Two new showcases are available on the Visual WebGui Showcases section. Both cases present projects from companies that have experienced and created solutions with Visual WebGui before. The first case is from the CRMCompany located in the Netherlands which is a leading company in the fields of CRM and Information. The CRMCompany developed a CRM on th web for a large customer in the Construction industry that needed a centralized application to simplify the information flow from the various locations...(read more)

This article discusses how to create an HTML editor server control specifically for the Microsoft AJAX environment.

What's Here Welcome to my list of SharePoint 2007 Resources! This is a hub for SharePoint 2007 and WSS 3.0 Resources with two advantages: All resources are hand-picked and vetted for quality, and each topic contains a with hand-tuned search designed to return the latest content which you can then filter further to find what you need. R eference [ Search Results ] Wikipedia: SharePoint . Microsoft: SharePoint Server Home Page . Microsoft: Social Computing Home . KBAlertz . Receive free alerts whenever...(read more)

How to use the Debug Interface Access (DIA) Application Programming Interface to locate the debug symbols file referenced by an assembly.

A simple silverlight control that creates an image button with zoom and reflection.

jLinq is a Javascript query language that makes it easy to work with large arrays of information. Today, jLinq 2.2.0 is released which offers new commands, bug fixes and more!

‘In-Progress’ Message & Disabling controls in ASP.Net Pages using Javascript

Microsoft Silverlight 3 and Expression 3 will be unveiled at a virtual launch event on July 10, 2009. Attend the event at www.seethelight.com on July 10 to watch the keynote sessions and see new in-depth sessions. Stroll through the customer and partner pavilions in the Exhibition Hall or stop by 'The Visual Kitchen' TV show and watch the chefs as they dish up digital designs and development entrees as part of this exclusively produced online experience.

Work with Excel files, create charts, try out some web parts and more in this week's additions to the ASP.NET Control Gallery.

This ASP.NET Web Application demonstrates the use of ImageMagick to create thumbnails and larger preview images, both from an uploaded image file.

As I wrote in an update to my “The Future of GhostDoc” blog post, the uninstaller of GhostDoc 2.1.3 contains a bug which (under specific circumstances) may lead to losing your Visual Studio settings – I’m really sorry about that.

In the days after the first SubMain release in May (version 2.5.09150) I have helped the guys from SubMain in developing a working uninstaller for old GhostDoc versions, which is now included in the setup of the current GhostDoc version 2.5.09166 (published mid-June, though the website has been only updated recently).

So the “right way” to upgrade from an old “Weigelt” GhostDoc version (up to 2.1.3) to a new “SubMain” GhostDoc version (starting with 2.5.09166) is:

• DO NOT uninstall Weigelt GhostDoc
• Just run the SubMain GhostDoc setup

Everything else will be taken care of. Future updates (from one version of SubMain GhostDoc to another) also involve just running the installer of the new version.

By Default ASP.Net pages communicate with the server through a mechanism call “PostBack”. Postback is very useful and efficient, except for the cases, where 1) You have a huge page, with a lot of processing required at server, so doing all that processing on every postback is not only waste of resou

The long wait has finished as the WPF Charting was made available on the last WPF Toolkit release of June 2009 and now we can use all those great charts that were available for Silverlight, now also in WPF.

You can know more about this here.

So there is this guy in the ASP.NET Community named Peter Blum who writes great ASP.NET Controls. One of the control sets he offers is a Data Entry Suite with ASP.NET Dynamic Data support. I want to share the link because, apart from the controls being Read More......(read more)

VISUALISATION techniques are changing software development.

We’ve all heard that XAML is bringing the developers and the designers closer but there is just something about both teams that this relationship is destined to fail.

We’ve been working in a project (a small project) for some time, in which the designers have been working with the HTML, Flash, menus and all that nice stuff they do, and we’ve been working with the shopping cart, administration site, security and our nice stuff.

So we created all of our ASPX pages, classes, master pages, and used the designers images, CSS classes and layout to create a consistent, good looking website. BUT, the mother of all problems happened, “COMMUNICATION FAIL”. We created ALL pages for the “brochure site”, the site everybody will see and to our surprise, we didn’t have to do it, we were to have a mixture of HTML pages and ASPX pages. How cool ha?!?!

I think as a developer, no surprise there, so my guess was to have all pages converted to ASPX, and so did my boss. I’m use to receive designs to create my layout but I just hate it when this things happen. Now, don’t get me wrong, there is no problem (technically speaking) about having html+aspx pages in a website, it’s pretty common, but html is so hard to maintain by itself, I created master pages which helps with that, so it was pretty obvious to me (at least…).

Bottom line, always get things as clear as possible so you focus on what your job is. Make it clear with the designers on the limitations of your work and their work. Workout the “COMMUNICATION PATH” so everybody is happy in the end and the job gets done the way it’s supposed to. Never assume anything.

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This article describes how to expand and collapse columns of a GridView using JavaScript