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RssFeeds from MS TechNet
After consulting the professional artistic advice from Thomas and Nam, I just finished an aggregated and wrote a more useful home page for a brand new IT Pro community web site - JoSan.IT (which is built by Community Server v1. :)
I have to consume various rss feeds and then display the contents/modules on that home page, and I firstly try to use ScottM's RssFeed control. Awesome, it's super easy to use! What make me stop and think for 2 seconds is the consumption of TechNet KB feed, which is available on the MS TechNet Community web site. Basically, I can consume and display the title of the IT Pro KB articles without problem, but the feed itself doesn't contain the pubDate, which means I can't sort nor display the publish date of the KB listings. (How useful of the list if readers don't know what's new and what's changed).
Anyway, if you're IT Pro and reside in Hong Kong, check it out.
Colt Kwong
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INETA Asia Pacific User Group Kit 2005 Q1 Distributed
After the hardworks from all of my teammates over the past few months, my team had successfully delivered our very owned INETA Asia Pacific & Greater China (APAC) region 2005 Q1 user group kit to over 127 user groups all over APAC. Just in case you read this blog and received my kit, please drop me a line and let me know your feedback / acknowledgement. :)
This is really a tough task and more difficult than what I imagine at first: insufficient time, handling with various vendors, finding sponsors, preparing the shipment, drafting the documents & templates, communicating with UG leaders and other teams...etc but anyway, it's over and we have to focus on the measurement and evaluation issues, as well as planning for the next kit and of course, bringing more goodies and beneficials to all APAC user groups!
Colt Kwong
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MS TechEd Hong Kong
After discussing how to push INETA APAC in TechEd across Asia Pacific countries with Sanjay in a INETA APAC leader meeting today, and I just found that my local Microsoft office will host a TechEd event at 3-6 Oct 2005. Let's see what'll happen. :)
Colt Kwong
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Visual Web Developer Experss is going to replace Web Matrix
I know many people don't really care about the life/ease of Web Matrix, especially with the release of Visual Web Developer (VWD) Beta 2... but I'm sorry to read this post on the forum today - Re: WebMatrix officially dead?
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Colt Kwong
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Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2005
I un/re/install different builds of Visual Studio 2005 in my home desktop repeatedly in the past few months, and I was preparing to install the downloadable VS 2005 Beta 2 in my laptop today. However, my memory goes bad and I just found out that I didn't follow the recommended procedures as shown on MSDN.
If you have installed previous versions of Visual Studio 2005, such as Beta 1 or Community Technical Preview (CTP) builds of Visual Studio Team Suite, Visual Studio Standard or Visual Studio Professional, then you must uninstall the pre-Beta2 components in the exact order below before beginning to install any version of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. [more...]
The uninstallation of previous builds of VS 2005 is fine in my laptop, but.. well, I hope it won't break anything in the future even though I didn't follow the exact order. If you're ready to install the VS 2005 B2, remember to read the captioned URL first if possible.
Colt Kwong
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Designer Mode Problem in Visual Studio .NET 2003
I got a trouble in opening a ASP.NET Web app in VB.NET developed by another team today. An error message showing "... blah blah </body> is missing...." (of course, an intact <body></body> tag exist in the ASPX file), where no designer mode and no code declaration and event wiring in the code behind file.. :(
Finally, a teammate suggest me to add a line in the <head> section of the ASPX file:
<meta name="CODE_LANGUAGE" content="Visual Basic 7.0">
Yes, that's it. I haven't seen this kind of problem in the past, it's so strange.
Colt Kwong
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Default Button / Press Enter Key in Web Form
Anyway, I went to Mike's blog immediately as I remembered he blogged about this topic in the past, I added his code by following his code snippet but it didn't work. (FYI: I have only 1 TextBox and 1 Button on that page only)
Finally, I added few lines of JavaScript code in order to catch this action (the keypoint is this line of code: event.returnValue=false;) and then it worked perfectly! Minor issue but "resume" the functionality. :o) -
CMP Acquises the Junkies
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Free Mail Competition Again?
Just read a Chinese blog and learnt that Yahoo mail offers 1Gb storage for all users long times ago (maybe expand to other regions as well), and again, Gmail gave me a surprise when I look at the storage indicator tonight:
By looking at the New Features list on gmail, I found that Gmail now increase the storage for all user from now on to 2Gb (What's extra 57Mb for me BTW?) Aha... lovely, in addition to the newly added Rich Text Editing feature in Gmail, and she gave me a gift about the increased storage size again tonight. I love thisgamecompetition. :)
Colt Kwong