Friday, May 16, 2008 #

Silverlight Cream for May 16, 2008 -- #276

Joel Neubeck back with more flipping tiles, BradleyB on VSLive Orlando Presentation, Shawn Wildermuth on Uploading, John Evdemon on User Context, and Dan Wahlin on DotNetRocks!
From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight Flipping Tiles Animation
Joel Neubeck wasn't satisfied with me sitting and clicking his flipping animation from the last time I posted about it... this time he has an entire page of auto-flips! Since I don't have an iPhone, I'm not familiar with this, but it's dang cool... and what's cooler, is he has the source on the page :)
VS Live Orlando "Introduction to Silverlight programming"
BradleyB did a VSLive show in Orlando and has posted all his "Introduction to Silverlight Programming" materials on his blog... definitely worth a look!
Uploading and Silverlight
I was going to try to break these out, but Shawn describes them so good, I'll leave it. He has two great links to Uploading blog posts in this small post of his... check out both!
Getting User Context in Silverlight 2
John Evdemon has a nicely done article about getting User info in SL2. We've seen some of this, so bonus... we can compare and get even better info... never can have too much source code to look at!
Dan Wahlin on Silverlight 2.0 and WPF
Dan Wahlin joins the DNR folks at DevConnections and puts on a SL2 and WPF show in a way that only Carl and Richard can do! ... good drive-home material!

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posted @ Friday, May 16, 2008 4:42 PM | Feedback (0)

Playing "Stump the Band" with SlickEdit

If you never saw Johnny Carson on the Tonight Show, you're obviously much younger than me, and you missed a great TV show. He did a bit with Doc Severinsen where he'd ask audience members to name a song that they didn't think the band would know. Of course, Doc and the band would always play *something*, making up words as they went, and that was the really fun part of the bit. Then they'd turn it over to the audience member to sing their song, which was generally unusual, but not nearly as entertaining as watching the band. Hey... I'm a musician, what can I tell ya?

So what does this have to do with SlickEdit? Well, I'm playing 'Stump the Band' with them :)

Up to now, I've given them a macro to play, and they've offered up aliases sort of like Doc and the band, only in this case, Aliases are the real deal.

I had stripped the macro giving me fits down to it's fundamental piece, and as such it kinda/sorta looks like that's all I'm trying to do, and if it were, then an Alias would be *EXACTLY* the right fit, and thanks for reminding me about them ScottW!

An alias allows me to define a piece of *something* that I can replay back quickly by name. I've tried to see if I can attach it to a button and it doesn't seem obvious, if possible.

A good use for an alias might be a method header that has just boilerplate in it. I'm going to assume I could insert a live date. My header builder gets my input though, and does some interface layout for me, so not sure I'm going to be changing that.

Then another user jumped in and said that in his opinion, recording and playing back macros was really low on the priority list, and "gets vanishingly little use".

Dunno... I find myself doing quick little one-offs all the time that act against sometimes huge lists of data, so the record/playback is as important to me as anything else and a true deal-breaker.

Yeah, template editing is great, and I think how it worked in V7 was fine, and apparently what they were doing in V7 wasn't breaking the record/playback either.

So, until we're done playing Stump the Band, I'm using V7 and using they heck out of my "vanishingly little use" F7 macros :)

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posted @ Friday, May 16, 2008 9:44 AM | Feedback (0)

Happy Birthday Silverlight Cream

Happy Birthday Silverlight Cream

May 16, 2007 was the first Silverlight Cream blog post, so it appears like we've made it one year. I posted number 275 yesterday, so that's better than 1 per workday all 52 weeks!

I started it as a way to share posts I'd found after MIX '07. Since Silverlight.net aggregated my feed, I also thought I could use that bit of exposure to help others like me get their Silverlight apps into the hands of everyone else.

By sometime in July I realized I was reaching a good-sized audience and decided aggregating the links into a database might be a good idea, so on August 19, 2007 SilverlightCream.com opened to the public. It hasn't changed much since then although it needs to :) I've added more links to the home page, displaying the last 3 days worth, and the search engine appears to be good enough since nobody's complained.

January 11, 2008 I wired up the database postings to also update Adam Kinney's SilverlightNews twitter feed, and there are 215 people following that as of this morning.

