Jonathan's Blog

Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar

2007-03-01T06.00.00Z

I recomend the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar to everyone, it's quite pleasant to use. http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorerDevToolbar The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides several features for exploring and understanding Web pages. These features enable you to: Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page. Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques. Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings....(read more)

Rainbow 2.0 Beta and Zen Engine

2007-02-28T05.47.00Z

Ok, So it is almost 1 am, and i have to stop for the nite, but I thought I would update my findings. I made some changes to the zen engine, and got it to render: http://www.jonavi.com/site/1/Default.aspx it currently renders a standard asp.net menu control, using cssfrendier rendering in keeping with zen, i borrowed some of the css adapter code, and injected into zen navigation. it can render horizontal and vertical. I need to work on the css a bit, and a missing js file, but in principle it works,...(read more)

Conversation with Don at Dell on-line chat

2006-07-13T12.18.00Z

Conversation with Don at Dell on-line chat...(read more)

Programming the Web

2006-07-12T16.43.00Z

There are many many "Web 2.0" services out there, I will add more to this list as I find myself testing them and trying them out. ...(read more)

Web.Config Request For Help

2006-07-11T13.11.00Z

Hello Everyone, Eveyrone please check you web.config and delete any non generic connection strings. I believe in one of the sandboxes ( possibly mine too ) a connection string for my database is sitting there. I went to my site today, and it's trashed, becasue someone overwrote my home page and some other things. It's my own fault for carelessly checking in my connection string ( lesson to us all ). However I am not home, and can not fix the situation, I ask some of the devleopers who have time today...(read more)

.NET Framework 2.0 + WCF + WPF + WF + WCS = .NET Framework 3.0

2006-07-03T20.51.00Z

I was getting ready to write this cool, earth shattering blog entry, but I was beat to the punch in a fancier fashion. So instead, I will summarize, and point to the resources :-)...(read more)

LinQ, Blinq, and ContentDB

2006-06-29T00.42.00Z

So, I tested out LinQ today, and found my way to Blinq which is an autogenerator admin tool for DB's generating a bunch of asp.net pages, linQ code, super fast, using a couple of cool things. ...(read more)

DNS - .NET Blog

2006-06-27T19.17.00Z

I have a new additional blog, that will be focused more on .NET specifics, as well as Extensibility and automation as opposed to this blog that is more Rainbow and Application geared....(read more)

WinFS - No more

2006-06-24T18.43.00Z

Quentin Clark of the WinFS Team posts of the projects demise . Well he actually said was they broke up the project across different products, and some day they'll go into Windows, etc. In the comments, they mention an interesting question which is just what I was thinking "When did WinFS stop being about a relational file system?" For 10 years we have all waited for the Relational file system, the speed, the flexibility, the ability to develop wonders against it. To code something like SearchDocument<Songs>...(read more)

Awsome Design time Tutorial

2006-06-14T13.22.00Z

Some cool things he shows like : DataBoundControlDesigner Control Collections Embedded Resource Files and more......(read more)

Provider Based Features

2006-06-13T16.21.00Z

The ASP.NET provider-based features rely on a common set of public types and helper classes....(read more)

Generic Setting Object

2006-06-11T19.45.00Z

the thing is a setting, jsut like in appsettings, come down to a simple key value pair. it gets more interesting when you say the value has a type, so now you have key, value and type. lastly, it may be interesting to know when a setting is changed...(read more)

Tips on Posting Forum Questions

2006-06-05T12.23.00Z

I have been hanging out on forums a lot this year, rainbow forums, asp.net forums, and a littl eon the msdn forums, as well as a few other places, and I am noticing a few things. Mainly, most people do not put any thouht into posting their forum questions. It is almost like the forums have become an "easy" way to get some homework done for you....(read more)

Site updates

2006-06-03T19.13.00Z

check out the tab control demo which utilizes the config app. http://www.jonavi.com/TabControl.aspx ...(read more)

Configuration

2006-06-03T18.45.00Z

While Filip and I are working on some pretty cool things, we wanted a nice configuraitoni manager. Recently, i had come accross an article by rickstrach, with a sample of reading some config settings into a class at run time. Well, i worked on it a bit, and extended it to support multiple enviroments, and some other suff. as a sample of waht i mean... in my web.config app.settings. my goal is to have only one main setting. <add key="Env" value="Dev" /> // For example. What this does is at first...(read more)