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Lucene.Net needs your help (or it will die)

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 21:00:52 GMT

The Apache Foundation wants to kill Lucene.net. If you use it please chime in and help. This post explains a bit more in detail why this is happening

Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:50:12 GMT

The ASP.NET team today released a significant new update of the Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6). This update includes a bunch of new capabilities and improvements to our client-side AJAX library, and can be used with any version of ASP.NET (including ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0), and can be used in both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC projects. Today's release includes the following feature improvements: * Better Imperative Syntax: A new, simplified, code syntax for creating client controls. * Client Script Loader: A new client-side script loader that can dynamically load all of the JavaScript files required by a client control or library automatically, and executes the scripts in the right order. * Better jQuery Integration: All Microsoft Ajax controls are now automatically exposed as jQuery plug-ins.

qTip Tooltip with jQuery UI ThemeRoller Support

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:41:56 GMT

Recently as I develop with jQuery, I've been trying to either use jQuery UI ThemeRoller supported plugins or somehow tweak existing jQuery plugins to support the ThemeRoller classes. Note: There are many plugins out there that already support ThemeRoller (and you can find a list I've compiled in my previous Quickly Testing Various jQuery UI Themes on Your Website post). Out of all the jQuery tooltip plugins I've seen, I prefer the qTip implementation. The tooltips look good and it is easy to use. There are several themes that are supported out of the box and you can also tweak the styles if you don't like the baked in ones.

A generic way to find ASP.NET ClientIDs with jQuery

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:15:00 GMT

ASP.NET ClientIDs and NamingContainer naming are a nuisance when working with jQuery as these long IDs complicate finding elements on the page. In this post I show a very simple way to retrieve munged ClientIDs by just their ID names with a small helper function that still returns the jQuery wrapped set.

Database Documentation Using SchemaSpy

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:46:03 GMT

A blog post that provides a tutorial on how to use SchemaSpy to document Microsoft Sql Server 2000 and 2005 databases.

SQL Server 2005 Database Design and Optimization

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:39:45 GMT

11 tips to keep your database running at an optimal speed.

The Ten Most Asked SQL Server Questions And Their Answers

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:01:14 GMT

Then 10 most asked SQL Server Programming questions and their answer

7 Healthy Habits of Highly Effective Web Workers

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:26:49 GMT

A collection of important, often overlooked, strategies for getting the most productivity out of your programming day.

Remove Surrounding White Space From An Image

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:18:20 GMT

Article on how to use VB.net to remove unnecessary surrounding whitespace from a product photo.

8 Favorite Developer Tips/Tricks

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:06:28 GMT

Tips for Visual Studio, Visual Source Safe, Javascript & SQL

Software Tools You Should Be Using and Blogs You Should Be Reading

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:01:02 GMT

Advice on how to become a great developer and not just a monkey programmer.

Free Winforms and ASP.NET Chart Controls

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:31:02 GMT

Directly from Microsoft

Zip Compressing ASP.NET Session and Cache State

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 21:31:15 GMT

Scott Hanselman discusses a recent podcast with the team from StackOverflow where it was mentioned that they compress the Cache or Session data in ASP.NET, enabling them to store about 5-10x more data.

7 of my favorite jQuery plugins for use with ASP.NET

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:46:04 GMT

Seven of my favorite jQuery plugins to use with ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, based on my own successes and failures using them over the past year and a half.

"Web Application Installer" moves to Beta

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:44:41 GMT

Remember last week when I mentioned the Microsoft Web Platform Installer? It's an bootstrapper that gets you setup for free web development, all in a single application. It'll setup IIS7, get you Visual Studio, SQL Server, .NET, etc. Cool. And there was much rejoicing (except XP folks, sorry.)

ASP.net MVC goes Beta

Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:31:05 GMT

Hot on the heels of Silverlight, MVC is out of preview and into Beta today.

Social Interaction Guidelines for Programmers, Developers, and Enginee

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:53:13 GMT

I wanted to write this post because I felt it was something which is often lacking in the software development community, and without sounding boastful, I have had a number of people tell me 'how could you be a programmer? You have great conversational ability.'. I realize, like everyone else, that this is a terrible stereotype of our community, and more than likely it just a few individuals and also a stereotype perpetuated by television and movies that lead people to believe developers are socially inept.

Windows comming soon to Amazon EC2

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:01:15 GMT

This is big news! Amazon are to enable Windows Support on EC2. this will allow users to kick of Windows images for running SQL Servers, IIS instances and anything else (even HPC stuff) in the cloud! SWEET!

jQuery and Microsoft

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:01:02 GMT

ScottGu announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward. We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.

ScottGu: Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:46:05 GMT

"This evening we published the first public release candidate of Silverlight 2."

Disabling a Submit Button During Asynchronous Postback

Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:00:38 GMT

I wasn't able to find a good post about this online so I decided to blog my experience here in the hopes someone else looking for a similar solution will be able to find this useful. Title is pretty self explanatory.

Useful asp.net AJAX client side methods

Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:20:27 GMT

An outline of methods that are bundled with ASP.net AJAX and work only when there is a ScriptManager on the page you are working on.

ASP.NET MVC Beta1 in a few weeks and v1 by end of year

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:01:07 GMT

A tweet in the morning, straight from Remix08 UK, where ScottGu is doing a presentation on ASP.NET MVC: ScottGu says feature complete MVC beta "in a few weeks". final v1 by end of year

Logging to the Database with Log4Net and ADO.Net

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:46:03 GMT

A short screencasts on performing logging to the Database with Log4Net and ADO.Net

StackOverflow

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:16:04 GMT

StackOverflow - - is in public beta.