Silverlight Cream has exposed me to lots of very creative people, many of whom I've had the pleasure of meeting. So what started out as a lonely little blog post has become something I've not tired of posting, and I hope you're all not tired of reading!

Thank you for all the Submittals and for continuing to read.

Comments and suggestions are always accepted... I even do some of them :)

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posted @ Friday, May 16, 2008 6:52 AM | Feedback (2)

Thursday, May 15, 2008 #

Silverlight Cream for May 15, 2008 -- #275

Hanu Kommalapa on Silverlight for the Enterprise, Joel Neubeck on Circular Collision Animation, O'Reilly's Up-to-Date book, Mike Taulty and Ormond with SL2 screencasts, and Tad VanFleet with an NFL Free Agent SL2 App.
From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight for the Enterprises - Fundamentals
I came across a link to Hanu Kommalapa, and have added him as a SL Blogger. In this article, he goes through a very nice workup on what all is needed to manage Silverlight in the Enterprise. He goes into Libraries, packaging, and deployment ... all good!
Silverlight Circular Collision Animation
Joel reprises his circlular control conept of a few days ago, and this one has the controls colliding and bouncing around inside a fixed 'orbit' ... and the source just makes it more perfect :)
Updates for Essential Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date
If you haven't grabbed a copy of O'Reilly's Silverlight 2 Up-to-Date book, you should! This is a very interesting format... I'm not sure I've seen it done before, but hey... I don't get out much :) ... they are producing updates to the book on an irregular basis. Yesterday the link hit for the first update and it is 70 pages worth! I'm wondering how many blank pages there are in the back of mine :) ... good book, good information, and how cool is it to stay up-to-date like this... oh hey... a good title... :)
50 New Silverlight 2 Beta 1 Screencasts
Mike Taulty referenced the fact that he and Mike Ormond did some videos in their 'spare time' ... dang... how much spare time do any of us have, and these two produced 50... yeah FIFTY screencasts... yikes... that'll give you something to do during Memorial day weekend :)
My Personal Project - NFL Free Agency Movement
By way of Pete Brown, Tad VanFleet has a very nice SL2 NFL application running. No source, but it's a very cool app and a nice body of work to check out... good job!

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posted @ Thursday, May 15, 2008 1:27 PM | Feedback (0)

Wednesday, May 14, 2008 #

May 14, 2008 SlickEdit 2008 Testing Update

In my last post I discussed how HTML was being completed weirdly, and I posted that to the SlickEdit forum.

I got a response back that I needed to pick up a couple patches... so that was cool... I hadn't thought of that, I'm sensitized to checking for updates on something I buy that's shrink-wrapped, but sort of expect the D/L stuff to be the latest... need to make a note to myself about that :)

I Installed all that, and all the HTML tags are now opening and closing correctly.. woohoo... good job!

But...my macro still fell over, so I just re-recorded it, and it still fell over ... grrr... stifling the urge to fire up version 7, I recorded the macro without any of the moving around and pulling content from anywhere... just the empty HTML.

This is taken from the edit window when I finished recording the macro:


<dt><a href=""><u></u></a></dt>
<dd></dd>

and I gave it a name. When I ran the macro I got this:

<dt><a </href=""><u></u>
<dd></dd>

I'm reminded of the one character from Charley Brown saying "Don't sigh like that sir, it breaks my heart"

So now we're waiting again.

At this point, I'm wondering if some of the macros I use are working just because Version 7 wasn't as smart as the latest. The macro language has a lot more'stuff' in it... just recording the same macro in both versions produces code that looks a lot different, and I'm thinking that some of the intelligent interacting with the editor is getting in the way of my macros.

But that jury is still out since I can't record and play back consistently.

Another somewhat minor annoyance has to do with what I've got mapped to "Insert". I'll have to look and see what's actually suggested to be mapped to that because the method I'm using is now sticking a line_down (or whateveritscalled) at the end of my insert, so that I'm always having to readjust the line I'm on after inserting something.

Like I said... this is probably just my old macro assignment pointing at something that I no longer should be, but haven't gone looking for it yet.

