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Our team is now concentrating to deliver v1.1 of the application and also work is also going on in parallel regarding prototypes and things like that for 1.2. One of the important milestones we need to complete include migrating our application from Fx1.0 to Fx1.1. So every body is gearing up by installing Vs.Net 2003, registering script mappings to vroots and things like that. One of our smart team members happened to ask me what happens in case I open IIS vroot configuration and map .aspx to 1.1 ...
“Free books are to developers what blood in the water is to sharks...feeding frenzy time!” - G. Andrew Duthie a comment on Bill's post.
Got some extra cycles? INETA is looking for volunteer developers to help us craft our next generation website. We are writing in ASP.NET and C#, and all docs and communication will be done in English. If your interested and have ASP.NET development experience and are willing to devote some time to a good cause, please contact me at devin.rader@ineta.org UPDATE: I created a new subject in the INETA forums for developers to comunicate. You will have to register on the INETA website, then email me and ...
Ok, so what did you really expect for my firs post's subject? Thanks to Jeff for setting me up. A little bio: I'm a 23 year old .NET fanatic working at my school, and hoping to some day (next semester?) finish my cursed associates degree just to move on to a 4yr school. I love C#. I love ASP.NET. Check out my homepage at http://www.danielbright.net. I also have a technical blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/dbri... I have some really neat projects that I will be posting about in the very near future, ...
As my weak cheers are heard by millions (read: 32) people, I just wanted to take this chance to say... Geaux Tigers! LSU took the SEC chapionship in a very exciting game tonight. It'll be interesting to see who goes to the Sugar Bowl (the national chapionship). For those that don't know, here's the low-down... Rank Team Rec Conference Championship 1 OU 12-1 Lost to KSU (35-7) 2 USC 11-1 Beat OSU (52-28) 3 LSU 12-1 Beat UGA (34-13) Oklahoma was nationally #1 before their chapionship game. They were ...
Rob Howard, PM on the ASP.NET team, came to St. Louis last night for the ASP.NET Roadshow. It was an outstanding event and the St. Louis .NET User Group along with Microsoft got around 450 people there for the event. The event covered ASP.NET Basics, ASP.NET Tips and Tricks, ASP.NET Security and ASP.NET Whidbey. Our meeting was about 3 1/2 hours long. Poor Rob - he got in a car wreck before the event here in St. Louis. He was squished between two cars (the perpetrator being a cab) - and complained ...
I got a special request to post a list of the tradeshows we (Que/Sams) are planning to do something at in 2004. Now, this list reflects shows we are thinking about and none are confirmed. The 'something' could be actually having a booth in the Expo area or a sponsorship or something else. We are also trying to make sure that whenever our authors appear anywhere they are supported. So all that disclaimer stated, here they are and of course any feedback is always appreciated. VSLive! TechEd TechMentor ...
Keith Pleas talks about a few VB issues in a recent blog post. He points out that most VB developers are RAD-centric and C# developers are code-centric. I agree with this 100%...and I know Microsoft does, too. He also mentions the move of old VB6 developers to .NET: “...return of the VB programmer who glued together a bunch of stuff...” I think that this is the essence of VB. And, I also think this is why VB has so many problems gaining respect among users of more complex languages. Let's ...
There seems to be one topic in the .NET community that usually gets a lot of responses and can sometimes turn into an ugly debate. It’s the question – which language should I program in? Some folks choose one language and stick with it. Some are forced to choose two, because their job demands it. Though, no matter how many programming languages one uses though, they usually turn to a tried and try favorite and primarily use this one for their development purposes. When it comes to .NET languages, ...
Paschal has a post at dotnetweblogs on a couple ASP.NET lessons learnt. Just a note to SPS Developers. Dont you think this does not apply to you. One thing you should learn if WebParts are your game, pay close attention to anything that happens in the ASP.NET Custom Server control arena, because they both share the same bloodline. I took a different approach with regard to sharing SPS lessons learnt. What i did was Got the team to put up a SharePoint Social Meeting workspace. Created tab pages for ...
No no no; I am not copying the Mobile Minute or .NET Nightly. For all i know this might be a once off thing. Nevertherless Nino and J Avery sure are an inspiration (if this becomes more than a once off thing you guys are acknowledged) Anyway just wanted to publicize some links i found 1. SharePoint free online trial 2. SharePoint on TechNet 3. SharePoint Developer Center on MSDN 4. Michael Greth's Sharepoint Weblog - probably more concise and less confusing than points 2 & 3. Best if you know ...
