Today I came across an interesting issue. I have a Silverlight project in which I’d like to be able to show the OpenFileDialog as well as a JavaScript alert. However, I was able to determine (and … More
The Visual Studio is constantly reviewing items that have been posted to their User Voice site. One of the items that I’ve been asking for, installation customization in Visual Studio, has been … More
Scott Guthrie has announced on his blog that as of this very moment, ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET WebAPI, and WebPages with Razor syntax have all been open sourced on CodePlex at … More
A co-worker of mine sent off a Fox News article yesterday about a Former Microsoft employee that is “fixing” Windows 8. After reading the article, my first take away was another person explaining the … More
Have you ever created a web application for something specific such as a standalone web app (forum, photo gallery, web service, etc.) while using ASP.NET and received this: If you have, you probably … More
For the longest time, If I needed to use an onclick event for navigation (div or some other page element), I’d use something similar to:<div onClick="location.href('/admin');"><!-- Something … More
Earlier today, Microsoft released Windows 8 Beta. Of course, when I was downloading it, I had to leave and head to another building. So, I paused my download in the Microsoft File Transfer Manager. … More
Earlier today Microsoft released Visual Studio 11 Beta as a general release. One of the first things you may notice is that the installation customization of VS11 Beta has been removed. If you are … More
Starting with .NET 4 or MVC3, a developer could use a data annotation on a property to force data validation. This is extremely powerful especially for MVC developers. The same data annotations can … More
Have you ever noticed an exception being thrown by your application stating something like the following:
System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: Service not available, closing transmission channel.
The … More
Jason N. Gaylord is an application developer and is the Director of IT at United One Resources in Wilkes-Barre, PA.
In addition to his daily duties, Jason, who is a Microsoft MVP and ASPInsider, is the group leader of a technology user group called .NET Valley. He resides in Northeastern Pennsylvania with his wife, Lisa, his two daughters, and his son.
