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Cool Visual Studio 2005 feature that I missed....
Yesterday I was working for my demos for CodeCamp Tampa (yep, I’m finally speaking somewher), and I was creating a new Web form so that I could then copy all the Atlas junk into the page when I saw the words “My Templates” at the bottom of the New items window… I thought wouldn’t it be cool if I could create my own Atlas templates. Guess what? You can! More importantly, it’s easy.
Here’s a link on “jfo’s coding blog.” Basically you can turn any project or an item into a reusable template (I don’t think we’ve talked nearly enough...
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My first Atlas behavior -- the invisibleBehavior
[out of date post... this deals with MS Atlas CTP... which has been change drastically and is now MS Ajax Extensions] I have been playing with the Atlas client behaviors for some time. [My fear is that when I finally publish my “big” post it will bomb (but that’s another matter)]. I found a reason to build my own behavior (although I may incorporate it into an Atlas client control as well)
Here’s what I discovered. The Atlas client side Sys.UI.Control class supports a visibility property which shows and hides an element using the visibility style. The problem with this is...
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Testing Refactoring tools (again for the first time) - .Net Refactor 2005
I’ve looked at Refactoring tools a number of times in the past (but never blogged my experiences). For the longest time I used CodeRush/ReFactor! Pro, and lately I switched to ReSharper. I’m starting to become dissatisfied with the speed and am starting to wonder what else is out there. I want a tool that is fairly productive, but doesn’t get in my way by either slowing my machine down or just making suggestions that get in the way. I still need to go re-evaluate the new CodeRush/ReFactor! Pro 2.0… but that will be saved for another post.
I do want to...
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An Atlas Client-Side Enhancement: Making the ASP.NET Controls easily accessible
[out of date post... this deals with MS Atlas CTP... which has been change drastically and is now MS Ajax Extensions.. this particular post may or may not work.. your mileage will vary] [Small update… there were a couple issues with the code. That’s what I get for not compiling it one last time after adding a simple parameter]
Lately, I have been playing with the client-side of Atlas. I have a big post on the Behaviors coming up. Well it’s similar in the vein of the browsing the source code, except I have been building examples as I work...
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How to attach Atlas Behaviors to elements programmatially via script
[out of date post... this deals with MS Atlas CTP... which has been change drastically and is now MS Ajax Extensions] I’m working on a fairly large post on Behaviors (right now I’m still working on it). A side result of this large post is that I’ve learned to attach Atlas behaviors to elements via script (most of the examples use MS’ new declarative method which seems to be a cool method waiting for a tool to make it easier).
So, here’s the code to apply the FloatingBehavior (which makes an element draggable) to an element and the PopupBehavior (creates inline dialogs...
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AntiSecurity: How to turn of the %^&* secure IE mode in Windows 2003
Ok, after running into this several times and being thoroughly annoyed, I finally found the fix (and I do mean fix). What I’m talking about is the annoying secure IE mode that is installed by default in Windows 2003. I understand the thinking (I get it… it’s a server you should be running certain types of browser plugins on it). Basically the annoying part is that all plugins are blocked even if you put a site in the trusted zone and allow ActiveX controls on trusted sites (sorry it won’t work). Instead of making it easy to turn on and off...
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Hey, Scoble! There's more to life than Tech
I’m up at the wee hours of the morning (OK, it’s 5 am… I had a solution to a problem, and couldn’t get back to sleep). As I was perusing some blogs I noticed this entry from Scoble. I want to say first that I really like Scoble. When I’m a good blogger, I like to believe that it’s Scoble’s influence that has done this for me (his and Rory’s <grin />). I guess with all that I’m going through right now, he caught me off guard (or maybe I caught him napping).
The article bemoans “When I was in Montana...
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SQL Prompt thoughts...
Yesterday I had some SQL work and was playing with SQL Prompt inside of SQL Management Studio. Mind you I had evaluated it against SqlAssist and found that the then beta SqlAssist seemed to show promise of being a much better product (even though it ONLY worked in Visual Studio).
Red Gate is recently acquired the product. I love Red Gate’s products (they are what you need), and several people had asked me what I thought now that SQL Prompt is free (at least until September). Honestly it sounded like some court cases I’d heard about involving a certain company in Redmond...