WinFX renamed to .NET Framework 3.0
As expected, WinFX has now officially been renamed to .NET Framework 3.0. It contains the same lovely ingredients as its previous incarnation: WPF, WCF, WWF and now also WCS.
Posts in category ”Coding”
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Dynamic type creation in ASP.NET
ASP.NET web controls are usually littered in the markup in design time, but sometimes there is a need to dynamically add controls to an ASP.NET web page in runtime. Its quite easy to generate a server control from a string.
Using CSS Sprites
CSS Sprites was first introduced in 2004 by Dave Shea in the article CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death. The word “sprite” derives from the old 8-bit days where bitmaps were moved around the screen in games.
The beauty of simplicity in interfaces
Over the years, we’ve seen the birth and death of several design patterns for graphical user interfaces.
Breakpoint issues in Visual Studio
When debugging large projects in Visual Studio, I’ve sometimes noticed that the IDE has suddenly inserted breakpoints at random places in the code. This can be confusing, since they does not appear in the list of breakpoints.
Firehoses in SQL Server
While modifying rows in a database with Enterprise Manager in SQL Server 2000 I got an exciting error message: “Transaction cannot start while in firehose mode”. Even though this is better than “Error=47”, I think it would be nice with a bit more information.
Microsoft Live 2006 tour
I just got home from a day filled of Microsoft information. There were sessions on three parts of WinFX: Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Communications Foundation and Windows Workflow Foundation.
MIX06 in Las Vegas
Following the events of SXSW, the MIX06 conference was the next logical step. For the last days the Venetian in Las Vegas has been hosting this eagerly awaited event focusing on Microsoft web issues.
Turkish culture issues in .NET
I came across a very fishy bug which seemed to occur only for Turkish locales in Windows. It turned out that case sensitivity was the culprit and both Rick Strahl and Scott Hanselman had written about the issue a few months ago.
Creating a dropdown menu in CSS
Dropdown menus are often done with a lot of JavaScript but I wanted to do one using CSS. It is reasonably cross-browser and standards compliant.