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re: ASP.NET: Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory

Michael C. Neel — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:38:10 GMT

Sorry, I sould have pulled out the bindings in the examples. The image urls are actually "~/", but in processing them to html links for the client, the .Net framework will add too many "../" (I've always wondered why they chose relative paths by default)

re: ASP.NET: Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory

tperri — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:55:28 GMT

Lex,

You cannot use ~/ because ~/ takes you to the root of the web application. He was trying to go above the root with a ../

HTH

re: ASP.NET: Cannot use a leading .. to exit above the top directory

lex — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:47:58 GMT

hi,

can not understand problem... why not to use ~/ before image url?

"~/inc/img/some.jpg" no extra "../" needed, framework do replace by itself. Also works great in master.pages...

re: ASP.NET: Creating a UserControl with Child Content

Michael C. Neel — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 18:41:57 GMT

I don't have any errors with using a Button, but as I said this isn't going to work in all situations and you'll probably need a custom control if you need to put user input and buttons inside the template content.

re: ASP.NET: Creating a UserControl with Child Content

johnpearson — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:19:16 GMT

What about when one of the child controls is a button.

Error: Control 'btnHidePopup_LinkButton1' of type 'LinkButton' must be placed inside a form tag with runat=server.

Eventhough the page that has the user control also has a form, the above error happens.

re: ASP.NET: Creating a UserControl with Child Content

khaled — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 22:42:06 GMT

Good Idea, Thanx alot

re: ASP.NET: Creating a UserControl with Child Content

Moutasem al-awa — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:52:43 GMT

I promise :), it is a really useful one and i will try it with SharePoint MasterPages and get back to you for any new updates or bugs.

Thanks again

re: SilverLight 2.0: Setting the Background of a Button

rgd — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 19:20:26 GMT

thanks...this worked very nicely

re: IncaBlocks Released, Thanks AgileZen and Kanban!

Michael C. Neel — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:02:12 GMT

Just XNA and C# - there are some game frameworks out there, but we choose to keep things simple. Looking forward to posting more on XNA!

re: IncaBlocks Released, Thanks AgileZen and Kanban!

Tuna Toksoz — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:20:32 GMT

What frameworks did you use along the way? I have been interested in XNA for a while, and posts on your xna would be appreciated.

re: Critical Thinking and Dissent is a Requirement

jim d — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 22:55:27 GMT

@KevDog

Well, I just did a print-to-pdf on the API and the training manual pages available from StructureMap.sourceforge.net. The manual is about 80 pages and the documentation is over 200 pages. So it seems like a valid criticism. I can't find any docs available from ninject.org but to be fair I haven't extensively looked.

I also don't understand your claim of ad hominem attacks and I don't think the term means what you think it means. Ad Hominem attacks are directed at people, whereas Joel is attacking ideas. In fact the only person being attacked here is... Joel Spolsky.

re: Critical Thinking and Dissent is a Requirement

James Curran — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:28:15 GMT

I am both a beginner with OO & C#. After reading about it in Sanderson's MVC book I was able to get multiple dependencies configured and running with Windsor. Now, admittedly, it's "magic" to me, but, it just works. No 200 page manual required.

re: Critical Thinking and Dissent is a Requirement

KevDog — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:17:52 GMT

Michael,

It wasn't the choice of technology that set people off, at least not me, it was the ad hominem bullshit and FUD that came along with it. Is there a single IoC container that has "a 200 page manual"? Are people who use IoC frameworks really so intellectually clueless as to not get that people are confused?

If he'd left it with "I usually roll my own, it fits my needs better", there would be no beef at all. It was knocking everyone else that was out of line.

re: Being a Duct Tape Programmer

Dave Schinkel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:33:30 GMT

I think everyone should read the comment from Ben above. Well put.

re: Being a Duct Tape Programmer

Dave Schinkel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:39:05 GMT

It's also extremely lame that Joel Spolsky doesn't allow comments in his blog. Pu**y. Just because someone runs a business doesn't mean they know jack about getting things done or code. This is a prime example of carelessness with his post telling people that if you try to think about coding clean, that you're somehow trying to be "pretty".

If that's not the most lame extreme analogy I've read, then you tell me another because that's making the assumption that all programmers who care about writing maintainable code somehow spend 50% of their time trying to make it "pretty".

That's a statement from a monkey.