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2023

35 posts

Can ChatGPT Reason? A Real-Life Example, You Decide

2 min read
#others

My TypeScript Skills Improving and Best Practices

2 min read
#others

Silicon Valley Code Campfire Software Architecture Event Summary

1 min read
#others

Understanding OBS Backup Server Transition and Quick Reconnection Strategy

2 min read
#others

Effective Development Process with Two Branches, Dev and Prod

2 min read
#others

ChatGPT Can Be Lazy And Not Think Out of the Box

1 min read
#others

Handling Query Parameters in Next.js 13 React Server Components

2 min read
#others

Redis Explained, Memory Metrics and Performance Insights

2 min read
#others

Using Prisma with TypeScript for Rapid Database Query Testing

2 min read
#others

Using Prisma to Bridge JavaScript Devs to Databases with Elegance

1 min read
#others

ChatGPT for Code Reviews Accurate but Lacks Initiative

1 min read
#others

Leveraging AI to Iteratively Improve Code Quality

2 min read
#others

Managing Job Queues in Bull While Preventing Log Clutter from Unprocessed Jobs

2 min read
#others

Managing Redis Memory Limits in Docker-Compose

3 min read
#others

How to Determine Disk Space Usage in MySQL

2 min read
#others

Replacing Label Fields with Aria-Label, A Focus on Accessibility

2 min read
#others

How to Use Google's ReCaptcha V3 with NextJS 13 and the New App Router

3 min read
#others

State Management in React Applications Through URL Hashes

2 min read
#others

Resolving TypeScript Import Errors in Next.js

2 min read
#others

Simplifying JavaScript Dictionary Creation with reduce in TypeScript

2 min read
#others

How ChatGPT Scares Me When Writing Code

2 min read
#others

Accelerating Data Access with Indexed Arrays in Prisma

3 min read
#others

Mastering Prisma Logging with Dynamic Configuration

2 min read
#others

Converting PascalCase to CamelCase in JavaScript Records Using TypeScript

3 min read
#others

Building, Deploying, and Managing Docker Images with GitHub Actions

2 min read
#others

Enforcing SSL Connections in MySQL using Docker

4 min read
#others

Understanding TypeScript's Powerful Type Assertions Through Practical Examples

2 min read
#others

Creating a Custom React Context Provider

2 min read
#others

Migrating from useState to useReducer, Building a Counter in a Next.js App

2 min read
#others

Understanding useRef and useState for Tracking Component Render Count in React

2 min read
#others

Using useCallback Correctly in a Simple Next.js 13 Component

1 min read
#others

AI-driven Built-in Degradation and Enhancement in Next.js React Apps on Vercel

2 min read
#others

ChatGPT Problems in Coding React Apps

1 min read
#others

Building a Bootstrap 5 Legend with the Help of ChatGPT

2 min read
#others

Everything ChatGPT at Silicon Valley Code Campfire Streaming 2/25/23

1 min read
#others

2015

19 posts

Converting a Controller Method in MVC5 to async

1 min read
#C##Visual Studio 2015#async

Using map instead of a for loop in ECMAScript 5 JavaScript

1 min read
#JavaScript

Seeding a Many to Many With Entity Framework and C# Dynamic

2 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Seed Entity Framework Code First With JSON Using C# Dynamic

1 min read
#Visual Studio#Entity Framework#GIT

GitHub Visual Studio 2015 Extension, Getting Started

2 min read
#Visual Studio#GIT

LINQ Support in Visual Studio 2015 Debugger Awesome

1 min read
#C##Visual Studio#Debugging

Visual Studio 2015, First and Second Impressions

1 min read
#Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2015

Magic in Chrome JavaScript Debugger

1 min read
#JavaScript#Chrome#Chrome Dev Tools

How To Create a Recorded Hangout

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

ExtJS Store and Cannot read property 'buffered' of undefined

1 min read
#Sencha#ExtJS

Why Am I So Excited About AngularU?

7 min read
#JavaScript#AngularJS#Angular

Routing and State (The AngularJS Discussions)

1 min read
#JavaScript#AngularJS#Angular

Refactoring C# Code With ReSharper Help

2 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Showing The Record Count in a Sencha ExtJS Grid Made Simple

1 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#ExtJS

Add a Data Driven Combobox to ExtJS Form

1 min read
#Sencha#ExtJS

ReSharper Continues to Make My Life Easier as a Programmer

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Publishing Just Your JavaScript Folder With Visual Studio

1 min read
#Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2013

Name Collisions with Asp.Net Webapi and How to Avoid

1 min read
#C##Visual Studio#ASP.net

Visual Studio 2015 Nasty Scroll Problem

1 min read
#Visual Studio

2014

36 posts

Debugging SendGrid’s Parsing Incoming Messages

1 min read
#Fiddler#ASP.NET 4.5

Google Chrome Extension Clear Cache, My Pick!

1 min read
#JavaScript#Tools#Chrome

WebAPI REST Routing For AngularJS and ExtJS

2 min read
#C##ASP.NET 4.5#WebAPI

Why Refactoring Support in a JavaScript IDE Is so Important

1 min read
#JavaScript#Refactor#IDE

Angular and ngAnnotate, a Better Way

2 min read
#JavaScript#AngularJS#Angular

Using Gulp to Build My JavaScript AngularJS App

2 min read
#JavaScript

My What's New in ExtJS 5 Training Video Live!

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

AngularJS, the Digest Loop, Directives and jQuery

1 min read
#AngularJS

In Microsoft’s Visual Studio Editor Search Without Hurting Paste Buffer

1 min read
#Visual Studio 2012#Visual Studio 2013#visual

ExtJS 5 Bind ViewModel To Template

1 min read
#JavaScript#ExtJS 5#ExtJS Databinding

Common Pattern in ASP.NET Razor For Clean cshtml Pages

1 min read
#ASP.NET MVC#ASP.NET 4.5#Razor

Proving to Myself that in ExtJS 5 ViewModel data does move Functionally

1 min read
#ExtJS 5

Xamarin Meetup Tonight In San Mateo: New Features in Xamarin V3 and High Level Overview

1 min read
#Community#Xamarin

Sencha ExtJS 5 Checkbox DataBinding

1 min read
#ExtJS#ExtJS 5#ExtJS Databinding

With jQuery and ASP.NET MVC Almost Radio Buttons

2 min read
#ASP.NET MVC#ASP.NET 4.5#jQuery

Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Mini Review

1 min read
#Microsoft Surface Pro#Microsoft Surface Pro 3

A Simple Prompt Modal Dialog for JQuery JavaScript

1 min read
#JavaScript

In JavaScript, 'true' == true is false, truthy truth

1 min read
#JavaScript

All ASP.NET MVC Forms Need To Include Html.AntiForgeryToken() For Security

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#Security

Tuples In C#, A Useful Example

3 min read
#C##Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2012

Move Existing NodeJS Site To Windows Azure Websites

3 min read
#JavaScript#Azure#Azure Web Role

Commands (CLI) to remember for Azure, NodeJS and MongoDb

1 min read
#Azure#NodeJS#MongoDB

Safely Encoding Strings On ASP.NET MVC Razor Pages (sometimes)

2 min read
#MVC3#ASP.net#.NET 4.5

Awesome Announcement Regarding Code Stars Summit (2 weeks from now)

3 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Why In Sencha’s ExtJS or Sencha Touch Source is so Important

1 min read
#Sencha#SenchaTouch#ExtJS

ExtJS Not Using autoLoad Best Practice

2 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#ExtJS

In Sencha ExtJS how not to Thrash Precious Memory with Popup Forms

2 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#ExtJS

How To Properly Dynamically Load a Store With Data in Sencha ExtJS

2 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#ExtJS

A Minimalist WebAPI 2 Visual Studio Project

1 min read
#WebAPI#Visual Studio 2013

ExtJS form cancel, Save Changes If Changes Have Been Made

1 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#ExtJS

Capturing SendGrid Events With ASP.NET WebAPI and Task async

3 min read
#ASP.net#.NET 4.5#ASP.NET 4.5

User Interface Standards And Why They Are Important (Not Just Computers)

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Hostgator Going The Extra Mile

1 min read
#hosting

Skipping Multiple var declarations in JavaScript, Bad?

