Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

I've been asked to document on my Sueetie Development Visual Studio and IIS configuration to demonstrate how to support debugging across multiple applications. Below is this morning's addition to the Sueetie Wiki, Working with Sueetie in Visual Studio.
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That's a fun title, eh?  Let's see if the keywords improve on it. Keywords: Service SVC is undefined, SVC 404 Not Found, AJAX WCF JQuery, SVC file 404.3, SVC in browser, Windows Server 2008 and WCF, IIS7 No, guess not. I finally began my trip down... [More]

Yeah, that's right.  Sueetie Groups, as in…Groups!  Groups within a .NET-based Online Community Application, sharing a single website, a single membership system, a single database, a single license.  Oh, wait.  It's Open Source, so th... [More]

We're making good progress moving Sueetie from Windows Server 2003 and IIS6 to Windows Server 2008 and IIS7.  When my Awesome Host Provider migrates my virtual server to Windows Server 2008, Sueetie will be ready. Moving Sueetie to Windows Server 20... [More]

We have an interesting situation developing in the Sueetie Community: the CodePlex Open Source membership management program used with Sueetie has vanished.  It's the weirdest thing, the CodePlex ASP.NET WSAT Membership Administration project is now ... [More]

You and I probably subscribe to many of the same RSS feeds, so you may have seen the above title on a recent post from Ken Robertson.  I'm using the same title to reinforce Ken's message that he really does provide awesome virtual server hosting. I'... [More]

The Best Darn Microsoft Evangelist in the biz, Chris Bowen, brought his troupe of geek freaks and coding acrobats to Vermont today for the Northeast 2008-09 Winter MSDN Roadshow. Actually, it was just Chris and fellow evangelist Jim O'Neil, but they were ... [More]

I spent an hour yesterday afternoon at a local tire store where I spent the time setting up ASPNET Membership on a new development site.  This story isn't about ASPNET Membership though, it's about the good fortune we as developers have to become mor... [More]

Column sorting in my recent Silverlight 2.0 Datagrid app wasn't a priority, but I wanted to be able to click on a column header and sort, darn it.  I added a CanUserSortColumns="true" property to the DataGrid and CanUserSort="true" to each DataGridTe... [More]

I downloaded the new Silverlight Toolkit from CodePlex and used the AutoCompleteBox control on my recent Silverlight Datagrid app.  It worked great, that is, after I struggled to figure out why it wasn't. My problem was that I was replacing a ComboBo... [More]