Archives
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You Heard Right - AdSense in RSS
Today I launched a project that has been a long time coming. LonghornBlogs.com launched new RSS feeds with AdSense ads embedded in each entry. I'm very please to be the first (and currently the only) site sanctioned by Google to test out this new product. I can't talk about much more than that, but you can read a bit more about it here.
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Chillin in Seattle
I'm in Seattle for WinHEC, and it's a gorgeous day out. I'm staying with Chris Pirillo while I'm here, having a great time so far. His house is as geeked out as one might expect. He's got a great view of the city... I just might have to get my personal blog back online so I can post some pictures.
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Need Help for MSBuild on .NET 1.1
Now that VS2005 Beta 2 is out, I'm wanting to move all of my development to the new platform. To be able to do that, I need to be able to build to .NET 1.1 The problem is, my MSBuild Compatibility Toolkit is incomplete at best. It needs a few things added, and I don't have the knowledge or the time to do it all myself. I'm looking for people who can help:
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I LOVE The VS2005 Class Designer
Microsoft has made a ton of killer improvements in the VS2005 Class Designer since Beta 1. Here's a roundup of my favorites:
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SourceSafe 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2003
It IS possible to use the new SourceSafe 2005 Beta 2 from Visual Studio .NET 2003. There are a few things to remember, however:
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Taking the SourceSafe 2005 Plunge!
I'm on a quest to answer the question: "Can Visual Studio .NET 2003 work with Visual SourceSafe 2005?" I'm learning some cool things about SourceSafe along the way, so the next few posts will probably be SourceSafe related.
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Habemus Papam!
The cardinals in the Vatican have picked a pope in 2 days and 3 votes. They'll announce who it is in about 45 minutes.
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VS2005: Why keep forcing J#?
I fail to understand why Microsoft STILL insists on installing the J# runtime with Visual Studio. Why can't it be an option? Would it really be that hard to add a check box to the setup routine? I'm never going to use it. I'm never going to develop in it. Why do I have to go through the extra work of uninstalling it later?
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Judging the Imagine Cup 2005 Nationals
I'll be in Redmond May 20-21 to judge the Imagine Cup 2005 Finals. I judged the regional and state competitions for Arizona last year, and I had a blast, so this should be fun. Of course, I'll be blogging from the event, complete with pictures and an interview with the winners.
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ZipEnable 3.0 Coming Soon
I'm a big fan of ZipEnable, the utility that helps get more bang for your buck out of IIS6 compression. One of their sales guys told be that v3 should be finished by the end of the month. Hopefully this version will do a better job of compressing CommunityServer syndication feeds than v2.
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Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 - Stick a Fork In It
Mark Bower tells us that MS signed off on the VS2005 Beta 2 bits last night. The official word is they'll be on MSDN "soon"... the build fairy tells me you'll see it anytime before next Wednesday.
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Microsoft Listens - VS2005 Image Library
Microsoft has finally updated the images and animations that are packaged with Visual Studio. In this MSDN TV Episode, Aaron Brethorst tells us about the Visual Studio 2005 Image Library. Thanks Microsoft!
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RegistryPlus - Advanced Registry Manipulation with .NET
While I was working on my Remote Desktop Assistant tool, I was getting really frustrated with the Registry. I couldn't bind registry values to a WinForm control, and it was a pain to manipulate when I needed to change a dozen or more entries. I also needed to access values by collection index, and a syntax like RegistryKey.Items("UserName").Value = "SomeUsername" would have been nice too. So I created a really small and simple API to solve those problems, and it's called RegistryPlus.
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What's the deal with 'n'?
Why does it seem lately that every new project out there has a name that's prefixed by 'n'? nUnit, nTeam, nGallery, and now nContract. What gives? Is that as creative about naming as developers can get? These names make me nBored.
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What I've Been Up To Lately OR "Assembly Hell Redux"
The .NET Framework still has some serious issues to work out RE: versioning. It's not so much that the versioning scheme doesn't work... it's that Microsoft has not put forth a single document on build versioning recommendations, and how to version your assemblies to be easily identified with different .NET runtimes, so the whole .NET distribution infrastructure is extremely fractured. Anyway, over the past several months, I've experienced a problem that has taken DLL Hell to a whole new level, and so I thought I'd share it today.
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Deleting Items from a WindowsForms CheckedListBox
I've been working on a new utility today, and it required me to interact with a WindowsForms CheckedListBox control. It took me about 20 minutes to figure this out, but if you delete a SelectedItem from the source list, you MUST change the SelectedIndex before you delete the item and rebind. Otherwise you'll through an IndexOutOfRange exception with a non-existent stack trace.
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VS2005: Smells Like Beta 2
I think VS2005 Beta 2 shaping up to be released very soon (Within the next week or two). I seem to remember MS saying that you wouldn't see it before TechEd 2005, but I think they may be trying to make up for slip dates by at least having a downloadable version available by the time the techies hit the tarmac. Many of the VS guys have been relatively quiet, and the builds I've seen are starting to take on the characteristics of a final package.
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How to Become a Microsoft MVP
Congratulations to all the new MVPs out there. Welcome to the team.