1 min read
#JavaScript

Using the ExtJS SimManager To Provide Mock JSON Data To a Store Proxy

2 min read
#JavaScript#ExtJS

Finding Date Formats in ExtJS 4

3 min read
#ExtJS

2013

56 posts

Awesome Visual Tool For Working With GIT or HG

1 min read
#Version Control#GIT

Quickbooks - Intuit Customer Support Awesome!

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

How To Disable Microsoft Lync At Startup In Windows 8

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Unit Tests In VS2013, When It Makes Sense

6 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Showing Code In A Wordpress Blog

2 min read
#Live Writer#WordPress

Hunting For And Finding The IIS Express Settings File

1 min read
#ASP.NET 4.5#Visual Studio 2012#IIS Express

Managing Your Mailbox Size In Office365 Exchange Email (using archive)

1 min read
#outlook#exchange#Microsoft Office

Why It is OK to Unsubscribe

1 min read
#Mail Server#SendGrid

Creating a Compound NULLIF in AVG Function With SqlServer

1 min read
#SQL Server#TSQL#ts

Why to declare JavaScript Variables On Top of Functions

1 min read
#JavaScript

WebAPI with SPA (Single Page JavaScript) Specifically ExtJS and Sencha Touch

1 min read
#ASP.NET 4.5#ExtJS#WebAPI

Using Redgate’s ANT .net Profile, Nails Memory Problem in 5 Minutes!

1 min read
#SQL Server#Redgate

Making Hyperlink colors specific to just one <UL> Unordered List with SASS and CSS

1 min read
#SASS#CSS

Running Visual Studio Web Form Pages By Dragging Them Out of Visual Studio

1 min read
#Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2012

Tangible T4 Editor 2.0 Makes Creating T4 Templates Manageable

1 min read
#Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2012#T4

Inverting if Clause in JavaScript Fails

2 min read
#JavaScript

Being Smart With CSS Classes and ExtJS 4

3 min read
#Sencha#ExtJS

LINQ tricks for performance (LINQ2SQL Old School)

2 min read
#C##Visual Studio#LINQ to SQL

Collection Form Post Parameters in WebAPI Controller

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#C#

Synchronizing Sencha Architect and Sencha’s CMD Compiler

2 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#Sencha#Sencha Architect 2

Using Compass With Visual Studio for SASS work

2 min read
#Visual Studio#CSS3#SASS

My Sencha Touch Video On Plurasight!

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Using ExtJS 4, JavaScript, And Visual Studio to Generate a Compiled SPA App with Sencha CMD

1 min read
#Sencha#SenchaMVC#ExtJS

Using ExtJS with WebAPI CheckBoxList Setting Defaults Correctly

2 min read
#Sencha#SenchaMVC#SenchaTouch

Working With Radio Buttons In Sencha Touch Form Panels

3 min read
#Sencha#SenchaTouch#ExtJS

Display Load Mask (Waiting…) with Sencha Touch on Ajax Call

1 min read
#Sencha#SenchaTouch#ExtJS

Simple DropDownList With Default Value Using ASP.NET MVC4, Razor and an HtmlHelper

3 min read
#ASP.net#ASP.NET MVC#ASP.NET 4.5

Adding Logout Button To NavigationView TitleBar in SenchaTouch 2 and Sencha Architect

1 min read
#Sencha#SenchaTouch#Sencha Architect 2

Wrestling All Day With WebAPI, NewtonSoft and JSON Date Formats

2 min read
#JSON#SenchaTouch#WebAPI

Using Visual Studio 2012 Web Publish For Staging On The Internet

1 min read
#Web.Config#ASP.net#ASP.NET 4.5

Using IntelliTrace With Entity Framework In Visual Studio 2012

1 min read
#SQL Server#Entity Framework#Visual Studio 2012

Last Nights Meetup At Sencha HQ In RWC Excellent!

1 min read
#Community#Sencha#SenchaTouch

Why ReSharper Is Worth Using (reason #879)

1 min read
#C##ReSharper

Creating a 1024x768 Video On A High Res Monitor With Macro Express Pro Helping

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

ImageResizer, Amazon’s CloudFront and ASP.NET’s MVC4 Razor Helper Methods

3 min read
#C##WebAPI#ImageResizer

Why We (Me Included) Need to Stick To JavaScript Programming Style Standards

1 min read
#JavaScript#Coding Standards

Volunteering At Html5DevConf In San Francisco Today, Pictures and Commentary

2 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

VS2012 Web Deploy, Using Transforms For Connection String In Production (Web.Config)

2 min read
#asp.net performance#VS2010#ASP.net

Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2, Sencha Architect 2.2, Add CRUD to REST client for calling Microsoft WebAPI server

2 min read
#Sencha#Sencha Architect 2#WebAPI

Using Sencha ExtJS 4.2 and Sencha Architect 2.2, Build a Simple REST client (to feed WebAPI server)

2 min read
#Sencha#Sencha Architect 2#ExtJS

Building a Simple REST Controller with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 and WebAPI

1 min read
#C##WebAPI#REST

Great .Net Education Day Coming April 19th, 2013 in San Francisco, CodeMastery!

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#Community

Speaking Wednesday, February 27 About SPA apps and WebAPI in Mountain View Microsoft Office

1 min read
#Community#Sencha#SenchaTouch

What Makes Sencha’s ExtJS Library So Powerful

1 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#ExtJS

Sencha’s Architect’s Perfect Storm, Easy To Use and Incorporates Hand Written Code Gracefully

4 min read
#Community#JavaScript#Sencha

Why I Can Never Leave ORCSWeb as My Web Hosting Company

1 min read
#SQL Server#Sql Server 2008#hosting

Slides From Last Nights Sync Sync Sync Meetup at the MS Office in San Francisco

1 min read
#Meetup#sync

Tuesday (Tomorrow) Night, At The Microsoft Office in SF, I'm talking SYNC SYNC SYNC

1 min read
#Community#Azure#sync

JavaScript, Go With the Flow!

2 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#SenchaTouch

A Quick Thank you and At-A-Program For Resharper and Refactoring

1 min read
#Refactor#ReSharper

Using SASS and Compass to Solve 2 CSS files into 1 CSS File

2 min read
#Sencha#ASP.net#SenchaTouch

HttpClient Verses WebClient with .Net and C#

1 min read
#ASP.net#ASP.NET 4.5

Quickly Get your Windows Store App Accepted

2 min read

Overview

1 min read

C# / LINQ

1 min read

Building Advanced Mobile Web Applications

1 min read

2012

70 posts

Converting ASP.NET WSP (Web Site Projects) to WAP (Web Application Projects) with VS2012

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#Visual Studio#ASP.NET 4.0

Another SF Bay Area Sencha/ExtJS Meetup Done / CMD, Fastbook and PracticeFusion

1 min read
#Community#Sencha

Integrating BitBucket and GIT with ssh (no password required for push)

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Sencha Architect and Formatting Dates in GridPanel

2 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#Sencha Architect 2

Talking Tomorrow Night (11/27/2012) in Mountain View About Experience Submitting To Windows 8 AppStore

1 min read
#Community

Adding Design Time (Blend and Visual Studio 2012) Support to the Windows Store App Blog Reader Sample

4 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

StackOverflow and Lack of Transparency

2 min read
#stackoverflow

CodeIt.Right Takes Refactoring To The Next Level

1 min read
#C##Refactor

Windows Phone 8, Supports Office365 Exchange Server? You Decide

2 min read
#exchange#Windows Phone 8#Office365

Building a Windows 8 Touch application with WinRT JavaScript and Html5

9 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Error Assigning Office365.Com Email To Windows Phone 8

1 min read
#exchange#Windows Phone 8

Mass Download The Videos From Windows BUILD conference October 28 to November 2nd

