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Plip already let the cat out of the bag, but I feel obliged to blog about Spang as well. Sadly, beyond the name, we aren't allowed to share any more, but if you're a web developer you should expect to hear more about it "soon"....
I'm nearly finished with my cache wrapper object, which I've named SuperCache for lack of a better name (Cache being taken, naturally). I'll be releasing it with source and a small article describing how to use it, most likely on ASPAlliance.com,...
I've posted up a new photo gallery for MVP-Insiders Summit 2005 pictures, which I'll be updating as the week goes on. The next few days we'll be meeting with the ASP.NET team to discuss upcoming enhancements to web applications using Microsoft technologies....
James shared the news here: http://www.coveryourasp.net/Technical/TheTelligenti, but we're thrilled to announce that Telligent has acquired this popular and powerful CMS system. We haven't announced how we'll package the new CMS solution with...
Steven
Sinofsky (SVP, Office) announced Saturday that Office
12 will have native PDF support.
Sure, there are plenty of /. style comments to be made on how most users
would have ranked this feature a little higher than Clippy in the Office
roadmap,...
At the Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in September Microsoft offered a first glimpse at its AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) strategy which has been given the codename of Atlas. As you probably are aware of, AJAX is the current over-hyped...
The ASP.NET CheckBoxList.SelectedValue property only returns first item
selected. The MSDN solution is ugly - iterate
the CBL items checking each one to see if it's selected.
Five minutes of Google-Fu didn't turn up anything, so here's
a simple...
I'm going to talk a bit about my first experience deploying a real ASP.NET 2.0 application to a real Windows Server 2003 production web server. It was supposed to be so easy...
We all know that ASP.NET 2.0 comes with new and improved architecture. For...
I'm reminded again of OCC here at the MVP Summit with the lack of connectivity. I can't even maintain a cellular connection two flights up to Robert's room never mind create business logic to depend on it. Connectivity is very elusive here as in...
VSTS originally used intuitive colors for code that was covered, code that was not covered, and code that was partially covered. In beta 2, these was changed to a bunch of pastel colors, as others like Dave Donaldson notes. Dave explains how...
You may know that I'm a big fan of caching. My latest pet project is the creation of a cache wrapper object that extends the capabilities of the standards HttpRuntime.Cache (or System.Web.Caching.Cache) object. One feature that I'm implementing...
If, like me, you couldn't attend to PCD 2005, you still can access to all the sessions and contents at http://commnet.microsoftpdc.com/content/downloads.aspx
Although it's not the same, it's quite interesting to see what's been presented there. Enjoy...
Kent did a lot of work the past few weeks to get all kinds of new content online --- and I'm going to steal his words to get this info out there :)
During the PDC, we participated in a little bit of the Atlas joy by hosting...
Continuing in the series sharing some of the information in the .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 1 and .NET Framework Standard Library Annotated Reference Vol 2 with some information on AmbiguousMatchException.
public sealed...
So, I'm here next to Scoble at one of the tables here inside the Microsoft Museum slamming code all night with some MVPs. As Scoble said, we saw a future version of GotDotNet Workspaces.This whole event was coordinated by my wonderful friend Korby...
Atlas RC aka Microsoft Pre-release software code named "Atlas" is available for download. It is supposed to work with VS2005 RC.
[ via Rick Strahl ]...
A new version of RssFeed - everybody's favorite ASP.NET server control for displaying RSS feeds - has been released. The new version 1.9 adds two notable improvements:
The RSS feed “slurping“ code/logic has been decoupled from the server control-related...
I was reading a post by Eric talking about small ideas and projects and I must say that I completely agree with him. Small ideas are good to succeed and you don't even spend that much to implement them; it's easier to succeed within a pack of ten small...
Krzysztof Cwalina talks about how the new .NET Framework 2.0 generic collections relate to the non-generic collections in .Net Framework 1.0/1.1.
[ via .NET Undocumented ]...
I've got a new DevNugget up, and this one demonstrates how to consume an RSS feed in ASP.NET 2.0, using the XmlDataSource control and a DataList control bound to it, with a little XPath thrown in for seasoning. You can view it here....
One of my favorite attributes of the web is the abbreviated length of the software cycle. With desktop software there's this whole mess of burning bits to a CD and shipping them to some physical location, which requires that users actually take the time...
Microsoft today posted the ATLAS bits that work properly with the September CTP or what has become the Release Canidate (RC) of VS.NET 2005.
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/eula.aspx?id=63C6B54B-AF8F-453B-869B-0438DBBB781B
I’m...
I'd been wondering about the FROM/WHERE/SELECT
syntax in DLINQ. I'm used to the SQL SELECT/FROM/WHERE approach. Turns out
that I'm late to this party - this was (of course) discussed at the PDC, and has
been under some discussion since then.
At...
Since it is a very common problem to make Visual Studio debug client script code, here is great whitepaper -- Word: How to Debug Script Code Using Visual Studio .NET by Microsoft. You can find here detailed explanations and screenshots. In addition all...
Microsoft whitepaper: PDF: XQuery Implementation in a Relational Database System
"The upcoming release of Microsofts SQL Server 2005 allows storage of XML data in a new, rich data type called XML. This data type stores both rooted XML trees and XML fragments...