ASP.NET 2.0 Feature Conversion Completed We officially rolled out a release of the “My” Mimeo.com web application this weekend. While we actually added some really great customer features, one of the biggest things in this release development wise was a full upgrade to use several features of ASP.NET 2.0 that were previously solved by a bunch of proprietary code that I wrote […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Solving the back button problem in Atlas Nikhil has posted a control which aims to fix a common problem with most AJAX frameworks where users tend to lose the all too familiar history navigation paradigm that they are used to relying on. What Nikhil has provided is an elegant solution based on the awesome UpdatePanel feature of Atlas. If you’re doing AJAX with […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
WPF MSDN Browser Inspired by Craig’s MSDNMan, Ian has created an MSDN browser with WPF. If, like me, you read a ton of MSDN content every day, both of these tools are extreeeemely welcome additions to browsing the online content or using the installed version of the content. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Silent Breaking-Change to FormsAuthentication::RedirectFromLoginPage Heads up on a silent breaking change that I just came across with FormsAuthentication’s RedirectFromLoginPage method when migrating from ASP.NET 1.1 to 2.0. The exact message you get will be (with top of callstack): System.Web.HttpException: The return URL specified for request redirection is invalid. at System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.GetReturnUrl(Boolean useDefaultIfAbsent) at System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(String userName, Boolean createPersistentCookie, String strCookiePath) at System.Web.Security.FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage(String userName, […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
How well do you know JavaScript? Dean Edwards, a well-known name in the HTML/CSS/JavaScript world, has whipped up a little test to gauge someone’s level of expertise in JavaScript. How knowledgable are you? This got me thinking about Atlas a little. Initially I was ready to say you need to be a level 6 to even think about working with Atlas, but then […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Script#??? Hmmm, this is certainly interesting. Not sure how I feel about it honestly. On one hand I think it’s kinda cool and innovative, but another part of me wonders if it’s the right approach to solving the problem. Keep in mind that JavaScript 2.0 is basically aligning itself with Microsoft’s JScript.NET implementation (note: MS worked closely with ECMA on […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Expression Web Designer CTP Finally Here A couple weeks ago I was wondering where the heck it was and now the first CTP has been released. Downloaded and played with it a little bit and, so far, I love it. Definitely the best environment Microsoft has come up with thus far to do HTML+CSS design. Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
What is WPF/E? Well, for starters WPF/E stands for Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere. What’s that? Well, check out this Channel9 video to find out! Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Web Application Projects for Visual Studio 2005 Released Microsoft’s mea cupla for screwing up the web project model with the Web Site Project type has been released. We’ve been using it here at Mimeo ever since we started our 2.0/2005 migration and had great success wth it even in the beta stages. The differences between RC1 and Release are surprisingly big, but I […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
Where the heck is Quartz? Quartz. You remember… that web development environment Microsoft demo’d at PDC ’05? Well, where the heck is it? It was the most immediately useful application out of the entire “Expression” suite of products and while there have been betas for Acrylic and even Sparkle, there has never been one for Quartz. What gives? Curious web […] Share this:FacebookTwitterLinkedInMoreRedditWhatsAppSkypeEmail
