical Evangalist for Developer Express, interviewed me about our upcoming Silicon Valley Code…
Category: Windows Service (1)
- A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service by: Peter Kellner
  June 18, 2010, 07:37
  MSDN has a very nice article on how to create a windows service that hosts a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service. It explains all the details…
Category: CodeRush (3)
- Creating New Overloaded Methods in Visual Studio C# is Really Easy with CodeRush by: Peter Kellner
  July 25, 2010, 18:48
  So, you want to add a couple extra parameters to an existing method in Visual Studio, while not having to change all your existing code to call the new method…
- Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring by: Peter Kellner
  July 4, 2010, 09:42
  For the last few days, I’ve been using DevExpress CodeRush and am finding some very useful refactorings. Many I’m not blogging about, but there are a…
- A Handy Refactoring with CodeRush (InLine Temp) by: Peter Kellner
  July 2, 2010, 07:34
  I’ve recently started using CodeRush with Visual Studio 2010 and am so far very impressed with the convenience it adds to coding. One thing that is…
Category: Umbraco (2)
- How To Clear the Data From an Umbraco to Start From Scratch by: Peter Kellner
  July 12, 2010, 11:08
  In my previous post (http://peterkellner.net/2010/07/10/installing-umbraco-to-win7-step-by-step/), I detailed the steps to use WebPI to install a fresh version…
- Installing Umbraco To Windows 7 Ultimate – Step By Step by: Peter Kellner
  July 10, 2010, 09:29
  I’m planning on launching some small consumer software products in the next couple months and to support this effort, I need to have a CMS, Forums Software,…
Category: CMS (1)
- Installing Umbraco To Windows 7 Ultimate – Step By Step by: Peter Kellner
  July 10, 2010, 09:29
  I’m planning on launching some small consumer software products in the next couple months and to support this effort, I need to have a CMS, Forums Software,…
Category: Forums Software (1)
- Installing Umbraco To Windows 7 Ultimate – Step By Step by: Peter Kellner
  July 10, 2010, 09:29
  I’m planning on launching some small consumer software products in the next couple months and to support this effort, I need to have a CMS, Forums Software,…
Category: WebPI (1)
- How To Clear the Data From an Umbraco to Start From Scratch by: Peter Kellner
  July 12, 2010, 11:08
  In my previous post (http://peterkellner.net/2010/07/10/installing-umbraco-to-win7-step-by-step/), I detailed the steps to use WebPI to install a fresh version…
Category: Lock (1)
- A Cool / Unexpected Refactoring around .Net C# Locking Issue by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2010, 07:32
  I’m constantly amazed by the insightfulness of ReSharper’s suggested refactorings (ReSharper is a Visual Studio Addin from JetBrains I use with C#). Today,…
Category: android (5)
- Gingerbread Update for my Verizon Samsung DROID Charge by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2011, 11:41
  Yesterday, I turned my Samsung DROID CHARGE 4G from Verizon on and it asked me if I wanted to update. Always wanting that, I said yes. After two…
- 3G verses 4G, Interesting Truths by: Peter Kellner
  January 13, 2011, 09:19
  I just got back from CES and have been honestly quite confused about all the different claims for 4G verses 3G. Somehow, my T-Mobile phone I trialed (The…
- Sprint Samsung Epic 4G Verses HTC EVO 4G Camera by: Peter Kellner
  September 1, 2010, 19:37
  First, let me say I’m not a professional photographer or even a good amateur one, but I do take a lot of pictures. You can look up the spec on line,…
- How To Setup Exchange with the Samsung Epic 4G / Android 2.2 by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2010, 21:18
  Normally, setting up Microsoft Exchange Server with a mobile phone is pretty straight forward. I just got the Samsung Epic 4G today (see my earlier post…
- SPRINT Samsung Epic 4G First Impressions / HTC EVO Returned Yesterday by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2010, 09:42
  A Little History Let me start off by saying that the HTC EVO has raised my expectations of what to expect from a smart phone. …
Category: Samsung (1)
- How To Setup Exchange with the Samsung Epic 4G / Android 2.2 by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2010, 21:18
  Normally, setting up Microsoft Exchange Server with a mobile phone is pretty straight forward. I just got the Samsung Epic 4G today (see my earlier post…
Category: exchange (3)
- Windows Phone 8, Supports Office365 Exchange Server? You Decide by: Peter Kellner
  November 20, 2012, 12:12
  (**Just heard back from my Microsoft Service Call Below that WP8 is supported with Office365) As a very happy office365 user (that is where I host my…
- Error Assigning Office365.Com Email To Windows Phone 8 by: Peter Kellner
  November 18, 2012, 12:55
  Having just switched to a new Windows Phone 8 Device (the HTC8x) I immediately got stopped in my tracks adding my Office365.com exchange based email to…
- How To Setup Exchange with the Samsung Epic 4G / Android 2.2 by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2010, 21:18
  Normally, setting up Microsoft Exchange Server with a mobile phone is pretty straight forward. I just got the Samsung Epic 4G today (see my earlier post…
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- How To Setup Exchange with the Samsung Epic 4G / Android 2.2 by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2010, 21:18
  Normally, setting up Microsoft Exchange Server with a mobile phone is pretty straight forward. I just got the Samsung Epic 4G today (see my earlier post…
Category: camera (1)
- Sprint Samsung Epic 4G Verses HTC EVO 4G Camera by: Peter Kellner
  September 1, 2010, 19:37
  First, let me say I’m not a professional photographer or even a good amateur one, but I do take a lot of pictures. You can look up the spec on line,…
Category: Azure Blob Storage (7)
- Presenting Tonight In San Francisco on Windows Azure Development Real World Experiences by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2011, 11:35
  Tonight, at the Microsoft office (see this announcement for more details: http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-NET-User-Group/events/21982451/?a=cr1p_grp&…
- With VS2010 Debugger, Step Into, From a Windows .Net App Directly into a Windows Azure Web Role Hosting a WCF Service In The Developer Fabric by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2011, 14:52
  OK, I think this is the longest post title I’ve ever made, but if you understand it, you’ll know why it needs to be so long. I discovered…
- “Programming Windows Azure” By Sriram Krishnan / O’Reilly Book Review by: Peter Kellner
  December 21, 2010, 10:43
  I’ve been slowly building up my Azure experience over the past few months and actually plan to release a product using Azure during the next month or…
- Using Cloud Storage Studio From Cerebrata Software For Azure Storage Viewing by: Peter Kellner
  November 21, 2010, 11:13
  Just a quick shout out to the makers of Cloud Storage Studio Cerebrate Software. Thanks for a great product offering! I’ve been doing quite…
- Building a Simple Azure Blob Tree Viewer With Azure StorageClient API by: Peter Kellner
  November 12, 2010, 18:36
  Understanding how Azure Blob Storage can be used to simulate directory structures is a little tricky to say the least. I’ve got a long forum thread on…
- Is My Azure Blob Storage Container Name Valid? by: Peter Kellner
  October 15, 2010, 17:09
  I just spend about 2 hours wrestling with what turned out to be an invalid blob storage container name. I named a container “MyTest1” which did not…
- How To View Your Blob Storage in Windows Azure by: Peter Kellner
  September 2, 2010, 06:20
  I’m just starting to use Windows Azure for a project and plan on using the Azure Blob Storage part. I won’t go into the details here, but let’s say…
Category: Mercurial (1)
- Using Hosted Mercurial Version Control on BitBucket.org / Adding Commit Emails by: Peter Kellner
  September 2, 2010, 20:53
  A Little History So, this may sound simple, but I seem to be having one of those days where things just don’t seem to go as I plan. First, a…
Category: BitBucket.Org (1)
- Using Hosted Mercurial Version Control on BitBucket.org / Adding Commit Emails by: Peter Kellner
  September 2, 2010, 20:53
  A Little History So, this may sound simple, but I seem to be having one of those days where things just don’t seem to go as I plan. First, a…
Category: SpreadSheetGear (1)
- SpreadSheetGear Made My Life Easy Today For Creating Excel File In ASP.NET by: Peter Kellner
  September 12, 2010, 09:53
  A Little Background As we announced a couple days, Silicon Valley Code Camp is going to have QR Codes on badges this year. We are currently…
Category: Excel (1)
- SpreadSheetGear Made My Life Easy Today For Creating Excel File In ASP.NET by: Peter Kellner
  September 12, 2010, 09:53
  A Little Background As we announced a couple days, Silicon Valley Code Camp is going to have QR Codes on badges this year. We are currently…
Category: Microsoft Office (1)
- SpreadSheetGear Made My Life Easy Today For Creating Excel File In ASP.NET by: Peter Kellner
  September 12, 2010, 09:53
  A Little Background As we announced a couple days, Silicon Valley Code Camp is going to have QR Codes on badges this year. We are currently…
Category: Repeater (1)
- Adding a List of Recent Posts To The Silicon Valley Code Camp Home Page (From RSS Feed) by: Peter Kellner
  September 12, 2010, 14:44