On the plus side... I really like the toolbars. I've got open files toolbars, and can browse through the classes. I think I had that in V7, but it didn't work as slick, so I had it turned off.

Also when I do a search, it pops up a box with the last searches, and context-sensitive auto-fill options, which is very nice.

Oh wait... just tried something off the Tips screen, and this is *WAY COOL* .. I'm in a macro, and the cursor is on something, let's pick "last_event". I hit ctrl-. and it goes to the definition. "So what" you say? ... well... it set a bookmark there, and ctrl-, will get me back... now that is just cool. I spend a lot of time going back and forth between code and database layer stuff or helper files, and lots of times forget to set a bookmark. Using this, it just does it for me, and since I have all the old macros defined against ctrl keys, I'm already all over that!

I'm not giving up on it, but I need the macros to work!

-Dave

posted @ Wednesday, May 14, 2008 8:51 AM | Feedback (0)

Tuesday, May 13, 2008 #

Silverlight Cream for May 13, 2008 -- #274

Joel Neubeck animates user controls, Tim Rule on Scale 9 Images, and Tamir Khason On manipulating ObservableCollection objects.
From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight Circular Motion Animation
This is one of the cooler effects I've seen since the 'flip' control last week.. but hey... it's just me... go judge for yourself :) And he makes it sound so simple... check out the source!
Scale 9 Image for Silverlight
Scale 9 is apparently something used in Flash, and I've seen it before in SL1.0. Tim Rule has a nice write-up on this in SL2, and check out his Full Screen version ... I like that a lot!
How to AddRange/RemoveRange in Silverlight
Tamir jumping in on the hard stuff... well ok hard stuff for me I guess, but he took a forum question about adding/removing items in bulk from an ObservableCollection object, and turned it into a nice article... good stuff, Tamir!

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Monday, May 12, 2008 #

SlickEdit 2008 Second Glance

I tried to use SlickEdit 2008 this morning for formatting my SilverlightCream post, and had problems.

The posts are formatted as html and then I paste them into the GeeksWithBlogs edit area. Works grreat, I've done it enough I don't have to think much about the mechanics of it. I've got a macro I run that formats out my content section.

My toolbars were gone, so I hooked up a new toolbar with one button, and attached it to the macro for the blog content. It didn't work... it didn't just have a problem, it didn't work spectacularly... so that was annoying, considering that I'm now wondering about that 3600 lines of macros I have ... I just counted, there are 79 macros in there...

Well... considering I was 6 revs back, maybe there's something subtle, so I took the quick route... I had 6 of these to do, and I just turned on the macro recorder and typed one out by hand... looked good. turned off the recorder, and gave it the same name as the old one, let it recompile, and then ran it... THAT didn't work either... not a good sign for the home team.

So, I did the other 4 by hand and said heck with it. Meanwhile the block highlighting was annoying me and I thought maybe that had something to do with the problem, but it was way past time to go to work.

So tonight I took a look at the highlighting, and got that toned down with color so it wasn't flashing so bright.

I then went in and tried playing with the macro multiple times, and the best I could get was bad.

Knowing what I do about the macro language, I can probably fix this, but geez... I've got a link that I want to paste in an href, so I start typing:

   <dt

and somewhere along the time that I finish with the 't', what appears on the screen is:

   <dt></dt>

and the cursor is sitting appropriately between the > and the < in the middle ... all good, and as I'd expect.

So now I start to type the href, and I can find no way to avoid this:


I know this is hard to read against snow white, but it's much nicer with the black background of the editor.

Bottom-line, I could find no way of getting it to keep the </a> inside the </dt> ... and this is pretty annoying. You can see the dt tag is highlighted, so it clearly understands I'm inside the dt tag pair, why does it put the </a> at the end of the line?

No doubt this is what caused my macro fo fall over.

I'll see about pursuing this on the SlickEdit forums and blog about anything I find.

When I did the SilverlightCream post tonight, I fired up my tired old Version 7 because it just works :)

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-Dave

posted @ Monday, May 12, 2008 10:36 PM | Feedback (2)

Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2008 - 2 -- # 273

Nikolay Raychev with a couple articles about SL2 buttons, DanWahlin continuing his SL 1.0 series, and Todd Anglin on SL2 UI Controls in general.

