The MSDN Roadshow returns to Augusta, ME and the Central Maine Commerce Center’s Florian Auditorium on Sept. 24, from 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. (That’s a later start than recent roadshows, because directly before it, there’s a TechNet event about Windows 7 and Remote Desktop.) MSDN Roadshows are a chance for Microsoft evangelists — namely, [...]
Archive of posts tagged ASP.NET
New URL For ASP.NET Demos: dougv.net
The process of retiring / removing my Yahoo!-related handle continues. The latest step: a new URL for ASP.NET demos, which are hosted on another server. From here on out, my ASP.NET demos will be hosted at dougv.net. This replaces the former URL, dhvrm.com. I’ll leave dhvrm.com running for a while, but please correct your bookmarks [...]
Dynamically Changing Your Child Page Titles With ASP.NET Master Pages
The primary benefit of ASP.NET master pages is the ability to apply code, themes and templates to child page content. But for some reason, Microsoft did not build in an easy way to concatenate a child page’s title to the master page title. Consider, for example, dougv.net, my ASP.NET demo site. I want it to [...]
Shortening URLs With The bit.ly API Via ASP.NET
After yesterday’s post on using the Twitter API to post status updates on Twitter from an ASP.NET application, a follower of my client suggested using a URL shortening service to link to the articles headlines being posted as tweets. That was an excellent idea of which I should have thought in the first place. And [...]
Posting Status Updates (Tweets) To A Twitter Profile Via ASP.NET
I have a client that posts several news stories to its Web site every day. So it makes tremendous sense for them to post the headlines to Twitter as tweets, so that followers might be informed of breaking news, or just what’s new on the site. The Twitter API makes posting status updates (tweets) to [...]
Free Books, Just For The Asking
I’m clearing my bookshelves and have four books that I was planning to trash (since the local library doesn’t want them). Then I thought, what the heck, give ‘em away on the blog. So, forthwith, I have the following four books available: Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual (1998 Edition): This is a reference book [...]