  There are 10,000 ways to do this. Back way back when (ASP.NET 1.1) days, we would have created either a custom control to do this, then added a Repeater…
Category: LightSwitch (1)
- Building Job Ads Management Module With LightSwitch Beta 1 For Silicon Valley Code Camp by: Peter Kellner
  September 30, 2010, 08:34
  The End Result Motivation As you can imagine, The Silicon Valley Code Camp web site has lots of “back end” functions that need…
Category: PDC (1)
- PDC10, Microsoft PDC 2010 Videos Are Downloadable As MP4 and WMV, Rename Them To Real Names! by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2010, 18:09
  For those that don’t like to read much: Batch File To Do Video Renames : http://peterkellner.net/misc/RenamePDC10Videos.bat * (*Revised as…
Category: Conferences (1)
- PDC10, Microsoft PDC 2010 Videos Are Downloadable As MP4 and WMV, Rename Them To Real Names! by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2010, 18:09
  For those that don’t like to read much: Batch File To Do Video Renames : http://peterkellner.net/misc/RenamePDC10Videos.bat * (*Revised as…
Category: Microsoft (7)
- In C# Passing Delegate As Parameter, Then Executing on Return by: Peter Kellner
  August 30, 2012, 15:40
  I did not know that it is possible to have a delegate as a call to a method, then have that method actually execute that delegate at it’s convenience. …
- Gaining Some Control Back From Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, Name Your Own Foreign Keys! by: Peter Kellner
  April 7, 2012, 18:32
  Being a relative newbie to Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, there are things that I don’t like, things that I don’t understand, and well, just…
- A Quick Tip On How To Ignore Time When Querying From SqlServer by: Peter Kellner
  September 7, 2011, 09:15
  Seems like this comes up a lot so I thought I’d blog about a clean way I found to do this from a StackOverflow article. Basically, the problem is if…
- With Visual Studio 2011, How To Add a Second Project To a Solution by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2011, 09:54
  Say you have an existing Microsoft Windows Forms Application and you want to create a class library for it to reference. For some reason, I’ve…
- Accidentally (or on purpose) Making A ClickOnce Application your default IE9 Page by: Peter Kellner
  May 10, 2011, 09:55
  So, I’m testing a Microsoft ClickOnce application in a virtual machine and for convenience, I set the default page to be my ClickOnce page of the application…
- Steve Marx Of The Windows Azure Team Announces Massive IPad Cluster At MIX11 In Las Vegas by: Peter Kellner
  April 13, 2011, 22:46
  MIX11 In Las Vegas has been a really fun and exciting couple of days. For me, the sessions are interesting, but my feeling is I can always go…
- PDC10, Microsoft PDC 2010 Videos Are Downloadable As MP4 and WMV, Rename Them To Real Names! by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2010, 18:09
  For those that don’t like to read much: Batch File To Do Video Renames : http://peterkellner.net/misc/RenamePDC10Videos.bat * (*Revised as…
Category: Exceptions (1)
- If You Use BackgroundWorker in .Net, Make Sure You Wrap Your Worker Method In Try (or risk missing the exception thrown) by: Peter Kellner
  November 9, 2010, 14:57
  So, just a short post in case someone runs into the same problem I had today that cost me about 2 hours using Visual Studio 2010. Basically, if you are…
Category: StorageClient (1)
- Building a Simple Azure Blob Tree Viewer With Azure StorageClient API by: Peter Kellner
  November 12, 2010, 18:36
  Understanding how Azure Blob Storage can be used to simulate directory structures is a little tricky to say the least. I’ve got a long forum thread on…
Category: Cerebrata (1)
- Using Cloud Storage Studio From Cerebrata Software For Azure Storage Viewing by: Peter Kellner
  November 21, 2010, 11:13
  Just a quick shout out to the makers of Cloud Storage Studio Cerebrate Software. Thanks for a great product offering! I’ve been doing quite…
Category: Cryptography (2)
- Using SHA256Managed to Generate SHA256 Hash with Microsoft .Net Cryptography Namespace / Memory Usage Implications by: Peter Kellner
  December 3, 2010, 12:33
  Background And Conclusion In my very last post I talked about how using SHA256 seemed to not be affected by whether you use Buffered or Not Buffered…
- Efficiently Generating SHA256 Checksum For Files Using C# by: Peter Kellner
  November 24, 2010, 11:01
  * I just added another post on similar topic and added more details on performance and a case where buffered memory usage really did matter: http://peterk…
Category: SHA256 (2)
- Using SHA256Managed to Generate SHA256 Hash with Microsoft .Net Cryptography Namespace / Memory Usage Implications by: Peter Kellner
  December 3, 2010, 12:33
  Background And Conclusion In my very last post I talked about how using SHA256 seemed to not be affected by whether you use Buffered or Not Buffered…
- Efficiently Generating SHA256 Checksum For Files Using C# by: Peter Kellner
  November 24, 2010, 11:01
  * I just added another post on similar topic and added more details on performance and a case where buffered memory usage really did matter: http://peterk…
Category: threading (1)
- A Simple MultiThreading Pattern For C# With No Statics. Shows Compressing A File With GZip by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2010, 08:09
  Background This post shows a very simple technique for processing a gzip compression on a background thread using c# with Visual Studio 2010. What is…
Category: gzip (1)
- A Simple MultiThreading Pattern For C# With No Statics. Shows Compressing A File With GZip by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2010, 08:09
  Background This post shows a very simple technique for processing a gzip compression on a background thread using c# with Visual Studio 2010. What is…
Category: Azure Table Storage (2)
- Presenting Tonight In San Francisco on Windows Azure Development Real World Experiences by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2011, 11:35
  Tonight, at the Microsoft office (see this announcement for more details: http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-NET-User-Group/events/21982451/?a=cr1p_grp&…
- “Programming Windows Azure” By Sriram Krishnan / O’Reilly Book Review by: Peter Kellner
  December 21, 2010, 10:43
  I’ve been slowly building up my Azure experience over the past few months and actually plan to release a product using Azure during the next month or…
Category: 3G (1)
- 3G verses 4G, Interesting Truths by: Peter Kellner
  January 13, 2011, 09:19
  I just got back from CES and have been honestly quite confused about all the different claims for 4G verses 3G. Somehow, my T-Mobile phone I trialed (The…
Category: SqlAzure (1)
- SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 15:24
  Introduction If you’ve started using SqlAzure for your SqlServer with your Azure application, you’ve probably discovered that you get a reasonable number…
Category: Connection (1)
- SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 15:24
  Introduction If you’ve started using SqlAzure for your SqlServer with your Azure application, you’ve probably discovered that you get a reasonable number…
Category: Web.Config (3)
- Using Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish For Staging On The Internet by: Peter Kellner
  May 17, 2013, 19:36
  Let’s say you have a production code like http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com and you want to have a test site on the internet that will not be seen by…
- Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? by: Peter Kellner
  October 30, 2011, 18:36
  Normally, when we stick a JSON file up on an IIS web server, all we have to do to get to is is to set the Mime type. One easy way to do it is to add to…
- SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2011, 15:24
  Introduction If you’ve started using SqlAzure for your SqlServer with your Azure application, you’ve probably discovered that you get a reasonable number…
Category: Meetup (2)
- Slides From Last Nights Sync Sync Sync Meetup at the MS Office in San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2013, 20:45
  As promised, I’ve posted my slides from last night to Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/peterkellner99/sync-syncsync-pkellner I had a great time. …
- Another Fun Bruno Azure Meetup In San Francisco (The Windows Azure AppFabric) by: Peter Kellner
  January 31, 2011, 18:49
  Bruno Terkaly, the meeting organizer and local Microsoft Evangelist, did a great job of organizing as well as presenting. Over the holidays, Bruno built…
Category: Linux (1)
- Linux Web Hosting At HostGator Review, Thumbs Up by: Peter Kellner
  February 9, 2011, 17:01
  Background About a month ago, purchased to Level 3 VPS (Virtual Private Servers) running Linux for about a piece. I’m close to launching a…
Category: NuGet (1)
- Installing NuGet on VS2010 (first blood) by: Peter Kellner
  March 2, 2011, 17:11
  So, here are the steps necessary to install NuGet on my windows laptop computer. I’ve got vs2010 (not sp1) installed, I’ve disabled both Resharper…
Category: Azure Web Role (4)
- Presenting Tonight In San Francisco on Windows Azure Development Real World Experiences by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2011, 11:35
  Tonight, at the Microsoft office (see this announcement for more details: http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-NET-User-Group/events/21982451/?a=cr1p_grp&…
