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ASP.NET 2.0 - Book Search

Doug Bornyk — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:38:50 GMT

I'm looking for some good books to learn:

ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Basic for 3 Tier Development with Stored Procedures. The Data Tutorials are Great on ASP.NET's site, but they don't take the path of using Stored Procedures. I'd like to find something to walk me through the creation of a 3 Tier Site with ASP.NET 2.0, Visual Basic, 2005 and Stored Procedures. Any Ideas.

I'm also looking at creating a Web service to synchronize an SQL Server 2005 Table on a website with a Client on someone's desktop. I'll create a small App that can be clicked to receive data from the website, and then accept the data, or reject it. I want to use Visual Basic 2005 for the ASP.NET 2.0 language.

I learn by clear examples. Any book suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

ASP.NET Webcasts

Doug Bornyk — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 11:21:18 GMT

The asp.net website has a whole pile of great webcasts all layed out on topics from beginning to silverlight.

http://asp.net/learn/webcasts/

Visual Studio 2005 (with SP1), Vista Ultimate, and IIS 7 -- Fix Problems

Doug Bornyk — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:43:00 GMT

If you're running Visual Studio 2005 (with SP1), Vista, and IIS 7, you might have problems using your IIS Server. I got a nasty message:

"You Must be a member of the administrator's group on the local computer to access IIS metabase ..." I found several sites with instructions, but they did not solve the problem, until I got to mvolo.com where he's addressing some other issues. However, steps 1, 2, and 3 solved my problem. If you run into the same error and can't use IIS 7 localhost, Turn on the windows features mentioned on his blog, and that should do the trick.

Hotmail Index Grid on MSDN

Doug Bornyk — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:42:00 GMT

Great Article from Dino Esposito - MSDN Magazine Hotmail Inbox Grid with code evailable in both VB and C# 2005.

IssueTrak Application

Doug Bornyk — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:05:00 GMT

My newest project at work, as a Web System's Analyst has been to evaluate, aquire, install and configure a Web Application for tracking Issues or Problems provided by Computer Services for 150 to 200 users.

IssueTrak 7.0 by Global Support Software is a Web App consisting of SQL Server, Stored Procs, Active Server Pages, CSS, scripting. When you aquire IssueTrak, you also need SQL Server 2005 with the Management tool so you can manage the database, run scripts, and create and schedule jobs.

I customized the Application to authenticate to LDAP (Novell), and log the User into a custom User Interface, based on the Priviledges chosen by the Administrator, that's me. As the Administrator I have full control of IssueTrak. It is running on a Windows Server 2003, with IIS 6.0, as well as php 5.2 which I use for user authentication. We run the Web App on our own Windows Server 2003 machine.

My latest work on our IssueTrak Installation is to customize a submit.asp page based on the user having basic priviledges or the advanced user having administration priviledges, and this was simple. I just provided access to certain fields if the user had IsSysAdmin rights or not.

The pages I created for IssueTrak were:

Custom Issuetrak.html Page

Custom LoginFailure.html Page

PHP Authentication - Novell LDAP.php - eDirectory

LoginProcess.asp

Customized Submit.asp Page with hidden fields, based on certain Sessions (IsSysAdmin and UserCanManageAssets)

The system might also be used for another department, and with some Blackberry's.

IssueTrak can be aquired for under $1000.00, and is easy to customize. The support the company provides is very good as well.

The only thing I'd like to see it the Web App begin redeveloped using ASP.NET 2.0. That would be great.

There are some well known companies using Issuetrak. Some like Pepsi, Symantec, Toyota. For a full list go here.

If you need a Web App for Issue Tracking/Problem Management, check it out.

See more about IssueTrak

After receiving a feedback email from someone with IssueTrak's Company, they are going to upgrade to ASP.NET 2.0. This will make their Web Application even more valuable. It's a fair amount of work to customize it in ASP, but once it is upgraded, believe me, you'll want to consider it.

dotneturls Site

Doug Bornyk — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 23:58:00 GMT

Excellent Resource for locating alot of Visual Studio 2005 Informations and Web sites. You probably know of alot of these, but it has new info added regularly at dotneturls

Windows Vista Ultimate Extras

Doug Bornyk — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:41:00 GMT

Watch you're Liquid Background with Windows Vista Ultimate's Extra, Dreamscene.

Yahoo Messenger for Vista

Doug Bornyk — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:38:00 GMT

Yahoo is soon going to release it's new Messenger created with Microsoft's WPF. on10.net has a great video in Yahoo's New Messenger.

For Programmers and Web Designers

Doug Bornyk — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:04:00 GMT

This is a great resource I found on Digg:

http://thepeoplestoolbox.com/programmers/

http://www.thepeoplestoolbox.com/web_designers/

For Brenda

Doug Bornyk — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 02:17:00 GMT

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Vista Ultimate

Doug Bornyk — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:14:00 GMT

I'm running Vista Ultimate on my year old compaq presario 2610 Laptop, and it's not as much of a resource pig as some people were screaming Vista would be. My Compaq needs an upgraded HD (Only 40 gig) now. Also I have just over 1 gig of RAM Vista is actually running better that XP Pro did. How's That? :-)

I've been running Vista on this machine since beta 2, and had a few bugs, but no performance issues.

Welcome

Doug Bornyk — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:52:00 GMT

Welcome to my Blog. I'm a Microsoft Fan, so expect to see Microsoft Technologies here. My main interests are Vista Ultimate, Office 2007, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Basic 2005, SQL Server 2005, ASP.NET 2.0.

In a short while I'll have some items posted.