Steve Sharrock

Logitech Harmony Remote

Long, long time -- no news. But I'm still a .NET devotee -- work is fine. I just installed my home theater PC with all of the goodies. What brings it all together, and allows my wife to use this fairly complex system is the Logitech Harmony One.

 I have computer, Samsung Huge Screen, DVD, Comcast Set-top, an old video cassette player, and WII all hooked up, and Harmony makes it all just about one-touch.  Great job -- thanks.

Oh, Crud! Yet another O/RM Code Generator

Just a few weeks away...

 www.RollYourORM.com

SourceGear Vault at OrcsWeb.com

It has been quite a while since I've blogged here, so perhaps that will add emphasis to how I feel about this product, especially hosted by www.OrcsWeb.com

I have several clients, and I work from different locations. I've always used Visual SourceSafe, but with the same problems that everyone has with remote access. Since I first tried SourceGear's Vault, I liked it, but didn't really want to host it on my own servers. I've been a long time (extremely satisfied) client at OrcsWeb.com, and when I found out they did SourceGear Vault hosting, I jumped at the chance.

I can now work from any location with Internet access. OrcsWeb does daily backups which protects me and my clients, and I never suffer from "version-itis" when changing from a laptop on the road to my favorite desktop at home. I use other version control software for some clients (like CVS), but SourceGear has done a really great job integrating Vault with Visual Studio and I really miss that with CVS.

Good job, folks.

www.OrcsWeb.com 

www.sourcegear.com

ASP.NET FTP Deployment Tool Downloads Fixed

Details, details. The site was moved to a new server, and in the process the "new member" sign-in to get an Evaluation or Purchased copy of the AND+FTP Deployment Tool was broken. This has been fixed.

If you tried to use the site between 3/8 and 3/10/05, I apologize. Please try again at http://www.DotNetFTP.com

ASP.NET FTP Deployment Tool (AND+FTP) Update

Realizing there haven't been any updates for a long time, I stopped to wonder if that means the product is really that solid, or it's just getting ignored. I hope it is more the former than the latter.

For any developers using the ASP.NET FTP Deployment Tool available at www.DotNetFTP.com, there have been  minor updates to remove a few annoying exceptions during FTP connection that were not being handled properly.

You can use your existing product key to download the latest version from the site (www.DotNetFTP.com). If you don't have your product key or tracking info, just send an email to support@DotNetFTP.com.

Thanks to all of those supporting this developer tool.

ASP.NET FTP Deployment (AND+FTP) Support Email

WebUIValidation.js / Framework Version Problem Solution

I just had one of my clients deploying some existing ASP.NET web applications to a few new servers. In the process, some of the client-side validation stopped working with the symptom of no post-back to the server when validation should have passed.

As it turns out, the Framework was recently installed on the new servers with all of the latest patches; however, when the applications were moved from the older servers, they also moved the files from "aspnet_client/system_web/1_1_4322" to the new servers. This apparently created a conflict with the WebUIValidation.js file that was downloaded to the client, and the JavaScript code generated for each page sent to the client browser.

Running "aspnet_regiis -c" installed the correct version of WebUIValidation.js (and other scripts) on the new servers, and all is well.

I hope this might be of help to someone chasing a similar problem.

Pivot Tables with ADO.NET and Display Horizontal Paged DataGrid

http://aspalliance.com/538

IIS Compression Praise -- Help with Infragistics

I recently received an email from OrcsWeb advising they were about to enable compression on the shared server I use. The results were great--thanks Brad and the gang at www.OrcsWeb.com.

This jogged my thinking about a problem I've had with one of my clients who hosts several applications on his private web servers. The applications rely heavily on Infragistic's Web Grid which produces huge JavaScript downloads to the client's browser. We've struggled with performance for over a year now.

I suggested to my client that he try installing compression on his servers. The results were awesome. I'll post some actual numbers as we quantify the improvement. Since these applications rely very little on graphics, the compression of the text is just amazing.

I hope this simple solution helps others who may have had similar problems with client side controls that require large JavaScript downloads.

OrcsWeb.com Rocks for ASP.NET Hosting

I've been with OrcsWeb.com for my hosting since I started with .NET over 3 years ago. There support is fantastic--and I'm compelled to mention it here for anyone looking for ASP.NET hosting.

I've had several small low band-with sites running under the same account using my own 3rd party DNS, and then redirecting from the root to the appropriate application root folder based on the incoming URL. The only problem is that since each application was not really in a Virtual Application folder, I needed to use a common /bin folder in the root and depend on many of the root's web.config values that could not be overridden in the “sub” applications.

Now, OrcsWeb has allowed me to make any sub folder a Virtual Application folder. This makes everything so much cleaner. And, a side benefit--my production sites now have the same folder structure as my localhost web server.

Thanks, OrcsWeb