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VS.NET Add-in Contest Third Place Winner's Entry?
Are you serious with the third place winner being "GoogleFind" ? I'm probably gonna come off looking like an ass for even bringing it up, but so be it. I posted a macro that did at the beginning of 2003. Here's the original post on my old Radio weblog...
Posted: Aug 13 2004, 01:58 PM by drub0y | with 3 comment(s)
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The Future of Scripting?
Everyone's blogging about Daniel Boyd's open letter to Microsoft regarding the future of scripting technologies on the Windows platform. Personally, I think that the new Microsoft Shell (MSH) will be the answer to these people's prayers. Here's a couple...
Posted: Dec 30 2003, 11:50 AM by drub0y | with 5 comment(s)
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True Streaming Reads from ASP.NET
Simon Fell 1 is venting about the lack of true streaming reads in ASP.NET. I agree, it really sucks that everything gets buffered. I'm not quite clear why this is the way it is. After all, if you look at what is basically the lowest layer of the CLR based...
Posted: Dec 19 2003, 06:44 PM by drub0y | with 5 comment(s)
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Question For the VSIP Gurus Out There
Scenario Ok, I'm writing an add-in which extends solutions with custom properties. This add-in is written in C#. I've created the extender provider, I'm registering it for the solution object, the properties show up as expected under the properties window...
Posted: Dec 12 2003, 06:45 PM by drub0y | with 5 comment(s)
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ASP.NET PartialCaching Problem: A Hacked Solution
Ok, I needed to prove to myself that my theory of being able to just use the built in PartialCachingControl would work if it's constructor were just public. So, I resorted to a little hackery and fell back on our friend System.Reflection to instantiate...
Posted: Nov 26 2003, 03:52 PM by drub0y | with 1 comment(s)
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ASP.NET PartialCaching Problem Part 2
Ian Griffiths wrote the following in the comments section of this previous post : Can't you make the cached control the child of an uncached control? The uncached control wouldn't contribute anything to the output - it just wraps the cached control. That...
Posted: Nov 26 2003, 11:07 AM by drub0y | with 1 comment(s)
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ASP.NET PartialCachingAttribute Problem
Preface: I've seen this discussed before, but haven't really found a solution through all my searching, so I'm hoping I'm just missing something. As you may or may not know, if you're creating a server control you can enable that control to be automagically...
Posted: Nov 25 2003, 07:40 PM by drub0y | with 3 comment(s)
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WinFS != ObjectSpaces
In Luca Bolognese's PDC presentation on ObjectSpaces, he stated in a diagram that you should use ADO.NET's objects DataSets/DataReaders if "You require maximum control/performance/functionality" That seems to indicate that we should not use ObjectSpaces...
Posted: Nov 23 2003, 12:56 PM by drub0y | with 2 comment(s)
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My PDC Calendar
In case anyone's interested. Here's what my PDC Calendar is looking like so far. Of course I might change things on the fly depending on how I'm feeling about certain subjects, but probably not too drastically. You'll notice it consists mostly of Indigo...
Posted: Oct 24 2003, 09:25 PM by drub0y | with no comments
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PDC Bound
Welp, I depart Newark airport tommorrow at 3PM to head for LA. I'm really excited that I'm going to be there to experience the first major step in the revolution of Windows programming since Win32. I'm really looking forward to finally being able to talk...
Posted: Oct 24 2003, 01:18 PM by drub0y | with 2 comment(s)
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