1 min read
#DownThemAll#BUILD#Videos

Simple Type Safe Coding in Microsoft’s C#

1 min read
#C#

Using Fiddler To Replay an AJAX (xmlhttp) Request

2 min read
#ASP.NET 4.0#Debugging#Fiddler

Building .Net Libraries For Both Xamarin’s MonoDevelop and Visual Studio 2012

1 min read
#Mono#MonoTouch#Xamarin

Droid 4 Versus Samsung Charge

1 min read
#Review

Awesome First Xamarin Meetup in San Francisco Last Night

1 min read
#Community#MonoTouch#Xamarin

Source For Article “Building a Windows 8 Touch app with WinRT,JavaScript,HTML5” (From Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog Article)

1 min read
#JavaScript#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Passing Completion Functions With JavaScript (Windows 8 and XHR)

2 min read
#JavaScript#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Using LINQ ForEach To Populate Generic List in C# AND Enum to List

1 min read
#C##Visual Studio#Lambda

In C# Passing Delegate As Parameter, Then Executing on Return

2 min read
#C##Microsoft#Lambda

Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard (Part 2)

2 min read
#Mono#MonoTouch#Xamarin

Building a Login Screen With Xamarin’s MonoTouch and XCode StoryBoard

1 min read
#C##Mono#MonoTouch

Using Redgates Sql Compare for Complex Migrations with EF’s CodeFirst

2 min read
#Best Practices#SQL Server#Entity Framework

LINQ and “Possible Multiple Enumerations of IEnumerable” Warning / Resharper To the Rescue!

1 min read
#Best Practices#Refactor#ReSharper

LINQ Query Workaround for Comparing Dates (EF, LINQ2SQL,CodeFirst)

1 min read
#LINQ#LINQ to SQL#CodeFirst

Entity Framework Code First From Microsoft, Best and Worst Practices

3 min read
#Visual Studio#SQL Server#Entity Framework

With Visual Studio, Open Same File In Two Windows, Updates Reflected in Both

1 min read
#Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2010#tricks

varchar(max) means 2GB in SqlServer, not 8092, EF CodeFirst Gets it right

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Creating Global Variables In a Windows 8 Metro JavaScript / HTML5 Application

2 min read
#JavaScript#Windows 8 Store

Making Your Meetup™ a Community Sponsor of Silicon Valley Code Camp

2 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Working With Nested Class In Simple 1 to 1 Relationship with EntityFramework 4 CodeFirst

1 min read
#Database#Entity Framework#CodeFirst

Extending CodeFirst (EntityFramework) to Multiple Levels of 1 to 1 Relationships (Strongly Typed)

2 min read
#Database#Entity Framework#CodeFirst

Deeply Nested Null Checking in C# verses Assert with no nesting

2 min read
#C##ReSharper#.NET 4.0

Leading BOF Session on Building SenchaTouch 2.0 App Coming to Mountain View May 25, 2012

2 min read
#Community#Sencha#SenchaMVC

How To Add Paging With a Filter Using Sencha Architect with ExtJS4

2 min read
#Sencha#ASP.NET 4.0#Sencha Architect 2

Windows Desktop Class Versus Windows 8 Metro UI

1 min read
#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Using Sencha Architect and Previewing a JSON feed For Inclusion In The App

1 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#Sencha Architect 2

Details On The ExtJS Application to Build Simple CRUD operation Using Models and Stores

4 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#Sencha#SenchaMVC

Setting Values In a Form Using the Sencha Architect 2.0 (ExtJS 4.0)

2 min read
#Sencha#Sencha Architect 2

INETA Speaker Gig Last Night at Fresno’s Central California .Net User Group on Windows 8 JavaScript/HTML5/CSS3 Development

1 min read
#JavaScript#Presentations#Windows 8

Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC Lite, Building a TextReformatter With JsonResult

4 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Visual Studio#MVC

Gaining Some Control Back From Microsoft’s Entity Framework Code First, Name Your Own Foreign Keys!

3 min read
#SQL Server#Entity Framework#Microsoft

Entity Framework CodeFirst Important Tip For SQL Execution Efficiency

2 min read
#SQL Server#Sql Server 2008#Entity Framework

Why Windows 8 Should Not Abandon the START button

1 min read
#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Building a Simple Window Service Application in Visual Studio 2010 That Runs, Sleeps and Stops

3 min read
#C##Visual Studio 2010#VS2010

Presenting In San Francisco 3/21/2012 (Wednesday): First Blood With Windows 8 Metro Programming in JavaScript and HTML5/CSS3

2 min read
#Community#JavaScript#Presentations

Test First Development Walk Through with Visual Studio 2011 Preview

16 min read
#C##Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2010

How To Setup Your Own Pop3/IMAP Email Server for Local Development Testing

1 min read
#imap#Mail Server#POP3

Built In App Launcher in Windows 8 Consumer

1 min read
#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Developing With Visual Studio 2011 and the Windows 8 Consumer Build With Metro and Two (multiple) Monitors

1 min read
#Debugging#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Phone Race For $100 at Windows Store With MVP John from Columbia

1 min read
#Microsoft Store

Microsoft MVP Summit, GeekGive! (3rd year for me)

1 min read
#Charity#GeekGive#Microsoft MVP Program

EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.3, Adding Data Migration To Simple Example (Part 2)

7 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

EntityFramework Code First 4.3, Adding a Single Default Column to a Migration Enabled Project, Part 3

4 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

EntityFramework 4.3 CodeFirst Trivial One File Example – Part 1

3 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

LINQ To SQL Performance Getting Huge Improvement in EF5, Microsoft Does Listen!

1 min read
#LINQ#LINQ to SQL#Entity Framework

MACBook PRO running VMWARE Fusion with Visual Studio

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

HTML5 Media Queries, Tablet Verses Phone, Anything but Intuitive

4 min read
#HTML5#CSS3#HTML5 Media Query

Take Defaults! (not customizations) When Installing Software

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

PC verses MAC (let the debate continue)

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

A SenchTouch2 Simple Example Using Tab Pages and Buttons

2 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha#SenchaTouch

Create A Simple MVC Button Click Listener in SenchaTouch2

4 min read
#Visual Studio 2010#Sencha#SenchaMVC

vaasnet, Awesome First Experience. Need a VM Now, for just 2 hours?

1 min read
#web#hosting#VPS

When Using EF CodeFirst With Visual Studio, How to Live With Cannot drop database because it is in use error.

2 min read
#SQL Server#Entity Framework#SQL

EntityFramework CodeFirst and AutoKey Generation

2 min read
#Entity Framework#CodeFirst

How To Permanently Turn Off Personal Search Results in Google

1 min read
#google

Building a Simple 2 Card Carousel with SenchaTouch 2

1 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha

With Windows 8 Metro HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript/WinRT, Read Any File From Project Directory

4 min read
#JavaScript#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Debugging in Visual Studio 2011 Preview / WinRT Metro JavaScript With Live Watch Variables Pinned to the background

1 min read
#Windows 8 Store#Visual Studio 2011 Developer Preview#WinRT

2011

66 posts

stackoverflow Really annoyed me this morning!

2 min read
#stackoverflow#forums

How To Quick Launch Programs in Windows 8 Without Metro

1 min read
#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Building A Windows 8 Metro Style JavaScript / HTML5 / CSS3 App Using ListView

7 min read
#JavaScript#.NET 4.5#Windows 8

Installing the BUILD Windows 8 Preview Bits on My Lenovo W520 Plus 2 External Monitors

1 min read
#Lenovo#Windows 8 Store

Testing Help From the Twitter Sphere, Anyone have an IPad1 Handy?

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

I Love the Validation Error Messages I Get From EntityFramework CodeFirst 4.1!

1 min read
#Entity Framework#CodeFirst

Gingerbread Update for my Verizon Samsung DROID Charge

1 min read
#android#Gingerbread#Verizon

Using The DataContext In EntityFramework To Retrieve Nested Objects

1 min read
#C##Visual Studio 2010#Entity Framework

New Google Analytics Real Time Statistics Pretty Amazing!

