I have used a couple of controls from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit , namely the Animation Extender and the Drop Shadow for the AJAX Showcase . But today I spent some time with the new Validator Callout Extender. I have to tell you that I…
Jim’s post and picture explain it all. He looks like a happy man, doesn’t he? I’ll write some more about the book a bit later - like where you can go to meet a large bunch of people who contributed to it as well as the two authors.
If you’re reading this post from my site rather than through RSS and you happened to come via the home page or some other post listing page then you may have seen the new post icons listed beside some of the post titles. How easy was it to do that…
I’ve been getting cards and letters from people I don’t even know asking, “Hey, how about a status update on WIWM!“. Being beholden (a recent addition to my vocab thanks to the illustrious Clark Marx) to you, my dear audience, I cannot refuse such…
In my last post I took a first pass at designing the database for WhatIWantMost.com. The next step is to use CodeSmith and .netTiers to generate… well, um… the .NET Tiers. Using .netTiers in as easy as they say it is on the site. Really, all…
After reading Scott’s post about Virtual Desktop Manager , one of Microsoft’s XP PowerToys, I decided to give it a try. Like everyone else I have about a gazillion applications open at once and this little tools sounded like a good way to keep…
In my last post in the WhatIWantMost series I further defined the basic entities for the project by adding attributes I think they need. The next step is to make a first pass at designing/implementing a database to support those entities. I simply…
Friday night I tried to update the machineKey section of a web.config file of a site so that it could share logins with another couple of sites. I have done this before a couple of times with those sites. The site currently has the machine keys…
In my last post I defined what I believe to be the basic set of entities needed for the site. I may need to add more later, but for now they will suffice. The goal is to make a decision and keep moving. I don’t want to spend too much time over…
I found an additional tool that I would like to include in the WhatIWantMost project: EViL , Dave Donaldson’s Entity Validation Library. I saw Dave give a presentation on using custom attributes for entity validation at CINNUG a few months ago and…
