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The Architecture Journal just reached it's sixth edition. Fantastic! I've anticipated each edition and welcomed the dedication Microsoft has started to focus on architecture, design patterns, and best practices. That's one area where Microsoft development organizations have fallen short. The lack of guidance has stifled the community's growth a lot, in my opinion. The ease of VB classic definitely helped make up for this in the big picture, but standardized development with promising guidance has ......
I was finally able to get UpdateVersion 1.3 available to the public. If anyone does any work on it, please let me know. I thought about setting up a project for it, but there haven't been any big feature requests, so I decided against it. Hope you all find it useful!
Update (4/4/2008): Switched to new link on CodePlex.
Well, I actually participated in my first webcast yesterday. Brian Scarbeau invited me to join in on his 3rd DotNetNuke webcast on custom module development to help by answer questions and filling in as needed. It went quite well and I plan on also participating in his 5th webcast on skinning. Should be interesting! If you're interested in DNN skinning, I suggest you check it out ......
As I'm sure you already know, one of the accessibility standards Section 508 covers is specifying alternate text for all images. Not a big deal, right? Well, what about images that are purely used for formatting, such as spacers? Well, just give it an empty string: <img src="spacer.gif" alt="" />. Ok, still not a big deal. Unfortunately, the Image control in ASP.NET 1.x only outputs alternate text if it contains a value. For instance, <asp:Image id="spacer1" ImageUrl="spacer.gif" AlternateText="" ......
Well, I've been very busy over the past few months. Project after project at home and work. Well, I definitely made sure to get my all-important playtime at home, too, of course. I guess it's all a good thing, tho. I just haven't had too much time for new posts. I do have news, tho. I was just added to the DNN Image Module Project last week. I just got the latest code and plan on adding some of my own updates to it within the next week or so. I look forward to contributing. There aren't too many ......
After having this problem several times and continually forgetting the fix, I figured I'd go ahead and make a post about it. Hopefully, it'll save someone time in the future. Let me know if you have a different fix. Symptoms When you browse to a DNN page after adding a new module to the page, you receive an error message that is similar to the following: Multiple controls with the same ID 'ctr123_DD' were found. FindControl requires that controls have unique IDs. Cause DNN dynamically loads modules ......
I'm working on a couple Visual Studio project wizards and have been looking all over the place for a list of VSZ parameters. Well, I finally found the list here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/l... Just figured I'd post it here in case anyone else was looking for it or I needed it again in the future. One side note, however: VS05 wizards are a LOT easier to create and manage. I'm definitely looking forward to those. They're require a complete ......
I probably shouldn't even be propagating this crap, but I thought it was a ridiculous attempt to make the .NET plastform look worse than Java. IBM hired someone to evaluate IBM and Microsoft tools for productivity. I have no problem with the fact that IBM hired the evaluators. What I have a problem with is the fact that the tools they chose to implement (and not implement, for that matter) don't give a true picture to the appropriate level of effort for the Microsoft side of the picture. Two examples ......
Yeah, that's kind of harsh, but it's how I feel after spending the past 4 hours trying to get the ADONetAppender to work. First off, has anyone used this thing before? There are hardly any useful examples available - both with log4net and accessible via Google. Second, who wrote the documentation for this tool? Maybe I'm spoiled after spending a lot of time working on advanced NAnt scripts, but the log4net documentation is worthless. I shouldn't have to read an 8 page, 3000 word document to get an ......
Ya know, I'm not trying to start any holy wars or anything, but I keep getting aggravated with some VB code I have to maintain. First off, my biggest complaint is the way VB handles imports. A lot are assumed, but some aren't. I've even seen the same code transition to another machine and have it not work. I don't really know the rules behind it, but it sucks. Second, the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace needs to just die a horrible death. Do VB-ers not understand that it simply exists for backwards ......
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