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Yearly Archives: 2008

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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C# 3.0 – Auto-Implemented Read-Only Properties

By Damien White | Published: August 22, 2008

Technorati Tags: C# This isn’t a new topic by far, but I still encounter the question of how to implement a read-only auto-implemented property, so here it goes. As I’m sure you are aware, C# 3.0 has a wonderful feature known as auto-implemented properties (sometimes referred to as Automatic Properties).  These clean up our code [...]

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Excellent Reading Material – MSMQ, WCF, and IIS

By Damien White | Published: August 21, 2008

Technorati Tags: MSMQ,WCF,IIS If you are working with a WCF service, an MSMQ binding, and hosting in IIS, there are three wonderful articles by Tom Hollander that you should check out.  The series is entitled “MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them to play nice”, here are the three links: MSMQ, WCF and IIS: Getting them [...]

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ObjectDataSource, SOA Style

By Dave Marini | Published: August 18, 2008

It’s been entirely too long since my last post, and with the olympics in full swing, we’ll go with a volleyball theme for this post. BUMP So here’s the scenario. After really digging your teeth into ASP.NET 2.0 and playing around wiih all the cool data access features, you decide to apply a liberal use [...]

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