re: Mom always said to clean up after yourself, now I know she was right

Kirk Allen Evans said:

I enjoyed speaking to the group, and thanks for dinner at the country club (nice place ya got there).

BTW - Why is my name in bold in the blog entry?

# March 21, 2003 10:08 AM

Wally said:

Your name is bold because I am saying good things about you.

# March 22, 2003 2:30 PM

It's always the first few weeks that's hard. Once you get in a rhythmn, it's all downhill from there. So don't lose that momentum!!!

I used to be so disciplined back in high school, but it wasn't until recently that I've really been getting that discipline back. I've probably been averaging 4 times per week so far this year. Unfortunately I hurt my wrist skiing 3-4 weeks ago and haven't been able to lift recently.

But still - I wish I had this discipline back during my college football days!!

# March 25, 2003 6:45 AM

Kirk Allen Evans said:

Gee, thanks.

I posted a web log entry with links to some of the pictures you took at the meeting. I will have the project and PowerPoint slides available sometime this week.

# March 25, 2003 7:48 AM

Drew Marsh said:

Ok, I'm going to preach for a second here: You're going to burn yourself out. :)

What your doing sounds like cardio, as opposed to aerobic, which means your body needs time to recoup. You need to allow yourself time to heal.

What's your goal? Weight loss? Muscle building? Both? Whatever it is, I highly recommend checking out Pete Sisco's SCT (static contraction training) and PFT (power factor training) books. He really breaks through all the myths ("gymlore" as he calls it) of body building and gets right down to the science of the body. I did SCT for a couple months and the results were amazing. SCT coupled with aerobics gave me the ultimate results in muscle gain and weight loss. Oh, and the bonus is, you spend a lot less time in the gym. :D

# April 1, 2003 7:09 AM

Datagrid Girl said:

Wally, I was just giving you a hard time...

# April 1, 2003 7:17 AM

Wally said:

I know, but I thought it important to bring up for others. BTW, I love .NET.

# April 1, 2003 10:13 AM

Dana said:

I'm still available in Atlanta!!! This contract ends soon :)

# April 7, 2003 6:31 AM

Dana said:

I'm still available in Atlanta!!! This contract ends soon :)

# April 7, 2003 6:31 AM

Eli said:

We feel bad for ya, that's a tough one. But really, what's the point of posting this? What audience does it matter to? I'm not sure how this is helpful or useful to either .NET developers or consultants, but it takes up space in the aggregate feed just the same.

# April 16, 2003 10:14 AM

Phil Winstanley [MVP - ASP.NET] said:

Hey Eli, stop wasting the SQL Server Space ;)

# April 20, 2003 3:31 PM

Sijin Joseph said:

It's funny i spent a good 2 hours yesterday checking out for a good spidering library for .net. I need to write some custom scripts to download a paticularly unspider friendly site. ;)

I even rememberd that MSDN Mag had carried a related article but the MSDN mag search really sucks.

Anyways thanks a lot for the link :) :)

# May 11, 2003 11:42 PM

Frans Bouma said:

The statement, I don't remember the name, you refer to can be written as a user defined function in SqlServer, which is how Oracle has build it anyway.

Better is, to store parent-child relations in data differently. Joe Celko has written some articles about this in the Sql newsgroups

# June 1, 2003 10:14 AM

Keith Lynn said:

I was discouraged I have read Kirk's comments a while back but decided not to reply. I have hired tons of developers over the years and there is definately a trend. With very few exceptions a college programmer does better especially in the areas of design and work habits. Granted there are exceptions but not many. As intangiable as it seems the "foundation" estableished is most important. Heck, Card Punch and ASM were popular when I was in college and Unix was in beta!

# June 13, 2003 10:59 AM

Roy Osherove said:

Great to know I've helped someone out! :)

# June 19, 2003 4:21 PM

Roy Osherove said:

btw, if you want to knwo when a new process starts, why not periodically check the current process list for any additions and update event handlers as needed?

# June 19, 2003 8:07 PM

Yosi Taguri said:

sorry for you man, I had a cat too, called cream. they are a magnificent creatures...

# June 23, 2003 7:40 PM

Alex said:

Sorry to hear that Wally.

# June 23, 2003 8:49 PM

Don said:

I'm sorry Wally. Pets == people...

I've got 3 dogs and a cat and unfortunaly I've been there...Hang in there, I'll get better...

# June 23, 2003 10:16 PM

Sudhakar said:

Hey

Many many happy returns of the day..

Cheers

sudhakar
http://weblogs.asp.net/ssadasivuni

# June 24, 2003 4:02 AM

Oleg Tkachenko said:

Condolences, Wally...
I've got two cats and and I can feel your pain :(

# June 24, 2003 5:38 AM

Lori said:

Good to hear. See you then.

# June 24, 2003 8:06 AM

Jimmy Nilsson said:

Congrats to you, you old man!
;-)

Best Regards,
Jimmy
###

# June 24, 2003 8:06 AM

Duncan said:

Not to worry - you're only 24 in hexadecimal ;-)

# June 24, 2003 9:05 AM

Paul Gielens said:

Congrats

# June 24, 2003 12:58 PM

Greg Robinson said:

We just went through this last month with one of our 4 dogs. She was 7 and developed Bloat overnite and died within 2 hours of us noticing the symptons. My heart goes out to you and your family. It gets a little easier each day, but it is tough as you have lost a family member. We got her ashes last week and now she is back home with us :-)

# June 25, 2003 3:24 PM

TrackBack said:

Kirk Allen Evans' Blog

# June 25, 2003 3:55 PM

Datagrid Girl said:

Where's your LINKS to him, Wally? Send the boy some Google juice.

# June 25, 2003 6:05 PM

Jason Gaylord said:

Wally,

Can you hook me up with some info when you receive any? I am in the process of evaluating various database. I currently use SQL and am seriously looking at another product called Cache. You can reach me at jgaylord@aspalliance.com.

Thanks!
Jason

# June 26, 2003 9:37 AM

Eyad Yaseen said:

just to test your program

# August 16, 2003 10:48 AM

SBC said:

I have seen it too often, a lot of developers have a "take on the world" mind-set which is often disasterous:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0112769/2003/09/23.html#a286

# September 30, 2003 9:59 AM

Frans Bouma said:

It might surprise you, but ASP.NET is created by 2 people. It is not wonderglue that takes thousands of programmers to get it up and running. It will take time, true, but a team with 3 or 4 people can do it. It's of course another thing if that's time well spent :)

# September 30, 2003 10:57 AM

Denny said:

Hi There!

SOunds a bit like www.angryCoder.com :-)

I feel your pain!

SOmetime perhaps I can tell you a story abou the work I am doing.... some interesting cross relations.... a company paid for work on a system using a funky httpd that is *HELL* to code for and now they are about 4 years behind where they belong.... they have an *OUTSTANDING* concept that has been hosed by the folks who built the first system.
Grrr......

We are almost back to the point of having an alpha version of the new system re-written and with major re-working
Some examples:

OLD SYSTEM:
MS Access for a database
non-standard web server
no seperation of functions / processes between
business, data, rules, client, server etc...
unstable
hard to hire dev's for due to httpd problem

NEW SYSTEM:
MS SQL Server
ASP.NET
very modular.
clear understanding of business needs
clear understanding of how the tech relates to business
documentaion and ability to hire coders
to do testing etc... is 100% better.

# September 30, 2003 11:02 AM

Patrick Steele said:

Great lesson Wally! "Premature Optimization is the root of all evil". This crime has, unfortunately, been committed at my current employer a number of times. It's difficult to nip it in the butt when it has so much momentum... :)

# September 30, 2003 11:19 AM

Neil Weber said:

You are locked into using Microsoft Windows because .NET applications can only run on the Windows operating system. If you wrote your application in a language like C++ you can port it to other operating systems. Before you say "What about Mono?" ask yourself *today* would I deploy my production application on Mono. I hope you said "No." When do you think your answer would change? Maybe two years? That's a pretty risky bet that in two years Mono will be 100% compatible with .NET.

There's nothing wrong with vendor lock-in if you accept the risks. At the company I work for we've locked ourselves to a proprietary application server. The vendor has decided to take the application server in a different direction than the one we want to go in. We have spent millions writing applications to this application server.

# September 30, 2003 12:28 PM

Clemens Vasters said:

Sorry, that's wrong.

# September 30, 2003 2:43 PM

Paul Gielens said:

11 posts on one day, c'mon this isn't a sport you know.

# September 30, 2003 3:21 PM

TrackBack said:

Alan Dean

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# September 30, 2003 5:57 PM

Doug Thews said:

I agree. Sometimes we are way too consumed by the infrastructure behind something instead of concentrating on solving the business problem that helps make us (or keeps us) profitable.

# September 30, 2003 10:04 PM

Jesse Ezell said:

Ohh... but it is possible. Maybe *you* are not smarter than Microsoft, but don't include the rest of us in that statement ;-).

# September 30, 2003 10:30 PM

Robert Scoble said:

Cool, thanks for letting me know. I didn't even know I'd be in there today.

# October 6, 2003 5:04 PM

Ashutosh Nilkanth said:

Funny.

# October 10, 2003 3:29 AM

Mehran Nikoo said:

I am Amiga OS but want to be WinXP. What should I do?!!

# October 10, 2003 8:02 AM

Yosi Taguri said:

about teched, I got to agree, in israel MS has some way to go until it could produce a valuable show. but I strongly disagree with you about the PDC. I paid with my own money and it costs me about 3000$ to get there from israel just to hear don box talking about indigo. from previous shows that don gave - it is pure gold.
I think you are wrong about the pdc just take a look at the presenters - these are the guys that talk code and actually do the real work.

# October 10, 2003 9:15 AM

Scott Galloway said:

I've been thinking about this recently too...the big draw for PDC seems to be 'to see the cool technologies before release'...it is really hard for me to present my employers with a business case as to why they should spend around £5000 for me to go to LA to find out about technologies which offer no commercial benefit for the forseeable future (Longhorn is at least 2 years away...).
The Betas of these products are time enough for businesses to spend money with the promise of future benefit. Yukon and Whidbey are very cool platforms but what would finding out about these a few months before everyone else offer my employers? Clients won't use them until the release (generally 8-10 months after the first public Beta)...the rest of the PDC talks also offer nothing new over that which I already use day to day...I'd love to see Don Box et al presenting...but I just 1. Can't justify paying for this myself and 2. Can't come up with a decent business case for my employers to pay for it...I wish I could, I personally would love to go!

# October 10, 2003 9:46 AM

Drew Robbins said:

I agree with you. Conferences are not about training. If I want to learn how to code against something, I will do that from a book or through a training course. TechEd helps me find out what I don't know and need to learn more about. The biggest mistake people make at TechEd is attending sessions on topics they've already mastered. I've never understood that pattern.

This is my first PDC, so I'm not sure what to expect yet. Discovering what I don't know is important to me. It shapes the time I'll spend in studying and learning over the next months, or in the case of the PDC, years.

# October 10, 2003 9:48 AM

Rob said:

I will agree with you that the article is way too high-level for developers or architects and someone who is currently a .Net practitioner will get little out of it. However there are times when higher level content like this is useful.

For instance I am working with a client right now to help them design and build a new application that is .Net based. While this article is too high-level even for the developers that I am working with, I think it is a good article to give to their managers and managers managers (who have not done any development for a long while) to help them understand what it is we are trying to accomplish and it also shows that at least at this high level we are using the .Net infrastructure in a way that follows MS intended practices. Having this kind of material available saves me the agony of having to prepare it myself.

In my experience there are so many people in the development food chain that are not developers but have influence over developers that this kind of information is both useful and required.

There is tons of content available on MSDN, targetted at all levels of the development community. If an article is not useful to you, perhaps it is because that this particular article is not targetted at you.

Just my two cents.

Rob

# October 10, 2003 9:54 AM

Wallym said:

Rob,

Articles need to at least be titled correctly and put into the appropiate spot. The article mentioned is not a guide to building enterprise apps with .NET. The article is an overview of technologies within .NET. The article gives me no examples or supporting documentation on why to do something or the best way to do it. It is nothing more than repackaged marketing info for managment.

At the very least, the title of the article should be changed. The title is extremely misleading. It is not a Guide to Building Enterprise Applications at all.

Wally

# October 10, 2003 10:08 AM

Robert Scoble said:

I answered your comments here:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2003/10/10.html#a4978

# October 10, 2003 1:50 PM

Darren Neimke said:

Too true Wally. I remember thinking the exact same things recently while sitting down to learn Content Management Server. I remember thinking to myself... "If I read or hear the words 'Empowered employees publishing their own content on the blah' and 'No webmaster bottlenecks' one more time!

# October 12, 2003 11:30 PM

Scott McCulloch said:

I wouldn't pay too much attention to it, its just charles going on again....

# October 14, 2003 9:49 AM

James Avery said:

Scott is used to that crap by now, I would not pay any attention to Charles. His site has faded into obscurity, just look at the code and tools that he has on there. (btw, Scott is one of the cooler people I have met at Microsoft, for whatever it is worth)

# October 14, 2003 10:04 AM

Jason Alexander said:

Wow, that's pretty crappy of Charles. That sure shows his true colors. I had the pleasure of meeting Scott myself this last year, and he was a great guy. Hardly a "lying weasel".

One more reason to tune Charles out.

# October 14, 2003 10:22 AM

JosephCooney said:

This sheds some light on it

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=cache:ku_1h1fcRhIJ:www.mail-archive.com/aspx%40p2p.wrox.com/msg04838.html+Scott+Guthrie+lying&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Visting learnasp.com again (for the first time in how long?) reminds me of how much I hate seeing pink and purple used so much in a colour scheme.

# October 14, 2003 7:15 PM

Lori said:

Hey Wally. Thanks again for coming down to visit with us. Enjoyed it.

# October 14, 2003 9:44 PM

Frans Bouma said:

Thanks for the heads up! :)

# November 17, 2003 8:51 AM

Mathew Nolton said:

do you have it set to "Binary Compatability"?
If in debug mode, try turning compatibility to "No Compatibility"

-Mathew Nolton

# November 17, 2003 1:11 PM

Wallym said:

"binary Compatability" to "No Compatibility" no worky........

# November 17, 2003 1:23 PM

Mathew Nolton said:

I read that somewhere a while ago. Since you were grasping at straws, I thought I'd throw one into the pile.
-Mathew Nolton

# November 17, 2003 1:27 PM

Chris Carter said:

Just a shot, if the app is running under interactive user and you're trying to run it thru the debugger, the default web account(IUSR_MACHINE_NAME in IIS 5 and earlier, not sure what it is for IIS 6 ) needs to have permission to run the vb6.exe executable. By default it should not be allowed to run executables for obvious security reasons. Although the following describes a different error it also explains how to allow debugging a com+ app with vb6.exe: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;259725
good luck.

# November 29, 2003 1:48 AM

Phil Scott said:

Ugh, VB6DEBUG.DLL

Like an old girlfriend, I have forgotten all about that little tart, but just the mention of it brings back terrible memories and awkwardness.

# December 2, 2003 9:49 AM

Blair Stephenson said:

Add all the dependent components into your solution for debugging.

We have to do this under MTS and I think COM+ is the same.

# December 2, 2003 4:22 PM

Blair Stephenson said:

I've added this comment into your latest post, so I can track it. :)

Add all the dependent components into your solution for debugging.

We have to do this under MTS and I think COM+ is the same.

# December 2, 2003 4:24 PM

Wallym said:

Blair,

Thanks for your suggestion, but all of the components are a part of the vb group.

Wally

# December 2, 2003 4:55 PM

Blair Stephenson said:

Another problem I've had relates to having components registered in different directores.

If you think you had this problem, then unregister all versions of components, recompile your dll's, and re-add to COM+.

Make sure you install from where you compiled the dll's.

# December 2, 2003 7:28 PM

lauraj said:

I know this is an old post, but I didn't see anything else pointing to this stuff, so....

Wanted to make sure you'd seen this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/Longhorn/PDCMaterials/

Also: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/Default.htm (although the audio isn't too great on some of them.)

And the DVD:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/after/default.aspx

# December 5, 2003 5:43 PM

Shane Bauer said:

I don't blog much, but I am located in Baltimore, Maryland. Not too far away from Washington.

# December 12, 2003 9:40 AM

Dylan Greene said:

I live in Arlington, about 5 minutes outside of DC. My contact information in on my web site. I can't promise to be available, but you can try me.

# December 12, 2003 4:04 PM

Dan said:

I looked over the article you mentioned. This one does seem to contain alot of marketing information and perhaps targeted to a different audience. However, there is a link in the article to a more detailed guide to application architecture at <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/architecture/application/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnbda/html/distapp.asp">this link</a> which may be of use to you. Do you have a problem with the basic idea of using layered software architectures for creating more scalable and maintainable applications?

# December 17, 2003 11:56 PM

gfd said:

gdfsgh f

# January 3, 2004 1:31 AM

Paul Gielens said:

Perhaps you should mention the storage overhead indexes can cause. Indexes use a'lot of space. Indexes also slow down the updates.

So I would say use with caution...

# January 8, 2004 10:52 AM

Darrell said:

Table scans are not always bad. Sometimes they are necessary depending on the SQL statement (i.e., joins often cause them). And sometimes they are faster than looking up stuff in an index, depending on the size of the table. As always, it depends.

# January 8, 2004 11:25 AM

Wallym said:

Excellent Point Paul.

Wally

# January 8, 2004 11:44 AM

TrackBack said:

Do you want control over the number of threads used by ThreadPool. Checkout the ManagedThreadPool class.

# January 8, 2004 12:03 PM

Scott Galloway said:

You may want to take a look at Mike Woodring's Custom Threadpool...http://staff.develop.com/woodring/dotnet/

# January 8, 2004 1:19 PM

Wally said:

Thanks Scott and Scott.

Wally

# January 8, 2004 1:40 PM

Duncan Godwin said:

You might also want to look at the <system.net/connectionManagement> config element, as the max remote connections you can make to a specific site is 2 by default. Which you can override per host. Just thinking your requests might be backing up, waiting for connections to finish.

# January 8, 2004 4:22 PM

Franck quintana said:

\o/

Thx for all :D

I've been blocked too ://///

Greaaaaaaaaaaaaaat !

# January 9, 2004 4:45 AM

Simon said:

In addition to having a system indexed approriately is knowing why you have an index. Interested in reading an article on .net dev from MS that said when code is changed it is verified that it has not effected the performance of the code.
My ideal world is that I have a system that holds the indexes, and the SPs that use the indexes and the benefits to that SP. this will then allow you to assess the benefit of changing an index and adding or removing one.

Would be great to have a system that did the same as the MS performance stuff but for SPs.

# January 9, 2004 6:27 AM

Simon said:

I have found having one index can result in quicker inserts than not having an index. Possibly due to fillfactor on indexes, i.e. space is all ready allocated and so new pages may not need to be allocated to the table.

# January 9, 2004 10:03 AM

Koji Ishii said:

I think MS is aware of the problem; I remember seeing KB about using HttpWebRequest/Response in ASP.NET may cause problems due to the max # of ThreadPool. Search in MSKB. Here are a few possible good KB I got with "asp.net ThreadPool".
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;815637
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;820697

# January 10, 2004 6:07 AM

David Cumps said:

I'm curious: is there a possibility you will ever release the source of your pet project? =)

I've been reading your posts for the last days, and i'm truly impressed by what your doing and it would be *great* to learn from your skills :)

# January 11, 2004 5:48 AM

Robert Blanda said:

I'd love to see your application! Does it use Access as a database or sql?

# January 11, 2004 12:28 PM

David Cumps said:

Very curious to what the license scheme will be :p

You can say you're not a great programmer, but to me you are very experience, i'm still a student after all :)

I'm hoping there exists some kind of non-profit educational license out there that you like and could use, cos you're really implementing all kinds of .net aspects in one program, which i am only starting to think about, so it's with admiration i'm looking to the progress of this :)

# January 12, 2004 10:11 AM

Dennis said:

Do you just want to be paid if people release commercial software using your code? Or whenever someone uses your code as is for commercial purposes?

If the former, the GPL works well. If someone builds software with your code, they have two choices: 1) release their own code under the GPL, or 2) negotiate with you for some other license.

Quite a few successful projects make money with this model, including MySQL and QT.

# January 12, 2004 10:28 AM

TrackBack said:

# January 17, 2004 6:05 AM

Scott Mitchell said:

What kind of index are you using for the URL field? How many records do you have in your table? I would think with a good index and a tuned database, it could do simple exist checks rather quickly. I mean, even if you had, say, 1 BILLION records in your database table, a good index would require, what, say 20 lookups? Granted, it's going to take some disk accesses, but you'd think with a fast disk and oodles of RAM it would still be fast....

# January 19, 2004 2:45 PM

Wallym said:

I was referring to the time to perform something like "select count(*) from table where URL='http://......'" I was really referring to the fact that you want to insert in the case where the count(*) == 0. The fact that you have to perform the check to keep the data somewhat clean takes up processing time. :-)

Wally

# January 19, 2004 3:29 PM

James Avery said:

Welcome to the 20th century!! I used to live in Nashville and I could not understand why they were ok with strip clubs all over downtown, but for some reason a lottery would be "evil".... glad they finally saw the light. Being a product of their educational system I can definitely say that it needs some help.

-James

# January 20, 2004 9:32 AM

David Cumps said:

I am wondering, if you only check a page once, how to cope with updates?

Imagine you spider site X, and 2 days after that there replace a big part of their site, the url of site X is in your 'already spidered' table, so you won't check it again, but now your info in your 'search results table' is totally wrong with the actual site, and you will never know of it because even if the possibilty comes to revisit the site, your algorithm will ignore it?

# January 20, 2004 10:38 AM

Wallym said:

David,

I used the term "within some constraint" to mean that there is some reason to go back, such as "not been checked in the last two weeks" or some other reason to go check it. At this time, I don't want to worry about re-tracing steps. I just want to fill up my tables with a bunch of records and start testing things at this point.

Wally

# January 20, 2004 10:48 AM

Radim Hampel said:

Interesting. But i don't think, that amount of used ram is what you should look at. You can buy tons of memory today and it's very cheap. But as you said, new soft and less memory, strange :)

# January 20, 2004 10:51 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Still I haven't seen the native DB2 provider for .NET (it's still beta afaik).

ANy word on the final release date?

# January 20, 2004 11:18 AM

Adam Weigert said:

Yes, its 900 bytes per index ... why would you make the column that big? I believe there is a limit of around 256 characters for most servers. Make it varchar(512) just in case i'm wrong ... then your index would fit fine ... but of course its better to have smaller values for indexes .... you might want to prep a free-text search index on that column instead ...

# January 20, 2004 11:20 AM

Wallym said:

Adam,

Sorry, but you would have had to have followed my posts about Searching the Web. The problem is that a URL can easy be over varchar(256) when you include the script path, filename, and query string parameters. I thought about the full-text search option but didn't go that way do to the time required to fill a full-text search index and I need the index to be available in pretty close to real time. :-)

Wally

# January 20, 2004 11:26 AM

Scott Sargent said:

I wonder if we'll see this for any other platforms or just for windows?

# January 20, 2004 11:28 AM

Jim Bolla said:

Perhaps you could add a computed column that is only varchar(900) and just returns that much of the other field, and then try to creat an index on that.

# January 20, 2004 11:45 AM

Wallym said:

Jim,

I did one better than that. I created a hash of the UrlAddress column of type bigint and now I use the for my search also. It's not a great hash, but it works for this.

Wally

# January 20, 2004 11:49 AM

AndrewSeven said:

Will the sp_ prefix on the SP name still cause recompile each time you call it?

# January 20, 2004 1:05 PM

Wallym said:

Frans,

Accord to a link I read somewhere, IBM will start taking requests to be included in the beta soon.

Wally

# January 20, 2004 1:10 PM

Jimmy Nilsson said:

Congrats Wally!!!

# January 20, 2004 3:54 PM

Rob Chartier said:

Congrats!

# January 20, 2004 3:55 PM

Wallym said:

Thanks guys

# January 20, 2004 4:12 PM

Doug Reilly said:

It really is something, to get both so close together. What a nice week<g>.

Congratulations to you as well!

# January 20, 2004 5:13 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 20, 2004 7:24 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 20, 2004 7:48 PM

Scott Mitchell said:

Indexes can make a HUGE difference on database performance. I remember reading a case study where a query without an index took HOURs and with an index took SECONDs. Really, it can make **that big of a difference.**

So I would HIGHLY recommend that you try to fit your URL into 900 bytes somehow. Your hash technique is clever, but it adds another computation that needs to be done. Also, where do you do the hash? See, with an index you could run numerous COUNT(*) queries that could take advantage of the index, but with a hash, you can't see that advantage.

I recommend learning a bit more about indexes and their application and the theory behind them. I think it would be research time well spent. :-)

# January 20, 2004 8:26 PM

Wallym said:

Scott,

That's a good suggestion, but the problem is that I am walking (spidering) the web and I can't control the link of the URLs that I recieve.

Wally

# January 20, 2004 9:54 PM

Scott Mitchell said:

Just out of curiosity, what's the longest URL you have in your database? How many characters? What is it?

# January 20, 2004 11:35 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 21, 2004 7:35 AM

Wallym said:

Here is the largest URL I could find that is in my db. It is a redirect to ebay
http://cgi.cnnsi.com/cgi-bin/partners/partner_ebaysports.redir?http://www.qksrv.net/click-1218355-5463217?loc=http%3A//search.ebay.com/search/search.dll%3FGetResult%26query%3D%2528%2522free+ship%2522%252Cfreeship%252Cfreeshipping%252C%2522free+shipping%252

Wally

# January 21, 2004 10:13 AM

TrackBack said:

# January 22, 2004 10:04 PM

stefan demetz said:

too much context switching is bad for performance

# January 23, 2004 3:32 AM

David Cumps said:

If you want to workaround the 25 threads limit with a threadpool, you might check this:

http://www.csharphelp.com/archives3/archive487.html

# January 23, 2004 5:45 AM

Wallym said:

Stefan,

I think the problem is that I am out of bandwidth and once I fill the bandwidth that I do have up, the system performs worse as I add threads. Yes, I agree, too much context switching is bad for things.

Wally

# January 23, 2004 7:20 AM

Wallym said:

David,

Great suggestion. My next problem is going to be getting enough bandwidth to try this out. I found that even my cable modem at home with the equivalent of almost two T-1s is not enough, but then again, I was running on my laptop and it was a while ago before I made a big set of changes and got my sql indexes straight. Man, being out of town sure does throw my memory off.

Wally

# January 23, 2004 7:23 AM

Maxim V. Karpov said:

Wally,
It was confusing the idea of locks and cursors. I guess if people are just educated about the idea of what is concurrency? and its implementation it would be different.

I also suprised to see that there is no ResultSet interface, so it is not like IDBDataReader.

Good pointe, Maxim
[www.ipatten.com do you?]

# January 23, 2004 7:52 AM

Glenn G said:

We have just encountered the exact issue since applying Vis Studio sp5... Have you found a solution yet?

# January 23, 2004 4:28 PM

stefan demetz said:

could you release the code in closed source
so that some can install on pc and ftp you the results? similar toa P2P network

# January 23, 2004 6:22 PM

Wallym said:

Glenn,

I had to breakdown and call Microsoft developer support on this one. The deal is that with Win2k3, COM+ can not find the vb6debug.dll file. It has to do with how COM+ searches for the file. If you drop a copy of vb6debug.dll into the path, the debugging should work.

Wally

# January 23, 2004 9:25 PM

Wallym said:

Here is the link to my post regarding this issue. http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2003/12/02/40688.aspx

Wally

# January 23, 2004 9:26 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 23, 2004 9:26 PM

Wallym said:

Stefan,

Right now, I am trying to fix a few problems I have with the Search. It works pretty well, but there are some rough spots and mistakes I have made along the way. I haven't even looked at licensing issues. Don't think it would be a big money maker, but I want to make sure I do things correctly. I have to clean this stuff up, and wait on MS to release a couple of goodies. :-)

Wally

# January 23, 2004 9:37 PM

AndrewSeven said:

Scott writes well.

I'm a regular over on aspmessageboard.com / 4guysfromrolla.com. Over the years, he has produced lots of articles, from introductory level to fairly advanced.
Always good.

# January 26, 2004 8:50 AM

SBC said:

Scott's articles are articulate and his topics are timely (not the 'average').
Regarding data-structures/algorithms - as a Comp Sc (BS/MS) student, it was considered the most important course after your language (C++/Pascal/Java) course. It's also the required course for other advanced ones - compiler, automata, OperSys, etc.. Highly recommend that you grab a data-structures/algorithm book and dive into it. Moreover, it's the most fascinating part of CompSc (IMHO)..
g'luck..

# January 26, 2004 9:30 AM

Scott Mitchell said:

Thanks for the plug and kind words, Wally. The article series is a proposed six-parter - I've actually turned in through Part 5.

For those who are serious about data structure and algorithm analysis, you should get Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest. It's a thick book and assumes a certain level of knowledge (typically used in graduate-level studies), but if you get that book, you're pretty much set... Again, not very beginner-friendly, but definitely a "must have" book.

# January 26, 2004 2:36 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 29, 2004 8:23 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 30, 2004 5:39 AM

rx said:

ok MS loverboy. date gates ya angry arrogant fool.

# January 30, 2004 6:01 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 6, 2004 12:43 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 6, 2004 12:47 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 6, 2004 12:49 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

So a bug known for almost 6 months is not documented (let alone fixed)? You consider that good support? As for Linux (and open source development in general) - I personally ran into several issues with the tools I've been using and once I had to write a fix (which eventually got included in the main code) and every single other time somebody else already wrote a patch, since people can actually do that - fix things that bug them. Unlike all the problems with Vs.Net and .Net framework in general where nobody fixes anything (developers don't because they can't and Microsoft obviously has its own reasons).

# February 6, 2004 12:55 PM

Scott said:

http://www.lazycoder.com/article.php?story=20040206130208325

# February 6, 2004 1:12 PM

Scott said:

I think his point,rambling as it is, was that with the Open Source model you wouldn't have had to waited for the fix at all.

I don't think that's a valid model for something as important to Microsoft as the Microsoft kernal or system level resources, but for the .NET Framework I don't see any reason why it isn't "shared source"? Rotor is to a certain extent.

If a certain functionality is missing from something as trivial as a web control, it's easy enough to inherit from the control and write your own control with the functionality in it. With some of the encoding bugs with the XML serializer, it's not so easy. It would be nice to be able to fix those sorts of bugs. You client WOULD pay you to fix those bugs if the bugs were preventing you from finishing their solution.

# February 6, 2004 1:48 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

I'm going to clarify - I was talking about bugs in development tools. I agree that your customers are not going to be very happy with you patching their kernels. I was talking about your ability to fix the tools you're using to code and to a certain degree the frameworks you're using.

Of course with the move towards services you have complete control over the environment your code runs in so if your app needs the underlying system to work the way it should you can easily go ahead and fix it.

# February 6, 2004 1:52 PM

Wallym said:

Yeah, I think the problem is at what level in the solution should the client be expected to pay for a solution. I don't believe the client should pay me to fix problems in the kernel or the dev tools. A work around regarding a problem at a higher level? Yeah, I think you are right.

Another problem with Linux also involves many of the cryptic configurations that must be done. I want to install stuff and have it work. I don't want to go through too much of a hunt for a config file to modify to get the basics working. I find that so frustrating that many times, I just give up. It is hard to get anyone to answer those types of questions in the Linux community because they are concentrating on building the kernel. The result is we either sink, swim, or switch to something that does work. That's one of the reasons why I switch to Windows from Unix. Anyway, enough on this topic. Back to work.........

Wally

# February 6, 2004 1:55 PM

Wallym said:

Jerry,

That's my point. I don't want to fix the the development tools. I want someone else to be responsible for that. I want the vendor to create, package, and support the development tool. I don't want to download some stuff to a directory, set a bunch of config files and try and get things to work. I want to run setup and have my development tools just work. Having to go and figure out why something doesn't work because of some config file is very frustrating and one of the reasons why I gave up on Unix. Nothing ever worked out of the box, it always had to be configured in several different config files. Windows isn't perfect, but it is a better environment to develop in than just about anywhere else.

Wally

# February 6, 2004 2:01 PM

Frans Bouma said:

The OSS model has one advantage: you KNOW (or at least can find out easily) there is a bug AND how to obtain a fix, if you want to.

Now I understand MS is a closed source company, and therefore you have to wait till they think a fix is good enough to be released, but there is NO support towards developers to supply these fixes. There are some asp.net related fixes but that's about it. For all the other bugs, you have to search google groups (KB search will not be enough, as these bugs are not documented mostly) to find fellow developers fighting the same bug, and you have to hope that they've found a workaround. If not, you are in deep trouble, even though MS might have a fix internally for a long time.

That last part is the frustration trigger. With OSS this almost never happens. That's the essential part I think you are missing.

# February 6, 2004 3:15 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

You can pay someone to fix your tools (or code) even with open source. But if you can't somebody willing to do that you can always do it yourself, while with Microsoft you're left at their mercy (and they're not really willing to fix VS or the framework, although they do a pretty good job with Windows and Office for example).

And as many pointed out - with OSS you can almost always searcha bug database instead of spending endless hours trying to fix something that's not broken on your end. Windows is not better environment to develop in, it's just simpler if you do simple things.

Oh and arguing with Unix - I'm talking about open source development, Unix is the oposite end. And while you might be right about most things not working out of the box (the vast majority of open source code never gets past alpha stage) those projects that do make it work quite well (did you try to use Eclipse? You unzip and go, no need to even install anything and if only someone wrote a C#/.Net/Asp.Net plugin for it).

# February 6, 2004 4:38 PM

Wallym said:

Frans,

Finding solutions to problems is fairly easy in the MS world. I have only had to call MS for development support twice. Both times, it ended up being a bug in their software. One was for Host Integration Server and the other was for COM+, which I have mentioned already. I think that MS makes it pretty easy to find solutions. Of course, if you think that there is only one way to skin a cat, then you are going to have problems.

As for frustration, I have had 100 times more frustration in the Linux/Unix world. I found that nothing ever worked off the bat in that Linux/Unix world.

Wally

# February 7, 2004 8:40 PM

Scott Mitchell said:

Interestingly, the .NET Framework contains an *internal* class, UrlPath, which has helpful methods that do things like combining URLs parts and making sure there aren't two // and such.

Now, what is frustrating, is this class is internal, meaning only classes in the System.Web.dll assembly can use this class. Which sucks, because I'd like to utilize this functionaity without having to "reinvent the wheel." Meh.

# February 9, 2004 11:11 PM

TrackBack said:

# February 19, 2004 7:27 AM

TrackBack said:

# February 19, 2004 7:28 AM

Your neighbor said:

Darn, I've been enjoying your network.

# February 19, 2004 3:57 PM

G. Andrew Duthie said:

Did you use WPA? 'cuz if not, then your network is still not "locked down", it's just less convenient to get into. WEP and other techniques are easily bypassed, unfortunately.

# February 19, 2004 4:38 PM

Paul Glavich said:

How did you lock it down? Was it a vendor specific method or using WEP as GAD mentioned above?

# February 19, 2004 6:43 PM

Lotas said:

Interesting. i love hearing about these little things that come up in windows all the time. like the fact that NT was originally named after a risc chip being developed by Intel, and then renamed to New Technology after the chip deid. anyway, interesting...

# February 22, 2004 6:23 PM

TrackBack said:

BSOD was coined by Coca-Cola! And was originally Black Screen Of Death. Havent seen a blue screen of death in a while, so fingers crossed i dont any time soon! the write up and more info is here....

