Category Archives: Development

Using Custom CSS Styles With Amazon Web Store

I have been slacking on my posts, but my second son was just born, I bought a house and I am working on 3 different teams plus other initiatives at my day job so hopefully you will excuse me, as I have myself. This is something I did awhile ago, but actually took some problem [...]
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The Dragon, The Cross and The Forbidden Fruit: Using WampServer (Windows7 / Apache / MySQL behind PHP) with Komodo IDE, XDebug and PEAR

First of all, this was written in reference to WampServer 2.0i and Komodo IDE 5.2.4.37659, and the versions of Apache, PHP, MySQL and other components that come with those packages. Since these distributions change fairly rapidly, some or all of this may be invalid by the time you read through. However, the basic process of [...]
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Use any characters you want in your URLs with ASP.NET 4 and IIS 7!

After spending entirely too much time researching this issue today here is how you can use any characters you want for URLs in ASP.NET 4 and IIS 7. A bit of background: I am writing a web application that has a custom HttpModule and HttpHandler that should handle all requests and not limit the syntax [...]
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Visual Studio 2010 RC Custom Tool for Code Generation + jQuery 1.4 w/ Intellisense for Script#

If you are like me, you probably just want the code, which you can find here: http://www.christophercrooker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jQuery.1.4.v.0.2.zip Or, if you just want the binary DLL and XML doc file for referencing jQuery 1.4 from Script# projects, you can find that here (released under an “MIT license”, see sources for details): http://www.christophercrooker.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/jQuery.1.4.dll_.v.0.2.zip.zip To open the solution [...]
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WebScriptFX v0.1

This is my first crack at putting together several different technologies to create a framework for real-time asynchronous client applications downloaded as JavaScript and HTML. The goal is both to create a consistent toolkit for these types of Rich Internet Applications and also bring down the bar to only knowledge of HTML and CSS to [...]
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UriTemplate Formats

If you need to use a UriTemplate, for example when applying WebInvokeAttribute to a WCF OperationContract to create a “REST endpoint”, the formatting rules are here: MSDN: UriTemplate and UriTemplateTable
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Version-Enabled Software Maintenance

As you may or may not notice, I have not posted for awhile. Unfortunately, this is what happens when you start working 7 days a week. On one hand I have been working on some cool stuff including Silverlight 3 and 4, NHibernate data models, Amazon SimpleDB powered social networking applications (MySpace, please fix your [...]
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jQuery for Script#: Document Ready Handlers

UPDATE: This code is obsolete. Check out development of WebScriptFX for the availability of a reusable library for jQuery 1.4! This is the first example of how to use the jQuery 1.3 Import for Script#. A common task in jQuery is waiting until the DOM is ready before running some script, such as attaching event [...]
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jQuery 1.3 Import for Script#

UPDATE: This code is obsolete. Check out development of WebScriptFX for the availability of a reusable library for jQuery 1.4! I have been very impressed with Script# since I started using it on a Silverlight and Microsoft Web Messenger Toolkit integration project, but one thing I was immediately missing was jQuery. I have really only [...]
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Script# build not generating JavaScript

Just ran into a problem where my Visual Studio builds of a Script# class library were running without any errors, but not generating anything but XML comments. Turns out that somehow a reference to System and System.Data got added to the project (maybe when I was experimenting with Code Analysis project settings to satisfy TFS?). [...]
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