Randy Holloway ask if .Text has the ability to upload OPML. Well I was wanting that same functionality the other day because I read way to many blogs to update it by hand. So I built one! It works pretty well, but I have to build a page for uploading and extend the Newsgator plugin. Should be fun! If anyone wants to use it now, I can give the source to build a console application to do it ...
Rob Howard is bringing ASP.NET 2.0 to St. Louis via the ASP.NET Roadshow. We are excited and we are ready! We have around 300 people already signed up for the event and there is a bus of folks coming from Kansas City as well (4 hour drive). This will be our first meeting at St. Louis University and we have a ton of giveaways for the event. As I know it so far, we are giving away: 5 Pocket PCs MSPress books for everyone who fills out an evaluation T-Shirts Books from Sams Publishing Books from John ...
I am rather disappointed in Microsoft and INETA for under-representing the Southeast as much as they did. The closest place for people interested in the road show to go is Dallas/Houston, St Louis, or Boston. For me, the closest of the 3 is about 8 hrs. I don't think I can talk anyone into a 16-hour road trip. It would've been nice if there were an event in Atlanta. This would've covered us. I just don't understand why such a good portion of the US is not covered. The only thing that makes sense ...
And Rob and Scott on the ASP.NET Exposed tour! I just got word from Chris in Denver that their stop of the tour (12/2/03) has had to expand past 500 seats and they have added an additional stop in Colorado Springs with 300 seats! Wow! Glad to see all the interest in ASP.NET and I can't recommend enough that you should check out the stop nearest you ...
We have a bus, 54 seats, and an XBox to giveaway. What else could you ask for? If you are in Kansas City and want to go to the “ASP.NET Roadshow” in St. Louis, please contact me and I will get you of the list. This is going to be fun! The date is 12/4/2003 and we will be leaving around 1:30. Update: Microsoft has actually set up an event for us. http://msevents.microsoft.c... ...
Doug Seven will be speaking at the .NET Developer's Association in Redmond. I am sure it will be a great talk from Doug - as we only expect the best from him - ASP.NET Security: Preventing Malicious Input. I know they will have some books to give away and it looks like an XBox too! More details ...
Now, you have to appreciate the developer community's willingness to inform others. I mean, I love the fact that we're all out here telling our stories and documenting our adventures in software development, but there is (or should be) a line. And, even more than the willingness to share knowledge, you have to appreciate someone who takes the time to learn a new [spoken] language. But, when the two start to mix, and neither one is quite as defined as it should be, we come up with this. I have no ...
For those of us that were unable to attend the PDC this year, Duncan McKenzie points out that some of the PDC sessions are now available online as audio synched with PPT and demos.
I just got notice that I will be speaking at ASP.NET Connections! That's cool. My sessions will include: AWF201: Secrets of Working with HTML Server ControlsBy using the languages that are offered with the .NET Framework and ASP.NET, you can gain programmatic access to specific HTML elements. Using a little bit of ASP.NET code you can change these HTML elements into something that you can easily control and manipulate on the server before the complete set of HTML is constructed and sent to the browser, ...
I had this problem when I used to work with VB and VBScript apps and was hoping that there would be a good way to deal with this, but I guess not. When you have a string and you do not know whether it will be null or zero-length, you need to handle both. Well, what I've always done is: if ( strValue+"" == "" )... I haven't ever heard anything for or against this method, but was wondering what the best route was. Does anyone have any suggestions? I've seen posts that mention a possible IsNullOrEmpty() ...
A couple of my author friends - Steve Smith will be in Memphis talking about Whidbey and Jason Beres will be at the University of Georgia - all tomorrow night! If you are anywhere in the vacinity, both are worth the trip. ...
I was working with some others on a book that came out about a month ago, 'ASP.NET Professional Secrets', and I am finally seeing it in the book stores. That is nice as book store sales are the largest that a book can make (Borders and Barnes & Noble). Now that the book is out and I went to PDC, I am already planning the ASP.NET 2.0 version of the book and have already started outlining it. Dang ... technology moves so fast! My biggest concern is how the heck I am going to possibly fit all ASP.NET ...