# February 22, 2004 6:26 PM

stefan demetz said:

do it in batches/asychronously to insert fast:

1) store your urls from your web spidering in some tab delimited text file(s)
2)bcp into your db on a temp or staging table(s) without indexes/triggers/keys
3)schedule a sproc to move "good" values from staging table to your main table every few minutes in 1 transaction

# February 27, 2004 7:31 AM

JosephCooney said:

Re: Garbage Collection - Maybe you should check out ROTOR or MONO and look at their implementation. I think the ROTOR implementation is fairly close to the framework 1.0 "commercial" version.

# February 27, 2004 7:33 AM

Ryan Heath said:

Take a look at these articles from J.Richter
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1100/gci/default.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/1200/GCI2/default.aspx

# February 27, 2004 8:15 AM

Julie Lerman said:

Jim Murphy (www.mindreef.com/people/jimmurphy/weblog/)came to VTdotNET in August 02 and did a very deep presentation on this exact topic - how GC works. His deck might be really helpful. I will email him and see if I can't get that to put up on the vtdotnet site.

# February 27, 2004 9:26 AM

The Penton-izer said:

FWIW...the GC in ROTOR is advertized as not working *exactly* like the GC in the full featured framework. IIRC, it was said that the algorithm used for GC was *secret* accounting for the differences. I'd say that the implementation in MONO might be a better place to look (as suggested above)

# February 27, 2004 9:55 AM

TrackBack said:

Take Outs: The Digital Doggy Bag of Blog Bits for 27 February 2004

# February 27, 2004 6:17 PM

stefan demetz said:

http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/stefandemetz/archive/2004/03/02/8225.aspx

# March 2, 2004 7:33 PM

Boss at work said:

I can see you ....

# March 3, 2004 9:30 AM

bilbo said:

why is it that my most productive days are when I play hooky? !!!!

# March 3, 2004 9:48 AM

ndr said:

hi there

# March 3, 2004 8:43 PM

Fabrice said:

Let me introduce to you my good friend Google:
http://www.google.com/search?q=PerfNScale2-27-04.zip

# March 4, 2004 11:13 AM

dude said:

http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/Workspaces/viewUploads.aspx?id=540f8bd7-be95-45f7-a477-919d23294553

# March 4, 2004 11:13 AM

tom said:

does sct or pft really work ?

# March 4, 2004 4:02 PM

Cameron Reilly said:

nice anecdote! I always thought it sounded like an appropriate title from an episode of Dr WHO.

# March 7, 2004 7:00 AM

Ryan Gregg said:

Just a small correction, MyTunes never allowed you to download or play other people's songs bought through iTunes Music Store. MyTunes allowed you to stream unencrypted files from another user's iTunes application and save them to your disk. In short, it provided the ability to store files you listened to from other users locally.

VLC's latest incarnation can do what you thought MyTunes could do however...

And it's a too bad you lost your CDs of those guys and your code, but I bet that radio station doesn't stream their radio anymore either.

# March 8, 2004 5:08 PM

Darron said:

96Rock does still stream...

http://www.96rock.com/streaming.html

# March 8, 2004 5:23 PM

TrackBack said:

You have been Taken Out. Thank you the post.

# March 12, 2004 2:00 AM

Jason said:

That's one hell of a webcam!

# March 12, 2004 2:35 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 14, 2004 7:52 PM

Arnab said:

khsd

# March 15, 2004 4:53 AM

stefan demetz said:

use bcp for insert

# March 15, 2004 6:55 AM

Scott Mitchell said:

Neat!

My geneology story: My grandfather has done some geneology research and found that HIS grandfather (my great-great-grandfather) was convicted of murdering a man in a bar and spent some years in jail. Quite the opposite of your family history! :-)

# March 15, 2004 6:33 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 16, 2004 6:37 AM

TrackBack said:

# March 16, 2004 8:13 AM

Phil Weber said:

Found by Googling for "sql server full text search":
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323739
http://www.sql-server-performance.com/tb_search_optimization.asp

# March 17, 2004 9:30 AM

Kent Tegels said:

Hillary Cotter's Indexing Services book would be a great resource too.

# March 17, 2004 9:28 PM

TrackBack said:

You have been Taken Out! Comments about your post on this link. Thanks!

# March 17, 2004 11:02 PM

Douchebag said:

hmm, interesting.

and WHAT does that dave to do with .NET?

# March 19, 2004 6:08 PM

Serge said:

I have the same problem. What do you mean "I can move the VB6DEBUG.DLL file into the path"?

# March 22, 2004 3:46 PM

Kirk Allen Evans said:

Go DAWGS! Sic 'em! WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF WOOF!

I don't think the Georgia State Panthers even have a battle cry... we couldn't even win in TAAC with Lefty Driesell as our coach! I was forced to adopt a school.

# March 25, 2004 6:09 PM

Harvey said:

I see articles all over the internet all the time about this. My take on it is this:

Before you begin the write an application, you discuss and decide up front the best tools to accomplish your task or complete the project. Things like: What type of server to use, which database, what OS, etc...

Multi-platform apps are great when you want to write an application that can be taken from one OS to another with no or minimal code changes. This is good when you have a app that you want to sell to as many people as you can. But....when you are writing an enterprise solution ( especially for a client ) how often are you going to move that application from one OS to another??? you're not. If you do, it will definitly be more than just recompiling the code on the new OS.

And what about taking advantages of the OS itself. If I decide to write an enterprise solution on the Microsoft or Sun or Unix platform, I am going to write it to where it is as fast, stable and scalable as possible. This is going to require low level programming that's specific to that OS. A good Java program will never be as fast, stable and scalable on the Microsoft platform as a good C++ program. Even VB will do a better job when using Win API calls the correct way.

.NET a lock-in strategy...I don't see it. Its no more of a lock-in than investing in a free OS and 2 to 3 years down the road, people decide it's time to be paid for for the many hours spent devoping something that another company will use for free to make money off of. Guess I got up on the wrong side too. :)

# March 25, 2004 8:18 PM

SBC said:

yup... so did UConn... ;-)

# March 28, 2004 9:23 PM

Frans Bouma said:

This ODP.NET version was already available for some time, if I'm not mistaken.

# March 29, 2004 3:20 AM

daval said:

Don't forget to put safety plugs into all unused outlets to prevent electricity from leaking out and forming invisible puddles on the floor.

# March 29, 2004 7:33 AM

denny said:

Been a while ... I first herd this one back in 1996-97

# March 29, 2004 8:51 AM

Frans Bouma said:

I had them too!

This system really needs a 'please wait a minute before post something again'...

(offtopic: your blog really looks weird in Firefox. Probably a stylesheet error)

# March 30, 2004 7:45 AM

Phil Scott said:

While I am disapointed that I wasn't deemed worthy of knowing how to restart a system in C#, I got over 20 comment spams asking if I'd send someone to the 2003 PDC.

I got these comments in Feb 2004.

# March 30, 2004 7:57 AM

Lotas Smartman said:

you guys have it easy! i get close to 300 comment spams a week telling users where they can get stuff to help in bed, etc. some are just 3k of links! (3k is the limit of the comment). i get them by email to, but a little SQL Script is my friend for removing them!

# March 30, 2004 8:17 AM

Julie Lerman said:

67 this morning from there.

# March 30, 2004 8:47 AM

Paul Wilson said:

I got a lot of this guys question also -- not exactly a way to make me want to answer.

# March 30, 2004 8:58 AM

Phil Scott said:

Ha, never mind I did receive a whole bunch. I am loved!!!

Almost makes me want to type in, oh, I don't know, "reboot computer C#" into google for the guy.

# March 30, 2004 9:02 AM

CC said:

Why not contact this guys ISP and complain ?

Bulldog Communciations
Ground Floor
40 Portman Square
London
W1H 6LT

allansmith@bulldogcommunications.com

I am so ashamed that he appears to be british :(

# March 30, 2004 9:08 AM

Colt said:

I received >40 emails too! I guess.. If I reply / send an answer to him/her.. will (s)he stop then? :)

# March 30, 2004 10:10 AM

Wes said:

I've got a bunch too. Maybe scott should impelment a feature that will allow us to block IP addresses of people posting comments. Just an Idea.

# March 30, 2004 10:24 AM

matthew said:

that's http://www.bulldogdsl.com/. Contact abuse@bulldogdsl.com

# March 30, 2004 10:30 AM

Paschal said:

40 this morning for me. I contacted Scott, he works on a solution for this kind of behavior

# March 30, 2004 10:36 AM

Greg Robinson said:

27+ in mine

# March 30, 2004 10:38 AM

CC said:

I'm wondering if the arraylist is really necessary? And also all of those casts in frmEncounterDynamic_Load look kinda ugly, couldn't you just instantiate a textbox, do all the stuff and THEN add it to the arraylist (if you need to keep it).

# March 30, 2004 10:52 AM

bob said:

BFD

# March 30, 2004 11:25 AM

Fabrice said:

You don't like temp variables, do you?

# March 30, 2004 12:24 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 31, 2004 7:22 AM

TrackBack said:

# March 31, 2004 7:25 AM

Scott said:

well there's the Duke vs. UConn game.

The Fox Sports Grill in downtown Seattle would probably be a good spot. Might be crowded though. You can walk to it from the W though.

I'd recommend The Ram over on 45th in University Village shopping center. Great food, big TV, in-house brews.

I have no need of ride share since I'm not an MVP and I live in Seattle. I don't know you from Adam, but if you want to hook up and watch the game, gimme a holler at skoon@scottkoon.org I'm a KU fan but I'm not bitter. :)

# March 31, 2004 4:19 PM

Paul Wilson said:

I'll be there too!

# March 31, 2004 7:31 PM

TrackBack said:

# March 31, 2004 9:08 PM

Truth said:

Bull - you should be sued.

# April 1, 2004 1:00 PM

Phil Winstanley said:

Be careful wally, someone might think you're joking - it being April 1st and all.

# April 1, 2004 1:16 PM

shame said:

to be a good prank, you need to at least supply some links to make it seem plausible. MS or IBM does it, funny. some kid pull one out of his ass, not funny.

# April 1, 2004 1:35 PM

Nancy Davolio said:

go suck yourself off and sh*t in a hat!

# April 1, 2004 1:49 PM

Phil Scott said:

I don't think I've every laughed hard than Nancy Davolio telling someone to shit in a hat.

How big of a geek does it make you when you recognize that name btw?

# April 1, 2004 1:57 PM

Sam said:

I HATE APRIL FOOLS>

# April 1, 2004 2:21 PM

Tara said:

And if you can, run DBCC DBREINDEX occassionally.

"DBCC INDEXDEFRAG will not help if two indexes are interleaved on the disk because INDEXDEFRAG shuffles the pages in place. To improve the clustering of pages, rebuild the index."

To see if you need to defragment, run DBCC SHOWCONTIG.

# April 1, 2004 7:19 PM

TrackBack said:

Take Outs for 1 April 2004

# April 1, 2004 11:16 PM

Paul Glavich said:

I'm at the Westin right now. There are a couple of other Aussie MVP's around as well. Not sure who else though.

IM: mrglav@connexus.net.au

# April 3, 2004 2:46 PM

bilbo said:

I love that hotel ... reminds me of the sprockets skit on saturday night live.

# April 3, 2004 4:17 PM

Scott_NO_@_SPAM_Tripleasp.net (Scott Watermasysk) said:

I am at the "W" now as well. Room 808.

-Scott

# April 3, 2004 4:58 PM

Scott Sargent said:

I'm also at the W. Room 1505

# April 3, 2004 5:34 PM

Morten Jokumsen said:

I´m also at the W. Room 2510

# April 3, 2004 10:17 PM

Hannes Preishuber said:

sitting in bed an trying wireless

17th floor

# April 4, 2004 10:46 AM

SBC said:

go UConn!
:-)

# April 4, 2004 5:17 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 5, 2004 10:28 PM

AA said:

FUCK U

# April 6, 2004 3:33 AM

SBC said:

yeah UCONN!

# April 6, 2004 7:00 AM

Scott said:

I felt your pain man, last year same thing happened to KU. You've still got your program though.

# April 6, 2004 10:13 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 6, 2004 1:57 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 6, 2004 3:29 PM

Kevin Dente said:

Wally,
Thanks for the tip, I'm not getting the error any more. But I'm also not getting much by way of search hits. For example, if I search on "ToolStrip", I get no matches, although ToolStrip is in the index. Searching for MSDN returns 16 hits, so SOMETHING is working. Any other suggestions?

# April 7, 2004 2:09 PM

Yannick Smits said:

where are the women?

# April 8, 2004 1:05 AM

Fabrice said:

Exactly what I was about to say! "This is a man's world..."

# April 8, 2004 5:13 AM

Terri Morton said:

C'mon now, Ronda and I take offense! ;-)

# April 12, 2004 12:19 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 12, 2004 5:41 PM

Matt Hawley said:

Sounds pretty cool. Let me know if you need any NNTP help, I've had some experience with it for my NNTP Posting Plugin.

# April 13, 2004 11:10 PM

TrackBack said:

# April 14, 2004 2:55 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 14, 2004 8:51 AM

James Crowley said:

You might also be interested in http://www.developerfusion.com/show/4472/ . This describes connecting/getting newsgroups/posting articles.

# April 14, 2004 8:56 AM

Yosi Taguri said:

Hi,
This is MSDE with it's new name.

# April 15, 2004 12:22 PM

Robert W. McLaws said:

Sort of. It's actually a bit different than MSDE, but not so much. It was mentioned at the MVP Summit, which is why I am hesitant to just come out and say what it is. Let me ask around and see if I can talk about it.

# April 15, 2004 12:26 PM

Yosi Taguri said:

The next community version of Whidbey will make it clearer ( I Hope )

# April 15, 2004 1:43 PM

Kent Tegels said:

Okay, some quick thoughts: This is going to be a big thick book which Wrox is kind of famous for but seems to be less popular with consumers these days. I think there's a niche for it though.

Could you structure it so there isn't a "DBA part" and "DBD part?" Yes, I know that today, there's a real world seperation between the two. I think Yukon really blurs the line. A lot.

Maybe drop chapter one. I don't know that anybody really cares.

Chapter two should show doing the same thing in Studio, where possible.

Chapter three: This has been done and done well to death. Skip it.

Chapter four: XML as type.

Chapter five: Must cover Try-Catch. I wouldn't try to do a T-SQL reference manual. Cover what's new and useful with Yukon.

Chapter six: User Defined Types and Aggregators must be covered too. Making a procedure a web service endpoint fits here (maybe.) "Comparing the .NET and TSql equivalent functionality." -- DON'T GO THERE, THEY DON'T COMPETE, THEY COMPLEMENT... :)

Chapter seven: DMO is now SMO.

Chapter eight: Need to cover how SQLXML "maps" to concepts in Yukon. XML Indices.

Chapter ten: Broker is also message generation (change title)

Chapter 11: Change title to "Application Tunning"

Chapter 12: Cursors don't belong (exactly) in transactions. Do you mean distributed transactions instead of replication. Replication needs its own chapter (hell, it needs its own book!)

Chapter 13: Must cover UDM. Consider a chapter on Reporting Services (if your going to write a brick, write a brick.)

Chapter 14: DTS needs its own chapter.

Chapter 15: Yeah, hopefully this can be a short chapter. :)

Chapter 16: I'd suggest leaving that to Kalen and Ken.

I'd love to participate more. You know where to find me. :)

# April 16, 2004 8:27 PM

SQL said:

And it's SQL Server, not Sql Server.

Perhaps change Yukon to 2005.

# April 20, 2004 8:21 PM

goom said:

Also don't forget to reformat all your hard drives - most of this junk sits there

# April 21, 2004 5:05 AM

lachelp said:

IMHO,

In our 14 years of experience, we have found in most cases that it is not the dirt on the Internet as described above, but rather on the user's machines themselves.

Dirt accumulates when bugs nest in the hives of a particular file. When this is vacummed out of the system, increased stability is always the result.

# April 24, 2004 1:07 AM

Tim D. said:

well, when downloads are in a progress of atleast 90kbs, my 3com cable modem shuts off, and it doesnt even turn its self back on, so i hafta unplug it and wait a few min for it to turn back on, sometimes it doesnt even turn back on, its been doing this for about a year. I use a 3com shark fin looking modem and a linksys network adapter on windows xp. you think somehow those arent compatible or am i hogging up bandwidth so my provider shuts me off, let me knew ASAP!

# April 27, 2004 3:30 PM

Darren Neimke said:

Congrats Wally... we celebrate 9 years on the 20th May this year!

# April 29, 2004 7:30 AM

Sam Gentile said:

Congrats Wally! We go for number 12 May 16 this year!

# April 29, 2004 8:04 AM

Robert Hurlbut said:

Congratulations! And many more ...

# April 29, 2004 8:41 AM

Doug Reilly said:

Congratulations! Hope you have a great day!

# April 29, 2004 9:04 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Congratulations! :)
My second is at May 30th (May must be a popular month ;))

# April 29, 2004 9:09 AM

aspXnet said:

Congratulations!! Enjoy!!

# April 29, 2004 9:25 AM

TrackBack said:

# April 30, 2004 2:05 PM

_NRN_R_Tora said:

How do you write the blue screen of death any way? Im a so called white hacker an this is the start of my training. This is my best program...

NOMAINWIN
NOTICE "You pc is dead"
KILL C:/Windows/explorer.exe
END

# May 1, 2004 7:33 PM

Darren Neimke said:

> your spouse accidently sends it out
> to someone, well, that sometimes happens.

You too huh? My wife is *always* doing that ;-)

# May 5, 2004 6:51 AM

stefandemetz said:

give it a good title like "intel outsourcing" and many people will find it in google

# May 5, 2004 7:20 AM

Wallym said:

Stefan,

An excellent idea.

Wally

# May 5, 2004 8:06 AM

TrackBack said:

# May 5, 2004 8:55 AM

AT said:

All current companies trying to make money fast from people they hire.

They do not want invest in training or wait for person to get needed level of experience inside company. They also will fire you as soon as they will find that it cheaper to fire instead of pay salary.

It's all about making money fast without thinking about future.

I like Japan culture - you can live entire life working for single company and growing inside it. As long as you will be loyal to company - company will be loyal to you.

In a long term this is cheaper for a company as they can start investing in correct education early.
Instead of buying smart brains on free-market they produce them.

# May 6, 2004 1:39 AM

Mike Schinkel said:

>> First off, just who in the heck is Wally McClure. I live in Knoxville, TN. I have a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech (1990) and a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech (1991).

Hi Wally, from a fellow ramblin' wreck (BSME 88): http://blogs.xtras.net/mikes/PermaLink,guid,e183e113-dd86-4f64-bad3-ce1f45d224a4.aspx

Mother Tech is a great place to be "from", ain't it? :)

# May 7, 2004 6:12 AM

me said:

grow up?

# May 8, 2004 12:11 AM

hfhgdfh said:

ghdfghdf

# May 8, 2004 7:50 AM

TrackBack said:

Take Outs for 11 May 2004

# May 12, 2004 12:41 AM

TrackBack said:

# May 12, 2004 11:20 AM

Steve said:

Sounds fascinating. I am going to be building one for a customer myself and since I am new to asp.net, I was searching for possible solutions or ideas.

# May 15, 2004 4:24 PM

TrackBack said:

Take Outs for 17 May 2004

# May 18, 2004 1:52 AM

TrackBack said:

# May 19, 2004 11:30 AM

SBC said:

A good post !
I thoroughly concur that its detrimental for business to have the myopic view (mostly a 3-month quarter) which drives the Wall St numbers. I disagree with Dr Barrett about the 'problems' in the US Educational system - I think it's the finest in the world, especially in the sciences. Having spent half of my life here, I too am a product of the US Educ system and proud of it (http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee/articles/6360.aspx). Blaming the US Educ system is a very common scapegoating done by politicians and now, by some corporate executives. I feel quite divisive regarding outsourcing (especially to India) on certain grounds - having worked in the Healthcare industry for several years, I know there's tremendous overhead and inefficiencies. Herein, lies the dilemma - whether to have more hospital beds gained by cost savings in outsourcing or subsidize the overhead and have fewer beds. For other industries (like computer hardware), its a management call but unfortunately, any savings are not passed on to the consumer nor retraining the workers. So the question to ask is where do the savings go? I am unsure about what Intel does with it.

# May 21, 2004 6:10 AM

SBC said:

Hopefully, I'll "get" it this week-end.. :-)

# May 21, 2004 12:46 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 22, 2004 8:43 AM

TrackBack said:

# May 22, 2004 8:45 AM

Otto said:

Not sure if you are asking a question or making a statement... but, I'm pretty sure Full Text Indexing is installed by default on servers (Personal Edition it is not installed by default).

If you don't have the option available when you are using Enterprise Manager, check to make sure the database container has full text indexing enabled. Do a search of online books for the stored procedure that you can run.

# May 22, 2004 10:23 PM

Wallym said:

I am making a statement.

Wally

# May 22, 2004 10:26 PM

Eric Newton said:

a simple and powerful concept for template driven web sites

hopefully 2.0 wont have the performance issues from the masterpages sample... of course they've had plenty of time to beef it up!

# May 23, 2004 1:00 AM

TrackBack said:

Take Outs 24 May 2004

# May 24, 2004 6:43 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 26, 2004 10:33 AM

Scott Mitchell said:

Wally, on a side note, have you heard about this - an NNTP managed provide for ADO.NET?
http://ryanfarley.com/blog/archive/2004/05/21/701.aspx
-and-
http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/nntpClient

# May 27, 2004 11:06 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 1, 2004 9:38 PM

Brian Schkerke said:

Intel actually reverse engineered the AMD64 instruction set to add compatibility to their chipset. I thought that was an amusing turn of events.

I run a dual AMD 64bit Opteron as my workstation. Unfortunately I also chose to go with fairly recent hardware in terms of video, sound, and storage. Specifically I have an Adaptec SATA RAID card that doesn't have 64 bit drivers available for it (that I can find). So I haven't been able to give WinXP 64 bit a whirl yet.

However, 64 bit SuSE rocked. I was impressed with the sheer transparency of 32 bit vs 64 bit but I was most impressed with the decreased compile times. I can't wait until more driver support is available 64 bit Windows XP.

# June 1, 2004 10:17 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 1, 2004 10:32 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

And you would be even more impressed if you actually tried IA-64 with 64-bit code. X86-64 is just extending the old x86 architecture, with all its problems - it gets you good backwards compatibility but I don't think it's worth it. Kinda like building Win98, Win98SE, WinME before finally moving over to the much better NT kernel.

# June 2, 2004 2:02 AM

TrackBack said:

# June 2, 2004 11:16 AM

Wallym said:

Jerry,

Its alwasy easier when you start from scratch. The problem is getting the customer to move along with you. That is the problem that IA64 has. It has not been accepted by the customer and doesn't exist in the volume space. I don't see any IA64 desktops at CompUSA on in a whitebox. That is the market that drives the cpu world.

Wally

# June 2, 2004 11:29 AM

Jerry Pisk said:

Actually the fact that you don't see any IA-64 boxes being sold shows that it's not easier to start from scratch :) It makes for better products but it's a much more difficult sell...

# June 2, 2004 2:17 PM

Victor Ortiz said:

So the fact that it's "not easier", does that make it "better"? I don't believe so.

IA64 will never make it into the volume space because it is too expensive to manufacture and the infrastructure doesn't exist to support mass commercialization.

Being "better" does not always make you the winner, that's the effect of the free-market economy. Generally, consumers decide who wins and who loses. And very few consumers will take the expensive plunge of IA64 only to have their productivity killed by lack of useful applications.

# June 2, 2004 3:05 PM

Kris Syverstad said:

I like the analogy to golf. Developers are a lot like golfers. In golf there are essentially two types of "avid" golfers: those that actually practice and those that don't. I'm always amazed by the number of golfers that are not interested in improving there game. This trait is found all to often in developers.

# June 2, 2004 4:00 PM

Scott Mitchell said:

Hate to sound un-geeky, but why bother? I mean, what advantage does a 64-bit architecture give to an ASP.NET developer who's just using his computer to develop Web apps, word process, and email?

Again, maybe you're running CPU intensive scientific number crunchers, or something. Personally, I don't get it. :-)

# June 3, 2004 3:54 PM

Scott Mitchell said:

Wally, you should check out this "cartoon," I think you'll find it fitting to this discussion: http://scott.yang.id.au/2003/08/software-development-life-cycle/

:-)

# June 3, 2004 3:56 PM

Wally said:

Scott,

Sorry, but to say that I just do webapps along with some word processing and email is to not read and understand my posts.

Wally

# June 4, 2004 10:32 AM

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# June 4, 2004 10:49 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 5, 2004 6:59 PM

函授教育 said:

good!

# June 8, 2004 6:21 AM

a said:

sss

# June 11, 2004 5:44 AM

TrackBack said:

# June 13, 2004 8:58 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 13, 2004 9:02 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 15, 2004 4:21 PM

TrackBack said:

# June 15, 2004 4:31 PM

Brian Schkerke said:

Wally,

The good news is that if the SATA controller is embedded on the motherboard you'll probably have some sort of 64 bit support. That was where I went wrong -- I used an external controller so I would have real hardware RAID. That choice precluded me from using Win64.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_875_10454,00.html is a page at AMD that lists who produces 64 bit drivers for what operating systems. It seems reasonably up to date, although from what I gather from the community if it's not on the Win64 disc you'll probably be out of luck.

The forums at http://www.planetamd64.com/ have proven to be an invaluable resource for me for 64 bit needs for Linux, and there are more individuals there familiar with Windows than Linux. They might of some use to you as well.

# June 17, 2004 8:39 AM

Wally said:

Brian,

thanks for the feedback. I will definitely check out the resources you have listed.

Wally

# June 17, 2004 8:48 AM

Brian Schkerke said:

Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL. Not too interested in PostgreSQL or DB2 at the moment. MySQL is almost becoming a requirement for me as a cheap, no limit option to SQL Server.

(Talk to the requirements folks. ;p)

As for who would write it -- someone with a sense of humor, maybe a cartoonist at the side. ADO.NET and database technologies are boring to read about -- and most authors who know enough to be worthwhile to read are just as dry. Having a touch of humor or cartoons (ala The Dummies Guide To...) helps tremendously to keep attention.

# June 17, 2004 9:10 AM

Michael Potter said:

Lots of BLOB stuff. How to upload files & graphics. How to get it back to the app/web site. Most books gloss over this necessity.

Connection management. Do I hold the connection or drop it between requests? Does it depend upon the database (Access/MS SQL)?

Transaction management. Heavy description of the types and thier use. Include examples of using/ not using transactions.

How to avoid Deadlocks.

Cutting down on trips to the database. Using DataSet to return more than on query result at a time.

How to work without VS.Net automatic binding. I don't use it anyway.

How to obtain DB Structure (tables, columns, referencial integrity).

How to build DB Structures.

If you spent some time, you could write the bible of DB Access via .Net.

# June 17, 2004 9:22 AM

Scott said:

I care about writing ADO.NET code that can connect to ANY database. Where the code I write is independant of the provider I specify in a connection string. Java has this, the .NET Framework should too.

# June 17, 2004 11:21 AM

Steve Sharrock said:

Very Cool. I wanna, too. What did you pay for the basic 64bit box, and what are the specs (mhz/memory).

When you've done some testing, let us know the "real world" benchmarks -- like how long it takes Visual Studio to load/rebuild a large solution on 32 vs 64.

# June 17, 2004 8:19 PM

Wallym said:

Sorry, but I don't think I can do any benchmarks. I would need two things:
1. Hardware that was constant to compare the same framework versions on Win32 & Win64.
2. A change to the license of .NET. Most licenses disallow any type of benchmarking that is made public with specific numbers.

Wally

# June 17, 2004 10:15 PM

Brian Schkerke said:

Yea, I disagree with the whole "no benchmarking" portion of the license. Symantec tried that, sued someone who did it, and lost, so I guess if you can afford to fight a lawsuit you could probably post the numbers anyway. Dunno. (I understand you're a Microsoft employee and willfully violating a software license would probably end you up in legal and employment trouble. :))

I'm glad to hear you got it up. I had the same problem with the floppy drive on my system with Win32. The problem goes further than just Win2K3/Win64. Worse is the fact that most of the earlier operating systems -- I want to say Windows XP included - won't recognize a USB floppy attached to them, unless the laptop or computer is pulling drive emulation duty for you. (Some do, ala keyboard/mouse support.) I ended up opening my box, laying it sideways, and tagging in a floppy drive for the first boot up.

Sad, in a way. =)

# June 17, 2004 10:19 PM

Wallym said:

Yes, I didn't know about the floppy thing until after I got it. I tried to plug a "real" floppy into it, but the system is just too cramped. Trying to stick the cable in their is like trying to have a certain type of sex that women typically DO NOT like.

Wally "The jokester"

# June 17, 2004 10:31 PM

Eric Engler said:

Please cover the issues of how to page results from a query that generates too much data, and the issues of how and why to use a server-side cursor in ADO.NET 2.

I'd also like to see more info about strategies for doing multiple table updates in cases where ref integity is being used.

# June 17, 2004 10:32 PM

Sahil Mailk said:

Well, my AMD won't install longhorn .. did you have any success with that?

# June 17, 2004 11:08 PM

Wallym said:

Didn't try to install longhorn. Someone else told me that they installed longhorn on x64 and it worked.

Wally

# June 17, 2004 11:09 PM

Sahil Mailk said:

Yup, intel everything works good .. it's AMD that cries. Also try installing it with All in wonder.

# June 17, 2004 11:51 PM

Wally said:

The problem is that drivers for Win64 Extended Systems just don't exist. If I had installed 32 bit Windows, I would have had no problems, inspite of the fact that I installed it on an AMD system. Until more device makes support Win64 extended systems, we will continue to have this problem.

Wally

# June 18, 2004 9:44 AM

Brian Schkerke said:

Yea, chicken and the egg. It seems like manufacturers are making the move, but they're taking their time. Most of the majors have them available for semi recent products, but they proliferation just isn't to the 32 bit level.

# June 18, 2004 10:40 AM

Brian Schkerke said:

Gah, pfft on you! I'd like to have Whidbey for Win32, much less Win64! <g>

# June 18, 2004 10:41 AM

MapPoint said:

What kind of hardware/cpu do you have?

Eric

# June 18, 2004 11:04 AM

Wallym said:

It is a put together system. A shuttle mini case with a shuttle FN85 motherboard. 200 gig sata drive. 1 gig of RAM. It cost $1,130 something bucks. I had to add a $40 usb floppy.

# June 18, 2004 11:10 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Keep in mind with ODP.NET 10g that the following works in 9i's ODP.NET but is not working in 10g:

to insert a row in a table with a sequence, you could batch the sequence query into the INSERT query:
BEGIN INSERT INTO table (field1, field2) VALUES (sequence.NEXTVAL, :field2Value); SELECT sequence.CURRVAL INTO :newField1Value FROM DUAL; END;

Executing this with an OracleCommand and the ExecuteNonQuery method would return the used sequence value in the output parameter newField1Value and would return the # rows affected: 1.

With 10g, this is broken. ExecuteNonQuery only returns a value > 0 if the query is a clean INSERT, UPDATE or DELETE. As this is a batched query, the result will be -1. If your code relies on the return value (as it is defined in the interface!) to check whether the insert succeeded or failed, you have to re-write your code for 10g.

# June 19, 2004 12:08 PM

Bill Dunn said:

Well let's see the mother fucker.

# June 20, 2004 1:04 PM

Scott said:

You must have survived the Carousel 7 years ago.

# June 23, 2004 11:58 PM

Paolo Marcucci said:

It's my birthday too! But I'm older... :(

# June 24, 2004 12:29 AM

Bruce Williams [MSFT] said:

You must escape to The Outside before it is too late!

# June 24, 2004 3:40 AM

Paschal said:

Run Wally Run :-)

# June 24, 2004 6:20 AM

Anon said:

Wally's Run just doesn't have the same ring to it. Aren't they remaking this at the moment? I hope they don't massacre it like they did with "Get Carter" and "The Italian Job".

# June 24, 2004 6:26 AM

Wally said:

Glad to see I am not the only one that remember's these old movies.

Wally

# June 24, 2004 8:46 AM

Andreas said:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083791/ ?

# June 24, 2004 11:40 AM

Anon said:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/

# June 24, 2004 1:10 PM

Wally said:

Logon's run is correct.

Wally

# June 24, 2004 2:07 PM

Brian said:

Funny cooincidence that your longest URL is 256 chars :D

# June 24, 2004 7:03 PM

Phil Weber said:

Sorry about the spyware. FYI, IE6 in XP SP2 (RC2 available here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx) includes new security features to prevent precisely what you experienced. It's quite stable; I highly recommend it.

# June 25, 2004 2:28 AM

matthew said:

specifically with rc2, the spyware prompt just appears as a notification at the top of the page. You have to actually choose to click to install, and there is no chance of doing it accidentally.

# June 25, 2004 3:41 AM

Wallym said:

Thanks Guys. I just heard about xp sp2 change earlier this week. I was waiting on it to go to production, but because I am now going to have to rebuild my laptop, guess what I am going to install? sp2 rc. this freakin' sucks.

Wally

# June 25, 2004 8:51 AM

Greg said:

"DSO Exploit" not going away is a known issue with SpyBot. (I had the same issue...)

It seems SpyBot DOESS clean it, but leaves a couple reg entries when it cleans it. Future checks sees these entries and thinks it's still there, when it really isn't.

Google SpyBot and "DSO Exploit" and you'll get some the details on how to do the final clean up.

# June 25, 2004 9:51 AM

Panos Theofanopoulos said:

Had the same incident yesterday, seems that is not the DSO exploit but this new virus you mention.

I also download the SpyBot, but nothing fixed. Seems that this is loaded when IE is loaded (as toolbar extension?), so the only solution i found (after formatting) was to switch to firefox, until MS releases the new patches

# June 25, 2004 2:03 PM

John S. said:

I have SP2 installed with the firewall on and I didn't have any trouble.

# June 29, 2004 2:15 PM

Rogelio Morrell said:

Friend Assemblies, Threads, System.Net and faster delegates.

# July 1, 2004 4:25 PM

Yex said:

Just wanted to let you know that I recently had some trouble with 4.0.20d, just in case you were thinking of trying it out. I blogged about the problems I ran into here: http://yexley.net/blogs/bob/archive/2004/06/28/633.aspx

# July 3, 2004 3:10 AM

TrackBack said:

# July 5, 2004 5:35 PM

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# July 5, 2004 5:36 PM

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# July 5, 2004 11:26 PM

TrackBack said:

# July 6, 2004 12:19 AM

TrackBack said:

# July 6, 2004 12:19 AM

Domagoj Kovač said:

Does it support full-text searching? If you can test it out and post result, that would be nice :)

# July 6, 2004 1:29 AM

Wallym said:

I'll look. I tried this a few months ago and couldn't get it to work, but there were a bunch of things that didn't work a while back.

Wally

# July 6, 2004 7:47 AM

Kamala said:

Click on to the "Table" under the "Database" & then see the "Full text indexing"

# July 6, 2004 8:40 AM

Laurent Kempé said:

It does not support it according to Sql Express documentation.

# July 6, 2004 9:18 AM

Frans Bouma said:

You forgot 'Synonyms' which are not supported in SqlExpress (but a folder is present for them in an SqlExpress db)

# July 6, 2004 9:19 AM

Wallym said:

Thanks Frans. I will add this in. I merely pulled this from the Sql Express Books Online with no thought. I was sharing this based on some questions that I recieved in another post on Sql Express.

