In a previous post I talked about how diagnostics by default are turned ON for Azure roles, and that you should turn them OFF if you don’t want to incur a ton of Azure storage transaction charges. I finally spent some time diving into the various configuration settings and now understand how to leave diagnostics [...]
UPDATE: A few weeks after posting this, I learned more about what’s going on with the membership providers. See the update here. It’s been a few years since I’ve done any ASP.NET work. Recently, I fired up Visual Studio 2010 and created an ASP.NET MVC project that uses membership. I remembered that I needed the [...]
The Ultimate and Premium versions of Visual Studio 2010 include a new set of tools for creating automated tests that interact with application UI known as Coded UI Tests. One of the tools is a recorder that will generate the appropriate code for you as it monitors your interactions with your application. Although it is [...]
This is just a quick guide for those on windows using Visual Studio and wanting to start tinkering with GIT. If you want to know why Git is better than (Insert source control management system here), click this link. Or, if you more in the mood to hear why every other source control system in [...]
The book Joel Rumerman and I wrote Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5 seems to be doing quite well wth only 4 days being on sale. Joel sent me an email earlier today with links to the latest statistics. I was quite suprised. Thanks to everyone! Top AJAX Best Sellers Top ASP.NET Best [...]
I thought this day would never come. Joel Rumerman and I have finally completed our book Advanced ASP.NET AJAX Server Controls For .NET Framework 3.5 that hits the book shelves the first part of next month. This has been a exciting experience for the both of us and we hope you enjoy reading it as [...]
Over the last year Joel Rumerman and I have been working on a book for Addison-Wesley that is part of the Microsoft’s .NET Development Series that Addison-Wesley publishes. It has been a long haul but the fruits of our labor are starting to take hold. The book is entitled Essential ASP.NET Ajax Controls and covers both the [...]
This is my first of 2 posts of a great idea by Mike Hernadez of the VSTO team: VSTO: My Favorite Feature. Mike talked a bunch of us VSTO folks into blogging our favorite things about VSTO to get some awareness out there. Check out the ones blogged already here: Date Blogger Blog Address Feature [...]
So one of my new favorite features in Orcas is intellisense in javascript. I have always disliked typing things in blindly and hoping when I run the page all is well. Now I don’t have to do this since Microsoft has created this handy new feature. So let me show you a sample that demonstrates [...]
I’ve used basic data binding in WinForms 2.0 a couple of times, but encountered something new to me this past week. We have a form that has a DateTimePicker control (including ShowCheckBox=true) and want to bind it to a Nullable object property. The requirement here is that the data value is optional for the user [...]