September 2006 - CS MVP Bloggers

Not me! After watching the movie, and being exposed, for the very first time, to the radical idea of converting a conventional car to an electric car, my girlfriend and I were inspired to give it a try. So after researching a bit about how this might be done, I've found that there has been a LOT of electric conversions done by average people. Check out this site http://www.austinev.org/evalbum/ . These are regular cars (and other interesting vehicles built or converted to EVs (electric vehicles)...

I've noticed a new (well, new to my site at least) form of blog spam trickling in here on JK.com; the spammer leaves a comment that is simply a duplicate of the post up to a certain amount of words, and the only link back to their site is in the "From" box, so for example if Google were to spam this post, it would look like: Google said: I've noticed a new (well, new to my site at least) form of blog spam trickling in here on JK.com; the spammer leaves a comment that is simply a duplicate... Chances...

Seems to have been an age since I worked on a site running anything other than Community Server, but I got a request for a small static site from Personal Assistant Services Unlimited and took the opportunity to play with ASP.NET2.0 outside the CS context for a change. I got to experiment with the new Adapters to include a standards-compliant rendering of a DataList for the navigation. Nothing major really, but something I'll hopefully get to explore further in future projects. What really struck...

Have you seen the New MSN SoapBox ? It's like MSN's answer to YouTube. You can upload your videos, comment rate etc videos. From what I've seen of it so far it seems a pretty cool site. And if it's a cool site, you need to be able to integrate it to a cool application like Community Server . So, I put together a CSModule for you, so you can embed MSN SoapBox videos into your CS Forums and Blogs. It uses a SoapBox Text Part and inserts the proper HTML into the post at PreRenderPost time. Download...

Earlier today Sonu sent an email to inform me about the winners of ASP.NET AJAX Mash-it-up Contest . His site, DotNetSlackers, won the Grand Prize for GeoTagIt Atlas application which has been written by Alessandro Gallo . Read the interview here . The contest was nice for me since all showcase sites had great Atlas functionality (I can't forget this codename, forgive me!). Congratulations to Sonu and Alessandro and all other contest winners for their great job to show the power of ASP.NET AJAX to...

Today an update for Windows Live Writer 1.0 Beta was published : The following is a summary of the changes in the Writer 1.0 (Beta) Update: Tagging support Support for Blogger Beta Categories are sorted by name and support scrolling, plus improved support for reading categories from your blog Improved startup performance Paste is enabled for Title region and TAB/SHIFT+TAB navigation between title and body supported Insert hyperlink added to context menu when text is selected Title attribute in Insert...

My second article on DotNetSlackers titled SqlBulkCopy in ADO.NET 2.0 has been published. SqlBulkCopy is a new feature in ADO.NET 2.0 that lets you to perform copy operation for a large amount of data between a source data store and a destination data table. In this article Keyvan introduces this new feature in .NET 2.0 and shows a sample application in action. In this article I talked about a new feature in ADO.NET 2.0, SqlBulkCopy, which lets you to improve the performance and speed for copying...