A partir de hoy, Lunes 12 de Septiembre 2011, Netflix ha abierto su oferta a la región del caribe en latinoamérica y nosotros en República Dominicana ya podemos disfrutar de su servicio. En la mañana de hoy me inscribí inmediatamente a través de su página. La inscripción te permite disfrutar de un mes de prueba totalmente gratis y ... [Más]

Microsoft recently released an update for Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and Visual Web Developer Express 2010 SP1.  This update provides HTML5 and CSS3 support to Visual Studio.  According to Microsoft they will continue providing releases to bring VS to the updates and changes made by the W3C. Please follow this link to download and read about it at the Microsoft  Visual Studio Gallery. ... [Más]

This is not ASP.NET related at all.  This is only the "Everything Else" part of my little blog.  It's about something that happened in the Dominican Republic that must be heard and read.  These are my 2 cents to a fellow friend and to the hundreds of supporters out there. This hash tag was born in Twitter yesterday (Saturday, June 11 2011) as support to our fellow friend ... [Más]

A new version of the famous AJAX Control Toolkit has been spotted in Codeplex.  Stephen Walter made the announcement yesterday in this blog post.  This post details the enhancements and bug corrections addressed in this released.  The controls that received the most attention were ModalPopup and AsyncFileUpload. Links Download AJAX Control Toolkit Stephen Walter's Blog Post ... [Más]

Last month I decided to upgrade my little blog here to BlogEngine.NET 2.0 from version 1.5.  Since I'm running the WAP version I first needed to convert the newly released 2.0 version to WAP.  You can read about the process and even download the converted application in a previous blog post here. But in order to upgrade you may have to adjust to the new changes in 2.0.  Depending o... [Más]

ORM's are great.  They remove that dirty job of writing all that code to handle the information getting in and out of the database engine and let you focus on what's really important.  Application Logic! In this post I'm going to focus on using Stored Procedures in Entity Framework.  Let's suppose you already have a class developed that maps to the Northwind Database and you want t... [Más]

I've been running BlogEngine.NET on this Blog since its birth.  Started on version 1.5 and recently this year the BlogEngine team released version 2.0. I decided to migrate to this new version and before doing that I needed to convert the source files to the Web Application Project format.  For me, the WAP format makes more sense that the Web Site model introduced with Visual Studio 200... [Más]

Debugging is something we are always doing.  It never stops and developers love the tools given to find a bug when thing are not working as they should.  In this blog post the target for debugging is the Application_Start event in Global.asax for a Web Application in ASP.NET. You might have a routine that needs to setup some information at application startup so you make your call from ... [Más]

This happened to me once and spent some time trying to find out how to make SQL Server Management Studio change the Data Type or length of a field from a table. Let's make the following table in a Test Database and save it as "Employees". It's a very simple table in your database and you later need to modify the length of field NAME to allow 100 characters instead of the original 50.... [Más]

About a year ago I read the following blog post by Scott Hanselman. It warns you on stuff you should take into consideration when moving your application to the ASP.NET 4 application pool. Even though I read that article about a year ago I forgot all about it when I decided to switch the application pool to ASP.NET 4 for this little blog here you're reading. I was running BlogEngine 1.5.0.7 under... [Más]