Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Microsoft Responds About Seinfeld Advertisement

2008-09-05T17:39:57Z

After many technology professionals and marketing organizations questioned the first in a series of advertisements involving Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld, and Microsoft, an explanation was delivered. Earlier today, Microsoft published a response to several Read More......(read more)

Technology In Political Views

2008-09-05T13:33:14Z

I usually don't like mentioning anything political in my blog. However, this I found interesting. BetaNews has written several entries regarding the democratic and republic president and vice-president candidates. Here they are in order of publish Read More......(read more)

IIS7 Integrated Mode and Global.asax

2008-09-05T03:20:53Z

In IIS7, there are two modes for ASP.NET application pools: classic mode (only mode available for IIS6) and integrated mode. Integrated Mode offers quite a bit with IIS7 and is the recommended mode for application pools (more details at http://learn.iis Read More......(read more)

The First Microsoft and Seinfeld Advertisement

2008-09-05T01:34:22Z

Mary Jo Foley posted a summary of the first Microsoft advertisement that played during tonight's NFL game. Her full blog posting can be found at http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1569#comments . For those of you that want to see the video, here Read More......(read more)

Update Google Chrome Using Visual Studio

2008-09-04T13:45:19Z

That's right. You can build and modify Google Chrome using Visual Studio 2005. Google has provided instructions to setup your environment. You can then download the source from Google's Subversion repository or download a tarball to build. Check Read More......(read more)

Google Chrome Vulnerability

2008-09-03T15:42:11Z

Many developers, including myself, have installed the initial beta of Google Chrome. However, downloaders beware. There is a new vulnerability (or old depending on how you look at it) with Google Chrome. For more information, check out the full ZDNet Read More......(read more)

Initial Google Chrome Review

2008-09-02T20:00:14Z

I listened to the announcement of Google Chrome this afternoon and also flipped through the comic book that Google released yesterday. My initial reaction was that Chrome is going to be just another browser that I'd need to support. After going through Read More......(read more)

Google Chrome Released - Live Blog Script

2008-09-02T18:10:00Z

Google Chrome has been announced and will be released at 3pm EST on September 2nd. More details to follow. All times below will be in EST. 2:08pm - Google's shareholder conference about Chrome begins. 2:12pm - Showing how Amazon has changed since Read More......(read more)

Improvements in Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

2008-08-28T17:52:51Z

I was just checking out the improvements the team has made in beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. While I haven't had time to mess with all of the improvements, I see lots of opportunities to create enhancements for my sites to allow visitors to get what Read More......(read more)

Discovering Adobe Kuler - Color Themes Gallery

2008-08-26T14:02:38Z

Chris Love , posted a tweet today about Adobe Kuler. Kuler is a web/flash based application that allows developers and designers to upload and download color swatches for Adobe Photoshop. It's a great way, as Chris put it, for developers to pick up Read More......(read more)

Velocity Podcast

2008-08-21T17:58:08Z

Want to learn more about Microsoft Velocity and how this distributed caching system can improve your web applications? Then you'd better check out the new Velocity podcast at ASP.NET Podcast. You can download the MP3 at http://www.aspnetpodcast.com Read More......(read more)

How to Override Cassini's Virtual Path in Visual Studio

2008-08-19T13:01:23Z

On one of the email lists that I'm on, someone had posted a question about running a website using the root path "/" or a different virtual path than the project name that is populated by default. James Crowley pointed out a blog entry from Read More......(read more)

Windows 7 at the PDC?

2008-08-15T13:11:28Z

Sounds like Windows 7 might be previewed at the PDC. If not, significant details will surely be shared. No, I didn't escape one of the Microsoft buildings with their business plan but rather came across the team's new blog at http://blogs.msdn Read More......(read more)

Known Issues with Service Pack 1 in ASP.NET 3.5

2008-08-15T12:33:04Z

Scott Galloway from the Microsoft DevDiv team has posted a couple of known issues with Service Pack 1 in ASP.NET 3.5 on the ASP.NET forums at http://forums.asp.net/t/1305800.aspx . The issues he currently has on the post are: Issue: The HtmlForm Read More......(read more)

Use LINQ to XML to Generate Excel Documents

2008-08-11T19:01:25Z

I was looking for a quick and easy solution to export data from SQL into an Excel format from within my ASP.NET application. I came across a great video posted by Beth Massi on the asp.net website (Video #7 at the bottom at http://www.asp.net/learn/linq Read More......(read more)

ASP.NET 3.5 SP1 (Formerly "ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions") Released

2008-08-11T17:20:46Z

ASP.NET 3.5 Service Pack 1, which was formerly called the ASP.NET 3.5 extensions, has been released. The NetFX update was available as part of the SQL Server 2008 download available on Friday. Now it is available as a separate download. There are quite Read More......(read more)

Known Postback Issue with AJAX Controls

2008-08-11T16:57:06Z

I came across a postback issue while using the CascadingDropDown AJAX control. I had a web page with 3 DropDownList controls. The data for these controls was populated from the CascadingDropDown which would bind the data at runtime. The issue with this Read More......(read more)

Tip: Set the SelectedValue on a DropDownList that is populated by a CascadingDropDown

2008-08-08T15:05:25Z

When using a DropDownList, you can set the selected item by using the SelectedIndex property. However, if your DropDownList is being populated by the CascadingDropDown control (from the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit), that doesn't work. Instead, you Read More......(read more)

Clearspring Widgets Don't Work on 64-Bit Platform

2008-08-08T13:49:12Z

Unless you are using IE 32-bit, don't expect the Clearspring widgets to work. Clearspring is one of the leaders in building widgets for social networks and Vista. The reason their widgets do not work is because Flash is not yet supported on 64-bit Read More......(read more)

Visual Studio Fonts and Colors

2008-08-07T18:49:47Z

For quite some time I've been working with a modified version of Scott Hanselman's "Dark Theme" for Visual Studio. The reason for my modifications is that the HTML and CSS settings were very difficult to read. Here is the complete list Read More......(read more)