1 min read
#google#Google Analytics

How to Format HTML with Windows Live Writer

1 min read
#Tools#Tips#HTML

With Visual Studio 2010 (and vs2011 preview) Fast Launch Not Helpful Often

1 min read
#Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2010

Entity Framework’s CodeFirst Automatically Generates Foreign Keys For you

2 min read
#Entity Framework#Sql Server CE#CodeFirst

Our First Windows 8 Metro JavaScript Meetup Tonight

1 min read
#Community#Windows 8#Windows 8 Store

Building an Sencha’s ExtJS 4.0 MVC Application With Microsoft’s ASP.NET MVC3 Series / Basics

4 min read
#Sencha#.NET 4.0#MVC3

Windows 7 Trick for Docking Application to Side of Screen

1 min read
#Windows 7#tricks

Need To Get Static JSON File with POST verb on IIS 7.5?

1 min read
#C##.NET 4.0#ASP.NET 4.0

Making Outlook 2010 Forget Cached Names in the To: CC: BCC fields

1 min read
#outlook

Microsoft To Add Auto-Compiled LINQ Queries to Entity Framework V.Next!

1 min read
#LINQ#Performance#LINQ to SQL

How To Safely Display Data From ASP.NET TextField Inputs

1 min read
#Best Practices#ASP.NET 4.0

An Interesting Attack Vector On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site

1 min read
#WebFarm#Version Control#Attack Vectors

Tip for Using SQLServer To Count By Alpha Names in a list

1 min read
#SQL Server#Sql Server 2008#TSQL

Silicon Valley Code Camp V6, 2011, is Just 4 Days Away!

1 min read
#Community#Twitter#Code Camp

Microsoft ASP.NET presentations at Silicon Valley Code Camp on 10/8 and 10/9

2 min read
#Visual Studio 2010#VS2010#ASP.net

Boost Your SEO And Promote Silicon Valley Code Camp At The Same Time!

5 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Silicon Valley Code Camp Login Failing with IE10 (Fixed Now)

1 min read
#.Net 2.0#ASP.NET 2.0#.NET 4.0

WinRT in Windows 8 CLR Confusion

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

A Quick Tip On How To Ignore Time When Querying From SqlServer

1 min read
#Sql Server 2008#Microsoft#Query

Using ASP.NET Web Forms, Passing Primary Key to RowCommand Event

1 min read
#C##GridView#.NET 4.0

My First Experience With SqlServer CE 4.0

2 min read
#SQL Server#Sql Server 2008#.NET 4.0

Getting ExtJS 4 Date Format To Behave Properly in Grid Panel with ASP.NET MVC3

4 min read
#C##Database#.NET 4.0

Meetup At Sencha Headquarters Tomorrow (Tuesday 8/23) in Redwood City Talking MVC in JavaScript!

1 min read
#Community#MVC#Sencha

Connecting To SqlServer From Web.Config Without a Password (Trusted Connection)

1 min read
#SQL Server#Sql Server 2008#.NET 4.0

With ASP.NET WebForms, How to Keep / Stop a Data Control Like GridView From Retrieving Data

2 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#C#

Using Outlook 2010, How to View The Headers

1 min read
#outlook

Windows 7 SP1 Fails Install With Error Code 8024200D

6 min read
#Windows 7

Presenting Tonight In San Francisco on Windows Azure Development Real World Experiences

1 min read
#Community#Azure#Azure Blob Storage

New Awesome Session Interest Viewer On Silicon Valley Code Camp Web Site

1 min read
#Code Camp Web Site Series#Community#Sencha

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

2 min read
#Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2010#Azure

With Visual Studio 2011, How To Add a Second Project To a Solution

1 min read
#VS2010#Microsoft

In Windows 7, Make Your Current Window Grow to the Full Height, Leaving Width Alone

1 min read
#Windows 7#Tips

Nasty Problem With OCZ Vertex 3 SSD on Lenovo W520 Solved

1 min read
#SSD#Windows 7#Lenovo

IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF There was a 1-click Deploy for a Windows Azure Web Sites

1 min read
#Azure#IT SURE WOULD BE NICE IF

Moving To Super Fast SSD OCZ Vertex 3 For My Lenovo W520

1 min read
#SSD#Review#Lenovo

Accidentally (or on purpose) Making A ClickOnce Application your default IE9 Page

1 min read
#Microsoft#ClickOnce#IE9

Getting Fiddler to See you WCF Traffic

1 min read
#WCF#Visual Studio 2010#Fiddler

Want To Mass Download All MIX11 Videos and Make the Filenames the Titles?

1 min read
#MIX11#DownThemAll

Steve Marx Of The Windows Azure Team Announces Massive IPad Cluster At MIX11 In Las Vegas

1 min read
#Azure#Microsoft#MIX11

Building Hugely Performant Websites: Taking advantage of HTML5 Storage, 3rd DevConnections Orlando Presentation

1 min read
#Community#Presentations#Sencha

DevConnections Orlando, Build Advanced Web UIs with a Rich JavaScript UI Language

3 min read
#Community#Presentations#Sencha

DevConnections Presentation Orlando, How To Make Your Browser fly

1 min read
#Community#Presentations#MVC

MVC3 Unable To Return Large JSON Even with Web Config Patch, Using LargeJsonResult Instead

1 min read
#MVC#JSON#Visual Studio 2010

How To Read All The Bytes From A File in C# and Put Them Into A Byte Array

1 min read
#C#

My Windows Azure Web Deploy Stopped Working Because My Certificate Expired

2 min read
#Azure

My Presentation in San Francisco This Past Wednesday Night to Bay.Net

1 min read
#Book Reviews#Presentations

Always Wanting the Latest Fastest Lenovo ThinkPad. Info on W520 Follows

1 min read
#Hardware#Lenovo#Laptops

How To Gracefully Stop and Windows Azure Deployment From Visual Studio 2010

1 min read
#Visual Studio 2010#VS2010#Azure

Presenting 15 Web Performance Tips: Getting things Right on the Client March 16th at Bay.Net in San Francisco

2 min read
#Community#Presentations

Hosting The Same Windows Azure Web Project With Two Different Configurations

1 min read
#hosting#Azure#Azure Web Role

Installing NuGet on VS2010 (first blood)

1 min read
#MVC#ASP.NET 4.0#NuGet

What is the Difference Between Path.GetTempFileName and Path.GetTempPath

1 min read
#C##.NET 4.0

Linux Web Hosting At HostGator Review, Thumbs Up

2 min read
#Review#hosting#Linux

Another Fun Bruno Azure Meetup In San Francisco (The Windows Azure AppFabric)

1 min read
#Community#Azure#Meetup

SqlAzure and a Best Practices way to deal with the Required Retries on Connections

7 min read
#Best Practices#C##web

Defending Yourself From the Internet, Presented at the Kendal Retirement Community in Northern Ohio at Oberlin

1 min read
#Community#Presentations

3G verses 4G, Interesting Truths

1 min read
#4G#android#3G

Learning Ext JS 3.2 From PACKT Is Another Winner!

1 min read
#Book Reviews#Sencha

2010

62 posts

“Programming Windows Azure” By Sriram Krishnan / O’Reilly Book Review

1 min read
#Book Reviews#.NET 4.0#Azure

Pinning Watch Variables While Debugging Visual Studio 2010, Awesome Feature

1 min read
#Visual Studio 2010#Debugging

A Simple MultiThreading Pattern For C# With No Statics. Shows Compressing A File With GZip

2 min read
#C##Visual Studio 2010#VS2010

Using SHA256Managed to Generate SHA256 Hash with Microsoft .Net Cryptography Namespace / Memory Usage Implications

2 min read
#C##Visual Studio 2010#.NET 4.0

Efficiently Generating SHA256 Checksum For Files Using C#

2 min read
#C##.NET 4.0#Cryptography

Using Cloud Storage Studio From Cerebrata Software For Azure Storage Viewing

1 min read
#Azure#Azure Blob Storage#Cerebrata

Building a Simple Azure Blob Tree Viewer With Azure StorageClient API

1 min read
#C##.NET 4.0#Azure

If You Use BackgroundWorker in .Net, Make Sure You Wrap Your Worker Method In Try (or risk missing the exception thrown)

1 min read
#C##.NET 4.0#Debugging

PDC10, Microsoft PDC 2010 Videos Are Downloadable As MP4 and WMV, Rename Them To Real Names!

