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Resolving ASP.NET MVC 2 RC 2 Installation Errors

Jason N. Gaylord — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:47:00 GMT

On a Virtual Machine, I had Visual Studio 2008 SP1 installed along with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. I tried installing the newly released ASP.NET MVC 2 Release Candidate 2 on that machine and received the following:

The project file '<project path and name>' cannot be opened.

The project type is not supported by this installation.

To resolve this, ensure that the VS 2008 tooling support for MVC 2 is installed in Add/Remove Programs. Regardless, uninstall all MVC 2 installations (should be 2 items in add/remove programs if the previous is the case). Then reboot your machine and reinstall. It should work now.

Hope that helps!

Review: Stack Overflow DevDays Boston

Jason N. Gaylord — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:49:44 GMT

So after having a full day of recovery (11 hours in the car within a 36 hour period), I'm back to the grind. I wanted to provide a quick review of what I saw and what I thought of the conference.

First, the location within Boston was pretty good since it was right off of I90 in the heart of downtown. There were plenty of things to do within walking distance such as Fenway Park

and the original location for Cheers

The content was really good. Joel Spolsky gave a really good keynote to kick off the day talking about simplicity of an application versus features and defining the fine line between to keep users interested while providing top functionality.

Ned Batchelder followed up with an overview of Python development. He showed a basic spell check suggestion function. Some of the functionality was really neat. I wish some of the shortcuts could be implemented in C#. For example the simplicity of combining two lists and obtaining only the unique items. While his presentation style was not as good as Joel’s, he actually had me interested in the talk about Python.

Dan Pilone followed up to discuss iPhone development. He emphasized the iPhone development process including the “2 week” approval/denial process.

It went back to Joel to talk about the the Stack Exchange network and Careers.StackOverflow.com. It was the first time Careers @ StackOverflow was announced. In fact, Jeff was still doing some work on it. FogBugz and Kiln. Having used FogBugz awhile back, I was impressed with some of the new features in FogBugz 7. Kiln looks really cool too. I wish they had the functionality for Subversion and/or TFS. I also wish there was a version for internal use rather than a hosted cloud offering.

After lunch, Patrick Hynds and Chris Bowen talked about ASP.NET MVC. It was a very basic talk and very difficult to shove in everything they were looking to do in 75 minutes. They did, but left much to be desired.

John Resig came up next to talk about JavaScript Validation. He covered many validation frameworks and showed why it was so difficult to test the various frameworks. He also talked about Test Swarm.

Finally, Miguel de Icaza spoke about Mono. Unfortunately, I had to miss Miguel’s talk to try and beat the traffic.

Overall, the conference was pretty good. I thought some areas could have been blown out more. The organization of the conference could have been a bit better. I thought as a paying participant that they would have requested something from me before entering. It would have been really easy to just enter without paying. Maybe that’s something that will be corrected going forward, but I’m not sure.

DYK: You can remove the ASP.NET MVC version from the Response Header

Jason N. Gaylord — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 15:27:00 GMT

Did you know that you can remove X-AspNetMvc-Version from the response header on your ASP.NET MVC web application?

It's actually quite simple to remove the MVC version from the response header within a web application. Open up the Global.asax file and add to the Application_Start method the following:

MvcHandler.DisableMvcResponseHeader = true;

That's it. Hope that helps!

The Technology Post for July 16th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:16:40 GMT

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Series Post #42

Please Note: I am in the process of converting this daily blog post over to a new web application. While my posting hasn’t been as frequent, I have big plans for continuing the Technology Post. Thanks in advance for your patience in this matter.

Daily Oddball – 10 Odd Things you can buy from Amazon – Tweeted by Dana Coffey

.NET Framework

.NET - Using CacheSessionHandler to View Cache Items – Tweeted by Mohammad Azam
General - Easily Share Code with these 8 Online Tools – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
General – Stack Overflow Podcast #61 – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
General – Windows 7 Developer Contest – Tweeted by Microsoft Press

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

PHP - Build a Calendar Using PHP, XHTML, and CSS - Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu

Architecture and Projects

Architecture - Aaron Erickson Identifies the Seven Deadly Firms – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Architecture - Stack Overflow Architecture – Tweeted by Jeff Atwood
Projects - WikiPlex – An Embedded Wiki Engine – Tweeted by Brad Wilson

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - 116 ASP.Net Video Tutorials – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET - Adding Persistence to the .NETOOP Edit in Place control – Tweeted by Joe Stagner
ASP.NET - Anti-XSS Library 3.0 RTM – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - Giving Your MVC Views an Identity – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - It is done... S#arp Architecture 1.0 RTM
ASP.NET MVC - Resource Files and ASP.NET MVC Projects – Tweeted by K. Scott Allen
ASP.NET MVC - Talking to HealthVault via ASP.NET MVC #1 -– Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Desktop and Server Technology

Google Reader - Google Reader Notifier for Windows Tells You About Unread Items – Tweeted by George Dearing
Windows - svchost.exe. What is it? – Tweeted by DZone

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

JavaScript - Create a Twitter-Like “Load More” Widget – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Making an Expanding Code Box – Tweeted by jQuery
jQuery - Swipe away, then quickly flip with simple jQuery plugins – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Mobile Devices

Windows Mobile - Additional Windows Marketplace for Mobile details revealed – Tweeted by Wally McClure

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

General - Overview of New Features in Expression Blend 3 + SketchFlow: Part III – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Countdown to Silverlight 3 #10: Animation easing – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Countdown to Silverlight 3 #11: Writeable Bitmap – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Creating a Silverlight WCF Binary Encoding Client in Code – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Day #8: Custom Fonts in Silverlight – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Physics Behaviors for Silverlight 3! – Tweeted by Alan Le
Silverlight - Restricting Access to your WCF Service to a known Silverlight Client – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Sharing Entities between WCF and Silverlight – Tweeted by Silverlight News
WPF - Understanding Events in Windows Presentation Foundation – Tweeted by Mohammad Azam
WPF - Using Mole as a WPF Visualizer – Tweeted by Mohammad Azam

Social Networking and Community Platforms

Blogging - Testing Silverlight from Windows Live Writer – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Facebook - Facebook Working on New Twitter Integration? – Tweeted by Guy Kawasaki
LinkedIn - LinkedIn Drills Down Into People Search With New Beta – Tweeted by Luciano E. Guerche
Twitter - 50+ Really Cool Twitter Mashups – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Web Design and Graphics

CSS - 50 Useful Tools and Generators for Easy CSS Development – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
CSS - Make the Footer Stick to the Bottom of a Page – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
Graphics - 26 Professional Photoshop Retouching Tutorials – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
Graphics - 70 Beauty-Retouching Photoshop Tutorials – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
Graphics - Clever PNG Optimization Techniques – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine

Miscellaneous Technology News

15 Must-Have Web Apps for Students – Tweeted by Dana Coffey
Hurricane-calming technology? Bill Gates has a plan – Tweeted by Jason Gaylord
Microsoft exec says Apple asked them stop airing Laptop Hunters ads
Microsoft: Our Retail Stores Will Open Near Apple's – Tweeted by Guy Kawasaki
Popfly Shutting Down – Tweeted by Mary Jo Foley
Reminder: Yahoo Is Still No. 1 In Mail, News, Sports, And Entertainment (YHOO) – Tweeted by George Dearing

Other Link Lists

Dew Drop – July 16, 2009 – Tweeted by Alvin Ashcraft

Today’s Birthdays

Rich Campbell, Coquitlam, BC

Upcoming Technology Events (Sorted by State) – Want something listed? Post your comments. Also, what’s the best way for me to list these events? By date order or by state, then city, then date?

Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
Boston, MA – jQuery Conference 2009 – September 12th-13th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Southfield, MI – 4th Annual Architecture Summit – July 31st, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Philadelphia, PA - PhillyXAML.org – July 23rd, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Austin, TX – Monospace Conference – October 27th-30th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009

Common (and all System) Exceptions in .NET

Jason N. Gaylord — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:27:08 GMT

I couldn’t find a list of exceptions for .NET anywhere on the web, although, I didn’t look hard. Below is a list of the exceptions that are in the System namespace. The exceptions in bold are, what I would consider, the most common.

AccessViolationException
AppDomainUnloadedException
ApplicationException
ArgumentException
ArgumentNullException
ArgumentOutOfRangeException
ArithmeticException
ArrayTypeMismatchException
BadImageFormatException
CannotUnloadAppDomainException
ContextMarshalException
DataMisalignedException
DivideByZeroException
DllNotFoundException
DuplicateWaitObjectException
EntryPointNotFoundException
Exception
ExecutingEngineException
FieldAccessException
FormatException
IndexOutOfRangeException
InsufficientMemoryException
InvalidCastException
InvalidOperationException
InvalidProgramException
InvalidTimeZoneException
MemberAccessException
MethodAccessException
MissingFieldException
MissingMemberException
MissingMethodException
MulticastNotSupportedException
NotFinateNumberException
NotSupportedException
NullReferenceException
ObjectDisposedException
OperationCanceledException
OutOfMemoryException
OverflowException
PlatformNotSupportedException
RankException
StackOverflowException
SystemException
TimeoutException
TimeZoneNotFoundException
TypeInitializationException
TypeLoadException
TypeUnloadedException
UnauthorizedAccessException
UniFormatException

If there are any additional exceptions you’d recommend me listing from other namespaces, let me know.

The Technology Post for July 6th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:44:28 GMT

Series Post #41

Daily Oddball – Best Buy to Sell Green Vehicles

.NET Framework

Azure - Azure pricing: How low will Microsoft go? – Tweeted by Mary Jo Foley
Azure - LINQPad and Azure – Tweeted by Mike Amundsen
Azure - Looking Inside Windows Azure! – Tweeted by Mike Amundsen
C# - Invoking IronRuby Methods from C# – Tweeted by Mohammad Azam
VB - Sorting Arrays – Tweeted by Serge Baranovsky

Architecture and Projects

Architecture - SubSonic 3.0 is Released – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Book Review - Join the CLUB (Coding Like Uncle Bob) – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Services – Web Services Contract First Tool – Tweeted by Don Demsak
Testing - Hanselminutes Podcast 169 - The Art of Unit Testing with Roy Osherove – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - Blumin’ Dynamic Data – Tweeted by Joe Stagner
ASP.NET - By Design bugs – Tweeted by Scott Koon
ASP.NET - Global Application settings and the web.config file – Tweeted by Joe Stagner
ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC: How to combine scripts and other resources – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - AutoMapper in NerdDinner – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - How not to do Dependency Injection, in NerdDinner – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - Pretty Code #1 – Building SelectListItems – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - What is MvcContrib, and why did it start? – Tweeted by Jeffrey Palermo
Book Review - ASP.NET 3.5 CMS Development – Tweeted by Developer Fusion

Desktop and Server Technology

Browser – Bored with Firefox 3.5? Here’s Namoroka (3.6) – Tweeted by Jon Galloway
Cloud - Unified Cloud Interface Project (UCI) – Tweeted by Dana Coffey
Mac - 25 Free Mac Apps That Will Boost Your Productivity – Tweeted by Dana Coffey
Office - Register Office 2007 file format MIME types on servers – Tweeted by Laura Rogers
SharePoint - Extending SharePoint: Checking if a List exists – Tweeted by Bil Simser
SQL - How to copy data/append data into files from within T-SQL – Tweeted by Denis Gobo
SQL - Mirroring and Clustering on SQL Server – Tweeted by Jason Massie
SQL - New SQL Server on Vsphere Whitepaper – Tweeted by Jason Massie
SQL - Optimizing MySQL: Performance Tuning Script – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
SQL - Oracle cursor injection exploit to get DBA privileges – Tweeted by Denis Gobo
SQL - SQL Server Index Tuning Tip: Identify Overlaps – Tweeted by Luciano E. Guerche
Windows - Ping 19: BingTones, SilverLight & Xbox join forces, Win7 guides, IE8 controversy – Tweeted by Channel 9
Windows - Windows 7 Family Pack Available Soon – Tweeted by Denis Gobo

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

JavaScript - Finally... Goto in Javascript – Tweeted by Kevin Dente
JavaScript - How to avoid switch-case syndrome – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
JavaScript – hyphenator – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
JavaScript - Not blocking the UI in tight JavaScript loops – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Advanced keypress navigation with jQuery – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Clever jQuery Selections - Speed up your Selectors – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Event Pooling with jQuery Using Bind and Trigger: Managing Complex Javascript – Tweeted by jQuery
jQuery - Form validation with jQuery from scratch – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
jQuery - Indexed Dropdown with jQuery – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Rounding Up the Top 10 jQuery Lightbox Scripts – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Simple Tabs w/ CSS & jQuery – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
jQuery - Update: A New & Improved jQuery Script to Automatically Preload images from CSS – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Web Site Improvements Using jQuery and jQuery UI – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery – Plugin – jquizme – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
jQuery – Plugin - Lightweight Rich Text Editor (RTE / WYSIWYG) for jQuery – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery – Plugin – timeago – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Mobile Devices

iPhone - Create iPhone Applications – Tweeted by Scott Galloway

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Silverlight - Day #1: Mouse Events in Silverlight – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
Silverlight - Day #2: Silverlight Screen Transitions – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
Silverlight - Day #3: Custom Silverlight Loading Screen – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
Silverlight - Day #4: Communicating Between Two Silverlight Controls – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
Silverlight - Day #5: Silverlight Drag and Drop – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
Silverlight - Day #6: Silverlight and the Twitter "Hello, World!" – Tweeted by Jeff Blankenburg
Silverlight - PRISM for Silverlight – Tweeted by Peter Laudati

