In addition to the powerpoints available at
http://www.asp.net/whidbey/ you can also watch the presentations, including demos, in MS Producer format at
http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm.
Others have noted this - I mention it here so I can find the link later... :)
My SYS-CON Radio Interview from PDC has recently been published on their website (along with a great many other more important people's interviews). Check them out and download them in MP3 format.
http://www.sys-con.com/dotnet/radio2003/interviews.cfm
I'll be speaking at the
Memphis .NET User Group on Tuesday, 11/18. I'm going to be giving an overview of ASP.NET Whidbey, which of course has recently been made public at the Microsoft Professional Developers' Conference 2003 in late October. For more information and directions to the event, see the
MNUG website.
I've been redesigning AspAlliance.com off and on for the last several months, and I made a few more changes this morning. The big one that is noticeable to the general public is the URLs. Instead of having to link to articles via a viewer ASPX page and a series of querystring values, it is now sufficient to simply append the article ID to the end of the domain name (after a slash), like so:
http://aspalliance.com/1 (article ID 1, which is my Excel Reports in ASP article).
The nice thing about this is that it uses Context.RewritePath, so there is no Response.Redirect and the user never sees the actual URL of the page handling the request. The regex I'm using is here:
http://regexlib.com/REDetails.aspx?regexp_id=456
The actual code looks like this:
string originalUrl = Request.Url.ToString();
// Check for article shortcuts (e.g. http://aspalliance.com/1 )
string newUrl = AspAlliance.Web.Core.HttpRedirect.GetRedirect(originalUrl);
if(newUrl != originalUrl)
{
System.Uri myUri = new System.Uri(newUrl);
Context.RewritePath(myUri.PathAndQuery);
}
// GetRedirect:
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex regex =
new System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex(@"\.com/(\d+)$",
(System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.Compiled |
System.Text.RegularExpressions.RegexOptions.IgnoreCase));
System.Text.RegularExpressions.MatchCollection matches = regex.Matches(badRequest);
if(matches.Count > 0)
{
string id = matches[0].Value.Replace(".com/", "");
int aId;
try
{
aId = Int32.Parse(id);
return "http://aspalliance.com/articleviewer.aspx?aId=" + id;
}
catch
{}
}
return badRequest;