While the source of my Amazon Link Generator has been XHTML since the beginning, I somehow didn't do the same for the code it generated (specifically the unary tag closing and alt attribute for images). Should be fixed now, if anyone sees further nits just let me know!

Since this presentation, there's been an update to Web Deployment Projects , read about it on ScottGu's blog . Target ASP.NET Dev, Staging and Production Environments with Web Deployment Projects in ASP .NET 2.0 Eli Robillard, Eidenai Innovations With ASP.NET v2 comes a fully automated build solution...

Tonight's TSPUG meeting brings us the long-awaited SharePoint Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery presentation by Radu Vaduva. As usual we'll spend some time before the presentation talking about what's new and answering questions. And what's new? Lots. The Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Service...

If you've knocked your head against the wall to come up with ways to deploy multiple web.config files for Dev, Testing, Staging, and Production servers, the answer is on the way. It takes the the form of an add-in for Visual Studio 2005 -- a Build Project Manager. Load your solution in VS, right-click...

Scott Guthrie oversees the ASP.NET and IIS development teams. Lately, he's been posting some great (and I mean "great" in the Alexandrian sense of "impressive" and "enlightening") stuff on leveraging IIS from Visual Studio , and the new Web Project model (also in abridged form). He's posted 8 times so...

It's possible to consume web services from Excel 2003, but few of the sources seem to cover the topic from end-to-end. This post is intended as a companion to an O'Reilly article on the topic and includes a few elements I found necessary to get it all working. Here's the web method we're going to consume...

Goal: Create (or delete) a windows event log. Solution: Eli's EventLogUtility (this download includes C# source). Background: Short of commercial applications, I was surprised I couldn't find a tool like this. In particular, I needed it on a locked-down server for a web application which can write to...

Today I received a real treat in the mail. I'll give you a hint. It's about SharePoint and Chapter One is entitled: "Collaborative Application Markup Language." Got your attention? One of life's few certainties has been this sequence of events: I'll be talking or writing about SharePoint customization...

I've been assimilated full-time by the good folks at CDI Education as a "Senior Consultant" (the best name we could come up with for my role as architect, mentor, developer, speaker and sometime trainer). CDI is the leading corporate trainer in Canada and they've been my primary client since March. I...

Last Tuesday I posted about a potential vulnerability in ASP.NET along with some code to plug the hole. Two days later, a Microsoft Installer package was released which contains the ValidatePath HttpModule . This is a more thorough, easier-to-manage, and easier-to-deploy solution for the canonicalization...