Wally

# July 6, 2004 9:25 AM

Wallym said:

Laurent,

Thanks. :-) I looked up in the Sql Express BOL and saw that. I included that in another post, but didn't update this post. :-)

Wally

# July 6, 2004 9:28 AM

Phil Winstanley said:

Yup, that is indeed cool.

Now we have to fight even harder to get newbies to ASP.NET to put their data access code in seperate classes, perferably not in the same project as the Web Application!

Grrrrr.....

# July 6, 2004 5:48 PM

Dave Sussman said:

Adding blank items: set the AppendDataBoundItems property of the listbox/dropdown to True. This means that when binding the existing items aren't cleared. Add the static blank item by just placing an asp:ListItem within the list tags.

# July 7, 2004 6:09 AM

Wallym said:

Thank you Dave.

Wally

# July 7, 2004 7:30 AM

Jason Tucker said:

or try http://localhost/webapplication/webadmin.axd to bring up the web app admin tool. I agree it is very nice.

# July 7, 2004 7:39 PM

Santhosh PBSK said:

Thanx for the Link !!!

just what i wanted

# July 8, 2004 3:15 AM

Anthony Seda said:

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS TO HELP ME MANAGE BETTER MA DB.

# July 9, 2004 11:55 AM

Scott Galloway said:

Oh great more overhead for no particular reason...tell you what, at this rate VS.NET Orcas will have Avalon 3d rotating properties windows...

# July 13, 2004 10:04 AM

TrackBack said:

# July 13, 2004 10:23 AM

TrackBack said:

# July 13, 2004 10:26 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

I'm assuming you guys didn't RTFA.

# July 13, 2004 12:53 PM

Frank said:

Looking more closely at the screen shot, something tells me that I've been had.

# July 13, 2004 3:04 PM

Maqsood Ahmed said:

Hello,
I have tried same as you have mentioned here... but it gives an exception "Error In File <filename>: Invalid Table Number" of type CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.InvalidArgumentException :(...
/**** here is what i am doing ****/
DataTable dt = new DataTable();
DataColumn col1 = new DataColumn("Column 1",typeof(string));
DataColumn col2 = new DataColumn("Column 2",typeof(int));
dt.Columns.Add(col1);
dt.Columns.Add(col2);
dt.Rows.Add(new object[]{"string 1",1});
dt.Rows.Add(new object[]{"string 1",1});
dt.Rows.Add(new object[]{"string 1",1});

ReportDocument rd = new ReportDocument();
rd.Load(Environment.CurrentDirectory + @"\..\..\myCrystalReport.rpt");
rd.SetDataSource(dt);
crystalReportViewer1.ReportSource = rd;
/*********/
Any luck??

# July 14, 2004 6:27 AM

AndrewSeven said:

Stored Procedures.

# July 14, 2004 7:14 PM

Richard Dudley said:

Stored Procedures. Not in MySQL yet.

# July 14, 2004 8:18 PM

Paul Wilson said:

Ha ha -- I'm very surprised they used any quote from me since I clearly stated I hadn't even tried SP2! I figured they would have made another call or two and got some better informed quotes -- oh well.

# July 16, 2004 12:29 PM

TrackBack said:

# July 19, 2004 11:47 AM

TrackBack said:

# July 19, 2004 12:01 PM

Andrej Kyselica said:

The last Dell machine I had was HORRIBLE with this. It broke less than a year after I got it and broke a second time a year after that. What a joke. It doesn't help to spend an hour on the phone with someone who can't understand what I'm asking him to do.

ok, you hit a nerve... :)

-Andrej

# July 20, 2004 12:27 AM

Wally said:

Understood. I know the feeling.

Wally

# July 20, 2004 10:57 AM

Kirk Marple said:

Argh, i have this exact problem on my Inspiron 8200.

Did the Dell guy say what they were going to do about it? Did you have to send your laptop in to be fixed?

# July 20, 2004 11:50 AM

Wally said:

It drove out of the parking lot this morning. I originally called about a problem with the FireWire port. The guy asked about cracks in and around the hinges. He claimed that it would be taken care of along with the FireWire port problem.

# July 20, 2004 12:46 PM

Anonymous Regular said:

Where should I start.

Many marketing people have nothing that evaluates the quality of what they do.
They say it works, they are in the buisness of talk.
In a way they are just like sales people except that they don't actualy sell the product.

Marketing is a lot more valueable when you are targeting a mass-market and have millions to spend.

# July 20, 2004 1:38 PM

Chris said:

Marketing is as marketing does. If there are no measurable benefits from having the marketing person then the marketing person and the marketing persons marketing sucks :O)

See
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/yourmarketing/

There are good and bad marketing people just like there are bad programmers. I am probably 55% technical and 45% marketing now so I am a strange beast that empathises with both sides!

# July 20, 2004 2:15 PM

Jim Bolla said:

Sweet. I'm assuming I can put server controls within each of the template sections, in addtion to text/html. Yes?

# July 20, 2004 2:49 PM

Wally said:

Jim, check out this post: http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2004/07/20/189003.aspx

# July 20, 2004 3:12 PM

Scott said:

$1,146.67

My friends always said I was cheap.

# July 21, 2004 2:51 PM

Scott Galloway said:

Umm...mine is $46,904.58...no idea how or why...I feel quite violated...

# July 21, 2004 3:07 PM

Frans Bouma said:

$19,252.13

It has been 20K apparently. hehe, apparently there are people thinking my blog is worth money. ;) Must be marketing droids ;)

# July 21, 2004 3:17 PM

Brian Schkerke said:

$1,000.00 and declining quickly.

*ponder* I seem to be playing in the Major Leagues with minor league talent. :)

I need to go buy stock in Frans'...

# July 21, 2004 6:18 PM

TrackBack said:

# July 22, 2004 3:05 PM

仪表 said:

Is it a bug?

# July 23, 2004 11:16 PM

仪表 said:

Is it a bug?

# July 23, 2004 11:16 PM

Yosi Taguri said:

I didn't find a nice way too. it simply isn't supported

# July 24, 2004 6:12 PM

chris said:

hello wallace!

i am a newbie who put:

"Sub DropDownList1_SelectedIndexChanged(sender As Object, e As EventArgs)
End Sub"

in an internet search and up came your site...just trying to figure how to click a ddl and link to another aspx page. anywho, you have a cool site!
chris
gadzilla1@hotmail.com

# July 27, 2004 1:22 PM

stefan demetz said:

SQL Server 2005 clustering
http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/stefandemetz/archive/2004/07/27/20526.aspx

# July 27, 2004 6:49 PM

zxfg said:

all

# July 27, 2004 9:07 PM

TrackBack said:

# July 28, 2004 7:26 AM

Duncan said:

You know why football teams have dressing rooms - it's so the other team don't hear the coach criticising his own players. Perhaps Barrett should think on that.

# July 28, 2004 7:45 AM

Kirk Marple said:

i'm in the same boat.

i have an HP AMD64 server, and MSDN only had bld 1069 of Win2k3 64-bit up, and Yukon beta 2 requires bld 1207 and above.

i've pinged some people at MSFT about it - looks like an oversight, and maybe they'll push out a new Win2k3 bld soon to synchronize.

# July 29, 2004 2:29 PM

Christopher said:

Well wooptie-freakin doo.:P

Just kidding, that's great Wally!

# July 29, 2004 4:06 PM

TrackBack said:

# July 30, 2004 7:41 AM

John said:

Does anyone know how to do paging using web services?

# July 30, 2004 10:26 AM

dave said:

any help with years?

I am baffled that this control only allow you to scroll to previous/next month... if you want to see a date 10 year later you've to scroll the "month" 120 times! That's plan stupid to me.

Anybody can help?

# August 3, 2004 7:02 AM

Lorenzo Barbieri said:

Let's go Italy! :-)

# August 3, 2004 5:40 PM

Paolo Marcucci said:

Italy won the bronze medal to the latest European championships, so maybe "is not a very good team" is a bit unfair :)

# August 3, 2004 6:30 PM

Paolo Marcucci said:

A big problem for american players is that the rules for international competitions are slightly different. Maybe it would do good to the NBA to adopt international rules in order to avoid this kind of embarassements.

# August 3, 2004 6:31 PM

Aidas said:

Italy is a good team. Haven't you seen European championship? They are very good fighters. Lithuania yesterday lost to SCG. But we'll see who is who in Athens! :) good luck!

# August 4, 2004 3:34 AM

Stefano Demiliani said:

Wonderful... I'm waiting! :)

# August 4, 2004 5:37 AM

Scott Galloway said:

Hmm...confusing 'cynical' with 'clued up' methinks...

# August 4, 2004 7:59 AM

Quaid said:

Load of nonsense, IYAM.

# August 4, 2004 10:43 AM

Frans Bouma said:

This must be a really early alpha, as it was said at TechEd europe this sp was postponed till 2005.

# August 5, 2004 12:00 PM

Christophe Lauer said:

Yes, I confirm that Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 as well as the Express SKUs can be installed and run on Windows XP for 64 Bit Extended Systems. Tried it by myself ;-)

# August 5, 2004 1:20 PM

Kirk Marple said:

hey Wally... just downloaded this myself. i have an HP DL145 AMD64 to play with, and this is great news.

when you say "Whidbey running as a 64 bit application", doesn't that contradict "The VS.NET IDE runs as a 32-bit application"? curious what you'd heard... will there be a 64-bit version of VS.NET?

# August 5, 2004 10:36 PM

Wally said:

VS.NET runs as 32 bits. .NET 2.0 framework runs as 64 bits.

Wally

# August 6, 2004 5:59 AM

Joe said:

Way to go, I agree, the more hype the less quality. You pay for advertising and that dell dude. That's where the money goes.

# August 13, 2004 5:05 PM

Brad said:

Hey Wally, when this pig croaks, take a look at the HP NC8000. Was the notebook of choice for last employer (pretty big development shop).

# August 13, 2004 5:11 PM

Ray at work said:

The same thing could have happend with HP/Compaq, Gateway, or anyone else. The only way not to be disappointed is to lower your expectations.

# August 13, 2004 5:18 PM

Paul Wilson said:

I've got a widescreen eMachines with an AMD, 512 MB, and wireless. It rocks -- and it was only $1000 after rebate. Everyone that sees it can't believe the screen and the savings, but they're all to chicken to do it themselves. Its been flawless -- and I would do it again. Did I mention I'm standing across right now from a Dell representative (we're setting up my client's racks) and he even noticed my eMachines and was impressed!

# August 13, 2004 5:32 PM

Jay Glynn said:

If your going to buy Dell, buy the Latitude. It's made for the abuse. I've had 2 and both are still running (for someone else ;-)). Currently I'm using a Toshiba m205 Tablet PC convertable and could not be happier.

See you at the next Author Summit ?

# August 13, 2004 9:02 PM

Justin Harrison said:

I just got a Latitude D600. It arrived with 1 pixel dead. The little
popup-stick under the display that turns off the display when closed
sometimes sticks when it is open, and I have to hit it. The 2200BG Intel
Wireless is also very unstable - Has anyone had this problem? Downloads are
usually corrupt and RD disconnects with encryption, protocol, and client
errors regularly...

My 624Mhz Axim also arrived dead. It randomly locks up, even after hard
resets, and requires me to pull out the battery and re-insert it to unlock
it.

# August 13, 2004 9:31 PM

Jim Ross said:

Where will you turn? You've had a bad experience, but is it typical of Dell, or atypical? I imagine that all vendors will have times when they drop the ball.

Back in April I blogged about my "IBM Stinkpad" (http://blogs.aspadvice.com/jross/archive/2004/04/30/1068.aspx), but when it came time to buy a new laptop, guess where I ended up? (http://blogs.aspadvice.com/jross/archive/2004/07/11/1343.aspx)

I know you're frustrated right now. But the question is, do you really think that HP, or Compaq, or Toshiba, or whoever, would end up doing any better?

Ask me about this in a couple years when I've had a chance to see how well my new Stinkpad T42 has worked out.

# August 14, 2004 11:22 AM

Eric Newton said:

Justin: i think the wireless in XP is unstable... XP is too aggresive at searching out networks and is ALWAYS trying to latch on to something, even when its got a signal. As I type this post, its blipped three times. I use the Dell truemobile miniPci wireless.

I have an Inspiron 8500 for a year now... now problems, couldnt be happier... never had to get support though, so I dunno. If I was the support guy, I would've pushed to just send a refurbed same model laptop to you and just change out the HD / memory, but maybe efficiency isnt the support guy's strong points ;-)

# August 14, 2004 4:26 PM

Nat Luengnaruemitchai said:

Do this instead.

Dim doneEvt As New AutoResetEvent(False)

iResult = sqlCm.BeginExecuteNonQuery(New System.AsyncCallback(AddressOf ExecuteNonQueryCallback), sqlCm)

doneEvt.WaitOne()

....................

Private Sub ExecuteNonQueryCallback(ByVal iRes As IAsyncResult)

Dim sqlCm As SqlCommand = CType(iRes.AsyncState, SqlCommand)

sqlCm.EndExecuteNonQuery(iRes)
doneEvt.Set()
End Sub

Don't forget to include System.Threading namespace.

# August 16, 2004 8:36 PM

Doug Reilly said:

Is that per-connection, or per app domain?

# August 16, 2004 8:39 PM

Wallym said:

I believe that it is per-command object. If a command has a pending async command and you try and execute another async command on the same command object that is currently waiting for an async command object to complete.

Wally

# August 17, 2004 4:19 PM

Wallym said:

Good suggestion.

Wally

# August 17, 2004 4:20 PM

Doug Reilly said:

OK. That I would expect. Maybe MARS will fix that in VS 2005.

# August 17, 2004 4:57 PM

Robert Scoble said:

Oh, geez. I'm nowhere near a hero.

But thanks for the kind words and the great chat!

# August 17, 2004 6:20 PM

Wallym said:

That should be on Sql2k5. On Sql2k, I think it is per command and per connection.

Wally

# August 23, 2004 2:51 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

Any chance this could be implemented on IDbConnection? I rarely use the specific classes, as I don't want to force my users/coworkers to use a single database engine.

# August 28, 2004 9:47 PM

Matt Hawley said:

3-5 hours for me :) I love cable modem.

# August 31, 2004 10:18 PM

TrackBack said:

# August 31, 2004 10:22 PM

Annie Ramos said:

Sorry for that.

Another thing that caught my attenstion is that " (Park did) rewrite the Web site in the programming language PHP, replacing its Java J2EE, which had caused the site to congest ...". Is that true?

# September 1, 2004 2:54 PM

Rolando said:

Does it work in MONO ?

# September 6, 2004 5:16 PM

TrackBack said:

New version of the MySQL Connector/Net has been released... but it's beta

# September 6, 2004 5:22 PM

Rolando said:

found a forum post with more details :

http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?3,1561,1561#1561

# September 6, 2004 5:23 PM

Jeff Perrin said:

In case you didn't know, this is basically the next version of the ByteFX provider (which did work under Mono, and most likely still does). Reggie was hired by MySQL to work on it as the official MySQL provider for .NET. It's nice to see that he's getting paid for his excellent work.

# September 6, 2004 6:27 PM

JosephCooney said:

Why would you want to do this? Why WOULDN'T you want to do this? Connection strings are so non-OO I am amazed they are still around. Imagine if every other object in the .NET framework took a string of key-value pairs delimited with ; characters as part of their constructor, where each key corresponded to a property but did not actually have the same name as the property, and where the same property could be assigned with multiple "keys".

# September 6, 2004 7:01 PM

Jason Mauss said:

What's the difference between this DbConnectionStringBuilder class and the DBConnectionString class in .NET v1.1 ?

# September 6, 2004 7:40 PM

Jason Mauss said:

Sorry - DbConnectionString is an internal class in the System.Data.Common namespace in v1.1 so you can't access it (yet).

# September 7, 2004 2:57 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Now, it would be really great if they posted what's fixed outside the 165MB download ;)

# September 9, 2004 3:58 AM

Ricky Dhatt said:

Reminds me of a quote from the classic "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure":

Bill: Oh yeah. So-crates: The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.

Ted: (thinks) That's us, dude!

# September 13, 2004 7:52 PM

TrackBack said:

# September 13, 2004 9:25 PM

TrackBack said:

# September 13, 2004 9:37 PM

joe said:

Congrats... The thing I hate about the 8200 is how bouncy the darn keyboard is. I have an 8100 that is rock steady and then an 8200 where my fingers get caught under the keys because of the flexing of the keyboard tray. Had it replaced once, it got 100% better, but still sucks (tell you how bad it was originally). I have an HP/COMPAQ NC6000 for work now, it is pretty nice. A lot better construction though the video isn't as nice.

I can't say I will buying another Dell Laptop again myself.

# September 14, 2004 9:17 AM

Tommy McLeod said:

Well, wouldn't you know it, I get behind a few days on my blog reading, and miss this. It's not every day that someone whose blog I read comes to the city where I live and gives a talk. I'm glad to hear that it went well, and I'll have to keep an eye out for when you're back out this way again.

# September 15, 2004 2:30 PM

Jamie Cansdale said:

My first port of call would be a couple of Sysinternals utilities...

You could you this to find out what process is re-writing those files.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon.shtml

You can use this to find out what is autorun at startup.
http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/autoruns.shtml

If the files are being re-written at startup then see if you can make Filemon run at startup before this happens.

Good luck!

# September 22, 2004 8:27 AM

SBC said:

The New York Time had an excellent article 2 days ago about this ad-spy ware morass. I had similar problems with two machines. It's a b* to remove those darn varmins. I had to reinstall the OS and apps and took a lot of time. Those a*holes should get the prod.

# September 22, 2004 8:29 AM

Richard Dudley said:

>what they are doing is protected by the United State's First Amendment Right to Freedom of Speech

No, it's not. They who make this claim are confused. Businesses do not have the same freedom of speech protections under the First Ammendment that individuals have.

Try rebooting in safe mode and running Ad Aware.

# September 22, 2004 9:16 AM

Justin said:

I have run across this problem before. To resolve, it I used BartPE to create a cd boot disk with adaware on it, booted off the cd, and ran adaware. The problem is caused because the files are in use and adaware can not remove them while windows is running.

# September 22, 2004 10:11 AM

Brian Schkerke said:

Pest Patrol.

Yes, it's commercial, but it is a fantastic piece of software for those additional pests that Ad-Aware and S&D can't handle.

# September 22, 2004 10:58 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

I've had this problem exactly once. It was caused when a program I know and love said it was time to update and I was literally half-asleep and went with the standard install instead of the custom install. The standard install included some nasty adware that I could not remove.

I was able to remove it by uninstalling the program it came with. I then reinstalled the program and unchecked the "install sponsor program" option (as I had done every previous install except that one).

I would suggest you find out what program the developer installed that brought the adware into play. If it was a trick/popup that installed the adware, you should find out why they were playing around on dodgy websites while in the office.

# September 22, 2004 11:41 AM

Shannon J Hager said:

I've had this problem exactly once. It was caused when a program I know and love said it was time to update and I was literally half-asleep and went with the standard install instead of the custom install. The standard install included some nasty adware that I could not remove.

I was able to remove it by uninstalling the program it came with. I then reinstalled the program and unchecked the "install sponsor program" option (as I had done every previous install except that one).

I would suggest you find out what program the developer installed that brought the adware into play. If it was a trick/popup that installed the adware, you should find out why they were playing around on dodgy websites while in the office.

# September 22, 2004 11:43 AM

Doug King said:

I was able to remove these without reinstalling the O/S. First clean with Ad Aware. Then logof and logon. Run Adaware again and you will see that some files are still suspect and some new registry entries have appeared. Adaware should give you a clue as to which files you will have to clean up manually (it seems you have allready figured what they are). This particular malware is somewhat smart about regenterating itself. It also renames itself randomly so if you google for answers on that file you will not get any results. That is why Adaware can't identify it - no consistant name. If you attempt to remove it's registy entries (the ones that are rdirecting the browser search, etc.) it will rebuild them. This is because it is running in the background looking for any clean up operations and rebuilding it's nastyness on the fly. You must first kill the running process and then deleted the .dlls / exe's manually. To do this just run task manager and kill the wupdt.exe, polmx3.exe, and qwnpln.exe processes (if they are still called that). Then delete the files. Logoff and back on and run adaware again to see if any new registy entries were found. I they were, then you have not killed it yet and more detective work is in order.

# September 22, 2004 12:17 PM

evilmousse said:

this was on slashdot earlier today:

Spam Opt-out Link Triggers Malicious Code Attack
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/22/1355238

# September 22, 2004 1:51 PM

Scott Galloway said:

That's a very thorny issue - I guess it doesn't really make good business sense to offer free upgrades (be they bug-fixes or new features) to any product that's not currently offered for sale. Reduced rate updgrades to the latest version may make sense for many users...but again, not all. There obviously has to be some cutoff, expecting them to support say, Windows 95 9 years after release would not be reasonable in my opinion...but ME...hmm...the license cycle only expired 10 months ago (so system builders could still license new versions). What about 1 year from end of license cycle for new fixes?

# September 24, 2004 8:59 AM

TrackBack said:

Lazycoder weblog » backporting patches

# September 24, 2004 10:00 AM

Wallym said:

Should Microsoft provide more support for Windows2k and WindowsME than IBM provides for the iSeries / AS400?

Wally

# September 24, 2004 11:11 AM

Sahil Malik said:

I just finished authoring a book on ADO.NET and I must say .. Damn right .. writing a book is a truckload of work. But it isn't because of the money, but the learning experience that makes one write a book. Plus it's a 800 page resume.

# September 27, 2004 9:01 AM

Patrick Steele said:

One suggestion: Get a new naming convention! Hungarian notation is so 20th-century. :)

# September 27, 2004 11:18 AM

mousse said:

perhaps the religious issues and cost&supportability are one and the same,
but viewed from perspectives with very different needs~

# September 27, 2004 4:41 PM

mschaef said:

I think all one has to do to convince oneself of the very high capability in "overseas" (to the U.S.) developers is look at the contribution lists of almost any open source project you can think of.

# September 28, 2004 9:35 AM

Jose Luis Manners said:

Amen to that !

# September 28, 2004 10:18 AM

Jeff Atwood said:

I agree. We have to leverage those advantages that we have, and trim some of the fat:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000046.html

# September 29, 2004 1:22 AM

Jason Hutmeier said:

Wow - you must spend all day looking at yourself in the mirror ...

# October 3, 2004 8:18 PM

Walllym said:

hahahahahha

# October 3, 2004 9:15 PM

AjarnMark said:

Your link sent me back to the home page. But upon digging, I found an article entitled Reverse Migration: From Linux to Windows. Is that the article you were pointing at? I found it at http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1651187,00.asp

# October 4, 2004 1:35 PM

Bruce said:

congratulations!

# October 5, 2004 3:32 AM

pat.piccolo@gmail.com said:

Details of this issue and how to recreate it are available at: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5671607&forum_id=24754

# October 6, 2004 8:29 AM

Alex said:

I'm quite amazed by the fact that something so simple only now being discovered. While something that's easy to fix with just a few lines of code, I'm hoping for a hotfix from MS.

I personally reproduced this very easily on my own box...

# October 6, 2004 10:10 AM

The masked avenger .... said:

My chapters will be much nicer than yours ;-)

# October 6, 2004 12:24 PM

TrackBack said:

# October 8, 2004 6:07 PM

Michael HensenMichael Hensen said:

Try Skype out.... Calling to a normal phonenumber.. It really is perfect.. I Use it to call from the Netherlands(PC) to France (normal phone)

# October 9, 2004 9:15 AM

LukCAD said:

SKYPE is real clear ip phone system. I use it in simple dialup mode. But during last month i must note that my computer hang up and shutdown when i start conversation. I use SKYPE since May 2004. Does anyone problem with SKYPE like mine? Answer, please. Because I stopped use it now and don't have any mind how to fix that problem.

# October 12, 2004 1:53 AM

EugeneA said:

Hey Wally, You commented on one of my posts this morning, so I thought I'd check out your blog site. I see why you were interested in my leg-presses. Unfortunately for me, I'll never have the problem you have. I'm more latter-day Jesse Ventura than Arnold :)

# October 13, 2004 7:13 PM

Nat said:

It's me :P

# October 17, 2004 9:25 PM

TrackBack said:

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TrackBack said:

# October 17, 2004 9:29 PM

TrackBack said:

# October 19, 2004 6:47 AM

Francesco said:

That's a fine bunch of lads you've assembled, Wallace.

# October 19, 2004 1:16 PM

TrackBack said:

# October 19, 2004 6:12 PM

TrackBack said:

# October 20, 2004 8:24 AM

Drew Marsh said:

While I understand the underlying need for the FOR keyword, I don't quite agree with it being necessary for the Event property of the attribute. Just seems like it's an implementation detail that should be implicit.

# October 20, 2004 1:40 PM

Drew Marsh said:

Actually now that I think of it, Event shouldn't even be a string at all, but rather an enum with the FlagsAttribute applied.

# October 20, 2004 1:42 PM

Wallym said:

Oh my gosh, somebody that reads something I say! :-)

# October 20, 2004 1:43 PM

Scott Swigart said:

This is SQL man, it's all strings.

# October 20, 2004 2:28 PM

Drew Marsh said:

No, this is the CLR being hosted in SQL so it should be typed according to the CLR, not SQL. Guess that's what happens when you get SQL people trying to design CLR classes, but someone who is more clear centric should be reviewing these classes.

# October 21, 2004 12:16 AM

TrackBack said:

# October 21, 2004 1:01 PM

TrackBack said:

# October 22, 2004 11:29 AM

Bob Beauchemin said:

Hmmm...

I can connect from a Beta2 client (on a Beta2 machine) to a machine running October CTP SQL Server using either ADO.NET, SNAC OLE DB or ODBC.

Do you/they mean on a single machine after you've done an upgrade? I installed CTP on fresh machine. Or something else?

Otherwise, works for me.
Bob

# October 22, 2004 4:08 PM

Wallym said:

Bob,

Good response. I was just reading this and the two issues caught my eye.

Wally

# October 22, 2004 4:10 PM

Kent Tegels said:

I believe the problem will be local to local since the two versions require different versions FX which you can't have on the same host. Don't see the problem?

QARA, an application Lloyd Sheen wrote so the bridge for SSX, was based on B2 and is thus a B2 client. If you install the CTP, QARA breaks. And not just a little.

And right now, he doesn't have a way of fixing it either, since he's only using the VBExpress bits. More about that problem in my Blog.

# October 22, 2004 4:27 PM

Bob Beauchemin said:

Ahh, never would have deduced that from the wording.

"cannot connect to a machine running..."

would be cleared if it had said

"clients compiled under beta2 of the .NET runtime cannot run on a machine that has CTP version of the runtime installed"

In certain earlier versions, the network protocol had changed in such a way that you couldn't *connect*, which is what this wording implies.

# October 22, 2004 5:52 PM

Kent Tegels said:

Clarity is both a skill and an opportunity. Many writers have the first but not the second.

# October 22, 2004 6:27 PM

Alex said:

Hey Wally, do you have the direct links for the Express versions??

# October 26, 2004 12:40 PM

Ken Cox [MVP] said:

I worked at when Nortel when it was the market darling. When that party ended, the resulting hangover was brutal for thousands of us.

# October 26, 2004 2:50 PM

Terri Morton said:

...that Kerry didn't win the election ;-)

# October 28, 2004 9:14 AM

Paul Lockwood said:

For those who (me included) who said ZBB, WTF?

ZBB = Zero Bug Bounce

# October 29, 2004 9:42 PM

Phil Weber said:

Wally: What's the point of voting for Jon Stewart or Howard Stern? Isn't that the same as not voting at all?

# November 1, 2004 9:57 AM

Douglas Reilly said:

Perhaps sending a message that the candidates that are likely to win are not people you support. I certainly would not do so this year, but I could imagine a situation where I would.

# November 1, 2004 11:22 AM

Kirk Allen Evans said:

Ha ha... yet another "don't post politics on your blog" reference! Nice!

BTW - I voted, I just refuse to campaign for my candidate in a technical forum. I leave that up for discussions during church. ;)

# November 1, 2004 7:03 PM

Frans Bouma said:

You're surprised? Voting was done on systems from the Diebold company, owned by a person who said was 'committed to get Bush elected as president', and no paper trail is available for these machines.

As a european who lives in a country where we vote by electric machines from Nedap for a decade now (which do have paper trails and no problems), I can only say: it's sad, sad, sad that americans did let it come this far.

I too woke up this morning hoping for Kerry as a president of the USA so the world would be better of, however again the christian fundamentalist Bush is re-elected as it seems.

Oh well, the more oppertunities for Europe.

# November 3, 2004 8:23 AM

Wallym said:

Sorry Frans. I don't believe in conspiracy theories. I never have bought into the "Diebold" conspiracy.

BTW, I voted for Bush. I was merely surprised that the polling results were so far off from the way that people voted.

Wally

# November 3, 2004 8:29 AM

Paul D. Murphy said:

I'm just curious. Do you believe in accounting? Does the concept of checks and balances matter? I'm not saying there is a Diebold election 'conspiracy', I'm just asking should the Presidential election process be susceptible to a 'conspiracy'. (no Bush, no Kerry, just the process as an abstract thing). Again, I'm don't believe there was a conspiracy, but do you REALLY thing the possibility of one should exist when it's perfectly plausible to eliminate it?

# November 3, 2004 8:43 AM

Richard Dudley said:

Diebold?

Where?

Those machines were used in very few districts. In my county (Butler) in PA, we use the old fashioned "butterfly ballots", and still went almost 2:1 for Bush (http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/PA/P/00/county.000.html#42019).

Frans, you are horribly, horribly confused about America.

# November 3, 2004 9:13 AM

Wallym said:

Richard,

Don't worry about it. Its a personal thing between me and Paul. Paul thinks that everything is a conspiracy. The Diebold issue is merely one of several.

# November 3, 2004 9:36 AM

Ken said:

Could you fill those without VS 2005 in on the feature?

If it is control tabing between VS file tabs like you do through applications my dreams have come true.

# November 4, 2004 8:56 AM

Fabrice said:

Did they finally fix CTRL+TAB?

# November 4, 2004 10:06 AM

Drew Marsh said:

Ken's guess is right. It brings up a window in the middle of the IDE that is much like ALT+TAB for windows. It lists open documents as well as tool windows that are currently open. It cycles only through open documents, but you can also click one of the tool windows listed if you want to go to that (rare for most people I'm sure).

# November 4, 2004 10:32 AM

anon said:

Here is some more information about cross page post back that could be interesting for you to know about:

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# November 8, 2004 1:54 AM

Paul Wilson said:

Hey, what about me ? :)

# November 8, 2004 5:00 PM

Paul Wilson said:

Thanks for the love. :)

# November 9, 2004 10:02 AM

Scott Galloway said:

THe last .NET service pack adds a property to the in-built ASP.NET Label control which enables this functionality

# November 9, 2004 10:15 AM

TrackBack said:

# November 9, 2004 1:36 PM

TrackBack said:

# November 9, 2004 3:22 PM

steve said:

novell has great products but idiots running the show. they are bound to fail whatever technical roadmap they venture into. the next hot thing that comes along they'll drop linux for whatever that maybe.

# November 13, 2004 11:23 PM

Paul D. Murphy said:

I would change the headline to

Novell Sue Microsoft Because They Need Money

# November 14, 2004 10:19 AM

Andy Gurzynski said:

Wally,

I am trying to do the same thing. I would really love to see my UDT in the drop down too.

I am getting the Deploy error:

------ Deploy started: Project: Gender, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
Deploying file: Gender.dll, Path: C:\Documents and Settings\andy.gurzynski\Local Settings\Application Data\Temporary Projects\Gender\obj\Debug\Gender.dll ...
Error: Type 'Gender.MFType' is marked for native serialization, it is not marked with 'LayoutKind.Sequential'. Native serialization requires type to be marked with 'LayoutKind.Sequential'.

# November 15, 2004 6:47 PM

Wallym said:

Check this link out. I think it will resolve your problems. http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2004/11/01/250670.aspx

Wally

# November 15, 2004 7:16 PM

TrackBack said:

# November 15, 2004 7:16 PM

Tom said:

Wally, That is funny you say that today... When I logged into the network at my Fortune 100 desk job this morning a Novell uninstall script ran.

# November 16, 2004 9:56 AM

Sahil Malik said:

Wow this is fantastic.

# November 16, 2004 10:11 AM

TrackBack said:

# November 16, 2004 6:11 PM

pyropunk said:

More room for spam!! Wish they'd work on their spam filters. I log into my hotmail account and have 65 messages in my inbox and 20 in my junkmail box; yet all 65 messages in my inbox are spam. Too much gets by that doesn't happen with my Yahoo or GMail accounts.

# November 17, 2004 4:27 PM

AB said:

I get things like this:

Product code: {29D45189-1851-11D3-8FED-27C34F1DD778}
Product state: (1) The product is advertised, but not installed.

0 features.
0 features are not used.
0 features are advertised.
0 features are absent.
0 features installed to run local.
0 features installed to run from source.
0 features installed for default.
0 features in some other state.
0 components.
0 qualified.
0 permanent.
0 shared.
0 patch packages.

# November 17, 2004 4:58 PM

Mischa Kroon said:

Just 2MB here :(
Personally haven't gotten too much spam on my hotmail account for a while.

I'm using the whitelist model they have I think their ability to find out what is spam / viral just sucks.

# November 18, 2004 4:09 AM

Luciano Evaristo Guerche said:

Here in Brazil, mine is still 2Mb. That's frustrating since my Yahoo! account is 100Mb and going to 250Mb soon, not to mention my GMail account.

# November 18, 2004 9:17 AM

TrackBack said:

# November 18, 2004 3:37 PM

TrackBack said:

# November 18, 2004 3:38 PM

TrackBack said:

# November 21, 2004 12:53 AM

Steve Hall said:

Lastly, if you break the nightly build, you not only get verbally accosted by EVERYONE, but you also lose all privileges...like slacking off by putting in 35-40 hours weeks while everyone else is working 50-60...and you become the project leader's "Slave For The Day"...AFTER fixing the build under the watchful eyes of said project leaders. (This rule is called the "You break the build, you FIX IT!" rule...) I've also imposed a mandatory "you break the build, you owe everyone a lunch!" to encourage cautiousness on check-ins. ("Hit 'em where it hurts: their wallets!")

The above might sound a little harsh, but I'm quite serious about it! (At some companies where software might be of "mission critical" nature, and maybe lives are at stake...not just the schedule...or millions of dollars of sales...) You HAVE to impose penalties, because it's simply too easy to let programmers check-in bad code and leave with the attituide "I'll fix it tomorrow!", which leads to schedule slips and poor quality code, since it screws up everyone else in the process.

In former companies, I've had to threaten some screw-offs with official reprimands in their personnel files after a "Third Strike". It seemed to be the only thing that perked up their pretty little ears...

Of course, there needs to be rewards to offset compliance to these kind of rules. (E.g., cash rewards for most bugs fixed in a week/month, movie tickets, sports event tickets, etc. for similar good development habits.)

Other good development rules include: your code must pass all existing unit-tests before checking in, your code must pass all existing unit-tests before a code review (Boy, I just HATE IT when during a code review, the programmer who's code is being reviewed can't demo his code due to a bug that could've been found by running all the unit-tests!), and you must develop and check-in a considerable amount of unit-tests along with any new functional code (i.e,. basic enforcement of TDD guidelines).

