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My coding blog entries. Typically will either be more complex coding examples or overcoming product issues / troubleshooting resolutions.

January 2007 - Posts

Ajax: HoverMenuExtender
The HoverMenuExtender can be a fabulous control that can be used to jazz up your website and increase the actual usability of your site. It works by attaching itself to a control such as a LinkButton, Image, or pretty much any control you see fit. The Read More...
Day 2: WCF, WPE, WPF Vista SDK installation
Having at least gotten the development site running again after last nights installation issues. I discovered after re-booting, that Visual Studio would no longer launch. It would bring up the splash screen but nothing else. .NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 Read More...
Why the Microsoft HoverMenu Should Be your best friend
Two really nice features I like that I do not have to program hacks to make work the way I want to (don't get me wrong I really enjoy the ModalPopUp but for my purposes I have had to do way to much to make a loaded control seem like it it is getting its Read More...
WCF, WPE, WPF Vista SDK - why why why...
When will I ever learn? I got frustrated with Ajax in Beta and swore on a full case of beer that I would never do a Beta or CTP anything ever again. What did I do? I drank the beer of course which naturally clouded my judgement. And when the next day Read More...
Ajax and Iframes
Even with AJAX capabilities - there are times that a multi-frame page must be generated. Some reasons would be: Your application uses a IHTTP Handler (no master pages) to generate content and requires passing in query string parameters. Lack of desire Read More...
Ajax Under the covers: What exactly is the .AXD
One of the most furstrating issues with programming languages and new developer must learn technology is understanding the hows and why's something actually works. Sure, it is easy enough to cut and paste code examples but almost impossible (unless from Read More...
Ajax Version 1 released and my issues...
It's been awhile since the last post on the blogs here. I had to walk away from the beta stuff as I was personally just getting irritated that with each 'bug' issue I posted it never got addressed or my questions on the forums never got answered. However, Read More...