Archive for April, 2008

How to Locate the active item in Solution Explorer

How’d I miss this one?

Daniel Cazzulino’s Blog : Locating the active item in the solution explorer

Great tip Dan.  Thanks

Reflection From a DLL and Serialization

Last week, we finished up our main series on reflection.  For most people, what we covered is all they will ever need.  However, there are a few other things I’ve needed to know due mainly to the fact that I was using reflection from a DLL instead of an EXE

When I wrote VSS.NET, which was my first .NET application, allow Visual SourceSafe to be used over the Internet, I wanted to implement the SCC api.  This is the API that allows you to use VSS from the IDE.  For some reason that I can’t remember now and isn’t important to this discussion, I needed to use reflection from the DLL that the SCC interface was calling.  This posed two problems.

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Who’s AJAX Should You Use?

Just had someone ask me a question this morning that I bet many others have asked or are asking…

Should I use MS-AJAX, that comes with ASP.NET or should I use something from another vendor?

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WinForms – Database Changes not sticking.

Saturday afternoon I spent trying to get a Windows Forms application to add data to a database.  It all seemed to work correctly.  Add changes, no errors.  Close window, open window.  Yep changes are there.  Close application, re-run application.  Yep, changes still there.  Make a change to the code, re-run.  No data.

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IE7 Prevents Cross Domain Image Loading?

OK, so here’s the story…

About a week ago, I started working with a client on an issue that seems to have recently manifested itself.  An image on a web page would not load in the page.  Yet, if you accessed the image directly, it would load.  This same image loads fine in all of the other browsers except for IE7.  Further, as far as anyone can remember, it has loaded fine in IE7 in the past.

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