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Central Ohio Day of .NET 2010 is ON!
The date has been set: June 5th, 2010The Central Ohio Day of .NET is a joint venture between the Dayton .NET Developers Group, Central Ohio .NET Developers Group, Cincinnati SQL Server Users Group and...
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Silverlight: When do Xap files get downloaded and when are they cached?
A friend recently asked me “When do [silverlight] xap files get downloaded and when are they cached [in the browser]?”So, using fiddler, I set out to find that answer:Here are my test results. To...
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Issue: IIS7 “Reports” folder is requiring Windows Authentication
I’ve been working on a ASP.NET project that contained a sub folder call “Reports.” Oddly, every time I tried to browse to it under IIS7 I would get prompted with a “Windows Authentication” dialog. I...
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Computing First and Last Day of the Month
I stumbled across this the other day and I thought it was so slick I would share.This example computes the DateTime for both the first and last day of the current month.var monthStartDate = new...
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My TortoiseSVN Global ignore pattern
Some files shouldn’t be committed into version control. Usually things generated by the computer (i.e. exe’s, dlls, etc.) and user specific files (i.e. *.suo, *.user, etc.)Here is the global ignore...
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Tracking a browser’s Time zone Offset in ASP.NET
Just the other day I was required to display a website’s dates in a user’s local time.The solution I came up with was based on getting the time zone offset from the user’s browser using JavaScript,...
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Installing and Uninstalling a Windows Service from the Command Line
I develop a windows service every now and then. I always have to dig up the install and uninstall commands. I figured I would post it for...
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jQuery Boxy content will not display / show
Every so often I’ve used the jQuery plugin called “Boxy”Today I ran into an issue: The content I gave boxy would not display / show on the page.Here was my incorrect code: 1:new Boxy("Justin Kohnen is...
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Grok talk on NuGet 6/22/2011 1800 EST
I will be giving a grok talk about “NuGet” (the Visual Studio 2010 extension) to the Dayton .NET Developers Group. If you’re in area, I invite you to come down. (Don’t forget to point and laugh )Here...
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Making the selected time of a RadTimePicker scroll to top.
I rely heavily on Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX tools. Recently I had an issue with the RadTimePicker when we attempted to put it in a scrolling container. Once in the container could scroll we wanted the...
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Developing for a specific version of Silverlight
I recently ran into an issue where the version of Silverlight I had installed on my development environment didn’t match my end clients’ version of Silverlight. I was running Silverlight v4.0.60831.0,...
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How To: Disable “Attach Security Warning” of Visual Studio
When you attach to a process, you sometimes get the message confirming whether you want to attach the process. This happens for each process you are attaching. ANNOYING! This is how to disable...
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How To: Stop IIS7 from timing out while you’re debugging
Have you ever seen this before while you’re debugging an IIS7 application? When you’re debugging code such as webpages, services, SharePoint event receivers, and SharePoint workflow handlers. You only...
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Using an ObjectDataSource in Sharepoint
A Co-worker was trying to use an ObjectDataSource within a UserControl within SharePoint.After a bit of research. We learned one must use the fully qualified name of the class and assembly when...
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A quote from modernizr
I read this in the modernizr documentation on polyfills and I thought I would repeat it: And remember, none of your users view your site in more than one browser; It’s okay if it looks and acts...
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Good practice when naming a Boolean variable/Property
<soapbox>When defining a Boolean (true/false) variable or property Prefix the name with "Is" or "Has" Do not negate in your variable name. Bad Boolean variables names: Allowed (No prefix)...
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How to dynamically load a JavaScript file.
How do you dynamically load a JavaScript file? With JavaScript of course! 1:function loadjsFile(filepath) { 2:try { 3:var h = document.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0); 4:var t =...
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Using a delimited list for SQL ‘IN’ statement
Sometimes I want to pass a list of items from my C# code to my stored procedures so they can be used as part of an ‘IN’ clause. In my greener years I would do something like:Unsafe Way<WARNING>Do...
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redgate SQL Source Control Revision Numbers
Anyone that’s developed with me in the last 7 years knows that I’m a HUGE fan of redgate. Honestly, now that I use their tools, I don’t know how I would work on MS SQL databases without them. Recently,...
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Error 17 Unknown build error, 'An item with the same key has already been...
I recently got this error after doing a code merge. No source file, no line number, just the project name and nothing else to point me in the proper direction to rectify my issue.After much searching I...
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