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Generic Way to Bind Enum With Different ASP.NET List Controls « Abhijit's World of .NET

2011-06-28T16:51:00.001-04:00

In this post I am going to explain how we can bind a Enum with ASP.NET List Controls. These comprise of four different types of control, CheckBoxList, DropDownList, ListBox and RadioButtonList. This is one of the common requirements during development to bind a Enum with List Control and challenge is when we need to bind the both text and value.
Let’s consider we have the blow Enum. Now I am going to bind it with all the above mentioned type List Controls.

Original post Here

Front End Development Guidelines

2011-05-07T16:07:00.001-04:00

Front End Development Guidelines by Tait Brown

What's Up, DOCTYPE?

The absence of a DOCTYPE is a crime punishable by death. You may have relied on the following DOCTYPE in the past, but it's important to know that this is now being superceded by a leaner and meaner snippet.

"http://w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

Ideally, the HTML5 DOCTYPE should be used. It's supported in all modern browsers, and throws IE6 and IE7 into standards mode. Source.

Using SQL Server DMVs to Identify Missing Indexes

2011-04-08T11:37:00.000-04:00

ProblemIn a previous tip, Deeper insight into unused indexes for SQL Server, we discussed how to identify indexes that have been created but are not being used or used rarely. Now that I know which indexes I can drop, what is the process to identify which indexes I need to create. I can run the Database Tuning Advisor or examine the query plans, but is there any easier way to determine which indexes may be needed?

Solution
As with a lot of the new features we have seen with SQL Server 2005 and now with SQL Server 2008, Microsoft introduced a few more dynamic management views to also assist with identifying possible index candidates based on query history.

Original Post

30 Pro jQuery Tips, Tricks and Strategies | Pro Blog Design

2011-03-25T17:36:00.001-04:00

These tips and tricks all have one thing in common- they are all smashingly useful. With this stuff in your back pocket, you’ll be ready to go change the world, and even better, write jQuery like you know what you’re doing. It’s gonna be fun.

We’ll start with some basic tricks, and move to some more advanced stuff like actually extending jQuery’s methods and filters. Of course, you should be familiar with the basics of jQuery first. If you haven’t used jQuery before, I highly recommend browsing the documentation and watching jQuery for Absolute Beginners Video Series. Otherwise, you’re ready to dig in!

30 Pro jQuery Tips, Tricks and Strategies | Pro Blog Design

Alternatives for Reflector-Red Gate is here ILSpy

2011-03-20T14:37:00.000-04:00

Who wants to pay for .Net Reflector???

Original Blog from Rick Strahl's Web Log

iLSpy

jQuery DataLink Demos

2011-03-17T14:23:00.000-04:00

Michael Rog put together really good demos for jQuery Data Linking

jQuery DataLink demos

jQuery Data Link Api Here

Data Linking project on GitHub with Demos Here

Vimium - the hacker's browser

2011-03-16T12:31:00.000-04:00

Vimium is a Google Chrome extension which provides keyboard shortcuts for navigation and control in the spirit of the Vim editor. Watch this video to get a feel for how it works:

Vimium - the hacker's browser

Features

Helps you navigate the web without touching the mouse.
Uses a clever highlighting method to navigate using links.
Saves your zoom settings on a site-by-site basis.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Has an in-page help dialog to remind you of your personalized shortcuts.

Visual Studio 2010 Community Wallpaper

2011-03-12T16:42:00.000-05:00

This is a non-Microsoft site, filled with Community Created Visual Studio 2010 Wallpapers!
http://vs2010wallpapers.com/

Creating Shortened URLs

2011-03-12T11:27:00.000-05:00

This article shows how to use Google's URL Shortener API to create shortened URLs.

Creating Shortened URLs

How to Fix a Failing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Install | Microsoft Windows 7 | Tech-Recipes

2011-03-10T16:09:00.003-05:00

How to Fix a Failing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Install | Microsoft Windows 7 | Tech-Recipes

Sometimes Windows patches or service packs simply will not install successfully. Following the definition of insanity and going back to Microsoft Update to try again and again does not usually fix the problem. Here are 3 things you can do to get that update installed.

I recommend completing all of the following, in order, before trying to re-install the update:
1. Check the system drive for filesystem errors:
-Open an Administrative command prompt (hit Windows key, type cmd, hit Ctrl + Shift + Enter)
-Type: chkdsk c: /f
-Hit “y” when prompted
-Reboot and wait
2. Run the System File Checker:
-Open an Administrative command prompt
-Type: sfc /scannow
-Wait for completion
-Reboot
3. Download and run the Windows Update Readiness Tool:
-Read and then follow the appropriate download link here
-Run the downloaded Update Readiness Tool
-Wait patiently for it to complete, this may take some time with little indication of progress until the end
-See the logs after it finishes: %systemroot%\Logs\CBS\CheckSUR.log and CheckSUR.persist.log

A Visual Studio 2010 Extension which provides JavaScript code analysis using JSLint.

