July 2003 - Posts

• Wow, what an upgrade!

  Scott Watermasysk has really outdone himself with the latest upgrade to these WebLogs. The Admin interface is just plain cool, I would love to see more web-based apps with such a clean interface. Along with the upgrade, it's now got a brand name I believe, .Text. Keep up the great work Scott! Posted Jul 29 2003, 03:13 PM by XMLEvangelist with 2 comment(s) Filed under: .NET

• Tech.Ed Australia

  My boss just offered to send me to Tech.Ed 2003 in Brisbane, here in Australia. I thought I would have a look and see what the event is going to be like, and guess who's coming "down under"? DGG! DataGrid Girl, y'know, Marcie Robillard. I read her blog (subscribed) all the time, and other than her obsession with pink (ick!!) it's pretty darn good. She's got a lot of great info about DataGrids in ASP.NET on there. I noticed that Adam Cogan is speaking too, I remember my job interview with him a while back, and although I decided not to take the job (would have needed to move inter-state), I quite liked what he's doing there. He's a Microsoft Regional Director, as well as running his own company Superior Software for Windows. Hmm, I wonder if I should accept? :) Update: I decided it was an offer too good to refuse, I'm even taking my wife and having a short holiday afterwards! Update: Updated Adam's profile link as requested. Posted Jul 18 2003, 12:54 PM by XMLEvangelist with no comments Filed under: .NET, XML, XSL, XSD, Web Services

• .NET Compact Framework and embedded Flash - at last!

  I've been trying to work out a way of doing this for a while now, and the only solution to date seemed to be using Intelliprog's HTMLViewer control. Sure, these guys need to make money, but that's some rather aggressive licensing for a simple wrapper! Imagine if I wanted to make a small Shareware app, and I wanted to host some HTML (with Flash in it of course!) in there... If I plan to sell 100 copies (and assuming I understand the pricing info at the bottom) I'm up for $US 149.99. If I was only charging $US 3 for my app then half that money is going just to the licence of a simple little wrapper. I was ready to give up, when I spotted something sweet and wonderful on the GotDotNet Samples feed (subscribed!). This HTMLViewer sample does everything I need, although there were a few errors in the code provided I posted comments on how to fix it. Being that it's a sample, it's got a great price tag - FREE! I did a quick test of loading HTML with Flash in it and it worked like a charm! Now I just wonder if there's a way to get/send commands to the Flash object in the hosted HTMLViewer? Ahh, the world is a nice place again. Posted Jul 17 2003, 04:17 PM by XMLEvangelist with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Flash MX, .NET, PocketPC