# November 21, 2004 10:41 PM

Steve Hall said:

Forgot to mention: at past companies, I've actually written SCCS's (from scratch) or modified 3rd party SCCS's to restrict check-ins to ONLY code that would successfully compile. Boy, DOES THAT EVER WORK! (Reduces build-breakers dramatically...)

I've often prayed that someone would develop some free mods to VSS to enforce "verified-compile-check-in" dictum...but haven't run across any, nor have I had the time to look at VSS (i.e., the automation model) to see if it can be modified for such. I'm hoping that VSTS Tem Foundation SCCS has an automation model good enough to implement this easily... (I'm about half-way through installing it, and haven't looked at the docs yet...)

# November 21, 2004 10:47 PM

Damien Guard said:

If you can check in all your changes every day before you go home either you are doing maintenance jobs or working on very small pieces of functionality.

Agree that what is checked in should compile... but should also be minimally functional.

# November 22, 2004 4:22 AM

Wallym said:

Damien,

Yeah, I doing a lot of maintennance work on this one application, thus the rules.

Steve,

If I was in a bigger shop, I guess my rules would be more like yours. :-)

Wally

# November 22, 2004 9:22 AM

Steve Hall said:

Yeah, some of my anal-retentive rules were from large companies, but now that I'm at a small company I've found that some of them still need to be used, esp. the "You break the build, you FIX IT!" rule. (That one seems to be universally useful at companies of any size...) The "must-compile-before-checkin" also seems to be useful at small companies.

The unit-testing rules don't usually come into play at small companies, 'cause a lot of them usually don't use TDD (lack the discipline that a larger company can induce) and are cutting corners on testing in general just to meet schedule milestones.

What you've listed is a pretty good set of rules for a small company or consulting group. But, Damien's note about "minimal functionality" is a good one when developing new code. It might be wise to modify one rule: code that contains functional features is exempt from the "check-in all code before going home" rule.

Good luck! (And keep TDD in mind...since it helps to prevent bugs, and helps to alleviate testing to a certain extent. At small companies that are too cheap to have good/large testing departments or don't have adequate testing time, then it becomes a very good "show-stopper"-preventer...)

# November 22, 2004 11:26 AM

Michael Blumenthal said:

As an extension of 'check in before going home' and 'compile before going home', at our small company with frequent releases of internal apps, we add 'you can't do a release within two days of going on holiday'.

# November 22, 2004 4:16 PM

Jeff said:

I hate stereotypes and generalizations, but what can I say... IT is filled with socially challenged people. I can count the people I've met that are really brilliant and make good managers and techies on one hand.

# November 22, 2004 10:59 PM

Scott Adams said:

Are you _THE_ Wally?

http://www.comics.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2665700041122.gif

# November 23, 2004 3:19 AM

Scott Adam said:

# November 23, 2004 3:19 AM

Drazen Dotlic said:

You are obviously hanging out with "wrong" technology people :)
Besides, many people that fear their stance is not correct and are not sure of themselves will get intimidated by questions because they are affraid of what oversights might be uncovered along the way...

# November 23, 2004 8:02 AM

Wallym said:

Scott,

Only yo'momma knows...........hahahaha

Wally

# November 23, 2004 10:38 AM

David said:

59 is an incredible score on any professional-level course. I mean how many pros can you name that has shot a 59? Probably not too many. Michelson seems to finally be adapting to his new Callaway clubs.

If he keeps on playing like this, Vijay Singh has somebody else to look for behind his back besides Tiger Woods or Ernie Els.

Also, the difference between a full length course and a full length PGA course is vastly different. If you can shoot a 83 on your local 7,200 yd. course, you'd probably shoot in the 100's on any profesional level course. The speed of the greens alone would add at lease 10 shots to your score. Take into account the thicker rough and the narrower fairways, and you'll be hacking all day long.

# November 25, 2004 1:44 AM

Wallym said:

If it wasn't the specific course I played, then I would agree with you. If I remember correctly, the rating for the tees that I played from at that course was 71.6 and the rating was 130. The par for that course is 70, so the average scratch player should shoot a 71.6. Obviously, this is probably still a little low for guys like Lefty, JV, and the high end pros. This is also the same course that has a US Open sectional qualifier each year with the average score around 72. Once again, I didn't play under those conditions. The difference between my 83 and his 59 is tremendous. Its almost 1.5 strokes per hole. And I thought I played pretty well that day. :-(

Wally

# November 25, 2004 10:56 AM

Daniel Moth said:

On the face of it I only see the "Inherits" change. My guess is you will find another Partial Class MyApplication that has the inheritance declaration. [don't have Oct CTP to test for myself]

# November 25, 2004 5:41 PM

TrackBack said:

# November 26, 2004 1:58 AM

Cyriel said:

If this is for real then i'll think CNN will report a war on the Microsoft campus soon :p

# November 26, 2004 3:05 AM

Cyriel said:

Oh, wait it's the new exception handling in Whidbey right? never mind then...

(it got pretty late yesterday, my brains aren't fully awake yet...)

# November 26, 2004 3:07 AM

Stefano Demiliani said:

Wonderful... :)

# November 26, 2004 7:29 AM

TrackBack said:

Interesting finds this morning

# November 26, 2004 8:27 AM

TrackBack said:

# November 26, 2004 8:52 AM

TrackBack said:

# November 26, 2004 12:38 PM

TrackBack said:

# November 26, 2004 10:15 PM

Scott Swigart said:

And I thought the "I really hope this is just a prototype" compiler warning was bad. :)

# November 27, 2004 5:06 PM

Dave Burke said:

I think you're right on with both lessons, Wallym. Techno folk are black-n-white thinkers who believe their way is right, by golly! The two characteristics feed off each other. Not that there's anything right with that....

# November 28, 2004 7:11 PM

TrackBack said:

# November 28, 2004 10:23 PM

Chad Humphries said:

My company has recently switched to a twice weekly build system to eliminate the outside staff's requests for immediate builds 24-7. The constant interruption was causing so much lost time we implemented this as a first step.

It takes a lot of patience and education to convey the idea that changes will not be available for review until a build has been posted however.

# November 28, 2004 10:25 PM

TrackBack said:

# November 28, 2004 10:26 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Man I'd love to come over - but I'm in the DC area .. arrghhhh !!!! (sorta far away).

Any plans of coming around to VA/MD?

# December 1, 2004 10:44 PM

Vikram Lashkari said:

Hi,
Can u give me brief introduction about differnece between asp.net and asp.net whidbey

# December 2, 2004 5:24 AM

Vikram Lashkari said:

Hi,
What if i am using SQL Server 2000 ,will it make any change of not.

Plz do let me know

Thanx a lot my mail.vikram_lashkari@yahoo.com

# December 2, 2004 5:28 AM

Vikram Lashkari said:

tell me ,

where i can found other sources of java flaws.

my mail vikram_lashkari@yahoo.com

# December 2, 2004 5:30 AM

Wallym said:

Sahil,

I do some work up in Washington, DC. I should be back up there in the first quarter of 2005.

Wally

# December 3, 2004 10:28 AM

Frank said:

"The new phonebooks are here, the new phonebooks are here"

Wasn't that from "the Jerk?"

# December 3, 2004 11:50 AM

Wallym said:

You win!

# December 3, 2004 11:55 AM

Chris Szurgot said:

I don't need anything. All I need is my copy of Visual Studio. And my phone.

# December 3, 2004 12:42 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 3, 2004 1:33 PM

Weston M. Binford III said:

I probably should not go here, but...

"He hates these cans. Stay away from the cans."

# December 3, 2004 1:33 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 3, 2004 1:34 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 7, 2004 10:55 PM

TrackBack said:

Wallym has a good post on updating VS.NET 2005 Build 40903 so that it will work with the December bits for SQL Server 2005....

# December 8, 2004 12:24 AM

TrackBack said:

Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio

# December 8, 2004 4:35 AM

Thomas Tomiczek said:

::GetPipe() will become Pipe().

I HOPE not. It would break programming practices.

GetPipe () may become Pipe, but as property, not as method.

# December 8, 2004 11:51 AM

Sahil Malik said:

Incidentally, you might wanna check this out http://dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/sahilmalik/archive/2004/12/07/35459.aspx

# December 8, 2004 2:24 PM

Wallym said:

A little leakage around the "O-ring". A little mistype there........

# December 8, 2004 4:22 PM

Mairead said:

Wally

Can you contact Maireado@microsoft.com

# December 8, 2004 6:45 PM

Sushil said:

Hi Wallace, any thing in particular that you dont like about the merge? We are looking forward to hear your feedback. I guess that was the whole intent of making it public :) Feel free to send us your comments.

# December 9, 2004 8:21 PM

Darrell said:

I don't understand the merger. Spring's value proposition is "clear calls," not wireless coverage. In my own informal experience, Sprint drops more calls. But when you are connected they *sound really good*! :) Verizon is the king of coverage.

So Sprint, who has connectivity problems, and Nextel, who has an annoying proprietary walkie-talkie system, are going to combine. Sounds like 2 losers getting together to be a bigger loser. Kind of like when Pabst bought Stroh's in the beer market.

# December 11, 2004 12:04 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 14, 2004 8:49 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 14, 2004 9:17 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 14, 2004 11:03 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 15, 2004 10:29 AM

TrackBack said:

# December 15, 2004 10:29 AM

TrackBack said:

# December 16, 2004 5:25 PM

Mike Lorengo said:

Hmmm, What's v.2.0.41202, that's what I got when I downloaded the November CTP of off MSDN...
-=mike

# December 20, 2004 6:53 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 20, 2004 10:01 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 20, 2004 10:02 PM

Ron Krauter said:

Thanks for the tip. But what if I want to retrieve the row that exists and assign it to variables or perform a computation:

IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM Customers WHERE A=1)
BEGIN
--get row that exists and assign to
--variables
SET @CustomerName = ?
SET @CustomerId = ?
SET @CustomerFullName = ?
END

Thanks

# December 20, 2004 11:44 PM

Drazen Dotlic said:

Hey,

thanks for summarizing. I am really irritated by this multiplicity of .NET versions. My primary concern is that I do not want to run two virtual machines to get SQL Server (NOT Express) and Visual Studio, but looks like I'll have to for the foreseeable future. Oh well...

# December 21, 2004 6:16 AM

Snorrk said:

Here at Reykjavik University there is a bunch of up-to-date machines with plenty of RAM.

The problem is remembering which machine hosts which version of VS.2005...

# December 21, 2004 7:18 AM

Paul Schaeflein said:

Virtual PC is your friend...

# December 22, 2004 10:42 AM

Marc Beimes said:

So basically you're telling us that either
A - you've installed a beta on your production machine
or
B - installed your production environment on a beta machine?

*sigh*

# December 22, 2004 10:49 AM

Joe said:

For this type of thing I set myself up a Virtual PC running NTSP6a with VS6 installed. A godsend, I can rebuild all my old projects and be sure they are compatible with old versions of MDAC. And NTSP6a+VB6 runs happily in 64MB of RAM.

# December 22, 2004 12:38 PM

Wallym said:

Yeah, I'm should've set this up with VPC, but I didn't. None of these are big deals, just something I thought I would bring up.

# December 22, 2004 2:17 PM

nat said:

If you want just that, do something like this

SELECT TOP 1 @CustomerName=Name,@CustomerId=Id,@CustomerFullName=FullName FROM Customers WHERE A=1
IF @@ROWCOUNT=1
BEGIN
...
...
...
END

# December 22, 2004 6:30 PM

Michael Rys said:

This is not correct. The native XML support has no dependency on http.sys and does not need Windows Server 2003 or XP/SP2.

What needs http.sys is the HTTP/SOAP stack.

# December 22, 2004 8:05 PM

TrackBack said:

XML Support in SQL Server 2005 has no dependency on http.sys

# December 22, 2004 8:10 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 22, 2004 8:32 PM

Wallym said:

I guess it is an error in the Sql Server 2005 documentation. I pulled the comment from the Sql Server 2005 December CTP BOL. I'm going to check this when I get to the office in the morning. Hmmm, very interesting..........

# December 22, 2004 9:43 PM

Wallym said:

here is the url in the december ctp of Sql Server 2k5
ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/udb9/html/ed5c0445-1534-4373-9616-c8e5a1663479.htm

Requirements for Native XML Support
Native HTTP Support requires the HTTP listener (Http.sys) which is only provided with the following Windows environments:

Windows Server 2003
Windows XP SP2

My gut says that Michael knows more about this than I and that it is a problem in the documentation at this time.

Wally

# December 23, 2004 9:51 AM

Jacob said:

Ah, a Festivus for the rest of us!

# December 23, 2004 8:22 PM

Jacobcy said:

Wally,

I don't have the documentation that comes with the CTP of SQL Server 2k5, but it sounds like what Srik Raghavan, lead program manager, discusses during the Native XML *Web Services* webcast a couple weeks back (check out the on-demand webcast here: http://msevents.microsoft.com/cui/WebCastEventDetails.aspx?culture=en-US&EventID=1032263308&EventCategory=5). To support native web services you do need http.sys, found in either operating system listed above. Note that this is separate from the native XML data type, which has no similar requirement.

Cheers,
Jacobcy

# December 23, 2004 8:32 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 24, 2004 12:07 AM

DirkM said:

There's now a doc bug filed to clarify this in the topic.

# December 24, 2004 1:16 PM

Douglas Reilly said:

And to you as well! Hope this finds you and yours doing well...

# December 24, 2004 1:45 PM

Julian said:

I hope that he doesn't get confused with a terrorist highjacker and get shotdown.

# December 24, 2004 9:14 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 26, 2004 8:24 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 26, 2004 11:39 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 29, 2004 9:46 PM

Judy Reed said:

I would like pictures of the santa around the world. Could U tell me where I could find some

# December 29, 2004 11:10 PM

Judy Reed said:

I would like pictures of the santa around the world. Could U tell me where I could find some

# December 29, 2004 11:11 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 30, 2004 12:07 AM

TrackBack said:

# December 30, 2004 12:08 AM

a said:

don't see how one horrible event makes another one seem any less significant

# December 30, 2004 9:43 AM

M. Keith Warren said:

I agree that this is the most horrible disaster in history but comparisons to 9/11 are misguided. Tsunami=Act of God; 9/11=People thinking they are acting for god.
Big difference.

# December 30, 2004 9:46 AM

JE said:

I wouldn't go anywhere near saying 911 deaths are insignificant compared to this. There is a huge difference, the tsunami was an act of nature totally uncontrollable. 911 was an act of terror and destruction by men against men. We cannot control forces of nature and they will happen as they have happened in the past, but terrorism is pure evil and senseless destruction that is driven by hate. This alone makes it extremely significant for our history and the events to come.

# December 30, 2004 10:01 AM

Larry said:

Come on Wally... Are you nuts?

# December 30, 2004 12:50 PM

TrackBack said:

# December 30, 2004 1:16 PM

Wallym said:

Sorry for misspeaking myself. What I meant was the number of the people that were killed. I did not mean that the deaths in NY, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania were insignificant.

I had a hard time understanding 3,000 deaths. Over a 100,000 deaths boggles my mind.

BTW, if you are upset with me, I appologize. I now what I meant, which was not what I typed.

Wally

# December 30, 2004 2:11 PM

Christopher said:

:/

My fiance makes fun of me when I call you bastids my "online friends". Thanks for the shout out, jerk. :P (so it begins!)

# December 31, 2004 12:32 PM

Mikhail Arkhipov (MSFT) said:

Same in my case. Linksys hangs at least once a week.

# December 31, 2004 2:23 PM

Francesco said:

Well thank you Wally sir. Nice knowing you as well.

# December 31, 2004 3:33 PM

Adam Hill said:

OK, now you have me intrigued. I too own a A/B/G AP, I just recently stared using the A channel and have had to reboot the AP occasionally now.

I never connected the two untl just now.

# January 1, 2005 6:12 AM

Robin Galyan said:

Hey Wally, Happy New Year.
I think when they talk about the ultra stability of Linux that they are talking about full installs. LinkSys and other little machines that use a stripped down version cant compare. We have about 8 Linux machines here, so far cant say we ever need to reboot them except for extreme situations, like software upgrades, certain installs, etc. Typically they may go months without a reboot. Of course we have a Win2K Server that likewise goes months without needing a reboot. Go figure.
--
I liked your site (BLOG), and was wondering if you were ever going to publish in any of the national rags? Wired? Developers Journal? etc?

Have a great new year.

# January 3, 2005 10:08 AM

Michael Kaplan said:

You can use http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764584375/ instead (its a shorter link and takes out your session specific info).

# January 3, 2005 2:06 PM

TrackBack said:

# January 3, 2005 4:30 PM

Adam said:

There is a USB standard for mass storage devices i.e. a class definition, supported commands, etc. Only the initial thumbdrives and usb/ide adapters didn't adhere to this standard. Any MSFT OS with usb support ships with this class driver. Nowadays you should be able to plug in any USB storage device and have it function.

Plug in something without class support or try to install the supplementary drivers for something e.g. MSFT keyboard, thumbprint scanner, etc. -- good luck.

# January 3, 2005 6:15 PM

Adam said:

There is a USB standard for mass storage devices i.e. a class definition, supported commands, etc. Only the initial thumbdrives and usb/ide adapters didn't adhere to this standard. Any MSFT OS with usb support ships with this class driver. Nowadays you should be able to plug in any USB storage device and have it function.

Plug in something without class support or try to install the supplementary drivers for something e.g. MSFT keyboard, thumbprint scanner, etc. -- good luck.

# January 3, 2005 6:15 PM

Adam said:

There is a USB standard for mass storage devices i.e. a class definition, supported commands, etc. Only the initial thumbdrives and usb/ide adapters didn't adhere to this standard. Any MSFT OS with usb support ships with this class driver. Nowadays you should be able to plug in any USB storage device and have it function.

Plug in something without class support or try to install the supplementary drivers for something e.g. MSFT keyboard, thumbprint scanner, etc. -- good luck.

# January 3, 2005 6:15 PM

Jeff said:

I feel your pain. I think that everything that made it into my book at of the forthcoming beta is for real, but I'm sure they'll cut or change something. Here's hoping it sells enough to justify a second edition!

# January 3, 2005 6:25 PM

Adam said:

This works for the same reason the usb drive worked -- because there are standards in this area that allow MSFT to write one driver to support an entire class of hardware.

# January 3, 2005 6:26 PM

Wallym said:

This drive didn't work on previous versions of Win64 for x64. it does now, so I am happy. :-)

# January 3, 2005 7:34 PM

Luciano Evaristo Guerche said:

Congratulations for the achievement!

# January 4, 2005 7:22 AM

joe sakie said:

very good

# January 4, 2005 2:49 PM

joe sakic said:

very good

# January 4, 2005 2:49 PM

Darrell said:

Congratulations!

# January 5, 2005 11:10 AM

Robert Hurlbut said:

Congrats! See you at the MVP Summit :)

# January 5, 2005 11:37 AM

Paul Wilson said:

Congrats Wally.

# January 5, 2005 1:58 PM

Darryl11 L. Ebron Sr. said:

www

# January 5, 2005 2:39 PM

Fredrick said:

Are there any statistics on the tsunami vitims? i.e. average age, gender?

# January 5, 2005 2:50 PM

Alex said:

You guyz on here are really pathetic, i mean god, how in the hell can u guyz be so stupid, 1 day the worlds population is going to be too big for this world and everyone will go cannibalistic, so killing is a good thing, id rather eat cow meat than a mans dink

# January 5, 2005 4:08 PM

Douglas Reilly said:

Congratulations. Looking forward to the MVP Summit!

# January 6, 2005 10:17 AM

Tony Mendicino said:

I had this same issue. Your solution worked perfectly. Thanks.

# January 6, 2005 1:46 PM

Ryan Stoddard said:

hey im doing a school project what were the rounded number of casualties

# January 6, 2005 3:52 PM

jeff said:

yeah i'm doing a school project like the other person and like ryan i need to know how many casualties have been taken please help us out

# January 6, 2005 4:32 PM

Christopher said:

Computer Club! :P

So are you now the go-to guy for ADO.NET v2.0?

# January 6, 2005 4:34 PM

JB said:

Speaking as someone who has played basketball with you they looked much more talented than you.

# January 9, 2005 7:24 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Wally,

Is it possible to do stem word searching via full text indexing? i.e. If I search for "eating", I should also get matches for "eat", "eaten", "eater" etc. etc. ????

# January 9, 2005 11:16 PM

Paul Schaeflein said:

Could not find stored procedure 'sp_help_fulltext_extensions'.

# January 9, 2005 11:23 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Bueller .. Bueller ... Bueller !!??

# January 11, 2005 10:38 AM

John Kane said:

This is also true in SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 2000, it just wasn't documented. Although, an Incremental Population is no more intensive as a Full Population and in 7.0 & 2000 the latter can take as long to complete as the former, even with no change.

John

# January 11, 2005 8:54 PM

John Kane said:

Yes, use either FREETEXT or CONTAINS with FORMSOF(INFLECTIONAL), for example:

contains(TextCol,'FORMSOF(INFLECTIONAL, "fly")')

Regards,
John

# January 11, 2005 8:57 PM

John Kane said:

Most importantly for improved functionality (as well as for performance), ACCENT_SENSITIVITY (on or off) as this is a critical requirement for effective use of SQL FTS with any non-English (especially, Spanish & French) languages!

John

# January 11, 2005 9:01 PM

Nat said:

DAO
RDO
ADO
ADO.NET

# January 11, 2005 9:27 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Thanks John and Wally !! :) .. This'll probably work .. I'll test it out !!

# January 11, 2005 9:56 PM

Martin Dolphin said:

Is the release of the Oracle Developer Tools imminent? Hope so - they look like the exact thing I've been wanting since I'm forced to develop in Oracle instead of SQL Server at work!

# January 12, 2005 5:25 AM

TrackBack said:

# January 12, 2005 10:52 AM

Jerry Pisk said:

How much is the max? I do store data that is larger than the 8000 byte row limit in SQL 2000 and if MSSQL 2005 won't support larger rows or text/image data it will definitelly stop me from upgrading. And since by then I will be running a 5 year old database with its support cycle nearing end I will have to switch to a competitor.

# January 12, 2005 11:21 AM

Marco said:

When/Where can we read the chapter about FT searches.

Thanks
Marco

# January 13, 2005 4:32 AM

Wally said:

Varchar(max) has a storage capacity of 2^31 - 1.

Wally

# January 13, 2005 2:48 PM

Wallym said:

When: sometime right after Whidbey/yukon ship.
Where: Amazon, Barnes&Noble, and other book stores.

# January 13, 2005 2:49 PM

lori said:

how do tsunamiss work what atartsthem

# January 13, 2005 8:19 PM

John Kane said:

While I've not *yet* tested this with SQL Server 2005 (Yukon), but with SQL Server 7.0 and 2000, you could FT-enable tempdb as well as model. Then in tempdb, you could the create and FT-enable tempdb..tablename, but not #tablename. In model, you could set the this database to FT-enabled, and when you created any new database (including tempdb), then the new database would be FT-enabled by default!

John

# January 14, 2005 9:02 AM

Bjorn said:

As a Hardin Valley resident, I say to all the people who might potentially move out here in the next few years: move somewhere else!

:-)

You might want to give <a href="http://www.saysuncle.com" target="_blank">Say Uncle</a> your information. He likes to follow eminent domain issues, especially in the Knoxville area.

# January 17, 2005 9:58 PM

alena said:

see

# January 18, 2005 10:19 AM

Another pissed off Knox County resident said:

Don't forget to work to get Mike Ragsdale defeated next time he's up for re-election.
I know I certainly will....

# January 18, 2005 10:34 AM

Doug McDaniel said:

Hey Wally. great to hear from you. Didn't know you had a blog.

Hope you're well. Hope the school board will listen to you. We were able to save South High from demolition a few years ago, despite their aggressive plans. While your situation is very different, I hope you can open clear lines of communication.

Sounds like a really nice area for residential development.

# January 18, 2005 12:16 PM

AC said:

What bothers me is the process. No offer has been made and the School Board proceeds directly to eminent domain? I do not recall that happening anytime in Knox County. Why now?

We seem to often have a process problem in this county. This school is very needed and it is unfortunate that it has started this way. A year of lawsuits will not help the families that need this school.

Wallace B. McClure seems to be a good hard working citizen who is now at the mercy of a judge with a tough decision to make. Why couldn't the School Board find a property without having to rake a private citizen over the coals? Wallace should be paid what the property is worth and not a dime less.

If this land had been purchased five or ten years ago when it was clear there was a need for a school in West Knox County we would not be having this discussion. Where was the planning from the School Board and why should a private citizen suffer because of that lack of planning?

Ask the people over at Calloways Landing how they like the eminent domain process in Knox County. I found these links on eminent domain abuse at:

http://www.savefortloudonlake.com/index_files/Page326.htm

Maybe it is time to look at the eminent domain issue in Knox County? Kim is probably right that it is a moot point until higher courts make the decision but I am sick of seeing people be "Tellicoed" in Knox and Loudon counties.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/26/60minutes/main575343.shtml

http://www.castlecoalition.org/

http://reason.com/0302/fe.ss.wrecking.shtml

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32172

http://www.goldwaterinstitute.org/article.php/134.html

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/jacobsullum/js20030425.shtml

# January 18, 2005 1:52 PM

Chris said:

I understand that Ragsdale is seriously considering running for governor, so he isn't too concerned about the county mayor's race. He sincerely believes he is the State GOP's best shot at unseating Bredesen.

# January 19, 2005 2:08 PM

AC said:

Sandra Clark express concern over the process the school board employs.

http://www.hallsnews.com/columns/clark.htm

COMMENTARY
by Sandra Clark

Open up the process, guys

For a moment it seemed as if corporal punishment had returned to Knox County Schools as board members pummeled their chair, Dan Murphy, at Tuesday’s workshop.

Murphy was punished for using a 1950’s approach to finding a site for a new high school. He and a couple of school staffers worked in secret to identify a site, all the while keeping other board members and even property owners in the dark. Their rationale is that it would drive up the price of land if owners knew the school system was interested.

“I’m not happy with how this has been handled,” said board member Cindy Buttry.

Her colleague Robert Bratton piled on: “When it broke in the paper, we should have been called so we don’t look like a bunch of idiots!”

# January 19, 2005 11:29 PM

SayUncle said:

So, where'd all the property sale info go? And, of course, why?

Regards.

# January 20, 2005 12:22 PM

jlangelo said:

no coment

# January 21, 2005 6:32 PM

Better site for new school said:

A better site for the new school has been found.

70 acres of flat land on Kingston Pike.

The Knoxville News sentinel is on the case.

http://web.knoxnews.com/silence/archives/002932.html#comments

# January 24, 2005 1:52 PM

Stuart Ballard said:

Am I the only one who liked the CodeBehind architecture as it was in 1.x and is rather nervous about the coming changes?

I'm certainly not at all confident of any automatic wizard's ability to convert all the subtleties of my CodeBehind-based code into a working CodeBeside-based version. This example is a case in point. Although 1.x didn't have a PreviousPage property, an analagous issue came up if you were trying to reference form elements of the Page from a user control, or vice versa. I frequently upped the accessibility of the form element variables from protected to public to make them accessible in this way. Now that those variables don't show up in the codebeside at all, what's a wizard going to do with them? I'll have to create a new property, but I'll also have to give it a new name because you can't have a property with the same name as a variable. And then all my code that references that variable needs to be changed to use the new name.

I'm really, really uncomfortable with this huge architectural change being forced on us with no backward-compatible option. Why has there been no outcry over this?

# January 27, 2005 11:14 AM

Angel said:

Sounds great, would it be possible to post some of the user feedback to this blog?

Thanks!

# January 31, 2005 9:51 PM

Wallym said:

Sure

# February 1, 2005 8:34 AM

Martin Dolphin said:

Seems to work very well and gives me less of an argument to get SQL server into my company

:(

# February 7, 2005 10:16 AM

Paul D. Murphy said:

This is the first time I've ever read anything from the guy and he sounds like an idiot. His arguements don't make alot of sense when you start to apply reality to them. Sorry to be so blunt, but good riddance.

# February 17, 2005 8:08 AM

James Shaw said:

You ought to fix the typo in your title ;-)

It's Grimes, not Grines.

# February 17, 2005 9:27 AM

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# February 20, 2005 4:35 PM

Chris Frazier said:

w0000000000000000t!!!!

# February 23, 2005 6:53 PM

Phil Mattson said:

Cool!

Is the Service Broker in SQL 2005 a non-transactional sort of insert like the one in MySQL.

I've always wanted that feature with both inserts and UPDATES... a sort of non-transactional insert or update. For instance, say I'm using a database to dfo real-time tracking how many each pageviews every page in a busy site is views.

Today may SQL would look something like:

UPDATE tblPageViews
SET pageViewCount = pageViewCount = 1
WHERE pageID = @pageID

This of course creates a TON of stress on the SQL transaction logs. Since this data is statistical in nature and performance/scalability is more important than making sure the data is 100% correct, I'd like non-transactional updates:

UPDATE DELAYED tblPageViews
SET pageViewCount = pageViewCount = 1
WHERE pageID = @pageID

# February 24, 2005 11:26 AM

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# February 25, 2005 10:21 AM

Darshan Singh said:

It's 2GB for SQL Server 2000 and 3GB for SQL Server 2005. I had sent an e-mail to Tom and he clarified at http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/Tom%20Rizzo/archive/2005/02/24/8098.aspx

# February 25, 2005 10:55 AM

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# February 25, 2005 1:13 PM

Christophe Lauer [MS] said:

Hi Wally,

SQL Server 2000 is available in 64-bit edition for Itanium based servers running Windows Server 2003 for Itanium since 2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/64bit/productinfo/overview.asp

SQL Server 2000 SP4 32-bit should be supported on Windows x64 in compatibility mode (running in the WOW64)

.NET Framework 2.0 will come with supportfor64-Bit OSes, either x64 or Itanium based.

Visual Studio 2005 "Whidbey" will install on either 32-bit or 64-bit Windows and will be able to target (cross-compile) applications for 32-bit Windows (x86), 64-Bit x64 Windows and 64-Bit Itanium.

Hope This Helps,
/CL

# February 26, 2005 6:19 AM

Wallym said:

Chris,

What I meant was that in looking at that I am amazed, in looking at the Roadmap graphic in the article, at the lack of products that will support IA64.

Wally

# February 26, 2005 8:54 AM

Christophe Lauer [MS] said:

Understand. Well I can't speak in the name of the different product groups, but it's not because not all has been announced yet that it won't happen.

# February 26, 2005 11:51 AM

Jerry Pisk said:

The whole point of getting an Itanium box is to get away from the x86 architecture, even the 64-bit version. I see that as a major plus, not a disadvantage.

# February 28, 2005 5:07 PM

John Kane said:

Hi Wally,
This was posted by a Dev Lead when simalar advise was given on a fulltext newsgroup thread: "This will work, but beware that making this change makes your SQL instance a little less secure. Be sure to read the documentation for these flags so you understand the risk."

From the Yukon BOL title "sp_fulltext_service" - "Enabling use of OS resources provides access to resources for languages and document types registered with Microsoft Indexing Service that do not have an instance-specific resource installed."

Basicly, you need to set this when adding a new IFilter, but should disable it when you're finished, i.e., set it backe to:

sp_fulltext_service 'verify_signature', 1
sp_fulltext_service 'load_os_resources',0

Even FTS, now has to keep SQL Server secure ;-)
John

# March 1, 2005 12:15 AM

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# March 1, 2005 10:58 AM

Steve said:

Your right jerry it is a advantage and a disadvantage. At the moment, however, it is a disadvantage, due to the fact that most everyone still uses x86 software and will be for years to come. If they were smart Intel would of started trying to "slowly" move away from the x84 architecture, and not just try to do it overnight. In my personal opinion Intel has been failing far to long to even be considered a good CPU manufacturer. My pick in this, and this has been my pick for serveral years, would have to go to AMD.

# March 2, 2005 2:49 AM

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# March 2, 2005 8:09 AM

SBC said:

best news in development so far this year!
;-)

# March 3, 2005 9:55 AM

Chris Szurgot said:

You're not supposed to tell anyone. Now I'll never get it downloaded. <grin>

# March 4, 2005 2:21 PM

Jim Arnold said:

Um, where?

# March 4, 2005 3:58 PM

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# March 6, 2005 12:14 AM

J Cook said:

I am coming off my meds. Finally something to make life worth living again.

# March 7, 2005 12:53 PM

Pieter de Bruin said:

I installed it (latest SQL2005 and VS2005 versions) over the weekend and runs great on my VPC. Try it yourself.

# March 7, 2005 1:53 PM

Robert Birdwell, (Senior) said:

People who operate government these days seem to either "forget" or simply "overlook" that pesky little thingy called "THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND."

Amendment V, in that particular document, states very clearly that, "nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."

That's clear enough for even colleege gradurats to comprehend.

The term, "just compensation" means "fair market value!" Even the nine supremes have gotten that right a few times.

You will find the same language in all state constitutions and the "lawful" statutory mechanisms for "taking private property for public use." Every state had to incorporate that language in their constitutions or they would not have been admitted to the Union. They may have even been otherwise annexed into Haiti or Albania, which is what they more resemble nowadays, anyway.

Don't "wholly" rely on your lawyer to look out for your best interests in anything that concerns that law thingy when money and state power begin stalking you.

Remember, they get paid and go home to dinner while the state carts off everything you own!

Robert O. Birdwell

# March 7, 2005 3:40 PM

Ron Krauter said:

>I am going to send him my response.

Could you please share with us what the question and answer was? Thanks.

# March 8, 2005 10:52 PM

Anthony Bowman said:

I just wanted to verify what you said Wally, the meeting went extremely well and you did a great job with your presentation, I could have listened for 3 more hours :-). Hope we can get you back someday soon.

Anthony Bowman
President
www.chadnug.org

# March 9, 2005 8:53 AM

Julie Lerman said:

I think I saw that when I opened up a project from October in the november bits, actually.

# March 9, 2005 2:41 PM

Don said:

Dude... how you got Whidbey and Yukon down to 1h 8m is beyond me... ;)

You get the award for the king of brevity.... :D

# March 9, 2005 7:58 PM

Trent said:

Sheesh. MBA's. =)

# March 9, 2005 9:29 PM

Jonathan West said:

The point your blog misses is that Microsoft has not only dropped VB6, but also hasn't provided a usable upgrade path.

To ask for one is not either pro- or anti-NET. It has nothing to do with .NET at all.

To accept that Microsoft can get away without providing an upgrade path should be a worry to you. The key people in the developer tools division at Microsoft seem to have lost sight of the concept that a language and a platform are two separate things.

Platforms come and go. What will you do with the code you have written and need to maintain when the .NET platform goes and Microsoft abandons the languages that formerly targeted it? Of course, it will still be available for a while even after Microsoft stops selling it, so people will tell you "VB.NET hasn't gone away, carry on coding in VB.NET". But the time will come when modern platforms no longer support the latest version of the framework you can still compile to. At or before that point, you will be faced with abandoning all your code and starting again in a new language.

If anything, as a programmer in a new and untried language without any track record in long-term stability, it would be in your interest for the petition to succeed, simply to concentrate the minds of the people at Microsoft on the need to allow developers and application owners to preserve and manage their code assets, lest Microsoft pull the same trick on you in some years time.

So how about a signature from you?

# March 10, 2005 6:07 AM

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# March 10, 2005 9:44 AM

Flores said:

When will be released the Yukon version for the public?

