Archives
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Global themes not in ASP.NET Beta1
I noticed this last week but it came up again on a recent thread... the global Theme styles which had been in the ASP.NET V2 alpha's have disappeared in Beta 1.
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Lots of reading going on
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How to use the ASP Page Framework
I had a couple of e-mail requests asking me how to use the Classic ASP Page Framework which I discussed in my last blog entry so I thought that I'd make a couple of notes in an attempt to try an clear things up a bit. First, the code for the Framework can be found here:
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Classic ASP Page Framework
The other day I asked a question on a list about the perf. Implications of using VBScript classes in classic ASP applications. After participating in that thread I was reminded that, a while back I actually wrote an object oriented, event-driven classic ASP Page model which mimics some of the services which are built into the ASP.NET pages - such as Authentication, Users/Identities and Page properties. The page automagically serializes it's state (which could be abstracted by implementing a Provider model). The model also contained an in-built AuthenticationProvider which handles re-directs when secured resources are requested.
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Certification and a new RegexLib.com feature
Last week I finally sat the 310 exam (Services: Remoting, Windows Services, Web Services and Enterprise Services). It's the first exam that I geniunely thought that I could fail. Thankfully I passed it with relative ease due - I suspect - to some late night cramming. I'm now an MCAD and I only have the “Defining Requirements” exam to go until I'm MCSD!
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Justin's PokerDemo is up
As Justin blogged earlier, the code for his PokerDemo is now online:
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Essential Community Services Templates
Got some quality time with Whidbey on the weekend and came across some of the new enterprise template stuff - man these things have incredible designer integration.
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Manual Express Downloads are now live
This is great news!!!
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Generics Whitepaper for VB 2005
Just saw a reference to a new Msdn article on Generics in VB on Duncan MacKenzie's and Paul Vick's blog:
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WebCasts : Building end-to-end applications with C# Express
I noticed that Dan Fernandez just blogged about an upcoming series of chats which revolve around creating applications using Visual C# Express 2005. Get all the details here:
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ASP.NET 2.0 Quickstarts
Just noticed that the ASP.NET 2.0 Quickstarts are live:
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Writing Use Cases
I'm thinking that with all of the new tools which will soon be arriving in my favourite IDE that it might be a good time to learn more about writing Use Case statements.
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Logged my first bug in the Product Feedback Center
This morning while I was messing around in VWD I noticed that the VB Comment feature had not been implemented. This is where the Product Feedback Center is cool; I logged in and wrote up a defect against the product :-)