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The Next TRUIX meeting is October 8th
The next TRUIX meeting is October 8th. We are still finalizing some of the details for the night, but we will definitely be continuing tutorial on building a UI (using our www.TampaUx.net site). We also plan on bringing you some material for the Silverlight 3/Expression 3 launch.
Things will get started at about 7:00pm (with doors opening up at 6:30pm).
Sorry it’s taken us so long to get a next meeting (we’ve had a lot of scheduling conflicts to work through of our core team).
PS. the meeting after this one will be on November 3rd and we’ll have Jim Zimmerman talking...
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On the Road to iTextFileResult: Getting the Results from System.Web.MVC.WebFormViewEngine
I’m in the process of building a new ActionResult for ASP.NET MVC. This new ActionResult will allow you to transform data into a PDF, RTF, or HTML (it uses iTextSharp behind the scenes, and yes, I have a working prototype right now that isn’t all that useful yet.. and you have to know way too much in order to use it as of this time).
Essentially what I want to do is use any view engine that the programmer chooses and convert the resulting html, xml, or regular string data into a file that gets pushed to the browser. All this...
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JavaScript for the masses
As you may be aware Scott Hanselman’s 2009 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows came out yesterday. If you are like me you end up pooling through the list especially the new stuff to see if there is something cool that somehow you missed.
I found an item on the list that answers something I think I have been looking for (but not for me), but before I go on I need to give you some background (as usual).
Kevin D. Wolf (aka ByteMaster) and I have been talking over the last several months on all things Ajax. We’re...