Is there any way to index pdf files in SQL2000?

thanks

Nacho Flores

# March 11, 2005 9:18 AM

Wallym said:

It works basically the same except that you have use an image column instead of a varbinary(max).

# March 11, 2005 2:14 PM

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# March 14, 2005 8:40 AM

skb said:

We have thousands of users of a VB6 "classic" app that sells for big bucks. It will be cost prohibitive if not virtually impossible to port it 100% to VB.NET, not to mention all the third party hardware/interface stuff we have to support with drivers and APIs that are not updated or not compatible and that rely on serial I/O.

VB.NET is great for server based applications. Not so much for apps that run on clients that have serial ports and specialized hardware hanging off of them and where you track and react to every keystroke for high-performance transaction driven UI and so on.

What's the big deal about having VB6 and VB.NET in the IDE? When I start a project now I have a choice of C++, C#, J#, or VB. What's one more option?

# March 14, 2005 11:46 AM

Darrell said:

Actually that's the SECOND service pack for VS2002. The first service pack was VS2003. :)

# March 14, 2005 1:53 PM

Nasser Jasim said:

whatever it means! don't you think it's not that nice from microsoft since they did NOT mention anything regarding the pure SQL engine performance I mean they always talk about performance gains from the new features, but nothing about pure sql transactions performance or even some estimates about performance tests!!!.
I hope micorsoft would reply to these issues ASAP.
thanks

# March 15, 2005 5:53 AM

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# March 15, 2005 8:07 PM

Vijay said:

Hi,

I have to search through six PDF documents stored in a particular location. The input for the search is a keyword text and the output should be the bookmarks under which the text is present(for each section and subsection a bookmark will be present in the PDF). Preferably, the percentage of match also needs to be displayed against each bookmark link. How do I achieve the same? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Vijay

# March 16, 2005 8:50 AM

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# March 16, 2005 3:43 PM

Wallym said:

Use Index Server if you are looking at indexing the some pdfs on the file system.

# March 16, 2005 6:05 PM

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# March 17, 2005 7:52 AM

Scott Galloway said:

Not really VB.NET, more VB / VBScript...but I habitually add semicolons to the end of lines and forget that I need a 'then' and an 'end if' in if...then statements...

# March 17, 2005 8:02 AM

Karl said:

[] and ()

and in VB.Net I often do
i often do:
byval string x, byval int y

in my parameter list, but likely because I spend more time in C#

select/switch is another one too :)

# March 17, 2005 9:30 AM

TrackBack said:

Visual Basic .NET C#

For me it’s all the simple stuff. I don’t know how many times I’ve typed in string _name; in a VB.NET class and gotten an error.

What really gets me though is all the damn TYPING I have to do when I’m ...

# March 17, 2005 9:54 AM

Alex Lowe said:

You should pick up a copy of Scott's book 'ASP.NET Data Web Controls' because he goes into more detail on all of these topics. Great read. Oh, and I tech edited the whole book so I feel very biased, er qualified, to recommend it. =)

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# March 21, 2005 7:04 AM

SBC said:

My 2nd anniversary is coming up (May 2nd). Can't believe it - with about ~470 postings it seems very long!
Post what you want - a weblog is (or should be) an open page to write about anything. Be you!

# March 21, 2005 9:06 AM

James Shaw said:

just don't post those sheep photo's you were telling us about - you sick puppy.

# March 22, 2005 1:49 PM

Karl said:

It's more elegant/readable, gives better performance, and is less likely to introduce bugs.

I've actually seen people who use the non-short-circuit nature of AND/Or to actually do processing (ie, even if the first part of the AND was false, they relied on the 2nd part to process to do some work) which is really not intuitive and can quickly lead to bugs...

# March 23, 2005 10:06 AM

Wedgebert said:

Plus I've found that if you use AndAlso and OrElse everywhere for boolean logic, it makes your bitwise Ands and Ors stand out as well.

# March 23, 2005 10:22 AM

Ramon Smits said:

Hmm you are missing the point.

AndAlso is there because of lazy evaluation.

With the AndAlso you will have lazyevaluation.

Your examples do not have the same behaviour AFAIK.

So change the example to show what you could accomplish with that keyword like :

VB6:

If (Not obj Is Nothing)
If (obj.datamember = 10) Then
...
End If
End If

VB.NET:

If (Not obj Is Nothing) AndAlso (obj.datamember = 10) Then
...
End If

# March 23, 2005 10:58 AM

Oleg Tkachenko said:

Or may be they just don't need XML in the first place.

# March 23, 2005 11:31 AM

Erik Porter said:

Maybe I'm wrong, but personally I see stuff like that as a waste of time. In the amount of time it takes to get something like that going and implemented, then to have it widely used, hardware and internet speeds will have already increased to be able to handle that type of data. Personally, it seems like a waste of resources unless they've got nothing else better to do! :P Besides, isn't XML one of those things where you should use it in the right places? ;)

# March 23, 2005 3:53 PM

Kent Tegels said:

The whole concept of binary XML seems nonsequitur to me. The goal of XML was to be processable by almost anything at almost any time. Binary XML contradicts those goals because it pushes more semantics and more processing requirements into the processing stack to meet a "sometimes needed" thing. It feel we're tasking the parser builders with expeding 90% of the efforts to solve 10% of the uses cases.

# March 23, 2005 4:28 PM

Geoff said:

Another great reason for ALWAYS specifying the columns is that if the underlying data-structure changes you do not have to re-write your code. You can just use the "Select newcol1 as col1" to keep your code working.

# March 23, 2005 5:53 PM

Ron Krauter said:

How many columns does "table" have?
Is "select *" slower if the number of columns increases.

# March 23, 2005 8:28 PM

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# March 24, 2005 9:01 AM

Travis said:

Within a DataGrid you can access the control via the indexer:

DropDownList ddl2 = (DropDownList) DataGrid1.Controls[0].Controls[1];

Not sure if you can or how with a Repeater? But this is definatly faster than .FineControl

# March 24, 2005 10:32 AM

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# March 24, 2005 11:01 AM

Eric Newton said:

i dont know if FindControl is really CPU intensive or not, my understanding is a simple walk through of the current Naming Container's controls collection looking for the given ID.

Granted, not as elegant as being able to immediately reference the control, but that's ASP.Net for you (when you bury them inside containers)

# March 24, 2005 11:39 AM

Charlie Barker said:

Select * From = Naughty/Lazy programming ! :o)

# March 24, 2005 1:51 PM

Jeff Gonzalez said:

I wouldn't worry about the "CPU intensiveness" about FindControl(). We use it in plenty of places I haven't seen any adverse effects.

I am interested in how you are measuring FindControl to be CPU intensive though.

# March 24, 2005 5:49 PM

Wallym said:

CPU intensive was probably the wrong word to use. I have always heard that while FindControl() works, it is relatively slow.

Wally

# March 24, 2005 7:56 PM

Erik Porter said:

I'd say that's definitely the way to do it (the way you posted). Although you don't need to use a CType on ddl1.Parent since you can call FindControl directly on Parent, but that's no biggie.

I would always stay away from accessing controls by index. Sure, it's slightly faster than calling FindControl, but as soon as you put a space that didn't used to be there or add in some other controls it will break your code and for pretty much no performance cost, it's not worth it.

My understanding of FindControl is that it just uses recursion to go through all the controls (and all their children recursively...if i'm wrong on child control searching, sorry) until it finds one that matches the ID you specified. I really don't see how a simple boolean check in a recursive loop could really be very CPU intensive. I wouldn't worry about it.

Also, there's some neat things you can do with Parent. I've used it in the past on embedded repeaters to where you can actually have a child repeater walk back up to it's parent repeater (using e.Item.Parent.Parent.FindControl) and get a control and set or get values. Sure you could over do it, but pretty neat! ;)

Man I'm rambling, but one more thing...I'd recommend you use DirectCast instead of CType. There are times to use CType, but in your example it isn't necessary. CType is basically "Change Type" where DirectCast is just casting the object (which is what you're doing in this case). My understanding is that if you're casting to the same type though, it's really just adding an extra boolean evaluation, so it's so minor of a difference you're really not going to notice it, but still :P I pretty much always use DirectCast unless I actually need to change the type of the variable. Alright, alright, I'll shut up! :P

# March 25, 2005 1:36 AM

Daniel Moth said:

Wallym you are right on the money as is Wedgebert... I had VB6 nested if statements x levels deep to simulate short-circuiting that now go on one line (same for OrElse). Karl has a good point and it is the reason when giving this advice to newbies you should immediately follow it with "Don't do a global find replace!"

Ramon, how is your example different to the one given above?

# March 27, 2005 6:18 PM

Michael K. Campbell said:

Wally,

Another great reason to ALWAYS specify your column names: what if someone later on adds a varchar(300) column on to your table? Your app certainly doesn't need it... so no sense marshalling that info over the wire...

Explicitly specifying your columns in a SELECT is a best practice.

# March 30, 2005 12:27 AM

SBC said:

Binary XML standard? Sheesh.. next you'll have vendors who'll debate about their 'endian-architecture'& encoding differences - sure way of slowing down things.
I think it's best to let XML evolve itself and have external tools & enhancements improve upon it (eg. Tarari XML processors).

# March 30, 2005 9:16 PM

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This post points out a problem you can run into when using the ThreadPool and a HttpWebRequest or WebClient for example. It offers a very simple solution based on managed thread pool.

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# April 17, 2005 5:34 AM

Guest said:

I can't even find the SQL 2005April CTP :)

# April 18, 2005 10:48 AM

Paul Ballard said:

Just wanted to make sure our link appeared somewhere with our cartoon! :-)

# April 18, 2005 5:56 PM

Raymond Lewallen said:

For those of us who live here in Oklahoma City, we will be observing 168 seconds of silence (for the 168 dead) at 9:02 AM CST, the moment of the bombing. Feel free to join us.

# April 19, 2005 9:48 AM

Christopher said:

Texas too!

# April 21, 2005 2:50 PM

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# April 25, 2005 1:41 PM

Erik Porter said:

Was this an especially bad weekend for spam or what? I got most of those you mentioned and one about some hot stock I should buy that had the same body, but a different subject and from a different "person" 12 times.

# April 25, 2005 2:34 PM

Vurg said:

It's surprising that you didn't get an e-mail from Pope John Paul II's wife's uncle's cousin about moving some money out of the Vatican

# April 25, 2005 3:18 PM

John Barone said:

I'd count yourself unlucky. You didn't say you won any phony lotteries!

# April 25, 2005 3:19 PM

Mike B said:

There is a good article on B1 to B2 migration at Brian Goldfarb's blog.

http://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/archive/2004/11/15/257961.aspx

-Mike-

# April 25, 2005 8:07 PM

Brian said:

hmmm...I am suprised you did not get any email from Nigeria claiming that you are the "chosen" one to receive a share of a lot of money.

# April 25, 2005 8:50 PM

TrackBack said:

Last night I finally had a chance to run the Visual Studio installer for Beta 2. It took long enough, but now I will be able to explore all of the differences from Beta 1 which I have been using...

# April 26, 2005 10:44 AM

Wallym said:

I get the lottery, Nigerian, and foreign bank offers, that I just forget about them.

# April 27, 2005 7:09 AM

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# April 27, 2005 9:46 AM

Karl said:

In my experience, the enemy isn't premature optimization, it's simply a poor job at optimization. Maybe it's premature because it wasn't properly planned...but more often than not I find it's a result of (a) people not really understanding how thigns work and (b) not providing concrete metrics to measure their efforts.

Performance should be a first class non-functional requirement and, in my opinion, needs to be addressed upfront and throughout. That said, it needs to be well thought out and executed like all other development disciplines....

I'm in a situation where I say "we should look at caching that"...and I'm told "well, we did that in the first version and look how slow it was". I have to constantly remind people that it isn't because it was cached that it's slow, it's because that it was poorly cached.

# April 27, 2005 10:01 AM

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Paul Lockwood said:

George Shaheen led Andersen Consulting very successfully for ten years before WebVan. Actually, he was quite the superstar CEO. I met him once on the top floor of the London Stock Exchange if memory serves me rightly.

# April 27, 2005 6:07 PM

Jonathan said:

Just came across this post, and need to chip in to correct you on one minor point. I'm from the UK, and worked for a Boston company with an H1-B visa a few years ago.

It took five months for the INS to approve the visa - that's a long time for my company to wait for me to start woking.

During that time, my resume and the job description had to go through the Department of Labor, and it had to be proved that the job I was to do required "specialist skills", and that an American could not be found to fill the position.

The main reason for my reply is to point out that one condition of the H1-B is that the hiring company is *required* to pay you the equivalent of what your American counterpart would recieve. If they don't they can be held liable. So an H1-B is not a way to get cheap labor.

I am now a Permanent Resident, married to an American, and despite what I said above I would agree with you that if these companies looked hard enough within the US, they would easily find the skills they need. There are still many untapped resources claiming unemployment around here.

# April 28, 2005 9:02 AM

x said:

I don't even listen to 96rock anymore since they left. I might give it a shot again just for the mornings if they come back.

# April 28, 2005 9:10 AM

Sinik Al Tekki said:

Wallace, I think you are missing the point, which is that the immigration law is broken.

The H1-B issue is just a specific point that illustrates this. Why does a company have to struggle with the bureaucratic barriers if it wants to recruit a bright foreign individual?

It hasn't been about getting a bigger pool of candidates for a while. If you haven't noticed, the Web has enabled global recruitment without regards to nationality.

And yet, an illiterate farmer who crossed the border illegally has a far greater chance of becoming a lawful citizen than a Ph.D. who came to the U.S. on a visa. This is what you would call a policy of "national endumbment".

Don't you think that's f***ed up?

# April 28, 2005 10:20 AM

Eric Newton said:

At least if the individuals live here in America, then the American economy reaps some benefits of their work, instead of having Microsoft open offices in India/Germany wherever and having our US Dollars funnelled straight out of the country.

I think the entire IT sector has downgraded because of the 9/11 scale back of visas, not just because of the resulting economic downturn because of fear and speculation of 9/11.

Outsourcing is killing our economy, weaking our dollars, and is generally bad bad bad because all those dollars being paid out to foreign workers are not coming back to the US.

# April 28, 2005 1:54 PM

Sanketh said:

I think it isn't as straightforward as simply "H1-B salaries are lower", because there is legislation that prevents companies from paying too low salaries to H1-B positions as compared to Americans in the same positions.

# April 28, 2005 2:57 PM

AndrewSeven said:

If the person to whom you are speaking only speaks English, then the ability to speak English will be used as a primary indicator ;)

But it might not indcate that the speaker is intelligent.

# April 28, 2005 4:51 PM

Some Guy said:

Just to clear some misconceptions in your mind... H1-B workers have to be paid the same amount as a US worker would, or else the department of labor will not approve the H1-B application. Everyone thinks H1-B workers get paid less, this is just not true.

Offshore development groups a.k.a Outsourcing is not the same as hiring H-1B workers.

I have hired H1-B (or foreign workers) and it is not that they are smarter or have a better education... its just that their work ethic is superior. They are willing to work longer hours, even though it is not required and produce better results.

The "you need a better education" statement, doesnt necessarilly mean changing the curriculm, it means incorporating discipline and work ethics too.

Keep ranting....

# April 28, 2005 5:46 PM

TrackBack said:

There is a very common misconception that it is cheaper to hire and employ foreign nationals on an H1-B...

# April 29, 2005 7:57 PM

monsoondawn said:

Oh yea, I had almost forgotten about the Washington State Governor Soap Opera.

Your Tax Dollars at Play!

# May 2, 2005 12:05 PM

English Police said:

Your just going too half two except the fax.

# May 2, 2005 12:50 PM

Scott said:

yeah, you don't know the half of it. If you knew the whole story, you'd wonder if the candidate in you state really won and how screwed up is the election process in your state.

She won by 124 votes, after 3 recounts, in an election where a thousand or so felons voted and mail-in ballots were left lying around in warehouses. It's a screwed up situation. I think that if they were to hold another election that she'd still win, but at least we would KNOW that she got to greatest total of votes.

# May 2, 2005 1:16 PM

Ogre said:

Yeah its pretty sad. These neo-facist republicans are going to ruin the country.

# May 2, 2005 1:26 PM

Erik Porter said:

Congratulations, you stud! :P

One question...7 authors listed, 5 on the cover...who got left out?

# May 2, 2005 7:10 PM

Jason Salas said:

Nice to see that Wrox is encouraging their authors to look more natural, and not forced into being happy. Past covers look more like boy band albums than tech books. :)

Great job, Sir Wally!

# May 2, 2005 7:32 PM

Kulin said:

umm...minor correction - change "Accept" to "Except" in the first sentence :)

# May 2, 2005 7:35 PM

Don said:

nothing says "happy mothers day" quite like an ADO.NET book! ;)

Congratulations!

# May 2, 2005 10:35 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 2, 2005 11:36 PM

brian said:

Wally,

Take a look at this site and then decide if you want to stand pat with your statement above.

Here is the url: http://www.soundpolitics.com/

At the very least, you'll know more than what you currently know.

# May 2, 2005 11:41 PM

M. Keith Warren said:

Check out Peter Blums Date Control @ www.peterblum.com

# May 3, 2005 8:30 AM

Jason Clark said:

Try this one, it's way better.

http://www.dynarch.com/projects/calendar/

# May 3, 2005 9:45 AM

Matt Hawley said:

:) I'd suggest sending your request to support@eworldui.net as it'll get tracked a WHOLE lot better.

# May 3, 2005 10:13 AM

Paul Wilson said:

I too have just kept using try/finally instead of using -- for the same reasons -- plus until 2005 comes out there isn't a similar alternative for VB. I see no reason to switch though, so let me know if you find one. :)

# May 3, 2005 11:22 AM

TrackBack said:

On a related note, I agree with Faisal's criticism of Wally's H1-B rant. I don't purport to be an expert...

# May 3, 2005 3:08 PM

Douglas Reilly said:

Congratulations! I look forward to getting a copy!

# May 3, 2005 4:04 PM

SBC said:

THANKS!!!

# May 4, 2005 7:36 AM

Bill said:

Hmmm, looks like someone is missing doesn't it?

# May 4, 2005 2:39 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 4, 2005 2:41 PM

Tim said:

Now that is a flat top.

# May 4, 2005 2:51 PM

Frans Bouma said:

Congrats!

What I wonder: didn't Wrox file for chapter 11 some time ago?

# May 4, 2005 3:50 PM

Mark Dalton said:

So when is it hitting the market?

# May 4, 2005 6:17 PM

Charles Chen said:

Blah! You'd think that they'd get the installer/uninstaller working properly before distributing this stuff.

Thanks for the link, have it bookmarked now :)

# May 5, 2005 9:04 AM

TrackBack said:

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# May 6, 2005 9:06 AM

Darrell said:

Maybe I'll see you there!

# May 6, 2005 9:42 AM

Garet said:

Go, and act like you're looking for the 2004 Time Travelers Convention!

# May 6, 2005 2:55 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 7, 2005 10:50 PM

Bill said:

Dammit Wally, I'm getting tired of having to edit and correct your posts. Your post was supposed to read "I got to meet Bill Ryan face-to-face and I have to admit, how one guy can be so smart, so studly and just so cool is hard for me to fathom." I mean, you could have taken some journalistic license and phrased it however you wanted as long as it still communicatd the original sentiment ;-)

# May 8, 2005 12:45 PM

chris said:

I quit listening when they were booted also, 96 rock wasnt the same without them

# May 9, 2005 6:22 AM

Sahil Malik said:

LOL

# May 9, 2005 10:41 AM

TrackBack said:

The MAD Code Camp was great! Like Sahil said, if you missed it, what were you thinking?!
It was great...

# May 9, 2005 1:17 PM

Mike Gunderloy said:

Nope, the VB6 and VB.NET numbers are not exclusive of each other - people could check off as many languages as they liked from the list. With 195 respondents using VB.NET and 148 using VB 6.0, there were 92 who used both (most of whom also used other languages). In case you're really interested, I just uploaded the raw data for that question to http://www.larkware.com/RSurvey2/languages.htm .

Remember, too, that this is a self-selected sample of readers from a single Web site.

# May 10, 2005 3:16 PM

Derek said:

Great to hear the Regular Guys are back on! I boycotted 96 Rock when they kicked them off! I couldn't believe it! Mornings just weren't the same!!! Oh, and the Bob and Tom show SUCKED!!

# May 11, 2005 8:06 AM

Robert Hurlbut said:

There was a way to write code in Enterprise Services and old COM+ to do the same thing "automagically", but did require a little more effort. It is nice that they are making this more seamless.

# May 11, 2005 10:20 AM

Jason said:

So, when do you want to start producing these?? :)

Counting down... 6 more days!

# May 11, 2005 2:43 PM

Scott Galoway said:

Isn't possible *right now* with our current understanding of physics - I always hate when 'scientists' make such absolutist statements. We do not have anywhere near enough of an understanding of the basic stuff of matter to make this sort of statement...yet...

# May 11, 2005 4:04 PM

mousse said:

by all means, keep talking--good stuff!

# May 11, 2005 5:28 PM

Dean Harding said:

It makes sense, I guess. I mean, it'd be like having two "normal" connection objects and trying to get them both to use the same context.

I assume you can have two objects, though, but only one open at a time - I can definately see the benefit of that.

# May 11, 2005 10:30 PM

Dean Harding said:

"In real history, gunpowder--or even good crossbows--pretty much put knights out of business."

But regular knights didn't have force powers like Jedi knights, who can deflect lasers with their sword! If a medieval knight had been able to deflect a crowsbow bolt with his sword, he'd have still been very effective - after all, were he able to get close enough in the first place, a sword beats a crossbow any day.

The only reason crowsbows were more effective than swords was because you could kill a swordsman with a crossbow long before he got close enough to actually hit you.

# May 12, 2005 12:30 AM

TrackBack said:

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# May 12, 2005 9:48 AM

Glenn said:

when you and jason put it together, I'll order a coupla' to take out the siths in my neighborhood..along with the annoying sith dog that's in heat...

:-)

# May 13, 2005 1:29 PM

Matt Ranlett said:

Wally, it was great to meet you and chat, both on your webcast and "off the record". I'm sorry I had to miss your session, but someone had to corral all those Mobility people!

I look forward to talking to you in the future!

# May 15, 2005 10:43 PM

TrackBack said:

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# May 16, 2005 1:57 PM

Pat Piccolo said:

Pictures from Atlanta Code Camp

http://www.imagestation.com/member/index.html?order=name&c=201&name=Pat_Piccolo&show_all=0&startIndex=1

# May 16, 2005 4:23 PM

Wallym said:

Anyone have pics that we don't have to register for?

# May 16, 2005 4:29 PM

Pat Piccolo said:

Oops! It appears that my ImageStation account has expired, thus I can't add my albums to the community gallery. However, I can still add anyone who wants to see the photos to my 'invite list'. Send email requests to: (email harvesting note: remove %% marks.. I added them to keep the bots from harvesting my email address... I get enough junk as it is)

p%%a%%t%%p%%@magenic.c%%o%%m

# May 16, 2005 4:35 PM

Jeremy Brayton said:

Are you going to give example code with your presentation? You're the only one I didn't hear say they would though the ones who said they were I haven't seen jack on yet. I didn't take notes because most people didn't stray far from their slides.

As far as examples went, yours was the most exhaustive which is the only reason I ask. Although there were some issues, I don't think I could have produced something like that on my own to get me interested in the new bits of ADO.NET. I'm a type of person that needs abstract and overviews before I make a decision to dive into a topic. Your session was definately one to get me thinking but there's no way in hell I'm going to be able to compile all of that information in one place on my own. I may get lucky since I read your blog but it's virtually impossible.

It seemed like it could be examples from your upcoming book so I don't know how that'd work though they're usually released for free when the book is published, it just may be a pain to try to do so before hand.

# May 16, 2005 4:52 PM

Wallym said:

I sent my code samples and slides in last week. They should be available from wherever the code samples/slides are for everyone else.

Wally

# May 16, 2005 4:54 PM

Bill said:

Wally - I'm loving the podcast, but I think the HTML jumbled the rest of the code... or am I missing something ;-)

# May 17, 2005 9:59 AM

Adam Machanic said:

Downloading now (very slowly) ...

I'm curious about something in the image above: What benefit do you get from prefixing databases with 'db' and tables with 'tbl'? Do you prefix namespaces with 'ns' and classes with 'cs'?

# May 17, 2005 3:58 PM

Wallym said:

I'm obviously Hungarian.

# May 17, 2005 4:01 PM

Adam Machanic said:

Oops, you forgot to prefix your server's name. Better get right on that. 'svrExcalibur'? You wouldn't want to think it was a non-server if you were looking at a list of computers on the network!

# May 17, 2005 4:07 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 17, 2005 9:35 PM

Nat said:

Good job dude. I will listen to your podcast :)

# May 17, 2005 11:58 PM

Nikki said:

It's about damn time! I knew they would come back, it was only a matter of time. I highly suggest that if the "big guys" decide to let them go ever again they should think twice. I love you Larry and Eric! ROCK ON

CALL ME!

# May 18, 2005 8:23 AM

Sahil Malik said:

How in the world did you get the LAN connection to get enabled from a SQL Query? WOW This is BRILLIANT !! :-)

# May 18, 2005 8:35 AM

Anand Narayanaswamy said:

Sounds good. I will download this tomorrow and will let you know of my feedback.

# May 18, 2005 11:07 AM

Craig Shoemaker said:

Wally:

Congratulations on the new show and welcome to podcasting! I run the Polymorphic Podcast a show about object oriented development, architecture and best practices in .NET. Send me a promo sometime and I'd be delighted to plug your podcast on my show :)

Craig Shoemaker
http://polymorphicpodcast.com/

# May 18, 2005 1:16 PM

Aaron Junod said:

First podcast sounds good. I liked the mix of interview and technical content. Thanks alot, and good luck on your new show!

# May 18, 2005 8:47 PM

Erik Porter said:

Very cool man...congrats on your first! :)

# May 19, 2005 1:55 AM

Paul Wilson said:

Congrats Mr. Geek. :)

# May 19, 2005 11:09 AM

Jason Bentley said:

Hey, contgratulations.

# May 19, 2005 9:51 PM

Chris Williams said:

Good work Wally! Excellent podcast.

See you again soon!

# May 20, 2005 8:39 AM

rhoffman@extended64.com (Ryan Hoffman) said:

In VS2005, whenever you override any method, it automattically adds the "throw new Exception" line you are seeing. This is normal.

# May 21, 2005 12:52 PM

Ryan Hoffman said:

In VS2005, whenever you override any method, it automatticly puts "throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented.");" in your code.

# May 21, 2005 12:54 PM

Yosi Taguri said:

did you try:
System.Diagnostics.Debugger.Break();?
it should work without you needing to attach to a debuger.

# May 21, 2005 3:19 PM

Wallym said:

Ryan,

Thanks. I had not written a Windows Service with Whidbey yet, so I had not seen this behavior. :-)

Wally

# May 21, 2005 6:28 PM

TrackBack said:

# May 22, 2005 4:17 PM

Panagis said:

where there is smoke...

# May 23, 2005 11:08 AM

Douglas Reilly said:

One important distinction I have been bitten with is that a Manual service can be started "automatically" if another service that is set to start has a dependency on the service. If you really do not want to have a service starte, no matter what, then Disabled is the best bet...

# May 23, 2005 11:22 AM

TrackBack said:

# May 23, 2005 8:53 PM

Stan said:

This post is so utterly useless!!! I can't believe that you actually posted such useless information and wasted everyone's time.

# May 24, 2005 2:51 AM

Jon Galloway said:

Seems like a weird concept.

Instead of running .NET applications directly on the Mono framework, they're converting Mono to Java and running the .NET apps as Java apps on Linux: "We use the Grasshopper binary compiler to compile the C# Mono sources to Java™ bytecode, and we provide the .NET Framework class library on top of the J2EE™ infrastructure."

Why not just run the .NET apps directly on Mono as designed (other than the fact that Mainsoft sells a product that converts .NET to Java)?

# May 24, 2005 1:46 PM

Javier Luna said:

I believe that any DataLayer must be a simple code block, that they allow operations against DB.

That code block would not have to know on the Business Entities. Single to specialize it is to execute the operations (Store Procedures and SQL Sentences) against the engine DB (SQL, Oracle, DB2, etc.), with which this setting.

Finally, I invite to you to download the DataLayer.Primitives Public Version.

This is very cool Data Layer :)

DataLayer.Primitives - Readme!
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1389

Cheers,

Javier Luna
http://guydotnetxmlwebservices.blogspot.com/

# May 25, 2005 10:54 PM

TrackBack said:

If you haven't checked out Wally McClure's first Podcast in which he opens with the sound of a motorcycle...

# May 26, 2005 7:22 AM

Laurence Moroney said:

>>Why not just run the .NET apps directly on Mono as designed (other than the fact that Mainsoft sells a product that converts .NET to Java)? <<

Lots of reasons.

1. Run-time characteristics of J2EE?
2. Leverage of investment in J2EE app servers?
3. Corporate Policies around using Mono and/or open source code?
4. Integration with systems management tools that are designed for J2EE app servers?

...and many more! :)

# May 26, 2005 11:15 AM

Roy Sheinfeld said:

In this way you can utilize all of java/j2ee services (libraries, application server infrastructures etc..). You can't overlook the advantages in using j2ee.

# May 26, 2005 12:36 PM

Javier Luna said:

I believe that any DataLayer must be a simple code block, that they allow operations against DB.

That code block would not have to know on the Business Entities. Single to specialize it is to execute the operations (Store Procedures and SQL Sentences) against the engine DB (SQL, Oracle, DB2, etc.), with which this setting.

Finally, I invite to you to download the DataLayer.Primitives Public Version.

This is very cool Data Layer :)

DataLayer.Primitives - Readme!
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=1389

Cheers,

Javier Luna
http://guydotnetxmlwebservices.blogspot.com/

# May 26, 2005 11:34 PM

TrackBack said:

Blog link of the week 21

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# May 31, 2005 11:40 PM

TrackBack said:

RossCode.com - Signing Assemblies in VS.NET 2005

# May 31, 2005 11:40 PM

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# May 31, 2005 11:40 PM

TrackBack said:

Link Listing - May 31, 2005

# June 1, 2005 12:20 AM

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# June 1, 2005 12:36 AM

Plugin Addict said:

I get 404 every time I click the link to down load it. Want to put yours up as a mirror ;)

# June 1, 2005 2:18 PM

Jerry Albro said:

I have found that you can edit the .csproj file and "fix" the path to the key file, so that you can keep exactly one key file around. I just changed <AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile>keys.snk</AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile> to <AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile>..\..\keys.snk</AssemblyOriginatorKeyFile> in my case. The VS 2005 GUI needs to be fixed to respect that, because it just shows a blank! But, it works correctly when compiling .

# June 1, 2005 2:33 PM

Wallym said:

Hmmm, well I am out of the office right now. I wonder if they removed it because it was downloading when I left my office.

# June 1, 2005 2:34 PM

Plugin Addict said:

I hit refresh on the page a few times and then the link worked. It was kind of stange. I thought maybe they had the link wrong, but it does not look like it has changed. Maybe it is a server farm and the exe has not been replicated to the other machinces. Once I hit refresh enough time I got lucky and hit the right machine.

# June 1, 2005 2:54 PM

Wallym said:

I just tried it again a few minutes ago and it seems to be working fine now. Must have been a hiccup at oracle.

# June 1, 2005 8:59 PM

TrackBack said:

TrackBack From:http://www.cnblogs.com/ccboy/archive/2005/06/02/166718.html

# June 2, 2005 3:16 AM

TrackBack said:

# June 2, 2005 3:19 AM

TrackBack said:

TrackBack From:http://www.cnblogs.com/ccboy/archive/0001/01/01/166718.html

# June 2, 2005 3:27 AM

Leigh Kendall said:

Wally, not sure if you already use this tool, but PL/SQL Developer by www.allroundautomation.com totally ROCKS! If the SQL Server 2000 tools were only half as nice!

I live in PL/SQL Developer on a daily basis since the current VS.NET DB tools are lame. The only thing I use the DB project for is managing script files with VSS. PL/SQL Developer has a VSS plug-in, but it only allows a single heirarchy of files, no subfolders etc which is why I use the VS.NET DB project to manage the script files.

Anyhow, well worth a serious look at especially for the small price. BTW, I did read about the Oracle tools when they were released last week, but feel PL/SQL developer is way better. Especially useful is the built in debugger.

# June 2, 2005 10:57 AM

Wallym said:

Actually, the address is www.allroundautomations.com

:-)

# June 2, 2005 11:50 AM

Leigh Kendall said:

Right... my bad. Should have tested the link, but was in a hurry.

Have you used it before?

# June 2, 2005 11:57 AM

TrackBack said:

The moment a lot of people have been waiting for...
http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/dotnet/index.html...

# June 2, 2005 1:43 PM

jdee said:

TrackBack From:http://j-dee.com/blogs/jdee/archive/2005/06/02/26.aspx

# June 2, 2005 1:44 PM

mousse said:

thanks OODLES for the example code, and the asynchronous article link is excellent as well. don't let the following criticism indicate i'm less than very happy to be listening to you: the podcast audio didn't tell me anything worthwhile beyond just reading the code. info akin to the asynchronous article would be what i'd like to hear more of. how and why to consider the example code, plus any caveats.

as for future podcasts, here are some things i'd be curious to hear about:
-master pages & any other assimilated wisdom from the .text/communityserver group
-i don't think i have to mention i LOVE hearing about new features/advantages dealing with asp.net/sqlserver/iis interoperability, just like this asynchronous dbcall functionality.
-critical differences between 05 and 03 that impact design
-visual studio timesaving/design tricks
-this is kind of vacuous, but a big-picture view of managing tables->datasets->bizrules->display-databinding, within the mindset of a inter/ranet application. in 03, i had some trouble designing around null values & binding, among other things, and took a more manually-coded angle than i'd have liked. business-logic most especially, i deal with very conditional (lots of permutations) rules that reference a lot of data the page doesn't neccessarily display.

thanks again sr wally, i always enjoy catching your scoops.

# June 2, 2005 2:34 PM

Paul Schaeflein said:

IMHO, it is not a podcast unless you have an enclosure tag on the RSS feed...

# June 2, 2005 4:09 PM

Mary said:

You sound so professional Wally.

# June 3, 2005 9:07 AM

TrackBack said:

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TrackBack said:

# June 3, 2005 11:14 AM

playa hatta said:

IT'S IMPPOSSIBLE BECAUSE SCIENTISTS DONT WANNA TRY AND IF THEY DID MAKE THEM THEY WOULD ONLY BE IN THE MILITARY

# June 3, 2005 4:43 PM

Dave said:

I also found that strange. Then for some reason the "optional" comopnents failed to install. But it is not a bad add-in for the price.

# June 3, 2005 5:18 PM

Jonathan said:

Hi I love the movie Satr Wars it is the bes but I would like to knoe on ething about it Obi wan Kanobie ,eyes changed in the epesode lll the reveng of the sith and way do you know where to get a plastic one to play with.Thank you for your time

Yours faithfuly Jonathan

# June 3, 2005 9:23 PM

Ray said:

What version of the Oracle install? I've had to wrestle with installing the Oracle client versions 7, 8 and 9 and know that there are quite a number of bugs that have a fixes. Like the version 2 of the Oracle installer that ships with 8i, doesn't crashes. You need to update the installer to a new version first

# June 4, 2005 7:04 PM

Wally said:

http://www.scalabledevelopment.com/ftp/scalabilitywithdotnet.xml

# June 4, 2005 11:21 PM

Wallym said:

http://www.scalabledevelopment.com/ftp/scalabilitywithdotnet.xml

# June 4, 2005 11:22 PM

Shane Bauer said:

I'm still a bit in shock. This will be one of the biggest computing headlines this year.

