Monthly Archives: March 2011

Implementing Delete Confirmation with JQuery

Implementing delete confirmation with JQuery is easy! Start by adding the class “confirmdelete” to your button or link in your view:

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Setting default focus in MVC applications with JQuery

I build a lot of web-based form applications and one of the features I like to add is the ability to have the field focus set when a form is opened. Here is a fast and dirty way to do this for MVC applications.

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Visual Studio Tips & Tricks #5

Do you know … how to do an Incremental Search?

Once I saw the Incremental Search feature in Visual Studio, it’s become the natural way for me to locate code.

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Change in website redirect behavior in IIS 7

I was working on migrating a website from IIS 6 to a new server running IIS 7, and there were a number of websites setup with redirects.  If you’ve never used this feature before, you can create a website in IIS Admin with one or more host names bound to it, and have all traffic that comes to that website be redirected to another location.

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My Site Unreachable by Some Users

I ran into a weird situation at a client the other day and it took some digging and guessing to resolve. The issue was that one user in the IS department could not reach the IS Director’s my site. Everyone else in IS (including me) could see it just fine and this user could visit all other my sites. When this one person went to the my site he was presented this wonderful error page:

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SharePoint Seminar – Richmond 3/16 – VA Beach 3/17

Mining the Business Value of SharePoint ​

Enjoy a free breakfast while learning about SharePoint Technologies

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Visual Studio Tips & Tricks #4

Did you know … You can press Ctl+\, D to view the code definition.

The default keyboard shortcut for the Code Definition Window is Ctrl+\, D.  The Visual Studio command is View.CodeDefinitionWindow, in case your keyboard bindings differ.

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