"@fuckingness Not ready for VS11 yet. It will be, but VS11 needs to settle down first.""Home from #vslive, sad to see this one end. I had a great time meeting everyone, and loved Brooklyn.""Planning my speaking gigs now: Magazine rates the best BBQ restaurants in the South http://t.co/mIblCK5L via USA TODAY""I just ousted @nahum_sanchez as the mayor of Charlie Brown's Airport Parking on @foursquare! http://t.co/njpetZIu"
Category Archives: Controls and Components
Attention .NET, Compact Framework and Mono developers! VistaDB 3.0 is now just 3 days away from official release! A reminder that that you have until Feb 24th to take advantage of our pre-release offer and get $100 off VistaDB 3.0. … Continue reading
The Control Gallery at ASP.NET still exists, it’s just not on the menu anymore. It has been moved to the Resources Page, along with Hosts, Community Sites and Case Studies. VWDE, Starter Kits and The Sandbox are on the Downloads page. Alex … Continue reading
I couldn’t find a quick example when I was looking for one, so here’s mine. First, create your stored procedure with an output parameter: CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[MySproc](@MyParameter varchar(50) OUTPUT) And in your sproc, set your parameter to a value set … Continue reading
My latest ASP Alliance article has been published: ASP.NET 2.0 brought about a number of improvements in the way configuration settings are stored and accessed. Several new configuration sections have been added to the web.config schema, settings can be updated … Continue reading
If you’re reading this blog, you’re probably the IT manager for for family and circle of friends. The trick to being the IT manager for this group is to maximize their benefit, while minimizing your own pain. In such a … Continue reading
Another little gallery app I used recently is ThumbGallery from FlashRelief. It’s $20, but that’s really cheap considering how nice this gallery is. You don’t need Flash at all–they provide you with a pre-compiled Flash control which you embed into … Continue reading
nGallery was a great application on its own, but Community Server is just far too much overhead when all you need is a simple gallery app. Even though it haven’t been updated in a while, nGallery is still one of … Continue reading

