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A few years ago I worked on a project called Atrax which among other things included an implementation of the work of Yutaka Matsuo of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tokyo and by Mitsuru Ishizuka of the University...
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My involvement in MVC 2 started almost a year ago, and it has been one crazy year! For me this is a rather important release because it was really the first major project I have ever worked on and my first Microsoft project to RTM. I have grown leaps...
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I love ASP.NET MVC 2 validations for client and server via annotations. Steve Sanderson's xVal is great too, but in this post I want to focus on a custom validation for MVC 2 which is frustratingly missing from the out-of-the-box validations. There...
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In ASP.NET 4 there are a few improvements that have been made to make it easier to make tweaks to improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) on your pages. I’ll be the first to say it and defiantly not the last but these improvements are not ground breaking...
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Recently everyone on my team has switched to using Hyper-V as our primary means of virtualization. The combination of Hyper-V and differencing disks works great for our team as we install all kinds of bit that more than likely will explode our computers...
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So I decided that I am going to make the trip out to Las Vegas for MIX10. The cool thing about going to MIX this year is that I am going completely on my own as an attendee not a Microsoft Employee. So that means I Actually get to have fun the whole time...
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I am downloading the release candidate of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 right now. It is available for MSDN subscribers. Yet another reason to subscribe to MSDN. According to the download manager in just 3 hours I will be able to install the...
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Documentation neglect is a chronic problem in most enterprise application development efforts. This problem is unrelated to the selected development methodology but there are some who assume that agile methods eliminate documentation despite the agile...
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The SQL Server Reporting Services (SQL-RS) Team is looking for the brightest and best testers out there. The SQL-RS team is responsible for the Microsoft Chart Control (Included in .NET 4), the Report Viewer, the Map Control, and the Gauge Control. I...
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Developing applications that target multiple version of Office on a single computer can be difficult, daunting, disturbing, and down-right dirty. The Microsoft Office team has performed some herculean tasks to ease our burdens, but there are still some...
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New blog url: http://xamlcoder.com/blog After many months of ignoring my blog, I finally decided to try and get it fixed. After the last Community Server upgrade something in the software was broken, and I was unable to use Windows Live Writer to blog...
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This log helper class seems to get used over and over again in projects I've worked on. Generally I use it as a fallback, calling it from an exception block in a application logging code. Let me know if you find it helpful. public static class LogHelper...
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It is the last day of 2009 and as we all know for most of us living on this planet 2009 wasn’t the best year. We had concerns over our jobs, wars, families, and other issues. Over the years I have made predictions or sworn them off based on how accurate...
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These are notes that I took a while ago while reading the book. They have been housed in my OneNote notebook long enough – pushing them to the web where they are more accessible. Eliminate Waste Seeing Waste Partially Done Work Extra Processes Extra Features...
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Scott Guthrie blogged that the launch date for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework will be delayed. They are delaying the release to fix some performance problems. Also according to the blog there will be a release candidate in February with a broad...