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Are you aware of .NET Reflector Pro?

Joteke's Blog — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:01:00 GMT

I'm sure many of my readers know Reflector, that tool to decompile the assemblies to see what it contains, maybe investigating what Microsoft has done with the base assemblies in .NET or maybe trying to understand 3rd party assemblies (or maybe just Read More......(read more)

Book review coming soon...

Joteke's Blog — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:40:00 GMT

After a long silence, I will continue blogging on .NET. The becoming post will be a book review (one is confirmed for now). Timeframe is in a few weeks. Tech tips are still on hold, it's harder to write new tips on ASP.NET anymore, feels as if everything Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 3 is released

Joteke's Blog — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:07:00 GMT

Survey: Ajax usage among .NET developers

Joteke's Blog — Mon, 25 May 2009 05:35:00 GMT

Simone has created a survey to better understand Ajax usage among .NET developers. It would be nice if You could also complete it, if you haven't done so yet, as there are also MS people interested in the results. More answers means more understanding Read More......(read more)

What's new in the BCL in .NET 4 Beta 1 (from BCL Team blog)

Joteke's Blog — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:39:00 GMT

Interesting stuff : http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2009/05/22/what-s-new-in-the-bcl-in-net-4-beta-1-justin-van-patten.aspx My favorite features are parallel extensions, code contracts (I was familiarized with them thanks to Peli ), memory mapped Read More......(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 Training Kit - May Preview is available

Joteke's Blog — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:18:00 GMT

Thanks to Bill Evjen for informing about this. Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=752cb725-969b-4732-a383-ed5740f02e93 The Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Training Kit includes presentations, Read More......(read more)

Do You Want To Give Feedback on ASP.NET 4.0 Beta 1?

Joteke's Blog — Thu, 21 May 2009 09:13:00 GMT

Get Your Copy of Windows 7 RC!

Joteke's Blog — Tue, 05 May 2009 13:26:00 GMT

See: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/download.aspx I've installed Win7 RC on VMWare Server 2 (2.0.1), earlier today, and it went smoothly. There's not yet option for Win7 in VMWare Server, but using Windows Server 2008 as a guest OS Read More......(read more)

Office System 2007 SP2 now available

Joteke's Blog — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:42:00 GMT

More details: http://blogs.msdn.com/chrisfie/archive/2009/04/28/announcing-service-pack-2-sp2-for-microsoft-project-2007-and-microsoft-project-server-2007.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More......(read more)

Free ASP.NET MVC “NerdDinner” Tutorial Now in HTML

Joteke's Blog — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:22:00 GMT

Sharepoint Designer is now free!

Joteke's Blog — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:43:00 GMT

Late to this game, as usual but still adding here. From: http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2009/04/02/sharepoint-designer-available-as-a-free-download.aspx Sharepoint Team made Sharepoint Designer available as a free download. I've been using Read More......(read more)

Release time: Silverlight 3 beta, ASP.NET MVC 1.0, IE8...

Joteke's Blog — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:25:00 GMT

You're blessed to be web developer nowadays :-) Lots of interesting releases by MS lately: ASP.NET MVC 1.0 http://haacked.com/archive/2009/03/18/aspnet-mvc-rtw.aspx download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53289097-73ce-43bf-b6a6-35e00103cb4b&displaylang=en Read More......(read more)

"Security Guidance for Writing and Deploying Silverlight Applications" whitepaper released

Joteke's Blog — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:34:00 GMT

Do you have concerns with Silverlight's security aspects? MS has just released the whitepaper "Security Guidance for Writing and Deploying Silverlight Applications" Download it from here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! Read More......(read more)

Now on Windows 7

Joteke's Blog — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 21:56:00 GMT

I installed Windows 7 Beta to my old home machine. Basic installation took 25 minutes approx. I had slight issues with display drivers since this mummy display adapter (RadeonIGP9100) hasn't worked even with Vista (ever). Well, with nice tip from Read More......(read more)

Techdays 2009, Finland

Joteke's Blog — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:52:00 GMT

I attended Techdays 2009 at Helsinki on 5th of March. It was the biggest MS event in Finland so far, measured purely by the number of audience. I had the honor to participate on Thursday and sit down and chat with many well-known experts like Peli de Read More......(read more)

-2147467259.Message:Unspecified error when installing Business Intelligence Development Studio (SQL2008, 64bit)

Joteke's Blog — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 14:30:00 GMT

Definately, long time no see! I was setting up my new work machine, and during installation of Business Intelligence Development Studio in SQL2008 64-bit, I got the aforementioned error (I had installed VS2008 to other than the default location). Fortunately, Read More......(read more)

Calling WCF service asynchronously from ASP.NET

Joteke's Blog — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:47:00 GMT

I was recently asked how to call WCF Service asynchronously from ASP.NET. Here's my sample code: 1) WCF Service Library Implementation namespace WcfServiceLibrary1 { [ServiceContract] public interface ISampleService { [OperationContract] string SayHelloWorld(); Read More......(read more)

Silverlight 2 released

Joteke's Blog — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:16:00 GMT

Microsoft announces jQuery support in ASP.NET Ajax

Joteke's Blog — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:00:00 GMT

I just noticed a very interesting announcement by Scott Guthrie. Microsoft will officially start co-operating with jQuery development community, adding support for jquery in ASP.NET Ajax, and which also includes Microsoft PSS e.g they take support cases. Read More......(read more)

Book Review: High Performance Web Sites, Steve Souders, O'Reilly

Joteke's Blog — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:00:00 GMT

Author: Steve Souders Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN-10: 0-596-52930-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-596-52930-7 September 2007, 168 pages O'Reilly's web site: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529307/ Companion web site: http://www.stevesouders.com/hpws/ High Read More......(read more)

Is "Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control." causing you grief?

Joteke's Blog — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:20:00 GMT

If you seem to get "Databinding methods such as Eval(), XPath(), and Bind() can only be used in the context of a databound control." in a case where it doesn't seem to make any sense, my first questions are: Are you using <%#Eval("field")%> Read More......(read more)

Pattern for ASP.NET Cache and the new Cache.Insert overload in 3.5 SP1

Joteke's Blog — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:42:00 GMT

David Penton, a fellow AspInsider, has published an excellent article on AspAlliance how to take pattern-like approach to ASP.NET cache A New Approach to HttpRuntime.Cache Management http://aspalliance.com/1705_A_New_Approach_to_HttpRuntimeCache_Management Read More......(read more)

If your XML is somehow always written using UTF-16 (in .NET) , no matter what you try...

Joteke's Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:25:00 GMT

I suggest you have a look at Kirk Allen Evan's blog post: XmlWriterSettings Encoding Being Ignored? http://blogs.msdn.com/kaevans/archive/2008/08/11/xmlwritersettings-encoding-being-ignored.aspx Short explanation is that if you directly or indirectly Read More......(read more)

VS2008 SP1 and .NET 3.5 SP1

Joteke's Blog — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:23:00 GMT

Yes, now it is released and you'll get it at: http://www.asp.net/downloads/3.5-sp1/ Interesting point regaring some old posts of mine e.g Potential solution for "Validation of viewstate MAC failed" http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joteke/archive/2007/08/14/Potential-solution-for-_2200_Validation-of-viewstate-MAC-failed_2200_.aspx Read More......(read more)

Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008

Joteke's Blog — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:56:00 GMT

Look no further: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/aug08/08-06SQLServer2008PR.mspx " REDMOND, Wash. — Aug. 6, 2008 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version Read More......(read more)