Hello, I'm   Jason

Quite often, vendors pass images or PDFs to customers using the binary contents of the file. To make it more secure, they convert the binary contents to a Base64 string. A full explanation about Base64 encoding can be found at Wikipedia here. Anyway, when you receive the string, you cannot simply write it to a file or to the browser. First, you must convert the data into a Byte array. The sample code below demonstrates this:

On Wednesday, Scott Guthrie announced that beginning with version 3.5 of the .NET Framework (and VS2008), the base class libraries will be browsable and can be used for debugging purposes.

I discovered an issue in VS 2008 Beta 2 that will most likely be an issue when the product goes to RTM. I notified Microsoft of the issue and they have pushed this back to VS 2008 SP1 because its so late in the development process. The issue is with adding a web service to a website. When adding a web service to a pre-existing website, a template for a web service is created. It will take VS 2008 to realize that the file has inline code. Then, when adding a snippet (right-click in the code window and choose Insert Snippet) that contains imports for a namespace, the namespaces are added at the top of the page like:

I was going to be a presenter at Remix Boston, but had to back down due to a previous conflict. However, it is definitely promising to be a great event! Be sure to check out the details at http://www.remix07boston.com/.

This is definitely interesting - http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/09/photoshop_expre.html

Scott Cate, the creator of EasySearchASP.net, is offering the product at huge discounts to help Scott Hanselman reach his goal of $50,000 to donate to the American Diabetes Association. You can purchase the $99 version of EasySearchASP.net (200 page limit) for $10.15 or the full $249 version of EasySearchASP.net for $25.15. Find out more about this at http://tinyurl.com/3ygycd. This is the search engine I use on both JasonGaylord.com and DotNetValley.com.

Bertrand Le Roy has moved his old client-side alert code over to CodePlex. You can learn more about it and check out the download here: http://weblogs.asp.net/bleroy/archive/2005/12/01/432016.aspx.

I was looking for a solution to provide a “fly-in” form when a user would click on a particular button. I found it with the PopupControlExtender. The documentation for Animations with controls is poor so with some testing, I finally got a solution working for me. I added a button and a panel on my page. I set the panel below the button and set the style to:

A few days ago I reformatted my Dell D820 and installed Windows Vista Ultimate. I also added Photoshop CS3 Extended to my laptop. Usually my laptop is docked and my current monitors are Dell 1907. When I opened Photoshop for the first time on the new configuration, I received an error message stating:

Wally McClure, a Microsoft MVP and ASPInsider, has put together a group of posts regarding “his life with Visual Studio 2008.” It’s great that someone has time to blog about their experience with VS 2008. Seriously though, Wally does a great job explaining his experiences and working through the bugs that I have no patience to deal with.