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Enhancing the Store Locator ASP.NET MVC Application to Include Directions
27 August 10 10:44 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Earlier this year I wrote an article on 4GuysFromRolla.com showing how to build an ASP.NET WebForms store locator application using Google Maps . Recently, I ported the store locator application to ASP.NET MVC and detailed building the application in...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, ASP.NET MVC

I’m Teaching Two Upcoming Training Classes in San Diego
19 August 10 09:45 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Once a year (or so) I teach a handful of one-day, four hour classes in San Diego on various ASP.NET topics. I’ve got two such classes lined up for Saturday, September 11: Get Started with ASP.NET MVC – 8 AM to Noon Traditionally, ASP.NET websites have...

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Hot Off the Presses – Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours
18 August 10 08:27 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Yesterday I received the author copies of my latest book, Teach Yourself ASP.NET 4 in 24 Hours . When signing the author agreement many, many months ago, there is typically a clause that promises the author X copies of the finished book. Getting these...

Filed under: About Writing, ASP.NET Talk

Using the GeneratedImage Control in ASP.NET MVC
14 August 10 03:44 AM | Scott Mitchell | 4 comment(s)

One of the free, open-source controls on the ASP.NET team’s CodePlex page is the GeneratedImage control . In a nutshell, the GeneratedImage control is a combination of an ASP.NET Web Control and a set of classes that facilitate programmatically creating...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, ASP.NET MVC

Two Upcoming ASP.NET Local User Group Talks in August
05 August 10 01:00 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

This month I will be giving two talks to .NET user groups here in San Diego. Take Control of Your Website's URLs with ASP.NET Routing - Tuesday, August 17th at 6:00 PM at the ASP.NET Special Interest Group at the Microsoft Office in UTC Did you know that...

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Links to Scott Guthrie's Using LINQ to SQL Tutorials
27 July 10 11:56 PM | Scott Mitchell | 5 comment(s)

Back when Visual Studio 2008 came out, Scott Guthrie wrote an excellent series of blog posts on using LINQ to SQL . Unfortunately, the various installments are not easy to follow when starting from Part 1 and going onward, so I've decided to gather and...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, Miscellaneous

Determining an ASP.NET Page's View State Footprint
06 July 10 11:35 PM | Scott Mitchell | 5 comment(s)

ASP.NET view state is the technique used by an ASP.NET Web page to persist changes to the state of a Web Form across postbacks. The view state of a page is, by default, placed in a hidden form field named __VIEWSTATE, and can easily get very large. Not...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, ASP.NET View State

I'll be speaking at the SoCal Code Camp this Weekend
23 June 10 03:06 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

The SoCal Code Camp is coming to San Diego, California this weekend, June 26th and 27th. This free event boasts nearly 100 talks given by dozens of speakers from around the area covering a wide swath of interesting technology-related topics. This year...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, ASP.NET MVC

Building a Store Locator ASP.NET Application Using Google Maps API
25 May 10 11:39 AM | Scott Mitchell | 5 comment(s)

The past couple of projects I've been working on have included the use of the Google Maps API and geocoding service in websites for various reasons. I decided to tie together some of the lessons learned, build an ASP.NET store locator demo, and write...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk

It's Here! Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0 Ship
13 April 10 04:08 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Today Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET 4.0. I've been using the RC version of Visual Studio 2010 quite a bit for the past couple of months and have really grown to like it. It has a host of features and enhancements that improve developer...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk

FIX: It is an error to use a section registered as allowDefinition='MachineToApplication' beyond application level. This error can be caused by a virtual directory not being configured as an application in IIS
17 February 10 01:39 PM | Scott Mitchell | 1 comment(s)

I teach two six week courses on ASP.NET at the University of California - San Diego Extension . The first class serves as an introduction to ASP.NET and as such many of the students create their first ASP.NET websites in class. During the first meeting...

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SOLUTION: Outlook Is Stripping Line Breaks From Plain-Text Emails Auto-Generated From My ASP.NET Application!
08 December 09 11:36 AM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Today I was working on an ASP.NET application that sends out plain-text emails to site administrators when certain conditions unfold. One problem I unearthed today is that when viewing these emails in Microsoft Outlook many of the carriage returns were...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk, Miscellaneous

Configuring the PasswordRecovery To Send Email to an SSL-Enabled SMTP Client
10 November 09 12:54 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

ASP.NET's PasswordRecovery provides a mechanism for users to recover their forgotten passwords. Depending on how user passwords are saved, the PasswordRecovery control will either email a user their password or it will reset the user's password to a new...

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TIP: How To Generate a Fully Qualified URL in ASP.NET (E.g., http://www.yourserver.com/folder/file.aspx)
26 October 09 03:59 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

Imagine that you've got an ASP.NET page that is generating an email message that needs to include links back to the website. Perhaps you're writing the next greatest online message board application and when someone replies to a thread you want to send...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk

Rich Tooltips With jQuery
23 October 09 03:17 PM | Scott Mitchell | with no comments

I was recently working on an application and needed the ability to present the user with a list of links when they hovered over a particular line of text. HTML elements include a title attribute that, when set, displays the attribute's value in a small...

Filed under: ASP.NET Talk

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