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Content based on browser agent strings

If you are using the “user-agent” header to detect version of the mobile browser, then the IE Mobile team is announcing some upcoming changes to the header. Now to detect the new browsers just look for the string “IEMobile” as a part of the ‘user-agent’ header.

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ASP.NET 2.0 navigation controls

The ASP.NET 2.0 navigation controls are neat and easy to use. The controls ‘SiteMapPath’, ‘TreeView’ and ‘Menu’ all use the same asp.net navigation API and can be tied to an XML datasource. The entire web site hierarchy(sitemap) can be placed in an XML file called web.sitemap in the application’s root directory. There is a single […]

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Booyah!

Recently, I heard the word ‘booyah’ used in conversation at work and was wondering at the reference till I saw Jim Cramer on CNBC and realized that it was his catch phrase. Seems like quite a few of my collegues are ‘Mad Money’ fans.

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CodeCamp mention!!!

Codecamp mention in the INETA newsletter >>> Codecamp – kind words from Bruce >>> The Alabama .NET Code Camp in Huntsville was another hugely successful event for the state of Alabama. Sujata and the people of Huntsville really put on an excellent event. Very well organized, excellent volunteer support, great facility and very good turn […]

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WPF

So I am looking WPF – Windows Presentation Foundation – Microsoft’s latest GUI framework. As a .NET developer, having worked on web forms and WinForms, I am curious as to what WPF framework offers, as unlike WinForms which was built on top of Windows Controls, WPF was built from scratch. WPF allows the look and […]

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Code Camp – Dday!!!

The code camp went off with all but a few minor hiccups, and I am breathing a big sigh of relief. The minor hiccups included some projector malfunctions early in the day and the delayed arrival of a speaker to a session. Which on reflection ain’t so bad for a first event of it’s kind […]

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First .NET codecamp in Huntsville

The first .NET codecamp in Huntsville starts tomorrow – April 22, 2006. 200 attendees are registered. With more then 28 unique sessions, several MVP speakers,book authors presenting. Check out details…

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Organizing a code camp

Organizing a code camp, especially one for the first time takes time a lot of time and effort. Some things to contend with, -Need a venue which will support multiple rooms with audio-visual capability that can hold a large group of attendees. -Sponsors for the food and giveaways and monetary -Volunteers to man check in […]

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asp.net 2.0

If you cannot browse to an .aspx page under IIS 6.0 be sure to – check in IIS if “Web Service Extensions” is allowed and not prohibited – run aspnet_regiis -i IIS 6.0 disable ASP.net support by default.

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Mix 06 – Building Components and Services for the Programmable Web

Only caught part of this session, as it was on the last day and had to leave early to catch my flight.Nikhil Kothari is the Software Architect in the UI Framework group and his talk mainly focussed on consuming and building mash-ups, enabling and authoring gadgets and services. He demonstrated an application – musicMix that […]

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