Entries tagged with: ASP.NET

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Sitefinity Add to Calendar Control for Events Module

Sitefinity CMS recently opened a Marketplace section of their website where community members can contribute various resources such as controls, modules, or themes. Since I've been using Sitefinity a lot lately I thought I'd submit a control that I wrote...

Posted on October 11, 2009 9:00 PM

Binding an ASP.NET Repeater to Delicious (RSS) and Twitter (Atom) Feeds

I recently had a client who wanted to pull in and display some Twitter and Delicious feeds on their web site. While I'd never done this before, it turns out that it's relatively simple to do by binding an ASP.NET...

Posted on August 28, 2009 1:55 PM

Microsoft Releases ASP.NET Charting Control

I missed this a week or so ago when it happened so it may be old news by now but... Microsoft has recently released a free set of charting controls for ASP.NET 3.5. While ASP.NET has long had a wide...

Posted on December 6, 2008 11:37 AM

Microsoft TechDays - Day 1

Today I attended Microsoft's TechDays in Northern Virginia, an event designed to promote awareness and adoption of some of Microsoft's newer technologies.  I sat through the developer track which consisted of three sessions. Part 1 - Introduction to ASP.NET AJAX...

Posted on October 28, 2008 2:28 PM

Using the Constant Contact API with ASP.NET

Several of my clients use Constant Contact to manage their email newsletter subscription lists.  It's a cost-effective solution to handle user signups, send and track emails, and manage unsubscribe requests.  The default web form that Constant Contact gives you however,...

Posted on September 25, 2008 6:06 PM

Review: Telerik RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX

While the number of 3rd-party components built on the .NET framework seems to rise by the day, Telerik continues to remain an industry leader, delivering a very comprehensive set of tools at a reasonable price. As the owner of a...

Posted on August 4, 2008 11:30 PM

Book Review: ASP.NET 3.5 Unleashed by Stephen Walther

A while back I posted a review of Stephen Walther's ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed. It's a fantastic book that I've used more times than I can count. The release of the .NET 3.5 framework means there are lots of new things...

Posted on March 31, 2008 5:45 PM

ASP.NET "Failed to enable constraints" dataTable error

I'm building an ASP.NET application this weekend and ran into the following error. Failed to enable constraints. One or more rows contain values violating non-null, unique, or foreign-key constraints. The error message itself is somewhat vague and it took me...

Posted on March 8, 2008 5:43 PM

Convert VB to C# or C# to VB

I usually code my ASP.NET pages using Visual Basic. When I'm googling for answers to a tricky .NET problem though, about half of the code samples I find are written in C#. I'm familiar with C# but it's not my...

Posted on August 25, 2007 9:13 PM

VS 2008 JavaScript Intellisense

I don't like being the type of blogger that writes a post that simply links to someone elses post.  Today though, I'm doing just that because:I'm way too busy at the moment to write original contentI just think this is...

Posted on June 26, 2007 1:32 PM

Live from Redmond

This is just a quick post to highlight the fact that Microsoft is hosting a bunch of free live webcasts on all things ASP.NET starting August 2nd. They'll be hosted by industry experts such as Joe Stagner and Stefan Schackow...

Posted on July 30, 2006 11:12 AM

Book Review: ASP.NET 2.0 Unleashed by Stephen Walther

I'm a huge Stephen Walther fan. Having read his other books I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of this latest edition. Microsoft has made some serious upgrades to the .NET framework since version 1.1 and while these improvements are great,...

Posted on July 21, 2006 1:46 PM

Importing Excel into SQL using ASP.NET 2.0 and SqlBulkCopy

We were recently faced with a challenge at work where the client wanted to provide an Excel file of data which could be imported into SQL and used to update data within certain tables. While this is a snap...

Posted on June 26, 2006 4:33 PM

AJAX-Enabling a GridView Control with Atlas

In my last post, I pointed out some of the problems with AJAX. In this post, I'll show you to take the ASP.NET GridView control and AJAX-enable it in about 30 seconds using Microsoft's new Atlas framework....

Posted on May 31, 2006 8:23 AM

The Problems with AJAX

AJAX is the latest industry buzz-word and to hear people talk you'd think it'd have to be the best thing since sliced bread. I'll go on record as saying that I think AJAX is awesome but, since every other article...

Posted on May 18, 2006 5:57 AM

DevConnections - Day Four

I'm posting this from the Orlando International Airport which apparently has free wireless internet access. That's just fantastic. DevConnections is officially over. Here's my take on the last day. ...

Posted on April 5, 2006 7:29 PM

DevConnections - Day Three

I am not a morning person. I officially decided that these events start too early in the morning when I was stumbling around in the dark, half-asleep, tripped, fell into the wall, and nearly broke my nose. Yes, I am...

Posted on April 4, 2006 6:09 PM

DevConnections - Day Two

The morning started with keynotes touting many of the new and improved features of Visual Studio 2005. You can find some good demos, as well as a sneak-peak at the new ad campaign at www.400plusdifferences.com. After that it was off...

Posted on April 3, 2006 8:12 PM

DevConnections - Day One

Right now I'm down in beautiful Orlando, FL for the 2006 Microsoft DevConnections conference that my company was gracious enough to send me to. Today was day one and I just returned from the reception and keynote speeches by Scott...

Posted on April 2, 2006 10:41 PM

MSDN Webcasts - Good Info / Free Stuff

One of the most difficult parts of our job as web developers is keeping up on the latest technologies and trends in the field. Microsoft, to their credit, plays an active role in helping developers learn to use their new...

Posted on March 10, 2006 3:19 PM

My day with Microsoft

I spent the majority of my day at the Microsoft launch event for SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005, and BizTalk Server 2006. Microsoft does events like this periodically across the country and they're often free (as this one was)...

Posted on January 11, 2006 6:35 PM

Party like it's 1/1/1900

(or how to insert null values into SQL using ASP.NET) I've built several online applications using Microsoft SQL Server as the backend database and one thing that's always given me trouble was inserting dates, or more specifically NOT inserting dates.Users...

Posted on January 1, 2006 12:07 PM

Book Review: ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer’s Notebook by Wei-Meng Lee

ASP.NET 2.0: A Developer's Notebook, part of a new series by O'Reilly Media, takes a radically different approach to code-oriented textbooks, and it's about time. O'Reilly has done something wonderful in realizing that most developers simply don't have the time...

Posted on December 27, 2005 7:27 PM

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