An ASP.NET server control inspired from WinForms’ ListView and implementing ASP.NET Ajax Extensions 1.0.

Expandable/Collapsable rows in grid using Javascript to show and hide.

Callback is lightweight technique used to call server side methods asynchronously from javascript without any postback and reloading/rendering of unnecessary parts of page and unnecessary code.

A library for adding DirectShow GraphEdit-like abilities to .NET applications.

An alternative to message boxes implementing ASP.NET Ajax Extensions 1.0.

In my latest video, I demonstrate how to use two new methods of the System.GC class in the .NET Framework v3.5:  AddMemoryPressure and RemoveMemoryPressure.  You will see the impact of using these methods correctly when allocating unmanaged memory resources in your .NET applications.

Download video & code or visit www.visualstudio2008.defyallchallenges.com/videos.htm

Imagine cup is the world’s premier technology competition for students. Each year, students are provided with a theme – this year, the theme is extremely topical and relevant – “Imagine A World Where Technology Enables a Sustainable Environment”. Last year, we had over 100,000 students enter worldwide... think about that – that’s 100,000 bright young minds working to solve the world’s biggest problems.

 

This year, students can go in the draw to win internships, trips to France, cash prizes, xbox 360’s, HTC touch mobile phones and internships at Readify Consulting. This marks the biggest prize pool for Imagine Cup Australia to date, and provides a compelling reason for students to enter. There are 9 categories students can enter:

Software Design – Games Development – IT Challenge – Algorithm – Project Hoshimi Programming Challenge – Photography – Short Film – Interface Design – Embedded Development.

 

The Software Design category is particularly important, so if you know any young coders out there, please get them to visit http://www.microsoft.com/australia/imaginecup.

 

Cheers,

 

~Jen

Using Humax v0.2, this article is going to explain how to write and apply aspect-oriented/metadata driven programming in JavaScript.

For a limited time, this 2 hours ASP.NET AJAX clinic is free:

Clinic 5230: Developing Enhanced Web Experiences with Microsoft® ASP.NET AJAX Extensions
https://www.microsoftelearning.com/eLearning/courseDetail.aspx?courseId=73568

 

This article shows you how to bring revolutionary UI provided by MS Silverlight to the world of ASP.NET control development with the help of recent released ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP

A couple of great posts from Aaron Ruckman detailing the .NET Framework 3.5 installation. Some good overview details about the .NET 3.0 SP1 and .NET 3.5 installers: http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronru/archive/2007/12/13/net-framework-3-0-sp1-3-5-download-managers.aspx...(read more)

Visit the Podcasts page to learn from well-known .NET developers in the community. Listen to hours of radio shows from .NET Rocks!, Hanselminutes, ASP.NET Podcast, and more.

An article about Silverlight 1.0 full JavaScript Intellisense

I'm using Ajax View more and more and find it very useful.

The goal of the Ajax View project is to improve developer's visibility into and control over their web applications' behaviors on end-user's desktops.

The Ajax View approach is to insert a server-side proxy (or web server plugin) in-between the web server machines and the end-user's browser. This proxy captures the web application's JavaScript code as it is being sent to a browser and rewrites the code to insert extra instrumentation code. The injected instrumentation code runs with the rest of the web application inside the end-user's browser and can capture performance, call graph, application state and user interaction information, providing visibility directly into the last hop of the user's experience.

Download the first release of the client-side prototype which requires Windows Vista, Windows 2003 or Windows XP SP2. Read the short documentation, showing a simple walkthrough Ajax View's performance profiling.

Well, there are some known problems using this tool. Sometimes https requests block everything, or JavaScript files could parsed correct, but if you have only one Web browser with the URL to test opened you are ok. I hope they go on with the development of this tool. If you find bugs please report them to the project members.

An ASP.NET server control inspired from Google mail’s selection of file attachments and implementing ASP.NET Ajax Extensions 1.0.

This example shows how-to setup ODBC logging on IIS 7.0. A big thanks goes to Thomas Deml and Anil Ruia for pointing me in the right direction. There wasn't an article on how-to setup this feature I could find, so I wanted to share my experience. I couldn't get IIS Manager to enable the 'Custom' the Logfile format, I receive this error. One of the things Microsoft recommends is not use ODBCLogging on a busy web server. What is a busy web server? That can vary, I'll leave that up to you to determine...(read more)

Recently, I have been receiving more and more emails asking about the local Microsoft community scene.  I noticed more people emailing me directly so I just decided to post up an item to quickly cover it.

Essentially, there are a few key groups that you need to know about:

1. .NET
Name: .netBC Users Group
URL: http://netbc.ca/
Contact: Medhat Elmasry

2. Sql Server
Name:VanPASS (Vancouver PASS Chapter)  (PASS == Professional Association for Sql Server)
URL: http://www.vanpass.com/
Contact: Scott Stauffer or Richard Baumet

3. IT Pro (General)
Name: VanTug  (which is now free!)
URL: http://www.vantug.com/
Contact: Graham Jones

 4. Small Business Server
Name: Vancouver Small Business Server User Group
URL: http://www.vansbs.com/
Contact: Jasminder Rai
 
Aside from User Groups there are of course two major events which are typically planned either once a year or every 18 months.  The first is the big event which I personally put on:

5. Vancouver Technology Festival
URL: http://www.vancouvertechfest.ca
Contact: Rob Chartier
Schedule: About once a year

And finally JR from DevTeach has decided to bring his event to Vancouver as well:

URL: http://www.devteach.com
Contact: Jean-Rene Roy
Schedule: About every 18 months

If you feel your group or event should be on this list, let me know!

 

 I recently gave a presentation @ the local user group ( .NET BC users group http://www.netbc.ca) on Javascript essentials for the ASP.NET Developer. 

 I would like to thank Medhat Elmasry for the opportunity to speak to his fine group.

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Here are the event details:

Date & Time:	Wednesday, 2007/12/05, 6:30 PM [Welcome Time: 6:00 PM]
Location:	Room 282/284, BCIT Downtown Campus, 555 Seymour Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 3H6 , Canada

Topic: JavaScript essentials for the ASP.NET Developer

Not many people have ever really given JavaScript its full and due attention. Do you realize that you can do full Object Orientated Programming with JavaScript, within most browsers? There is more to it than “Ajax”! Did you know that it uses a “prototype-based” style as opposed to classical inheritance? Come and watch Rob Chartier, one of the few local Microsoft MVP’s, give a presentation on how to leverage JavaScript in your ASP.NET Applications today!

Speaker:
Rob Chartier,
Director, Software Development

http://netbc.ca/DNCal/EventDetail.aspx?date=2007/12/05

 

For those that attended you can download the slide deck here:

Javascript-Rob.Chartier.zip

 

The KB945757 article detailing fixes in .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 The KB945826 article detailing fixes in .NET Framework 3.0 SP1...(read more)

Chris Pels will show how to create event handlers for ASP.NET web pages and web server controls, as well as how to extend the standard health monitoring events in ASP.NET to create custom events.