- With VS2010 Debugger, Step Into, From a Windows .Net App Directly into a Windows Azure Web Role Hosting a WCF Service In The Developer Fabric by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2011, 14:52
  OK, I think this is the longest post title I’ve ever made, but if you understand it, you’ll know why it needs to be so long. I discovered…
- How To Gracefully Stop and Windows Azure Deployment From Visual Studio 2010 by: Peter Kellner
  March 9, 2011, 10:00
  The way I do Windows Azure development is that I have OneClick Deployment setup on my Azure host. This means I can simply and quickly update what I have…
- Hosting The Same Windows Azure Web Project With Two Different Configurations by: Peter Kellner
  March 5, 2011, 11:50
  The Problem In my scenario, I have the same web project that I want to host in two different Windows Azure Data Centers (BTW, Steve Marx let me know it’s…
Category: Azure Deployment (3)
- Presenting Tonight In San Francisco on Windows Azure Development Real World Experiences by: Peter Kellner
  June 29, 2011, 11:35
  Tonight, at the Microsoft office (see this announcement for more details: http://www.meetup.com/The-San-Francisco-NET-User-Group/events/21982451/?a=cr1p_grp&…
- With VS2010 Debugger, Step Into, From a Windows .Net App Directly into a Windows Azure Web Role Hosting a WCF Service In The Developer Fabric by: Peter Kellner
  June 7, 2011, 14:52
  OK, I think this is the longest post title I’ve ever made, but if you understand it, you’ll know why it needs to be so long. I discovered…
- Hosting The Same Windows Azure Web Project With Two Different Configurations by: Peter Kellner
  March 5, 2011, 11:50
  The Problem In my scenario, I have the same web project that I want to host in two different Windows Azure Data Centers (BTW, Steve Marx let me know it’s…
Category: Lenovo (4)
- Installing the BUILD Windows 8 Preview Bits on My Lenovo W520 Plus 2 External Monitors by: Peter Kellner
  December 25, 2011, 20:46
  Lots of trial and error, however I think I finally have a repeatable process to install Windows 8 Preview on my Lenovo W520 Laptop Computer. First, some…
- Nasty Problem With OCZ Vertex 3 SSD on Lenovo W520 Solved by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2011, 17:14
  Recently, I posted about the new SSD drive I have for my Lenovo W520 Core-I7 smokin’ fast notebook computer (OCZ Vertex 3) Clearly I was in the honey…
- Moving To Super Fast SSD OCZ Vertex 3 For My Lenovo W520 by: Peter Kellner
  May 12, 2011, 22:37
  Important Update 5/13/2011: .../nasty-problem-with-ocz-vertex-3-ssd-on-lenovo-w520-solved/ Let me get the fireworks out of the way first so you don’t need…
- Always Wanting the Latest Fastest Lenovo ThinkPad. Info on W520 Follows by: Peter Kellner
  March 10, 2011, 15:58
  It seems that at the following location, you can see all the latest specs (no prices) on the upcoming Lenovo W520 ThinkPad. http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/tab…
Category: Laptops (1)
- Always Wanting the Latest Fastest Lenovo ThinkPad. Info on W520 Follows by: Peter Kellner
  March 10, 2011, 15:58
  It seems that at the following location, you can see all the latest specs (no prices) on the upcoming Lenovo W520 ThinkPad. http://www.lenovo.com/psref/pdf/tab…
Category: MVC3 (3)
- Building an Sencha’s ExtJS 4.0 MVC Application With Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC3 Series / Basics by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2011, 11:47
  Part 1 (this) Basics (mostly server side) Part 2 ExtJS Client Side Details *For those who are intersted in this, I just posted a…
- Getting ExtJS 4 Date Format To Behave Properly in Grid Panel with ASP.NET MVC3 by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2011, 11:52
  Introduction and Problem Converting Data Formats back and forth between browser and back end servers can be a little confusing. In my case,…
- DevConnections Orlando, Build Advanced Web UIs with a Rich JavaScript UI Language by: Peter Kellner
  March 30, 2011, 07:26
  To build fully-featured web applications that support complex interaction in a reasonable amount of time requires a high-end JavaScript library. Someday,…
Category: Sencha (18)
- Last Nights Meetup At Sencha HQ In RWC Excellent! by: Peter Kellner
  May 1, 2013, 06:57
  Last nights meetup at Sencha Headquarters in Redwood City with Jacky Nguyen presenting was excellent, and as usual very fun. Jacky talked about tons of…
- Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2, Sencha Architect 2.2, Add CRUD to REST client for calling Microsoft WebAPI server by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 10:41
  Three Part Series (Part 3) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2 and Sencha Architect 2.2, Build a Simple REST client (to feed WebAPI server) by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 10:07
  Three Part Series (Part 2) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- Using SASS and Compass to Solve 2 CSS files into 1 CSS File by: Peter Kellner
  January 17, 2013, 15:06
  I’m currently building a simple SenchaTouch app that includes a twitter stream. The example CSS that came with the app was global in nature. …
- Another SF Bay Area Sencha/ExtJS Meetup Done / CMD, Fastbook and PracticeFusion by: Peter Kellner
  December 17, 2012, 22:22
  It was good to see the our Meetup in action again. It’s been too long since our last one. Aditka from Sencha did a great job of presenting both…
- Sencha Architect and Formatting Dates in GridPanel by: Peter Kellner
  November 30, 2012, 10:23
  Background I wasted about 10 minutes this morning being confused about why I could not enter the format attribute on a column of a GridPanel. Since I am…
- Leading BOF Session on Building SenchaTouch 2.0 App Coming to Mountain View May 25, 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  May 11, 2012, 09:43
  I’m leading a 3 hour hands on lab titled "MindSource Birds of a Feather 55 (BoF) - Developing Mobile Applications using SenchaTouch 2.0" on May…
- How To Add Paging With a Filter Using Sencha Architect with ExtJS4 by: Peter Kellner
  May 8, 2012, 16:38
  Sometimes,the simplest things can seem complicated. Well, in this case, after struggling for a while, it turns out the simplest things can…
- Details On The ExtJS Application to Build Simple CRUD operation Using Models and Stores by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2012, 17:00
  Part 1 Basics (mostly server side) Part 2 (this) ExtJS Client Side Details *For those who are intersted in this, I just…
- Using Sencha Architect and Previewing a JSON feed For Inclusion In The App by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2012, 08:52
  I’ve been on the beta testers for the new version of Sencha Architect (formerly Sencha Designer) for the past few months and have really enjoyed learning it…
- Setting Values In a Form Using the Sencha Architect 2.0 (ExtJS 4.0) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2012, 17:01
  Let’s say you want to make a simple modal window that appears when you double click on a row in a Sencha Grid Panel. Let’s assume you have the panel…
- A SenchTouch2 Simple Example Using Tab Pages and Buttons by: Peter Kellner
  January 24, 2012, 22:47
  Again, I find myself going back to basics when trying to make my SenchaTouch2 Project work. Today, I updated my framework to Sencha’s latest alpha…
- Create A Simple MVC Button Click Listener in SenchaTouch2 by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2012, 21:14
  I do not even want to admit how much time I spent today in a more complex application trying to get a button to respond to a tap event in SenchaTouch…
- Building a Simple 2 Card Carousel with SenchaTouch 2 by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2012, 14:58
  It was surprisingly difficult for me to build a very simple Carousel application with SenchaTouch 2.0 so I thought I’d make a short blog post with the…
- Building an Sencha’s ExtJS 4.0 MVC Application With Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC3 Series / Basics by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2011, 11:47
  Part 1 (this) Basics (mostly server side) Part 2 ExtJS Client Side Details *For those who are intersted in this, I just posted a…
- Getting ExtJS 4 Date Format To Behave Properly in Grid Panel with ASP.NET MVC3 by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2011, 11:52
  Introduction and Problem Converting Data Formats back and forth between browser and back end servers can be a little confusing. In my case,…
- Building Hugely Performant Websites: Taking advantage of HTML5 Storage, 3rd DevConnections Orlando Presentation by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2011, 05:08
  For my final of 3 presentations at DevConnections Orlando is about building a hugely performant web application with html5 storage. The app we…
- DevConnections Orlando, Build Advanced Web UIs with a Rich JavaScript UI Language by: Peter Kellner
  March 30, 2011, 07:26
  To build fully-featured web applications that support complex interaction in a reasonable amount of time requires a high-end JavaScript library. Someday,…
Category: MIX11 (2)
- Want To Mass Download All MIX11 Videos and Make the Filenames the Titles? by: Peter Kellner
  April 21, 2011, 14:32
  If you need a really clean way to download the great video content (MP4’s, WMV’s, etc.) from the MIX11 conference last week, checkout the URL: …
- Steve Marx Of The Windows Azure Team Announces Massive IPad Cluster At MIX11 In Las Vegas by: Peter Kellner
  April 13, 2011, 22:46
  MIX11 In Las Vegas has been a really fun and exciting couple of days. For me, the sessions are interesting, but my feeling is I can always go…
