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September 2007 - Posts

Saturday, September 29, 2007 11:57 PM

First Post from Windows Live Writer

I am posting my first post from the Windows Live Writer. I haven't tested it yet, but you can have a look at it and see how it works: Windows Live Writer You can add images easily and they get uploaded automatically to your blog as shown below: You can
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Friday, September 28, 2007 3:11 AM

Method Overloading in WebServices

Sometimes there is a need to have two Web methods with the same name but off course different number of parameters. When developing Web Services, it is not enough to just ad two methods with different parameters as you do when developing an API. In Web
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Friday, September 28, 2007 2:58 AM

One-Way WebServices Methods

When designing Web Services, we sometimes need to call methods that don’t have any response. Defining such methods as void is not the solution for one-way Web Service methods. What you need to do is specify the SoapDocumentMethod to be OneWay and here
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Thursday, September 27, 2007 8:19 PM

SilverLight - How Do I Videos

Have a look at lots of vidoes on SilverLight: http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideos.aspx#video320 Enjoy!!
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007 6:23 AM

No more Freelancer Starter-Kit

I have informed you before that I am in the process of preparing a new starter-kit called a Freelancer Starter-Kit. Last week I had a catastrophic crash on my VPC and I only had an old version of my files!! I was able to recover my files today just to
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Monday, September 24, 2007 8:54 AM

BasePage and Page interaction in ASP.NET

I am focusing these days on covering the different design patterns available for developing Web Applications. A very nice technique I have learned. Suppose you have several pages in a Web application, as you know we have several events that fire during
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 10:07 PM

Telerik September 2007 Release

Telerik has released a new version of the RadControls dated by September 19 2007. I strongly recommend the Telerik RadControls for the richness in the controls and above all, their extreme support!!! Check out Telerik Controls here: http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet/overview.aspx
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Sunday, September 23, 2007 1:43 AM

Facebook Starter-Kit

I found out this nice Starter-Kit for Facebook! Have a look at it here: http://www.stevetrefethen.com/blog/VSNETStarterKitForNikhilKotharisFacebookNET.aspx Regards
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Saturday, September 22, 2007 10:14 AM

AJAX Control Toolkit - September 2007 Update

The AJAX Control Toolkit has a new version released! This release contains mainly a set of bug fixes and making existing extenders more stable and robust! Check the website on codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=AtlasControlToolkit
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Friday, September 21, 2007 11:59 PM

StringBuilder in ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Client Library

I was surprised to know that in the new ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Client Library, a new data type has been added which is the StringBuilder . As you know either in C# or VB.NET, when you are concatinating a large number of strings, each time you concat a string
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:37 AM

ATE - HOL in TechEd 2007 Spain

I would like to inform you that I will be in the TechEd Developers 2007 in Barcelona-Spain as an ATE (Ask The Experts) and HOL (Hands On Lab). Hope to meet a lot of you there!! Regards
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Sunday, September 16, 2007 10:13 AM

I hate VPCs

I was working this evening on my laptop when I closed the top of it --> the laptop went to hibernate. At that moment I had the VPC 2007 open with a Visa OS on it. When I tried to open the VPC again, I got an error saying: A disk error occured. Press
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Wednesday, September 12, 2007 10:28 PM

HttpModules and IIS 7

When working with an ASP.NET Web Application under Vista/IIS 7 and developing an HttpModule, watch out for the Application pool you are using. If your application is configured to work with classic application pool , then it is enough to define the module
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Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:08 PM

ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX 1.0 Extensions Overview

I have presented yesterday an overview of the major sections in ASP.NET AJAX 1.0 Extensions in the Community Night gathering that took place in the Metropolitan Hotel. There will be a series of AJAX session by me to go in depth into all the fields of
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 8:54 AM

Web Icons for ASP.NET Web Applications

I found this lovely website: http://www.aspneticons.com/ which offers free icons for ASP.NET Community!! Feel free to visit the website and download the very cool and helpful icons from it! Regards
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Wednesday, September 05, 2007 9:13 PM

LebDev Community Nights are back!!

The LebDev usergroup , in collaboration with Microsoft , is holding a Community Night on Tuesday 11th of September 2007 . The Community Night's main theme is "Community Thinking". All Professional Developers, IT Pros and Students are welcome. However,
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Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:41 PM

RadEditor 7.1.2 and "RadControls folder not found" bug

I was playing around with RadEditor control which is the best Rich Text Editor in my opinion nowdays and faced an exception saying that: RadControls folder not found This is a know bug in the version 7.1.2 and is fixed in the next release which will be
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