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April 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, April 29, 2008 10:49 AM

Microsoft Server 2008 Launch in Lebanon

Come join us!!
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:56 PM

Dynamically Loading Controls in ASP.NET

I received an email from a friend asking me to guide him with resources and online articles on developing ASPX pages that make use of Dynamically Loading UserControls. I thought of preparing a humble article that explains my way of implementing such thing.
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Monday, April 21, 2008 3:02 AM

.NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit

The first version of the .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training Kit has been officially released to the public! The .NET 3.5 Enhancements Training kit builds on the success of the Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit which resulted in 70,000 completed downloads since
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 10:02 PM

Q1 2008 - New Telerik Release

On April 16, 2008 Telerik released the Q1 2008. The new release contains new controls: 1. RadPanelBar 2. RadToolbar 3. RadTabStrip 4. RadFormDecorator   In addition, several old controls have been updated. The major thing to look at in this release
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Sunday, April 13, 2008 10:29 AM

Not Going to Seattle, again!

Once again, I am not given the US visa on time to attend the MVP Global Summit in Seattle for the 3rd consecutive year. Why? First year, the embassy said, "you are still too young to go to the States" Last year, they told me, go now, and we
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 11:00 AM

JavaScript Utility Methods added by ScriptManager

I was checking the JavaScript generated on an ASP.NET page when a ScriptManager control is added. I noticed several handy JavaScript methods that you can use seamlessly inside your <script /> blocks on the page with even worrying about the browser
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 1:25 AM

Running ASP.NET 1.1 on IIS 7.0

When you install ASP.NET 1.1 on IIS 7.0, you will notice: 1. A new application pool called ASP.NET 1.1 application pool that should be assigned to applications you want to run them under the ASP.NET 1.1 runtime. 2. A new configuration element in the %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 8:11 AM

Problem in SQL Server Session State - ASP.NET 3.5

*** Updated - April 7 2008 *** I played a little bit with the command line I am using to install the SQL Server Session State database and it seems to work fine: To register the database for the SQL Server Session State on ASP.NET 2.0 or ASP.NET 3.5:
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 7:35 AM

Encrypting Connection Strings

I found this very important link that you should have a look at when you want to encrypt configuration sections in your application's web.config file. It helps not only with encrypting ConnectionStrings but also gives an idea on how to encrypt other configuration
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:22 PM

Kigg Starter Kit

A new starter kit is published on www.codeplex.com that is developed with ASP.NET MVC Framework, LINQ to SQL and ASP.NET AJAX! Check it out here: http://www.asp.net/downloads/starter-kits/Kigg/ Hope it helps, Regards
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