February 2003 - Posts

26 February 2003
RSS Descriptions
On a non-technical note: Apparently Scott has implemented descriptions with the RSS feeds, so that only the short comes through the RSS. You have to click into the URL to get the full story. I understand that it's optional, and that people have a choice - from my standpoint, though, I find myself very... Read More...
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13 February 2003
Inside the Windows Deveopment Process
A look at how Microsoft develops and maintains the Windows operating system. Fascinating reading for developers! Posted by Mike Johnson on Thu, February 13, 2003 @ 10:43AM[ sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News ] This is a really interesting article. Fascinating to see the scale, and peeks at the... Read More...
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12 February 2003
Server Controls
For those of you writing custom server controls in ASP.NET - by default, the controls tend to render everything within span blocks. In our case, we wanted it to use divs instead, here's how: protected override HtmlTextWriterTag TagKey { get { return HtmlTextWriterTag.Div; } } UPDATE: That is, of course... Read More...
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07 February 2003
Nikhil's Book
Forgot to mention Nikhil's book: Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components . For those of you that don't know Nikhil wrote the ASP.NET data controls, was one of the principle dev leads for all of the ASP.NET controls, and is just a super star all around developer. [ ChrisAn's Radio... Read More...
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04 February 2003
Yesterday
Sorry no post yesterday. I spent most of the day converting my controls over to use our new file-based templates. Before, we would have controls with hundreds of lines of StringBuilder.Append()'s. Putting together a quick comparison of that vs. reading it in from a file, the file I/O was significantly... Read More...
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02 February 2003
Everyone's house hunting!
Unlike Chris my wife and I have been a little slower in selling and buying. We are going to spend most of today out with the realtor. I have a couple of other must haves that I want to implement before posting the next build, so the new build likely won't come until tomorrow night. [ ScottW's ASP.NET... Read More...
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02 February 2003
In Honor of Columbus' Crew
Today we lost 7 heroes in a tragic accident. I will never take for granted the things I have in my life because of these special people who take on the challenges and risks to make our lives better. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families and friends of the 7 lives lost. [ StronglyTyped - Richard... Read More...
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01 February 2003
ASP.NET Page Templates.....
Now, which one is best? Well, I think that depends on what other things you plan to do with your pages. The techniques above vary in complexity, implementation, and how they perform in the VS.NET designer. Check out all of the techniques and let us know how they work for you by posting a comment. I'm... Read More...
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