Category: DownThemAll (2)
- Mass Download The Videos From Windows BUILD conference October 28 to November 2nd by: Peter Kellner
  November 6, 2012, 07:19
  THE URL: http://buildwindows2012.peterkellner.net/ Just like a couple years ago when we wrote the mass download of videos for the Microsoft MIX…
- Want To Mass Download All MIX11 Videos and Make the Filenames the Titles? by: Peter Kellner
  April 21, 2011, 14:32
  If you need a really clean way to download the great video content (MP4’s, WMV’s, etc.) from the MIX11 conference last week, checkout the URL: …
Category: Fiddler (2)
- Using Fiddler To Replay an AJAX (xmlhttp) Request by: Peter Kellner
  October 27, 2012, 10:48
  The Problem I use to spend a lot of time writing throw away JavaScript code to test AJAX (XMLHttpRequest or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) type…
- Getting Fiddler to See you WCF Traffic by: Peter Kellner
  April 25, 2011, 17:48
  There are lots of articles on the internet if you search for WCF Fiddler however it’s not clear what the simplest path to follow is. For me, it turns out…
Category: ClickOnce (1)
- Accidentally (or on purpose) Making A ClickOnce Application your default IE9 Page by: Peter Kellner
  May 10, 2011, 09:55
  So, I’m testing a Microsoft ClickOnce application in a virtual machine and for convenience, I set the default page to be my ClickOnce page of the application…
Category: IE9 (1)
- Accidentally (or on purpose) Making A ClickOnce Application your default IE9 Page by: Peter Kellner
  May 10, 2011, 09:55
  So, I’m testing a Microsoft ClickOnce application in a virtual machine and for convenience, I set the default page to be my ClickOnce page of the application…
Category: IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF (1)
- IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF There was a 1-click Deploy for a Windows Azure Web Sites by: Peter Kellner
  May 15, 2011, 15:00
  Microsoft’s Windows Azure is truly a revolutionary way to have web sites hosted. The beauty of it is practically all the IT type stuff is just taken…
Category: WebForms (2)
- Using ASP.NET Web Forms, Passing Primary Key to RowCommand Event by: Peter Kellner
  September 5, 2011, 08:01
  I know this is old hat, but after recently having a conversation with one of the ASP.NET Team guys about how easy Web Forms is to use, I thought I’d…
- With ASP.NET WebForms, How to Keep / Stop a Data Control Like GridView From Retrieving Data by: Peter Kellner
  August 1, 2011, 14:35
  The What and Where Something that may not be obvious is if are creating an asp.net WebForms project and you put a datasource such as SqlDataSource or…
Category: DateFormat (1)
- Getting ExtJS 4 Date Format To Behave Properly in Grid Panel with ASP.NET MVC3 by: Peter Kellner
  August 24, 2011, 11:52
  Introduction and Problem Converting Data Formats back and forth between browser and back end servers can be a little confusing. In my case,…
Category: Sql Server CE (3)
- When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. by: Peter Kellner
  January 15, 2012, 11:58
  Problem So, if you have been doing development with Visual Studio 2010, Entity Framework CodeFirst, SqlServer or SqlServerCE for any amount of time,…
- Entity Framework’s CodeFirst Automatically Generates Foreign Keys For you by: Peter Kellner
  November 10, 2011, 23:24
  I’ve been struggling with getting the EF CodeFirst right so that it automatically generates foreign keys when the tables are created. I had noticed that…
- My First Experience With SqlServer CE 4.0 by: Peter Kellner
  September 2, 2011, 08:57
  I have heard all the hype about how great Sql Server CE 4.0 and that it is now standard with Visual Studio 2010 SP1. I’ve got a small…
Category: DataBinding (1)
- Using ASP.NET Web Forms, Passing Primary Key to RowCommand Event by: Peter Kellner
  September 5, 2011, 08:01
  I know this is old hat, but after recently having a conversation with one of the ASP.NET Team guys about how easy Web Forms is to use, I thought I’d…
Category: Query (1)
- A Quick Tip On How To Ignore Time When Querying From SqlServer by: Peter Kellner
  September 7, 2011, 09:15
  Seems like this comes up a lot so I thought I’d blog about a clean way I found to do this from a StackOverflow article. Basically, the problem is if…
Category: ASP.net (6)
- Using Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish For Staging On The Internet by: Peter Kellner
  May 17, 2013, 19:36
  Let’s say you have a production code like http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com and you want to have a test site on the internet that will not be seen by…
- VS2012 Web Deploy, Using Transforms For Connection String In Production (Web.Config) by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2013, 12:10
  Introduction I should have learned this a long time ago. I certainly have known about it since VS2010 when it was introduced, I’ve read about it…
- Using SASS and Compass to Solve 2 CSS files into 1 CSS File by: Peter Kellner
  January 17, 2013, 15:06
  I’m currently building a simple SenchaTouch app that includes a twitter stream. The example CSS that came with the app was global in nature. …
- HttpClient Verses WebClient with .Net and C# by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2013, 15:47
  I often find I do what I know over and over again and don’t look for new solutions if the old tried and true solution works. At my last hackathon, I…
- Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2012, 12:40
  Introduction People often ask me if I use MVC or WebForms for my Microsoft ASP.NET projects. I always tell them MVC, but I don’t use…
- Microsoft ASP.NET presentations at Silicon Valley Code Camp on 10/8 and 10/9 by: Peter Kellner
  October 2, 2011, 15:01
  SV Code Camp is happening next weekend with well over 200 sessions. The conference is really technology agnostic and try hard to keep it that…
Category: Attack Vectors (1)
- An Interesting Attack Vector On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site by: Peter Kellner
  October 7, 2011, 09:21
  I often look at the “Pages Not Indexed” report from web sites I manage and today I noticed a couple interesting ones. People are going after where…
Category: Silicon Valley Code Camp (1)
- An Interesting Attack Vector On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site by: Peter Kellner
  October 7, 2011, 09:21
  I often look at the “Pages Not Indexed” report from web sites I manage and today I noticed a couple interesting ones. People are going after where…
Category: .NET 4.5 (2)
- Building A Windows 8 Metro Style JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS3 App Using ListView by: Peter Kellner
  December 27, 2011, 15:08
  Background The new Windows 8 Developer environment is seriously under documented at this point in it’s product life. Microsoft released a…
- Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next! by: Peter Kellner
  October 22, 2011, 18:57
  In May of 2009 I discovered some significant performance problems that I blogged about. In summary, I had tracked it down to the issue of LINQ2SQ…
Category: Handler (1)
- Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5? by: Peter Kellner
  October 30, 2011, 18:36
  Normally, when we stick a JSON file up on an IIS web server, all we have to do to get to is is to set the Mime type. One easy way to do it is to add to…
Category: tricks (2)
- With Visual Studio, Open Same File In Two Windows, Updates Reflected in Both by: Peter Kellner
  July 8, 2012, 07:39
  I’ve always been frustrated in Visual Studio (all versions I can remember including latest vs2012) with not being able to look at the top of a file and edit…
- Windows 7 Trick for Docking Application to Side of Screen by: Peter Kellner
  November 3, 2011, 11:21
  I think everyone but me knows this, but just in case, I thought I’d blog it. I’m currently sitting in the Sprint Developer Conference and don’t have my…
Category: SenchaMVC (4)
- Leading BOF Session on Building SenchaTouch 2.0 App Coming to Mountain View May 25, 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  May 11, 2012, 09:43
  I’m leading a 3 hour hands on lab titled "MindSource Birds of a Feather 55 (BoF) - Developing Mobile Applications using SenchaTouch 2.0" on May…
- Details On The ExtJS Application to Build Simple CRUD operation Using Models and Stores by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2012, 17:00
  Part 1 Basics (mostly server side) Part 2 (this) ExtJS Client Side Details *For those who are intersted in this, I just…
- Create A Simple MVC Button Click Listener in SenchaTouch2 by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2012, 21:14
  I do not even want to admit how much time I spent today in a more complex application trying to get a button to respond to a tap event in SenchaTouch…
- Building an Sencha’s ExtJS 4.0 MVC Application With Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC3 Series / Basics by: Peter Kellner
  November 4, 2011, 11:47
  Part 1 (this) Basics (mostly server side) Part 2 ExtJS Client Side Details *For those who are intersted in this, I just posted a…
Category: Windows 8 (13)
- Building a Windows 8 Touch application with WinRT JavaScript and Html5 by: Peter Kellner
  November 19, 2012, 09:01
  Introduction With the introduction of WinRT (which replaces the Win32 API we are all use to), Microsoft has provided JavaScript programmers first…
- Source For Article “Building a Windows 8 Touch app with WinRT,JavaScript,HTML5” (From Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog Article) by: Peter Kellner
