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Real World AJAX with ASP.NET Session

I have to give credit to Nikhil Kothari. He just ran a session the way that I like to see sessions run. As I read the title and abstract for the session, I was expecting not much in the way of new information. I actually attended the session mostly because Read More...

An Old Problem is New Again

I ran into a problem yesterday that brought back memories. And not the good kind of memories either. I'm doing some work using TypeConverters. In particular, I'm creating a Windows Forms control that functions in a manner similar to a PropertyGrid, but Read More...

Looking for Mr (or Ms) GoodDeveloper

Business has been booming of late at ObjectSharp. Don't know whether it's the weather or the business cycle, but our recent company barbeque had more new faces that I've seen in many years. And we haven't lost any of the old faces either. And yet it doesn't Read More...

Relieving File in Use Problems

It's quite possible this is old news to people, but it took me more than a couple of minutes to find the solution. I was using the FromFile method on the Image class to create a new Image object. When I was done with the Image, I needed to move the file. Read More...

WPF Found a Home!

The more I see about Silverlight, both 1.0 and 1.1, the more I realize that WPF has found a client to service. From the moment I heard about XAML and WPF, I questioned where it was going to fit in the real world. A large part of the 'coolness' of XAML Read More...

Drilling Down on the Silverlight Hype

First off, I do think that Silverlight is a very cool piece of technology. Want to see just how astounding? Check out the Top Banana demo application that was part of yesterday's MIX keynote. You can also find it here . What I found most astounding is Read More...

Identifying Formatting Errors with Expression Web

One of the more interesting aspects of Expression Web is its ability to help debug CSS errors. I'm in a talk on Designing with Expression Web and the story is about how to use Expression Web to identify problems in a web page. The web page is loaded and Read More...

Getting your hands on Expression Studio

If you're an MSDN subscriber, you might be wondering what parts you can get hold of without purchase the product. Expression Studio is made up of: Expression Web , Expression Blend , Expression Design and Expression Media . From a developer's perspective, Read More...

What's the Big Announcement?

For weeks now, there has been a buzz about a big announcement at the Mix '07 conference. Well, in his keynote, Ray Ozzie made the following announcements: Expression Studio is shipping today - See here for the details. One of the interesting elements Read More...

A Big Strike Against TableAdapters

I'm hoping that someone reads this post and corrects me. But I'm not holding out much hope. I don't normally use TableAdapters, but for a small application I decided that they seem like a reasonable choice. And so long as I was using them on my development Read More...
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