Bryan Soltis

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MCPD: Enterprise Application Developer 3.5
MCSD.NET, MCAD, MCP
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How To Build A Weighted Repeater In Kentico

Friday, August 27, 2010 12:19 | posted by: bryan

In my years of Kentico development I’ve often needed to expand on existing Kentico functionality to achieve a specific purpose. While Kentico is extremely feature-rich out of the box, I have encountered several incidences where custom code is required. A recent project needed a “weighted” repeater, allowing users to determine how often a specific item was displayed. Here is a breakdown of how to achieve such a control. [More]

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Using Kentico-based CSS styles with FCKEditor

Wednesday, February 03, 2010 06:34 | posted by: bryan

Kentico CMS is a great platform for developing and maintaining content driven websites. The product is extremely feature rich and allows nearly unlimited customizations for users. One of the most powerful features is the ability to design/format HTML content directly within the tool. This is accomplished with Kentico’s integration with FCKEditor (Now known as CKEditor). The FCKEditor (CKEditor) is a feature rich WYSIWYG utility that allows users to design and implement content and adds in all the appropriate HTML coding. [More]

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Silverlight 2.0 Media Element Failed Source

Monday, April 20, 2009 11:51 | posted by: bryan

When developing applications in Silverlight 2.0, there are many new objects and controls. One of the most popular and useful ones is the media element. The media element control is used to display audio/video content within the Silverlight application. In order to display/play a media element, the “source” must first be set.

medelem1.Source = new Uri(“/audioFiles/audiofile1.mp3”, UriKind.Relative); [More]

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Visual Studio 2008 Custom Item Templates Not Showing Up

Wednesday, March 11, 2009 08:08 | posted by: bryan

According to Microsoft documentation, you are supposed to be able to just drop in custom item template zip files into your template directory and VS will automatically see them and make them available.

I was working with a third party component that I wanted to integrate into to Visual Studio. The company provided a pre-packaged Item Template zip file. I followed their instructions and dropped it in My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Templates\ItemTemplates\Visual C# folder. I then opened my web application and tried to create a new item based on that template. [More]

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Exporting Contacts and subfolders to a CSV file in Outlook 2007

Friday, December 26, 2008 05:05 | posted by: bryan

Recently I needed to export some contacts from Outlook 2007. A lot of contacts (200+). All of which were neatly nestled in subfolders inside of subfolders. I figured this would be a quick task, as I have exported many things from Outlook without issue. I quickly found this not to be the case.

When you export mail and other items in Outlook, you get the option to choose which subfolders to include. Outlook then packages this all nice and neat in the format you selected. Contacts are a different game, it seems. Contacts can be exported to .pst and will retain their folder structure. But exporting to a file requires that all contacts be in the root. My structure included MANY subfolders so this was not much help. [More]

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