1 min read
#PDC#Conferences#Microsoft

How To Format Bytes in GridView Using ASP.NET (Custom asp:BoundField Server Control)

3 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

A Refactoring I Should Have Been Doing for Years but Forgot, AppSettings

1 min read
#C#

Is My Azure Blob Storage Container Name Valid?

1 min read
#Azure#Azure Blob Storage

Building Job Ads Management Module With LightSwitch Beta 1 For Silicon Valley Code Camp

4 min read
#Visual Studio 2010#.NET 4.0#LightSwitch

SpreadSheetGear Made My Life Easy Today For Creating Excel File In ASP.NET

3 min read
#SpreadSheetGear#Excel#Microsoft Office

Adding a List of Recent Posts To The Silicon Valley Code Camp Home Page (From RSS Feed)

2 min read
#ObjectDataSource#RSS#.NET 4.0

How To View Your Blob Storage in Windows Azure

1 min read
#Visual Studio 2010#Azure#Azure Blob Storage

Using Hosted Mercurial Version Control on BitBucket.org / Adding Commit Emails

2 min read
#Mercurial#BitBucket.Org

Sprint Samsung Epic 4G Verses HTC EVO 4G Camera

1 min read
#android#camera

SPRINT Samsung Epic 4G First Impressions / HTC EVO Returned Yesterday

5 min read
#Review#mobile#android

How To Setup Exchange with the Samsung Epic 4G / Android 2.2

1 min read
#android#Samsung#exchange

Windows 7 Has a Great Feature For Recovering a Lost Window

1 min read
#Windows 7

A Cool / Unexpected Refactoring around .Net C# Locking Issue

1 min read
#LINQ#Refactor#ReSharper

How To Override ToString() in a Simple C# Class

1 min read
#C##.NET 4.0

Creating New Overloaded Methods in Visual Studio C# is Really Easy with CodeRush

2 min read
#Visual Studio 2010#DevExpress#CodeRush

How To Clear the Data From an Umbraco to Start From Scratch

2 min read
#.NET 4.0#Umbraco#WebPI

Installing Umbraco To Windows 7 Ultimate – Step By Step

8 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Umbraco#CMS

Another Nice DevExpress CodeRush Refactoring

3 min read
#Visual Studio#Refactor#Visual Studio 2010

A Handy Refactoring with CodeRush (InLine Temp)

1 min read
#C##Visual Studio#Refactor

A VS2010 Project Made From Post: How to: Host a WCF Service in a Managed Windows Service

3 min read
#Visual Studio#WCF#Visual Studio 2010

My Interview With DevExpress Regarding Silicon Valley Code Camp

1 min read
#Community#Code Camp#DevExpress

My Habitat For Humanity Day Before TechEd 2010 in New Orleans

1 min read
#Community#Habitat-For-Humanity

A Great Idea I Never Had. Better Elevator Automation, no Buttons in Elevator.

2 min read
#Elevators#Automation

In IE8, When File Download Completes, No Save Dialog Appears

1 min read
#IE8

More Sessions At Central Coast Code Camp, Ruby/Cloud Computing

1 min read
#Community

Just Finished My Presentation at SLO! (Central Coast Code Camp At Cal Poly)

1 min read
#Community#Code Camp

Using Visual Studio 2010’s Debugger PIN Feature

1 min read
#Visual Studio 2010#VS2010#Debugging

Returning JsonResult From ASP.NET MVC 2.0 Controller and Unit Testing

4 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#MVC#Reflection

Is There A Need For End-To-End ExtJS to Microsoft Server (MVC-C#, LOB) 4 Day Class? (Poll Enclosed)

1 min read
#Training#MVC#Sencha

Writing A Transact SQL (TSQL) Procedure For SQL Server 2008 To Delete Rows From Table Safely

2 min read
#SQL Server#Sql Server 2008#TSQL

Using SqlServer 2008 and TSQL Subtract 1 Hour From All Values In a DateTime Column

1 min read
#Sql Server 2008#TSQL

Upgrading Office 2007 to Office 2010, First Look

2 min read
#Office 2010

ReSharper 5.0 Adds New “Add Parameter” Refactoring

2 min read
#.Net 2.0#C##Refactor

ReSharper 5.0’s LINQ Refactoring Continues to be Amazing!

3 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#LINQ#ReSharper

Using RSYNC to Replicate Synology NAS DS710+ to Windows 7 Hard Drive

3 min read
#Hardware#NAS#rsync

OData Query Option top Forces Data To Be Sorted By Primary Key

4 min read
#.Net 2.0#C##OData

Sitting At MIX10 In Michael Scherotter’s Presentation of the Silverlight 4 Search Analytics Framework

1 min read
#Silverlight#MIX10

NorCal Weekly .Net is Up Now! Catch All for the .Net Events in Northern California!

1 min read
#Community

CLEAR 4G WiMax Developer Conference

1 min read
#4G#CLEARWIRE

Small LINQ Trick for Converting List<String> to String Text List

1 min read
#C##LINQ

Great ExtJS Meetup in Palo Alto Tonight at ExtJS’s New Office

1 min read
#Community#JavaScript#Sencha

How To Fix Windows 7 Boot Loader (Boot.ini) When Goes Awry

1 min read
#Windows 7

Basic RIA Services And DataGrid With VS 2010 Tooling (Article 2 of 7)

4 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#C##Silverlight

Authentication and Authorization Using RIA Services (Article 7 of 7)

1 min read
#RIA Services Bay.Net Presentation#RIA Service Presentation#C#

Adding Speakers Page Template With Converters In Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 (Article 5 of 7)

5 min read
#C##Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2010

Adding A Sessions Page That Includes a Query Parameter In Silverlight VS2010 Beta2 (Article 6 of 7)

2 min read
#C##LINQ#Presentations

Adding a Navigation Page to a Silverlight Business Application Template (Article 4 of 7)

1 min read
#Visual Studio#Visual Studio 2010#RIA Services

How To Convert From Request With Parameter to No Parameter in ASP.NET (Server.Transfer)

2 min read
#C##IIS7

Adding A DataGrid With Connect The Dots DataBinding in VS 2010 (Article 3 of 7)

5 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#C##Silverlight

Introduction To Using RIA Services In Silverlight (Article 1 of 7)

3 min read
#XAML#C##Silverlight

How To Set Arbitrary Delay Into FinalBuilder Script (Using Variable)

2 min read
#Finalbuilder

Will Be Presenting at Bay.Net Users Group Wednesday 1/20/2010 RIA Services in Silverlight 4 With VS2010

1 min read
#Community#Presentations#RIA Services

Microsoft Windows Azure Platform Book Review, Now Available! (Windows Azure Platform by Tejaswi Redkar)

1 min read
#Book Reviews#Cloud Computing#Azure

2009

85 posts

Lunch With Mats Bryntse Today, Author of Ext Scheduler. Talked about Code Camp Integration and January 7th Meetup

1 min read
#Sencha

How to Get a Stack Trace from C# without throwing Exception

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Another Cool Resharper Refactoring

1 min read
#C##ReSharper

Book Review – Programming Entity Framework (EF) by Julie Lerman

1 min read
#Book Reviews#VS2010#.NET 4.0

How To User StreamReader to Open A File ReadOnly in C# (.NET)

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5

Most Amazing ReFactor Using ReSharper EAP 5.0 I’ve Seen!

