CodeStock coming August 9th to Knoxville by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

CodeStock is coming August 9th to Knoxville, Tennessee and you should see the speaker line-up! Jeff Prosise will present the opening keynote and Alan Stevens will mediate the open spaces. There's a ton of great presenters that will be at CodeStock...
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Getting Started with the AjaxDataControls in Visual Studio 2005 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Sonu Kapoor just posted about getting started with the AjaxDataControls in Visual Studio 2005 . The AjaxDataControls can be found on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/AjaxDataControls/ . Included in the controls are a JavaScript version of the Repeater...
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AJAX Tip: Don't forget about the Async Web Service Calls! by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

FireFox. Internet Explorer 8. Both have great JavaScript debugging tools. Thanks to those tools, I only spent 5 minutes on an issue that could have taken hours to figure out. It was one of those moments when you know its something simple but you can't...
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LINQ to SQL and MS Small Business Server 2008 Talks at .NET Valley by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

The next .NET Valley User Group event will be on June 18th at Scranton University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. There will be two talks that evening. The first will begin at 6pm and will be presented by Michael Murphy. Michael will talk about the ins and...
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Performance Tip: Return Only Necessary Columns Using LINQ by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I was running into an issue where one of my webmethods was taking a large amount of time to return a small set (5-10 objects). I was using LINQ to SQL. I noticed that the LINQ to SQL query was returning all of the rows. After looking into the table a...
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A circular reference was detected while serializing an object of type 'XXX' by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I ran into an issue earlier when trying to return an entity class through a web service for use in an AJAX page. After some quick research, I came across a post by Darren Neimke that referenced Rick Strahl's post about LINQ to SQL and Serialization...
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Worldwide Developer Conference News by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

If you're looking to pick up the latest happenings from the Worldwide Developer Conference, check out this: http://www.macrumorslive.com/ Read More...
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DirecTV: The Saga Continues... by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I received an email from DirecTV about my blog post. They gave a 1-800 number and a 4-digit code so I can reach their team directly. I tried using that number and sat in a queue for nearly 20 minutes. Finally, someone answered and had no clue what my...
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Need "Out of the Box" AJAX Functionality for Your Data Controls? by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I've been using the Ajax Data Controls (ADC) for 9 months. I recently joined their development team to convert the controls to VS 2008/.NET 3.5. It's a really cool control set that uses AJAX for the complete data transaction. The documentation...
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Establishing a VPN on Windows Mobile 5 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Many have found it difficult to establish a VPN connection on Windows Mobile 5. There are quite a few blog posts out there with instructions, but none are really that complete. Before you can establish a connection from your mobile device, you need to...
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AjaxDataControls DLL for ASP.NET 3.5 by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

The AjaxDataControls that have been developed by the DotNetSlackers team have been out for some time now. They were originally developed using the AJAX 1.0 libraries (pre 3.5 days). I've recently encountered some issues where they don't seem to...
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Adding QueryString Parameters to the SiteMapNode by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

There is no way to add querystring parameters to the SiteMapNode in a SiteMap control "out of the box." I'm quite surprised there is no option but luckily the SiteMap uses the provider model. After a Live search, I was able to find a solution...
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"OLE received a packet with an invalid extension." in Microsoft Word by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

We still have Small Business Accounting 2006 implemented for some companies. When we use a custom invoice to print using the MS Word Smart Document set, we receive the error "OLE received a packet with an invalid extension." This error occurs...
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DirecTV: The Story of Bad Customer Service by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I've had DirecTV service for 3 years now. During all 3 years I've subscribed to the premium package, the NFL Sunday Ticket, and NHL Center Ice. I have high-definition service with DVR capabilities. So, I pay a decent amount each month to DirecTV...
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Retrieving SQL Type Image Using LINQ by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

LINQ views the Image type in SQL Server as Binary. So, there are a few options that we have. We can either (a) modify our LINQ to SQL class and change the property to Byte() instead of Binary or we can (b) convert the Binary to an array. To do the latter...
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ASP.NET MVC Preview 3 Announced by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Scott Guthrie just posted about the 3rd preview of the ASP.NET MVC over on his blog. You can catch the full details here: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/27/asp-net-mvc-preview-3-release.aspx . Read More...
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Attention Twitter: Wise up! by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I read through the Twitter blog from time to time just to see how things are going. Apparently, things aren't going good. Pagination and IM updates have been temporarily disabled and something has caused my twitter utilities (twhirl and OutTwit) to...
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Force Your Web Site To Be IE7 Compatible by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

Microsoft recognizes that it will be difficult to have all sites use the latest HTML and CSS specs that are found in IE8. To accommodate the web sites that cannot be converted at this time, they've created a work around. There are two options: a)...
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SQL Management Studio Shows All Databases by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

This has "bugged" me for awhile. When you log into any version of SQL (2000, 2005, and even 2008) as a user with restricted access to just a single database (or even a few databases), you can still see a complete list of all the databases on...
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Using "Like" in LINQ to SQL by Jason N. Gaylord's Blog

I've recently discovered that LINQ and VB can be confusing. I was attempting to pull the top 10 rows of a table where the column started with 'W'. You'd think after I typed that, I'd figure out the solution. That's not the case...
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