Damian Mehers’ blog

One of the things I wanted to add to MceFM was to let users tell Last.fm to Love/Ban songs.

Microsoft's Window Media Center has a mechanism to notify you of events inside Media Center, called the Media State Aggregation Service (MSAS).

When using Windows Media Center, there is a hidden option to make it display a "my dvds" menu item.

Over the last few months I've been working on an addin to Windows Media Center which lets you listen to Last.fm based off of the artists in your music collection (you can also enter arbitrary artists names etc.).

MCML is Windows Media Center Markup Language.

I've just started using NUnit and Rhino Mocks, so this is not necessarily the best way to do things, but it works for me.

WIX is an XML based installer generator, from Microsoft, now hosted in Sourceforge.

In the ListSearch extender I recently had a bug where you got an exception when leaving a page that had a ListBox on it, where the ListBox was the target of both a CascadingDropDown extender and a ListSearch extender.

Neil Davidson of Red-Gate Software is running what looks to be an excellent conference on the Business Of Software in San Jose on 29th-30th October.

I used to think that I was pretty good at pricing software products I created.

In my previous post I showed how you can cache large HTML elements, such as SELECTs in the web browser's document cache.

Sometimes we have to do things that we know are wrong.

When a ListBox that has an associated ListSearch Extender is first used, the ListSearch Extender does some one-time initialization.

You can hide the ListSearch Extender's prompt message, so that it does not show, by setting the style to "display:none", like this.

I get a lot of hits on this article I posted last year, showing how you can use ASP.NET Control Adapters to automatically attach Control Extenders to a specific kind of ASP.NET control throughout an existing web site, without modifying any of the existing…

I am a big fan of declarative programming.

Last Tuesday I gave a presentation in Geneva on ASP.NET AJAX and the AJAX Control toolkit, and this morning I created a one hour screencast of the presentation available here .

I got the go-ahead to move the ListSearchExtender from the prototype branch of the AJAX Control Toolkit to the development branch, and everything was going swimmingly until I got this error when running: Assembly 'AjaxControlToolkit, Version=1.0.10201.0,…

In the ListSearchExtender which I am currently working to contribute to the AJAX Control Toolkit I use the PopupBehavior to display a DIV next to the ListBox (rendered as a SELECT) which initially has a message such as “Type to search…”.

I’ve just had an article on DotNetSlackers published on porting ASP.NET AJAX Control Extenders to multiple browsers.

I’ll be presenting in Geneva, Switzerland at 7:00pm on 20th Feb: In a presentation consisting almost entirely of live demonstrations, you’ll not only see how you can easily use Microsoft’s AJAX Control Extenders to make your web sites more responsive and…

When I created this blog I decided to make it entirely technical.

I've just had an article published on DotNetSlackers about what happens behind the UpdatePanel.

The presentation I gave last night in Zurich on ASP.NET AJAX and Control extenders on was very well attended, – some great feedback too.

I’ll be presenting in Zurich, Switzerland at 7:30pm on 18th Dec: In a presentation consisting almost entirely of live demonstrations, you'll not only see how you can easily use Microsoft's AJAX Control Extenders to make your web sites more responsive and…

This isn’t particularly tricky but it can be non-obvious.

You can download the free TraceJS program here.

In this 13 minute video I walk through creating and deploying an example ASP.NET AJAX Control Extender.

They have confusingly similar names, but how can ASP.NET AJAX Control Extenders and ASP.NET Control Adapters be usefully combined?

If you have been developing web applications over the last few years, then chances are you’ll have put together a whole set of JavaScript code to enhance your users’ experience when using your sites, adding behavior that HTML cannot provide.