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

Other IDEs – SlickEdit 2009 – Tweeted by Joe Stagner

Web Design and Graphics

CSS - 10 CSS tricks that make website looks cool instantly! – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
CSS - CSS Tips and Tricks – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
CSS - Stopping the CSS positioning panic (Part 1) – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
Graphics - 145 Ultimate Round-Up Of Photoshop Tutorials and Resources – Tweeted by Dana Coffey
Graphics - Great Designers Steal? – Tweeted by Dana Coffey
Web Design - 4 Tips and 17 Examples for Spectacular Login – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Web Design - 10 Principles Of Navigation Design And Why Quality Navigation Is So Critical – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
Web Design - A Designer’s Guide To Accessibility and 508 Compliance – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
Web Design - An Unofficial Q&A about the Discontinuation of the XHTML2 WG – Tweeted by Mike Amundsen
Web Design - Features over Usability : How not to design a web application – Tweeted by Pete Brown
Web Design – HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF) – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
Web Design – HTML 5 is a Big Deal for Enterprise Developers – Tweeted by DZone
Web Design – HTML 5 Won’t Be Ready Until 2022. Yes, 2022. – Tweeted by Darcy Lussier
Web Design - That's kind of scary: .msonormal and .smalltext are among Top 20 most popular classes in markup – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine

Miscellaneous Technology News

CompuServe Requiem – Tweeted by Chuck Urwiler
We're live! come check out Microsoft Hohm for yourself www.microsoft-hohm.com – Tweeted by Microsoft Hohm

Other Link Lists

Dew Drop – July 6, 2009 – Tweeted by Alvin Ashcraft

Today’s Birthdays

Sarah Dutkiewicz – Ohio, United States

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

Boston, MA – Nuxeo –Tweeted on 7/1/2009
Redmond, WA – Project Natal, Microsoft – Tweeted on 7/1/2009
Redmond, WA - Software Development Engineer in Test Job, Microsoft - Tweeted on 7/1/2009

Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
Boston, MA – jQuery Conference 2009 – September 12th-13th, 2009
New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Southfield, MI – 4th Annual Architecture Summit – July 31st, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Philadelphia, PA - PhillyXAML.org – July 23rd, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Austin, TX – Monospace Conference – October 27th-30th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009

The Technology Post for July 2nd, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:55:28 GMT

Series Post #40

I won’t be posting anything tomorrow due to the US holiday of Independence Day on Saturday. I will be taking the day off.

Daily Oddball – The Best Way to Photograph Fireworks (Tweeted by Dana Coffey)

.NET Framework

Azure – How we built Twittermatic.net – Tweeted by Maarten Balliauw
General - Exploring Code Contracts: Taking a look at Object Invariant Conditions – Tweeted by Derik Whittaker
General - Successful Cross Platform .NET Development - Mono and Banshee with Aaron Bockover – Tweeted by Miguel de Icaza
IronRuby - IronRuby 0.6 Released! – Tweeted by Javier Lozano
Open Source - 23 .NET Open Source Projects – Tweeted by Keyvan Nayeri

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

PHP - AjaxCRUD: a PHP API for easier create/read/update/delete operations on MySQL – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
Python - Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 5 Testing Models – Tweeted by Los Techies

Architecture and Projects

ORM – DES Dynamic Data – Tweeted by David Ebbo
Testing - From NUnit to MSTest – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - ASP.NET WebForms: Taking Back the HTML – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET - Three IIS Concepts ASP.NET Developers Should Know – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC – MiniUrl Project – Tweeted by Javier Lozano

Desktop and Server Technology

Cloud - CSC to Resell Cloud-Based Microsoft Online Services – Tweeted by Mary Jo Foley
Cloud - Microsoft 'mega data centers' to support Azure, Bing – Tweeted by Wally McClure
SharePoint - Fixing MOSS Search Crawler issue for "The specified address was excluded..." – Tweeted by Tom Hearn
SharePoint - SharePoint Search-as-You-Type with jQuery – Tweeted by Jan Tielens
Virtualization - How Do I: Backup Hyper-V with Windows Server Backup? – Tweeted by Laura Rogers
Windows - Microsoft to offer Family Pack for Windows 7 Home Premium – Tweeted by Jason Percival

Gaming

Book – New - Microsoft XNA Game Studio 3.0: Learn Programming Now! – Tweeted by Microsoft Press

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

JavaScript - Text Escaping and Unescaping in JavaScript – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
jQuery - Dissecting JQuery text() – Tweeted by jQuery
jQuery - Identifying & locating mouse position in jQuery – Tweeted by jQuery
jQuery - jQuery Example - Using cookies to save draft information – Tweeted by jQuery
jQuery - List of Really Useful Plugins For jQuery Developers – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Playing with Select (DropDownList/ComboBox) – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery Plugin - New jQuery plugin targeting usability for password masking on forms – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Mobile Devices

Netbook - Inspiron Mini 10v now available at Dell Outlet – Tweeted by Dell Outlet
Netbook - Jolicloud, a cool new OS for your netbook – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Silverlight - 10 Things to Know About Silverlight Prism – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Blend 3 + Silverlight 3 = Luv (video demo) – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Composite Web Apps With Prism – Tweeted by Peter Bromberg
Silverlight - Countdown to Silverlight 3 #4: Element binding – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Countdown to Silverlight 3 #5: ChildWindow (Modal, Non-modal, Templated) – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-3 – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Creating NikeClone With Silverlight Part-4 – Tweeted by Silverlight News
WPF - Creating a Simple RSS Reader Using Windows Presentation Foundation – Tweeted by Mohammad Azam

Social Networking and Community Platforms

Community Platform – Telligent Analysts 3.0 – Tweeted by Josh (Telligent)
Community Platform – Telligent Community 5.0 – Tweeted by Josh (Telligent)
Twitter – Final version of Twittermatic is Online – Tweeted by Maarten Balliauw

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

Visual Studio - VS 10 beta 1 extensibility model (Part 1) – Tweeted by Keyvan Nayeri
Visual Studio - VS 10 beta 1 extensibility model (Part 2) – Tweeted by Keyvan Nayeri

Web Design and Graphics

CSS - 20+ Resources and Tutorials for Creative Forms using CSS – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
Graphics - Make a Vintage Magazine Ad in Photoshop – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
Web Design - 50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
Web Design - Modernizr: HTML5 and CSS3 detection – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Web Design – XHTML FAQ – Tweeted by Dana Coffey

Miscellaneous Technology News

General - This Week C9: Revolution 9 - The Future of Channel 9 – Tweeted by PDC 09

Today’s Birthdays

Sam Gentile – New Jersey, USA

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

Boston, MA – Nuxeo –Tweeted on 7/1/2009
Redmond, WA – Project Natal, Microsoft – Tweeted on 7/1/2009
Redmond, WA - Software Development Engineer in Test Job, Microsoft - Tweeted on 7/1/2009

Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
Boston, MA – jQuery Conference 2009 – September 12th-13th, 2009
New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Southfield, MI – 4th Annual Architecture Summit – July 31st, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Philadelphia, PA - PhillyXAML.org – July 23rd, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Austin, TX – Monospace Conference – October 27th-30th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009

The Technology Post for July 1st, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:56:10 GMT

Series Post #39

Daily Oddball – Dilvert does Usability Testing (Tweeted by Pete Brown)

