Monthly Archives: December 2008

Dynamically Loading ASP.NET User Controls with jQuery

UPDATE (16-07-2009) Here is a new sample website with source code, it now disposes the page object and allows for WebControl rendering. Dynamically Loading ASP.NET User Controls with jQuery v2.zip (25.52 kb) ——————————————  This post is only relevant if you … Continue reading

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How will you parallelize your existing codebase? Try R.A.S.P

Original post: http://www.atalasoft.com/cs/blogs/rickm/archive/2008/12/23/how-will-you-parallelize-your-existing-codebase-try-r-a-s-p.aspx ———————————————————————————————————————- How will you parallelize your existing codebase? Try R.A.S.P. There has been much talk of how we will be writing all of our new code with parallelization in mind.  However, what of our existing code?  It’s … Continue reading

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Improve jQuery – 25 tips

Read more about it in this post: http://www.tvidesign.co.uk/blog/improve-your-jquery-25-excellent-tips.aspx

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Create Word Documents using .NET without Interop

Original blog post: http://www.invoke.co.nz/products/docx.aspx ————————————————————————————– We have decided to release another component we've been using (FREE of charge, click here to download). This library creates Word Documents (.docx) using .NET. It is written purely in C#, you don't need any … Continue reading

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R.I.P. DateTime… well hello DateTimeOffset

I have for a long time been thinking, looking and coding a solution that deals with the fact, that the DateTime represents a time, but not time zone. I have long know, that to truly make a global application you must persist … Continue reading

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Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx} failed due to the following error: 80070005

If you encounter this error, you need to setup the security properties for the component in the "Component services" -> "DCOM Config". This is the original blog post about it: http://blog.crowe.co.nz/archive/2006/03/02/589.aspx Or you can read it here: The problem is … Continue reading

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Ayende explains cascading with NHibernate

To continue my little "post with good links"… here is a good article by Ayende, explaining cascadin with NHibernate: http://ayende.com/Blog/archive/2006/12/02/NHibernateCascadesTheDifferentBetweenAllAlldeleteorphansAndSaveupdate.aspx Here is the basics: Here is what each cascade option means: none – do not do any cascades, let the … Continue reading

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Debugging memory leaks and Parallel LINQ

Link to good articles Debugging OutOfMemoryExceptions in managed code using Windbg http://blogs.msdn.com/amolravande/archive/2008/12/16/debugging-outofmemoryexceptions-in-managed-code-using-windbg.aspx   Query Data with Parallel LINQ http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2008/12/15/query-data-with-parallel-linq.aspx  

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Tool for Mockup and Wireframes

Take a look here http://balsamiq.com/

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Jeff Richter Video on Asynchronous Programming and his Power Threading Library

Jeff Richter Video on Asynchronous Programming and his Power Threading Library:  http://blogs.msdn.com/charlie/archive/2008/12/03/jeff-richter-video-on-asynchronous-programming-and-his-power-threading-library.aspx

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