April 2009 Blog Posts
We finally have the video from last year’s Buenos Aires Code Camp. If you are interested in sponsoring the 2009 Code Camp, you can contact me through the contact form on this blog.
The iPhone revolutionized how Mobile Web Browser Clients render content and, let’s face it, there are millions of users out there who use the iPhone or the iPod Touch to navigate the web. The number of people is so huge that many websites have specific versions of their websites just for iPhone users, but what about if you are a web developer and are in need of developing an iPhone friendly website and do not have an iPhone to test? You have a few choices and one of them is User Agent Spoofing. What is User Agent Spoofing? Well let’s...
Yesterday I announced my project on CodePlex: uscdsql. Between yesterday and today I finished importing and uploading the Cities and ZipCodes of the 2000 Census. Go ahead and download the data and play with it. I hope you can make your contribution to the project. Happy GeoProgramming!
I have been playing around with the new SQL Server 2008 spatial data types and Virtual Earth and I must admit that I am loving every single minute of it. Anyway, I’m going to make it short and sweet. I would say that 99% of business applications are data centric and I dare to say that almost every single one of those applications have spatial data one way or another (sales, customers, etc). Having this type of data is great, but to make an application really great and be able to take full advantage of the spatial functionality...
We use the Page.LoadControl() method when we have the need to dynamically load User Controls into a page. If you look at the signature of the method the return type is of type System.Web.UI.Control, which is one of the base classes for all controls (directly or indirectly). This is fine when all we want to do is load the User Control, but sometimes we need to reference some properties, methods, events, etc of that control and to do so we have cast the instance of the control to the correct type. The first thing one tries is: ...
I was trying to record a Web Test using Visual Studio Team System 2008 with Internet Explorer 8 on a Windows Vista 64 bit machine. After creating the Web Test IE was launching without the Web Test Recorder Explorer Bar. Going to View – Explorer Bars – Web Test Recorder 9.0 would show up, but after clicking Stop I would get the following exception: “Unable to load DLL ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.RecorderBarBHO90.dll.’ The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E).” After a few recommendations on the web the problem was solved by moving the dll found...