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  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Replacing the default Community Server blog editor

    I was asked to investigate the possibility of replacing the default FreeTextBox editor on our Community Server with a more sophisticated and easy-to-use editor. I took the challenge and it turned to be an easy one. The whole process took me about an hour - half for reading through the documentation and half for writing the code itself. Lucky for me Community Server uses a provider model, similar to the one in DotNetNuke, that makes it easy for users to change the text editor they wish to use. The only requirement is that the new editor has an appropriate wrapper...
    September 27, 2005
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Atlas and strong typing

    I have just returned from Microsoft PDC 2005, and I must say that it was marvelous.  Being there was worth every miserable second on those flights :). The hottest thing for me was the new AJAX framework for ASP.NET -- Atlas.  Shanku Niyogi gave an overview session on Atlas that covered the potential uses of the framework.  Nikhil Kothari continued with a session on building Atlas components with server and client side examples.  Nikhil has posted an overview of the framework architecture on his blog.  You can download the slides of Shanku's presentation here, and Nikhil's -- here. I found it a bit odd at first that some...
    September 20, 2005
  • Web

    Does your build talk to you?

    We have a fairly automated builds at telerik.  You keep everything in VSS, and the moment you need a build, you just check-in your latest changes and launch the build script.  The build runs on our integration machine and produces the final deliverables. Now the build might take some time for a few of the products (I wish VSS was not so darn slow!).  I get the build results and the log of the NAnt scripts by email, but sometimes that is not fast enough.  The answer to my problems came when I switched to Miranda as my IM client.  Miranda has a lovely...
    September 09, 2005
  • Web

    NAnt, the tool of the year

    I am using and learning .NET since my coming to telerik.  That would be more than a year.  If I had to pick a single tool that has been indispensable throughout that time, I would choose NAnt.  It is a build automation tool with an XML based syntax, similar to Apache Ant.  It has a host of useful tasks, that can make the building of a .NET assembly a piece of cake.  NAnt has a sister project -- NAntContrib.  It packs some Windows specific tasks, that are not directly NAnt related: IIS virtual directory manipulation, VSS file operations, etc. *ant tools are not just build...
    July 04, 2005