There's a good post on Stack Overflow titled UI Terminology: Logon vs Login and a great answer by Jeff Atwood. Jeff uses the number of hits when searching for each of the terms "login" (2,020,000,000), "sign in" (430,000,000), "logon" (27,700,000), and "log on"...
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I finally got my Canon iP1600 printer that's connected to my Server 2003 x86 machine via USB to work from my Server 2008 x64 machine and wanted to note how I did this in case I need to do it again in the future. From Canon's PIXMA iP1600 page select the Drivers & Downloads tab. From the OS drop down...
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Nick Berardi has just written a great post ASP.NET MVC vs. ASP.NET Web Forms that compares the pros and cons of using Web Forms or MVC when developing a web application with ASP.NET. The part that I like most about this blog post is the worksheet scoring system that he's created to provide an objective...
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I've written a Silverlight control to enter into the Mix09 TenK Challenge . This is my entry: BMI Calculator and here is the main gallery page with all the entries. At the time of writing this (9am on Christmas day) I'd finished the project and checked the file sizes. 21,438 bytes - about double what...
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Oxite is a "simple blog engine written using ASP.NET MVC." At the time of writing this I am hosting this blog using Grafitti CMS . If I was about to start this blog I would select Oxite because: It uses ASP.NET MVC which I'm familiar with and have done some work on. It's open source so I can...
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I've just upgraded the Silverlight Toolkit libraries that I'm using to the December 2008 version . When reocmpilling my Calculator IQ project I discovered that the DynamicSeries type had disappeared but it wasn't listed in the changes section so I had to hunt around for it. I compiled the Toolkit's source...
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I was trying to load an embedded resource into a Silverlight DLL using this code: System.Reflection.Assembly asm = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly(); System.IO.Stream xmlStream = asm.GetManifestResourceStream("Namespace.Filename.xml"); XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Load(xmlStream); However, the...
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A collection of resources that I've found useful while learning Silverlight 2. Official Silverlight Site Silverlight 2 Control Demo Page Screencasts for Silverlight 2 Tim Heuer's Blog Jesse Liberty's Blog Silverlight Cream Dependency Properties: Sacha Barber's A Beginner's Guide to WPF Silverlight 2...
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I've finally had a chance to do a bit of work on coming up to speed with Silverlight and thought I'd share my findings and get some feedback. I've created a Calculator site with a couple (so far) of pages written in Silverlight: Mortgage Calculator Temperature Converter I've been trying to compare Silverlight...
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I had a problem with an WCF Service that I'd written that was reading from an MSMQ and would blow up if the message was larger than 64K. Once I'd tracked down the exception that was being thrown (QuotaExceededException) a quick search on Google with "wcf quotaexceededexception" landed me on...
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