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A Synchronized Visual Studio Crash

About month ago at a user group meeting the guy sitting across from me shared the tale of a talk he had attended. The speaker’s laptop had downloaded a slew of Windows Updates in the background, after which the “Restart your computer to finish installing important updates” dialog box appeared. The speaker...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 06-20-2011
I’ve Written My Last Article for 4GuysFromRolla

Warning! This blog post is long and rife with navel-gazing. In 1998 I started an ASP resource site, 4GuysFromRolla.com. Toward the tail end of the dotcom boom I sold 4Guys to Internet.com , but continued working as the editor and primary contributor for the site, writing a new article each week. This...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 03-29-2011
Adding a RESTful Service to My Boggle Solver

This blog post has been deprecated. Please see Updating My Online Boggle Solver Using jQuery Templates and WCF for an updated discussion on the solver service, the data it returns, and how to call it from a web page. My immediate and extended family enjoys playing games, and one of our favorites is Boggle...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 09-10-2010
I’m Teaching Two Upcoming Training Classes in San Diego

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 been designed using the Web Forms model; ASP.NET...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 08-19-2010
I Am Now Tweeting (Or is it Twittering?)

Last week I received an email from Srikanth Pragada , a .NET trainer in southern India, asking why I did not have a Twitter account. I had two excuses. First, I am somewhat of a Luddite when it comes to social technologies like cell phones and web apps like LinkedIn, Facebook, etc. Also, I have the knack...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 08-09-2010
Links to Scott Guthrie's Using LINQ to SQL Tutorials

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 organize the links here for myself and for anyone...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 07-27-2010
A Review of Desktop / Screen Sharing Software

I work as an independent consultant and trainer. Most of my business involves me meeting with clients (in person or online), discussing their needs, and then building a new application or enhancing an existing one from my own desktop. However, a growing part of my business has been what I call "online...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 07-17-2010
New Software Running ScottOnWriting.NET

When I started this blog in July 2003 there weren't many available blog engines build atop ASP.NET. One of the more interesting ones at the time was Scott Watermasysk 's .Text blog engine (which eventually became part of Community Server . Over the past nearly seven years ScottOnWriting.NET has continued...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 05-27-2010
Authorize.Net, Silent Posts, and URL Rewriting Don't Mix

The too long, didn't read synopsis: If you use Authorize.Net and its silent post feature and it stops working, make sure that if your website uses URL rewriting to strip or add a www to the domain name that the URL you specify for the silent post matches the URL rewriting rule because Authorize.Net's...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 04-19-2010
Determining Whether a String Is Contained Within a String Array (Case Insensitive)

About once every couple of months I need to write a bit of code that does one thing if a particular string is found within an array of strings and something else if it is not ignoring differences in case . For whatever reason, I never seem to remember the code snippet to accomplish this, so after spending...

Posted to Scott On Writing.NET (Weblog) by Scott Mitchell on 03-09-2010

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