.NET Framework

News - Microsoft starts recruiting testers for its 'Dublin' app server

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

Java - Three Forms of RESTEasy Client – Tweeted by Mike Amundsen

Architecture and Projects

Design Patterns - Updated TDD Productivity Plug-in for Resharper – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Testing - What is Unit Testing? – Tweeted by Derik Whittaker

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - Impersonating a user in ASP.NET – Tweeted by Tom Hearn

Desktop and Server Technology

Browser - A Selection of Supported Features in HTML5 – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
Browser – Google Chrome Addins – Tweeted by Scott Koon
Browser - Top 5 Killer Features in Firefox 3.5 - Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Clouding - Michael Stiefel on Cloud Computing - Tweeted by Elijah Manor
SQL - PostgreSQL Core Distribution – Tweeted by Denis Gobo
Web Conferencing - Cisco guns for Microsoft in collaboration market – Tweeted by George Dearing
Windows - MVP Walkthrough Installing Windows 7 on a Netbook – Tweeted by Michael Neel
Windows - Windows 7 build 7264 leaks – Tweeted by Wally McClure
Windows Server - Web Sites, Applications, and Virtual Directories in IIS – Tweeted by Fritz Onion

Gaming

Xbox - Kodu Game Lab – Tweeted by Bertrand Le Roy

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

Javascript – Ruby Style JavaScript – Tweeted by Scott Hanselman
jQuery - Top 10 jQuery plugins for Form Usability – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Tracking outgoing links with Google Analytics and jQuery – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Mobile Devices

General - Skype updates for Windows and iPhone – Tweeted by George Dearing
iPhone - 10 Tips for New iPhone Developers – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
iPhone - 2010 – iPhone 4G, Google Wave, Google Voice; Collaboration Transformed – Tweeted by Chris Woodruff
Microsoft - Microsoft chooses ad agency for Pink phone campaign – Tweeted by Mary Jo Foley

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Silverlight - Composite Web Apps With Prism – Tweeted by Dan Wahlin

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

Visual Studio - July's Toolbox Column Now Online – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Visual Studio - Windows 7 VS 2008 Unit Test Fail – VSTestHost Hang Fix – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Web Design and Graphics

CSS - A Primer on the CSS Font Shorthand Property - Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
CSS - CSS cascade - a simple step-by-step presentation - Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
Graphics - Best of the Web - June 2009 – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Web Design - 10 Things Every Web Designer Just Starting Out Should Know – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
Web Design - Best Practices For Effective Design Of “About me”-Pages – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Web Design - Is it time to move beyond 960? – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu

Miscellaneous Technology News

General - Angel and Venture Financing for Technology Professionals with Rachael Qualls – Tweeted by Wally McClure
General - The Alan Stevens and G. Andrew Duthie Debate Continues! – Tweeted by Jon Galloway

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

Boston, MA – Nuxeo –Tweeted on 7/1/2009
Redmond, WA – Project Natal, Microsoft – Tweeted on 7/1/2009
Redmond, WA - Software Development Engineer in Test Job, Microsoft - Tweeted on 7/1/2009

-- Events this Week – G. Andrew Duthie
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Southfield, MI – 4th Annual Architecture Summit – July 31st, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Philadelphia, PA - PhillyXAML.org – July 23rd, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Austin, TX – Monospace Conference – October 27th-30th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009

The Technology Post for June 30th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:35:00 GMT

Series Post #38

I’ve changed the Technology Post format again a bit in preparation for the new website. Let me know what you think.

Daily Oddball – Googling with Bing (Tweeted by Shawn Wildermuth)

.NET Framework

General - Refactorings in Alphabetical Order – Tweeted by Javier Lozano

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

PHP - How to implement a launching soon page with PHP and jQuery - Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Architecture and Projects

API - Turn-By-Turn Directions with the Google Maps API – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Architecture - Hanselminutes Podcast 167 - Convention Over Configuration with Jeremy Miller – Tweeted by Scott Hanselman
Cloud - .NET Services July 2009 CTP Breaking Changes Announcement & Scheduled Maintenance – Tweeted by Mike Amundsen
Cloud - Unisys Offers Enterprises a Security Blanket in the Cloud – Tweeted by Kevin Tunis
Testing - Creating Custom Functions w/ NAnt - Tweeted by Derik Whittaker

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 2: Zebra Striping – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - Exploring how to use Looping Expressions w/ Spark – Tweeted by Derik Whittaker
ASP.NET MVC - Generating strongly typed content links in ASP .Net MVC with T4 templates – Part 2 – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - Intro To MVCContrib TestHelpers – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - Mono 2.4.2 with ASP.NET MVC support – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - OpenForum - A Free Forum for MVC Applications – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - Opinionated Input Builders – Part 9 override the default Date Time picker – Tweeted by Eric Hexter
ASP.NET MVC - T4MVC 2.2 update: Routing, Forms, DI container, fixes – Tweeted by David Ebbo
Book – New – ASP.Net 3.5 CMS Development – Tweeted by Scott Galloway

Desktop and Server Technology

Browser - Beyond Firefox 3.5: A Sneak Peek at Mozilla's Next Browser – Tweeted by Al Pascual
Browser – Firefox 3.5 Released – Tweeted by net.tuts+
Browser - Microsoft Researches a Browser-based OS, Code Name Gazelle – Tweeted by Keyvan Nayeri
Deal - Fancy a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate for FREE? – Tweeted by Luciano E. Guerche
Deal - Refurbished 20" dell widescreen. $99 with coupon ZV6?0KVXFBL629 in the Dell Outlet – Tweeted by James Shaw
Hardware – Adding an external hard drive to your DirecTV DVR – Tweeted by DirecTV
Hardware - GPS and Wi-Fi Positioning Coming to the Mini 10 – Tweeted by Scott Hanselman
Hardware - Running development from a RAM disk – options and products – Tweeted by Jeffrey Palermo
Office - Import Google Images into your Office Documents – Tweeted by Luciano E. Guerche
Search – Google vs Bing – Tweeted by Scott Hanselman
Security - Absolute Software - Theft Recovery, Data Protection, Secure Asset Tracking – Tweeted by Channel 9
Surface - Microsoft Surface SDK FInally made available for all Microsoft Partners – Tweeted by Phil Winstanley
Windows - Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress” – Tweeted by Jason Gaylord
Windows Server - How to stop that annoying beep on your server – Tweeted by Luciano E. Guerche

Gaming

Deal - This week only 10% off all Video Games/Video Game Accessories & 5% off Video Game Systems – Tweeted by Toys R Us
Simulator – JSNES – Tweeted by Scott Koon

