Today I opened a workspace on gotdotnet for an open source blog engine I started writing. Everybody is welcome to join in. The space I have on gotdotnet is not so big which means that you'll have to email me for now to get the complete and current source database. A little bit later this week I will have a demo site/blog running on http://www.nblogr.com The characteristics of the blog are : 1. It's The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework :) 2. It's free for everybody to use 3. It's open source so please...

Vladimir Bychkov explains it nicely. http://vladimir.bychkov.inf... This will take a lot of the pain out of creating themes :)

Nikhil Kothari must be one of my favourite programmers on the whole world. Beside having learned a lot from his blog posts and book. He also develops these great little tools that really help my life as a developer. This time he wrote a utility called Script# which let's you code normal c# code, not everything is supported yet but in Nikhil I trust ;) and translates it to javascript without all the hassle of writing javascript. I like the possibilities of javascript a lot but hate the whole scripting...

I've come across a french guy's blog who has created an intellisens xsd generator for the The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework framework. He says it's not perfect but I'll take whatever I can get that saves me from writing full words. It's not perfect in the sense that it doesn't show you if something is allowed there or not. The link to the article about the intellisense generator:http://blogs.deve...

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Ever since i knew about the The asp.net 2.0 atlas framework framework it intrigued me because it offers a lot of the features that made me avoid javascript in the past. The issues that kept me from using javascript are well known to everybody who wrote 7 lines of javascript. Basically it comes down to browser differences in understanding javascript and the differences in the DOM implementation for the two. Then there was Ajax.NET very nice but a lot of extra programming is involved to get minor ajaxy...

Basically:.NET 2.0 is too cool :))) After exploring the smo classes the last part of the afternoon was about creating migrating the data. I hadn't used the ado api fully but remembered something about the commandbuilder. My conclusion : Worth taking a look at. I do realise that it isn't the worlds prettiest sql that gets generated but it gets the job done. And in the case of my 125 tables that i need to migrate FAST it will save me about 1-2 weeks of writing import procedures etc. Generic datatable...

The problem I was facing is that I need to keep an accounting database in sync with the "real" application this company uses. I don't need all the tables but about 25 need to be imported with data and the whole shabang. In my mind the best way to do that is to have something iterate the whole database, fill up a dataset and start creating the tables in sql if they don't exist. Next step is to import all the data from the dataset into the new database. Obviously this can be done if you just look at...

I didn't have time to wrap it in a proper control yet. In this post I'll just be putting the page implementation. The gridview is cool and to add an insertrow to it can be done by the footer template. How to do it I explained a while ago : http://geekswithblogs.net/c... If you want to get the controls from the footerrow you will need to address them with GridView.FooterRow.FindCont... For the empty datatemplate it's a little bit trickier but not that much....

Today I explored generics properly and I must admit that I'm very sorry i did not take the time earlier Bottom line : GENERICS ARE GREAT