There seems to have been a lot of questions in the community about WROX - if they existed and what was going on. Let me report that Wrox is alive and well and is upgrading a lot of their most popular books at this moment. I worked on Professional C# 3rd Edition and the Wrox Professional VB.NET 3rd Edition. Both these books will be coming out in a couple of months time. Rob Howard and gang are working on the 3rd Edition of the Professional ASP.NET book. There are also some new books on the way. I ...
Andy Santo has a tip for SharePoint on weblogs.asp.net If you dont mind Andy, I'd like to add a couple of thoughts to that. 1. If you want the code you write to be useful across many sites, theres one simple solution instead of adding multiple web references(i.e. for every site you want to change). If you peek into the constructor of reference.cs, which is generated when you add a web reference by VS.net you'd see that it has the path to the SharePoint site hardcoded. All you have to do is change ...
I was trying write a webservice client to call a webservice the hardway (i.e. soap messages, webrequests ala sockets .... well atleast something of that nature) I came across this wierd issue with the following code // Create the request HttpWebRequest webRequest = (HttpWebRequest) WebRequest.Create(uri); // Add the request headers webRequest.Method = "POST"; webRequest.ContentType = "text/xml; charset=utf-8"; webRequest.ContentLength = bodyData.Length; webRequest.Headers.Add("SOA... \"http://tempuri.org/GetLis... ...
Whew! Another article done for MSDN. I am way late, but I should be able to pump them out now that I am done with the C# book. I just wrote a pretty cool article (at least I think it is cool) on effective uses of JavaScript in your ASP.NET pages and the best ways of employing JavaScript in ASP.NET. I used to use a lot of JavaScript when I was an ASP 3.0 programmer and I noticed that I pretty much abandoned it when I moved to ASP.NET thinking that - why bother - I can keep doing these postbacks. But, ...
I turned in my last chapter for WROX's Professional C# 3rd Edition. Whew! Now that the last chapter is in, it will get technically reviewed next and then I will receive what is called AR (author review) where I have to go through the chapters and address all the comments and concerns of all the reviewers. After that, the chapters go back to the editors and they review them again and then off to the printing. I understand that we won't see the book in print for another five months or so. The biggest ...
The ASP.NET Roadshow is touring the USA right now. This is a roadshow conducted by the greats Scott Guthrie and Rob Howard. You can see a advert (as the Europeans would say) on the side of my blog. Steal the jpg and use it on your own blogs/websites as well and make it click through to http://www.asp.net/roadshow. Help promote a great and FREE event to show America ASP.NET 2.0! I am excited about this tour. There are a ton of people already signing up for the event. I heard from a Microsoft friend ...
Simple tip that's saved me some time: PRE.ShowCode {BACKGROUND-COLOR:#ffffff;P... 3px;Border: 0px;FONT-SIZE: 11px;PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;PADDING-TOP: 0px;FONT-FAMILY: "Courier New";}.ColorLineNumber { color:red; }.DefaultFontFace { color:arial; }.DefaultFontSize { size:3; }.ColorBackGroundLine { color:#EEEECC; }.ColorAlternatingBackGroun... { color:#FFFFEE; }.ColorComment { color:green; }.ColorServerSideTag { color:green; }.ColorDataBinding { color:dodgerblue; }.ColorControlTag { color:maroon; ...
Dave Wanta has just released aspNetEmail 2.5 with some great new features: Initialize the Email from the web.config Direct Send Emails More options for Embedding Images Change MimePart Encodings Automatically Process ASP.NET Webforms Format ASP.NET Exceptions and Trace Serialize and Deserialize Add Attachments from a URL More Attachment Control Added BeforeQueueWrite Event Embedding Images from a URL Better 8 Bit Support More Encoding Features Personally, I cannot wait to try out the direct send ...
The St. Louis .NET User Group is one of the lucky cities that was chosen for the upcoming ASP.NET 2.0 Roadshow! We are pretty dang excited and we are aiming for 250-300 people for this event. This is going to be a rather lengthy presentation and will give Rob Howard time to go into the details. DETAILS: Date: 12/4/2003 Welcome: 5:30 PM Start: 6:00 PM End: 9:00 PM Where: St. Louis University - Busch Student Center Rooms 170 & 171 Top of Form 20 N Grand Blvd St. Louis, MO 63103 ...
