My take on Microsoft shipping jQuery


First, if you have not heard, Microsoft will be shipping jQuery as part of visual studio. And if the swiftness that the .NET team moves I am sure we can see it in a the next SP. Update: Just re-read the article…The jQuery intellisense annotation support will be available as a free web-download in a [...]

Visual Studio, Wizards, Project Templates and Unsigned DLLS


If, after you followed all the steps at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms185301(VS.80).aspx you are getting an error about unsigned DLLs…try adding the DLL to the bin folder of your project…
Just re-code the wizard in C#…I guess there is a reason all the examples are in C#…

Recursive Queries in SQL Server 2005

among other improvements, SQL Server 2005 included a new XML datatype and enhanced XML functions … thus providing another solution for recursive queries …
for example … if i want to get a list of all of the tables in my database with their associated columns …  i might write the following query:

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How to return a more detailed response in your WSDL for web methods with a return type of XmlDocument

you’ve develop your .net web service … get everything working just the way you like … and then you notice that auto generated wsdl provides a less then ideal definition for the response … something like:

 
<s:complexType mixed=”true”>
<s:sequence>
<s:any />
</s:sequence>
</s:complexType>
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dojox.grid.Grid rows not displaying in IE



If the parent container of a dojox.grid.Grid has its style set to text-align:center the rows of the grid, in IE, won’t display their data. The data, of course, is still there and displays correct in everything else.
Code Snip:

1: <h2>Working</h2>
2: [...]

Html.DropDownList and dojo.byId



Ok, so maybe I’m doing it wrong..(that’s what she said)…and it would not be the first time.
dojo.byId(‘name’).value fails when using the Html Helper “Html.DropDownList” from ASP.NET MVC PR5 as seen below

1: <%’=Html.DropDownList("", "search_form_filter", ViewData())%>

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{
font-size: small;
color: black;
font-family: consolas, “Courier New”, courier, monospace;
background-color: #ffffff;
/*white-space: pre;*/
}
.csharpcode pre { margin: 0em; }
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