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I was surprised to find that this SQL statement does not return .36 as I had expected: select 36/100 as ShowPercent From some online searching I found a post which commented that a decimal result from a division operation would not display properly if both of the values were integers. I have no idea why, but that does seem to be ...

I was surprised to find that this SQL statement does not return .36 as I had expected: select 36/100 as ShowPercent From some online searching I found a post which commented that a decimal result from a division operation would not display properly if both of the values were integers. I have no idea why, but that does seem to be ...

I've noticed that a few hosting companies are now advertising that they have "dedicated cloud" solutions. That's an interesting bit of marketing. A dedicated cloud, as I understand it (and confirmed by details on competitor sites) is basically a webfarm front-end with possibly a database cluster on the backend (though often the ...

Today we launched a new ASP.NET MVC Design Gallery on the www.asp.net site.  The design gallery hosts free HTML design templates that you can download and easily use with your ASP.NET MVC applications.  Included with each design template is a Site.master file, a CSS stylesheet, and optionally a set of images, partials, and helper ...

Animations are a key part of Silverlight 2 that allow your applications to stand out from all of the boring and dull applications floating around on the Web.  In previous articles I’ve written about storyboards and animations but as a quick review, Silverlight relies upon a Storyboard element to define several different types of animations ...

Wally has done another good podcast which can be found here on jQuery support in Visual Studio 2008 and how it compares to ASP.NET AJAX by way of some simple examples. jQuery is a great AJAX library and well worth investing some time in getting familiar with. In fact, you can start right now by listening to the podcast :-)

I’ve been quite busy working on a side project in which I’ll post more details very soon. However, I came across the two latest ASP.NET Podcasts in which I thought I’d share: Caching with ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 ASP.NET AJAX with JQuery

I'm flying out later today on a pretty intense business trip (22,000 miles, 5 countries, 3 continents, 1 week, no sleep... :-), so my blog activity over the next week and a half will be pretty light.  To keep you busy till I return, here is the latest in my link-listing series.  Also check out my ASP.NET Tips, Tricks and Tutorials ...

Microsoft recently released a cool new ASP.NET server control - <asp:chart /> - that can be used for free with ASP.NET 3.5 to enable rich browser-based charting scenarios: Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls Download the VS 2008 Tool Support for the Chart Controls Download the Microsoft Chart Controls Samples ...

Last month I blogged about how Microsoft is extending support for jQuery.  Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery intellisense support within Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer 2008 Express (which is free).  This is now available to download and use. Steps to Enable jQuery ...