J. Michael Palermo IV is the Director of Development Technologies at Interface Technical Training in Phoenix, AZ. In addition to serving as a Microsoft Regioinal Director in the Desert Mountain region of the US, he has been awarded Most Valuable Player (MVP) for ASP/ASP.NET technologies. Michael is co-founder of the Silverlight Insiders, and a long-time member of ASP Insiders. Although Michael's passion is sharing technology in a classroom environment, he has set time aside for authoring several books, engaging developers at user groups, and speaking at Microsoft events. Michael currently evangelizes productivity at www.GotCodeSnippets.com.
Visual Studio
28 Jul 2010
How to Get jQuery 1.4.2 IntelliSense Working in Visual Studio 2008
Michael Palermo writes
"...For those still using Visual Studio 2008 and developing using jQuery, you will no doubt desire the use of IntelliSense in your text editor to browse the jQuery objects. To make sure you get this benefit, you must have SP1 for Visual Studio 2008 applied and run a patch...[Steps]"
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ASPNET
26 Jul 2010
How to Get the Event-Causing Control ID in ASP.NET Web Forms
Michael Palermo writes
"...Very early in the life of a web form in ASP.NET, you may need to know what control fired the event that caused the post-back to occur. Perhaps you need to know what button was clicked before the click event handler is executed...If you include the following extension method in your code, you can get the ID of the event causing control from the HttpRequest instance:..."
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Visual Studio
12 Apr 2010
Visual Studio 2010 - Will Developers Switch?
Michael Palermo writes
"...I can’t help but wonder how long before the .NET community at large will actually embrace adoption. As a trainer, I encounter many developers who never switched from Visual Studio 2005 to 2008. A few number recently admitted using Visual Studio 2003...this is the one to switch to now for..."
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