Mitch Rupp's .NET Blog

Real coders, real code.

2004-03-18T14:35:00Z

They are awake, bleary, weary and barely lucid, secretly feeding their addiction. Yes, it is sad and depraved, and utterly reprehensible. Of course, they don't want you to know because they need to keep the mystery. It will make it all the more poignant when the truth does come out, because they have a plan, and it is big. They need to code. It is what makes them go; the juice that makes them feel alive, and it is all leading somewhere.

How true this is. I couldn't have said it better myself.

Lets try this again

2004-03-15T19:56:00Z

Well, it has been a while since I have posted. A long while. Sorry about that. Since I my last post I moved nearly 300 miles, changed jobs (twice) and my third daughter was born. Whew. It looks like things are (hopefully) going to be slowing down a bit so I am going to make an effort to resume blogging. I will probably focus primarily on ASP.NET although it looks like I am going to be working with Windows Forms in the near future as well.

Thinker quiz

2003-05-05T13:19:00Z

These results are interesting as my major prior to my switch to programming was pre-law. You can take the short exam here.

You are a Logical-Mathematical Thinker
		Logical-Mathematical thinkers: Like to understand patterns and relationships between objects or actions Try to understand the world in terms of causes and effects Are good at thinking critically, and solving problems creatively
Like Logical-Mathematical thinkers, Leonardo based his theories on evidence rather than speculation.		Other Logical-Mathematical Thinkers include Isaac Newton, Archimedes, Albert Einstein Careers which suit Logical-Mathematical thinkers include Physicist, Chemist, Biologist, Lawyer, Computer programmer, Engineer, Inventor

Agile Requirements Modeling

2003-04-16T19:50:00Z

Article on Agile Requirements Modeling.

.NET Debugging FAQ

2003-04-15T18:12:00Z

Great debugging faq list from ISerializable.

Visual Studio.NET 2003 in Subscriber Downloads

2003-04-10T18:20:00Z

WOOHOOOOOOOOOO!.
[Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog]

Sweet...

Event Log Monitoring with RSS

2003-04-09T14:15:00Z

I've written some sample code to generate a RSS feed from the Windows Event Logs. This is very handy for monitoring servers - perhaps a poor man's SNMP monitor. :-)
[Greg Reinacker's Weblog]

Sweet....

ASP.NET Web Controls and browserCaps

2003-04-03T21:38:00Z

Today I needed the ASP.NET Panel web control to render as a html div element in Netscape 7.0 and Mozilla 1.0 (as opposed to a html table) for several different reasons that would take too long to detail here. Awhile back I found the following code snippet but unfortunately I can't recall exactly where I found it so I can't give due credit. Anywho, place the following snippet inside the <system.web></system.web> section of your web.config file. This will cause these browsers to essentially be treated as 'uplevel' browsers, thus rendering panels as div. On a related note, I thought that I had heard that the browserCaps would be updated periodically. Does anyone know how often this occurs and where I might be able to find an updated version?

<browserCaps>
<case match="Gecko/[-\d]+">
      browser=Netscape
      frames=true
      tables=true
      cookies=true
      javascript=true
      javaapplets=true
      ecmascriptversion=1.5
      w3cdomversion=1.0
      css1=true
      css2=true
      xml=true
      tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
      <case match="rv:1.0[^\.](?'letters'\w*)">
          version=6.0
          majorversion=6
          minorversion=0
          <case match="^b" with="${letters}">
              beta=true
          </case>
      </case>
      <case match="rv:1(\.\d+)(\.\d)?(?'letters'\w*)">
          version=7.0
          majorversion=7
          minorversion=0
          <case match="^b" with="${letters}">
              beta=true
          </case>
      </case>
</case>
</browserCaps>

The Last Configuration Section Handler I'll Ever Need

2003-04-02T18:03:00Z

If you've ever seen the web.config file that ASP.NET uses, and thought, "Wow, I'm so glad they configure things that way, in this nice, easy-to-use XML file. Wish I could do that!" then you should check out the System.Configuration namespace. There's an interface called IConfigurationSectionHandler that lets you write your own parsers for your application configuration file, letting you put whatever you want in there. [CraigBlog]

I used Craig's XmlSerializerSectionHandler today to set up a custom configuration settings section for one of my ASP.NET assemblies. Kudos to Craig for the very simple and elegant solution.

What the heck, why not?

2003-04-02T14:08:00Z