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About maintainable code

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As a coding standard evangelist, I’ve published standards for C# 1.0 and C# 2.0 while working for my former employers. Moreover, I’m also somebody who tries to apply and share good design guidelines and principles. As part of that interest, obviously, I’ve read many books and articles on that sub...

February 12, 2007

CSS Reference Chart for SharePoint 2007

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During the last couple of days, I've been trying to customize a MOSS 2007 blog site to match the Aviva look-and-feel. Since I'm more a Windows developer, these CSS styles are causing me a pain in the ass. Fortunately, the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar really helps to figure out what pa...

February 6, 2007

A new challenge…a new job…

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I have been working for Ordina for more than two years now, and looking at the many great and challenging projects I have participated in, I was planning to continue with that for a long time. Moreover, Ordina has been investing a lot of time and resources in the development o...

January 26, 2007

Visual Studio “Orcas” is Visual Studio 2007??

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While installing the January 2007 CTP of Visual Studio Codename Orcas, the next installment in the Visual Studio suites, I noticed something peculiar in the setup window. Is it really going to be called Visual Studio 2007? I do like the sound of it though. Unfortunately, installing this CT...

January 18, 2007

The origins of the Composite Application Block

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Last year, during our visit to the Microsoft campus in Redmond, I got a chance to talk to Brenton Webster, a solutions architect of Microsoft Austrialia. He told us about a great project they've been doing for the Austrialian Commonwealth Back of Australia (CBA) based on Smart Clients and ma...

January 11, 2007

Under the hood of ASP.NET AJAX

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You've probably heard of ASP.NET AJAX already and its potential for changing the balance between Web and Windows applicaties. This article explains how you can call ASMX web services from your Javascript code without any pain. Moreover, it also explains how that is accomplished under the hood.

January 10, 2007