  September 11, 2012, 14:37
  On todays Microsoft MVP Blog, my article titled “Building a Windows 8 Touch Application with WinRT, JavaScript and HTML5” was published. Basically,…
- Passing Completion Functions With JavaScript (Windows 8 and XHR) by: Peter Kellner
  September 5, 2012, 20:16
  I recently did a post where I discovered a very cool trick done by the xamarin folks that had to do with executing an anonymous method in the call parameter…
- Windows Desktop Class Versus Windows 8 Metro UI by: Peter Kellner
  April 25, 2012, 23:21
  I recently went to a big Microsoft Windows 8 developer event at the Mountain View Microsoft office and I heard for the first time a really good explanation for…
- INETA Speaker Gig Last Night at Fresno’s Central California .Net User Group on Windows 8 JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 Development by: Peter Kellner
  April 12, 2012, 13:41
  Let me start by saying three words. “CRASH AND BURN”. Well, I guess that makes it sound much worse than it really was, however I have to say that I…
- Why Windows 8 Should Not Abandon the START button by: Peter Kellner
  March 27, 2012, 07:45
  I don’t often post my opinions on contention issues, however I think in this case, it is more than necessary and appropriate. Unlike most people who…
- Presenting In San Francisco 3/21/2012 (Wednesday): First Blood With Windows 8 Metro Programming in JavaScript and HTML5/CSS3 by: Peter Kellner
  March 19, 2012, 10:23
  http://baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=520&mid=49 Microsoft San Francisco Office 835 Market Street, Suite 700…
- Built In App Launcher in Windows 8 Consumer by: Peter Kellner
  March 9, 2012, 10:52
  There has been multiple posts on then net in the last few days about how to get your start button back when using the latest Windows 8 Consumer preview from…
- Developing With Visual Studio 2011 and the Windows 8 Consumer Build With Metro and Two (multiple) Monitors by: Peter Kellner
  March 4, 2012, 19:27
  Wow, that’s a long title. Sorry, but I just wanted to be clear what you are getting into if you come here. In this article, I’m going to talk about…
- With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory by: Peter Kellner
  January 3, 2012, 14:25
  One of the standard things we programmers do is to read static files from our project directory. That is, say you put a json file such as /data/stats_data…
- How To Quick Launch Programs in Windows 8 Without Metro by: Peter Kellner
  December 31, 2011, 09:12
  I’ve been building a small app in Windows 8 Metro so have been learning quite a bit about how to use my desktop efficiently. One of the big hassles is…
- Building A Windows 8 Metro Style JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS3 App Using ListView by: Peter Kellner
  December 27, 2011, 15:08
  Background The new Windows 8 Developer environment is seriously under documented at this point in it’s product life. Microsoft released a…
- Our First Windows 8 Metro JavaScript Meetup Tonight by: Peter Kellner
  November 8, 2011, 00:04
  Today we had our first meetup of the Windows 8 Metro JavaScript Group. http://www.meetup.com/The-Silicon-Valley-Windows-8-Metro-Development-in-JavaScri…
Category: Windows 8 Store (16)
- Building a Windows 8 Touch application with WinRT JavaScript and Html5 by: Peter Kellner
  November 19, 2012, 09:01
  Introduction With the introduction of WinRT (which replaces the Win32 API we are all use to), Microsoft has provided JavaScript programmers first…
- Source For Article “Building a Windows 8 Touch app with WinRT,JavaScript,HTML5” (From Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog Article) by: Peter Kellner
  September 11, 2012, 14:37
  On todays Microsoft MVP Blog, my article titled “Building a Windows 8 Touch Application with WinRT, JavaScript and HTML5” was published. Basically,…
- Passing Completion Functions With JavaScript (Windows 8 and XHR) by: Peter Kellner
  September 5, 2012, 20:16
  I recently did a post where I discovered a very cool trick done by the xamarin folks that had to do with executing an anonymous method in the call parameter…
- Creating Global Variables In a Windows 8 Metro JavaScript / HTML5 Application by: Peter Kellner
  June 24, 2012, 07:24
  The title of this seems ominous and potentially dangerous. For those that are ready to comment, first think about Globals as Constants, then post…
- Windows Desktop Class Versus Windows 8 Metro UI by: Peter Kellner
  April 25, 2012, 23:21
  I recently went to a big Microsoft Windows 8 developer event at the Mountain View Microsoft office and I heard for the first time a really good explanation for…
- INETA Speaker Gig Last Night at Fresno’s Central California .Net User Group on Windows 8 JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 Development by: Peter Kellner
  April 12, 2012, 13:41
  Let me start by saying three words. “CRASH AND BURN”. Well, I guess that makes it sound much worse than it really was, however I have to say that I…
- Why Windows 8 Should Not Abandon the START button by: Peter Kellner
  March 27, 2012, 07:45
  I don’t often post my opinions on contention issues, however I think in this case, it is more than necessary and appropriate. Unlike most people who…
- Presenting In San Francisco 3/21/2012 (Wednesday): First Blood With Windows 8 Metro Programming in JavaScript and HTML5/CSS3 by: Peter Kellner
  March 19, 2012, 10:23
  http://baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=520&mid=49 Microsoft San Francisco Office 835 Market Street, Suite 700…
- Built In App Launcher in Windows 8 Consumer by: Peter Kellner
  March 9, 2012, 10:52
  There has been multiple posts on then net in the last few days about how to get your start button back when using the latest Windows 8 Consumer preview from…
- Developing With Visual Studio 2011 and the Windows 8 Consumer Build With Metro and Two (multiple) Monitors by: Peter Kellner
  March 4, 2012, 19:27
  Wow, that’s a long title. Sorry, but I just wanted to be clear what you are getting into if you come here. In this article, I’m going to talk about…
- Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background by: Peter Kellner
  January 3, 2012, 16:30
  Yes, this is JavaScript I’m debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Pre Release. Just like c# and vb! A picture is worth hundreds of words, so, here is…
- With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory by: Peter Kellner
  January 3, 2012, 14:25
  One of the standard things we programmers do is to read static files from our project directory. That is, say you put a json file such as /data/stats_data…
- How To Quick Launch Programs in Windows 8 Without Metro by: Peter Kellner
  December 31, 2011, 09:12
  I’ve been building a small app in Windows 8 Metro so have been learning quite a bit about how to use my desktop efficiently. One of the big hassles is…
- Building A Windows 8 Metro Style JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS3 App Using ListView by: Peter Kellner
  December 27, 2011, 15:08
  Background The new Windows 8 Developer environment is seriously under documented at this point in it’s product life. Microsoft released a…
- Installing the BUILD Windows 8 Preview Bits on My Lenovo W520 Plus 2 External Monitors by: Peter Kellner
  December 25, 2011, 20:46
  Lots of trial and error, however I think I finally have a repeatable process to install Windows 8 Preview on my Lenovo W520 Laptop Computer. First, some…
- Our First Windows 8 Metro JavaScript Meetup Tonight by: Peter Kellner
  November 8, 2011, 00:04
  Today we had our first meetup of the Windows 8 Metro JavaScript Group. http://www.meetup.com/The-Silicon-Valley-Windows-8-Metro-Development-in-JavaScri…
Category: CodeFirst (12)
- Using Redgates Sql Compare for Complex Migrations with EF’s CodeFirst by: Peter Kellner
  July 29, 2012, 11:44
  Introduction As many of you know, I’ve been quite the fan of Entity Framework CodeFirst for quite some time. It does a great job of reducing the…
- LINQ Query Workaround for Comparing Dates (EF, LINQ2SQL,CodeFirst) by: Peter Kellner
  July 25, 2012, 19:59
  I seem to always get this error all the time (kind of like I never learn). Or, for you search engines reading: LINQ to Entities…
- Entity Framework Code First From Microsoft, Best and Worst Practices by: Peter Kellner
  July 16, 2012, 09:10
  Introduction I’ve been building a fairly sophisticated product that will need to sustain a high transaction rate using the shipping version of…
- Extending CodeFirst (EntityFramework) to Multiple Levels of 1 to 1 Relationships (Strongly Typed) by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2012, 07:15
  In my previous post, I showed how to take a simple relationship between Customers and an one Detail per customer build that into a relationship that eagerly…
- Working With Nested Class In Simple 1 to 1 Relationship with EntityFramework 4 CodeFirst by: Peter Kellner
  June 6, 2012, 06:47
  Surprisingly, (and happily) it’s not hard to reference all data inside a class using EF’s codefirst in a 1 to 1 type relationship. Let’s take…
- Gaining Some Control Back From Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, Name Your Own Foreign Keys! by: Peter Kellner
  April 7, 2012, 18:32
  Being a relative newbie to Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, there are things that I don’t like, things that I don’t understand, and well, just…
- Entity Framework CodeFirst Important Tip For SQL Execution Efficiency by: Peter Kellner
  April 5, 2012, 11:24
  Introduction I’ve now been using Microsoft’s Entity Framework CodeFirst for a month or two and am very impressed with how easily it…