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

JavaScript - 20 Really Useful And Free Scripts To Plot Charts In Your Site Or Blog Pages – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
JavaScript - ECMAScript 5 Conformance Suite – Tweeted by Scott Koon
JavaScript - Event delegation in JavaScript – Tweeted by Mike Amundsen
JavaScript - John Resig JSConf 2009 Videos – Tweeted by John Resig
jQuery - Create a Digg-style post sharing tool with jQuery – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - Detecting When DOM Elements Have Been Removed With jQuery – Tweeted by jQuery
jQuery - Prepare a JSON web service and access it with JQuery – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery - The easy way to navigate – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery – Plugin - Multiple Select Transfer – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery – Plugin - myPass - password hiding iPhone – style – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
jQuery – Plugin – seek – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Mobile Devices

iPhone - 5 things I can do with my windows mobile phone that you can’t do with your iPhone – Tweeted by Elijah Manor

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Silverlight - Handling Events within Silverlight Control Templates – AutoCompleteBox Example – Tweeted by Dan Wahlin
Silverlight - Hilighting entire row in datagrid – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Prism’s Event Aggregator – Tweeted by Silverlight News
Silverlight - Silverlight 3 Polling Duplex Chat and Realtime Stock Updates – Tweeted by Silverlight News
WPF - Arranging Shapes in a Circle with Expression Blend – Part One – Tweeted by Silverlight News
WPF - How to Contribute to Open Source (When You're Not Exactly Scott Hanselman) – Tweeted by Sara Chipps
WPF - Multi Touch enabling your WPF application – Tweeted by Silverlight News
WPF - WPF Made Easier – Tweeted by Scott Hanselman

Social Networking and Community Platforms

Community Platforms - DotNetNuke Professional Edition 5.1 - Content Approval – Tweeted by Joe Brinkman

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

Expression Blend - Russ’ Toolshed Tooltip #16 - Expression Blend 2 Video, Animation and VS Integration Basics – Tweeted by Wally McClure
Expression Blend - Russ’ Toolshed Tooltip #17 - Expression Blend 3 SketchFlow - The game has changed – Tweeted by Wally McClure
Visual Studio - First Look at the Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Visual Studio - Mono in Visual Studio 2010 – Tweeted by Scott Hanselman
Visual Studio - Visual Studio Learning Pack for you to download – Tweeted by Channel 9

Web Design and Graphics

CSS - CSS3 – a big storm is coming – Tweeted by Smashing Magazine
CSS – Listamatic: one list, many options – Tweeted by Mark Magliocco
CSS - Write Better CSS with Less – Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu
Graphics - 12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo – Tweeted by Elijah Manor
Graphics – Animated PNGs - Tweeted by Umut Muhaddisoglu

Miscellaneous Technology News

Learn All About HTTPS – Tweeted by Microsoft Press
Staying Productive When You’re Working From Home – Tweeted by Don Makoviney
White House Unveils USASpending.gov to Track IT Spending – Tweeted by George Dearing

Other Link Lists

Dew Drop – June 30, 2009 – Tweeted by Alvin Ashcraft

Today’s Birthdays

Dave Bost – Microsoft Developer Evangelist, St. Charles, IL

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

None

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

None

-- Events this Week – G. Andrew Duthie
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Southfield, MI – 4th Annual Architecture Summit – July 31st, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Philadelphia, PA - PhillyXAML.org – July 23rd, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Austin, TX – Monospace Conference – October 27th-30th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009

Windows 7 and Windows Installer Error “Another installation is in progress”

Jason N. Gaylord — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:11:01 GMT

All morning long I’ve been battling my Windows 7 system. I finally found out that the error code which reads:

“Error 1500. Another installation is in progress. You must complete that installation before continuing this one.”

can be attributed to the InProgress key found in the registry at

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress

After doing a little searching on the web, I found that Microsoft has a program called msizap.exe which can be found in the Windows Installer SDK. The problem with that is that the SDK itself is an .msi file. I didn’t really want to install the full SDK anyway. So I searched some more and came across the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. This was mainly created to clean-up an Office installation gone bad. Again, an .msi file. So, I went back to the Windows Installer SDK and downloaded it. To trick the system into letting me install it, I simply deleted the key mentioned above (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress). At first attempt, I received an error. I tried deleting it again and it worked. Went through the installation process only to receive the same error. After I refreshed the registry, I saw that it was back. It pointed to a .ipi file contained in the C:\Windows\Installer directory. At this point, I still don’t know what this installer is that is still hung up. I opened several of these files from today and the reference Visual Studio 9.0. I’ll see if I can track down what is later.

Anyway, I finally decided to quick hit delete on the key and then quickly hit retry on the installation. It worked. My installation continued. At the very end a refresh of the registry showed that the other application came back and added an InProgress key again.

Back to the msizap.exe application. On the surface, if you use the p switch like

msizap p

It appears to only delete the key in the registry just like the above. I saw that in my case, the InProgress key still comes back. I guess it’s purpose is so that you don’t touch the registry.

I’ll add an update to this post if I find out how to completely kill that other installation package.

The Technology Post for June 29th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:32:15 GMT

Series Post #37

Daily Oddball – World Record Attempt – Largest Slab of Fudge (Posted by Betsy Weber) – Record Broken! (Pic here)

Other Link Lists

Dew Drop – June 29, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

.NET Framework

General - Ever wonder how .NET finds the assemblies that you reference? – Joe Stagner
General - Multithreading: load and store reordering – Luis Abreu
General - Work-Stealing in .NET 4.0 – Jennifer Marsman
General - Workflow 4.0 Is Disappointing – Kathleen Dollard (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)
IronRuby - Consuming RSS Feeds Using IronRuby with WinForms Application - Mohammad Azam

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

PHP - 40+ Invaluable PHP Tutorials and Resources – net.tuts+ (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Testing - Unit Testing Business Logic in .NET RIA Services (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
Testing - xUnit.GWT - Given When Then (GWT) extension for xUnit.net – Ben Hall (Suggested by Brad Wilson)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC & jQuery Part 1: Adding jQuery Intellisense to VS 2008 - Elijah Manor
ASP.NET MVC - Guiding Principles For Your ASP.NET MVC Applications – K. Scott Allen (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - Principles, Code-Behind, & View Engines – K. Scott Allen (Suggested by Luis Abreu; though he disagrees with Scott)
ASP.NET MVC - RESTful Services With ASP.NET MVC - Aaron Skonnard (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC – T4 Template – David Ebbo (Suggested by Scott Koon)
ASP.NET MVC - Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC - Elijah Manor

Desktop and Server Technology

Browser - Firefox 3.5 is coming soon! – Mozilla (Suggested by Simone Chiaretta)
Browser - Native JSON Support in IE8 and Tracking the ECMAScript Fifth Edition Draft Specification – JScript Blog (Suggested by Scott Koon)
Office - Microsoft Defends Its Empire – Business Week (Suggested by George Dearing)
SharePoint - Demos: A six-part series on getting the most out of SharePoint Designer 2007 - Laura Rogers
SharePoint - Supply Chain Visibility and Collaboration Using SharePoint 2007 (Suggested by Laura Rogers)
Surface - Five More Killer Apps for Microsoft Surface – Fast Company (Suggested by Vishal R Joshi)
Windows - Forty-Three of The Best Free Windows Enhancements That You Should Know About – Freeware Genius (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
Windows - Windows 7 Pricing: Good News, Mostly – Gizmodo (Suggested by Kevin Dente)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

