(This was sent to me in an email from a friend... and it made since to me!)

I have often wondered why it is that Conservatives are called the "right" and Liberals are called the "left."

By chance I stumbled upon this verse in the Bible:

"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

Thus sayeth the Lord. Amen.

Can't get any simpler than that.

Probably should think about putting this into your web developers toolbox... especialy if you like the MVVM pattern. 

http://knockoutjs.com

Here's the description from their website:

Knockout is a JavaScript library that helps you to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Any time you have sections of UI that update dynamically (e.g., changing depending on the user’s actions or when an external data source changes), KO can help you implement it more simply and maintainably.

Imports System.ComponentModel

Public Class Debitor

#Region " Contructors "

     Sub New()
          ' nix tun
     End Sub


     Public Sub New(ByVal name As String)
          Me._name = name
     End Sub

#End Region

#Region " Private Fields "

     Private _name As String

#End Region

#Region " ReadOnly Properties "

     Public ReadOnly Property Name() As String
          Get
               Return _name
          End Get
     End Property

#End Region


End Class

<UserControl.Resources>
<local:Debitor x:Key="DebitorDataSource"
d:IsDataSource="True" />
</UserControl.Resources>

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot"
Background="White"
DataContext="{Binding Source={StaticResource DebitorDataSource}}">
<ListBox x:Name="lbDebitors"
Margin="115,115,77,151"
IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="False"
ItemsSource="{Binding Name, Mode=OneWay}">
<ListBox.ItemTemplate>
<DataTemplate>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding Name}" />
</DataTemplate>
</ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

Download the latest 4.5RC build from: http://stylecop.codeplex.com/4.5 RC


Project Description

StyleCop analyzes C# source code to enforce a set of style and consistency rules. It can be run from inside of Visual Studio or integrated into an MSBuild project. StyleCop has also been integrated into many third-party development tools.

Core Principles

• StyleCop provides value by enforcing a common set of style rules for C# code. StyleCop will continue to ship with a single, consistent set of rules, with minimal rule configuration allowed. Developers can implement their own rules if they so choose.
• StyleCop ships with the ability to seamlessly integrate with Visual Studio, MSBuild, TFS, etc. Developers are free to implement custom code to integrate StyleCop into other development and tooling environments, as described in the SDK documentation.

Selecting the control based on its ID can be difficult with ASP.NET Controls and even more so with those nested within Master Pages. There very well could be other selection methods that work as good or better, but this one works well for me.

Example:

$(“input[ID$=’_txtFirstName’]").xxx

I recently had some headaches with regards to getting jQuery intellisense working properly within Visual Studio 2008 (sp1).  If I included the "jquery-1.3.2-vsdoc2.js" file in my page directly, intellisense worked great.  However, as reported elsewhere in other blogs, you're suppose to only need the "*-vsdoc.js" file in the same folder, and Visual Studio 'automagically' knows it's there and provides the intellisense.  Not so for me, at least at first (read on).  Then, to add more frustration to the mix, when I would add in the UI library ("jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js" in my case), then intellisense would completely stop working (for jQuery).  After searching for a solution for this new problem, someone suggested that you place an empty "*-vsdoc.js" file in the same folder as the jQuery UI file.  So, in my case that would be "jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min-vsdoc.js".  Easy enough, but no joy.  Did not work for me.  

In the end, what finally worked was to rename the .js files to the following shorter versions:

jquery.js

jquery-vsdoc.js

jquery-ui.min.js

jquery-ui.min-vsdoc.js

Then, all worked as expected.  Below is some helpful information I found on another blog - and felt that re-posting it here might be helpful to you...

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As we all know, visual studio 2008 already support JavaScript intellisense. To extend its intellisense support for jQuery, Microsoft released a patch KB958502 for visual studio 2008 with SP1.

Apart from providing jQuery intellisense, it will also add intellisense support to all the JavaScript files that we add to our solution. For example: if we have a JavaScript file called "CDvalidations.js", this new patch will look for its corresponding XML documentation file with "-vsdoc.js" appended to its name in the same folder to provide intellisense, in our case it will be CDvalidations-vsdoc.js.  We can have all the documentation in XML format in these doc files which will be displayed with the intellisense.

Download the xml documentation file for JQuery from here. Place the file in the same location where jQuery library is added.

To summarize the above points,

1.      Download jQuery library from jQuery official website here.

2.      Install the hotfix KB958502 for your Visual studio 2008 SP1. If you don't have SP1 installed already, you can download it from here.

3.      Download the jQuery doc file from here. Include this file in the same folder where jQuery library is present.

“How Do I?” Videos — Data Platform Development

how-to video series is focused on the new ADO.NET Entity Framework.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/data/cc300162.aspx#entity

You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thR-lVuztIY 

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) speaking on the House floor about the government take over of General Motors (now "Government Motors"): Now we have moved into the realm of 'gangster government'. We have gangster government when the Federal Government has set up a new cartel and private businesses now have to go begging with their hand out to their localhopefully well politically connected Congressman or their Senator so they can buy a peace offering for that local business. Is that the kind of country we are going to have in the future?