I have started doing some preliminary planning/design work for a new web-based project. This project is extremely important for our organization since it will be the foundation for a portal that we will build in the future. In addition, this application will not only going to be used by our employees but also by some of our customers and partners. Our customers/partners will also have the option to integrate our application into their portals. That means the application will be used in many ways...
Posted By:Ahsan Alam
|
9/7/2008 12:46 AM
| 0 Comments |
|
|
Michael Washington on Silverlight Desktop for DNN, Corey Schuman with Play/Paus button, Shawn Wildermuth on Project Rosetta, Koen Zwikstra on disposing of objects, Mike Snow on Full-screen mode and creating shadows, and Ken with XAML on demand.
Shawn Wildermuth uploaded a new version of the code for his SL2/Data Services article on MSDN.
Shawn also announed the addition of my friend Erik Mork to the staff of Silverlight Tour... now that's advantageous for all involved, and congratulations...
After being into the software development career for more than a year now, I feel I understand what is expected from a "Software Developer". There are a lot of things that need to be done, and they need to be done with care.
Read More...
For those of you who attended my talk or for any other interested parties, I have uploaded my slide deck from my MVP Theatre presentation at Tech.Ed Australia 2008 to my sky drive here: There is not too much to this deck as the presentation was mainly demos. If you are just after the links to the tools I demonstrated I have included them below: MDX Studio BIDS Helper Analysis Services Stored Procedure (ASSP) project PowerSSAS (which unfortunately only got a brief mention) And here are the links...
Our application shows custom HTML confirm message box, that we wanted to locate in the middle of the browser window.
If I would start from the scratch, I would use Ajax Control Toolkit ModalPopup
However, because the proprietary code to show div has been already written, I wanted just to set vertical position of the div.
I've created a function based on code from AlwaysVisibleControlExtender.js.
Initially it didn't work, because common.JS getClientBounds : function() returned 0 clientHeight...
It's well known that JavaScript is similar to C++/C#, but doesn't required explicit declaration of the variables.
However, it worth to read specification(e.g. http://jennifermadden.com/javascript/variables.html ) to understand subtle differences.
I didn't know, that a variable implicitly declared within a function is a global variable.
For example,
function foo() {
g= 17;//it's global, will be visible outside the function after the function will be executed
var x =...
I got an interesting project today. Not only does it look to be pretty fun, but it should be a challenge and give me a chance to learn something new and add another thing to my resume. The project is the implementation of a solution to pass off EDI documents through a VAN to one of our customers -- of course more customers will follow.
The customer is only dictating three forms 830, 856, and 862 which are material releases, advanced shipping notices, and shipping schedules respectively. My solution...
A couple of notes regarding absolute positioning in FF and IE...
Specifying position values:
IE allows you to omit the unit of measurement for Left and Top. It assumes pixels eg:
obj.style.Left = 10;
However FF requires that you specify the unit of measurement eg:
obj.style.Left = "10px";
Using other elements parents to calculate your object's position:
The scenario might be you have a div that you want to position over or by another object - but that object has...
Microsoft have asked us to advertise the following events to members of the UK SOA/BPM User Group
BizTalk RFID – Connecting the Edge to Enterprise – 29th October 2008
SOA & BPM Vision Briefing – 23rd Sept 2008...
The next session of the SOA/BPM User Group has been arranged, we are still finalising content but the event registration is now available.
If you would like to see the details or sign up refer to the following url:
http://sbug.org.uk/forums/p/68/99.aspx#99...
Thought I would add a quick post about some strange behaviour we have been monitoring recently with service windows. Our situation was as follows:
We have 4 ports which monitor FTP locations, 2 of them have service windows and 2 dont. The service windows are specifically for a 1/2 period and have a 5 minute polling period in them. Our servers are not configured for high availability because there are issues with being able to cluster the servers so we monitor the hosts using HP Openview and if...
Interesting quick read from the Scientific American website. Here's the lead in: "The author asked some of his acquaintances for permission to break into their online banking accounts. The goal was simple: get into their online accounts using the information about them, their families and acquaintances that is freely available online." The results are very EYE OPENING! You might want to check this out. Have a day. :-|...
Microsoft announced BizTalk Server 2009 today, and gave the green light to talking about the new version. It’s due for release in the first half of next year, and is shaping up nicely. Microsoft is casting BizTalk Server 2009 as a major new version in its own right, rather than just an updated 'release' of BizTalk Server 2006. This is an important move, and one I strongly welcome. There is certainly enough in BizTalk Server 2009 to warrant thinking of it as a major revision of the product,...
Sometimes you just have to save files in the database. The reason? Because "Simon" said so. So without further ado, here is a simple example on how to compress files using C# and SharpZipLib:
Read the full article here...
With the new extension method feature of C# 3.5 it's now easy to extend your classes for additional functionality. Here are some useful functionalities to add to your favorite System.String:
Read the full article here...
I wrote recently how Jerry Seinfeld is going to be a celebrity pitchman for Microsoft. The initial fruits of that labor have been released. Watch it and let me know what you think. UPDATE: Here's a link to a higher quality version of the video. My feelings are mixed. Yes, it is funny. It successfully blends the observational and situational humor of Jerry Seinfeld with the dry, geeky image of BillG. While I like Seinfeld and have always found the video bits that BillG has done at Microsoft very entertaining,...
If you have ever used Beyond Compare from Scooter software, I don't have to tell you this is a great directory/file comparison tool, especially for the price (Single licenses are listed at $30). If you don't use this tool, I highly recommend you take the time to download a copy and kick the tires for the 30 day trial. As I recall with version 2, the trial period lasted for 30 usage days, not 30 days from install. I don't know if the same applies for version 3.
The comparison is far better than...
Posted By:David Williams
|
9/5/2008 11:11 AM
| 0 Comments |
|
|
We just got word that one of our fellow SharePoint MVP's and community leaders Patrick Tisseghem suddenly passed away this morning.
Patrick left a mark on the SharePoint community and influenced a lot of people around the world. Patrick will be missed very much and my thoughts and prayers are with his family. There is a posting on the U2U site (the company in which he co-founded) about his passing.
http://www.u2u.be/...
All students around the world, check this website and download Microsoft tools at no charge:
https://downloads.channel8.msdn.com/
The list of downloadable tools include:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Professional Edition
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition
Microsoft Expression Studio
XNA Game Studio 2.0
XNA Creator Club Online
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
Microsoft Visual...
Due to overwhelming responses to my blog (all 2 of you :)) I'm definitely doing a workshop stylee thing on creating ControlTemplates for WPF Buttons in Expression Blend (2.5), and I have my powerpoint loveliness done for a small chat about SCC, in particular branching...
I couldn't think of a way to put them together, SCC the WPF Way! sounded nifty, but just seemed too complicated to join together :) So maybe both? Is that allowed.. Gah, first time, we'll see!
In terms of topics to see, I'm...
ThreadAbortException:
Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack.
Read the full article here...
Taken from the MSDN documentation:
The finally block is useful for cleaning up any resources allocated in the try block as well as running any code that must execute even if there is an exception.
So in other words whatever code you have in your "finally" block will always execute when an exception occurs, right? Wrong. The correct answer is - it depends on the error...
Read the full article here...
Something I have been working on recently is a utility that will watch the configuration file and let me know when it changes. It is a work in progress (I am always tweaking code) even though it works now and I am always open for feedback.
