Behind The Code

This will be the first post to start a category about links to resources that have helped me with various development efforts.  My primary reason for starting this category is to have a sort of blogged favorites listing.  I will also discuss how I have applied this information in my own ef... [More]

Headliners, Visual Studio, Web Development, Blogged Favorites Link web applications, asp.net

We use Team Foundation Server as our code repository and Team Foundation Server’s Team Build to perform automated nightly builds.  We have configured Team Build for check-ins to trigger a new build.  After check-ins of a large amount of code yesterday for one of our new SQL Server 2008 Dat... [More]

Errors & Troubleshooting, Featured, Headliners tfs, team foundation server, errors & troubleshooting, team build, workarounds

If you have ever wanted an easy way to cache JavaScript objects and data in your client-side code just like you would when using the ASP.Net's Server side cache then read this article. Monsur Hossain wrote a JavaScript LRU Cache which my partner found while we were searching for a JavaScript cachi... [More]

Code Example, Web Development, Featured asp.net ajax, javascript

This is the second installment of my developer arsenal. Be sure to check out the previous article: Developer Arsenal Tool #1: Nikhil's Web Development Helper The tool that I will be profiling today is the  IE Developer Toolbar. It has many features that somewhat overlap the features in ... [More]

Developer Tools, Web Development toolbars, tools, internet explorer plugin

I started the year with a resolution to act on a desire that I have had for a long time, which was to start a blog. Being a developer, I had several requirements set for myself: · I wanted to host the blog myself · I wanted it to be built on .Net framework (Open Source) · Of cou... [More]

Blogging web hosting, themes, extentions

So you have used update panels before.  And the same code you may have used in an AJAX enabled website does not work when you put it into a Web Application.  I struggled with this for several hours before discovering that if you have the following line in your web.config file it br... [More]

Configuration, Web Development asp.net ajax, web applications

So you are trying to modify the Reporting Services CSV export behavior.  This article will outline two specific behavior changes: How to turn off exporting of the header record How to change the encoding to ASCII By default Reporting Services exports a CSV file encod... [More]

Configuration, Headliners, Featured reporting services, ssrs

The first in a series of articles about web developer tools that are invaluable (to me). [More]

Developer Tools, Web Development toolbars, ajax, tools, json, debugging, javascript, free, internet explorer plugin