# June 6, 2005 2:42 PM

Lee Sang Kwon said:

My Computer goh jang

# June 8, 2005 3:45 AM

gretchen said:

Hi Wally - I actually agree with you about Microsoft being a big company comprised of smaller, autonomous companies. But it takes some willing to consider the big company to even hear me out about the smaller company feel within the divisions. :)

# June 8, 2005 10:59 AM

Jerry Dennany said:

Yup, I've got to miss Music Midtown this year, too. I want to go, but can't.

# June 8, 2005 2:19 PM

andyx said:

well, if it really provides security and what's most important , you don't have to reboot the server every time a change occur and you can run longhorn server on cheap PII machine, then will certainly whip apache away from the market.

# June 9, 2005 6:44 AM

Roy Ogborn said:

Great ... I install the release version of Oracle Tools for .NET and it kills my ability to connect anywhere over VPN. I tried this on two seperate machines.

I caution anyone who uses VPN connections that from my experience, on two different development machines, don't load Oracle Tools for .NET.

Roy

# June 11, 2005 1:54 AM

Wallym said:

roy,

Perhaps the otn discussion forum might be of assistance. Christian Shay hangs out there and he is the person in charge of OTN.

Wally

# June 11, 2005 10:15 AM

TrackBack said:

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# June 12, 2005 9:09 PM

TrackBack said:

Wally has added a new Podcast to his blog.

# June 13, 2005 10:38 AM

TrackBack said:

Wally has added a new Podcast to his blog.

# June 13, 2005 10:40 AM

TrackBack said:

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# June 14, 2005 6:15 AM

TrackBack said:

I'm really up against the clock to get yet another new product out the door, so this post is just a 'holding'...

# June 14, 2005 7:05 AM

TGOK said:

Thanks for coming down Wally. It was great, as always.

# June 15, 2005 6:56 AM

TrackBack said:

Wally McClure, Paul Glavich, Buddy Lindsey, Jason Gaylord and Steven Smith have started a PodCast which...

# June 16, 2005 3:58 PM

jshark said:

2 additional reasons:

1. JVM - you still cannot compare the performance, scalability and reliability of
Java Virtual Machines from different vendors
to the VM provided by Mono. The Mono VM has
a long way to go till it will be comparable
with leading JVM(s)

2. Real multi-platform solution. Mono can run
on several platforms in addition to Linux, however - there are still platforms which unsupported by Mono, and the quality of supported
platform still not ready for "real-world-production-environment", IMHO.

# June 19, 2005 2:21 AM

Plip said:

Ooh!

USeful, will add this to the book, will this be the case for RTM?

# June 19, 2005 3:48 AM

Hannes Preishuber said:

you should say what performance diffrence you see. You blog entry shows nothing( sorry)
is it faster or slower, how much and in which scenario.
I belive this is important. I can hear the future suggestions "turn off mars" and nobody knows why.

# June 19, 2005 4:50 AM

Hannes Preishuber said:

i have also SQL Browser service running and get nothing back :-(

# June 19, 2005 4:55 AM

Wallym said:

I read this in the documentation. When I turned on this service, I got the Server Enumeration working with Sql Server 2005.

# June 19, 2005 8:32 AM

Wallym said:

Due to the the product being beta and the fact that the license disallows the quoting of performance numbers, I can't quote numbers. I've also been told that the performance problem I have seen is minimized between now and rtm. However, MARS is still an extra service that most applications do not need. Support for it will provide some type of overhead. If you don't need it, don't use it.

Wally

# June 19, 2005 8:38 AM

Robert Hurlbut said:

I am running both on a VPC here at DevTeach and having no problems at all. For example, just this morning in a session I was able to create managed stored procedures and functions in the latest VS 2005 Beta 2 and deploy them toe SQL Server 2005 June CTP with no problems at all. What are the problems everyone is encountering?

# June 19, 2005 2:38 PM

Wallym said:

From your post, you are using the April CTP of VS 2005. I pulled this straight from the MSDN web site for downloads.

# June 19, 2005 6:23 PM

Robert Hurlbut said:

True -- I am not using VSTS. But, I thought it was the version that just came out.

# June 20, 2005 12:16 AM

Sahil Malik said:

Wow, this has reversed in beta2 - it used to be that you had to turn MARS "on" using the connection string. Any ideas why the reversal?

# June 20, 2005 2:31 AM

Gregor Suttie said:

I have visual studio 2005 and sql server 2005 june ctp both running on 2 virtual machine and it installed fine. I had visual studio 2005 installed - then tried to install sql 2005 which complained - I then ran an uninstall exe (sqlbuw.exe) within sql and it uninstalled the .net 2.0 framework and then sql 2005 installed it (different version) and both run fine.

Cheers
Gregor

# June 20, 2005 3:18 AM

Douglas Reilly said:

Re: editing of a book.

I thought I was a good writer until I saw the first chapter from my first book edited. Yikes!

# June 20, 2005 11:20 AM

Angel said:

This is probably old news by now, but we have officially decided to turn MARS off by default for RTM based on customer feedback.

Personally I am very glad that this is now an "opt in" property.

# June 20, 2005 11:48 AM

Wallym said:

Angel,

Thanks for the news. I was not aware of that.

Wally

# June 20, 2005 12:04 PM

mousse said:

What's creating the statistics?

i've found statcounter.com to be all that i'd ask of a free statcounter.

# June 20, 2005 4:13 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Okay so MARS is off by default - i.e. no change. WOOHOO :)

# June 20, 2005 6:34 PM

Gregory A. Beamer said:

The June SQL Server CTP will not install on a Domain controller, which knocks out a TFS install on a single machine, unless you install SQL Server 2005 first. As the MSDN site mentions that you cannot install the June SQL CTP with the June TFS, it is easier to install the June SQL with April VS and June VS with April SQL.

The main issue I can see between the two is the version of the Framework. The SQL version has incremented beyond just build number. Not sure about the VS version.

# June 20, 2005 8:34 PM

jayson knight said:

^bump to statcounter; it will give you more info than you ever need to know about website hits.

# June 21, 2005 12:40 AM

G said:

Yes, they are. I was stuffed around no end when I ordered a 20" LCD monitor from them. They practically lied to me when queried about the status of the delivery, as it was quite overdue. Not once. Not twice. Three times.
In the end I cancelled the order and bought one from somewhere else.
The really sad thing is that no a week after this happened to me, the same thing happened to three friends of mine!

# June 22, 2005 12:48 AM

Buddy Lindsey said:

Happy Birthday dude. Have a good one.

# June 24, 2005 9:18 AM

Robert Hurlbut said:

Happy Birthday!

# June 24, 2005 9:25 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Contrats Wally :)

# June 24, 2005 9:28 AM

Mihir Solanki said:

Many Many Happy Returns Of The Day ... Man you getting wiser

# June 24, 2005 9:31 AM

TGOK said:

Happy Day Sir!

I wouldn't take this kind of abuse on my birthday though (http://www.coveryourasp.net/Personal/ReviewOldHabits) -- check the first link

# June 24, 2005 10:02 AM

James Shaw said:

Absolutely! Congrats. You're not as old as you look. Or something.

# June 24, 2005 10:34 AM

Terri Morton said:

Happy Birthday! You're only as old as the beer goggles make you look. Or something.

# June 24, 2005 10:45 AM

Frank said:

Happy Birthday!

Remember, getting older is better than the alternative.

# June 24, 2005 11:33 AM

Darrell said:

Happy birthday!

# June 24, 2005 12:57 PM

Christopher said:

Happy Birthday you old fart!

# June 24, 2005 1:22 PM

Cyanbane said:

"Doctor, I am afraid it has learned to replicate itself."

# June 24, 2005 3:39 PM

Christian Nordbakk said:

Wow 38, can't wait to get there myself!

Happy Birthday!

# June 24, 2005 6:20 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Hey Wally, Happy Birthday, think of it this way, in HEX you are only 26 ;-)

# June 24, 2005 6:36 PM

Paul L said:

I hope the Sandmen don't find you, I've been running nearly five years too. See you in Sanctuary?

# June 25, 2005 12:01 AM

Wallym said:

Paul, think more about the MTV girl in the Simpsons where Homer goes on spring break. The girls gets thrown off of MTV because she hits 25.

# June 25, 2005 12:21 AM

Paul Glavich said:

Bit late, but happy Bithday. Actually, now that you are getting quite old, let me do you a favour.

H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y

Just in case your eyes aint what they used to be .. :-)

# June 25, 2005 10:14 AM

uber said:

I've used AJAX.NET and it was super-fast in terms of development. At my job, we use AJAX for some of our administrative sites, but it's not as cross-platform as AJAX.NET and we require that our users have IE 6.0 or higher. It was a lot of work to develop our framework that drives everything, but there were no AJAX toolkits available at the time (maybe 2 years ago).

I'd like to say that I'm going to use Atlas, but since it won't be coming out for at least a few months (which is forever in technical terms and high school relationships), it's going to have to be FANTASTIC for me to start using it. If their javascript debugger works at all, then we'll start using Atlas at work.

# June 29, 2005 10:45 AM

Wallym said:

yeah, I mucked up the original encoding. I re-encoded and uploaded it.

# June 29, 2005 9:02 PM

Mobile Phone Fan said:

Damn it, your podcast is not in iTunes - pity I discovered it so late - keep up the good work!

# June 30, 2005 7:49 AM

Ron K said:

Please post the TSQL commands you used. Thanks.

# June 30, 2005 4:03 PM

Raymond Lewallen said:

So what made you want to do it in .Net anyways? Plain ol' curiosity? Because its more fun? :)

# June 30, 2005 4:33 PM

Jerry Pisk said:

Triggers are evil.

# June 30, 2005 9:54 PM

Chris Hammond said:

It's amazing the difference in the cost if you purchase pretty far in advance.

You pay for the flexibility of waiting till the last minute :)

# July 27, 2005 12:05 PM

Erik Porter said:

Yup...I almost always buy my tickets about a month in advance (or maybe a bit more if possible). There are also big differences between where you fly out of and what airline.

Hopefully I'll see you there! ;)

# July 27, 2005 1:31 PM

Jason N. Gaylord said:

Glad you could make it to the Summit Wally! I'll see you there!

# July 27, 2005 2:35 PM

Dover said:

Same experience here with VMWare 5.

# July 28, 2005 12:26 PM

Dave Bost said:

It wasn't letting me install on the "unformatted" partition, so I tried formatting it with no avail. I reset the VPC image, stepped through the install steps again and this time when I came to the disk image page, the partition showed up as being formatted. From there I was able to select the partition and continue the install process. It's still chugging along right now at about 45% complete. Why did I have to reset the image? I have no idea.

# July 28, 2005 12:26 PM

Cyanbane said:

WOW! I was jsut researching the same error.
heres what I did:

Start the Install (VPC drive shoudl be unavailable) so then partition it

Restart VPC session

Format the drive you just partitioned

Restart the VPC session (to avoid tmp file copy error)

Now install. I am halfway through the install (long) and have not hit any errors yet.

# July 28, 2005 12:43 PM

Weston M. Binford III said:

Try this blog entry.

http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2005/07/27/2000.aspx

# July 28, 2005 12:48 PM

Cyanbane said:

Little more detailed:
http://www.cyanbane.com/2005/07/installing-windows-vista-longhorn-beta.asp

# July 28, 2005 12:51 PM

Chris said:

I partitioned and formatted the drive and then rebooted. After the reboot, it let me past that error.

Chris

# July 28, 2005 12:55 PM

Roy @ VsDevCentral said:

Had the same issue. I used one of my XP images, formatted the drive with that, and then Vista was able to use it. Just remember, when you create the drive, it nees to be a primary partition.

# July 28, 2005 1:02 PM

Richard Harrison said:

Build a VPC with a different operating system, then do the Vista setup on that VPC and you'll bypass the problem. I just grabbed a copy of an XP VPC I was using, kicked off the Vista setup, and formatted with no problem.

# July 28, 2005 1:09 PM

Kirk Marple said:

i ran into this same problem last night. at what point are you supposed to reboot the session?

my issue was that the Vista installer didn't recognize any drives to install it on. i was trying a fixed VHD within Virtual Server.

not sure if it's the same issue or not...

# July 28, 2005 1:47 PM

Jerry said:

Congrats!! Who's the publisher? What's the exptected release date?? Topics??

# July 28, 2005 1:51 PM

patag said:

I just got done installing mine. Ran into the same thing. I had to setup a new virtual disk (even tho I did that when setting up the VPC). Then I had to reboot VPC and it worked.

Not sure if that helps... Good luck, Vista is very nice and IE7 is amazing. They finally added a _real_ tabbed interface to IE. Not the MSN crap tabbed browser that flashes, but a real implementation.

# July 28, 2005 1:56 PM

rossm said:

That's simpler than repaving an extra dev machine I had laying around.

# July 28, 2005 2:29 PM

Josh said:

That wouldn't take long to chew up your hard drive.

# July 30, 2005 7:58 AM

Gregor Suttie said:

Hi Wally - nice shooting, whats your handicap?

Greg - from the hme of golf ;o)

# July 30, 2005 2:13 PM

Wallym said:

I think that my index is around 15.

# July 30, 2005 2:56 PM

Wallym said:

I think my index is around 15. Its been going up all year. When I worked on my ADO.NET book, I did not have much time to do any type of golf, so my index when from 10.6 upto about 15 this year. I've just been so bad this year, I've been so frustrated this year, so the 71 was a complete shock today.

How is Scotland this time of year?

# July 30, 2005 2:59 PM

Michael Schwarz said:

Yes, this is the coolest tool I am using for AJAX debugging, too. I have build an Ajax.NET inspector to see return values as "real" objects instead of a large string.

CIAO
Michael

# August 1, 2005 9:14 AM

Nikhil Kothari said:

My ASP.NET Development Helper tool supports some of the same, and allows monitoring traffic from just a single process at a time, i.e. single browser session. Its at http://www.nikhilk.net/Project.WebDevHelper.aspx.

I'd love to hear feedback, and suggestions for features that would make this tool even more helpful...

# August 1, 2005 11:20 AM

Julien Couvreur said:

If you're using Firefox with the Greasemonkey extension, you might want to try my XMLHttpRequest Debugging script: http://blog.monstuff.com/archives/000252.html

# August 1, 2005 7:25 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Hey Wally,

Do you believe in sublimnal voices?

<sublimnalvoice>
.. Blog post about this coming from Sahil in the near future ..
</sublimnalvoice>

Wow, I had no idea sublimnalvoices could predict future.

- SM

# August 2, 2005 4:40 PM

Kenneth said:

Bart (a Belgian .NET guru) has instructions about this install too on his blog which helped me with the installation of Vista beta 1. Take a look at his blog on http://blogs.bartdesmet.net/bart/archive/2005/07/28/3183.aspx.

# August 3, 2005 7:49 AM

Jason Alexander said:

Congrats Wally!

How did you do it?

# August 3, 2005 9:03 PM

Wallym said:

Lots of exercise.

# August 3, 2005 9:06 PM

Douglas Reilly said:

Congratulations!

In the last year, I actually have lost about 70 pounds, but not the old fashioned way - due to a Whipple procedure and stomach resection for pre-malignant growths<g>. Still loosing, past where it was a good thing.

I am actually going to see a nutritionist tomorrow to see about how I can stabilize my weight...

# August 3, 2005 9:24 PM

Erik Porter said:

Congrats man...that's great! :) I think since high school I've gained 35 pounds! :P

# August 3, 2005 9:35 PM

Wallym said:

Thanks guys........

# August 3, 2005 9:55 PM

Sahil Malik said:

How about a before and after shot? ;-)

# August 3, 2005 11:14 PM

Jason Salas said:

Coolness! About 18 months ago exactly, I was mandated to drop my weight from 220 lbs (I'm 6'3") because I started doing the TV anchorman thing every night. Stopped guzzling beer, ate more greens, ate in moderation, got back in the gym, and just changed my mindset.

# August 3, 2005 11:44 PM

Pieter said:

Awesome man!

I've only just started mine...

# August 3, 2005 11:44 PM

Mischa Kroon said:

Good job :)

# August 4, 2005 2:42 AM

Hein Mulder said:

In May I started losing weight (I gained a lot of it since I stopped smoking last october.
I used Herbalife and lost 18 pounds. That's enough for me.
Also my wife and I started eating healthier: less meat, more vegetables, more soya-based products and more fish.
Since june I started a fitness training and I feel great nowadays.

# August 4, 2005 3:16 AM

Plip said:

Fatty.

# August 4, 2005 4:39 AM

TGOK said:

Just when everyone is wanting "more Wally", there is less of you...

# August 4, 2005 7:23 AM

Wallym said:

Yeah, there is actually less wally instead of more Wally..........

# August 4, 2005 9:55 AM

Thomas Wagner said:

Congratulations. Thats wonderful!

# August 4, 2005 10:20 AM

Sam Gentile said:

Wow! Congrats! That is inspiring. I have been trying to lose weight for years now, and now I have to. I've even taken up with a Nutrionist. It's a real struggle for me that I never felt like I could blog about. My post inspires me that there is hope.

# August 4, 2005 10:52 AM

lou brown said:

Your links to ASP.NET Podcast Show #9 - Nikhil Kothari interview, Building Windows Services in VB.NET, and Golf for Download or Subscription are NOT working

# August 4, 2005 10:24 PM

Wallym said:

The links work. the problem is a little bit of a bandwidth issue. If you try it again it should work correctly. The intermitent download problem is a long story.

# August 5, 2005 12:29 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Of course PHP drops (the guys who still use Perl are probably doing that till they die, who else wants to use that cruel language ;)), as a PHP job doesn't pay as much. I also think the decline is similar to asp jobs.

Does the survey also show to which language the developers went? If it's java (probably, on linux), it's bad news for .NET.

# August 5, 2005 11:37 AM

Jack said:

Seems to be ruby is becoming a flavor of the month.

# August 5, 2005 7:09 PM

icelava said:

microphones were used in the interview? Is that the air conditioner hum i hear in the background? :-)

# August 7, 2005 12:02 PM

Jason Salas said:

I've lost count of the # of times my misplacing AcceptChanges() has caused. :)

You'd have thought I would have learned by now.

# August 7, 2005 8:27 PM

uber said:

It's:

a) A suite of technologies that, when combined, allow rich-client style functionality on the web, and
b) way cool

# August 8, 2005 9:52 AM

Douglas Reilly said:

Very cool stuff. I have a page that could have literally hundreds of controls that I might have previously used DropDownLists for. DataBinding for all those controls, especially since most would never be touched, was not an option. I created my own Google Suggest-like logic and built it into a control, and it is very cool, works quickly even over a relatively slow network/Internet link.

# August 8, 2005 10:24 AM

Michael Schwarz said:

AJAX is cool, fast and will change our way of developing web applications. But are we using AJAX? We are using the XmlHttpRequest object, nothing more. See my blog http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/archive/2005/08/08/421915.aspx.

CIAO
Michael

# August 8, 2005 12:32 PM

Dimitri Glazkov said:

Wally, does the original article not provide the definition? Why look for more?

http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

# August 8, 2005 1:56 PM

Jason Salas said:

Actually, I'm not doubting the fact that AJAX or some AJAX-style variant will ship from MS (we all know it's going to be the latter). That's not the point.

I was inquiring whether people thought that Atlas was going to be another attempt to roll out the defunct .NET MyServices platform. It's a shame it didn't make it to RTM with 1.0, and it seems like the strategy for Atlas points towards that.

# August 8, 2005 3:58 PM

Wallym said:

Jason,

Ok, I mis-read your posting then. I guess it all kinda got wrapped around our email thread from last night.

Wally

# August 8, 2005 4:51 PM

Wallym said:

Dimitri,

The issue that I am addressing is that people are using the word Ajax to describe a lot of different items that may or may not meet the definition as supplied.

Wally

# August 8, 2005 4:52 PM

Monkey said:

it seemed to me that Vista only likes drives bigger than 16GB so i created one cached disk and also a second 2gb disk within virtual PC. Idea being it can use the 2nd disk for temp files if it needs to...then did the fdisk and format within the installation and all was fine.

also If you try installing from an ISO file on your local pc Virtual PC gives an error..to get round it mount the ISO as a virtual CD drive and install it from there....jobs a goodun :)

# August 9, 2005 9:35 AM

Unclefemur said:

When can we expect the next release of AJAX? I eagerly await its arival as the version I have seems outdated already.

# August 9, 2005 6:57 PM

Mandar said:

How @ data binding support for ASP.NET server controls like Data Grid , Data List

# August 10, 2005 4:54 AM

Keith Rome said:

Be super careful with that.

One thing that is illegal within a trigger is performing DDL operations - such as creating a temp table. It is surprisingly easy to get in trouble that way.

Your code is OK as is, but be cautious about adding complex cursors or explicit temp tables.

# August 10, 2005 5:02 PM

Keith Rome said:

Oh, and you should also inspect @@cursor_rows <> 0 after opening and prior to fetching from the cursor -- its just an optimization step.

# August 10, 2005 5:05 PM

Plip said:

You mean Underlings surely?

# August 11, 2005 6:13 AM

karl said:

"No" reminds me of high school...heh :P

# August 11, 2005 10:08 AM

Costanza said:

Yeah but are you master of your domain?

# August 11, 2005 10:11 AM

Anthony said:

100% right on. Too many people are not teaching their children what NO is and what it means and how to deal with it - and the result is what we see around us these days, a lot of spoiled brats who, in the real-world, cant handle the multitude of "no's" that are thrown at us left and right at times! Dont fear the NO!

# August 15, 2005 12:04 AM

Michael Schwarz said:

Great work!! Thanks to the intro to Ajax and my library.

CIAO
Michael

# August 15, 2005 4:31 AM

icelava said:

"No" as you mentioned, brings closure. In an undesirable screeching halt manner that most people cannot cope with adequately.

Without going in-depth with psychological research i can guess pretty much because most people only plan and prepare for the "yes" path of events to happen and seldom consider what to do, how to handle, when a "no" comes in to disrupt the plan. So when somebody of significance (e.g. boss, spouse, parent, etc) says "no" to something important to you, with time/energy spent into it (e.g plan/proposal), it can be a heavy blow or even a crushing one.

# August 15, 2005 5:42 AM

icelava said:

I think it is eternally critical for people to rid the arrogant attitude that somebody younger or less experienced cannot offer something of greater value than your own. Learning comes from all directions.

# August 15, 2005 5:45 AM

karl said:

I don't understand why you'd ever need to change from AndAlso to And. What possible user-requirement changed caused such a specific implementation change? How is the code written that the right hand side HAS to be evaluated regardless of the lhs?

# August 15, 2005 8:58 AM

Sarbjit Gil said:

Thanks for the 6GB tip. I increased it to max size disk and it works. No more TAPI.dll error.

/Gill

# August 15, 2005 9:59 AM

Joel Ross said:

Leave them in. That's one of the things you expect in podcasts. You hear it all the time in Jason Salas' DP (where I heard about your podcast, btw). and it's never bothered me. It's one of the things that makes podcasting seem more real to me.

# August 15, 2005 10:12 AM

Jason Salas said:

IMHO, a show should technically be produced as good as possible (rich sound quality, optimized MP3 filesize, length of show), but as far as the content - the more real, the better. Just be yourself and be honest...mistakes or not. That's the big benefit of podcasting over.

# August 15, 2005 2:58 PM

Eric Newton said:

Well, the real question is, are we in business to "Find and Fix Bugs" or to "Code Solutions to Business Problems"

My preference being the latter :-)

So, I'd have been using the AndAlso (actually I just program in C# so &&) and I'd have seen the same problem as a "gee whiz" :-)

# August 15, 2005 7:51 PM

Sahil Malik said:

LOL, hey I'm hot. C'mon !!

# August 16, 2005 8:11 AM

TrackBack said:

Ajax Library for .NET

# August 16, 2005 10:18 AM

Jon Galloway said:

The only thing I'd like edited is the volume on the intro. That revving motorcycle sound just about blows out my car speakers.

Running the whole audio track through compression seems to be the best way to clean up audio if you get to that point, but if the content is good enough you can probably get away with lower sound quality. Your content has been absolutely incredible!

# August 16, 2005 9:43 PM

Taufique said:

More Documentation & Real-Time Example needed.

# August 17, 2005 5:15 AM

Scott Allen said:

Thoughts:

http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2005/08/09/2065.aspx

http://odetocode.com/Blogs/scott/archive/2005/08/13/2075.aspx

# August 17, 2005 9:13 AM

Brock Allen said:

Jason just updated his implementation:

http://jason.diamond.name/weblog/2005/08/16/my-ajax-dot-net-release-4

-Brock

# August 17, 2005 10:53 AM

Rich C said:

I haven't tried it personally, but Rick Strahl (http://www.west-wind.com) showed it off at our last UG (http://padnug.org) meeting and it looked really nice.

Sounds simple, effective, and extensible.

# August 17, 2005 11:09 AM

Darrell said:

The great part is that by day's end a lot of them were complaining that some of the computers didn't work. I guess they didn't understand what "as-is" means.

Glad I didn't go, that's 15 mins from my house.

# August 17, 2005 1:27 PM

Ullrich said:

I have tried this library which is very similar to Ajax.NET library from Michael. It is missing some features, and is creating a full instance of the page with Page_Load, ... on every call. I think this is not necessary, or? I love the method based way of Ajax.NET. I know the handler must be added, but you can do this once in the GAC and CONFIG section (machine.config), too.

# August 17, 2005 5:12 PM

Brad Wood said:

Very informative; but I've heard that atlas is quite limited.
What sounds really cool to me is AFLAX (http://tinyurl.com/94o6v). If this product works as advertised, it will be far preferable for rich content (forget Javascript).

# August 17, 2005 5:59 PM

Jack N said:

I have done a test for it comparing Ajax.NET. What is missing are all the features added in the last weeks. Also, it is not possible to use every avlue types. Also, I cannot send multiple lines to the server.

# August 17, 2005 6:20 PM

Jack N said:

We have to be careful about what is AJAX and where we will talk about client script callbacks. I think that we should name the two things different:

1) AJAX calls to (static) methods like Server.Add(int, int).

2) AJAX to update web controls to reduce the postback calls.

I think some libraries must be used for point 1, and some are working for point 2.

The controls from ComoioentnArt are cool, but I am missing features I know from Ajax.NET or other PHP based libraries.

# August 17, 2005 6:23 PM

Ken Cox [MVP] said:

Hey Wally,

Did you see this new implementation of Windows Explorer on a Web site? It is an AJAX-based file and directory browser:

http://webui30.componentart.com/callback/features/ajax_windowsExplorer/WebForm1.aspx

Ken

# August 18, 2005 8:49 AM

Freelance Programmer said:

I love your show but have only a couple of suggestions.

I think your show length is good, but would not complain about a longer show.

The audio quality of the show is not so great. I don’t know much about audio, but I suspect it has something to do with your mike. Or maybe it is the quality of the phone calls that is the problem. Carl Franklin seems to have perfected call-in audio, so maybe talk to him.

As far as topics go, I think you are doing a great job. I tune in because you are covering subjects that are very current. The more current (or futuristic) the topic, the better. I have no interest in hearing about things that are old news.

Thanks for the show and please keep up the great work!

# August 18, 2005 8:51 AM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

You forgot to mention that he is an awesome guy...

;)

# August 18, 2005 10:19 AM

Buddy Lindsey said:

Freelance Programmer: The problem with the audio in comparison to Carl is he has a telos line for his Call ins and that is about $1000 or better. He also is and has a professional audio engineer that knows exaclty what to get and why. I know I don't know all this stuff and atm can't afford it, but I know what to get. It would be great to have better equipment but as far as me it is a lack of money. I think that Wally might be in the same boat I don't know. Just a little info on the Audio.

# August 18, 2005 6:14 PM

Tom Pester said:

The link ain't correct. Its linking to the previous poscast right?

# August 20, 2005 3:06 PM

Wallym said:

Fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience. I had all kinds of typing problems earlier.

# August 20, 2005 5:22 PM

Bill said:

How did I not know about this until now? Thanks for the tip my man!

# August 20, 2005 9:30 PM

TGOK said:

I thought you told me that the answer to all questions was "more Wally". ;-)

# August 21, 2005 6:01 PM

Scott Cate - EasySearchASP.net said:

I'm wondering how anyone could think atlas is quite limited, if nothing has been released or announced about it, or has it and I missed it? Brad, what do you think is (or will be) limited about atlas? Also, what is your source?

# August 21, 2005 9:45 PM

Wallym said:

I hate it when I get my RCs and my CTPs messed up..............

# August 22, 2005 6:28 PM

Robert Scoble said:

Like that would help much... :-)

# August 22, 2005 10:53 PM

David Crowell said:

I'm guessing it's because the Pentium 4 has an extremely long pipeline which, due to pipeline stalls, wastes a lot of cycles. Hyperthreading fixes that.

The future for Intel is the Pentium M line which does not have the long pipeline, and therefore won't benefit much from HT.

This article explains a little bit:
http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/prescott.ars/1

# August 24, 2005 9:15 AM

Jose Andhousbee said:

Dual core obviates the need I guess.

# August 24, 2005 9:19 AM

Damien Guard said:

Hyperthreading was designed to take advantage of the long deep pipelines of the Pentium 4's architecture and keep those pipelines full by feeding it effectively two threads.

The new processors are based on the Pentium M architecture and have much simpler pipelines, ones that will not need to be stuffed with two threads worth of code.

As far as I can tell...

[)amien

# August 24, 2005 10:02 AM

Samuel Jack said:

Would it be anything to do with the new chips being multi-core?

# August 24, 2005 10:11 AM

Jeff Gonzalez said:

I went from Pentium 4 with HT on my last computer to an AMD processor and I can definitely tell a difference. The AMD is very fast in single operation (like playing a game), but when you start trying to have IE, vs.net, etc.. open WHILE playing a game, there is some competition for the processor.

When I had my P4 I could do all of these things without any real negative performance problems.

I think the main reason the new chips that were announced don't have HT is because they are based on the Mobile processors. The centrino chips didn't have HT either I think.

Intel is on this new measurement kick called Performance per Watt or something.

# August 24, 2005 10:41 AM

SBC said:

I looked into it a little while back (relative to Dual core chips) -
http://weblogs.asp.net/sbchatterjee/archive/2005/07/03/417533.aspx

# August 24, 2005 2:56 PM

Frans Bouma said:

HT is more of a hack. The main issue with HT is that it doesn't make the second thread unit be able to independently grab the buses. (if I'm not mistaken). A more efficient approach is a dual-core cpu, which effectively has the ability to have each core take the buses for a short period of time.

Though I still wonder if dual core will solve the root of the problem: the big difference between the amount of data the core(s) theoretically can consume and the amount of data the memory bus is able to provide. With the current architectures with a single chipset it still has a weak spot: not enough bandwidth to feed the cpu's, which means they'll wait / waste cycles.

# August 24, 2005 2:57 PM

Chris Slatt said:

The XMPP Protocol is also known as "Jabber". There is a good list of clients here:

http://www.jabber.org/software/clients.shtml

# August 24, 2005 3:51 PM

Bob said:

Thats odd. The last thing I heard about HT was that I going to get 4 CPU's

Oh well.

# August 24, 2005 4:28 PM

Plip said:

It is said that most people in the Southern States of America share the same DNA, I suppoose forenames were only a matter of time.

# August 26, 2005 10:16 AM

Edwin said:

I agree!

# August 26, 2005 8:36 PM

curticus1@hotmail.com said:

I am running an FTP server on IIS and have come into the situaion many a time where I woule liekto be able to send a messeg to the person logged onto my FTP server. I am wondering if there is a way to send messages to ppl loggen in annonymousely to my FTP server, or an aplication that will alow me to send a popup msg to an IP address.

Is there anything I can do? Seems kinda wrong that I cannot messege ppl who are logged onto my own computer.

Please e-mail me at curticus1@hotmail.com

# August 27, 2005 11:31 PM

ShauryaAnand said:

So Cool!! Great stuff.. i like the way it works...!!

# August 29, 2005 12:45 PM

Richard Tallent said:

Try the "HTTP Proxy" option under the tools...options...connections tab.

# August 30, 2005 11:49 PM

VictorV said:

Doh, over here in the Netherlands, gas prices are SIX times of US prices...

# August 31, 2005 5:34 PM

Jason Hoekstra said:

Other than the obvious downside to higher gas prices (more out of pocket cash), I'd hope this accelerates development in alternative fuel technologies such as hybrid engines, fuel cells and so on.

# August 31, 2005 5:50 PM

David Brabant said:

1.51 € (1.86 $) per liter (0.264 gallons) in Belgium...

# August 31, 2005 6:08 PM

Neil Cowburn said:

Here is the UK, I pay $1.70 per litre. That's $6.44 per US gallon! Almost 13 times what you guys are paying. And I drive 500 miles per week. Ouch!

# August 31, 2005 6:20 PM

Jerry Dennany said:

You are in Atlanta, correct? This evening in Atlanta there were lines at all of the gas stations. Many of the gas stations were closed in my part of the 'burbs, because they were completely out of gas.

# August 31, 2005 9:34 PM

jayson knight said:

Similar situation up here in Charlotte as well...people are going crazy.

Just to add to the European folks woes, I spent some time in Poland a while back...gas there (at the time) was about 4 bucks a gallon, however the average salary there is about a quarter what it is here in the US. Needless to say, public transportation was the way to go. You could buy a monthly bus ticket for about 10 bucks, and they had dedicated lanes so it was usually quicker than sitting in traffic. We're so spoiled here in the US :-).

# August 31, 2005 10:27 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Okay gas in US is around $3 a gallon, so how is it 13 times?

# September 1, 2005 1:21 AM

Mihir Solanki said:

Since then Coca-Cola Share prices are going up ... ;-)

# September 1, 2005 11:57 AM

Sahil Malik said:

Did u see this? http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/

# September 1, 2005 2:35 PM

Plip said:

You still come out with lots of soda and very little syrup.

:P

# September 2, 2005 4:51 AM

Jason Gross said:

AJAX.NET offers a really nice wrapper for the basic XMLHTTP remote services. He really extends the power of it, and removes you having to define your own transported data layout/protocol. You can get to coding without having to manage how the "what is being sent" is formatted.

# September 2, 2005 6:52 AM

Keith Rome said:

I ran across that weblog earlier today... those folks are doing amazing journalism (and recovery work too...)

# September 2, 2005 7:58 PM

Rayn Zemmdt said:

Hi, where can I download the new library?

# September 4, 2005 4:14 PM

Wallym said:

Its in the show notes. The url is at http://ajaxpro.schwarz-interactive.de/

# September 4, 2005 5:14 PM

Nuri Kevenoglu said:

AFLAX (at least XAMLON's implemetation) is not complete yet and no one knows when it will be!... Meanwhile, AJAX has almost taken over the world! ;)

# September 6, 2005 10:47 PM

pat said:

I learn fast and I want to help not a lot of money but time and computer

# September 7, 2005 7:13 AM

Samir Nagonnaworkhereanymo said:

Oh no!!

# September 7, 2005 7:04 PM

Michael Schwarz said:

Did you try http://www.hotrecorder.com?

CIAO
Michael

# September 8, 2005 8:09 AM

Brendan G said:

Yeah, I'm getting crap from them too. Only a bunch of tools would spam people complaining about spam!

