News Topics - When things go horribly wrong, and your brother dies as a result, Adding Sorted Items to DropDownMenus at Runtime, Automobiles: a new landscape for programmers, Getting More Out of Life: Just Smile, Connecting the Dots: how to build a real-world Silverlight app, How to structure new projects in Visual Studio, Using a Generic Method to Encode String Properties In Order To Avoid Cross Site Scripting Attacks, You Cannot Stop a Hacker, Widely available, simple to use, hacker tools make it easy for you to become a victim, no effort required, ASP.NET ViewState: Approach with Caution

When things go horribly wrong, and your brother dies as a result

Published: Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Author: Michael Knopf

This is a technical blog for the most part. I usually talk about all kinds of geek programmer stuff, but today is different. Today I feel that I have to take a moment and discuss the death of my brother...

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Life

Adding Sorted Items to DropDownMenus at Runtime

Published: Friday, September 23, 2011

Author: Michael Knopf

I use drop down menus regularly. They are a very common control on most any website and often we are just getting a list of things out of a database and simply binding them to the drop down, but what if we need to add items to the drop down at runtime and ensure that the drop down items are also sorted?

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ASP.NET : C# Coding

Automobiles: a new landscape for programmers

Published: Monday, June 20, 2011

Author: Michael Knopf

In this frank and interesting discussion about the future of automobiles and the role they will play in the Green (environmental conservation) Movement as well as resolving the ever growing problem of traffic gridlock, Bill Ford discusses his vision of communication and networking between every vehicle on the road. Literally your car talking to mine, telling it things about traffic and road conditions. This vision will be accomplished through software, running on every car on the road, and the world will look to programmers like us to develop that software. The future of your programming career could quite literally be in your car.

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Career Management

Getting More Out of Life: Just Smile

Published: Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Author: Michael Knopf

Life is a complex thing, we all are busy doing "stuff" that makes us happy, sad, exhausted, and everything in between. Most of us want "more out of life", Ron Gutman explains how achieving this is just a smile away.

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Career Management

Connecting the Dots: how to build a real-world Silverlight app

Published: Saturday, March 26, 2011

Author: Michael Knopf

Learning all the ins-and-outs of how to set up your Silverlight project so that you can actually solve a real-world business problem just isn't easy. This post is all about connecting the dots between your business, data, web services, website, and Silverlight app so that they can all communicate the way they need to.

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How to structure new projects in Visual Studio

Published: Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Author: Michael Knopf

Over the year's I've continuosly refined how I set up and organize my applications and folder structure in Visual Studio when starting a new project. Its taken some time but I have finally found a...

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ASP.NET : C# Coding : Code Camp - Orlando : Programming

Using a Generic Method to Encode String Properties In Order To Avoid Cross Site Scripting Attacks

Published: Tuesday, December 07, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

Cross Site Scripting Attacks (XSS Attacks) are a real problem, don't make the mistake of thinking they aren't in widespread use or that you are not vulnerable. During the development of your project...

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ASP.NET : C# Coding : Developing Secure Code

You Cannot Stop a Hacker

Published: Sunday, November 21, 2010

Securing your applications, network, and everything in between involves implementing staggered levels of security, each a small deterrent that when combined together create a defensive strategy that...

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Developing Secure Code

Widely available, simple to use, hacker tools make it easy for you to become a victim, no effort required

Published: Sunday, November 21, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

Got BeEF? If you have no idea what I’m talking about, or think it’s a Wendy’s commercial, you are in for a big surprise. Go to http://www.bindshell.net/tools/beef/ and you will forever be...

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Developing Secure Code

ASP.NET ViewState: Approach with Caution

Published: Sunday, November 21, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

You already knew this, somewhere in the back of your mind your little inner voice keeps telling you that you shouldn’t be putting into ViewState anything that’s even remotely close to looking as if...

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ASP.NET

Cloning a Virtual Machine

Published: Friday, November 12, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

Most of us have heard of “Virtual Servers” even though we may not really know (or care) what that means. If you do a search on Google or Bing (or whatever search engine you use) you will find...

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Sys Admin Stuff

Error: The message with action XYZ cannot be processed at the receiver due to a contract filter mismatch at the endpoint dispatcher

Published: Friday, October 08, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

Say What?! That's exactly what I said when I first saw this error. Come to find out the cause was nothing even close to what the message stated

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Silverlight : Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

Integrated Windows Authentication: Getting FireFox to Play Nice

Published: Thursday, September 23, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

If you protect your web applications using Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA), typical with company Intranets (like here at NASA), FireFox will prompt users to provide their network credentials...

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ASP.NET : IIS : Programming

Where Good Ideas Come From: Just Ask Steven Johnson

Published: Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

We all have good idea's, at least we would like to think so. But have you ever really thought of "how" you get a good idea? I mean really really thought about it? Maybe "good" ideas are cultivated...

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Programming

Silverlight Navigation Framework: The NavigationContext and QueryString Parameters

Published: Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

In the Silverlight Navigation Framework moving between pages is pretty straight forward, however you can run into some odd errors that will throw you for a loop if your not careful. As with...

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Silverlight

Silverlight Error: Element is already the child of another element

Published: Thursday, September 16, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

Often we have objects that we manipulate in code and need to add/remove from the visual surface of a Silverlight interface. One issue that may arise is the dreaded "Element is already the...

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Silverlight

Free Resource for Book on Parallel Programming for .NET

Published: Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

I came across this today and thought I'd share it, you can get sample source code and the answers to common questions for the the book Parallel Programming for .NET applications. It's definitely worth taking a look at since basically...

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C# Coding : Programming

Two Chefs in the Kitchen: The future of Silverlight with HTML 5

Published: Thursday, September 02, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

I have heard, and participated in, the HTML 5 vs. Silverlight argument. Often the dialog begins with something like "Silverlight is on deaths door, HTML 5 has fatally wounded Silverlight and it will officially become a corpse in the very near future"...

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Silverlight

Error: The default XML namespace of the project must be the MSBuild XML namespace

Published: Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

Say What?!!! Why my Silverlight Project file suddenly won't load. Demystifying the The default XML namespace of the project must be the MSBuild XML namespace error

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Silverlight

Error: Could not load file or assembly System.Windows.Interactivity

Published: Monday, August 23, 2010

Author: Michael Knopf

Resolving the annoying error: System.IO.FileNotFoundException Could not load file or assembly 'System.Windows.Interactivity, Version=4.0.5.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

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