Thursday, June 23, 2011

Want to use AJAX in Classic ASP 3.0 web application?

You have a Classic ASP 3.0 web application and would like to utilize the latest web technology AJAX. How? Here a good tool: ajaxed. It's not only good but it's great since it's free and is open source.

Make sure you're using "include virtual" instead of "include file" when you got this error message like below. For security reason, do not use parent path.

Monday, June 20, 2011

Can Visual Studio 2010 Express connect to Team Foundation Server 2010?

Yes. Since Visual Studio 2010 Express does not include the Team Foundation Server or Team Explorer, you need to download its client version, Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010, from  Microsoft web site.

I had a hard time in install Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 on my Windows Vista machine that already had ASP.Net MVC3. After installed VSTE2010 successful, it asked me to re-apply Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1. When I ran VS2010 SP1 Maintenance, it looked for Microsoft® Silverlight™ 4 SDK. Microsoft® Silverlight™ 4 SDK alone did not work, it must be Microsoft Silverlight 4 Tools for Visual Studio 2010. The whole process was really time consuming and frustrated.

My second installation on Windows 7 64-bit was much easy. Straight forward. This machine did not have ASP.Net MVC3 and VS2010 SP1.


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Saturday, June 4, 2011

Back to Android

After  more than six months away from Android programming, I'm back. During the past few months, I put my personal project: Develop an Android application, on hold in order to take care other high priority projects at work and family matters.

One of my resolution last year was develop a mobile application. It will be a show case of my skills. I'm moving from web applications to mobile applications. I spent a lot of time to read whatever related to Android programming. Reading is not enough. I need to practice and do a real work in order to master in something. Get your feet wet. Get hand-on experience. So, while I'm waiting for my car at dealer, I open my laptop, launch the Eclipse IDE and start programming. I switch back and forth between the Eclipse IDE and Google Chrome browser. Each time, I'm stuck with the code, I search for solution on the web. Developer.Android.com is a huge resource for Android programming.

I hope I will have my app ready to release to Android Marketplace in next few months. Yes, I'm hope. :)