2011-03-10T12:12:00.001-05:00

JSLint for Visual Studio 2010

Features

Simple .vsix double-click installation. Also available on the Visual Studio Gallery website, and downloadable directly from within Visual Studio using Tools->Extension Manager.
Configure from the Tools menu. Screenshot
Import/Export Options.
Analyze all JavaScript files when building the project or solution (also supports analyzing HTML files containing JavaScript).
Analyze selected JavaScript files from the Solution Explorer. Screenshot
Analyze a selected JavaScript snippet or the complete file while in the Code Editor window. Screenshot
Output as Errors, Warnings, Messages or Tasks. Screenshot
Skip validation of certain script files and folders when building (e.g. non-user code). Screenshot
Skip validation of a file section. Screenshot
Predefine JSLint global variables, per file or globally.
CSS validation.
New: Detection of constants (optional)

jQuery Snippets for Visual Studio 2010

2011-02-11T18:03:00.001-05:00

Found it on John Sheehan blog.
I love Visual Studio code snippets. I’ve always wished that Visual Studio had them for HTML and JavaScript so I was thrilled to see that feature added in VS2010. I also love jQuery. jQuery is shipping with VS2010, but that’s about the extent of the official support for it. I thought there needed to be code snippets for jQuery and couldn’t find any, so I created 131 of them and started an open source project. You can find links to the project/downloads/docs below.
If you have any suggestions, issues, etc. Please let me know. You can follow me on Twitter for updates on the project. Thanks to Dave Ward, Jonathan Carter, and Rick Schott for testing them out and providing feedback.

Original Post Here

BIG Thanx to John Sheehan.

Building Large-Scale jQuery Applications

2011-01-04T19:57:00.002-05:00

Today we’re going to look at the end-to-end tools and options you have for building large-scale enterprise jQuery applications. Although jQuery is an excellent JavaScript library and provides a well-designed set of tools for development, it’s focus on staying compact and making the DOM easy to use has meant that it doesn’t provide a significant infrastructure for building large-scale apps.

jQuery does however normalize things across browsers and serves as a great way of doing DOM manipulation. Using it to it’s strengths, you can select some excellent tools to use along-side it as a toolkit for your larger-scale app development.

Some developers have argued in the past that building RIAs using Dojo, MooTools or YUI may be more suitable for large-scale JavaScript applications than simply opting for jQuery, however, I believe you can implement a solution using it that is equally as good without too much extra effort.

In this post we’ll be looking at ways you can put together a toolkit for large-scale jQuery application development by identifying the options you have available at the moment for dependency management, MVC with jQuery, templating, testing, minification and more.

Original post here

Use an old Satellite Dish as a Wi-Fi Range Booster

2011-01-03T17:57:00.000-05:00

Use an old Satellite Dish as a Wi-Fi Range Booster

My Favorite Programming Fonts for Visual Studio Development

2010-11-04T13:42:00.000-04:00

I spend almost 6 hours everyday, working on Visual Studio. That makes me experiment with the type, color and size of the fonts I use in my IDE, to make my development environment look hot and fresh! Here’s a list of my favorite programming fonts. Please note that this list is just my personal preference.

Original post from DevCurry.com here.

Consolas

DejaVu Sans

Monaco

Lucida Console

Visual Studio Programmer Themes Gallery

2010-11-04T13:28:00.002-04:00

Create and share Visual Studio color schemes.
Great growing community of Visual Studio Styles and Themes. You can create, import and export themes in your browser!

Some of the Top-rated schemes:

jQuery 1.4.3 API Cheat Sheet

2010-10-26T14:22:00.000-04:00

As usual, our Russian friends updated Cheat Sheet for jQuery 1.4.3 Here
Pdf Version
Png

Best jQuery Plugins - September 2010

2010-10-20T19:13:00.002-04:00

Best jQuery Plugins - September 2010, Original post Here .

Snippet :: jQuery Syntax Highlighter

Snippet is a jQuery syntax highlighting plugin built on top of the SHJS script found on SourceForge. Snippet provides a quick and easy way of highlighting source code passages in HTML documents.
Try out a demo

Exposure

Exposure is a jQuery plugin for rich and smart photo viewing that can handle very large amounts of photos.

