Archives
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Visual Web Developer Express Edition FAQ
Visual Web Developer Express (VWD) is a lightweight tool for building ASP.NET applications and WebServices.
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Planning the Whidbey sessions for Adelaide User Group
Looks like everything is in readiness for our Whidbey developer sessions. During the July meeting I'll hopefully be announcing how we will be running the Whidbey sessions at the User Group.
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Lately I've had fun building different kinds of features
I've been fortunate enough to get to play with some interesting technologies of late due to some different types of features that I've been required to deliver. We've got a WinForms client which is a front-end to a BI application and lately we've had to implement:
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GMail: If you think it's about space - think again!
I've been using GMail for about a week now and I can say this: it's a sweet app. It's the best online e-mail tool I've ever used. It rocks. It manages my mail much better than my FREE Hotmail account has.
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Asynchronous Callbacks
I was playing with the new Asynchronous Callbacks in Whidbey today... very nice! Basically, what they allow you to do is to, effectively, call server-side code from the client-side without invoking a Page postback.
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New SmartPhone
Thanks to Chuck I managed to grab myself a new smartphone today...
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Whidbey Bloggers
I intend to use this post to maintain a listing of Whidbey bloggers. If you believe that you are blogging useful Whidbey content give me a ping and I'll add you to the list:
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Official Whidbey Resources
I only just noticed that there is a dedicated area on Msdn which discusses ASP.NET V2 stuff:
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New Whidbey Category
I'm creating a new category named “Whidbey” where I will list Resources, Whidbey Bloggers and Other Useful Whidbey Stuff that I come across.
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Being a good BlogSpam citizen
I was lamenting to ScottW about my lethargy in removing BlogSpam. Scott did 2 things to turn my attitude. First he mentioned some new anti-spam features which will be included in soon-to-be-released versions of the product. Secondly, he pointed me to this article:
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Effective Collaboration... let me count the ways
Interesting... today I saw the word "collaborated" mentioned in 2 blog articles which were only about 7 items apart on the main feed.
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Adelaide .NET User Group
I've added a category to my blog where I'll be adding content regarding the Adelaide .NET User Group. The website for the user group is: http://www.adnug.com/ and we meet every 2nd Wednesday of the month.
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Windows XP Service Pack 2 Release Candidate 2
Did you know that Windows XP Service Pack 2 is now RC2?
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Re-useable harness for tray-based applications
Today I started writing a new little hobby application / productivity tool which I'm planning to implement as tray application. The first thing that I did was to crack open the code from Duncan's 3rd Coding For Fun article titled: "Checking My Email"
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Helping User Group Members with Whidbey
Last night I had dinner with a couple of MS Developer evangalists and three of our local user group members. During dinner we discussed some of the possibilities for Whidbey-related group meetings and how we might ensure that we remove barriers of entry and get the maximum number of our members playing with the publicly available bits.
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Some quality developer time
My previous 3 weeks has re-installed the feeling that building computer applications is a great thing to do. Some quick reminders for myself:
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Blog years are not the same as dog years
A week or so ago Justin and both I blogged about some categorization features which we felt were missing from our current blog community. Today Justin posted another larger article which drills in a bit further on the feature-set which is provided by our current free community and others have been discussing features too. Heck, Weblogs.asp.net has even had a paragraph on its home page touting new features which are as yet un-named. All of this got me thinking and I thought that I'd pump my thoughts out while they are fresh in my mind...
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Dynamically running an Assembly in a separate process (with your tail between your legs)
I'm currently building an application updater tool which needs to receive an arbitrary list of assemblies, calculate which one is the bootstrapper and exectute it. I had it in my head that I would need to create an AppDomain and then use reflection to load and Invoke the entry point of the bootstrap application - so I spent until the wee hours trying to get all kinds of Reflective incantations to work. I could get Assembly.Load to work quite simply:
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ASP.NET Whidbey docs online
http://whidbey.msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_aspnetcon/html/e8601952-642e-4479-8b6f-6a1b2a58401d.asp
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Building Msi's is NOT a no-brainer
Having spent the greater part of last week writing a complex .msi installer I was heartened to see a nice listing of Msi tasks which are non-trivial to implement pop-up today:
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Faster than the speed of light (that's pretty quick you know!)
Justin just blog'ged about a new physics book which (apparently) explains cool stuff about the speed of light and other topics which go whooooooshing over the top of my head:
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A primitive, generic DataLayer using Generics
I've only just starting dabbling with Generics and although I can see how cool they are I can also see that it will take some time to get used to them. To me it seems that although I know what they are I'm not sure that I always use it when I should - or how I should for that matter!
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Community Blogs should be categorized
I was thinking about blogging this morning and how easy it is for me to find something which I've blog'ged about previously because I categorize all of my posts. So, if I want to find that snippet which talks about nested matching then all I need to do is to click on my Regex category and scan the list. Then I started thinking about how difficult it is to find content which other people have written and also how useful it might be if community blogs exposed content in higher level categories.
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Unloading Assemblies from an appDomain and IsolatedStorage paths.
Here's links to a couple of interesting articles which I've seen today: