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June 2006 - Posts

The ASP.NET Follies

I've been wanting to write an article for some time now on the common mistakes that ASP.NET developers make. MSDN Magazine provided me with a forum, and the article, entitled Web App Follies , appears in the current issue. Check it out and make sure you're Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 28, 2006 10:27 PM by jprosise | 5 Comments
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Hiding the Root Node from SiteMapPath

ASP.NET developers often set SiteMapDataSource's ShowStartingNode property to false to hide the root node from TreeView and Menu controls. Unfortunately, that doesn't hide the root node from SiteMapPath controls, because SiteMapPaths bypass SiteMapDataSources Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 22, 2006 6:37 PM by jprosise | 21 Comments
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eWeek Got It Right

A much better and more accurate account of the great discussions that took place at yesterday's Atlas BOF appears on eWeek's Web site: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1976726,00.asp Check it out if you want the real scoop. Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:25 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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More on the Atlas BOF

MSFN (Microsoft Software Forum Network) has picked up the Atlas BOF story run by InfoWorld. In the BOF, we discussed the brilliance of the Atlas UpdatePanel as well as some of the challenges Microsoft faces in getting it to work in every conceivable scenario. Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:12 PM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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InfoWorld Story Didn't Capture the Spirit

Yesterday at TechEd I moderated a Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session on Microsoft Atlas. It was standing room only and the atmosphere was electric. InfoWorld reporter Paul Krill attended the session and within hours had posted an article on what he saw Read More...
Posted Thursday, June 15, 2006 2:32 PM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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Want to do a Good Deed? XBoxes for Heroes

If you've read this blog for a while, you may recall that last year I ran a little project sending goodies to troops in Iraq . I sent them an XBox, the XBox team at Microsoft kicked in a bunch of games, and readers of this blog contributed XBox games Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 10, 2006 1:23 AM by jprosise | 1 Comments
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Atlas BOF at TechEd

I'm flying home tomorrow after a couple of days of meetings at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond. On Saturday I leave for TechEd in Boston. There I'll be doing a Sunday precon on ASP.NET 2.0 (with a little Atlas thrown in, too) and a couple of ASP.NET Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 07, 2006 3:45 AM by jprosise | 2 Comments
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