$ ulSlide

This plugin will help you to add slide and fade effects to the site in more simple way.
Try out a demo

Easy Gallery

An easy jquery image gallery slider. Simple code and simple HTML code.
Try out a demo

IMGr :: jQuery Image Rounder

IMGr is a jQuery plugin for rounding image corners. The script utilizes CSS3 in modern web browsers, and VML in Internet Explorer 8 and below.
Try out a demo
and much More ...

Microsoft Developer Guidance Maps

2010-10-14T15:16:00.001-04:00

As part of creating an "information architecture" for developer guidance at Microsoft, one of the tasks means mapping out what we already have. That means mapping out out our Microsoft developer content assets across Channel9, MSDN Developer Centers, MSDN Library, Code Gallery, CodePlex, the All-in-One Code Framework, etc.

You can browse our Developer Guidance Maps at http://innovation.connect.microsoft.com/devguidancemaps

Original J.D. Meier's Blog Here .

Why Working From Home is both Awesome and Horrible

2010-08-26T19:45:00.000-04:00

Hat tip to Hyperbole and a Half for the artwork on this one.

12 Absolutely and Insanely Essential Utilities For Programmers

2010-08-02T20:31:00.001-04:00

There's a great post on Programmers MUST have tools and software from Jesse Liberty Senior Program Manager for Microsoft.

#1. ReSharper or CodeRush
#2. Fiddler and FireBug
#3. Tortoise SVN
#4 TimeSnapper
#5 Instant VB….
#6 ExamDiff Pro
#7 AutoHotKey
#7 AutoHotKey
#8 Clipx
#9 Snip It Pro
#10 Evernote
#11 Mozy
#12 Mikago

More details Here

Me & Mitch Fatel

2010-07-24T02:58:00.000-04:00

I think this guy one of the funniest comedian.
I saw him at Tampa Improv on Jan 2010.

Visit his site @ http://mitchfatel.com

Modern Life?

2010-07-24T02:46:00.002-04:00

Soccer | Football | World Cup - Worst Dives of All Time

2010-07-24T02:45:00.000-04:00

The worst football/soccer dives of all time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kswQkBvMe9w

This staff is funny.

STANDUP COMEDIAN | FIRST TIME OF SEX

2010-07-24T02:42:00.001-04:00

It's the best comeback.
Turn up your volume.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfKq_x4bpM&

30 Pro jQuery Tips, Tricks and Strategies

2010-07-08T07:33:00.000-04:00

Whether you’re a developer or a designer, a strong jQuery skillset is something you can’t afford to be without. Today, we'll see 30 handy jQuery coding tricks that will help you make your scripts more robust, elegant and professional.

#1 – Delay with Animate()
#2 – Loop through Elements Backwards
#3 – Is There Anything in the jQuery Object?
#4 – Access iFrame Elements
#5 – Equal Height Columns
#6 – Find a Selected Phrase and Manipulate It

#7 – Hack Your Titles to Prevent Widows
#8 – Add Pseudo-Selector Support in IE
#9 – Manage Search Box Values
#10 – Create a Disappearing ‘Back-to-Top’ Link

Original Post Here .

5 jQuery Must Have Code Snippets

2010-07-08T07:28:00.002-04:00

If you haven’t heard of jQuery yet, than you are definitely missing out on one of the most dynamic and stable JavaScript Libraries. With thousands of plug-ins and added widgets it makes jQuery one of the leaders in javascript frameworks. jQuery is designed to cut all hand-code in half if not more simplifying HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for more streamlined web development.

1.)Linkable Div’s

2.)Table Stripes (Zebra)

3.)Swap Input Fields

4.) Back To Top Link

5.)On Hover Add/Remove Class

Original Post Here .

Best jQuery plugins - June 2010

2010-06-22T15:38:00.006-04:00

JcubeiT Plugin

Pretty funny one demonstrating how to build a cube using new CSS properties.
Its use is very simple, you only need 3 objects (the visible faces of the cube) inside of a DIV container. Such objects could be links, images, other divs, etc.
Try out a demo

dualSlider

A great option to have as a splash feature at the top of your site, highlights recent articles you want to advertise, that might have a nice graphic or even a video...basically anything you want.
Try out a demo

popeye - an inline lightbox alternative

Popeye generates an inline image gallery from an unordered list of images. The gallery features clever inline image enlargement, i.e. the enlarged image stretches out over the site content without adding a visual overlay of the whole site. It stays fixed with one edge to its original coordinates, so that a sense of cohesiveness is created in the user interface and interaction.
Try out a demo

Image Desaturate

This plugin allow you to desaturate (convert to gray) images. Support of transparent png for IE is included (not compatible with other png fix plugins).
Try out a demo

and More .