# September 8, 2005 8:19 PM

Wallym said:

Yeah, I got another one late yesterday afternoon.

# September 9, 2005 6:51 AM

Dale B. said:

Has anyone managed to figure out an address for these jokers (Spamis)? I got a 3rd email from these jerks today.

# September 9, 2005 4:06 PM

Christopher said:

Did you geolocate those "few" IPs?

# September 9, 2005 5:30 PM

HenAloft said:

Funny - they keep sending out fake news articles about microsoft.

I'd think MS would wanna get ahold of these jokers and put a stop to it.
It's not as if they don't have enough REAL problems without these dill-weeds on the loose.

# September 12, 2005 1:28 PM

Greg S. said:

SPAMIS is Robert Soloway and he lives in Seattle, WA. You can read about this scumbag and see his last known good address/phone number, etc. at:
http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/listing.lasso?-op=cn&spammer=Robert%20Soloway%20-%20Newport%20Internet%20Marketing

I'm glad that a company with DEEP pockets (Microsoft) is dogging this moron with its legal team and I hope others follow suit.

# September 12, 2005 1:59 PM

Plip said:

It will be interesting to compare the new Hotmail site (when it gets released) with whatever Atlas ends up looking like.

# September 13, 2005 10:05 AM

Ingo said:

I think Microsoft has copied all the stuff from Michael after he has open sourced the code. But as I heared already from Michael is that several things are not working with the Atlas Framework, BAAAAAAADDDDDDD!!!!

MICROSOFT: Please go the right way and talk to Michael. As I can remember he is at the PDC as well.

# September 13, 2005 9:21 PM

Michael Schwarz said:

Yes, they are doing a lot of things 100% identical, so you can simple change from Ajax.NET Professional to Atlas and back.

Today I had time enough on the PDC to work on some examples to see what is working and what is missing. Maybe I will put this on the blog tomorrow when I have a full list. I will talk to the Web Platform Team to get the most from the Atlas Framework, but it is still in beta and we will wait...

CIAO
Michael

# September 13, 2005 9:31 PM

Kato said:

This guy has sent me enough spam. And incidentially I live in SEATTLE, too. If I catch him in the city, I'm not going to give him a moment of peace. The jerk needs to learn that email is a private asset, not something to be abused like telemarketing used to be abused.

# September 14, 2005 4:24 AM

J.W. said:

Glad I found this group! I've been trying to track this through Gernamy, Amterdam, etc. for a few days. This guy hacked into our company's FormMail last week, and then just yesterday. We have a contact page where you enter your info, etc. and it goes to our sales dept. They sent the infamous Microsoft spam out (saying it was from me, to God knows who) as well as dumping about 20 emails into my email box.

I don't know if you noticed this, but in several of the emails we got there were listed one of two AOL email addresses. They are: mhkoch321@aol.com and bergkoch8@aol.com. Anyone have any info on these?

# September 14, 2005 9:26 AM

scottgu said:

Hi Wally,

We'll have an RC compatible version of Atlas out soon. :-)

Thanks,

Scott

# September 14, 2005 11:29 AM

Terri Morton said:

Awww, shucks. No problem, Wally :-)

# September 14, 2005 2:48 PM

David Brown said:

I hate these guys! Now I get a message today ending with the comment that they are about to increase their spam output 20x! Isn't there some way to shut this guy down????

# September 15, 2005 9:11 AM

Chris said:

About.com reported on July 22, 2005, that Spamhaus claims he is using zombie PC's to do his dirty work. :(

chris

# September 15, 2005 10:31 AM

Chris said:

This Spamis is crap. I get at least 25 emails a day in my company email account... and yes, it is from my email account address. The jerk needs to be stopped.

# September 15, 2005 12:59 PM

Brian said:

Yes, he uses zombies. Last week I got his crap from a dynamic address in Germany. Since we have no business dealings outside the US, we have already blocked most European addresses, but this was one I had missed. I added the large range of RIPE-assigned addresses to our firewall DENY list. Today, I got one from a dynamic address at Columbia U -- probably some clueless infected student.

# September 15, 2005 1:09 PM

James said:

Thanks for the tip. I received the same message, and am eagerly awaiting the Tools download to finish.

# September 15, 2005 1:42 PM

Chris Wagner said:

I'm getting them saying the return address is me. I'd like to find him also.

looking at the source I got a number at

207.179.106.185
Record Type: IP Address

OrgName: ACD Internet Services
OrgID: ACDC
Address: 4980 Northwind Drive
City: East Lansing
StateProv: MI
PostalCode: 48823
Country: US

NetRange: 207.179.64.0 - 207.179.127.255
CIDR: 207.179.64.0/18
NetName: ACDNET-1
NetHandle: NET-207-179-64-0-1
Parent: NET-207-0-0-0-0
NetType: Direct Allocation
NameServer: NS1.ACD.NET
NameServer: NS2.ACD.NET
Comment: ADDRESSES WITHIN THIS BLOCK ARE NON-PORTABLE
RegDate: 1999-08-31
Updated: 2002-05-03

TechHandle: KS550-ARIN
TechName: Schoen, Kevin
TechPhone: +1-517-333-0900
TechEmail: schoen.kevin@acd.net

OrgAbuseHandle: ABUSE404-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Abuse Contact
OrgAbusePhone: +1-517-333-0900
OrgAbuseEmail: abuse@acd.net

OrgTechHandle: JG1193-ARIN
OrgTechName: Grover, Joe
OrgTechPhone: +1-517-333-0900
OrgTechEmail: grover.joe@acd.net

OrgTechHandle: IPADM103-ARIN
OrgTechName: IP Administrator
OrgTechPhone: +1-517-333-0900
OrgTechEmail: ipadmin@acd.net

And I also see a qtm.net

Quantum Connections
211 Hilltop Rd.
St. Joseph, MI 49085
US

Domain Name: QTM.NET

Administrative Contact
Quantum Connections Network Operations Center: qtmnoc@QTM.NET
Quantum Connections, LLC
211 Hilltop Road
St. Joseph, MI 49085
US
Phone 269-926-4242
Fax 269-926-6363
Technical Contact
Quantum Connections Network Operations Center: qtmnoc@QTM.NET
Quantum Connections, LLC
211 Hilltop Road
St. Joseph, MI 49085
US
Phone 269-926-4242
Fax 269-926-6363
Billing Contact
Quantum Connections Network Operations Center: qtmnoc@QTM.NET
Quantum Connections, LLC
211 Hilltop Road
St. Joseph, MI 49085
US
Phone 269-926-4242
Fax 269-926-6363

Record updated date: 2005-06-03 08:04:15
Record created date: 1995-08-31
Record expires on date: 2006-08-30
Database last updated on: 2005-09-15 13:54:58 EST

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.QTM.NET 216.163.32.51
NS2.QTM.NET 216.163.32.52

TransferGuard LOCK Status => ENABLED

Both in Michigan about 110 miles apart

# September 15, 2005 2:58 PM

Carlos said:

I was getting spam from this clown. Now I get the some rotten garbage, but It's Identifying Itself as me. I'm annoyed this joker complains about Microsoft sending spam, yet I have not received unsolicited mail from Microsoft, but I do from this major pain in the butt.

# September 15, 2005 7:14 PM

kene said:

I am getting this trash which appears as from my own email account to myself! I have had enought. He may reside in Washington State, which I also reside and I have filed a complaint with the Attorney General this date. Hopefully WA State anti spam law (that MR Robert Soloway complains about) will shut him down. Anyone in Washington State should also file a complaint with the Attorney General. It was bad enought when he sent his trash, now it appears I am sending it!!!

# September 17, 2005 11:31 AM

just a thought said:

Why not add yourself in the "blacklist" of your spam software. Why? Well numerous spammers have figured out to send mail from "yourself" as it will get through. But in all reality you would rarely ever send email to yourself. If you find that you need to move data or information from PC to PC, most of us have 2nd, 3rd, and 10th email accounts. Send them to one of them (not back to yourself per say).

Sucks but at least it fixes this idiot.

# September 18, 2005 12:27 AM

gene said:

I got about one a week from SPAMIS, and this week I have gotten 2 of their "news articles", with my own address in the FROM line. Now I'm mad! AAARRRGGGHHH!! Can anyone help me figure out what the following details reveal?

X-x: TimeOut+OK 2461 octets
Return-path: <gene@phantasmphoto.com>
Envelope-to: gene@phantasmphoto.com
Delivery-date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:20:43 -0700
Received: from [140.120.90.198] (helo=66.249.137.30)
by dwhs30.dwhs.net with smtp (Exim 4.52)
id 1EG9aU-0001DV-9E
for gene@phantasmphoto.com; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 23:20:43 -0700
Received: from localhost.localdomain (HELO localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1])
by argon.kittymail.com (Mostfix) with ESMTP id BAD1123BFF
for <gene@phantasmphoto.com>; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 16:06:43 -0300
Message-Id: <200309010816.06350.allied@lycos.com >
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 00:14:43 +0500
From: "gene@phantasmphoto.com" <gene@phantasmphoto.com>
To: gene@phantasmphoto.com
Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Microsoft Plans to Outsource Over 10,000 Jobs to China
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13
X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.3
X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0537-1, 09/14/2005), Inbound message
X-Antivirus-Status: Clean

# September 18, 2005 1:15 AM

Scott said:

I as well have recieved emails from my own email address from this guy. I called him at his Seattle business phone number and left a message to please cease. It actually increased.. I as well will be lodging a complaint at the Washington State DA and GA offices.

For those looking to say hi and send love... Here is his company info...

SPAMIS, Box 1259, Seattle, WA 98111 / Phone & Fax: (206)260-2409

AKA
Mr. Robert Soloway
1200 Western Avenue
98101 Seattle
Washington
Tel: +1 (206) 226-9558 (206)223-1270
email: nim@cyberservices.com

Robert Alan Soloway
SPAMIS, PO Box 1259, Seattle, WA 98111, USA
Fax: (206)260-2409 or (503)213-6416

As of Nov 6, 2004, Robert Soloway’s NIM/Newport Internet Marketing is an active corporate entity in Washington State. This corporate name was registered in WA in Dec, 2003. Soloway’s “corporation” is run out of his apartment at the Harbors Apartments in Seattle.
–
Washington State Dept of Revenue
State Business Records Database Detail

TAX REGISTRATION NUMBER:…6024226472
UBI:…………………..6024226472
LEGAL ENTITY:…………..NEWPORT INTERNET MARKETING CORP
DOING BUSINESS AS:………NIM CORPORATION

MAILING ADDRESS:
1200 WESTERN AVE APT 17E
SEATTLE, WA 98101-2964

BUSINESS LOCATION:
1200 WESTERN AVE STE 17-E
SEATTLE, WA 98101-0000

OWNER TYPE:…………….CORPORATION
ACCOUNT OPENED:…………12/01/2003
ACCOUNT CLOSED:…………OPEN
STD INDUSTRIAL CODE:…….5961

heres the address to the Washington State Attorney General...

http://www.atg.wa.gov/

Lets stop this guy..

# September 19, 2005 10:31 PM

Linda Quintiliani said:

I have received emails from my OWN email address from this guy, SPAMIS-Robert Alan Soloway . Isn'this illegal? Please put a stop to this now!

# September 20, 2005 2:03 PM

Ed de Jongste, DTR Holland, Europe said:

Linda, I see no direct way to stop this ill dude. What I done, although being a dutchman in Holland, is go to http://www.atg.wa.gov/consumer/forms/emailc3.html and fill in that form as complete as possible. If 5 bilion people would follow this example, U.S. Government c.q. Wahington State MIGHT wake up.

Or won't they?

# September 21, 2005 9:51 AM

KTaylor said:

Thank you to Scott (9/19/05) for the information on Robert Soloway and submitting a complaint to the WA Attorney General. Please, everyone send a complaint to the Atty General in Washington AND to your ISP in order to put a stop to this jerk. Good luck!

# September 21, 2005 10:07 AM

BradleyT said:

Yeah SPAMIS really sucks.

If you read the bottom of his latest email he says "thanks to server donations we're now ready to send out 20x more e-mails 20x faster".

Great he's infected more computers with malware.

# September 21, 2005 3:43 PM

chris said:

This person is stealing people's identity and could easily use that data to cause harm to their reputations and characters. Imagine your boss/customer gets a pornographic spam mail from your email address - even if you can convince them a spammer stole your address the seed of doubt would likely have been planted.

The fact that he can go about his business without interference from the US government and that only when a deep-pockets company such as MS takes him to task is any justice done, is a very sad but true reflection on the US judiciary system. In the US you get the justice you can buy and if no-one can afford to take you to justice then you can merrily go about your illegal way.

# September 22, 2005 8:06 AM

Gil Jones said:

I filed with the WA a.g. online. thanks for the info.

# September 22, 2005 10:46 PM

HMW said:

I think we all dislike what this Robert Soloway is doing especially stealing out identity as Chris said.

This is annoying to say at least and seriously intruding our privacy is just a fair statement, I suggest we all ask the Washington state government; Microsoft; and even the US federal government to take appropriate action against this joker.

This is clearly a case of abuse of the e-mail system plus identity stealing; misleading information; anti-privacy; and spam. Remember, don’t get mad because that is what he likes to see.

# September 23, 2005 1:13 AM

RS said:

You are not going to find a source for these emails because these guys purposly use dynamic Internet connections. Anyone in the world with an internet connection can set up a mail server. Send out a million emails and shut the server down. Their goal appears to be to harm microsoft with propaganda true or false. God knows there are thousands of microsoft haters out there. US laws can not touch them either since the internet knows no borders and by the time you track down the ISP to somewhere in lala land their server is gone. It's impossible to stop because it sounds like they have a whole network of people and not just an individual. You can lock up this Robert loser but this wouldn't stop because he has already corrupted some other people.

I just got this message

Thanks to Individual and Server Contributions, S P A M I S is Now
"FULLY READY" to Begin Increasing Microsoft Public Service
Announcement Emails to 20 Times the Amount of Internet Email
Users by 25 Times the Current Sending Rate & Speed When a
Certain Activity Transpires to "ANY" Past, Present or Future
S P A M I S Member(s) and/or "ANY" S P A M I S Affiliate(s).

# September 23, 2005 1:38 AM

Aaleks said:

...i've worked it out!
since I recieved this idiot-like stuff from my own adress, i tried everything to stop it. finnally, since I used SPYBOT to take malware out of my system, it stopped...
---by the way MS spyware-doctor found the same malware on my PC, the program would only remove it, after paying some 29 bucks---
I hope my computer would never get on someones nervs again, sending ZOMBIE mails of this jerky kind...

# September 23, 2005 8:00 AM

David Yack said:

So was it Linkq or DevExpress!

# September 23, 2005 5:17 PM

me said:

To stop spam from this guy:

Basically, just enter your own address into your own blacklist. It's especially easy for me, since he got mine from my WHOIS info.
Usually you won't send yourself e-mails, as someone else already mentioned, so it's a minimal loss.

And don't fall for spyware programs that charge you $29 to remove spyware. There are a lot of high quality tools available (Spybot S&D, AdAware), you can use virus scanners against malware (Kasperksy), but the thing is - if your PC is really infected by a trojan, chances are you have a rootkit on your PC, which can't really be removed just like that.
You'd need to reinstall your computer, or put your harddisk into another computer that is known to be clean, and scan it for viruses and trojans there. If you don't know how to do that, ask a friend who does. In that case also ask your friend to set up a non-admin account and maybe install a less targeted browser then IE.
That's the way to fight zombie PCs and this creepy spammer-is guy.

# September 23, 2005 9:11 PM

Filip said:

Trying to download the mp3 file:

Liberated Syndication

HTTP Error 404 -
The file you requested could not be found
Sorry. Please check the url.

# September 25, 2005 7:27 PM

Wally said:

Thanks. I fixed it.

# September 25, 2005 7:41 PM

qworld said:

The mp3 file is not availible

# September 25, 2005 9:22 PM

Wallym said:

Hmm, it works on a direct download w/ IE and with ipodder for me. What are you using to download it?

# September 25, 2005 9:44 PM

Wallym said:

Ok, once again, I admit that I made a mistake, mistyped a date, ipodder did not care, and iTunes died on the feed. This has been fixed. Sorry for the total devistation this has brought to your life.

# September 26, 2005 7:49 AM

Teemu said:

It's said on top of that page

Note: Versions of this VSI intaller package are available for both the Beta 2 and the RTM (which includes the Release Candidate)

# September 27, 2005 7:10 AM

Keith Rome said:

Nifty! Thanks for the heads-up :-)

# September 27, 2005 10:17 AM

anon said:

The CLR does not run in the database process, but in an external CLR agent. Which I believe is an outproc exe.

One would question running the inproc CLR right in the database process itself, making it a great candidate for all sorts of process crashes and security holes.

# September 29, 2005 7:50 AM

Wallym said:

Yes, it runs as an out of proc exe in Oracle. The state is based on the fact that previous versions of Oracle for Windows do not have this capability.

As for running inproc, there are positives and negatives to doing this. As I understand it, the CLR runs inproc with Sql Server 2005, however, there are certain hooks in the clr that allow this functionality and allow Sql Server to host the CLR and control what is happening.

# September 29, 2005 8:12 AM

Trent said:

I am glad to have found this website through a google search for the word "SPAMIS". I have been receiving emails from the same joker for a few weeks now. I have submitted a complaint to the WA state government after getting all the info from this site.

Thanks to everyone for providing this informaiton.

# September 30, 2005 9:35 AM

Chiefmonkey said:

I appreciate anyones feeling who really hate what this guy is doing... after all it is just spam

But I have to admire the guy... His message is really simple

If Microsoft can do it, why can't I?

I don't get any spam from anyone one ever, I use spamarrest, but like "me" mentioned in the previous comment, I have turned on the ability to send myself emails so unfortunately/fortunately his spam is getting through to me

I quite enjoy reading them to be honest, if I start getting other spam I'll switch it off

Great thread by the way guys I'm glad I found it, some really good informative comments made

Chiefmonkey

# September 30, 2005 10:23 AM

Peter said:

I guess we could all do with our ISPs or hosting services putting a block on all mail which includes "S P A M I S" (and any future variation), so the junk doesn't even get seen by us.

The fact it is sent with a "from" mail address of my own is one of the more annoying aspects.

Quoting actual news items might well bring my attention to aspects of Microsoft, and I'm no great fan of theirs, but I'm even less of a fan of this jerk manipulating systems to send his "S P A M I S" junk mail to me over and over.

I get lots, every day, because of different domains I manage for myself and my clients.

Fortunately, my clients are sensible people and don't throw a hissy fit when they see this junk (along with other more offensive material which sometimes gets through), but it really should not be happening, and I would assume either the authorities have staff to sift the junk out of their e-mail, or they are so far removed from daily life they don't have any e-mail account at home... maybe their families can persuade them to take some action, cos us "mere mortals" in the internet community seem to have a hard job convincing them action needs to be taken, and quickly.

I regard junk mail as important as cracking down on illegal copying of software and films/music. Only second to stopping trojans and virus writers, because junk mail is a form of internet anarchy/terrorism, almost as bad as the real thing. Peter, in Europe.

# October 3, 2005 9:15 AM

Darren Gosbell said:

Wally,

Just a quick suggestion for when you are interviewing.

If possible could you mix the interviews with a bit of each person in each ear? (eg one person 70/30 in the Left/Right channel, the other 30/70).

Hearing the guest only in one ear and you only in the other is a bit like sitting on a train with two people on each side of you having a discussion.

Otherwise keep up the good work!

Regards
Darren

# October 4, 2005 7:41 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Still I wondered about what the ASP.NET people were talking about at the MVP summit, as it wasn't Atlas... and also not sparkle (as that's for winforms)

# October 4, 2005 11:32 AM

Aaron "icelava" Seet said:

why THANKS..... the equivalent of jumping in front of the camera of an uninvited show. Wouldn't miss it for the world ;-)

Maybe somebody should install a count down timer outside the recording studio.... I mean, your hotel room, so i know _not_ to knock on the door 2 minutes before closing.

# October 4, 2005 3:43 PM

not-this-time-he-he said:

Wally,

Ummm, spang al ready has a definition, and it ain't what you say it is....

Lets just say that content filters the WORLD over are blocking you for, um, "po-nog-aphic" where - = r language....

# October 4, 2005 3:45 PM

Aaron "icelava" Seet said:

You just violated _our_ NDA!

# October 4, 2005 5:26 PM

Lazlo604 said:

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# October 4, 2005 6:40 PM

Scott Allen said:

It's cool, very cool. I they go one step further and let us drop a WSDL file into a directory where a build provider can spit out a proxy script.

# October 4, 2005 8:30 PM

Rixter said:

I just reported this jerk to 3 of the ISPs that he's funneling his garbage thru

I have friends in Seattle and will be contacting them about this moron

# October 4, 2005 10:48 PM

Jason N. Gaylord said:

Thanks for inviting the group to participate. It was nice to here everyone else's opinion.

# October 5, 2005 11:21 PM

Jinath said:

Aaron, nice to hear from you

# October 6, 2005 1:12 AM

Jim Arnold said:

Now that's funny!

# October 7, 2005 5:29 AM

Plip said:

And good food it was too ;-)

Next time, I'm sure I'll end up paying.

# October 8, 2005 11:04 AM

Plip said:

Erk!

Terrorists!

# October 9, 2005 11:12 AM

Ingo said:

, they are talking like profis, but what is Atlas better? The samples I saw are too slow for web, not god.

# October 9, 2005 3:52 PM

Freelance Programmer said:

Great show! Keep 'em coming.

# October 9, 2005 4:28 PM

Jason Haley said:

Wow that looks good!

# October 10, 2005 8:17 AM

Dave Tigweld said:

Hmmm. I seem to recall when Macromedia Flash applications were being bashed for the same thing, they came up with a workaround for the backbutton.
Here is an article about the solution:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/blueprint/articles/back_button.html

# October 10, 2005 11:08 AM

Eric Newton said:

Yes. Response.isClientConnected.

# October 10, 2005 11:49 AM

Plip said:

The problem is, a page downloads just enough code to start all it's Ajax components, I press stop, but the Javascript keeps going, downloading data and consuming cycles on the client, I noticed this with www.start.com.

# October 10, 2005 3:33 PM

Scott Allen said:

"Get the browser makers to produce an easy way to disable buttons individually"

Worst Idea Ever! :)

I get really irritated by web sites that hide my buttons and popup windows and generally make a nuisance of themselves by not letting the browser operate like a "browser".

# October 10, 2005 9:57 PM

Jamie said:

How about a way to stop everything executing (including Javascript) when the Stop button is pressed?

# October 11, 2005 3:35 AM

Scott Mitchell said:

Get those vegetables off that plate! :-p

# October 12, 2005 5:16 PM

Eric said:

So if it only propagates on the myspace domain, how exactly is it a cross site scripting attack?

# October 16, 2005 11:25 PM

Plip said:

Ajax changes the users experience, but it also changes the fundamental way in which users interact with applications.

Those ways of interaction have been COMPLETLY neglected by application developers - this is not a fault of the technology, but rather the implimentation of the individual applications which are using it.

You say "There are ways around all of these issues, but developers need to handle the issues.", which is exactly what I've been saying, how can you say that one moment and then also say "To be honest, I really don't "get" what the issue is.".

# October 17, 2005 3:46 AM

Wallym said:

Plip,

The technology solutions are there. They are not great, but the solutions are there. Application developers need to put the solutions into their applications.

Wally

# October 17, 2005 8:10 AM

karl said:

While I look forward to the book, if anyone needs something to get started with, check out:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/ASPNetSpicedAjax.asp

It's certainly much more shallow than the book, but it should get you started.

# October 17, 2005 4:39 PM

Michael Schwarz said:

Inside the ASPNetSpicedAjax there is a wrong URL to Source Forge which is not the Ajax.NET library!! You can download the Ajax.NET library at http://ajaxpro.schwarz-interactive.de

# October 17, 2005 5:50 PM

Karl said:

Sorry Michael, I'll email them again for that :)

karl

# October 17, 2005 9:19 PM

Chris Stewart said:

Thanks for the heads up, downloading now...

# October 17, 2005 9:31 PM

Erik Porter said:

What exactly does getItem do? I've always done it like this...

for (i in result)
alert(i + ' = ' + result[i]);

# October 18, 2005 5:30 PM

Wallym said:

Sorry for the confusion, I was within a loop and forgot to pull that piece of code out

# October 18, 2005 5:50 PM

Douglas Reilly said:

Nothing serious, I hope! Not feeling well, that is.

# October 18, 2005 5:52 PM

TGOK said:

Things became a bit suspicious when you said Spang had a really cool logo. ;-)

Hope you get better before next weekend's code camp.

# October 18, 2005 8:29 PM

Wilco Bauwer said:

Bauwer ;).

Also, this is not Atlas-specific, but can be used to discover any object using JavaScript.

-Wilco

# October 19, 2005 6:16 AM

Jason N. Gaylord said:

Great show Wally! Keep up the good work on spreading the word about Spang. I'm sure the team will really appreciate it! ;)

# October 19, 2005 8:45 AM

Aaron Seet (icelava) said:

Oh SPANG me. Right now. I need it.

# October 19, 2005 11:21 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

Its the computer scoring system that moved them up. They are still #2 in the coaches poll and the Harris poll, but strength of schedule and other computer factors boosted them above USC with a score of .9763. USC's score is .9756. So the margin is minute.

# October 24, 2005 6:33 PM

Dave Yuhas said:

Even though Texas has "looked better" how can people justify USC dropping to #2 in the BCS. Until someone beats them they should be #1. (I am neither a USC or Texas fan).

# October 25, 2005 9:36 AM

Jerry Dennany said:

Sure, we believe that you have billions of loyal listeners. ;-)

# October 25, 2005 10:48 AM

Dave Sussman said:

I worry. I don't think the US goverment is best for the future of the Net and that's what we're talking about; all this crap about "other nations did nothing for the infrastructure" shows shortsighted ignorance; many did nothing to help invent penecillin - should they be denied basic medicines? Central ownership means easy taxing (which will happen, despite what many people say) as well as unbiased control. A single corporation shouldn't have control either. United Nations? There's pros and cons there too. I'm not actually sure there is an easy solution.

# October 25, 2005 12:08 PM

M. Keith Warren said:

The concept of someone owning a federated network is flawed, we maintain control via a contract between the DOC and ICANN but we dont own "the net".

I might remind you that the concept of the net and the technical implementations making it possible was our invention and our approach to point has had a number of positive effects (not saying lack of control would have caused negative ones).

The biggest thing that Americans fear is taxation; international bodies with stateless interests have long looked for methods of funding outside of the donations of wealthy nations; exercising control over such a vast and important global resource would afford the leverage such a body would need to impose levys as they see fit.

Also, and this is the less altruistic yet certainly strategic motive, if we lack control we give up a significant strategic opportunity in the fastest growing field of warfare; after all the technology of the net was born of a US defense project...

# October 25, 2005 1:19 PM

George Bush said:

There is no better entity right now than the US to run it. Lesser of all evils.

# October 25, 2005 1:24 PM

Chris said:

I'm not convinced the UN needs to be involved with the internet admin at all. The one thing I am certain of is that the internal is a global thing now. No one country can be allowed to run it in the future. The more we grasp at keeping the internet 'ours', the sooner it will be that we will have the US internet, and the world internet. That's a bad thing. The internet as itself has a very great skill: routing around "problems". Sometimes those problems are political opression; sometimes there are stupid laws; sometimes they're outages, and sometimes they are simply inter-BigCo disputes.

The internet routes around those issues, and finds a way to get there from here. That's what it does, and it does it well. Is the US keeps fighting this, the internet will perceive us as the problem, and route around us; eventuall cutting us our of a larger picture IMHO.

# October 25, 2005 2:13 PM

Simone Chiaretta said:

Hi wally,
I'm Simone from Milan, Italy, and I landed on the world of podcasting a few weeks ago, I found out you asp.net podcast to be one of the best around the web, togheter with polymorphicpodcast.
And I hungrily downloaded all your show and now I finally reached the end of the past shows: I'm quite an active athlete, and I listened 2 per training session, and people looked me as mad when I started laughing while running down the park or while lifting weights :-D

Anyway, very good show, you are great!!!
Just it's a bit difficult to follow the code snippets while running, since I don't have the text to read.

Keep going!!! I'm looking forward to hear show #24.

Take Care
Simone

PS: maybe you want to know who I am: I'm a software architect with 4-5 years of experience in developing .NET web applications (and 10 year of "commercial-grade" programming)

# October 27, 2005 3:54 AM

Buddy Lindsey said:

Hey I am going to check into that book. I Might have to wait for it to come down a bit more on amazon first.

Hey checkout my blog http://www.buddylindsey.com I am starting to do fairly side by side comparisons of ASP.NET and php as i learn more PHP.

Also I can't wait to hear the next ASP.NET podcast. Keep up the good work man. I am really enjoying them.

# October 27, 2005 11:05 PM

Frans Bouma said:

On amazone, the cover has less people on it. Though their cover shows 6 names and 5 people on the cover. WHo was deined to have his picture taken? ;)

# October 28, 2005 5:19 AM

Jerry Seinfeld said:

Doesn't that guy on the left play Andy on According to Jim?

# October 28, 2005 8:52 AM

Plip said:

Looks like a good book, who's the Stud third from the right?

# October 28, 2005 11:08 AM

uber1024 said:

One time I was checking out a few Wrox books at Barnes and Noble and my girlfriend was with me. She was normally pretty understanding of geek culture but she took one look at the book and burst out laughing. I asked her what's so funny and she just asked me why in the hell would anyone want to put pictures of programmers on the covers of books.

I wasn't really able to answer her and the more I thought about it, the more ridiculous it seemed. Any thoughts as to why Wrox does this to people who want to give them money for a book? They're typically decent books, so we buy them, but it's not for the cover art.

# October 28, 2005 11:28 AM

Paul Glavich said:

Thats just scary. I am going to put that picture on the windscreen of may car when I leave it parked in my local car park. No one is going to break into it with that on the windscreen.... ;-)

# October 29, 2005 7:07 AM

zz said:

Look at the View by Instance/View by Component tabs on the bottom. The highlight should on the bottom. Ugly.

How did that pass QA?

# October 29, 2005 9:58 AM

Erik Porter said:

Very cool...good tip!

# October 29, 2005 11:05 AM

Terri Morton said:

Have you given up on the idea of show notes? ;-)

# October 31, 2005 9:19 AM

Wallym said:

The "highlight" is from my screenshots and what I had highlighted at that moment.

# October 31, 2005 11:19 AM

Christian Shay (Oracle) said:

Thanks Wally. Just a heads up that we've also just released an "express edition" of Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio .NET, to go along with Oracle Database 10g Express Edition:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/dotnet/odtxe_index.html

# November 1, 2005 4:51 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Manual trackback on Wally's broken blog - http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2005/11/03/134250.aspx ;)

# November 3, 2005 10:17 PM

Anon said:

You mean *hang* around..

# November 5, 2005 11:31 PM

Sahil Malik said:

So wait a minute. What ur tellin' me is .. DC was WORTH all that hassle. LOL :)

# November 6, 2005 11:25 PM

Paul Wilson said:

Of course they do! That's not to say that the silly valuation formula being tossed around lately is anywhere close to being correct, but blogs certainly do have value. I'm going to assume we're only talking about the value of a technical blog, but certainly other types of blogs also have value, although most likely the principles won't be the same.

So for technical blogs, what are some of the very real components of a blog's value? For me the biggest factor is that potential employers and clients can gain a great deal of knowledge of you. But I think what many technical people fail to see clearly is that the knowledge gained about you from your blog may not be what you think it is. First, your blog may show you as a great developer or architect, but if you aren't careful it may also show you to be not so great afterall -- so be careful that your posts are correct and not out of the mainstream. Next, your blog displays a great deal of information about you that is not technical at all -- your writing skills, your personality, and even your ability to play well with others. Finally, your blog can of course actually raise your visibility so that you actually get noticed in the first place. That may mean that someone technical reads your blog and recommends you, or it may just mean that you come up higher in search results -- but either way a blog can very much bring you to the attention of prospective employers or clients.

Now just in case this just all sounds mostly theoretical, I'll finish this comment by noting that my current client found me primarily through my blog! So I can assure you that my blog has a very real value to me -- and not just some theoretical formula either. Also note that while I love reading about other people's philosophy and thoughts on life, I can assure you that my current client would NOT have been interested in me had my public persona been about non-technical issues that could be controversial. So I recommend that technical bloggers seriously consider the content of their blogs -- its great to talk about what you're interested in, but it may not be the best content for your blog if you are concerned about your technical career.

# November 7, 2005 9:58 AM

Mike Glenn said:

Technically MonoRail is not an ASP.NET Ajax Framework. It does allow you to do ASP.NET type pages, but its not the primary focus of the framework. Instead it relies on a templates based approach using NVelocity or Brail. To quote the <a href="http://www.castleproject.org/index.php/MonoRail:MonoRail_vs._Webforms">MonoRail vs. Webforms</a> page from the MonoRail site:

"Monorail is an intelligent port of Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.com/) to .NET framework. It attempts to simplify web development and address some of ASP.NET webforms issues. It's built on top of ASP.NET infrastructure so a lot of ASP.NET features (i.e. session control) are still available to the Monorail."

For more information please check out the <a href="http://www.castleproject.org/index.php/MonoRail">MonoRail site</a>!

# November 7, 2005 1:04 PM

timh said:

wally -- there are also a bunch of VSI power toys at: http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/CCIPowerToys including one that helps you uninstall content that was installed using the content community installer formats.

# November 9, 2005 9:42 PM

lokesh said:

your a?

# November 10, 2005 12:58 AM

lokesh said:

your a?

# November 10, 2005 12:58 AM

Stuart Ballard said:

I'd suggest that part of the reason is that there are existing, reasonably mature, widely deployed solutions for viewing PDF that do not come from that single vendor; this is not true of .doc.

OpenOffice does a decent job of viewing Word files, but my understanding is that even the new release still has limitations. Other word processors like Abiword and Koffice, last time I tried, only supported a subset of the format and sometimes mangled things quite badly.

On the other hand tools like xpdf, gpdf, Konqueror and more recently Evince have been viewing PDF files on Linux for ages with no help from Adobe.

Seems to me that if Microsoft want .doc to be treated as open, they should be working with the competing word processors to see what they need to be able to produce and consume it. Making the specs available is a good first step, except that the license on the spec appears to be incompatible with releasing code implementing it under any Open Source license. Microsoft's reaction to this seems to be "Oh well... tough luck then". It seems to me it's in Microsoft's interest for doc to be perceived as open, and they ought to be *asking* people what the roadblocks are to being perceived that way. Instead it seems more like they're saying "the specs are available, that should be open enough for you" - blind to the fact that people are telling them "no it's not, we need them available under terms that actually allow us to use them"...

# November 10, 2005 10:07 AM

Chris said:

I'm not sure you can equate MSWord to PDF. There are many tools to read/write PDF files and the PDF spec is 'open' enough for those tools to exist without licensing/eula snafus. I'm not sure the same is true for MSWord files, otherwise you would think we're have more/better MSWord readers/writers out there.

MSWord is not an accepted standard because of volume. It's the excepted standard because of Windows market share. SLight difference.

Personally, anything above a text file with outlines is more complicated than I can stand, regardless of the editor and the format. :-)

# November 10, 2005 10:52 AM

Rob said:

You have never understood it? It is simple...it is the F$ck Microsoft, those evil-empire monopolist bastards, strategy. Plain and simple. People and governments have agenda's and the whole issue is politics driven by the CIO of Mass.

