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Interesting Blend and Silverlight video presentations

clock July 3, 2009 19:10 by author Robbert
Hi there, This week i've watched a couple of video's on Blend 2, 3 and Silverlight which I want to share, that I think are very interesting to watch: From Concept to Production - Prototyping with Blend 3 & SketchFlow (really funny to see that Martin Tirion's Windows 7... [More]
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Getting started with JQuery and Visual Studio .NET 2008 intellisense problem

clock June 11, 2009 21:38 by author Robbert
Hi there, Today at work, I found out something weird about the JQuery intellisense feature in Visual Studio 2008. For 99% of the developers out there you won't have a problem, but for the 1% of plugin developers, you have! But he! There's at least a workaround! So first: T... [More]
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Sitecore's predefined standard fields

clock June 2, 2009 21:40 by author Robbert
Hi there, Did you know that Sitecore has a predefined list of standard fields, you can use? It's located directtly in the Sitecore namespace. So instead of writing: string iconValue = item.Fields["__icon"].Value; You write: string iconValue = item.Fi... [More]
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StringDictionary class adds the key as lower-cased

clock May 25, 2009 22:35 by author Robbert
Hi there, In a project I'm currently developing, we used the StringDictionary (In the System.Collections.Specialized namespace) class frequently for stored key value pairs. I noticed that all my keys were lower-cased. So when checking out the Add method with Reflector, I found out t... [More]
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Categories: .NET General | C#
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LINQ and Lightspeed, some oddities...

clock May 13, 2009 21:59 by author Robbert
Hi there, I'm currently developing an ASP.NET (actually rewriting a PHP website) website, and since my provider doensn't support SQL Express, I had to use MySQL (could have used SQLLite ofcourse, but I went with MySQL). I found this really cool ORM tool, called Lightspeed. Since I... [More]
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An addition to Sheer UI: Create webedit ribbons (part 1)

clock April 27, 2009 21:40 by author Robbert
Hi there, I'm currently adding some Sheer UI stuff myself like Contextual Ribbons to certain items,and I came across this post Sheer UI: Create webedit ribbons (part 1). Chris Wojciech there states the following about the Ribbons stuff: Now, your new friend is the Sitecore Core... [More]
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Handy web.config snippet for sending email in a development environment

clock April 26, 2009 21:31 by author Robbert
Hi there, A really handy thing I can use in my web.config while developing is something a collegue of mine pointed me to, and was already mentionded here by Donn Felker: Sending Email in a Development Environment without an SMTP Server <system.net>     &n... [More]
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Webservice vs WCF

clock April 23, 2009 22:11 by author Robbert
Hi there, Since I'm currently preparing myself for the 70-503 exam I came across this really funny video('s)! Check it out! Let’s get it on! We are engaged in a battle that pits the “old way” of creating web services versus the “new way.” In the vid... [More]
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Preparing for exam 70-503

clock April 21, 2009 22:31 by author Robbert
Hi there, I'm currently preparing for the new Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 Windows Communication Foundation exam (70-503). I've started with the two following books, that will prepare me into this hot material: MCTS Self Paced Training Kit (exam 70-503): Microsoft.NET Framework 3... [More]
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Thumbnail image enhancements in Sitecore 5.3 best practices!

clock April 3, 2009 21:41 by author Robbert
Hi there, On http://sdn5.sitecore.net/Articles/XSL/5%203%20Enhancements/Image%20Enhancements.aspx you can find a list of image enhancements attributes that you can apply to an image. Recently I was looking for some thumbnail enhancements and found that in this list. When testing some things o... [More]
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