You will be able to drag a SQL Server table and drop it into a page, which will give you a data binded datagrid, mostly through property manipulation, the grid will be sortable, editable and updatable One goal of ASP.NET 2.0 is to reduce the amount of code needed by 70-75%, Scott thinks Whidbey will get very close to that mark Another goal is to simplify administration, ASP.NET 2.0 will offer a rich configuration API along with rich admin tools, in the bottom you will still have good old XML config ...
Did you know that you can achieve table-level cache invalidation with ASP.NET today? Here's how: The stock ASP.NET 1.0 CacheDependency class can monitor a local or network file. As the file changes, the appropriate cache entries are evicted from the cache. We can leverage this to achieve near-realtime cache invalidation as database data changes. Write a trigger for each table you want to monitor. The trigger will touch a file on the database's filesystem. The filename will correspond to the table ...
Rob Howard – Membership, Role Management and Security in ASP.NET Whidbey Blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward and http://www.rob-howard.net Forms Authentication 1.0 Solves a common problem developers had with their web apps Most popular Internet auth. Technique No ugly/confusing dialog boxes Custom authentication uses HTML UI Use credentials collected on page Posted back to the server Page obtains credentials issues auth. Ticket ASP.NET Forms Authentication APIs APIs for creating authentication ...
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Visual Studio Roadmap The VB.NET whidby page The ASP.NET whidby page Indigo FAQ PDC sessions ...
Rob Howard presented the expanded support for caching in ASP.NET. Two main features were presented: CacheDependency is now extensible. By overriding a small set of virtual methods, you can implement any cache dependency scheme. For example you can call a web service to check the validity of some data. You can use your custom CacheDependency instance to control output caching of a page: Dim myDependency As New MyCacheDependency(...)Respo... The other main feature is ...
Rob Howard – WSV330 – ASP.NET Programming Using Advanced Caching Techniques in ASP.NET Whidbey Program Manager, Web Platform & Tools http://www.asp.net/whidbey to download the slides http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward ASP.NET 1.X Output Cache Page Output Caching Cache contents of page to memory Reused cached page on subsequent requests Supported HTTP 1.1 Cache semantics Partial Page Caching Cached User Control in a page Allowed for portions of page to be cached Time based dependencies Programmatic ...
Second day keynote …. In the beginning, there was a video of attendees. The most exciting part was Donny Mack and Asli talking about Indigo being the stuff in your watches to make them glow. They were shown in their shades and holding their little dog! Quite groovy guys! Notes on Eric Rudder Keynote: What Microsoft hears from you: Don’t make me rewrite everything! Moving code from development to production is too hard Give me more code samples … in my favorite language Help me make ...
I hammered the SQLXML guys at the PDC today. I want to know whether SQLXML is regarded (rightly) as awesome progressive technology, or merely a step towards either ObjectSpaces or (worse) XML datatypes in Yukon. Some points: SQLXML is not deprecated. It has been ported to fully managed code for Whidbey timeframe. In terms of the internal implementation, it will not depend on FOR XML syntax in the future, but rather on multiple active resultsets and client-side post-processing. Seems ass-backwards ...
Ken Cox has written an excellent FAQ related to validators in Asp.net. If you have validators on your page and things are not behaving as you expected them to be. Then probably you could get some more info as to how you can tweak / play around the asp.net validation client side mechanisms to get the desired effect.
Thanks to Kent for the bio on MSDN! That's pretty dang cool I think .... BTW - new photo coming soon!
ASP.NET Whidbey Themes Developer productivity Reduce ASP.NET V1-V2 lines of code by 2/3rds Enable rich scenarios not easily possible today Administration and Management Easiest platform to manage and administer Totally Extensible Platform Replace/extend all built-in features + services Customize for any enterprise environment Performance and scalability The world’s fastest web application server Runs on a 64-bit server ASP.NET 2.0 Developer Stack New ASP.NET Building block APIs Membership. ...
I am having the time of my life at PDC! There are so many friends that I have meet here that I seem to always meet again and again. Funny that there are like 8,000 people here, but I keep running into everyone! I plan on posting a lot of the notes that I am taking during the lectures ... I am typing the notes as fast as I can - so there are mistakes and omissions. Enjoy for all those reading outside of LA! Oh ... just bought Alex Homer, Dave Sussman, and Rob Howard's new ASP.NET book! Rockin ...