Tech Twitterings #2

ASP.NET

• says you might check out the hotfix for false c# errors in ASP.NET code-behind files in SP1... http://bit.ly/fBCeg
• says if you are doing classic ASP.NET WebForms, then this is a pretty cool QueryString Helper Class to use... http://is.gd/58SJ

ASP.NET MVC

• says to check out @haacked ASP.NET MVC blog entry about grouping controllers in "areas" for large applications... http://is.gd/6llI
• use tip from @haacked about Bin Deploying ASP.NET MVC... http://bit.ly/FzpbR
• says if you are looking for a heated discussion watch Jeremy & Chad get opinionated about ASP.NET MVC... http://bit.ly/3oXeZF
• says here is a good overview of ASP.NET MVC and NHaml by Sergio Pereira... http://bit.ly/11TWbO

ASP.NET AJAX

• really wants to watch ASP.NET AJAX Futures talk http://bit.ly/4nHsiU and the jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX talk http://bit.ly/z4e5r both from PDC

ASP.NET Dynamic Data

• says to check out the great new ASP.NET Dynamic Data videos by @MisfitGeek http://bit.ly/1vTu4t

jQuery & JavaScript

• says hm, a virtual machine written in JavaScript!?! Web Sandbox by Scott Isaacs. Watch http://bit.ly/kWC0i & kick tires http://bit.ly/3KfSfG
• says you should check out the JQuery Primer – Part 1 by Karl Seguin... http://bit.ly/1Lnwyp
• says to check out the jQuery and ASP.NET AJAX Demo Code from PDC by @swalther http://bit.ly/yvm3e
• RT @stevehorn: Great 14 minute tutorial by John Resig using Firebug and jQuery.... http://snipr.com/4u07b
• says here is some slightly more detailed information about how to get Rich IntelliSense for jQuery in Visual Studio 2008.. http://is.gd/554i

Visual Studio

• says to force VSTS to think TFS offline then install TF Power Tools, run tfpt tweakui, edit the server, & check offline... http://is.gd/4bBq
• says no wonder I couldn't get SQL Server 2008 to work with Visual Studio 2008 last month. If only I had known..... arg! http://bit.ly/1cSOUM
• says the page for the VS 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP is back up, but downloading them is temporarily unavailable... http://bit.ly/1DPYpN

Silverlight

• says to check out the Silverlight tips of the day: week 9... http://bit.ly/2mfXws

Education

• is listening to .NET Rocks #391 with Bill Wagner on Advanced C#: http://bit.ly/2XbBF9
• just listened to and it was very insightful! http://bit.ly/SgK5u
• is listening to Microsoft Research @PDC on Hanselminutes... http://bit.ly/4zEhA9 Very interesting stuff in the works!
• is listening to ASP.NET Podcast Show 126: Scaling Apps and @NotAtPDC... http://bit.ly/4F6b02
• is listening to .NET Rocks #311: Kirk Munro on Powershell and PowerGUI... http://bit.ly/1l4o59
• says you can grab the powerpoint from Mark Friedman's PDC talk: Performance by Design Using the .NET Framework here.... http://bit.ly/2E7GdL
• says to check out the November 2008 issues of MSDN Magazine... http://bit.ly/2wwziH
• is listening to the .NET Rocks #390 show about "YSlow! Steve Souders finds Website Bottlenecks"... http://bit.ly/3WQ1Jo

Misc

• says this is yet another reason that we are currently black listing Google Chrome on our production website... http://bit.ly/2Q5Dt4
• says we are having memory issues on our production server. Wonder if incorrect setting in Castle Windsor could be cause? http://bit.ly/3ORnv
• @subdigital The longest class name in .NET is UpDownBase+UpDownButtons+UpDownButtonsAccessibleObject+DirectionButtonAccessibleObject...
• says you should read about the future of LINQ from the ADO.NET Team... http://bit.ly/QtDs5
• says for a DEEP dive into C# 4.0, why don't you listen to the program manager and the developers of the C# compiler.... http://bit.ly/4lBfUR
• says you should check out the recent blog entry by @nikhilk : c# 4.0, Dynamic Programming and JSON... http://bit.ly/4aBPSm
• @RyanKeeter I think a lot of people might switch from NHibernate to EF :) MIght be more quick & easy (Linq2Sql) vs enterprise level (EF)....
• says if you interested in f#, @dmohl is a great source of information and code samples. Check out his latest mock post. http://bit.ly/44E6tc
• @serialseb Yeah, regions in c# can be very harmful... http://bit.ly/2WStI1
• @bcook The net panel in the beta versions of firebug have been re-implemented w/ more functionaity & no double loads... http://bit.ly/4i1kbw
• says here is an interesting article: 12 Steps To Faster Web Pages With Visual Round Trip Analyzer http://bit.ly/2wwziH
• just downloaded Firebug 1.3 beta 2 for Firefox released on October 21st... http://is.gd/5gmW
• says Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6... http://is.gd/5gko
• just reinstalled YSlow on his laptop after listening to .NET Rocks #390. Hadn't installed it after my laptop was reimaged.. http://is.gd/vAm
• says if you use WPF then you'll want to take a look at the WPF Toolkit released by Microsoft updated today... http://is.gd/5eSY
• says the IIS’ Web Deployment Tool Beta 2 has been released... Check it out! http://bit.ly/17hT05
• @RyanKeeter You can find Scott Hanselman's session... Microsoft .NET Framework: Overview and Applications for Babies http://bit.ly/3QJlz
• says here is a good overview of what Oslo is... that was announced at PDC. http://is.gd/59cT
• says check out the .NET Framework 4 Poster! http://is.gd/58vs