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New “Earthquakes in Last 7 Days” Bing Map App
In recent light of the earthquakes, tsunami and huge disaster in Japan, I put together the new “Earthquakes in Last 7 Days” Bing Map App.You can try it here: “Earthquakes in Last 7 Days” Bing Map...
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Deeper in .NET 2011 in Review with Pictures
I had a great time at Deeper in .NET 2011 this past Saturday. It was a day full of geek speak about .NET, HTML5, MVVM, Silverlight, IOC, Windows Phone 7 and more! Not only were the sessions great, but...
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Awarded 2011 Microsoft MVP–Windows Live Platform
I really enjoy helping others. One of my main motivations for my continued efforts in helping others build great software and implement the latest technologies is the fact that I am trying to give back...
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Bing Maps JavaScript Intellisense Helper Now Available as Nuget Package
I just put out a Nuget Package to make it easier for you to include the Bing Maps Javascript Intellisense Helper within your web applications.http://nuget.org/List/Packages/BingMapsIntellisense_6
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Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: Pushpin Tooltips via Html Title Attribute
The Bing Maps v7 Ajax control is still a bit lacking in functionality, and good for us it’s written in JavaScript so it’s easy to extent and hack. The following hack is an “unsupported” method of...
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Bing Maps v7 Ajax Hacks: InfoBox Description containing Html tags
For some odd reason the Bing Maps team decided to not allow HTML tags within the Description property of the InfoBox class they baked into the Bing Maps v7 Ajax control. I don’t know why they would...
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Mixing some Dynamic-ness with IronJS in .NET 4
I recently started messing around with IronJS again, and I must say that this project is pure awesomeness! One of the first things I noticed is that when you call the “Execute” methods to run some...
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Entity Framework Tips and Tricks: Use GetObjectByKey When Querying a Single...
I’ve been using Entity Framework a lot lately and it makes data access really nice. It’s fairly simple to use and maps all your tables to a .NET object model. However, just like any other library, it...
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Tag Editor Field using jQuery similar to StackOverflow
The tag editor featured on the StackOverflow website (and all the StackExchange websites) is a real slick tag editor that makes it much nicer to enter tags than just a plain textbox. I searched a...
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JavaScript: window.onbeforeunload Event - Show “Are you sure you want to...
All web developers have likely seen how inconvenient it can be for a user to edit some data in an application, then click a link/button to go on to the next task, but only to later realize that all...
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SQL Azure: REBUILD All Indexes in Database – Alternative to DBCC DBREINDEX
Unfortunately there are some differences between SQL Server and SQL Azure. One of these differences is that SQL Azure does not support the “DBCC DBREINDEX” command. Thankfully there is an alternative...
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ASP.NET MVC Themes: 3 different theming methods
There really isn’t a single “one size fits all” solution to theming an ASP.NET MVC web application. From my experience working with the platform, there are really 3 different methods that can be used...
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2012 Bing Maps Feature Wish List
The Bing Maps Silverlight control is really sweet (although it hasn’t been updated in forever) and the Ajax v7 control was a huge improvement performance wise over v6. However, the Bing Maps platform...
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CanvasMap Prototype = HTML5 Canvas + Mapping
When Microsoft released the Windows 8 Developer Preview (Sept. 2011) I was a bit annoyed that they failed to include a “native” Bing Maps control for us to build with. Instead they require you embed...
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HTML5 IE9 Bug: SELECT box is Un-Selected using Mouse if CSS modifies position...
I recently encountered this rather strange bug that only shows up in Internet Explorer 9 (haven’t tried 10, but likely there too,) but works just fine in IE8, Firefox, Safari and Chrome. Generally the...
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IronJSMVC: Script ASP.NET MVC in JavaScript using IronJS
Personally, I enjoy writing much of my applications using a statically typed language such as C#. However, I would really prefer to be able to write UI logic and script certain parts of my applications...
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Unit Testing with SqlException in .NET: Only with help from Reflection
If you are writing you code to be able to easily unit test each method, and you would like to unit test situations where a SqlException exception is thrown, then you’ll definitely run into the issue of...
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SQLinq: Use LINQ to generate Ad-Hoc, strongly typed SQL queries
SQLinq is a new library that allows ad-hoc SQL code to be generated at runtime in a strongly typed manner that allows for compile time validation of your SQL code.Why SQLinq?SQLinq is built with the...
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Awarded 2012 Microsoft MVP - Bing Maps
Whether I won MVP or not I would still do what I do. My passion for technology and the pleasure of helping others it what drives me. This marks the 5th time I've been awarded Microsoft MVP, and am...
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Design Patterns: Basics of Dependency Injection
Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control (IoC) have become popular buzz words in the .NET development world over the last couple years. However, It seems that not very many developers really know...
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