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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 1:05 AM

Video.Show 1.0 - A Ready To Run Solution For Hosting Video On The Web

I'm really excited to announce that Video.Show has officially been released. It's been available on CodePlex (under the liberal MsPL license) since our beta release back in November , but today it's officially been blessed as a 1.0 release. While we were...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008 10:19 PM

Getting JavaScript and ASP.NET talking (outside of AJAX)

Passing values between ASP.NET and JavaScript code is messy A lot of effort has gone into simplifying the AJAX pattern, in which your JavaScript code calls methods on the server without requiring a full page post. You don't hear much about the synchronous...
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Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:03 PM

ASP.NET Menu and SiteMap Security Trimming (plus a trick for when your menu and security don't match up)

Summary ASP.NET 2005 introduced a pretty solid menu which is integrated with a configuration driven sitemap. The cool part is that the menu can be hooked in with your security roles, so you don't have to worry about hiding or showing menu options based...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008 11:46 PM

Writing a custom ASP.NET Profile class

We made heavy use of the ASP.NET membership and profile system for Video.Show (a Silverlight 1.0 video community website system, available on CodePlex ). In addition to storing basic profile information, we created a custom profile with some additional...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008 1:13 AM

Large file uploads in ASP.NET

Uploading files via the FileUpload control gets tricky with big files. The default maximum filesize is 4MB - this is done to prevent denial of service attacks in which an attacker submitted one or more huge files which overwhelmed server resources. If...
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007 2:03 AM

Ten Tips for a Happy Upgrade to Visual Studio 2008 (Release)

Visual Studio 2008 has been out for over a week. I've upgraded three machines (two Vista, one XP) from Beta 2 to RTM, then upgraded a couple of projects. I've also been watching blog posts and listening in at the Twitter water-cooler to hear about other...
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 2:30 AM

Silverlight doesn't require any JavaScript

Summary It's easier to understand Silverlight when you understand that, at its heart, it's a simple browser plug-in. JavaScript is extremely useful for browser detection, and it's the only way to interact with Silverlight 1.0, but JavaScript not at all...
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Thursday, October 25, 2007 1:07 AM

Creating Zip archives in .NET (without an external library like SharpZipLib)

Overview SharpZipLib provides best free .NET compression library, but what if you can't use it due to the GPL license? I'll look at a few options, ending with my favorite - System.IO.Packaging. SharpZipLib is good, but there's that GPL thing SharpZipLib...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 11:12 PM

I'm an ASP.NET MVP

I'm very happy to announce I was selected as an ASP.NET MVP. Most software developers I've told about this, after congratulating me, confess that they don't really know what an MVP is. I wasn't 100% sure myself. Here's what the MVP site says: Thank you...
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007 2:11 AM

Our ASP.NET book is out. Read some chapters for free!

If you don't know, now you know I'm told that there are still a few people who don't read CodingHorror.com and Haacked.com . These people call themselves the Amish . Well, there may be a few more folks out there with live internet connections who for...
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