Andrew Krowczyk's Blog

Moving my blog...

2003-11-08T18:38:00Z

I've moved my blog to my own webserver. It will now contain a mix of personal and .NET related topics. If you'd like to continue reading, please take a jump over to http://www.refactorme.com

Thanks!
Andy

Source Code Viewer?

2003-03-18T02:26:00Z

Does anyone know of a free Source Code Viewer for ASP.NET?

Just curious. I'm thinking of writing one for my personal site, to display code files - but I thought I'd ask you guys/gals first to see if someone has already built one : )

Thanks!

InfoPath 2003

2003-03-18T00:54:00Z

So I spent some time this afternoon evaluating Microsoft's Beta release of InfoPath 2003.
I must say, it's pretty cool. Those of you who don't know what it is, should definitely check it out!

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/infopath/demo.asp

Seems like it will really help speed the adoption of XML Web Services and such in an Enterprise type situation. It will be very easy to create rich client interfaces for capturing XML data with this next version of Office & InfoPath.

I'm definitely going to be keeping my eye on this for uses in a couple upcoming projects.

More on Wrox... (Part 2)

2003-03-17T15:50:00Z

I found some more links to information in case people care to read...

http://pnut.studiowhiz.net/archives/000072.html
http://www.edwardbear.org/wrox.txt
http://www.hotfootmail.com/hotfeet/
http://radio.weblogs.com/0101986/2003/03/15.html#a937
http://www.dreamweavermxsupport.com/alpha/page.php?type=news&newsid=27&block=1
http://www.webstandards.org/

More on Wrox...

2003-03-17T13:58:00Z

Well, it seems my friends, that the post that I made on friday regarding Wrox Press and its demise is true. From what I now understand, the company is done for. A liquidation company is moving in to sell off all of Wrox's physical and intellecutal assets. This includes current non-published books, ASPToday.com, CSharpToday.com, and VBToday.com (not yet launched). Hopefully authors, reviewers and others that are owed money will receive at least some of it from the liquidation of the company. For those of us that have personal stakes in this whole mess, let's keep our fingers crossed...

Wrox Press, going out of business??

2003-03-15T23:56:00Z

Does anyone else here write or do work for Wrox Press? I just got a notification on friday (which I hope posting here won't get me in trouble) that their parent company "Peer Information Inc." is filing for insolvency and being liquidated. I have no clue what this really means, but has anyone else heard anything about this?? It sucks for me, because I'm owed thousands of dollars for technical review, authoring and other work...

Dear author,

The Board of Peer Information has passed a resolution to place the company
into liquidation. The company is unable to meet its financial commitments,
and we have been unable to secure additional funding. The Directors are left
with no choice but to place the company into insolvency process.

Please stop work immediately on all contracted work from Peer Information.
Retain safe copies of all your work. The contract that you have with the
company remains valid. There will be a 3-4 week hiatus period until we are
able to discuss the future course of your project.

Louay Fatoohi is your point of contact for enquiries about editorial
contracts.

If you believe you are owed money for either submitted work against a
contract or for accrued royalties on existing titles, then you are a
creditor of the company. As such you will be contacted shortly by the
liquidator with information on pursuing your claims.

Please note that it is in your interest that you do not break the terms of
your contract. You will be worse off if that happens. Please wait until you
are contacted again.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

Essential ASP.NET - by Fritz Onion

2003-02-27T15:23:00Z

I was thumbing through Fritz Onion's new Essential ASP.NET book last night. I must say that there is a lot of good information there. He also has a really nice writing style which helps a lot, as I usually get bored quick reading technical books! : )

Anyway, the reason for this post is that he's got some cool source code and samples on his web site that I thought people would be interested in.

My favorite is the ViewState decoder. Pretty neat.