April 2006 - Posts

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Migrating from System.Web.Mail to System.Net.Mail by findleyd

I discovered how great the new System.Net.Mail namespace is this weekend. The now obsoleted System.Web.Mail was just a wrapper around CDONTS. It worked pretty well. It would churn out messages into the C:\InetPub\MailRoot\Pickup folder. So in a web farm...
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Scripting stored procs into a data project is useless for me now. by findleyd

This is really frustrating. I used to ba able to script stored procs from the server explorer into a data project. It would create a single file for each proc and would look something like this: IF EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM sysobjects WHERE type = 'P' AND...
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Starting the new job today... by findleyd

Well, I traded in the corporate uniform for a jeans and t-shirt startup. As of today I am officially working for learnvisualstudio.net . This change has been a long time coming and I'm sure Bob is glad the waiting is over. While I will certainly miss...
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Going split personality... by findleyd

I just took the MacBook Pro plunge. I must say it was very sureal to go through the XP install on Apple hardware. I got all my VPCs running under XP and VS.NET 2005. Looks like it will make a pretty sweet development machine. Since I love to play with...
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Atlas declarative blocks by findleyd

The text/xml-script declarative model is great. I'd just like to see it declared outside of the .aspx file. Semething like an "ajax" behind file. Imagine: Default.aspx Default.aspx.cs Default.aspx.ajax <-- declarative text/xml-script Most of the Atlas...
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AJAX thoughts by findleyd

I was just reading through this post: http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2006/04/03/441767.aspx and it reminded me of some of the worries that I have about the various AJAX libraries. We have some devs here that are prototyping some AJAX features...
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