Late last year, Microsoft announced the launch of their caching support service aka their CDN service, for their ASP.NET AJAX libraries (and the third party jquery libraries) at no cost. Sweet! The problem was, you needed to be up-to-date on ASP.NET 4.0 framework stack in order to take advantage of it. Luckily, the community banned together in an uproar, and shortly thereafter a fix was released. While it’s practically plug-and-play if you’ve running ASP.NET 4.0, some custom code is required to get it to work correctly in the 3.5 framework. I ran across an excellent blog about this, and it

As a developer, you create many projects and open many more third party projects files over the course of your development career. In doing so however, your “Recent Projects” sidebar in the startpage in VS 2008 becomes cluttered with some things that end up being temporary anyways. Here’s how to clean it up: Open regedit. Navigate through the registry to this spot: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\ProjectMRUList and you’ll see a list that looks similar to this: File1 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File2 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File3 Reg_Expand_Sx Path File4 Reg_Expand_Sx Path You need to delete the values you don’t want, and then rename all the remaining

For all of you vista users... are you sick of this? Chances are, you are; for Vista throws up security prompts for the all programs they classify as a security risk. I know I get pretty frustrated at times, and I’m considered an “Administrator” of my own machine. Here’s a helpful link to make those prompts disappear. HTH -Kennydust

This is a follow up on a prior post I've made a few months back on XQuery, with the purpose of this post to just show a few more examples on how powerful XML and XQuery can be -- with no additional overhead costs.  If implemented correctly, you can even get better performance gains; but I'll possibly discuss that in a future offering. For this segment, I wanted to document the common usages I've come across lately, and refer to it later on as a refresher. Example 1: So, you've got xml data, and the structure looks as such: key1 value1