- EntityFramework CodeFirst and AutoKey Generation by: Peter Kellner
  January 15, 2012, 14:02
  This one had me a little stumped, and as usual, there are not enough examples in the Microsoft documentation to be very helpful. I’m using EntityFrame…
- When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error. by: Peter Kellner
  January 15, 2012, 11:58
  Problem So, if you have been doing development with Visual Studio 2010, Entity Framework CodeFirst, SqlServer or SqlServerCE for any amount of time,…
- I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1! by: Peter Kellner
  December 13, 2011, 22:20
  I’ve been using EntityFramework’s CodeFirst 4.1 on a new project I’ve been working. I plan to blog quite bit about it, but in the mean time I…
- Using The DataContext In EntityFramework To Retrieve Nested Objects by: Peter Kellner
  November 27, 2011, 11:41
  I’m always somewhat amazed when I read something from documentation that is not straight forward and it actually works. So amazed and excited that I…
- Entity Framework’s CodeFirst Automatically Generates Foreign Keys For you by: Peter Kellner
  November 10, 2011, 23:24
  I’ve been struggling with getting the EF CodeFirst right so that it automatically generates foreign keys when the tables are created. I had noticed that…
Category: Google Analytics (1)
- New Google Analytics Real Time Statistics Pretty Amazing! by: Peter Kellner
  November 22, 2011, 11:10
  I just noticed that in the beta of Google Analytics, you can now see real time statistics of what is going on for a web site. As a numbers junky,…
Category: HTML (2)
- Building A Windows 8 Metro Style JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS3 App Using ListView by: Peter Kellner
  December 27, 2011, 15:08
  Background The new Windows 8 Developer environment is seriously under documented at this point in it’s product life. Microsoft released a…
- How to Format HTML with Windows Live Writer by: Peter Kellner
  November 22, 2011, 17:10
  Ever since Microsoft released Windows Live Writer, posting articles to this blog (and others) has been really easy. Even though this blog is powered by…
Category: Live Writer (1)
- How to Format HTML with Windows Live Writer by: Peter Kellner
  November 22, 2011, 17:10
  Ever since Microsoft released Windows Live Writer, posting articles to this blog (and others) has been really easy. Even though this blog is powered by…
Category: Gingerbread (1)
- Gingerbread Update for my Verizon Samsung DROID Charge by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2011, 11:41
  Yesterday, I turned my Samsung DROID CHARGE 4G from Verizon on and it asked me if I wanted to update. Always wanting that, I said yes. After two…
Category: Verizon (1)
- Gingerbread Update for my Verizon Samsung DROID Charge by: Peter Kellner
  December 4, 2011, 11:41
  Yesterday, I turned my Samsung DROID CHARGE 4G from Verizon on and it asked me if I wanted to update. Always wanting that, I said yes. After two…
Category: HTML5 (4)
- Source For Article “Building a Windows 8 Touch app with WinRT,JavaScript,HTML5” (From Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog Article) by: Peter Kellner
  September 11, 2012, 14:37
  On todays Microsoft MVP Blog, my article titled “Building a Windows 8 Touch Application with WinRT, JavaScript and HTML5” was published. Basically,…
- Presenting In San Francisco 3/21/2012 (Wednesday): First Blood With Windows 8 Metro Programming in JavaScript and HTML5/CSS3 by: Peter Kellner
  March 19, 2012, 10:23
  http://baynetug.org/DesktopModules/DetailXEvents.aspx?ItemID=520&mid=49 Microsoft San Francisco Office 835 Market Street, Suite 700…
- HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive by: Peter Kellner
  February 2, 2012, 19:57
  Background and Introduction I’m building a mobile touch application that uses SenchaTouch 2 on the client and Microsoft’s ASP.NET EF Code…
- Building A Windows 8 Metro Style JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS3 App Using ListView by: Peter Kellner
  December 27, 2011, 15:08
  Background The new Windows 8 Developer environment is seriously under documented at this point in it’s product life. Microsoft released a…
Category: stackoverflow (2)
- StackOverflow and Lack of Transparency by: Peter Kellner
  November 24, 2012, 08:20
  Job Well Done I have to admire StackOverflow in many ways. The creators have done an awesome job of building a community where people can come…
- stackoverflow Really annoyed me this morning! by: Peter Kellner
  December 31, 2011, 12:09
  For the past month or so, I’ve been more involved at stackoverflow than I have ever been. I’ve accumulated 317 points (not much, but enough to be…
Category: forums (1)
- stackoverflow Really annoyed me this morning! by: Peter Kellner
  December 31, 2011, 12:09
  For the past month or so, I’ve been more involved at stackoverflow than I have ever been. I’ve accumulated 317 points (not much, but enough to be…
Category: Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview (4)
- Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2012, 12:40
  Introduction People often ask me if I use MVC or WebForms for my Microsoft ASP.NET projects. I always tell them MVC, but I don’t use…
- Test First Development Walk Through with Visual Studio 2011 Preview by: Peter Kellner
  March 18, 2012, 16:14
  Introduction Many of us know we should be using test first development, however it is hard to break old habits. I have to admit, I started to solve this…
- Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background by: Peter Kellner
  January 3, 2012, 16:30
  Yes, this is JavaScript I’m debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Pre Release. Just like c# and vb! A picture is worth hundreds of words, so, here is…
- With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory by: Peter Kellner
  January 3, 2012, 14:25
  One of the standard things we programmers do is to read static files from our project directory. That is, say you put a json file such as /data/stats_data…
Category: WinRT (1)
- Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background by: Peter Kellner
  January 3, 2012, 16:30
  Yes, this is JavaScript I’m debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Pre Release. Just like c# and vb! A picture is worth hundreds of words, so, here is…
Category: VPS (1)
- vaasnet, Awesome First Experience. Need a VM Now, for just 2 hours? by: Peter Kellner
  January 19, 2012, 17:09
  I’ve known about vaasnet for quite a while. Basically, vaasnet is a way to almost instantly (OK, it took about 4 seconds to come up) grab a…
Category: visu (1)
- Create A Simple MVC Button Click Listener in SenchaTouch2 by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2012, 21:14
  I do not even want to admit how much time I spent today in a more complex application trying to get a button to respond to a tap event in SenchaTouch…
Category: SenchaTouch (7)
- Wrestling All Day With WebAPI, NewtonSoft and JSON Date Formats by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2013, 14:56
  Half to document what I now believe and half to share my findings, I’m going to do a short post that shows the implications of changing the DateTimeKi…
- Last Nights Meetup At Sencha HQ In RWC Excellent! by: Peter Kellner
  May 1, 2013, 06:57
  Last nights meetup at Sencha Headquarters in Redwood City with Jacky Nguyen presenting was excellent, and as usual very fun. Jacky talked about tons of…
- Speaking Wednesday, February 27 About SPA apps and WebAPI in Mountain View Microsoft Office by: Peter Kellner
  February 21, 2013, 20:47
  ASP.NET’s WebAPI and SPA’s (single page apps) are all the rage! In our brave new world, many web apps are now Single Page Applications written…
- JavaScript, Go With the Flow! by: Peter Kellner
  January 19, 2013, 18:00
  As a technologist gluten, I probably spend too much time on different technologies and not enough time on any one particular one. It does find me often…
- Using SASS and Compass to Solve 2 CSS files into 1 CSS File by: Peter Kellner
  January 17, 2013, 15:06
  I’m currently building a simple SenchaTouch app that includes a twitter stream. The example CSS that came with the app was global in nature. …
- Leading BOF Session on Building SenchaTouch 2.0 App Coming to Mountain View May 25, 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  May 11, 2012, 09:43
  I’m leading a 3 hour hands on lab titled "MindSource Birds of a Feather 55 (BoF) - Developing Mobile Applications using SenchaTouch 2.0" on May…
- A SenchTouch2 Simple Example Using Tab Pages and Buttons by: Peter Kellner
  January 24, 2012, 22:47
  Again, I find myself going back to basics when trying to make my SenchaTouch2 Project work. Today, I updated my framework to Sencha’s latest alpha…
Category: CSS3 (1)
- HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive by: Peter Kellner
  February 2, 2012, 19:57
  Background and Introduction I’m building a mobile touch application that uses SenchaTouch 2 on the client and Microsoft’s ASP.NET EF Code…
Category: HTML5 Media Query (1)
- HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive by: Peter Kellner
  February 2, 2012, 19:57
  Background and Introduction I’m building a mobile touch application that uses SenchaTouch 2 on the client and Microsoft’s ASP.NET EF Code…
Category: .NET 5.0 (1)
- LINQ To SQL Performance Getting Huge Improvement in EF5, Microsoft Does Listen! by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2012, 08:19
  The Original Problem Back in 2009, I discovered what I considered a fatal flaw in performance using LINQ2SQL with LINQ queries. I…