ASP.NET AJAX - Never worry about ASP.NET AJAX’s .d again – Encosia (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
JavaScript - 10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks – Six Revisions (Suggested by Keyvan Nayeri)
JavaScript - JavaScript Shortcuts – MyViewState.NET (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
JavaScript - KeyTable – Keyboard Navigation & Event Binding For HTML Table – W3Avenue (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
JavaScript - Launching Sputnik into Orbit – Chromium Blog (Suggested by Scott Koon)
jQuery - 55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection - Dainis Graveris (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Create a Bar Chart Plug-in for jQuery – 9A (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - FireQuery is a collection of Firebug enhancements for jQuery (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Simple Modal + Google map, easy modal map boxes with jQuery (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Understanding the Context in jQuery – Brandon Aaron (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Useful jQuery Tips, Tricks, and Plugins with ASP.NET MVC - Elijah Manor
jQuery Plugins - jSlickmenu: A jQuery plugin for slick CSS3 menus (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
JSON – CloudKit: An Open Web JSON Appliance – CloudKit (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)

Mobile Devices

iPhone - Determine iPhone orientation using CSS – The CSS Ninja (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
iPhone – Mono (C#) Support – Mono Project (Suggested by Wally McClure)

Podcasts and Videos

.NET Framework - Inversion of Control - Jeff Diercks (Suggested by Developer Fusion)
.NET Framework - Resources for learning the ADO.NET Entity Framework – Joe Stagner
Desktop and Server Technology - Yochay Kiriaty - Windows 7 Developer Training Kit – Channel 9
Social Networking and Community Platforms - Open Spaces and unmeetings – The Thirsty Developer (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Flash - A printed magazine for Flash & Flex developers (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
Flash - SWFObject and Best Practice Implementation – Scott King (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
Silverlight - Deep zooming on the fly – Silverlight Show (Suggested by Alan Le)
Silverlight - Silverlight Geek - An interview with Jesse Liberty – Adam Kinney (Suggested by Channel 9)
Silverlight - Silverlight Validation and ViewModel (Suggested by Steve Presley)
WPF - Creating WPF TextBox UserControl to Perform Custom Validation - Mohammad Azam

Social Networking and Community Platforms

General - Understanding Social Media Guidelines for Employees – Ziff Davis (Suggested by Guy Kawasaki)
Twitter - Keyword-based twitter image aggregation – Steve Andrews
Twitter – Twittermatic – Schedule Your Tweets - Maarten Balliauw

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

CSS - 15 Must Read Articles for CSS Beginners – Line 25 (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
CSS - Best Practices to optimize CSS – an academic exercise - Reinhold Weber (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Web Design - 15 Interesting online presentations for web developers – Dream CSS (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Web Design - 45 Incredibly Useful Web Design Checklists and Questionnaires – Smashing Magazine
Web Design - An Honest Open Discussion on Web Standards and HTML 5 – David Tucker (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
Web Design – HTML 5 Doctor – Html5Doctor.com (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements, News, and Deals

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

None

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

None

-- Events this Week – G. Andrew Duthie
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Southfield, MI – 4th Annual Architecture Summit – July 31st, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Philadelphia, PA - PhillyXAML.org – July 23rd, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009

The Technology Post for June 26th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:59:41 GMT

Series Post #36

Daily Comic – The Commodore 64 vs. the iPhone 3G S: The Ultimate Showdown (Posted by Elijah Manor)

Other Link Lists

Dew Drop – June 26, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

NetFX - .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Allows managed code to be launched from a network share! – Vance Morrison (Suggested by Rick Strahl)
Office - Create an Application-Level Add-In to Automate Common Office Tasks – Robert Green (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)
Visual Basic - InfoQ Article on the Future of VB.NET (Lisa Feigenbaum) – VB Team (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

PHP - Rotate Product Listings With PHP and jQuery – Jeff Adams (Suggested by net.tuts+)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Deployment - Walking through the creation of a complex installer package - Gabriel Schenker (Suggested by Los Techies)
Design Patterns - Composite Oriented Programming: QI4J running on .NET – Roger Alsing (Suggested by K. Scott Allen)
ORM - EF: Why work with ObjectStateEntries instead of the objects directly? – Julie Lerman (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)
ORM - Fetching XML from SQL Server using LINQ to SQL – Think Linq (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)
ORM - The Rest of EF4 - Feature CTP1 Released today – Julie Lerman (Suggested by Serge Baranovsky)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - ASP.NET GridView with Custom Paging UI – Malcolm Sheridan (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET - Exporting a DataTable to Excel (DataTable to CSV) (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET – Creating a Custom Tag Cloud - Michael Ceranski (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - Building Testable ASP.NET MVC Applications – Justin Etheredge (Suggested by Brad Wilson)
ASP.NET MVC - Spark v1.0 and presentation for MPLS ALT.NET (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

Desktop and Server Technology

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

JavaScript - 23 Indispensible Ajax and Javascript Cheat Sheets (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
JavaScript - HTML Helper for Including and Compressing Javascript (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
JavaScript – jLinq (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Playing with Sprites and jQuery: animated menu (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Sortable table rows with jQuery - Draggable rows – Luke Dingle (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Plugin - 10 jQuery Lightbox Demo – Dream CSS (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Plugin - Edit-in-place with contentEditable property – Andrew Valums (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery Plugin - How to Make a Slideshow with a Transparent PNG Frame – Build Internet (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
JSON - Is It Too Late To Change JSON? – Phil Haack

Mobile Devices

iPhone - The App Store Has A Mighty Long Tail – Media Post (Suggested by Guy Kawasaki)

Podcasts and Videos

Desktop and Server Technology - SitePoint Podcast #18: Internet Explorer 8 … Percent? – SitePoint (Suggested by Developer Fusion)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Silverlight - A Mouse Wheel Blend Behavior – Nigel Sampson (Suggested by Silverlight News)
Silverlight - Commanding in Prism (Suggested by Silverlight News)
Silverlight - Quick Tip: LINQ & Data Binding notifications – Alex Golesh (Suggested by Silverlight News)
Silverlight - Silverlight MultiBindings, How to attached multiple bindings to a single property. - Colin Eberhardt (Suggested by Silverlight News)
Silverlight - Silverlight Validation and ViewModel (Suggested by Alan Le)
WPF - New release of WPF Toolkit, now with charts! – Jaime Rodriguez (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
WPF - WPF: ItemsControl Drag Drop Behavior – Ed Foh (Suggested by Alan Le)

Social Networking and Community Platforms

Twitter - Businesses use Twitter to communicate with customers – USA Today (Suggested by George Dearing)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

CSS - 35 CSS-Lifesavers For Efficient Web Design – Smashing Magazine
CSS - Essential Practices for Styling Your CSS – Design Reviewer (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Web Design - 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To – Smashing Magazine (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements, News, and Deals

Pre-Order Windows 7 Upgrade from Amazon.com for 50% off or more

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

None

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

None

Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Philadelphia, PA - PhillyXAML.org – July 23rd, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009

