First blog entry for March 2009!

Mark this one as problem solved.

I am working on a project that uses ASP.NET Master Pages. I added an Ajax ModalPopupExtender to a Content page, but it was not rendering properly.

The modal panel was displaying at one location, not at the center of the page, and the shadow was displaying somewhere else. I discovered that the following DOCTYPE declaration was missing from the Master page.

Now the modal is displaying properly.

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Well, I finally have deposited my source code from the Nova CodeCamp presentation on SQL CLR here on my blog.

I apologize for taking so long. I needed to update some of the code and strip out any source code control references.

SQLCLRUDA.Zip (29.89 KB)

My presentation slides can be found in a blog entry below.

Vishwas Lele gave an excellent presentation at CAPAREA last night on bringing together Windows Communication Framework and Workflow Framework. Vishwas is the CTO at AIS and also the Microsoft Regional Director for the Washington, DC, area.

One of the interesting suggestions for why you would want to do this is that the technology lets you chain together web services in a workflow so that the service calls occur in a proper order. Web services by themselves are inherently stateless - unless you build the infrastructure to manage state in them. But with WCF and WF, combining these two technologies together you get that infrastructure right out of the box.

On Saturday, March 29th, software developers from around the Metro DC area met to listen to presentations by over a dozen software experts. The presentations included a range of topics from new technologies being released by Microsoft to practices to improve quality and delivery management.

This event was free to the public and was hosted by Strayer University in Woodbridge, Virginia. Attendance was over 80, with some attendees coming from as far away as York County.

John Morales at Nova CodeCamp Event discussing AJAX Development

Jeff Schoolcraft and I coordinated this event, but it was the volunteers and speakers that donated their time that made this event a success. We were fortunate to receive sponsorship from several companies and organizations.

You can find out more about Nova CodeCamp at www.novacodecamp.org.

Working with Microsoft MVP, Jeff Schoolcraft, we have organized a wonderful developer learning event on Saturday, March 29th at Strayer University in Woodbridge, Va.

CodeCamp SOUTH

Speakers include:

• Brian Noyes, Microsoft MVP
• Jonathan Cogley, Microsoft MVP
• Sahil Malik, Microsoft MVP
• Frank LaVigne, Microsoft MVP
• Antonio Chagoury, DotNetNuke Team Lead

and many more.

Topics to be covered include a host of new technologies along with some introductory courses. Here is a sample (you can see the rest at the NovaCodeCamp site).

• Visual Studio 2008
• SQL Server 2008
• SharePoint 2007
• DotNetNuke Module Development
• Office 2007 Development
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Development
• Ajax
• Silverlight

For you developers, this is a golden opportunity to see presentations that would typically be presented at high priced conferences like Microsoft TechEd and VSLive. And it is FREE. However, registration is limited to the first 100 that sing up - so make your reservation today!