Category: Compile (1)
- LINQ To SQL Performance Getting Huge Improvement in EF5, Microsoft Does Listen! by: Peter Kellner
  February 15, 2012, 08:19
  The Original Problem Back in 2009, I discovered what I considered a fatal flaw in performance using LINQ2SQL with LINQ queries. I…
Category: GeekGive (1)
- Microsoft MVP Summit, GeekGive! (3rd year for me) by: Peter Kellner
  February 26, 2012, 22:12
  For the past two years, a day before the Microsoft MVP Summit a GeekGive has been organized where about 50 or so of us all go to some location and help with…
Category: Microsoft MVP Program (1)
- Microsoft MVP Summit, GeekGive! (3rd year for me) by: Peter Kellner
  February 26, 2012, 22:12
  For the past two years, a day before the Microsoft MVP Summit a GeekGive has been organized where about 50 or so of us all go to some location and help with…
Category: Microsoft Store (1)
- Phone Race For 0 at Windows Store With MVP John from Columbia by: Peter Kellner
  March 1, 2012, 13:59
  The Contest Post a picture to facebook with your phone faster than RichartT (with not twitter account) with his windows phone at the Microsoft Store.…
Category: VS2011 (1)
- Developing With Visual Studio 2011 and the Windows 8 Consumer Build With Metro and Two (multiple) Monitors by: Peter Kellner
  March 4, 2012, 19:27
  Wow, that’s a long title. Sorry, but I just wanted to be clear what you are getting into if you come here. In this article, I’m going to talk about…
Category: Mail Server (1)
- How To Setup Your Own Pop3/IMAP Email Server for Local Development Testing by: Peter Kellner
  March 11, 2012, 11:47
  For the past few months, I’ve been working on building an HTML5 email web client. It’s fundamentally server based for gathering email. That…
Category: POP3 (1)
- How To Setup Your Own Pop3/IMAP Email Server for Local Development Testing by: Peter Kellner
  March 11, 2012, 11:47
  For the past few months, I’ve been working on building an HTML5 email web client. It’s fundamentally server based for gathering email. That…
Category: Unit Testing (1)
- Test First Development Walk Through with Visual Studio 2011 Preview by: Peter Kellner
  March 18, 2012, 16:14
  Introduction Many of us know we should be using test first development, however it is hard to break old habits. I have to admit, I started to solve this…
Category: VSTS (1)
- Test First Development Walk Through with Visual Studio 2011 Preview by: Peter Kellner
  March 18, 2012, 16:14
  Introduction Many of us know we should be using test first development, however it is hard to break old habits. I have to admit, I started to solve this…
Category: Sencha Architect 2 (7)
- Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2, Sencha Architect 2.2, Add CRUD to REST client for calling Microsoft WebAPI server by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 10:41
  Three Part Series (Part 3) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2 and Sencha Architect 2.2, Build a Simple REST client (to feed WebAPI server) by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 10:07
  Three Part Series (Part 2) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- Sencha’s Architect’s Perfect Storm, Easy To Use and Incorporates Hand Written Code Gracefully by: Peter Kellner
  February 4, 2013, 13:49
  Introduction Wednesday night this week, our local meetup (happening at Sencha’s headquarters in Redwood City) is featuring the Sencha Architect engineers…
- Sencha Architect and Formatting Dates in GridPanel by: Peter Kellner
  November 30, 2012, 10:23
  Background I wasted about 10 minutes this morning being confused about why I could not enter the format attribute on a column of a GridPanel. Since I am…
- How To Add Paging With a Filter Using Sencha Architect with ExtJS4 by: Peter Kellner
  May 8, 2012, 16:38
  Sometimes,the simplest things can seem complicated. Well, in this case, after struggling for a while, it turns out the simplest things can…
- Using Sencha Architect and Previewing a JSON feed For Inclusion In The App by: Peter Kellner
  April 20, 2012, 08:52
  I’ve been on the beta testers for the new version of Sencha Architect (formerly Sencha Designer) for the past few months and have really enjoyed learning it…
- Setting Values In a Form Using the Sencha Architect 2.0 (ExtJS 4.0) by: Peter Kellner
  April 17, 2012, 17:01
  Let’s say you want to make a simple modal window that appears when you double click on a row in a Sencha Grid Panel. Let’s assume you have the panel…
Category: Mono (3)
- Building .Net Libraries For Both Xamarin’s MonoDevelop and Visual Studio 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  October 19, 2012, 01:38
  I’ve recently been experimenting doing native development with Xamarin’s MonoTouch. The idea is that I can leverage the C# code I’ve written for…
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 20:26
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots (this) In Part 1, the app described…
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 19:02
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction (this) Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots …
Category: MonoTouch (4)
- Building .Net Libraries For Both Xamarin’s MonoDevelop and Visual Studio 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  October 19, 2012, 01:38
  I’ve recently been experimenting doing native development with Xamarin’s MonoTouch. The idea is that I can leverage the C# code I’ve written for…
- Awesome First Xamarin Meetup in San Francisco Last Night by: Peter Kellner
  September 21, 2012, 08:10
  As the organizer of a new meetup, it’s always a little nerve racking when the first one happens. One wonders weather you and two other people will…
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 20:26
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots (this) In Part 1, the app described…
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 19:02
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction (this) Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots …
Category: Xamarin (4)
- Building .Net Libraries For Both Xamarin’s MonoDevelop and Visual Studio 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  October 19, 2012, 01:38
  I’ve recently been experimenting doing native development with Xamarin’s MonoTouch. The idea is that I can leverage the C# code I’ve written for…
- Awesome First Xamarin Meetup in San Francisco Last Night by: Peter Kellner
  September 21, 2012, 08:10
  As the organizer of a new meetup, it’s always a little nerve racking when the first one happens. One wonders weather you and two other people will…
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 20:26
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots (this) In Part 1, the app described…
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 19:02
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction (this) Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots …
Category: IPhone (1)
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 19:02
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction (this) Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots …
Category: IPad (1)
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 19:02
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction (this) Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots …
Category: Apple (1)
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 19:02
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction (this) Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots …
Category: IOS (1)
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 19:02
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction (this) Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots …
Category: XCode (1)
- Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Part 2) by: Peter Kellner
  August 13, 2012, 20:26
  Part 1 The Video and Introduction Part 2 In Blog Format with words and screen shots (this) In Part 1, the app described…
Category: Lambda (2)
- Using LINQ ForEach To Populate Generic List in C# AND Enum to List by: Peter Kellner
  August 31, 2012, 07:00
  A C# trick I first had trouble wrapping my head around is using the LINQ ForEach operator to populate a list. I was originally inspired by some source I…
- In C# Passing Delegate As Parameter, Then Executing on Return by: Peter Kellner
  August 30, 2012, 15:40
  I did not know that it is possible to have a delegate as a call to a method, then have that method actually execute that delegate at it’s convenience. …
Category: vmware (1)
- Building .Net Libraries For Both Xamarin’s MonoDevelop and Visual Studio 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  October 19, 2012, 01:38
  I’ve recently been experimenting doing native development with Xamarin’s MonoTouch. The idea is that I can leverage the C# code I’ve written for…
Category: ASP.NET MVC (2)
- Converting ASP.NET WSP (Web Site Projects) to WAP (Web Application Projects) with VS2012 by: Peter Kellner
  December 30, 2012, 16:32
  Background There are quite a few articles written on the differences between WSP’s and WAP’s. In this article, I will not go into the…
- Using Fiddler To Replay an AJAX (xmlhttp) Request by: Peter Kellner
  October 27, 2012, 10:48
  The Problem I use to spend a lot of time writing throw away JavaScript code to test AJAX (XMLHttpRequest or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) type…
Category: AJAX (1)
- Using Fiddler To Replay an AJAX (xmlhttp) Request by: Peter Kellner
  October 27, 2012, 10:48