I've had 4 emails about running SilverlightCream.com really wide and having the CSS cause problems, but this morning, Henrik Sderlund wrote me about it, and after exchanging email with him, he wrote back with the CSS solution. How cool is that? Thanks Henrik!

From SilverlightCream.com:

Button Controls in Silverlight 2 Beta 1
Nikolay Raychev goes through a nice explanation of the various types of SL2 buttons, with examples and some code for some of the more interesting bits.
Using the Button control in Silverlight 2 Beta 1
Nikolay continues with using the Button control and expanding upon the basic use.
My Latest Silverlight Articles
Dan Wahlin has been doing a series on Silverlight 1.0 and with all the product he's got, this might be a good time to jump in and look around!
First Look: Silverlight 2.0 UI Controls
Todd Anglin posted this very nice article about the Silverlight 2.0 controls. This is a very good write-up from layout to media, and is well worth a read!

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posted @ Monday, May 12, 2008 9:56 PM | Feedback (1)

Silverlight Cream for May 12, 2008 -- #272

Michael Washington with Silverlight Desktop and SL Resizable, Draggable WIndows, Lee on Changing Itemtemplate to show details, BBC SL Zoom and WOW, and Jeff Paries Timeline Infographic.

Sorry for an edit on this, I know it pushes it again. I was going to leave the date alone, but dang... I miss-typed Silverlight... lol

From SilverlightCream.com:

Silverlight Desktop
Michael Washington has been busy with Silverlight 2. This was actually his second submittal. He has opened a new site named SilverlightDesktop.net and for his first posting there, he is dynamically loading a SL2 control into a resizable Draggable Window. This thing just works! ... all the source is available by looking in the right-hand sidebar.
Silverlight 2 Resizable and Dragable Window
Maybe this ordering works good, because this is Michaels article on the resizable Draggable windows he used in the previous example. Great job, Michael!
Changing Itemtemplate to show details in when selected
Lee is back, this time showing how to display Itemtemplate details when selected... cool stuff, all the source!
BBC Silverlight Zoom and Wow
Jesse Liberty Posted this about how the BBC used DeepZoom to promote Radio 1's big weekend... can we say "Silverlight Downloads"?? :)
Timeline Infographics
Jeff didn't send this to me, but this is a very nice piece of work. He has some information on his site, and a link out to the real application on Microsoft's site... great job, Jeff!

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posted @ Monday, May 12, 2008 8:00 AM | Feedback (0)

Saturday, May 10, 2008 #

SlickEdit 2008 at first Glance

This is somewhat mildly embarrasing, but I just went from version 7.02 of SlickEdit to SlickEdit 2008 which is version 13.0 -- wow...6 versions behind!

I've been using SlickEdit since (I think) version 1.0 when Brief took a dump in Windows 98 Beta and my boss told me to order two copies of this new editor.

So why haven't I upgraded? Well... SlickEdit is almost TOO good at what it does.

SlickEdit is (for it's editing functions anyway) essentially a big macro editor. They ship it with a ton of macros, a macro engine and you code it in what looks a heck of a lot like C.

Having started using stand-alone editors back in the WordStar days, I was addicted to the 'finger macros' of WordStar, and Brief allowed me to code them up. I also liked some of the WordPerfect macro functions and of course liked a lot of the Brief macros.

So when I got my hands on SlickEdit, my first task was to build all my macros into SlickEdit, and that worked great. It was always a bit of a hassle doing so through successive upgrades, but I always found it working well.

I would get the new update list fromSlickEdit, and I'd look at the functionality it offered and what I didn't have I'd think ... hmm... I could write that... :) So I have... I've got a lot of macros I've done for a lot of different things. I've got macros that find class functions and throw headers on them, including the live date, my name, a company name, and header information.

I have all sorts of macros for formatting stuff.

So, it was with some trepidation that I turned SlickEdit 2008 loose on my machine tonight. After some bookkeeping things, it threw up a lot of warnings about xml files that are called out in some Silverlight files that were open in my file list, but when it was done, there was my latest file open and wow... all my finger macros work! So that means that independent of the install, it went out and found the setup files for the older version and dealt with it.. cool :)

The only thing I can tell that's missing is my custom toolbars, but that's only at first glance... they may be around.

