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May 21st, 2008

Improved Microsoft Office Live Small Business Services

I’ve been playing around with my website I setup on Microsoft Office Live’s Small Business Services website. I initially just set it up to test the service and learn a little bit about it, now I’m thinking I may actually start using the domain for somewhat of a client portal of my own.
I received […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

April 28th, 2007

Visual Web Developer Express: Follow-up with Sites and Resources

Just a quick follow-up on my previous post. I’m an idiot, the reason I can’t edit those is because I was trying to use a View. You can’t edit a SQL View, which is why the options wouldn’t let me select what I wanted.
Now, I’ll just be figuring out a work-around for that since much […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment

April 27th, 2007

Visual Web Developer Express - Database Editing Question

I’m working with Visual Web Developer Express and teaching myself as I go. Today, I’m learning more about setting up editable database fields and views with the Form View and DetailsView. The only problem is to get that functionality through the visual user interface you click on the “Advanced” button, and the window that displays […]

By Jason Bean -- 5 comments

April 26th, 2007

Move Over Dreamweaver…Welcome Visual Web Developer

I’ve finally done it. I’m squarely heading down the path of forsaking the 10+ years of experience I have with Dreamweaver and migrating my skillset over to Microsoft’s Visual Web Developer application.
With more and more of my clients needing solutions based and operating with other Microsoft technologies, this just seems like the clear cut path […]

By Jason Bean -- 6 comments

March 8th, 2007

Web Development in Multiple Versions of IE w/ Virtual PC 2007

The latest issue of the SitePoint e-mail newsletter has an informative article about how web developers can now use the free Virtual PC application provided by Microsoft to test in IE6 and potentially other versions. The benefit and interesting point made in the article though is that Microsoft is also providing a pre-activated copy of […]

By Jason Bean -- 0 comments

December 15th, 2006

Why Aren’t Favorites Trusted?

I’ve come across another wish item for IE7 or browsers in general.
If I’ve added a website to my “Favorites”, why isn’t it automatically trusted? Maybe not even automatically, but when I add it maybe I’m prompted to also “Trust” this site. Why should i have to add sites to two separate places if I use […]

By Jason Bean -- 1 comment