1 min read
#LINQ#ReSharper

Using PLINQ for Managing Multiple Threads

1 min read
#PLINQ#VS2010#.NET 4.0

Awesome Ext Scheduling Component Built By Mats Bryntse

1 min read
#Sencha

Great Discussion With Nikhil Kothari About RIA Services

1 min read
#Silverlight#Visual Studio 2010#RIA Services

Fun Times at “Ask the Experts” table at PDC09 Today

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Community

Left Home 0Dark100, arrived LAX 8AM, New Friends Lead the Way

1 min read
#Community#Windows 7#ASP.NET Dynamic Data

Combining JavaScript and CSS to Make Pages Load Faster

1 min read
#C##JavaScript

Converting From System.Data.Linq.Binary to String and Back

1 min read
#C##LINQ#LINQ to SQL

How To View JSON in a Pretty Way

1 min read
#JavaScript#MVC#JSON

I Love FinalBuilder from VSoft Technologies!

1 min read
#C##Visual Studio#Sql Server 2008

Visual Studio 2008 Show All Files Does Not Always Work For Me

1 min read
#Visual Studio

At PDC09 Windows Bootcamp (Monday 11/16) Doing Table Top Demos of ASP.NET Dynamic Data

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#C##Community

Scrum Developer Training Happening at Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus 11/2-11/6 – 2 for 1 Deal

1 min read
#Agile

Long Live the Semicolon and Why I Love it!

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

How to Automate a Simple Deploy Using DataDude (Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition)

2 min read
#Visual Studio#Database

To Brace or not to Brace in C# ifs and other Constructs

2 min read
#Best Practices#C#

Using ReSharper, I’ve Always Wondered Why They Had the “Invert if” refactor

2 min read
#C##Refactor#ReSharper

Awesome Scrum Developer Training coming to Silicon Valley Microsoft Campus

1 min read
#C##Visual Studio#Scrum

Using LINQ to Convert an Array Into a Generic List with C#

2 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#C##LINQ

Silicon Valley Code Camp V4 is a wrap!

1 min read
#Community

We Are On Our Final Silicon Valley Code Camp Trajectory (10/3-10/4 Reality Check)

1 min read
#Community

LINQPad Help For Creating Nasty Group by Query in Native SQL

2 min read
#C##LINQ#LINQ to SQL

Silicon Valley Code Camp Schedule Published!

2 min read
#Community

Some Really Cool LINQ to Help Performance and Show Line Thickness

2 min read
#LINQ#Visual Studio

How to Disable Edit/Insert/New Buttons in DetailsView or GridView (ASP.NET 2.0+)

3 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#GridView#Visual Studio

Using LINQ2SQL, Use Group By To Get List of Top Occuring Values

2 min read
#C##LINQ#LINQ to SQL

I’m really Getting Annoyed with GMAIL! I pay for a domain account and …

1 min read
#google

Book Review of Object Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov

1 min read
#Book Reviews#JavaScript

Windows 7 On My Lenovo W500 Not Quite Perfect (Built in Display Not Always Showing)

1 min read
#Windows 7

Visiting Our First Silicon Valley Code Camp Platinum Sponsor for 2009

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Xmarks (Formerly FoxMarks) now Syncs Between IE8 as well as FireFox

1 min read
#Sencha#Firefox#IE8

Just Repaved to Windows 7 RTM

1 min read
#Windows 7

What is the Difference Between the different Versions of Windows 7?

1 min read
#Windows 7

Bravo for ORCSWeb! On so many fronts

3 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#Code Camp Web Site Series

A Break From the Madness, Fun Times at Plug and Play

1 min read
#Community#Plug and Play

Just Created My Own Facebook Name http://facebook.com/peterkellner99 and http://twitter.com/pkellner

1 min read
#Twitter#facebook#social networks

Can Not Find a Program Running in Windows 7? (helpful Keyboard Shortcuts)

1 min read
#Windows 7

Really Cool Feature in Windows 7 RC (Multi-Monitor Support)

1 min read
#Hardware#Windows 7#Operating Systems

Getting Stuck in Windows 7 with Directory Showing 0-9,A-H,… Group By Problem

1 min read
#Windows 7

In ASP.NET, How To Create a DropDownList from an ENUM

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#C#

Interesting LINQ side affect, Pass in empty List<int> using Contains and Get Where 0 == 1. Hmm

3 min read
#C##LINQ#LINQ to SQL

Combing LINQPAD with LINQ In Action From Manning

1 min read
#LINQ#LINQ to SQL

My Two Presentations Today at VSLive in Las Vegas (ExtJS, Then High Performance ASP.NET Web Sites)

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Presentations#Sencha

780 Requests Per Second Verses 110, You Really Need to Compile your LINQ to SQL (LINQ2SQL) Queries

3 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#C##LINQ

Not Sure If I’ve Said Often Enough.. I LOVE LINQPAD!!!

1 min read
#C##LINQ#LINQ to SQL

How Fast are In Memory LINQ Evaluations for Doing Simple Things?

1 min read
#C##LINQ#Performance

How to Create a Generic Integer List From a List of Objects Using LINQ

1 min read
#C##LINQ

Using Reflection in C# to Figure Out if an Integer List Has Values

1 min read
#C##Reflection

Another Great ExtJS Meetup in San Francisco!

1 min read
#Community#Sencha

My ExtJS Presentation at Microsoft’s Office in San Francisco Last Night

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Community#Sencha

Sending My Google T-Mobile Android G1 Phone Back to Google

2 min read
#google#mobile

ExtJS Meetup Tonight in San Francisco, Sample URLs of Running Code Here

1 min read
#C##Community#ObjectDataSource

LINQ To SQL Very Slow Performance Without Compile (CompileQuery)

5 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Best Practices#C#

How to Set JavaScript Programmatically on a Page in ASP.NET with Parameters

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#JavaScript#Sencha

Great JavaScript Meetup In San Francsico Last Night!

1 min read
#Community#JavaScript

Load Balancing IIS Web Farm with EC2

1 min read
#WebFarm#SQL Server#Cloud Computing

Speaking Wednesday May 20th, 6:30PM, Microsoft Office San Francisco on ExtJS and ASP.NET Membership!

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#JavaScript#Membership

How To Set Which Folders Get Synchronized With Outlook 2007 and IMAP

1 min read
#outlook#imap

Come See Me at VSLive in Las Vegas, June 9th (2 Sessions)

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#C##Community

Just Noticed some Great Tutorials by the Author of Learning ExtJS

1 min read
#Community#Sencha

Come to Portland Code Camp and see me Present ExtJS with ASP.NET Membership (May 30th)

1 min read
#Community#Sencha#Speaking

Day 0 of the ExtJS Conference in Orlando Florida

1 min read
#Sencha

Using Method.Invoke to avoid a lengthy Case Statement in C# (Using Reflection)

3 min read
#C##Reflection

First Blood Using the New Microsoft Web Platform Installer

2 min read
#IIS7#Database#PHP

A Great Telerik Training Coming Up in Capitola, CA 4/13-4/15

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Training#Telerik

Not Using Session in ASP.NET means Session Affinity/Sticky Sessions Not Necessary in Web Farms!

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#C##How Things Work

My First Video Blog Interview!

1 min read
#Community

Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control Adapters (The Source Code!) Part 6

2 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#C##Code Camp Web Site Series

ASP.NET 3.5 Social Networking by Andrew Siemer (Book Review)

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Book Reviews#LINQ

How To Access Content From MasterPage in ASP.NET

2 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#C#

Great ExtJS Meetup Last Night! Chris Scott, Core ExtJS Developer Joined Us

1 min read
#Community#Sencha

Arrived at Microsoft MVP Summit for Four Days of Fun and Learning

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#Community

Using GoToMeeting with Windows 7

1 min read
#Vista#Windows 7

A Great New Book on Business Intelligence Solutions and Sql Server 2008 by Lynn Langit

1 min read
#Best Practices#Book Reviews#SQL Server

First Blood, Windows 7. Shock and Awe!