The Technology Post for June 25th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:51:06 GMT

Series Post #35

Daily Comic – If Pac-Man Were to Tweet [Pic] (Posted by Dana Coffey)

Other Link Lists

Dew Drop – June 25, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

C# - Expressions Cheat Sheet – Jimmy Bogard (Suggested by Los Techies)
C# - Multithreading: the BackgroundWorker class – Luis Abreu
C# - Writing console output from a Windows form in C# – Tom Hearn

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

Python - Python Web Framework Series – Pylons: Part 2 Controllers, Views and Testing - Ryan Svihla (Suggested by Los Techies)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Architecture - Habits of Highly Scalable Web Applications – Todd Hoff (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
ORM - Client-side properties and any remote LINQ provider – Damien Guard (Suggested by David Fowler)
ORM - Entity Framework CTP for VS 2010 – Jonathan Allen (Suggested by Keyvan Nayeri)
ORM - SQL to LINQ converter (Suggested by David Solivan)
Testing - Developer Tools for Google Chrome - Yury Semikhatsky (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
Testing - Neptune (personal SMTP testing server) - Donovan Brown (Suggested by Chris Love)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - Session Attacks and ASP.NET - Part 2 (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET - ASP.NET 4.0: WebForm Routing (quick ’n dirty version) – Scott Galloway (Suggested by Rick Strahl)
ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET Mvc Grid – Part 1 (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET MVC Validation Refresh: Best Techniques & Frameworks – Graham O’Neale (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - Generating strongly typed content links in ASP .Net MVC with T4 templates (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - Mind if my MVC T4 template changes your code a bit? – David Ebbo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - MvcContrib Grid and Pager Helpers for ASP.NET MVC Framework – David Hayden (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Books

Review - Review: ASP.NET MVC in Action by Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, and Jimmy Bogard - Andrew Siemer (Suggested by Jeffrey Palermo)

Desktop and Server Technology

Email – Become a Gmail Ninja – Gmail (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Email – Outlook Strikes Back! – Microsoft (Suggested by Darcy Lussier)
SQL - Not a fan of the Report Manager in SSRS? Using SSRS procedures to get the job done (Suggested by Denis Gobo)
SQL - Should you go Beyond Relational Databases? (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
SQL - SQL teaser LEFT JOINs – Denis Gobo

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

JSON - JSON Hijacking – Phil Haack (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - AJAX Multiple File Upload Form Using jQuery – Web Developer Plus (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
jQuery - jQuery hover fade method (modified) (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Simplify Ajax development with jQuery – IBM (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - The 20 Most Practical and Creative Uses of jQuery – net.tuts+ (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Understanding the Context in jQuery – Brandon Aaron (Suggested by jQuery)

Podcasts and Videos

.NET Languages - Mark Russinovich and David Solomon: Windows Internals 5 Released – Channel 9 (Suggested by Microsoft Press)
ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC - ASP.NET Podcast Show #140 - ASP.NET 4.0 Ajax Databinding – Wally McClure (Suggested by Craig Shoemaker)
ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC - Test Driven Development with the ASP.NET MVC Framework - Maarten Balliauw (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing - Toolshed Tooltip #13 - MSBuild talks to Twitter from Episode 2 – Channel 9 (Suggested by Microsoft Press)
Silverlight, WPF, and RIA - Hanselminutes Podcast 166 - Windows Presentation Foundation explained by Ian Griffiths – Scott Hanselman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Silverlight, WPF, and RIA - Silverlight-based car configurator for Mazda is now live – Adam Kinney (Suggested by Tim Heuer)
Miscellaneous Technology Announcements, News, and Deals - Scott Hanselman and Phil Haack at NDC! - .NET Rocks! (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Silverlight - ComponentArt Hosts the 2009 Summer Silverlight Coding Competition! $10,000 USD for the Best Silverlight App – ComponentArt (Suggested by Scott Cate)
Silverlight - From Silverlight in Action 2nd Edition: UI Element Binding – Pete Brown (Suggested by Silverlight News)
Silverlight - ToggleButton Command for Prism – Corey Shuman (Suggested by Silverlight News)

Social Networking and Community Platforms

Twitter - How Twitter Can Make You A Better (and Happier) Person – Tony Hsieh

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

Visual Studio - Disabling Script Debugging with VS 2010, Silverlight & IE 8 – Vishal Joshi

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

Graphic Design – Color Scheme Designer (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
Web Design - 27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers (Suggested by Dana Coffey)
Web Design - Improving website performance with Page Speed (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements, News, and Deals

See How Far Your Salary Goes in Another City – LifeHacker (Suggested by George Dearing)

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

Pennsylvania - VB6/VB.Net Developer. Contact James Colley at 888.768.3946. – Added 6/11/2009

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

None

--- Events This Week – June 23rd, 2009 - G. Andrew Duthie
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009

The Technology Post for June 24th, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:46:43 GMT

Series Post #34

Daily Comic – IE8 Comparison – Brad Colbow (Posted by Elijah Manor)

Other Link Lists

Dew Drop – June 24, 2009 – Alvin Ashcraft

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - ASP.NET 3.5 CMS: Master Pages, Themes, and Menus - Packt Publishing
ASP.NET - ASP.NET Master Page Advice, Tips, and Tricks – Scott Mitchell (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - Application-wide action filters in ASP.NET MVC - Maarten Balliauw (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - MVC vs. WebForms, A Clear Loser Emerging (Suggested by Wally McClure)
ASP.NET MVC - Tip For Keeping ASP.Net MVC Views Easy To Read – Steve Horn (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - Using PostSharp and log4net to Set Up Controller Logging in ASP.net MVC – Alex Cuse (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - Webforms vs. MVC, the desire to rewrite everything, an unexpected benefit (Suggested by Wally McClure)

Books

eBook - The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks, 2nd Edition – net.tuts+
New - jQuery in Action, Second Edition – Manning (Suggested by jQuery)

Desktop and Server Technology

Browsers - Chrome and Firefox 3.5 Memory Usage – Dot Net Perls (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
Mac - How I Set Up My Mac – Scott Reynolds (Suggested by LosTechies.com)
Office - 10 Useful Outlook 2007 Plug-ins and Tricks - .NET Curry (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Gaming

Xbox - Accidental Prescience and the Secrets of Project Natal – Scott Hanselman

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

ASP.NET AJAX - ASP.NET Ajax - Script Combining and moving ScriptResource.axd's to Static Scripts - Scott Hanselman
jQuery - 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance – net.tuts+ (Suggested by jQuery)
jQuery - Handy jQuery Plugins/Snippets – Adam Royle (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - jQuery custom selectors with parameters – jQuery HowTo (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Multi-level Menus with jQuery and CSS – Jarel Remick (Suggested by net.tuts+)
jQuery Plugin – jQuery tinyjs (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
jQuery Plugin - PeriodicalUpdater plugin for jQuery (Suggested by jQuery)

Mobile Devices

Development - Resources for designing and building mobile applications and websites (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Podcasts and Videos