I just thought I'd do an early note that I'm pretty happy that all my macros appear to be alive and well, and the double-key launch codes work, such as Ctrl-R, E,S,D,F,G,X,C, etc... I can do a lot of cursor movement with my left hand while I'm reaching for the mouse for other things... actually makes me much more efficient.

Good job, SlickEdit... I assumed I'd have to add all this to usermacs.e and userdefs.e, but it just works!

-Dave

posted @ Saturday, May 10, 2008 10:03 PM | Feedback (2)

Friday, May 09, 2008 #

Tag-Specific Feeds at GWB (or any SubText Site)

Tim Heuer wrote and asked if there was a feed from my blog *just* for Silverlight. I didn't know you could do it, but Tim showed me I could.

So, for those of you that don't want to be bothered by my non-Silverlight blather, you can just switch your feed to this Silverlight-only one.

This also means that for any GWB blogger or any SubText site, I would guess, you can get a content-specific feed. Find where the writer's "Post Categories" are, and when you hover over the one you want, in the status bar or wherever(depending upon your browser), you should see something like 12345.aspx. Using that info and the base link for the blog, you can create the feed.

For instance, my Crystal Reports category is 5661.aspx so to generate a CrystalReports-only feed from my blog, you'd type:

http://geekswithblogs.net/WynApseTechnicalMusings/Category/5661.aspx/rss

I just tried that and it works just fine :)

I had wondered a couple times if that was possible, but never asked anyone, so thanks for the info, Tim!

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posted @ Friday, May 09, 2008 4:43 PM | Feedback (0)

Silverlight Cream for May 09, 2008 -- #271

Michael Sync with Styling the DataGrid and LeeOnTech Scrolling in the ItemsControl.
From SilverlightCream.com:
Silverlight 2 (beta1): Styling the Datagrid & Formating Datagrid Date Column
Michael Sync adds some styling to the DataGrid, and has the code on his site.
Scrolling In ItemsControl
Lee Shows a way to scroll an ScrollViewer by using buttons instead of a scrollbar... I like outside-the box ideas like this because it makes people think, and pretty soon someone creates something that we all can't live without :)

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posted @ Friday, May 09, 2008 4:28 PM | Feedback (0)

Why Does Crystal Reports ALWAYS kick my Axx - Part VIII -- Load Report Failed

Ok I've visited this one before, but now I'm just a tad scared, because first I had the VS2003 .NET 1.1 bits working on the server, then I went through the whole IIS and VS2005 .NET 2.0 CR bits.

Now this morning I got email from a user that one of the reports is pooting... argggg...

And it's the infamous "Load Report Failed" error.

I tried and of course, it poots on my system as well :(   ... I tried the .NET 2.0 "Merge" version and wow... that sucker just flies .. cool!

So back to Google and a bunch of people looking for the same info as always.

I dropped back to my blog post about the last time CR kicked me in the teeth on this one, and went to the VS2005 d/l page I posted. It took me a bit to find the generic d/l page for everything (boy wouldn't you just hate to support CR???) .. but I found the generic download everything page here, and the specific VS2003 page here.

I did the setup.msi for VS2003 the same as the one I did for VS2005 and now things are swell, including the .NET 2.0 build... thank goodness!

The only thing that bothers me is I thought I already did that setup once. Maybe I found a different post that didn't have all the goodness in it. I just checked the GAC on the server, and since I didn't take a copy of what was there before, it didn't drop a whole bunch of files in like the .NET 2.0 one did... I really can't tell anything other than the fact that it's running.