3 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#IIS7#Windows 7

A New Book on Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Server

1 min read
#Book Reviews#Visual Studio#MSBuild

SSD (Solid State Drives) Seemed Too Good To Pass Up

3 min read
#Vista#SSD#Hardware

Slides and Demo Code From Southern Cal Rock and Roll Code Camp (ExtJS was the topic)

1 min read
#Community#Presentations#Sencha

Framework Scanner, Written in ExtJS by Mats Bryntse

1 min read
#JavaScript#Sencha

First Experience with Visual Studio 2008 Database Edition, I love it!!!

4 min read
#Best Practices#Visual Studio#SQL Server

2008

51 posts

Heading to Southern Ca on January 24th to Talk about ExtJS at SoCal Rock & Roll Code Camp

1 min read
#Presentations#Sencha

First San Francisco Meetup of ExtJS Group

1 min read
#Community#JavaScript#Sencha

How to Retrieve a GridView Based on a CheckBoxList of Items with Asp.Net using ObjectDataSource with a little LINQ Thrown In

5 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#C#

Logging your Sql with LINQ Update Commands. Simple Logging to your Visual Studio 2008 Debugger Output Console

1 min read
#LINQ#Visual Studio

An ExtJS book just published!!! (Learning Ext JS By Shea Frederick, Colin Ramsay and Steve Blades)

1 min read
#Book Reviews#Sencha

Basic DomHelper with ExtJS Library, creating simple div tags and anchors

3 min read
#JavaScript

ExtJS Training with our leaders!

1 min read
#JavaScript

One Week to Go Before Silicon Valley Code Camp! 118 Sessions, Over 1000 Registered (11/8,11/9)

1 min read
#Code Camp Web Site Series#Community

Speaking At Silicon Valley Code Camp on Sunday 11/9. High Performance ASP.NET Web Sites

1 min read
#Community

How To Tell If Ajax is working on your site with ASP.NET's ajax UpdatePanel and other Controls

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#Atlas/AJAX

My Two JavaScript Favorite Books:, "JavaScript: The Good Parts" and "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide"

1 min read
#Book Reviews#JavaScript

The Smallest xmlHttp I Could Do And Still Get It Wrong

2 min read
#Atlas/AJAX#JavaScript#web

LINQPad is Totally Awesome at Testing and Writing LINQ Queries

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#LINQ#Tools

Create a Simple WCF Web Service and Use In JavaScript With Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5

4 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#C##XML

View a Generic List with ASP.NET MVC. Step by Step With Preview 5

5 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Best Practices#C#

ToLambda Refactor From ReSharper is Just Too Cool!

2 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#C##Tools

How to User HttpHandler such as .ashx file with IIS7 Integrated Mode, Webfarm Environment

2 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Best Practices#IIS7

How to do URL Rewrites with ASP.NET 2.0 3.0 3.5 on IIS6 and IIS7 and What is Wild Card Mapping

6 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#Best Practices

Using MapPath with WCF Service, Setting aspNetCompatibilityEnabled to true

1 min read
#C##JavaScript#WCF

How to find your temporary asp.net executing assemblies location

1 min read
#C##Visual Studio#ASP.NET 2.0

Convert Garmin 705 Navigator TCX Format using LINQ to XML and Data Objects - Article 1

5 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Garmin#LINQ

Assigning a Custom Label Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource

2 min read
#GridView#ObjectDataSource#ASP.NET 2.0

Assigning a DropDownList Value in a ASP.NET GridView Using ObjectDataSource

2 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#GridView#ObjectDataSource

Untangle Partners with InstallFest Fro Schools at LinuxWorld San Francisco, Free Conference Day!

1 min read
#Charity

Seeing All @Replies From Twitter

1 min read
#Twitter

Using Google Reader Offline

2 min read
#News Reader#RSS#Tools

C# In Depth by Jon Skeet Book Review

1 min read
#Book Reviews#C#

Using LINQ to Merge Mailing Lists and Filter Opt OutsBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 5)

4 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Code Camp Web Site Series#How Things Work

Refactoring With ReSharper, Some Very Nice C# fixes I often use

3 min read
#Best Practices#C##Tools

Creating a Modal Login Window Using the Telerik Modal RadWindow ComponentBuilding the Code Camp Web Site (Article 4)

3 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Best Practices#Code Camp Web Site Series

Making the RSS Feed From the web site Discoverable

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Code Camp Web Site Series#RSS

Building High Performance ASP.NET Web Applications Downloads

1 min read
#Community#Performance#Visual Studio

Speaking Next Week (Wednesday 6/25) At Microsoft Office in San Francisco

1 min read
#asp.net performance#asp.net scaling#speaking asp.net

A Great 2 Day Silverlight Training Event with Michael Scherotter (AKA the Synergist)

1 min read
#Expressions Blend Training#Silverlight#Synergist

Microsoft TechEd 2008 Orlando MVP Community Meeting Place

1 min read
#MVP#TechEd2008#Community

Creating a Theme For Each Year of Code Camp Using Skins in ASP.NETBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 3)

3 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Best Practices#Code Camp Web Site Series

Multi Level ASP.NET Menu with CSS Friendly Control AdaptersBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 2)

7 min read
#Best Practices#Code Camp Web Site Series#CSS Adapters

Best Practices for Building an asp.net quality web siteBuilding the New Code Camp Web Site (Part 1)

3 min read
#Atlas/AJAX#Code Camp Web Site Series#Community

Spreading the word with Technorati!

1 min read
#Community

A Book Review of Manning's Windows PowerShell In Action by Bruce Payette

1 min read
#.Net 2.0#ASP.NET 3.5#Book Reviews

Just the Exe's for the Tivo Summaries Executables!

1 min read
#TiVo

Display Images with IIS7 in Vista or Windows 2008

1 min read
#Page Handlers#ASP.NET 2.0

Another ASP.NET Ask the Experts Session Coming May 1st, 2008

1 min read
#Community

Microsoft CodeTrip Launches From Venetion Parking lot at MIX08!

1 min read
#Community

What's New in Visual Basic 9, Beth Massi at Bay.Net In San Francisco

1 min read
#Community#LINQ#Visual Studio

Join me today at the Microsoft Hero's Virtual Launch event

1 min read
#Community

Best Practices for Configuring ASP.NET ConnectionStrings and AppSettings in Web.Config

4 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Best Practices#Visual Studio

How to Get the DataItem out of a ListView in Asp.Net 3.5 (compared to Repeater)

2 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Visual Studio

How to know if LINQ is working efficiently with SQL?

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#LINQ

A TiVo Disk Space Viewer, It's all about LINQ to XML!

14 min read
#LINQ#TiVo

Use Multiple Monitors? Checkout UltraMon from Realtime Soft.

1 min read
#Tools#Vista

2007

50 posts

Showing and Hiding Hidden Files in Visual Studio 2008

1 min read
#Visual Studio

In C#, When to use String verses string

1 min read
#.Net 2.0#Best Practices

My first LINQ Experience. How to do a simple COUNT() with LINQ to SQL

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#LINQ

Pro ASP.NET 3.5 and C# 2008 Released! Another Master Piece

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Book Reviews

Book Review: Pro LINQ Language Integrated Query in C# 2008 by Joseph C. Rattz, Jr.

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#Book Reviews

Why can I not Bind to a value on a DropDownList in a GridView with ASP.NET 2.0 or 3.5?

1 min read
#ASP.NET 3.5#How Things Work#ASP.NET 2.0

3.67 Gig Available on XP Pro in VMWare Session!

1 min read
#Vista#Vista-Upgrade

Search In Vista, Email Preview Very Nice!

1 min read
#Vista

Really good Ajax using asp.net Book By Alessandro Gallo, ASP.NET AJAX in Action

1 min read
#Atlas/AJAX#Book Reviews#ASP.NET 2.0

Bookmarks in Visual Studio 2008 verses Visual Studio 2005

1 min read
#Visual Studio

Display Checkboxes in ASP.NET 2.0 GridView using skins

2 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Using Using in c# ado.net business classes used with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0

1 min read
#.Net 2.0#ObjectDataSource#ASP.NET 2.0

Silicon Valley Code Camp 07 at Foothill College, Great Success!!!

