Sol 3

[Download Here]  Release Notes: This release includes a bunch of defects which have been streaming in via the Issue Tracker and Discussions (keep it up folks!). I also double check that the log4net config file exists in the package.As usual just unzip the contents of the release, and replace all files in your existing application ...

http://www.intel.com/cd/software/products/asmo-na/eng/399359.htm Clearly the days of just getting a faster cpu to solve performance problems are gone.  We are moving into the days of multiple cores and multiple threads per code.  I applaud Intel for coming out with this product.  I've built threaded applications and I ...

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 ...

This is one of my favorite times of the year. It’s a busy time of the year, but it’s fun. If you’re not into the holidays, chances are you’re too busy and you need a vacation. Even the busiest individuals can enjoy the holidays. Since I was little, I was always fascinated with Christmas lights and decorations. (1980’s photograph will be inserted ...

Microsoft just released an update to the Silverlight 2 DataGrid that fixes the following issues:  Rows containing focus no longer disappear when the ItemsSource changes DataGrid Selection is preserved when sorting Buttons outside the DataGrid work as expected when they are clicked while the DataGrid is in editing mode ...

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 ...

Every now and then I blog about non-techie topics since there’s a lot going on in the world besides code.  In a previous post I wrote about “know it all” people and a new song called Learning to Fall that my son and I wrote about them.  This post covers a different topic. Over the weekend I went to Disneyland with my wife and two ...