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  • SmartPhone WebService Development with the Emulator

    Wednesday, December 08, 2004
    Ok, so I'm really more of a rich client kind of guy.  Give me some Windows Forms, heck...even give me some ASP.NET.  But even I have to admit that it is damn cool to access data across the country or even across the world through the air from your mobile phone or pocket pc. So I dive right into the SmartPhone 2003 SDK and start making another front end for a little project I'm doing on the side.  I already have a Web Service setup that my Windows Forms Smart Client calls so I figured it would be easy to setup
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  • Personal Content Moving

    Monday, December 06, 2004
    I started my own "personal space" over on MSN and will be posting all of my personal content there if anyone is interested.  I'll probably be talking about planning our wedding, cool things happening around me (family related or not) and just non-tech oriented stuff I find from time to time. This blog will be devoted just to tech-oriented stuff.
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  • UPDATE: PlaceHolder That Persists Its Children

    Thursday, December 02, 2004
    Previously, I had talked about a really cool control.  Since I started using it though I've had some strange problems.  One example is that after I loaded a control into the placeholder, the first time I posted back (say...for a LinkButton.Click Event) it wouldn't fire off the event.  Every postback after that however, it would.  Looking into it further, I noticed that the ID of all the controls in the placeholder were changing (from say ctrl7_MyButton to ctrl6_MyButton).  I wasn't sure why this would be because my structure wasn't changing as far as I knew.  I e-mailed Denis (the creator
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  • Death of a Man's Pride

    Thursday, December 02, 2004
    A bud at work had a sad experience with a remote control plane.  Sorry this isn't about .NET but it's entertaining!  :) Remote Control Plane Flight It was a cool little plane...until it was obliterated on the pavement.  The body was made of styrofoam.  The wings and nose were plastic with 4 electric motors.  I got the honor of launching the plane into her first and last flight.  By the time it was all over, she went down head first into the pavement where the whole front end promptly exploded into a snow shower of foam and plastic with two engines completely
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  • PlaceHolder That Persists Its Children

    Friday, November 19, 2004
    I'm currently creating a wizard engine in ASP.NET that we can reuse.  The data is saved in Sql Server tables and associated with users.  Creating new wizards just involves setting up some new rows in the database and any custom UI you need.  A big part of this that I needed was a PlaceHolder Control that didn't lose its children between postbacks.  I have a UserControl for each step in the wizard and just flip them in and out when flipping through the steps. Luckily, Google came to the rescue as always, because I knew I had heard of someone
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  • VB Slashdotted

    Friday, November 19, 2004
    Rod Paddock brought to the attention of the VB MVPs that the patent for the IsNot Operator has been slashdotted...interesting... You might notice Amanda Silver and Paul Vick being on there as authors. UPDATE: Oops, just saw that Paul already blogged about this...
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  • Server Controls that work in all browsers

    Wednesday, November 17, 2004
    This is another post just asking the question:  Do any of you out there know of any server controls that are either menus or tab controls that work in all browsers?  I could write them myself, but it would take a bit of time.  We'd rather just purchase them if someone has made them.  Post a comment if you have any recommendations...thanks!  :)
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  • Messenger-like Window Behavior

    Thursday, November 11, 2004
    I've been finding that more and more of my projects (at work and at home) need to function how Windows (MSN), AOL & Yahoo Messenger work.  You know, where you have an icon in the system tray and if you have the application open and hit the minimize button, it minimizes the application just like any other application, but if you click the close button, the form is hidden off of the start bar (almost like it's minimized to the system tray instead).  Then you can double click on the icon and have it come right back up.  Since this is
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  • My XBox Won't Get On XBox Live!

    Wednesday, November 10, 2004
    Hopefully the title of this entry will get through on Google and help a few people.  Having troubles getting your XBox Live account to work through your router (wireless or not)?  Does it say that you have to install an update to continue using XBox Live, but says the server is not responding?  Disable UPnP and watch it work like magic. Thanks to my cousin Adam for the tip!  :)
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  • ASP.NET Testing

    Friday, October 29, 2004
    This is more of a survey than an informational entry, but I'm just kind of curious if anyone has done any UI testing for ASP.NET.  If so, what would you recommend?  Please leave comments...thanks!  :)
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