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Certified ASP.NET 3.5!
16 July 08 07:57 PM | Laurent Duveau
I completely forgot as I did this in beta 3 months ago… that was a surprise this morning to get a notification that I earned the Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: .NET Framework 3.5, ASP.NET Application Development competency (exam 70-562). Certifications...
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[Cool Tool] Zeta Resource Editor
03 March 08 10:26 AM | Laurent Duveau
Following my Resource Refactoring Tool post, Uwe pointed me to Zeta Resource Editor . This very nice free win app allows you to easily edit your resx files, each language in the same row! Download link: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/aspnet/ZetaResourceEditor...
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Load a txt file in a TextBox
02 March 08 06:51 PM | Laurent Duveau
Here is a very simple piece of C# code to load a text file in a TextBox. Typical use to display a disclaimer. using System.IO; if (!Page.IsPostBack) { StreamReader StreamReader1 = new StreamReader (Server.MapPath( "disclaimer.txt" )); txtDisclaimer...
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[Cool Tool] VS Resource Refactoring Tool
02 March 08 11:46 AM | Laurent Duveau
The recently opened Visual Studio Gallery contains some free hidden Microsoft gems, Resource Refactoring Tool is one of them. Resource Refactoring Tool provides developers an easy way to extract hard coded strings from the code to resource files. It works...
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ASP.NET 3.5 hosters list
03 February 08 10:47 PM | Laurent Duveau
Brad Abrams has a nice list of ASP.NET 3.5 hosters, check it out!
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Free Microsoft Press E-Books!
17 January 08 10:47 PM | Laurent Duveau
Good deal: 3 free e-books from Microsoft Press! Go to http://csna01.libredigital.com/?urvs5cn3s8 sign with your Windows Live ID and get the full complete books! Introducing Microsoft LINQ by Paolo Pialorsi and Marco Russo Introducing Microsoft ASP.NET...
How to set ASP.NET controls adapter by code ?
11 December 07 01:05 AM | Laurent Duveau
In a recently job I wanted to package as much as possible common items of the web layer (WebControls, BasePage, HttpHandlers, Js, Css, etc...) in a class library project, so I can share the dll across several ASP.NET apps. As I use the CSS Friendly Control...
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Learning ASP.NET (links to resources)
29 November 07 07:40 PM | Laurent Duveau
People often ask me where to find resources to learn ASP.NET I must say that I learnt almost EVERYTHING from the QuickStart Tutorials : http://quickstarts.asp.net/QuickStartv20/aspnet/Default.aspx These tutorials are very good and shows every features...
Expression Web and Custom Controls
18 November 07 12:41 PM | Laurent Duveau
In case you wonder how Expression Web deals with custom ASP.NET controls, there are 2 things to notice : Having the control assembly into the \bin directory will not give you any design time rendering in Expression Web. Expression Web do not support custom...
JavaScript onLoad event clashing
16 November 07 07:04 PM | Laurent Duveau
This week I had to debug some asp.net pages that has a weird behavior. They work well but each time a Js alert() raise, the hover menu are no more available (it is a classic asp:menu with dynamic hover for sub-menu). The problem was simple: the current...
.NET Framework 3.5 Common Namespaces and Types Poster
12 November 07 10:56 AM | Laurent Duveau
It is available to download and print: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7B645F3A-6D22-4548-A0D8-C2A27E1917F8&displaylang=en
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Get System.Drawing.Color from RGB HTML color
31 October 07 04:40 PM | Laurent Duveau
Back to some real content here! Maybe you already know about this, but as I still often see static method like GetColorFromHTML() in companies static class, it could be a good reminder. The idea is when you want to set a color in code, like GridView1...
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A new business in town!
28 October 07 10:15 PM | Laurent Duveau
As you may know I am a partner of RunAtServer Consulting , a company based in Montreal and highly specialized in Microsoft web technologies such as ASP.NET and AJAX, as well as Silverlight and Expression. We are deeply involved in local .NET communities...
realDEVELOPMENT_07 Canadian Tour for Web Developers
11 October 07 08:40 PM | Laurent Duveau
The Real Development Reloaded Tour will be in Montreal on October 18. I had the chance to review the content of this event, lots of good tips and tricks will be shown, and I am sure you will learn something new, even if like me you do ASP.NET since you...
Web Deployment Projects and Visual Studio 2008
12 September 07 11:39 PM | Laurent Duveau
I have been working a lot with Web Deployment Projects and even wrote articles on it, so I wanted to have a look at what comes with VS2008. It appears that unlike what I thought, Web Deployment Projects will not be part of VS2008. According to the Web...