USB + Drivers + Vista + x64 + "New Hardware Found" Install + KB941600 = Total USB Destruction... To completely screw up your USB ports/drivers in Vista x64, simply INSTALL this update through Windo…

I was working on a series of dialogs that required validation, and since there's a funky validation setup in place, I thought I might build up a nice extension library. Noting that ASP.NET validati…

Linq Table Attach() based on timestamp or row version

There has been much going on with the Roanoke Valley.NET User Group(RV.NUG) of late. Here's a quick update of upcoming events, mark your calendars and save these dates!

My friend Simone has created an interesting survey focused on.NET developers and Ajax. It's a more focused response to this on the Ajaxian blog. As of 2 AM (in Italy), there have been 415 responses:

The ability to use live Linq queries right in your UI makes for great demo's, but it doesn't bear a striking resemblance to a real-world, professional application which uses tiers. In traditional n…

Doug Butscher and I were outside at the EOB today and we saw the coolest contrail (new word for me) from a jet I have seen. It steadily progressed to get more squiggly as we watched it. Check it out!

For one of my pet projects I am writing, I was contemplating how to integrate Windows Live Authentication with my standalone application, similar to Windows Live Messenger. Turns out, it is really …

Validating user input is a very common task that we perform during web page development, and in the ASP.NET world we have a handful amount of choices to perform validation.

There is a discussion occurring on the ASP.NET forums about passing data to Master Pages using ASP.NET MVC. I couldn't figure out how to post code in the forums, so this post contains an example of…

While trying out the /n software IP\Works! 3-D Secure MPI C++ Edition (for implementing Verified By Visa, MasterCard SecureCode, or JCB J/Secure) I needed to figure out how to run a CGI application…

After installing VS2008, I quickly noticed the absence of some of my favorite IDE helpers.

My friend blogged about Google Chart API. You can read his post. The chart API is a URL based API which means you will pass the data in the URL and Google will create a chart for you. This is truly…

Sadly, this is Microsoft's official position.

Today I discovered the some configuration impacts from my choice to return the XML document as a string property. Because I am using a string property to return the XML generated by my service (see…

UPDATE (12/17/2007): My blog has moved. This post is now located at: http://jason.whitehorn.ws/2007/12/10/Using-ASPNET-MVC-From-Visual-Web-Developer-Express-2008.aspx Today marked the released of t…

Sometimes people ask me what it takes to get a good user group going... so hopefully these tips help to minimize the pain a bit.

Updates: Part 2: Method Contracts (Preconditions/Postconditions) Part 3: Invariants Part 4: Object Ownership/Assertions & Assumptions Part 5: Frame Conditions/Inheritance/Boogie Part 6: Implementin…

I have been setting up some performance tests using LoadGen today and was having a couple of problems where the message sent by LoadGen wasnt working properly and it was a bit of a pain trying to w…

A lot of times, I need to show or hide a textbox based the value of a checkbox.