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Saturday, May 26, 2007 5:47 AM

Define Custom EventArgs in AJAX 1.0 Extensions

While preparing a sample application to my new article on aspalliance.com that will be published soon on Creating Client Controls in ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions, I had to bind an event handler to a button created in the render method of the control.
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Thursday, May 24, 2007 11:37 PM

SQL Server Express and Read-Only Databases

Several times, when I attach an existing database to SQL Server Express 2005, I get my database attached as read-only. So no way to add any object to it or update it! The solution is to run this line: Alter database <dbname> set read_write As example
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Monday, May 21, 2007 11:30 AM

My country is bleeding again ....

Another barbaric attack hit my country, my city, my people, my children, my future, my body, my life!!! Yesterday a car bomb in Achrafieh, tonight a car bomb in Verdun! Tomorrow? After tomorrow? After after tomorrow? What a life full of action and bomb
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Wednesday, May 16, 2007 1:04 AM

A New Certificate Added ...

I have passed this morning the Designing and Developing Web Applications by Using the Microsoft .NET Framework exam with a score of 950/1000. Having received my MCTS certification few months ago, I am now a Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
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Sunday, May 13, 2007 9:54 PM

AJAX Asynchronous Postback

Another quick note on the event's order when for instance a button inside an UpdatePanel fires an event: 1- The Button inside the UpdatePanel is clicked, this means a new asynchronous postback request is initiated 2- PageRequestManager fires the initializeRequest
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Sunday, May 13, 2007 9:47 PM

AJAX Initial Request

Just a quick note to illustrate the event order of a page that has a ScriptManager control and loads for the first time: 1- Request sent to the server 2- Response received from the server 3- Application instance raises the Init event 4- Application instance
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Saturday, May 12, 2007 1:34 AM

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API Extended - The Original

I am receiving so many emails from developers all over the world asking me for the download for my article titled: Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Membership API Extended that was originally published on www.code-magazine.com in the March/April 2007 issue. I would
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Saturday, May 12, 2007 1:20 AM

ASP.NET AJAX from Scratch

For all new ASP.NET AJAX developers, I advise you to attend the coming web cast on Monday, May 14, 2007. Check it more details here: Russ and Joe Developer Show: ASP.NET AJAX from Scratch Hope this helps, Regards
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:11 PM

AJAX - Calling Webservices and Callback Functions

I was playing around with creating an AJAX client class, in which I had a function to call a Webservice. I specified the callback function to run when the response is back from the Webservice. The code is as follows: // Define a namespace Type.registerNamespace("Testing");
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Thursday, May 10, 2007 12:57 AM

Multiple Selection in ListBox

Every time you want to have a multiple selection in a List Box, you have to write the same repetitive code again and again. Here is a nice utility method that you can embed into your web applications and use it by a simple method call to select multiple
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Sunday, May 06, 2007 1:57 AM

ValidationSummary Control and RadWindow by Telerik

I have recently been heavily using Telerik great controls, that I admire and respect, in my projects at work. I have decided to customize every single control in our applications that Telerik provides a substitution for. The RadWindow is a very cool control
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Sunday, May 06, 2007 1:08 AM

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Ajax - Client Library Webcasts

Rob Bagby, a Microsoft Developer Evangelist, is running in the coming weeks a series of Webcasts on the Client Side of ASP.NET AJAX, here is the list: ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Calling Web Services (5/3/07 @1:00 p.m. Arizona time) ASP.NET AJAX Client
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Friday, May 04, 2007 11:13 PM

Visual Studio 2005 - Vista - Tabbed Documents

I have recently installed VS 2005 on a Vista machine. When I open my VS, I don't see the TABs of all the opened documents. What I see is always a flat view of all the docments. What went wrong? Well seems when I installed the VS 2005 on Vista, the Tabbed
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Friday, May 04, 2007 6:46 AM

MSDN WebCast : ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Calling Web Services

I have attended the first live MSDN Webcast in my life yesterday by a great presenter Rob Bagby. Few days ago I watched his first webcast which was ASP.NET AJAX Client Libraries: Overview , he promised to have a series of like 8+ web casts on the same
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Friday, May 04, 2007 12:59 AM

More on AJAX Client Side Life Cycle

I must have forgot to mention there is still the Load method after PageLoaded and before EndRequest events!! Have a graphical look at the client side page life cycle here at this nice blog post by David Barkol: ASP.NET AJAX: Client-side event viewer Hope
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Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:32 AM

Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX - Request Life Cycle

I have recently started reading about ASP.NET AJAX. I have been always writing the AJAX code manually using the XMLHttpRequest object and other third-party great controls like the Telerik control! I decided to work with the FREE Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 10:18 AM

Microsoft ASP.NET Futures Documentation is there!

Check out the documentation on Microsoft ASP.NET Futures released lately for AJAX, SilverLight, Dynamic Data Controls, and much more!! http://quickstarts.asp.net/futures/ Regards
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