1 min read
#Community#Silverlight

Silicon Valley Code Camp Presentation Sunday 10/28, 1:15 at Foothill College

1 min read
#Community#Silverlight

Silicon Valley Code Camp Schedule Almost Ready!

1 min read
#Community

How to Set the Default Value of a DropDownList in an ASP.NET Page

2 min read
#.Net 2.0#Membership#ObjectDataSource

Silverlight Dev Camp San Francisco, Saturday, The Main Show!

1 min read
#Community#Silverlight#WPF

Silverlight Dev Camp San Francisco, Friday Night Opening Ceremonies!

1 min read
#Community#Presentations#Silverlight

Speaking Saturday 9/15 4PM at Silverlight DevCamp, San Francisco

1 min read
#Community#Presentations#Silverlight

Media Browser Using Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Leverage Software's REST API

5 min read
#Best Practices#Community#Silverlight

Code Camp Presentation Coming 10/27-28/2008 on Silverlight, Los Altos, California

1 min read
#Best Practices#Community#Silverlight

Announcing Silicon Valley Code Camp, Los Altos, CA 10/27-10/28/2007!

1 min read
#Community

Silicon Valley Code Camp Integrates the DevExpress Cloud Control for Sessions

2 min read
#Atlas/AJAX#Best Practices#Community

Logging From an ASP.NET 2.0 Application to a Local File

1 min read
#.Net 2.0#ASP.NET 2.0

Always Set Stop On Exception While Doing Debugging in Visual Studio 2005 or 2008

1 min read
#.Net 2.0#Best Practices#Visual Studio

Pro WPF by Matthew MacDonald Book Review

1 min read
#Book Reviews#WPF

Display Images with the Silverlight Downloader in Alpha 1.1

3 min read
#Page Handlers#Silverlight#ASP.NET 2.0

One Last Gotcha for debugging Web Service Projects with Silverlight

1 min read
#Silverlight

Integrating Web Services and Silverlight with .Net 1.1 Alpha

5 min read
#Silverlight

Noah Coad Presents Great Tools in VS 2008 at Tech Ed 2007

1 min read
#Visual Studio

TechEd Orlando, Visual Studio Tracing Tricks

1 min read
#.Net 2.0

My Interview on Channel 9 at MIX

1 min read
#Community#Silverlight

XamlWebPad, View Your Raw Silverlight XAML without Blend or VS.

4 min read
#Silverlight

Gadget Overview at VSLive Orlando Presentation By Peter Kellner

1 min read
#Gadgets#Vista

Third ASP.NET MVP Chat Coming! April 19th 11:30AM PST

1 min read
#Community

I'm Presenting WPF and XAML with Cal In Palo Alto April 4th!

1 min read
#Community#WPF

MVP Summit Days 2 and 3, Gates, Hejlsberg, Guthrie, Goldfarb and more Moderators!

1 min read
#Community

MVP Summit Day 1, Where have all the Moderators gone?

1 min read
#Community

Vista Gadget Presentation at Vista Party, Foothill College

1 min read
#Community

Presentation to Bay.Net Users Group In San Francisco, ObjectDataSource and NetTiers

1 min read
#Community

Resetting Password with ASP.NET 2.0 Membership and Multiple Providers

2 min read
#Membership#ASP.NET 2.0

Microsoft ASP.NET Member/Role Management with IIS (VB Version)

1 min read
#ObjectDataSource#ASP.NET 2.0

Boise Idaho Code Camp, Standing Room Only!

1 min read
#Community

I've been Tagged! (my five things)

3 min read
#Community

Silicon Valley Code Camp 2007 Announcement at Vista/Office Exchange MSAM Launch Event

1 min read
#Community

The Vista/Office/Exchange MSAM Launch Event

1 min read
#Community

MVP Award From Microsoft for ASP.NET 2.0

1 min read
#Uncategorized#Community#ASP.NET 2.0

Moderator Role Given by ASP.NET Forums

1 min read
#Community#ASP.NET 2.0

Rock And Roll Code Camp Presentation

1 min read
#Community#ObjectDataSource#ASP.NET 2.0

My Vista Ultimate Upgrade Experience Series - Multiple Monitors and MaxVista

2 min read
#Vista#Vista-Upgrade

2006

28 posts

Have GridView Highlight Last Inserted Record in ASP.NET 2.0

4 min read
#Uncategorized#.Net 2.0#Membership

Encode and Display HTML Securely in ASP.NET 2.0

1 min read
#ASP.NET 2.0

Dev Connections Las Vegas 2006, Day 0 - The Keynote. RTM!

2 min read
#Dev Connections LV06

Implementing Simple Cache for CodeSmith and NetTiers (ASP.NET 2.0)

2 min read
#CodeSmith#ASP.NET 2.0

Improved Fast Access to Small Lists On ASPX Pages

2 min read
#ObjectDataSource#ASP.NET 2.0

Moving From Casini to IIS, Login Fails. How come?

1 min read
#Membership#ASP.NET 2.0

How To Show All Items Using a DropDownList and a GridView Control in ASP.NET 2.0 with VS2005

4 min read
#.Net 2.0#ASP.NET 2.0

Code Camp At Foothill College on 10/7 and 10/8 is Going Great!

1 min read
#Presentations

Integrating PBWiki with .Net Using the New PBWiki API, The Start of a .Net API

5 min read
#Uncategorized#.Net 2.0#Wiki

Get SqlDataSource To Retrieve DefaultValue of Current User (ExpressionBuilder with ASP.NET 2.0)

3 min read
#How Things Work#ObjectDataSource#ASP.NET 2.0

Rendering Images With IIS Verses an ASP.NET 2.0 Handler

8 min read
#Uncategorized#.Net 2.0#ObjectDataSource

Fourth MSDN Article Published! "Adding Personalization with Profiles to the ObjectDataSource"

1 min read
#.Net 2.0#Membership#ObjectDataSource

Fast Access to Small Lists On ASPX Pages in ASP.NET 2.0

3 min read
#.Net 2.0#ASP.NET 2.0

Zero to Professional Web Site in Two DaysUsing Microsoft's Visual Studio Design Templates

20 min read
#Uncategorized#.Net 2.0#How Things Work

The Ultimate CAPTCHA Custom Server Control

14 min read
#.Net 2.0#Custom Controls#ASP.NET 2.0

Third Article Published on MSDN! ASP.NET 2.0, Membership Meets Atlas

1 min read
#Atlas/AJAX#Membership#MSDN Articles

Atlas Membership Management Upgrade (June CTP)

1 min read
#Atlas/AJAX#ASP.NET 2.0

How Things Work - ASP.NET 2.0 - CodeBehind

6 min read
#How Things Work#ASP.NET 2.0

Inserting Programmatically with ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0

2 min read
#Uncategorized#Membership#ObjectDataSource

How To Set a Date Format In GridView Using ASP.NET 2.0(Using HtmlEncode Property)

2 min read
#.Net 2.0#ASP.NET 2.0

Membership Editor Works With Atlas March CTP

1 min read
#Uncategorized

Adding Personalization via Profiles to the ObjectDataSource in ASP.NET 2.0

14 min read
#.Net 2.0#Membership#MSDN Articles

AJAX Meets ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Management For IIS

10 min read
#.Net 2.0#Membership#MSDN Articles

Membership Management Newly Styled GridView

1 min read
#.Net 2.0#Membership#ObjectDataSource

Using Membeship ObjectDataSource For Returning ProviderUserKey (ForeignKey Use)

4 min read
#.Net 2.0#Membership#ObjectDataSource

Published in MSDN!

1 min read
#Uncategorized#.Net 2.0#ASP.NET 2.0

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IISPart 2: Implementation

18 min read
#.Net 2.0#MSDN Articles#ASP.NET 2.0

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Member/Role Management with IISPart 1: Security and Configuration Overview

8 min read
#.Net 2.0#MSDN Articles#ASP.NET 2.0