My Developer Experiences and Resources and Conclusions and ... (name it)

Must read articles about IE8 - for WebDevelopers

2009-03-25T03:30:00.000-07:00

JavaScript debugger in internet explorer 8

Introducing the ie8 developer tools jscript profiler

Responding to change updated getter setter syntax in ie8 rc 1

SQL can't compare on ntext type - equals

2009-03-12T09:55:00.001-07:00

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/transactsql/thread/6bd4c661-ea0b-435f-af78-097e61549d41/

http://www.willstrohl.com/Blog/tabid/66/EntryId/124/HOW-TO-Compare-Values-in-NTEXT-Field.aspx

SqlCommand Timeout

2008-11-11T02:18:00.000-08:00

I got this error message on my screen.
Here are resources that I found useful to solve it:

Error Message: Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.Error Source: .Net SqlClient Data Provider

http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/31039592/timeout-expired--the-tim.aspx

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=117416&SiteID=1

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.data.sqlclient.sqlcommand.commandtimeout(VS.71).aspx

http://osdir.com/ml/windows.devel.dotnet.general/2002-06/msg01183.html

Playing with Visual Studio customization

2008-07-08T01:26:00.000-07:00

How many times it happened to you that by mistake you've changed your Visual Studio IDE and you didn't know how to reset it back?

And the main problem after was that spending precious time on Google, searching for a solution!

Well, here comes one of the best practices advice on avoiding this bad scenario.

Under Tools menu you have an option "Import and Export settings"
It will take you to next screen:

1.

You should always make a backup of your current settings, just that in case of a trouble, you can always restore your favorite settings back!

2.

3.

Another great thing is that if you haven't already made a back up, you can always use visual studio predefined [default] settings, and build your new one, begging from the good starting point!

4.

Visual studio is one the most customizable IDE's. The only thing is: it requires some research and try out. And once you configure it, it works so smooth that you gonna enjoy it!

Good luck customizing!

How Microsoft teach us to do security

2008-07-01T04:45:00.000-07:00

Microsoft MSDN Security videos

Visual Studio shortcuts - google docs - power point presentation

2008-06-29T11:45:00.000-07:00

Remove annoying F1

2008-06-28T09:30:00.000-07:00

Visual Studio > Tools > Option > Keyboard >
find Help.F1Help shortcut
Click Remove

10 Great tools - beside VS 2008

2008-06-28T09:24:00.000-07:00

http://weblogs.asp.net/ashraful/archive/2008/06/24/10-tools-which-i-still-use-even-i-have-vsts-2008.aspx

Agile Principles - top 10

2008-06-28T04:00:00.000-07:00

As it is a buzz word and as it is being widely accepted around the world, Agile methodologies are making their way in almost every company!
I recently run into great blog describing the basis!

If you are a beginner and you are getting really into Agile, first steps first for you:

1. Active user involvement is imperative
2. The team must be empowered to make decisions
3. Requirements evolve but the timescale is fixed
4. Capture requirements at a high level; lightweight & visual
5. Develop small, incremental releases and iterate
6. Focus on frequent delivery of products
7. Complete each feature before moving on to the next
8. Apply the 80/20 rule
9. Testing is integrated throughout the project lifecycle – test early and often
10. A collaborative & cooperative approach between all stakeholders is essential

http://www.agile-software-development.com/2007/02/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-agile.html

From there, once you have mastered it, you will be able to make your own steps!

GOod luck!

technocrati claim

2008-06-04T13:07:00.000-07:00

Technorati Profile

Mighty clipboard

2008-05-27T13:44:00.002-07:00

How many times you were in a situation that you needed to copy error message from pop up window?

It is time now to stop worry!

Believe it or, solution is so simple!

1. focus pop up window

2. Press "ctrl + c"

3. Open notepad.exe

4. press "ctrl + v"

and there you are!

Simple, isn't it?

Powerful?

Mighty?

Genial?

So use it!

Good luck!

String builder

2008-03-25T16:01:00.000-07:00

BAD:

string result = "";
foreach(string str in strings)
result += str + " ";

GOOD:

StringBuilder result = "";
foreach(string str in strings)
result.append(str + " ");

How to Debug JavaScript with Visual Studio 2005 and Internet Explorer

2007-11-24T03:41:00.000-08:00

I've been wondering a long time how to do this, and I was so happy when I saw Visual Studio 2008 is adding this as a feature!

I knew how to do it with Firefox using Firebug, but I needed all the time to do it with IE and inside visual studio (with all cool features like call stack, quick watch, etc...)

Anyway, I've recently discovered that we are able to do it also with Visual Studio 2005 and Internet Explorer (both 6 and 7)

What you have to do is next:

1. Enable debugging JavaScript in Internet Explorer > Tools > Options > Advanced
2. Start your web application (containing targeted JavaScript) once (browse with IE)
3. Go to Visual Studio 2005, set break point in JavaScript.js file that you want to debug
4. Visual Studio 2005 > Debug - Attach to process > iexplorer.exe ( instance of browser that you use to open web application)
5. Go to your browser againa and reload application (JavaScript file)

Debugger will stop at the place you wanted!!!

Enjoy and develop!

Sky is the limit!

Nothing is impossible!

LIfe cycle of AJAX.ASP.NET pages

2007-11-18T14:09:00.001-08:00

I would like to share with you a very important issue which is the request-life-cycle. The PageRequestManager that is created on the client side once partial page update is enabled, fires several events in the following order that you can attach your own custom events to:

1. It first creates a request to the server using the WebRequest client side object
2. InitializeRequest event fires
3. BeginRequest event fires
4. A callback method will be executed once the response is back from the server
5. PageLoading event fires
6. UpdatePanels on the page are now updated with the new content
7. PageLoaded event fires
8. Load
9. EndRequest event fires

The items in bold represent the events that will fire during the life of a request from the time it gets created to the time it gets destroyed!

And a link to great article describing client side events

http://weblogs.asp.net/davidbarkol/archive/2007/03/25/asp-net-ajax-client-side-event-viewer.aspx

Visual studio addins

2007-11-18T13:21:00.000-08:00

Here you can find 15 visual studio tools that can increase your productivity!
They can boost it up to 200%

http://www.carlj.ca/2007/09/25/15-free-visual-studio-add-ins/

Enjoy coding

MS ASP.NET Control gallery

2007-11-10T08:22:00.000-08:00

Anyone concerning rapid ASP.NET development here can and should try to find some free components:

http://asp.net/community/control%2Dgallery/
Enjoy it! It's rare that MS gives you smthing free!

31 day of resharper

2007-09-12T04:01:00.000-07:00

A must have tool for all Visual Studio C# developers!

http://excastle.com/blog/archive/2007/01/31/13141.aspx

About development

2007-09-11T14:37:00.000-07:00

Here I should write about my development experience, solutions, resources and so on.

So far I've been dealing with

HTML
DOM
CSS
JavaScript (simple scripts and Object Oriented)
AJAX
.NET framework
ASP.NET
C#
Visual Studio 2003, 2005
Visual Source Safe
Team Foundation Server
IIS
SQL Server 2000 and 2005
ILM and MIIS (basics)
Virtual PC
Virtual Machine WMWare
Windows XP
Windows 2003
Windows Vista
Basic Linux (SUSE, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Knopix)
Java
Eclipse
Pocket PC and Smart Phones and Windows CE
Portlets and WSRP portlets
Web Services
XML

and many more

I will be mainly writing about this topics. But, if I start working on some interesting things, I won't be lazy to add them as a content