Tim Hoolihan

Month: July 2009

  • Integrating Internet Services on Your Site (Or Mini-Cloud Web Sites)

    Something I’ve been increasingly fascinated with over the last year is the reuse of free internet services that I have. On my site, I have widgets that feed the last 4 posts from this wordpress blog, and my twitter feed. I also have an ajax live bing search box that will return results from my…

  • ASP.Net Comments

    Here’s a strange one I’ve never run into. I was recently helping a developer figure out why some controls were not binding and showing on the page. I noticed they were using html style comments in their page around some controls instead of .net style comments. This was the problem. Server side code still runs,…

  • IEnumerable and Linq

    I was helping someone on StackOverFlow.com and ran into an interesting issue. The post is here. I explained the issue in my response, but I’ll try to sum up. Newer collection types implement IEnumerable(Of T) as opposed to the original IEnumerable interface. For example, System.Generic.List(Of T) implements IEnumerable(Of T), so the following is valid without…

  • SilverLight and Z-Index

    When implementing a new SilverLight custom control, it was blocking menu popups (html / javascript) on the page. I set the z-index of the div and object tags that contained SilverLight to no avail. After a lot of googling, I found the following solution. Set the Windowless property to true. In the case of manually…