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Yearly Archives: 2008

ASP.NET 3.5 Charting Control – Formatting Tooltips as Date

By Damien White | Published: December 15, 2008

I’m sure you all have heard that there is now a free ASP.NET charting control that is an add-on to ASP.NET 3.5.  If you haven’t or need one of the bits, check out ScottGu’s blog.  I recently started using the component and it’s really nice.  While working with it, I ran into an issue formatting [...]

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Gift Ideas for the Geek

By Damien White | Published: November 30, 2008

Christmas is fast approaching, and often I’m asked what to get a fellow tech geek.  There is an infinite amount of things I could write about, but I’ll pick a few items from some popular categories.  In this post, we’ll look at three categories, books (“serious” gifts), Office Space gear (“fun” gifts), and USB gadgets [...]

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Microsoft Announces Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0

By Damien White | Published: September 30, 2008

Yesterday, Monday, September 29th, Microsoft announced the next version of Visual Studio and the .NET Framework.  For even more information on this, September 29th – October 3rd is Visual Studio Team System 2010 week on Channel 9. Microsoft has been busy this week announcing exciting changes, and Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 is certainly [...]

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jQuery and Visual Studio

By Damien White | Published: September 30, 2008

Cool Stuff! Microsoft has announced that they will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward.  For more information on this announcement, you can refer to Scott Guthrie’s or Bertrand Le Roy’s announcement.  It will be licensed under the MIT license (as it is now) and will not be altered from the original source.  The [...]

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Get and Set Properties using .NET Reflection

By Cedric Boudoya | Published: September 29, 2008

Introduction I would like to set the text value on a textbox control. It sounds easy enough. First, I would like to create a textbox web control then I would like to access one of its properties “Text” and set the text to “Hello World”. Well what do you need to do to write your [...]

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