Archives
-
Rss Assistance from ASP.NET Developer Center
Those that are connected to me via my MsnMessenger implant will have noticed that I haven't been around much this week. The reason for that is that I've had to travel interstate to help a consortium architect a Content Management Solution for a tender response using a whole bunch of the latest technologies - ASP.NET, CMS2002, WebServices etc...
-
There and back again.
Today I had to call a .NET component from an ASP page so, being the mungey .NET kinda guy that I am I decided to wrap the call in a .NET webservice and invoke a call using an XmlHttp GET request. It all went fine and I was able to encapsulate most of the harder stuff within the .NET code to make my life easier and add a bit of RAD "oomph" to the overall process.
-
ICollection: a peek under the covers
I just noticed that Robert McLaws blog'ged about an article of mine that he'd recently read. I remember writing that article a year or so ago now and in it I describe how to create a strongly typed collection that uses abstraction to hide the underlying datatypes. This is cool because you can easily switch the type that stores lists of data without consumers of your type being affected, yet, you get strongly typed collections that ensure more errors will be picked up at design time (because you're passing less System.Object's all around the place).
-
Some blog changes
I'm in the middle of upgrading some parts of my blog. The most important change is that I'm going back and categorizing all of my blog entries. This is important and, if you have a blog and haven't been categorizing your entries then I'd highly recommend doing do.
-
RegexLib.com
Over the past 3 or 4 months I've been involved in adding some new features to RegexLib.com. Firstly, we changed the look-and-feel of the site (thanks to Thomas 'Aylar' Johansen) to give it a friendly look and to change the navigation structure.
-
WindowsForms.NET - a useful library of articles.
I got an e-mail from a work colleague yesterday expounding the virtues of the WindowsForms site - nod, I'd agree with that - it's nice. At the time I just filed the e-mail away and grinned, knowing that there was another enlightened .NET'ter amid the throng { aloof aren't I? }. Anyways, this morning I decided that I should reply to him and let him know that I thought that it was great that he'd found the site and to thank him for the link; as I'm replying I notice a little footnote in his mail: "HINT: Click on articles Tab and search for 'smart client'." HOLY CRAP I thought! {click}
-
objects, relational data, reflection, performance, types and metadata - a monograph by Darren Neimke
I've just been informed that my recent post about the starter kits is the most visited blog-entry on weblogs.asp.net!
-
My favourite online resource
My favourite list or newsgroup would have to be the Regex list over at ASPAlliance:
-
How to raise your community profile
Yesterday a friend e-mailed me and "ranted" about some stuff. I never get sick of "rants" or "ramblings" they're the best kinds of conversations. The kind where I can just say what I'm actually thinking without having the burden of wondering whether or not I sound like a complete idiot! One part of his "rant" asked about how I'd managed to get involved with things such as ASPInsiders (A question similar to this was also asked on Scott Mitchell's blog recently).
-
Webservice architecture for online/offline applications
I'm currently writing a utility application to keep track of CodeSnippets, Favourites Links etc and, as a feature of the application, users will have the ability to take the application offline for extended periods of time and still be able to fully maintain the data while in the disconnected state - i.e.: Add/Edit/Delete/Read - not dissimilar to what the TaskVision application does. Users may also have more than one client interface to the application - consider a WindowsForms app at work and a WebForms app running on PocketPC.
-
Regex Workbench V2
Today I discovered that Eric Gunnerson has been blogging! While browsing some of his older entries I noticed that he's recently updated the Regex WorkBench (with Examine-o-matic!):
-
Type safety, C# 'as' and Generics
PaulV blogged the other day about DirectCast and I left a comment asking whether a VB equivalent of C#'s 'as' operator would be relevant.
-
A Friday Gripe - searching for solutions
Transaction.BeginRant()
-
WebServices - a discussion about how to return data
I haven't written many WebServices so I'm always looking for advice from people that have. Tonight I had a bit of a chat with Thomas Johansen about how to expose data from a service and I thought that I'd blog it... Oh yeh, I'm "We hates them" :-)
-
Some more writing planned
Next time Scott Mitchell tells you that he'd like your ideas for *him* to write an article.... don't believe him - he'll get you to do it! :-P
-
OnSeeingKentsAdvice { Subscribe( Me, New BlogCreatedEventArgs() ) }
Allright, enough nerd humour... I saw that Kent blog'ged about a new Msdn blog service for the ASP.NET channel - http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/rss.xml - I hopped on right away and I'm glad that I did as it alerted me to the following, recently published item: Managing Hierarchical Inserts in ASP.NET and ADO.NET.
-
New tool : RegexLibrarian
I've been subscribed to the GotDotNet User Samples feed for several weeks now and it's great because you get to see some really cool tools come in. I love playing with the new stuff and pulling the code apart to get inspiration for how to implement features on new projects.
-
Starter Kits Powerpoint
I gave my first talk at my local .NET User Group (http://www.adnug.com/) last week on the ASP.NET Starter Kits. Here's a link to my slide-deck from the night:
-
Scott Mitchell is blogging
-
Filtering DataTables
A friend gave this to me today after I had complained about receiving the following error:
-
Call it problem solving
I just saw a link on Paschal's blog to some interviews with Bill Gates. I loved this one in particular...
-
WinForms DataGrid row highlighting
Here's something that I've burnt hours on before... HOW TO: set the row color in WinForms datagrid when selected?