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Test post

digory — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 05:42:00 GMT

http://www.projectdistributor.net/Projects/Project.aspx?projectId=131
http://markitup.com/Posts/Post.aspx?postId=58

http://notgartner.com/posts/1858.aspx

updated...

RegexLib V2 - now with added ASP.NET V2 :)

digory — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:56:00 GMT

The other day I posted a blog entry about the migration of RegexLib to ASP.NET V2 - the article can be found here:

http://markitup.com/Blog/archive/2005/06/07/50.aspx

In the coming week I'm planning to post a source code viewer so that you can see how that site has been put together and I'm also planning to release a couple of articles (not sure where yet) - the first of which will be an article describing how I migrated the existing users into the new Membership feature.

Wow...

digory — Thu, 19 May 2005 12:51:00 GMT

http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/ProductFeedback/viewfeedback.aspx?feedbackid=b53a89fc-3ce6-47ee-b68f-8fcf2ab30a23

My blog is moving - http://markitup.com/Blog/

digory — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 08:13:00 GMT

As of today, I'm moving my blogging across to my own domain. If you would like to remain subscribed to my blog then please update your aggregator to point to:

http://markitup.com/Blog/rss.aspx

Upcoming IBF Speaking Engagements

digory — Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:47:00 GMT

Over the next couple of months I'll be travelling around Australia and New Zealand to present on the topic of IBF. Here is the pitch for my talk:

Following on from his Canberra User Group presentation in March, Darren Neimke will be visiting User Groups in Australia and New Zealand during April and May to present on the topic of Information Bridge Framework (IBF).

IBF is a framework for exposing line of business data through Office applications by using .NET and SmartTag technology to take advantage of contextual information.

Version 1.5 of IBF is a new release that simplifies the task of developing, testing and deploying rich solutions that target the Information Bridge. Darren covers each of these topics in his 1 hour presentation. The session is focussed on code and implementation and covers the following areas: planning for an IBF implementation, installing IBF, and building managed smart tags, creating custom UI to appear in the Office Task Pane and working with the IBF metadata.

... and here is a listing of likely locations and dates:

Wednesday April 13 - Perth 8:30am - 10am - .NET Community of Practice
Wednesday April 13 - Adelaide 6:30-9:30 pm User Group
Wednesday April 20 - Sydney 6:00-9:30pm User Group (N Ryde)
Tuesday April 26 - Melbourne .NET User Group
Thursday May 5 - Sydney 6:30-9:30 pm Deep .NET User Group (City)
Wednesday May 11 - Wollongong 6:30-9:30 pm User Group
Tuesday May 17 - Brisbane 6:30-9:30 pm User Group
Thursday May 19 - Gold Coast - 6:30-9:30 pm User Group
Tuesday May 24 - Hobart - 6:30-9:30 pm User Group
Tuesday June 7 - Auckland - 6:30-9:30 pm User Group
Wednesday June 8 - Christchurch - 11:30 am - 2:30 pm User Group
Wednesday June 8 - Wellington 6:30-9:30 pm User Group

Introducing Bracky

digory — Tue, 05 Apr 2005 19:46:00 GMT

I've been talking a lot about UI agents lately and how I'm currently prototyping some UI agent stuff for web applications. Today I'd like to introduce Bracky:

Bracky is currently reading up on regular expressions so that he can offer help over on RegExLib when I'm not around.

Thanks to Mitch for the inspiration and Thomas for the image.

ASP 2 Quickstarts

digory — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 23:48:00 GMT

Very Nice!

http://beta.asp.net/quickstart/aspnet/Default.aspx

Information Bridge Resources and FAQ

digory — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:34:00 GMT

Over the next couple of months I'm planning to get out to each of the User Groups in Australia and New Zealand to discuss the Information Bridge Framework (IBF). I'm going to use this post to link to some resources and to provide an overview of what IBF is.

If you have any favourite IBF resources, can you please append them to this entry as a comment.

What is IBF

Take a look at the following image IBF at work in Outlook. The image shows Outlook displaying an e-mail with a smart tag and some custom UI in the Task Pane:

IBF is simply a framework within Office 2003 for working with the Task Pane and using smart-tags to perform context sensitive actions. An IBF solution is written using .NET V1.1.

A typical IBF solution will use SmartTags to recognize text in an Office document and then supply the user with operations that are linked to that text - for example, recognizing a CustomerId might provide options to "view customer account" or "view recent purchases by customer". Invoking these smart tag options would display some UI in the Office2003 Task Pane.

The UI pieces are written using simple WinForms UserControls, so development is as easy as creating any normal piece of UI in WinForms.

Finally, IBF contains 3 pieces:

a development component which plugs-in to VS2003 and allows developers to develop solutions that target IBF
a server component which contains all of the metadata about the solution
a client component which gets installed on each client and connects to the server component to get its instructions

IBF Resources

Note: I'll be adding to this list over the coming days with links to IBF-related blogs, articles and multimedia

VATICANUS: The Word & its Meaning = Vatican

digory — Sat, 02 Apr 2005 09:00:00 GMT

DISCLAIMER: I read this here today so, unless told otherwise... I'm just going to believe that it's true:

VATICANUS: The Word & its Meaning from which is derived the word Vatican as in Vatican City the Imperial Seat of the Roman Caesars.

VATICAN is derived from two Latin words Vatic-anus.

VATIC-ANUS

VATIC- "Characteristic of a prophet; oracular" From Latin: vts, seer -ANUS "The opening at the lower end of the alimentary canal through which solid waste is eliminated from the body" From Latin: nus, ring, anus

VATIC- ANUS = VATICANUS = VATICAN

What CommandName's to use in a FormView

digory — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 20:31:00 GMT

taken from Fredrik's blog:

Paging:

Next

Prev

First

Last

The FormView has support for paging so we don’t really need to add button controls for those commands. We only need to use those if we want to create our own custom paging.

For changing modes:

New

Cancel

Edit

The New command will change the mode of the FormView to the Insert mode. The Cancel will turn back the mode to its default mode. The Edit will turn the mode into Edit mode.

For actions:

Insert

Delete

Update

When we press a button with the Insert command specified the FormView will execute the associated DataSource control’s InsertCommand. If the CommandName of the button is set to Delete or Update the DataSource’s DeleteCommand or UpdateCommand will be executed. By default the SelectCommand of the DataSource control will be executed.