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Silverlight - Binding a Silverlight DataGrid to dynamic data Part 2 – editable data and INotifyPropertyChanged - Colin Eberhardt (Suggested by Silverlight News)
Silverlight - Pushing Data From the Server to Silverlight 3 using a Duplex Wcf Service – Ian Blackburn (Suggested by Silverlight News)
Silverlight - Resizing Childwindow (Suggested by Silverlight News)
Silverlight - SilverBullet #4 – System.Windows.ApplicationIdentity - Timmy Kokke (Suggested by Silverlight News)

Social Networking and Community Platforms

Blogging - These are the little bugs that lead to madness - Scott Hanselman

Visual Studio and Other IDEs

TFS - TFS Adoption at Microsoft – May 2009 – Grant Holliday (Suggested by Steve Andrews)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

CSS - On CSS3: ‘Graceful Degradation’ or ‘Progressive Enhancement’
Graphic Design - Draw Fairy Tale Characters in Photoshop – Grafpedia (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
Graphic Design - Inside Adobe Illustrator – Adobe (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)
Web Design - 7 Dos and Don'ts in Getting Started in User Centered Design – Infragistics (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Web Design - Module Tabs in Web Design: Best Practices and Solutions – Smashing Magazine
Web Design - Stop Password Masking (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements, News, and Deals

Packt's 2009 Open Source CMS Award will begin on August 3. Prize fund increased to $24,000 + more details at http://tinyurl.com/maf4kv - Packt Publishing

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

District of Columbia - AIS is looking for 2 cleared SharePoint/.NET Developers to work in DC. Go to http://bit.ly/ZpJgB – Added 6/10/2009
Pennsylvania - VB6/VB.Net Developer. Contact James Colley at 888.768.3946. – Added 6/11/2009

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

None

--- Events This Week – June 23rd, 2009 - G. Andrew Duthie
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009

The Technology Post for June 23rd, 2009

Jason N. Gaylord — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:07:47 GMT

Series Post #33

Daily WTF – Developer attention deficit history: From Books -> Articles -> Blog Posts -> Twitter. What's next? (Posted by Rick Strahl)

Other Link Lists

LINQ and Entity Framework Posts for 6/15/2009+ – Oak Leaf Systems (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
Windows Azure and Cloud Computing Posts for 6/22/2009+ – Oak Leaf Systems (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)

.NET Languages – C# and Visual Basic

General - Multithreading: the ISynchronizeInvoke interface – Luis Abreu

Alternate Languages – Java, Rails, and other Languages

Java – Java and .NET Interop Project – Apache Stonehedge
PHP - 22 Open Source PHP Frameworks To Shorten Your Development Time – Web Design Booth (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
Yahoo - YUI 3: Lighter, Faster, Easier to Use – Site Point (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

Architecture, Design Patterns, and Testing

Design Patterns - 10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To - Smashing Magazine
ORM - Feature CTP Walkthrough: Code Only for the Entity Framework – ADO.NET Team Blog (Suggested by K. Scott Allen)
Testing - Back to Basics - Trust Nothing as User Input Comes from All Over – Scott Hanselman (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC

ASP.NET - Creating a Background Thread to Log IP Information - Chris Love
ASP.NET - Creating a Background Thread When the Web Site First Starts - Chris Love
ASP.NET - Making a Sharp Dressed Web Form – Thin ASP.NET 8 – Chris Love
ASP.NET MVC - .NET Fireside Chats - Nick Berardi on 'ASP.NET MVC 1.0 Website Programming' – DZone (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
ASP.NET MVC - A new and improved ASP.NET MVC T4 template – David Ebbo (Suggested by Scott Hanselman)

Books

Desktop and Server Technology

Browsers - Native JSON Support in IE8 and Tracking the ECMAScript Fifth Edition Draft Specification – JScript (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
Browsers - Serializing the value of empty DOM elements using native JSON in IE8 - JScript (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
Office - Excel 2007 Named Ranges and Data Validation - Steve Smith
SQL - Optimizing MySQL: Log Slow Queries – Web Development Stuff (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
SQL - Top 12 Smart Tips To Work With SQL – Mind Tree (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
Windows - Engineering Changes to ClearType in Windows 7 – Engineering Windows 7 (Suggested by Microsoft Press)
Windows - What is svchost.exe And Why Is It Running? – the How-To Geek (Suggested by Luciano E. Guerche)
Windows - Windows 7 RTM: Scheduled for July 13, 2009! – UX Evangelist (Suggested by Alvin Ashcraft)

Web Design, Layout, and Graphic Design

CSS - 100+ Massive CSS Toolbox – Tripwire Magazine (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
CSS - CSS3 Unleashed – Tips, Tricks and Techniques – W3Avenue
CSS - CSS: Get rid of dashed border on focused elements – Joel Varty (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
Graphic Design - ColourGrab: extracts colors from an image & generates the Adobe PS Swatch file (Suggested by Smashing Magazine)

JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries

JavaScript - jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices – Smashing Magazine (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
JavaScript - Loading JavaScript without blocking - Nicholas C. Zakas (Suggested by Mike Amundsen)
JavaScript - V8-GL: 3D Graphics - Nicolas Garcia Belmonte (Suggested by K. Scott Allen)
jQuery - 10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance - net.tuts+
jQuery - 12 jQuery tooltip for web developer – Dream CSS (Suggested by Elijah Manor)
jQuery - Animate Image Filling Up Using jQuery – Build Internet (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
jQuery Plugin - JHeartbeat 0.1.1 Beta (Suggested by Umut Muhaddisoglu)
jQuery Plugin - Scroll to Top v2 – Ph.Creative (Suggested by Elijah Manor)

Podcasts and Videos

Silverlight, WPF, and RIA

Silverlight - Silverlight 3 on XBox 360 – Steve Smith

Social Networking and Community Platforms

Miscellaneous Technology Announcements and News

Job Opportunities (Sorted by State)

District of Columbia - AIS is looking for 2 cleared SharePoint/.NET Developers to work in DC. Go to http://bit.ly/ZpJgB – Added 6/10/2009
Pennsylvania - VB6/VB.Net Developer. Contact James Colley at 888.768.3946. – Added 6/11/2009

Call For Speakers (Sorted by Date)

None

--- Events This Week – June 23rd, 2009 - G. Andrew Duthie
Phoenix, Az - BarCamp Phoenix – August 29th, 2009
Des Moines, IA – Iowa Code Camp – November 7th, 2009
New Orleans, LA – MS Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 – July 13th-16th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI - 2nd Annual Michigan Give Camp - July 17th-19th, 2009
Columbus, OH - PyOhio: Python-related Event - July 25th-26th, 2009
Allentown, PA – TECHbash 2009 – September 26th, 2009
Knoxville, TN – CodeStock 2009 – June 26th-27th, 2009
Nashville, TN – devLINK – August 13th-15th, 2009
Dallas, TX – SharePoint Saturday – July 25th, 2009
Appleton, WI – Fox Valley .NET Users Group – September 9th, 2009