Johnny Mnemonic 1

Stephen Kennedy — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 08:43:00 GMT

No GUF, chew your CUD. G - Ghosted U - Uncustomized F - File system C - Customized U - Unghosted D - Database

WPF - Notes

Stephen Kennedy — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:10:00 GMT

XAML Your WPF world probably will revolve a lot around XAML. Note the two (initial) presentation options for XAML thick-client apps:

Globalizing Web Sites and You

Stephen Kennedy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:01:00 GMT

In one of the labs for this session, you were asked to globalize a page in our DVD website by getting the default.aspx page to support not only english but french. This was achieved by creating an App_LocalResources folder (one of the 'special' pre-defined folders supported by ASP.NET infrastruct ... (More)

Writing to Config files and You

Stephen Kennedy — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:03:00 GMT

I was able to clean up my demo code to get it working. My "path" to the customErrors section was the issue (since it's nested in the system.web section, we have to use a bit of XPath to reference it. The following code corresponds to a SelectedIndexChanged event for a DropDownList, and c ... (More)

Session 6 - Student Questions

Stephen Kennedy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:44:00 GMT

Binding to a Collection of Custom Objects This is relatively easy. If we have a class that contains properties that expose values, we can quickly and easily bind a collection/array of those objects to a bindable control. Let's say this is our custom class:public class Employee { int _ ... (More)

Custom Web Controls and You

Stephen Kennedy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:20:00 GMT

In what seems like eons ago, someone asked about custom web controls. As mentioned, in addition to creating Web User Controls (.ascx) we can extend existing controls as well as create ones from scratch. The latter is fairly easy to start off with, but gets more complicated depending on what you ... (More)

Destructors (Finalizers) and You

Stephen Kennedy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:58:00 GMT

By now we all know and love constructors -- special procedures called via the new keyword to initialize our objects during instantiation.public class Class1 { public Class1() { // initialization code } } However, little has been said about the constructor's twin, the destruc ... (More)

Session 7 - Labs

Stephen Kennedy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:31:00 GMT

Labs for Session 7 include those related to security, master pages and navigation. c:\labs\set 1\Session 3 ASP.NET\Lab5 Security\lab_5_Security.html For this lab you will only do the first part, adding a login page and using the web site configuration tool to enable Forms security. Do not do ... (More)

Session 6 - Labs

Stephen Kennedy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:16:00 GMT

We have three labs for this week's session. c:\labs\set1\Session 3 ASP.NET\Lab3 Localization\lab_3_Localization.html This lab gets you to create a localizable web page -- a page that supports English as well as another language. The lab, and also doing so for a production application is relati ... (More)

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