New Chart Control in Visual Studio 2010

2010-05-13T18:19:00.000-04:00

There is a lot of excitement around the imminent release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0. Amongst many new features is the ASP.NET Web Charting Control. In this video, Max Adams introduces the control and demonstrates just how easy it actually is to create visually appealing statistical or financial analysis tools in a browser using the Chart control.
Video Here.

Comic for April 24, 2010

2010-05-04T12:35:00.004-04:00

19 Tips Every Windows 7 User Needs to Know

2010-05-04T12:27:00.001-04:00

Twist cap carefully. Only pour into Maximum PC-approved computer tanks.
After installing a new OS, most people just jump right in and start driving it through all their favorite applications and games. Makes sense, right? The operating system, after all, should be a background player in the computing experience—a means to an end, with the end being web surfing, content editing, and wanton destruction in the first-person shooter of one’s choice.... More

Keyboard Shortcuts for Committed Mouse Abolitionists

Windows + Up and Windows + Down
Windows + Shift + Up and Windows + Shift + Down
Windows + + and Windows + -

Track Your Actions with Problem Step Recorder

Launch Games with Keystrokes

Take Control of UAC

Calculate Your Mortgage and Other Math Tricks

and many more....

LUXURY???

2010-05-04T12:21:00.000-04:00

Found this image Here.

Flowchart: Let’s Grab a Beer!

2010-05-04T12:19:00.000-04:00

Chart layout by James Norton / Heavy Table
This chart, of course, just scratches the surface and — due to space and organizational concerns — omits many other worthy establishments (Stub & Herb’s, Acadia, Groveland Tap, etc. and so forth). We hope that this is the beginning, not the end, of many a quest for a great local pint or bottle.

Populate an ASP.NET ListBox from JSON results using jQuery

2010-05-04T12:14:00.000-04:00

In this example, we will see how to consume an ASP.NET Web Service (EmployeeList.asmx) that is JSON Serialized. The data source for this web service is List in the Employee.cs class. The class can be downloaded from the source code available with this article. Here’s a snapshot of what the class looks like.

Original post Here.

Live Demo

jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet

2010-04-28T11:27:00.002-04:00

Thank you to our Russian friends (FutureColors.ru), they posted jQuery 1.4 API Cheat Sheet, included changes for 1.4.1 & 1.4.2 versions.
Online version here.
Pdf version here.
Image version here.

Best jQuery plugins - April 2010

2010-04-27T13:24:00.004-04:00

A lot of new and updated jQuery plugins from ajaxLine.com

3D Cloud Carousel

jQuery Slider (Safari style)

TopSlideBox

jQuery modalBox

and many more...

Original Post Here.

Visual Studio 2010 Keyboard Shortcuts Poster

2010-04-21T19:14:00.001-04:00

Reference cards for the default keybindings in Visual Studio 2010 for Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual C++ and Visual F#.

Download it Here

Cool VS color theme sharing site

2010-04-20T21:22:00.000-04:00

Nice little site for sharing Visual Studio color themes.
Here's link

Gmail Adds Drag-and-Drop Attachment Uploads, Deeper Calendar Integration

2010-04-15T22:37:00.000-04:00

Starting today, Google Chrome and Firefox 3.6 users can drag and drop attachments into Gmail messages without hassling through the slow, kind of annoying manual file upload. Gmail has also increased their support for Google Calendar with a new Invitation feature.

Drag-and-drop support allows you to simply attach a file into Gmail composition window by dragging the file from an open window into it. There's not much to it beyond that, but it's an incredibly handy feature to have.

The Official Gmail Blog

Ten Cool Things You Didn’t Know About Visual Studio 2010

2010-04-14T18:10:00.003-04:00

The 10 most useful new features in Visual Studio 2010.
Original Post by Gergely Orosz.

1. Pin variables when debugging

2. Box selection

3. Search on-the-fly

4. Zooming

5. View Call Hierarchy (my favorite)

iPhone & Wp7 should bow their heads

2010-04-12T22:00:00.000-04:00

While iPhone 3G owners and would-be Windows Phone 7 buyers sit in the corner, quietly weeping over their lack of true multitasking, webOS and Symbian continue to point and laugh.

Original Post Here.

For Developers: Visual Studio 2010 and Silverlight 4.0 launches, brings improved Windows Phone 7 developer tools

2010-04-12T21:41:00.002-04:00

Over the weekend Microsoft has launched the latest iteration of their Visual Studio product, Visual Studio 2010. Silverlight 4.0 will also be released later this week to the web for download.

Original Post Here.

ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010 Released

2010-04-12T21:12:00.001-04:00

New version can be downloaded Here.

Learn about the new features and improvements that enable you to easily build, deploy, and manage great Web sites and applications with ASP.NET 4 and Visual Studio 2010.