Monday, August 8, 2011

AJAX Control Toolkit, NuGet Package Manager Console and the new HTMLEditorExtender Control

AJAX Control Toolkit, NuGet Package Manager Console and the new HTMLEditorExtender Control

AJAX Control Toolkit, NuGet Package Manager Console and the new HTMLEditorExtender Control

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 07:32 AM PDT

Its been a while since I played with Web forms, AJAX stuff. I was curious in checking out, particularly how the AJAX Control Toolkit which used to be my favorite in the past is evolving. There is a new release of AJAX Control Toolkit, just hot off the oven. You can download the binaries from http://ajaxcontroltoolkit.codeplex.com/ Now, while the regular way we have downloaded and used AJAX Control Toolkit is by visiting the above codeplex page and download the latest version, there is also a newer and simpler approach with the NuGet Package Manager in Visual Studio 2010. NuGet package manager is a repository of binaries, applications that can be downloaded and used in your Web forms / MVC Applications. I wanted to try out install AJAX Control...(read more)

Silverlight and Synchronous Network Calls

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 07:28 AM PDT

Someone tweeted on Twitter that they wanted to stop the UI thread in Silverlight while they performed a couple of asynchronous network activities because one activity depended on the output of another. To be honest, I don't really like the idea and I...( read more )...(read more)

Looking at LightSwitch - Part 1

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 06:56 AM PDT

In 2010, Microsoft announced LightSwitch, a product aimed at developing Line-of-Business applications with ease. In July 2011, the beta tag was finally removed from the product as Microsoft officially introduced Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011 as a new...( read more )...(read more)

SQL Server Backup, Integrity Check, Index and Statistics Maintenance

Posted: 01 Nov 2009 10:06 AM PST

Solution for Backup, Integrity Check, Index and Statistics Maintenance in SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2.

Automated installer for MVVM Light V3!

Posted: 06 Aug 2011 04:50 PM PDT

For a very (too) long time, the installation procedure for MVVM Light sucked. It involved downloading and unzipping files in various locations. Unfortunately, creating an automated installer is not completely trivial because of the variety of files that...( read more )...(read more)

Silverlight Cream for August 07, 2011 - 2 -- #1126

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 09:19 PM PDT

In this Issue: Michael Washington , Pontus Wittenmark ( -2- ), Derik Whittaker , Peter Kuhn , Michael James , XamlNinja , Adam Kinney , Morten Nielsen ( -2- ), Alex Sorokoletov ( -2- ), and Den Delimarsky . Above the Fold: Silverlight: "WPF vs. Silverlight...( read more )...(read more)

Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 is available!

Posted: 07 Aug 2011 10:40 PM PDT

I hate code samples in technical books! No seriously, this is bile I'm not afraid to give a permalink to (nor am I afraid to end a sentence with a preposition, so there!). Even the shortest code samples are a pain to type in. And if they show anything reasonably interesting, they're probably too long to type in. Of course, nobody actually types in the sample code, they grab the code from the companion CD (blech!) or download zip files containing the code from the companion website. With Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 ( print edition | kindle edition ) we experimented with a different approach. We made our sample code available as NuGet packages. It seemed fitting given that ASP.NET MVC 3 included NuGet 1.0 as part of the product. The benefit of...(read more)
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