  The Problem I use to spend a lot of time writing throw away JavaScript code to test AJAX (XMLHttpRequest or Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) type…
Category: BUILD (1)
- Mass Download The Videos From Windows BUILD conference October 28 to November 2nd by: Peter Kellner
  November 6, 2012, 07:19
  THE URL: http://buildwindows2012.peterkellner.net/ Just like a couple years ago when we wrote the mass download of videos for the Microsoft MIX…
Category: Videos (1)
- Mass Download The Videos From Windows BUILD conference October 28 to November 2nd by: Peter Kellner
  November 6, 2012, 07:19
  THE URL: http://buildwindows2012.peterkellner.net/ Just like a couple years ago when we wrote the mass download of videos for the Microsoft MIX…
Category: Windows Phone 8 (2)
- Windows Phone 8, Supports Office365 Exchange Server? You Decide by: Peter Kellner
  November 20, 2012, 12:12
  (**Just heard back from my Microsoft Service Call Below that WP8 is supported with Office365) As a very happy office365 user (that is where I host my…
- Error Assigning Office365.Com Email To Windows Phone 8 by: Peter Kellner
  November 18, 2012, 12:55
  Having just switched to a new Windows Phone 8 Device (the HTC8x) I immediately got stopped in my tracks adding my Office365.com exchange based email to…
Category: Office365 (1)
- Windows Phone 8, Supports Office365 Exchange Server? You Decide by: Peter Kellner
  November 20, 2012, 12:12
  (**Just heard back from my Microsoft Service Call Below that WP8 is supported with Office365) As a very happy office365 user (that is where I host my…
Category: ASP.NET 4.5 (4)
- Using Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish For Staging On The Internet by: Peter Kellner
  May 17, 2013, 19:36
  Let’s say you have a production code like http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com and you want to have a test site on the internet that will not be seen by…
- VS2012 Web Deploy, Using Transforms For Connection String In Production (Web.Config) by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2013, 12:10
  Introduction I should have learned this a long time ago. I certainly have known about it since VS2010 when it was introduced, I’ve read about it…
- Speaking Wednesday, February 27 About SPA apps and WebAPI in Mountain View Microsoft Office by: Peter Kellner
  February 21, 2013, 20:47
  ASP.NET’s WebAPI and SPA’s (single page apps) are all the rage! In our brave new world, many web apps are now Single Page Applications written…
- HttpClient Verses WebClient with .Net and C# by: Peter Kellner
  January 9, 2013, 15:47
  I often find I do what I know over and over again and don’t look for new solutions if the old tried and true solution works. At my last hackathon, I…
Category: SASS (1)
- Using SASS and Compass to Solve 2 CSS files into 1 CSS File by: Peter Kellner
  January 17, 2013, 15:06
  I’m currently building a simple SenchaTouch app that includes a twitter stream. The example CSS that came with the app was global in nature. …
Category: sync (2)
- Slides From Last Nights Sync Sync Sync Meetup at the MS Office in San Francisco by: Peter Kellner
  January 23, 2013, 20:45
  As promised, I’ve posted my slides from last night to Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/peterkellner99/sync-syncsync-pkellner I had a great time. …
- Tuesday (Tomorrow) Night, At The Microsoft Office in SF, I'm talking SYNC SYNC SYNC by: Peter Kellner
  January 21, 2013, 21:26
  It seems like every project I’m involved in at some point turns into a sync project. Tomorrow night, I’ll talk about the different efforts Microsoft…
Category: comm (1)
- Sencha’s Architect’s Perfect Storm, Easy To Use and Incorporates Hand Written Code Gracefully by: Peter Kellner
  February 4, 2013, 13:49
  Introduction Wednesday night this week, our local meetup (happening at Sencha’s headquarters in Redwood City) is featuring the Sencha Architect engineers…
Category: ExtJS (2)
- Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2 and Sencha Architect 2.2, Build a Simple REST client (to feed WebAPI server) by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 10:07
  Three Part Series (Part 2) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- What Makes Sencha’s ExtJS Library So Powerful by: Peter Kellner
  February 14, 2013, 16:33
  For those that don’t know much about Sencha’s ExtJS JavaScript library, let me just simply describe it as a toolkit that helps you design applications that…
Category: WebAPI (6)
- Wrestling All Day With WebAPI, NewtonSoft and JSON Date Formats by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2013, 14:56
  Half to document what I now believe and half to share my findings, I’m going to do a short post that shows the implications of changing the DateTimeKi…
- ImageResizer, Amazon’s CloudFront and ASP.NET’s MVC4 Razor Helper Methods by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2013, 19:36
  Well, the title is certainly a mouthful and hopefully a honey trap for SEO. The thing is, I’m really going to talk about all those things. …
- Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2, Sencha Architect 2.2, Add CRUD to REST client for calling Microsoft WebAPI server by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 10:41
  Three Part Series (Part 3) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2 and Sencha Architect 2.2, Build a Simple REST client (to feed WebAPI server) by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 10:07
  Three Part Series (Part 2) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 08:32
  Three Part Series (Part 1) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- Speaking Wednesday, February 27 About SPA apps and WebAPI in Mountain View Microsoft Office by: Peter Kellner
  February 21, 2013, 20:47
  ASP.NET’s WebAPI and SPA’s (single page apps) are all the rage! In our brave new world, many web apps are now Single Page Applications written…
Category: REST (1)
- Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 08:32
  Three Part Series (Part 1) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
Category: Visual Studio 2012 (5)
- Using Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish For Staging On The Internet by: Peter Kellner
  May 17, 2013, 19:36
  Let’s say you have a production code like http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com and you want to have a test site on the internet that will not be seen by…
- Using IntelliTrace With Entity Framework In Visual Studio 2012 by: Peter Kellner
  May 5, 2013, 19:15
  This is not a big deal, but I have recently bumped into several people that did not know about it so I thought I’d do a blog post just to show what it is and…
- VS2012 Web Deploy, Using Transforms For Connection String In Production (Web.Config) by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2013, 12:10
  Introduction I should have learned this a long time ago. I certainly have known about it since VS2010 when it was introduced, I’ve read about it…
- Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2, Sencha Architect 2.2, Add CRUD to REST client for calling Microsoft WebAPI server by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 10:41
  Three Part Series (Part 3) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
- Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI by: Peter Kellner
  March 13, 2013, 08:32
  Three Part Series (Part 1) Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI Using Sencha…
Category: VS2012 (1)
- VS2012 Web Deploy, Using Transforms For Connection String In Production (Web.Config) by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2013, 12:10
  Introduction I should have learned this a long time ago. I certainly have known about it since VS2010 when it was introduced, I’ve read about it…
Category: Deployment (1)
- VS2012 Web Deploy, Using Transforms For Connection String In Production (Web.Config) by: Peter Kellner
  March 31, 2013, 12:10
  Introduction I should have learned this a long time ago. I certainly have known about it since VS2010 when it was introduced, I’ve read about it…
Category: Coding Standards (1)
- Why We (Me Included) Need to Stick To JavaScript Programming Style Standards by: Peter Kellner
  April 1, 2013, 13:24
  I’ve listened multiple times to Douglas Crockford talk about the importance of following good programming style standards. I try to normally,…
Category: ImageResizer (1)
- ImageResizer, Amazon’s CloudFront and ASP.NET’s MVC4 Razor Helper Methods by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2013, 19:36
  Well, the title is certainly a mouthful and hopefully a honey trap for SEO. The thing is, I’m really going to talk about all those things. …
Category: MVC4 (1)
- ImageResizer, Amazon’s CloudFront and ASP.NET’s MVC4 Razor Helper Methods by: Peter Kellner
  April 10, 2013, 19:36
  Well, the title is certainly a mouthful and hopefully a honey trap for SEO. The thing is, I’m really going to talk about all those things. …
Category: Transforms (1)
- Using Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish For Staging On The Internet by: Peter Kellner
  May 17, 2013, 19:36
  Let’s say you have a production code like http://siliconvalley-codecamp.com and you want to have a test site on the internet that will not be seen by…
Category: NewtonSoft (1)
- Wrestling All Day With WebAPI, NewtonSoft and JSON Date Formats by: Peter Kellner
  May 22, 2013, 14:56
  Half to document what I now believe and half to share my findings, I’m going to do a short post that shows the implications of changing the DateTimeKi…

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