Recently I had a requirement where the stakeholder for a WSS Site wanted what I call 'Visual Security' i.e. basically where the interface does not render what the user does not have rights to. The …

I'll blog today's stuff later, but I wanted to dump out what I got from the BOF session on Avalon and XAML.

The Google Print Beta is available here. Publishers and libraries seem to hate it. I wonder how much more effective/different it is from CiteSeer.

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Beta 1 allowed to sign your ClickOnce manifests simply by using a string name key file (.snk). Beta 2 no longer support this, and you are required to provide a publisher certificate. This was bit c…

In this implementation you pass in a Guid as an 'out' parameter along with the string you want to test - it then fills in the Guid and returns true / false depending on whether the Guid was valid...

Here is a helper class that makes it easy to do all the data manipulation functions on the data stored in the Cookie. It makes use of HybridDictionary Collection object and is very efficient for ha…

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CodeSmith 3.0: Are you a CodeSmith fan? When you move up to version 3 Release Candidate 1, be aware that Eric “cleaned up” the GetCamelCaseName function name by changing it to CodeSmith.BaseTemplat…

It is very Common practice to hit an enter key on a text box in order to submit a form. For example if you are designing a Login Screen it is frequently required that user just hit enter after fill…

You may receive the error "BC30138: Unable to create temp file in path 'C:\\Windows\\TEMP\\:' Access is denied" while trying to debug or browse your ASP.NET Applications. This may occur if the ASPN…

Here we go again... I've done random searches for UML tools before, but this time, I figured I'd go ahead and document it. I probably won't make this as extensive of a search as I usually do just f…

We have released DateBox .NET Control. This is the first of many controls we plan to release to the community. We have all these controls that we use during the development of our transportation so…

rsAccessDenied was all that stood between me and high fives from the customer. The message from SQL Server Reporting Service (SRS) even displayed the clients log on name – so SRS KNEW who it was de…

If you need to connect to a Virtual Private Network at windows startup, and you don't want to have the user push connect or enter the password do the following: 1) On the VPN Connect screen, check …

You may get this error when trying to browse an asp.net application. The debug information shows that "This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS.…

You may receive the following error when browsing an asp.net application. Parser Error Message: Could not load type 'WebApplication1.Global'. Source Error: Line 1: <%@ Application Codebehind="Globa…

Dave Donaldson is stewing over an article on Contractor vs. Consultant. My take—the original author doesn’t have the reputation to make it as a contractor. Case in point—and I quote: “you're never …

I’d recently searched around for some good-quality JavaScript snippets to determine the cursor position within an HTML TextArea, but haven’t had any luck. So, like any fellow geek would do, I came …

Dana Epp posted interesting article about using Image File Execution options in the Windows registry to redirecting a process loading: