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Dictionary & Collection Initializers
I've been working with the 3.5 Framework pretty much exclusively for last 3 months and I just recently ran across one of the new features that I some how missed, Dictionary & Collection Initializers. Before the C# 3.0 the only collections you could Read More...
A Richer DynamicDataFilter - Part 5 ColumnContains
I'm not really sure what to call this post, so it's just the name of the control I wrote.  A reader left me the following message on a previous post during this series on the extended DynamicDataFilter: Hi I was wondering if you could guide me on Read More...
Encapsulation Generation Tool
Last week I was helping out on a project and there was a need to encapsulate or wrap an existing type to extend some functionality.  The reason was that functionality in the soon to be encapsulated type could not be extended due to a majority of Read More...
Safe Binding using Lambdas
Friday I was discussing some of the new features in Visual Studio 2008 SP1 with some co-workers and one of them mentioned a new feature where VS 2008 will do symbolic renaming on all WCF Service Artifacts.  This lead to a conversation on how the Read More...
A Richer DynamicFilterRepeater - Updated for April Release
This week the Dynamic Data team has released a new drop of the runtime and templates.  It is substantially different and they have made many improvements to the design.  These changes, as expected, broke a significant portion of the Dynamic Read More...
A Richer DynamicFilterRepeater - Part 4 Custom DynamicFilterControls & Expressions
In post 2 in this series I contrived a scenario where composite parameters were used to select products from the AdventureWorks database by weight.  The weight of products is stored in either lbs or grams which make it necessary for the following Read More...
A Richer DynamicFilterRepeater - Part 3 DynamicFilterControl
In part 1 of this series I discussed extending the LinqDataSource to provided advanced querying capabilities using the System.Linq.Dynamic namespace.  Part 2 demonstrated creating advanced WhereParameters which allowed for for complex binary logic.  Read More...
Updated ASP.NET Dynamic Data Drop
Scott Guthrie just posted about an updated version of the ASP.NET Dynamic Data framework.  I am going to look into this and investigate if there were any breaking changes to the Dynamic Filter control set.  I'm guessing there will be several Read More...
A Richer DynamicFilterRepeater: Part 2 - Advanced Parameters
After extending the LinqDataSource in Part 1 , I was curious to see what other types of parameters I could make.  My first idea was to create composite parameters for and/or operations.  The existing implementation of the LinqDataSource only Read More...
Yet Another Windows Live Writer Code Plug-in
I took some time this weekend to get our company blog site in order. I have neglected my blog long enough and I am going to start posting more. One of my biggest issues with blogging was the poor web user interface we had be using. So I started digging Read More...
HttpRequest/Response Logging HttpModule
A simple example to log http request and response data on a web server using an HttpModule. Read More...