Archives
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MasterPages and Nils Gruson
Thanks Nils! I was having problems with a MasterPage layout and could not figure out what was going on. VS.NET kept telling me "Could not match '...' with any ContentPlaceHolder". Despite the fact that there was indeed a ContentPlaceHolder with the proper ID. I gave up and Googled. Although blogger Nils Gruson has but one blog post, it was exactly what I was looking for!
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Hiding VS.NET 2005 Options?
About two years ago, I blogged about that stupid (IMHO) setting for VS.NET 2003 that would hide "advanced" members from intellisense in VB.NET. In VS.NET 2005, this option is not only off by default, but the checkbox is disabled. Nice.
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New article on COM Interop
My latest article on COM Interop is up at 15seconds.com. COM Interop Exposed - Part 2 shows what you need to do in your .NET objects so that your events are exposed to your COM clients. I start with a history of how events work in COM, and then show how to use interfaces and attributes for easier integration with your existing COM clients.
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Great talk by Miguel Castro
Last night's talk on Webserver controls by Miguel Castro at GANG was awesome. I've read and enjoyed his articles in CODE magazine, but if you have the chance to see him give a talk you really should take it. He's a great presenter and kept the audience involved during the whole presentation. Thanks Miguel!
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Upcoming Events
My talk at the Ann Arbor Dot Net Developers group went well last week. And there's more stuff happening this week.
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NUnit Presentation Tonight
I'll be doing an introductory presentation on NUnit at tonight's Ann Arbor Dot Net Developers group. After my presentation, Dave Donaldson will be discussing ways to write quality software with free tools (NUnit, NCover, FxCop) and how to write quality software with VSTS Developer Edition. If you're in Ann Arbor tonight, come check it out.