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Monthly Archives: September 2008

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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ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods

By Damien White | Published: September 7, 2008

Technorati Tags: Page Methods,UpdatePanel,AJAX,ASP.NET If you’ve read things of mine, such as my Wrox Blox Hands On ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, or posts on the ASP.NET Forums, you may have noticed I talk about using ASP.NET AJAX Page Methods lots of the time.  Lots of developers using ASP.NET AJAX overuse the UpdatePanel, or use it [...]

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Fujitsu ScanSnap S510 Review

By Damien White | Published: September 2, 2008

I have been using what can only be described as a wonder in the quest for a paperless office.   Here was my problem, I have countless documents that I consume/produce, for example, bills, invoices, receipts, contracts, etc.  All of these documents end up in various file folders, and things are impossible to find.  For example, [...]

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