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Linus Torvalds supports Microsoft's initiative

It didn’t take long for the entire world to learn about Microsoft’s submittable of 20,000 lines of code for the Linux driver base. As a surprise reaction to both sides of the camp, Linus Torvalds responded in favor of Microsoft’s move. I have a feeling that

ASP.NET Web Forms

Turn your ASP.NET pages into valid XHTML Strict pages

Many developers seem to find it difficult to get their ASP.NET pages rendering in a valid XHTML Strict fashion. The solution is just a quick MSDN lookup away. Only two steps are required. One, declare the proper XHTML Strict DOCTYPE : <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML

Extending the SqlDataAdapter with a FillTimeout

The SqlDataAdapter has a CommandTimeout property but does offer any method to set any kind of timeout during the Fill method. If you are returning rather large data sets, you can quickly run into a problem. The obvious solution would be to inherit the SqlDataAdapter and simply override the Fill

Improved ASP JSON utility

Most of the projects that I have been working on lately did not require any advanced AJAX. Most of the time, stuffing the results of a simple GET into innerHTML has usually been sufficient. Recently, I needed to do some more advanced AJAX work so I started looking into JSON.

Fixing Dreamweaver CS4's JavaScript Events for XHTML

One of the first things you learn about XHTML is lowercase. Everything is lowercase. Lowercase tags, lowercase attributes, lowercase, lowercase, lowercase... I guess it wasn’t obvious enough to the developers over at Adobe because Dreamweaver CS4 has this annoying habit of mix-casing all of the JavaScript event handlers. Thankfully,

Undocumented Microsoft ProductID GUIDs

Each Microsoft product is identified internally using a ProductID that is in the form of a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID). Software or updates that refer back to Microsoft products tend to generally establish the relationship using the GUIDs instead of the product name. If you ever wanted develop software that

Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer breaks Internet Explorer

A post today on the IE support blog got me really curious. Apparently, if you install the Microsoft Software Inventory Analyzer, you lose print preview functionality. The culprit would be the fact that MSIA registers itself to use the .dlg file extension. Feeling unsatisfied, I decided to investigate further. I

Saving yourself from IE8's Compatibility View

“Luke, I am your father.” So now that Internet Explorer 8’s officially been released, it’s to be expected that plenty of users will be upgrading. Even if the common visitor to your site doesn’t immediately install IE8 like a panicked nerd who’s been waiting for his

Internet Explorer 8 released today

In case you’ve missed it somehow, Internet Explorer 8 was officially released today at noon. The final build number is 8.0.6001.18702. Looks like neowin got it wrong again. Setup packages are available for Windows XP (x86 and x64), Windows Server 2003 (x86 and x64), Windows Vista

Windows Updates Downloader 2.40 Build 1299 Released

Another build of the Windows Updates Downloader, version 2.40 Build 1299, has been published. Thanks to the user community for helping me identify a rare bug with the windows update agent. I’ve also extended the Update List specifications to support identification of the base service pack. This should

Windows Updates Downloader 2.40 Build 1275 Released

I just published a new build of the Windows Updates Downloader, version 2.40 Build 1275. Mostly little improvements based on community feedback such as allowing the window to resize and removing coloring of alternating rows. I also fixed a bug with the checkboxes that required double-clicking instead of reacting