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I haven’t brought this up in the blog yet but have dropped some info about my trip last week to Google I/O 2009. While the Android phone was cool, the stellar announcement of the week was Google Wave. I'm not sure if I can sell you on the value of this jump in Internet technology …

A recent posting in the AspDotNetStorefront forums got my brain spinning on how best to accomplish this. The technology to do this, once written, should be able to be leveraged in other areas that clients of mine have been looking to do. So, out comes Visual Studio and Google to come up for some starting …

Interested in outsourcing your email services but are afraid of what affect this might have on  your corporate mandate (can you say “Sar-Box”) to retain copies of email and to do so securely? Well, Google has announced a webinar with a live Q&A session to be held on Tuesday June 9, 2009 at 9am PDT …

I recently completed a search page upgrade on one of my client websites (http://www.tobacco-barn.com) and was pleased enough with some of the code on this that I thought I’d share it with the community. Our goals were as follows: Limit search to just show products and not each variant of the a product Include images …

While doing some updates to the EmmCLA program (more to come on this soon), I needed to have it loop through all the AppSettings in in App.Config file (the same should hold true for Web.Config for web apps) to find all occurrences of appsettings that were similar to a certain string. A few Google searches …

I got a Google Alert about an article posted recently by UK Developers over at WebOpius. The put together a nice little piece about how to get all three of these technologies up and running, and better yet, playing nicely together. This is the first of many posts by them on this subject. I very …

Here’s what you need to know about Canada’s Anti-Spam Bill that was recently introduced. Three are some significant differences between this and the US CAN-SPAM legislation that businesses will want to keep in mind as they pursue their marketing plans involving email communications with customers and potential customers alike. Canada’s Electronic Commerce Protection Act (ECPA) …

I was doing some research lately in order to help a client set up their Google Apps (Gmail) account set up as the default mail client in Vista lately when I found a link on About.com that states: Unfortunately, you cannot set the Gmail web interface as your default email program in Windows Vista. You …

UPDATED:  If you don’t mind getting your hands dirty, you can do the following to all of the xaEmm*.aspx.cs files in order to get this working with your website: Add a Using reference to AspDotNetStorefrontCore to the top of the file as shown below:     I’m sure purists might insist that you actually replace …

We've been singing the praise of AspDotNetStorefront (ASPDNSF) for some time now on our blog and in discussions with potential and current customers. It is great to stumble across a few from another writer: Give Your Online Business The Edge With The Best ASP Shopping Cart Software These days, competition for those online dollars that …