ASP.NET WeblogsASP.NET Community BloggersFlexible Database Persisted Application Settings- July 1, 2008 Have you ever needed to say replace the location of your images in your application from one location to another, or had a database routine that ran nightly and you wanted to gracefully control access to your application during that process In this article I am going to show how I approached this on one of my projects and have been pretty happy with it so far. Here's the 10,000 foot view of the solution. Build a SQL table that has 2 varchar(255) columns, one named AppVarName...http://weblogs.asp.net/ryansmith/archive/2008/07/01/flexible-database-persisted-applicatio... SQL Server MVP - Denis Gobo- July 1, 2008 I just wanted to say a big congratulations to a friend of mine, Denis Gobo , on becoming a SQL Server MVP . Denis has taught me many things over the last few years with regards to SQL Server and he continues to be a fountain of knowledge on the subject. If you don't already know Denis, I'd highly recommend subscribing to his blog and check out some of his posts and blog entries at LessThanDot . Congratulations Denis!...(read more)http://weblogs.asp.net/marksmith/archive/2008/07/01/sql-server-mvp-denis-gobo.aspx Im an MVP! Thanks Microsoft!- July 1, 2008 ASPASP.NET Im very happy to have received this award, hopefully my work in the future will receive the same welcome it has done in the past for the various sites, magazines, and projects I have contributed to! Thank you to the MVP lead as well, Victoria Collins! Granvillehttp://weblogs.asp.net/gbarnett/archive/2008/07/01/i-m-an-mvp-thanks-microsoft.aspx ASP.NET MVC "Pager" HTML Helper- July 1, 2008 So I am building my own custom blog using the ASP.NET MVC Framework, and I have been working on the paging aspect.&160; I will be going into more detail how i achieved this but for now, I am publishing a HtmlHelper I have made which has helped me, believe it or not lol, in the paging.&160; The way I have designed it also is kind of decoupled, so i see no reason for its integration into many other applications. &160; My implmentation of the HtmlHelper is here: &160; <%=...http://weblogs.asp.net/andrewrea/archive/2008/07/01/asp-net-mvc-quot-pager-quot-html-helpe... Automating Microsoft Word 2007 with C Sharp- July 1, 2008 Hi, Some time in our project we need to work with word (winword) document programmatically. Word provides a good way to automate nearly all the functionality that can be used through interface. The process of programmatically working with word document is commonly termed as word Automation. I will be using a series of blogs to discuss some of the functionality that can be achieved through word automation. In this Blog I will discuss how we can start programmatically open a new or and...http://weblogs.asp.net/vikram/archive/2008/07/01/automating-microsoft-word-2007-with-c-sha... Speaking at the Inland Empire User Group- July 1, 2008 July 8th Ill be presenting http:geotwitter.net at the Inland Empire User Groups. I dont have a power point presentation yet for GeoTwitter. Right now I show the website and each part of the code as well as how to connect to the CodePlex to download the latest and greatest. However there isnt Internet access at the IEUG. Looks like Ill be working on july 7th to create a presentation. If you are around SoCal on july 8th stop by. Hopefully be then, GeoTwitter will include support to cross post...http://weblogs.asp.net/albertpascual/archive/2008/06/30/speaking-at-the-inland-empire-user... ASP.NET MVC Tip 12 Faking the Controller Context- July 1, 2008 In this tip, I show you how to test ASP.NET intrinsics when building unit tests for an ASP.NET MVC application. I show you how to create a standard set of fake objects that enables you to fake the current user, the current user roles, the request parameters, session state, and cookies. An ASP.NET MVC application is infinitely more testable than an ASP.NET Web Forms application. Every feature of ASP.NET MVC was designed with testability in mind. However, there are still certain aspects of an...http://weblogs.asp.net/stephenwalther/archive/2008/06/30/asp-net-mvc-tip-12-faking-the-con... |