"Don't wake a sleeping baby" ... good words to live by, and that baby includes Crystal Reports :)

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posted @ Friday, May 09, 2008 10:10 AM | Feedback (0)

Thursday, May 08, 2008 #

Silverlight Cream for May 08, 2008 -- #270

Corey Schuman on Animations in Blend, Jeff Wilcox on SL Link Cloud, Expression Media Team on Web Galleries, MSCUI on Patien Journey Demonstrator, Via Tecia on My Travel Management, and Jesse Libery on Dynamic User Controls firing Events back.
From SilverlightCream.com:
Animations in Blend
I'm not sure if what Corey is describing in this article will be good in Blend 2.5 for Silverlight 2, but I blog enough WPF things that this is all good info, and I figure eventually will be useful to us Silverlighters :)... besides, it looks pretty cool!
Homepage “link cloud" application
Jeff Wilcox has taken on something I've threatened to do for a while and that is to do a tag cloud in Silverlight. This one is a bit interesting in that you can take it on as your own, and use it as a home page... clever idea!
Silverlight Web Galleries
The Expression Media Team blog has this nice demo on setting up a Silverlight Web Gallery. They're demo'ing the one that ships with Expression Media 2, but others can be produced (and shared).
Patient Journey Demonstrator
I found this Patien Journey demo via Tim Heuer, and Tim Sneath, and is from the Microsoft Common User Interface organization that Tim Sneath credits to Martin Grayson. Whoever is involved, these are serious uses of Silverlight, and something we can all use as great examples. I wish it was a little more interactive as a demo... I wasn't able to actually do anything once I got the Administrator screen open, but it looks GREAT. I was able to make it fall over though ... and oops... it appears seriously stuck in that mode now :(
My Travel Management
Another link from Tim Heuer on the same page as the last one... this is a take-of (no pun intended) on the Silverlight Airlines app that we've all seen. This uses real data, but is a demo app... not as slick-looking as the MSCUI one, but definitely a serious piece of work. I love the flyovers on the flight information. They don't just appear, they expand into view. It's a tad disconcerting that the bottom refreshes as I get small flyovers on the airport names in the upper view though.... but hey, who am I to detract from all this :)
Dynamically Creating User Controls That Fire Events Back To You
Jesse Liberty posted this yesterday afternoon and I saw it on my way out the door... this continues his "create something dynamically" postings he's been doing. This one almost sounds like one of those pranks I pulled back in the DOS days... dynamically create a user control that ends up closing itself, removes itself from the container and fires a message back to mom that it's done... hmmm... have to remember that when the use case strikes me :) ... lots of SL goodness in here, don't throw it out because you can't think of an application for it!

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posted @ Thursday, May 08, 2008 3:18 PM | Feedback (1)

404 - Page not found on new server

This is *way* outside what I normally have to deal with. Yeah, I've got some websites, but they're on shared hosting and I don't have admin rights to the servers, and hey, they just work ... and that's a good thing :)

As I mentioned in my latest CrystalReports post, I had trouble with a new web app on a brand new state-of-our-art Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 web server. The app runs in (also state-of-our-art) VS2005 no problem, but I thought it would be nice at this point in the cycle to get it on the server, to test from there as well, and since I was hassling IT over other things, it seemed like a good time to ask for an alias for this.

I had initially been told that the server did NOT have .NET 1.1 on it. But... when I fired up the IIS Manager (after I FINALLY got admin rights), the tool allowed me to select either 1.1 or 2.0, so hey... let's just put up the legacy code and I'll deal with the other later, so I went with 1.1.

So now at the end of the process, I got the alias to my new app. When I tried to run my .NET 2.0 app however, it fell over... it was giving me "404 - Page Not Found" errors. I dorked around with that for some unknown quantity of time doing the 'insanity thing' .. you know... continuing to do the same thing repeatedly, hoping for different results? ... but alas, nothing worked. I compared all the properties, all the user permissions, everything in sight between a running .NET 1.1 app and a non-running .NET 2.0 app.

I also noted that in the add/remove programs, .NET 2.0 was there, but there was no .NET 2.0 entry in the controlpanel admins area, but there WAS one for .Net 1.1 ... so that was curious.

Finally I blew the whistle on myself and did a shout out to my local .NET group, AZGroups. Didn't take long before Robert Miller and Jonas Bush replied and said "Depending on the install order, you may have to re-register the .Net 2.0 framework to IIS."

Being out of my comfort zone, I googled that and found this page, of which the most important part for me was the registration line:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_regiis.exe -i -enable

I ran that, and everybody's up and happy and I'm glad I don't have to mess with it anymore. I'm listing this here as much for my reference as anyone else's :)

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posted @ Thursday, May 08, 2008 9:57 AM | Feedback (0)
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