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, Chris [...]
MSDN Northeast Roadshow: Sept. 24 in Augusta, ME
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 as that [...]
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 used [...]
How I Code On This Blog: Elegance Vs. Transparency
My recent comment exchange with Scriptar has prodded me to post an explanation of how I code on this blog.
I view the code I post here as having two priorities: elegance and transparency, weighted slightly more toward elegance.
What I mean is that most importantly, the code I post should be as simple, compact and [...]
MSDN Roadshow In Augusta, March 19: Well Worth The Time
People love to criticize Microsoft, and much of the criticism it gets is deserved (when you release patches to your OS that are bigger than the original software, you probably deserve some negative press). But the one thing Microsoft does better than anyone is product support, especially developer support.
Enter the MSDN Roadshow, a series of [...]
Revisited: Adding Non-Selectable ListItem Controls To An ASP.NET DataBound List Control
Last August I had quickly blogged on the subject of adding non-selectable ListItem controls to an ASP.NET DropDownList. At the time I didn’t have an easy way to demonstrate how that code worked — and, in all honesty, I hadn’t tested it thoroughly, so it had some problems.
But now, thanks to GoDaddy’s dirt-cheap ASP.NET Web [...]