Just my two cents.

# November 10, 2005 1:37 PM

David said:

Look, the truth is we all know MS is not our friend. Don't use MS tech.

# November 12, 2005 4:09 PM

William Luu said:

There's actually more ASP.NET ones that didn't get a mention.

These include:
- Bitkraft: http://www.tiggrbitz.com/
- My Ajax.NET (soon to be renamed Anthem.NET): http://jason.diamond.name/weblog/category/my-ajax-dot-net/

There may be more, lesser known ones around, but those are two that I remember.

# November 13, 2005 4:59 AM

Joe said:

You already have it with recent versions of MSN Messenger.

# November 15, 2005 7:57 AM

Jon Galloway said:

The article said they were considering offering ad supported versions of products, not converting to adware.

Also, there's a difference between ad supported desktop software and malware. Microsoft Money, for example, is partially ad supported (http://www.microsoft.com/money/fi/MarketingToolkit.mspx) but doesn't fit the malware definition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malware).

The problem with most ad supported desktop software is that it's done in an underhanded manner, but as long as
(1) there's a premium, no ads version
(2) it doesn't compromise the operating system
(3) it's clear about the tradeoff you're making
then I think it's fine.

# November 15, 2005 11:55 AM

informednews.com said:

Opera.com just give up this idea (adware). I think they did this for good reasons. Could this model work for MS? Maybe, but will look very unprofessional, in my opinion.

# November 15, 2005 12:46 PM

Stephane Rodriguez said:

Don't worry, this is only a PR from MS meant to tell WallStreet that they are aiming at Google. MS is not harming their two cash cows anytime soon.

# November 15, 2005 1:07 PM

A said:

You are so funny. dah

# November 16, 2005 1:34 PM

Buddy Lindsey said:

This is awesome news because the latest project our new company is going to be working on will require heavy integration of ajax/atlas into ASP.NET 2.0. the more resources the better.

# November 18, 2005 12:56 PM

Douglas Reilly said:

A got to a couple of meeting with Jim, and he was just a really nice guy. He will be missed.

# November 18, 2005 1:14 PM

Sahil Malik said:

Hey "The only ADO.NET book you will ever need" is my line .. go get your own line :)

# November 19, 2005 10:01 PM

Rob Scott said:

Yeah, life does get busy ...

# November 20, 2005 9:18 PM

Frans Bouma said:

Funny, I always have those kind of experiences with word: header formatting which is continued after you press Enter, bullit lists which show up without bullits, very slow scrolling, horrible table editing...

OO however does this without problems. Of course, I don't have to work with complex word docs, it's likely the problems you ran into are rooted in the fact the document you worked on is made in word. We here use OO native docs and it's never a problem.

# November 21, 2005 9:52 AM

Richard Dudley said:

You're not alone. I tried Open Office, and I came away with the impression that people are willing to overlook A LOT of issues just to say there's something that's "not Microsoft" out there.

# November 21, 2005 10:46 AM

lynn said:

I stick with Office 97 at home. It's payed for and does most of what I want. But I gotta admit, Office Vista does look tempting.

# November 21, 2005 1:27 PM

James Crowley said:

Along with all the other Visual Developer MVPs, I think ;-)

# November 22, 2005 9:01 AM

James Shaw said:

LOL. You and a few hundred (thousand?) others no doubt; I got mine too. :D

# November 22, 2005 9:08 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Same here :) It looks like they sent every MVP that email, or at least to a group of MVPs :)

# November 22, 2005 10:04 AM

Damien Guard said:

While I agree OO isn't perfect by a long stretch I don't think it's entirely fair to slate it for not being able to correctly parse another systems undocumented file format.

If you want to transfer documents, consider opening in the Word reader and cut-n-pasting into OO.

[)

# November 22, 2005 10:26 AM

Patrick Santry said:

I received mine as well. At first I thought it was a fake, my spam checker dumped it into the spam box.

# November 22, 2005 3:06 PM

walkingby said:

In Mozilla bowsers you use myobject.toSource() to get the javascript serialization of the object

var person = {name:'me',age:10};
var myjson = person.toSource();

# November 22, 2005 3:37 PM

Scott Cate - Knowledge Base Software said:

Wally, what JSON stringifiers are you using?

# November 22, 2005 6:25 PM

James Crowley said:

It's a shame they don't seem to realise that anyone outside of the US doesn't have a two-character state code they can enter :-D

# November 22, 2005 6:37 PM

Charles Chen said:

Douglas Crockford (the father of JSON?) has a great little utility function to "stringify" JSON objects.

More info on Crockford and JSON here: http://www.crockford.com/JSON/index.html

JSON utility here:
http://www.crockford.com/JSON/json.js

Linked off of this page:
http://www.crockford.com/JSON/js.html

# November 22, 2005 9:51 PM

Buddy Lindsey said:

That is interesting problem. I use OO.o in linux all the time and use word files form word 2003 interchangelbly and never have had a problem. All edits are kept exactly accross platforms. I guess it might be the windows version of OO.o

# November 23, 2005 12:08 AM

Business User said:

Microsoft rules in the business world. I'm sorry that academia hasn't recognized that yet. I'm more comfortable with working technology than openness and sometime working technology.

How many versions of non-backward compatible Java do I have to have on my machine? I have four versions running now to support six applications. It takes forever to load and run. If they run. I can hardly wait until we migrate from Novell to Microsoft. One less Java App. Hooray.

# November 23, 2005 1:03 PM

Online Wong PoKér Hu said:

A lot of people are not rooting for Georgia. I am a Miami although they are already out of contention for a prestigious bowl. I love to see rivalries like this one between UGA and GT. I feel like a college kid again.

# November 23, 2005 10:28 PM

rbfigueira said:

Any free chapter to see ? :P
When the book it will be release ?

thanks

# November 25, 2005 11:26 AM

Wally said:

Mid 2006

# November 25, 2005 4:26 PM

David M. Kean said:

And here I was thinking I was special...

# November 27, 2005 7:11 AM

Erik Porter said:

I mentioned the same thing in a post I did almost two months ago. ;)

http://weblogs.asp.net/eporter/archive/2005/10/05/426701.aspx

# November 28, 2005 5:53 PM

Dave Sussman said:

I'm 100% behind this too. There's nothing wrong with asking questions, even if it does seem like a a simple issue. I learnt this a long time ago when i read a book by Jim McCarthy (then head of the C++ unit) who said "Know your unknowns".

# November 29, 2005 6:10 PM

Karl said:

I'm not trying to be rude, but I think talking about it is pretentious. If there's even any doubt about this, if there's really a need to blog about it to get people's feedback, then you might be in the too serious crowd.

I know ,I'm coming down harshly ,sorry...nothing personal.

# November 29, 2005 7:31 PM

Wallym said:

My point is that I am agree with Bill and that I am not going to shy away from asking questions.

# November 29, 2005 9:10 PM

Ken Cox [MVP] said:

Hey Wally,

>Do you think it makes MVPS look bad to ask
>questions in public newsgroups

Not sure that it makes *anyone* look bad to admit they don't know everything. Didn't the Internet start as a way for university experts to share knowledge?

Besides, smart people don't lose a day banging away at a stupid little issue on their own. Instead, they do a Google search. If that doesn't help, they post the code in an MS newsgroup to get a few hundred pairs of eyes to point out the mistake - which could be a silly typo, a major logic flaw or even an obscure MS bug.

Then they get back to billable work rather than losing more time worrying whether they look bad. <grin>

# November 30, 2005 3:22 AM

Guy Murphy said:

The vast bulk of people are neither going to notice nor care you're an MVP.... The programmers of Mono, Spring, Reflector etc etc... not MVPs.

For many for whom .NET is part of a broader bag of tools, the notion of MVPs brings a wry smile... a more interesting question would be "Can advertising the fact one is an MVP on a public forum hurt ones credibility in the broader developer community?"

# November 30, 2005 5:11 AM

Bill said:

Karl - there's a little more than meets the eye with my post. I know, it's uncool to say that " I can't tell you why" but well there is - people will flip on my if I elaborated. Anyway, I was trying to make a point that it's totally cool for a MVP to ask questions - I thought people that think otherwise are a little off base. Sorry though if you thought it was pretentious.

# November 30, 2005 11:08 AM

Bill said:

God I hate UGA. I'm mad that your Jackets kicked my formerly #3 hurricanes a33 but I still like the Jackets

# November 30, 2005 11:09 AM

AndrewSeven said:

Its been a long time since I stoped thinking that the MVPs were the most knowledgeable people on a given subject.

They are "Microsoft Most Valuable Professional", not the "Microsoft Most Knowledgeable Professional"

To me this means that they are good at helping people.
This might come directly from their personal knowledge, but just as often they are able to put someone on the right track or to put them in touch with someone who can answer directly.

Asking questions is definitely not bad especially when they are not in your domain of expertise.

# November 30, 2005 1:34 PM

Dave Sussman said:

You mean they aren't after you? Jeez, I'm going to ask them for my money back.

# December 1, 2005 9:18 AM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

How about MI5 or MI6? Could that be true?

# December 1, 2005 11:11 AM

Plip said:

Did we double click Virus.Porn.exe.bat.com.scr ?

# December 1, 2005 6:48 PM

AndrewSeven said:

You could start by describing the hidden frame technique, it isn't a big leap from there to using an object instead of the frame to make the request.

# December 2, 2005 11:13 AM

Kyle said:

I guess I'm not in the majority. I don't consider myself a power programmer by any stretch of the imagination, but AJAX made a lot of sense. I haven't dug into it to the extent of a Google Maps depth, but have built a few apps with extensive use of the library. The hardest part for me was the JavaScript. I'm a VB guy, so switching to the C (ish) model (and getting used to the DOM) was the hardest. I think what helped me think through it is that it kind of IS a round trip to the server. You just don't see it, and only a part of your page is making the trip.

# December 2, 2005 11:15 AM

Wilco Bauwer said:

In one of your slides you say: "Sorry, but DND does not work properly right now." Unfortunately I couldn't make it to the presentation, so would you mind explaining this a bit? :)

# December 2, 2005 12:12 PM

Ethos said:

The biggest problem I am having "getting" AJAX or Atlas is that it seems overly complex. Check out atlas.asp.net for example. I just want to create a simple master/detail dropdown. Where the contents of one dictates the contents of the other. If I do it the way atlas.asp.net shows, I need to include a bunch of .js files, reference a new dll, and put a ton of stuff in my web.config file.

If I want to do it the AJAX way, I still need to reference a new DLL, and modify my web.config file.

It wasn't until a friend of mine showed me the RegisterClientScriptBlock and GetCallbackEventReference that it all became very easy and clear. I think when we as developers speak about Atlas and Ajax in the 2.0 realm we really need to mention those more often. There's no "setup" required and it's built right into the framework.

# December 2, 2005 12:13 PM

karl said:

It's funny, I'd have to say the opposite. The people I'm talking to grasp it quite quickly. Many newbies seem to have had past instances where they wished they could have done something similar, without really knowing what it was they wanted. They immediatly grasp Ajax within that context...

# December 2, 2005 12:35 PM

Wallym said:

Wilco - I was talking to Rob Chartier about DnD and he told me that it didn't work right now. If it does, I will glad change the slides and put up an example that works. I googled for an example and I didn't find one, so I assumed that was correct. :-)

# December 2, 2005 2:37 PM

uber1024 said:

If this is true then I'm okay with it. This is what happened when we as a community started to move from one paradigm (ASP) to another (ASP.NET). A lot of the developers that didn't "get it" have been and are being filtered out and aren't as involved in the upper level decision-making process.

That being said, I think that the real problem is the one that we all had when XML first started to become popular ... using it in places where it shouldn't be used. I don't look forward to the day when sites start to adopt AJAX in a big way for things that AJAX wasn't meant to do. This is inevitable, as lots of people who think that they get AJAX have a grasp of the technology but not the bigger picture.

# December 2, 2005 2:48 PM

Ryan Hardin said:

Like Kyle, I'm a VB guy, and I'm looking for a good tutorial with simple explanations so I can understand the code. I get the concept, I just would like to know how to implement it. Like what .js files I need, what functions to call, what is built in that I can call already, etc.

So, for those that find AJAX and Atlas to be simple, can you post a list (or even provide your own post even) that has a good and simple tutorial and/or explanation of how to use it?

# December 2, 2005 4:17 PM

coder said:

Here's a site to help newbies understand how "AJAX" works. Suprisingly, you will not find the word "AJAX" anywhere in the article.

http://developer.apple.com/internet/webcontent/iframe.html

And here are two other "AJAX" technologies that have been or are still being used.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/rmscpt/Html/rmscpt.asp
http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/main.htm

If you say these sites are not about AJAX then I say you do not understand what AJAX is about.

# December 3, 2005 2:38 PM

Bill said:

Wally - to be honest, I'm one of them that's having trouble. I worked in OLAP/DBA and embedded work for the vast majority of my career. When I got MVP I figured I needed to branch out so I started learning ASP.NET, but I never knew classic ASP (which from what I am told, is where a lot of folks got their first taste of Ajax). I've seen Ajax used and it looks hella cool, but I've only been able to do some really lame implementations of it. Can't wait for your book ;-)

# December 3, 2005 3:31 PM

Dion said:

I guess you're all looking for MagicAjax (http://www.magicajax.net).
MagicAjax is an open source Ajax engine for .NET that works without having to write a single line of javascript:
Just put a <ajax:AjaxPanel> around the page-controls you want to handled by Ajax. That's all (online examples available).

Works for both .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0

# December 3, 2005 4:51 PM

Guy Murphy said:

I think the problem is largely manufactured by AJAX advocates.

"So it's RPC with content injection?"
"Yeah, that's about it."
"Cool."

That's how the AJAX conversation should go.

It is not a radically new model for Web development, it's an old model for Web development (IFRAME buffering has been around a long time *prior* to XML HttpRequest), and when you tell developers it's radically new they start by assuming they don't understand rather than telling them it's simply remote procedure calls, and then a large portion of them will assume they do understand.

The bulk of AJAX is smoke and mirrors and a fresh push at dHTML which had gone out of fashion because it was brittle and buggy.

Lastly, the proof of the pudding is in the eating and I'm getting fed up of the number of AJAX promoting or lib providing web sites that don't actually use AJAX, namely nearly all of them.... Could it be because dHTML and JavaScript are stil brittle and buggy in the real world?

# December 4, 2005 5:04 AM

John said:

I have been using the OOv2 on windows for a little while now. It has performed very well, even when dealing with complex word documents. It can be used to recover word documents (from co-workers) that MS Word has corrupted. Overall, a very good program that plays very well in a MS Office work environment.

# December 10, 2005 3:19 PM

Ken Cox [MVP] said:

I was going to buy it but I was spooked by Phil's face on the cover. Tape it over and you've got a sale! <grin>

P.S., Just kidding Plip!

Ken

# December 11, 2005 7:10 PM

Bill Delaney said:

Wally,
the book is much needed. I have screamed through a half dozen chapters since purchasing Saturday.
But where is the code? Not on the Wrox site that's for sure. I sent an email complaining to the wrox webmaster too.
Would save me much time this week if I could get the code. Let me know if you can help!
thanks
errata: typo on page 117, para2, 'Unlike ridged languages... ' should be rigid

# December 12, 2005 9:42 AM

Wallym said:

Bill,

If you will contact me through the contact button on my blog, I will send you the source code that I currently have.

Wally

# December 12, 2005 10:09 AM

Bill said:

Hey man, just wanted to say thank you for letting me in on the project and for all the incredible work you did coordinating everything. It was an honor to work with all of you guys.

# December 12, 2005 4:45 PM

Bill said:

Good point.

# December 14, 2005 8:45 AM

Bill said:

And the amazing part is back when it passed, it was hailed as some panacea that was going to fix everything. At best it's done nothing. Realistically though, Spam got worse (not b/c of the act but b/c there's nothing that can be done about enforcement)

# December 19, 2005 9:29 PM

Bill said:

I was thinking I got left out, until yesterday when i got mine . Woohoo

# December 21, 2005 10:59 AM

Nikhil Kothari said:

The link to the info on my page is http://www.nikhilk.net/AtlasM1.aspx.

# December 22, 2005 1:47 PM

David Taylor said:

You are such a Wally Wally.

I know it is confusing, but that is still the September release (confusing because the linked page readme is the December release, but the download link is the September release).

It still has the old server controls that have been removed, and the messages are all copyright september....etc.

Please update your blog entry save a hundred more people waste their time :-(

# December 22, 2005 2:38 PM

Wilco Bauwer said:

Maybe the updated version of that page is not yet visible to you? Installed the .vsi and it is the December CTP...

# December 22, 2005 3:31 PM

Wallym said:

Well, the package I downloaded looks to me like it is the right version. It has file dates of 12/20 and 12/21 along with a debug and release version of the javascript components.

I checked again and the components do look like they are an old version. I'm checking with my contacts in the ASP.NET team right now.

# December 22, 2005 3:33 PM

foobar said:

It's sick. Absolutely sick.

I modified a search form I had that renders a paged datagrid.

In five minutes, it was totally AJAX enabled.

Amazing.

# December 22, 2005 4:07 PM

Mads said:

The one I downloaded said december next to the download link, but as far as I can see, Its the old version.

I have no UpdatePanel, and no EnablePartialRendering attribute on the ScriptManager :(

# December 22, 2005 4:59 PM

David said:

Still seems to be downloading the old version...any idea when the real December version is going to get put up there?

Microsoft is such a tease...

# December 23, 2005 12:20 AM

Frans Bouma said:

Indeed, some people will do anything to get a free ride...

# December 27, 2005 12:52 PM

Jon Galloway said:

I think the bigger problem is that people post this on the main feed. There's an option to post only on your blog without syndicating it on the main feed or putting it on the weblogs.asp.net page.

I always think the same thing with the "Test - this is a test from my PDA. If you see this, it works..." - go in afterwards and delete it, or at least remove it from the main page - it worked!

# December 27, 2005 2:17 PM

Chris Slatt said:

Or just don't syndicate the stupid thing. I posted it to my blog too, but I didn't post it to the main page!

# December 27, 2005 2:19 PM

Wallym said:

Agreed. Please keep the stuff off the main feed.

# December 27, 2005 10:34 PM

Allisa Simon said:

Dear,norad

I hope the tracking went well.i had a verry Merry Christmas.I hope you did too.Happy new year keep flying high

# December 27, 2005 11:17 PM

Bill said:

I'm so lame - I never caught any of these. What are some products that have gotten pimped?

# December 29, 2005 1:52 PM

Kirk Allen Evans said:

Merry Festivus! And now... the airing of grievances.

# December 30, 2005 10:28 AM

you know who said:

You left your talk in Huntsville in June off the list.

# December 30, 2005 11:05 AM

Wallym said:

Hmmm, I think I have something better to do........... ;-)

# December 30, 2005 11:16 AM

Rob Howard said:

I agree. Once we migrate to Community Server how about having the aggregate page display only .NET 'tagged' content.

Everyone who has a blog here has the right, within reason, to blog what they want to blog about (I don't always blog on .NET topics either). However, it would als be in most reader's best interests to setup the aggregate page for .NET content only.

Thoughts?

# December 30, 2005 11:27 AM

Ian Stallings said:

I think that I never signed on to be a ".Net blogger", I simply got a blog that happened to be written in asp.net from Scott, like a lot of people here. The site at that time wasn't under the domain weblogs.asp.net. But now with it falling under that domain people feel the need to keep you "on topic".

I don't define myself by a technology, I'm a developer. I go to work and churn out 8 hours of c#/t-sql per day. When I go home I use debian and code in C, php, etc. I build robots, my own UAVs running linux, etc. I'm not pigeon-holed into some idea of what a ".Net developer" should be.

So I think that since it's my blog and there are no content guidelines when I signed up no one should be telling me what is appropriate and what is not. The post that the coward thought was "inappropriate" was actually technical, detailing the potential safety problems with a new type of battery, lithium polymer.

So what was his problem? Because I used a cuss word? Last time I checked I wore big boy pants and could say what I wanted.

But for me it's a moot point. I'm done here. I still read the blogs here because I'm interested in the community and where it's heading. But what I'm not interested in is whether I offended someone because I posted on robots, electronics, batteries, java, C, linux, how MS sucks, my family, or my large left foot.

# December 30, 2005 12:21 PM

Rob Howard said:

Ian I don't think anyone is stating that you must change what you blog about - your blog is your blog.

# December 30, 2005 2:35 PM

uber1024 said:

Eh ... whatever. There's usually only about 1 blog entry a day that's applicable to my work or interests, so if people want to post why they deserve to be Anime Fanboy of the Decade or about the latest Microsoft MVP gathering, that's fine with me. I still check the feed at least once a day, and will continue to do so as long as my company keeps paying me every other Friday.

I post when I've got something to say, which is why I don't post much.

I like the technical posts, the posts about things that people built in their spare time (whether that be a cool .NET app or a robot that runs BeOS or whatever), posts in foreign languages (yeah, I said it. I like when people post in languages other than English), or about good books that people found or wrote. I actually tend to get tired of reading 600 posts about the same thing, which is why I don't post much about AJAX, despite the fact that I've spent the past 86 weeks in a row building and upgrading a huge AJAX-driven site (it wasn't called AJAX when I started).

# December 30, 2005 2:58 PM

Wallym said:

Ian. I didn't have a problem with anything that you said. I am on your side. I am saying that people need to be a little more understand of others. I agree with you and RobC. I also define myself in many ways. My blog is my blog. I talk a lot about .NET. I also talk about other things (golf, exercise, personal interests).

I also recognize that the site is a .NET oriented site. That means it is also a technology focused site. I attempt to respect that also. I try and stay on target and I think I do for a good number of my posts. For posts that are clearly outside of the technology field, I attempt to mark them with NT (Not Technical).

Wally

# December 30, 2005 3:07 PM

Another blogger said:

Um... you guys are aware that you can control which posts go to the main feed and which don't, right? So what's the problem?

# December 30, 2005 4:10 PM

Ian Stallings said:

Rob and Wally, sorry guys for any misunderstanding. I know you guys have my back and understand what's going on.

Also, I may be an idiot but I couldn't find where the syndication for the main feed is under the admin section, lol. Hell I wasn't even aware of this until after the fact. Never really saw the need to do so.

I really wasn't trying to piss anyone off, just wanted to share my life a bit. I'm just a bit rough around the edges and that comes through at times.

# December 30, 2005 6:04 PM

jayson knight said:

Just to chime in, this is also what post categories are for...of course it's up to the individual blogger to maintain these categories. Point is, if you don't want to hear about personal stuff, subscribe to the categories that interest you, and tune out the rest.

# December 30, 2005 6:34 PM

Matt Mondok said:

I check these blogs everyday for interesting content. At least half of the time I end up reading about something completely non-dot-net related, and I love it. It's nice to know that there is a person behind these blogs, and not just someone who can reiterate the MSDN.

Profanity serves a purpose in the English language: to stress a point. Whether you believe it or not, blogging is journalism, which is meant to encompass the language into a coherent form - sometimes with emotion. Profanity can be an awfully powerful writing tool to display emotion when used properly, just as Ian did.

Finally, I have made the assumption that everyone that reads these blogs uses the internet, and is most likely either a mature teenager or an adult. If reasonable profanity is offensive to you, then you are in the wrong place because the 'Net is not very friendly to the expletive-sensitive folks.

As a reader of this site and not a writer, I enjoy seeing all of the posts in the main feed. I'm capable of skipping over content that doesn't interest me. What I'm not capable of doing is finding the time to search each and every blog individually for content that I would enjoy.

Keep up the good writing.

# December 30, 2005 10:31 PM

Travis said:

I vote for a un-filtered "Main" feed. Rob's suggestion is good, but make it an option.

# December 30, 2005 11:03 PM

Chris Hammond said:

What do you use the spider for?

# January 1, 2006 5:11 PM

Wallym said:

Chris,

Hi Chris. Good question. There are a couple of reasons that I first built it.
1. My thing has always been large amounts of data. Scalability is a key issue for me. So, a database of the web is an interesting idea. It really gets you to understand things like threading, database indexes, and other important items.
2. I just wanted to build it and understand other issues. Because its there is kindof a cool reason, I hope.

Wally

# January 1, 2006 6:51 PM

Chris Hammond said:

That makes perfect sense to me. I got on the idea of creating one a few years back, just never actually got around to working on coding it. Always have too many other projects I start and never finish ;)

# January 1, 2006 10:39 PM

Simone said:

Reading this post noone of the tech podcast is worth listening...

# January 3, 2006 11:42 AM

Wallym said:

Simone,

How is it in Italy?

I think the point is that there are positives and negatives to all of the shows.

Wally

# January 3, 2006 12:42 PM

Paul Lockwood said:

They are all worth listening to depending on the technical level of the listener. DNR (.Net Rocks) really helped me progress beyond that of a bumbling junior .Net rookie.

In the next batch of Podcast reviews I will focus more the +ve; it was never my intention to knock anyone, but to provide a balanced opinion. My .Net presentations are like this too and maybe it works better in person? Words written the unskilled scribe (i.e. moi!) can be interpreted in unintended ways.

Anyone who takes the time to put together a regular podcast is a star in my book and they should all be applauded.

# January 3, 2006 1:19 PM

Aapo Laakkonen said:

I really recommend using the unofficial patch (and unregistering the harmfull dll that is used as a gateway to gdi exploit) until ms releases their own. The unofficial patch does not do anything more than installs itself on program files and puts one key to appinit so that it loads on startup. It can also be uninstalled from control panel or by deleting the registry key. It's ultimately stupid not to do this as it does not cause any problems (at least I have not heard any). The patch is also free and source code is provided. Only stupid ms advocates wait for official patch.

That's sad that these wannabe security guys at ms are suggesting the opposite that the most well known and respected security companies and experts have suggested the whole week. Microsoft has done very bad job on this, period.

# January 3, 2006 7:12 PM

Simon Fell said:

So, no plans to turn it on until next tuesday then ?

# January 3, 2006 9:15 PM

Kent Sharkey said:

Agree with you there, but I did de-register the DLL aflicted, just in case. I've got other software for viewing graphics, so not having the viewer available isn't that big a woe.

regsvr32 -u %windir%\system32\shimgvw.dll

YMMV - Kent

# January 3, 2006 9:20 PM

Kent Sharkey said:

Aapo:
My rationale for not installing the patch isn't that I'm a "ms advocate", but that I'm expecting the official patch to have a bad reaction to the unofficial patch, blowing something up. However, if it's as easy to uninstall as you describe, I may pop it on while I'm waiting...

# January 3, 2006 9:48 PM

Aapo Laakkonen said:

***I'm expecting the official patch to have a bad reaction to the unofficial patch, blowing something up***

As I said, the unofficial patch doesn't modify any files. It's just one dll that get's loaded at boot (using appinit registry value). It works by pathing programs in memory. The thing what you are expecting is FUD from MS security division. If they really know what the patch does (and I think that they know), they should stop whining and crying because someone did really nice job for Windows users all around the world by providing the patch to this very severe exploit.

I know that MS has policy not to recommend unofficial patches and that is usually just fine. In this case they should have delivered the official patch quickly and if they really cannot do that, I see no problems in recommending the unofficial patch that has been already installed on thousands or millions computers worldwide without significant problems.

# January 4, 2006 3:39 AM

Simone said:

Wally,
you responded to my comment, but did not approved it... so people will not be able to read the comment you are responding too..

anyway, in Italy it's damn cold. :-D

# January 4, 2006 3:59 AM

Frans Bouma said:

It's of course your computer, but this patch is made by a very well known programmer, and comes with sourcecode. You could of course NOT patch your system, but then you're vulnerable. If you think you're not vulnerable or you pay attention to the sites you're visiting... think again. If you are using HTML email, you are already doomed: one email with a .jpg which is actually a .wmf file and you're 0wned.

BUt of course, it's your computer :)

# January 4, 2006 4:44 AM

miwas said:

do you have plans of sharing the winforms version you've made ?

# January 4, 2006 5:00 AM

Andrew Kirkpatrick said:

Your friend is in forms mode (called "browse off" in Window-Eyes) when using your example. Forms mode is the mode where users are less likely to run into problems since the notion of a virtual cursor doesn't exist and the user's keystrokes interact directly with the browser. If you were using non-standard controls in order to achieve a specific appearance, you might run into more problems since screen reader users might not know about the role/state of the control, and the screen reader might have difficulty keeping an up to date off-screen model of the page when not in forms mode.
You friend also benefits from a simple linear application structure. Any change that occurs he runs into in the course of reading the document top to bottom. This gets more difficult the further the change is from the point that initiates the change, and much harder if the change happens upstream from the initiation point.
AWK

# January 4, 2006 9:34 AM

Craig Shoemaker said:

Paul:

I don't think you should shy away from your reviews at all.

Independent opinions (the good and bad) of shows does a great service to the development community. I like what you are doing and hope to see more of your reviews.

Basically I am saying I think you can say what you don't like about a show without knocking someone - and I think you succeeded in doing so.

# January 4, 2006 10:43 AM

Nish said:

An unofficial patch is still better than a virus or a trojan!

# January 4, 2006 12:07 PM

Kent Sharkey said:

OK, let me rephrase my original reservation (I've since looked at the patch, and applied it).

"I fully expect the MSFT patch to muck things up and break whatever this patch fixes."

Despite my past employment history, I have little respect or apologies for many parts of that company.

# January 4, 2006 12:14 PM

Craig Shoemaker said:

This should create quite an intersting mix of developers in the .NET space.

The debate over VB.NET vs C# will pale in comparison to what will start when Python developers start sharing the bunk bed with the rest of the .NET kids.

# January 4, 2006 12:26 PM

Carlos Alston said:

Is this spider something you built from scratch yourselft? Or did you use other pre build components or libraries

# January 4, 2006 1:41 PM

Wallym said:

I built everything except for the routine to get links. I found that in some magazine a few years ago. Everything else, from the threading routines, database schema, msmq integration, and other stuff is mine.

# January 4, 2006 1:49 PM

Frans Bouma said:

congratz!

# January 4, 2006 4:54 PM

Robert Hurlbut said:

Congratulations!

# January 5, 2006 4:42 AM

Kris van der Mast said:

Congratulations Wallace! Keep up the good work.

# January 5, 2006 1:58 PM

Bill said:

Congrats man, I just got mine too. I guess CC didn't have the 'clout' he claimed since I got renewed as well ;-)

# January 5, 2006 3:24 PM

Wallym said:

Thanks for the information Andrew. :-)

# January 6, 2006 11:55 AM

Blake Helms said:

This is another reference to the SNL "cowbell" skit. The reaction form Blue Oyster Cult was "What does that mean?" to which Bruce Dickinson replied "Don't question Bruce Dickinson"

See the video here
http://www.58fuelie.com/videos/cowbell.wmv

# January 10, 2006 12:56 PM

Wallym said:

Blake. You will need to listen to the next podcast. Special instructions will be in it.

# January 11, 2006 9:29 AM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

My guess is she doesn't consider that a "side" project... ;)

# January 11, 2006 10:10 AM

Bill said:

Have you used it on PPC yet? It's friggin awesome.

# January 14, 2006 7:40 PM

jayson knight said:

Virtually identical weather over here in Charlotte, though we had some really nasty thunderstorms roll through here Friday night (thunderstorms in January? and at night?). I can't remember the last time it was this warm in Winter, or the last time I was able to drive around with the top down in January.

GO PANTHERS!!!

# January 15, 2006 3:51 PM

Paul Glavich said:

Hey Wally,

Increase your aerobic workout rather than just weights. Also change your eating habits to be eating smaller meals but mroe frequently. eg. take 2-3 sandwiches to work. Eat 1 at 10.00am, then 1 at 12.00 etc...

And dont take diet pills. They are bad bad bad.

# January 15, 2006 10:11 PM

Guy Murphy said:

I'll try and remember to post some code when I get home...

For a couple of reasons I ended up testing a couple of hash code routines under .NET a couple of years ago for both performance and collision. I'll try and post the code, I know I still have it lurking around somewhere.

# January 16, 2006 4:58 AM

Travis said:

I wonder if the DB Pimps will still get the free copy with that unchecked. ;)

# January 16, 2006 11:14 AM

uber1024 said:

Jeez, a few people comment on his blog and all of a sudden he's getting knighted by the Queen! :)

# January 17, 2006 5:34 PM

uber1024 said:

Jeez, a few people comment on his blog and all of a sudden he's getting knighted by the Queen! :)

# January 17, 2006 5:34 PM

Wallym said:

Hmmm, me thinks that there is a little bit more to this: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aweblogs.asp.net%2Fjasonsalas+%22sir+wally%22&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

# January 17, 2006 7:42 PM

Plip said:

You can't be a "Sir". You're not British. You could be Wally McClure KBE though. (Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire)

# January 18, 2006 7:25 AM

Wallym said:

Plip, The nickname officially stuck as of last October, so now thats what I am.

# January 18, 2006 7:32 AM

uber1024 said:

Then Sir Wally it is!

# January 18, 2006 9:30 AM

Wallym said:

As you can tell, someone else created the term "Sir Wally." I have finally accepted it and am running with it.

# January 18, 2006 9:33 AM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

Come on dude - you make it sound like no developer has heard of primary keys or foreign keys...!

Not all of us are grads. ;)

# January 21, 2006 6:55 PM

Wallym said:

Wim,

As horrible as it sounds, most projects that I have had to deal with that contain someone else's database design don't have foreign keys. These weren't little projects either, but major projects.

Obviously, not everyone is a begineer developer. :-)

Wally

# January 21, 2006 9:18 PM

Tim Murphy said:

I don't mind a few personal items in the podcast, but 20 min? I drove almost all the way to work before you got on topic.

Other than that I do like the shows.

One note about working with DBAs. I love to work closely with them when they know what they are doing. In my experience though these are few and far between. I spend a good amount of time telling them how to do very simple database tasks.

The other problem with most DBAs is that they have "holier than thou" attitude. It makes it so that junior developers are afraid to even go near them.

Keep up the good work.
Tim Murphy

# January 23, 2006 9:03 AM

Wallym said:

Tim,

yeah, I do ramble. All of the suggestions are good. Keept them coming!

Wally

# January 23, 2006 9:19 AM

Brandon Schenz said:

I do not mind the rambling, probably because I tend to do it myself.

I think I would love the show take on an hour format though (allows to continue to ramble, but spend a bit more time on topic and go a bit deeper as well).

Keep up the great work,
Brandon

# January 27, 2006 8:50 AM

Blake Helms said:

What's going on. You act as though you actually have a job and the podcast is done in your spare time just for the benefit of .NET developers. Your doing a great job.

P.S. "Fellas, I'm telling you, your gonna want that cow bell on the tape"

# January 27, 2006 5:49 PM

jayson knight said:

I do too...I was in first grade. In honor of McAuliffe, schools in Charlotte were closed for the rest of the day, and everyone was glued to the TV.

# January 29, 2006 3:32 PM

Plip said:

During the war ....

# February 6, 2006 2:06 PM

Derek Comingore said:

I completely agree with you on the MVP matter! Becoming an MVP is not an easy task (usually), thus the award should be recognized regardless of age, gender, or ethnic background!

# February 9, 2006 12:03 PM

Nikhil Kothari said:

The special attribute (on a regular button, image button, etc.) happens to be "id", and the value we look for happens to be "abortButton" :-)

Any other attribute or value would be equally "special", right?

# February 10, 2006 12:46 AM

John Walker said:

I couldn't agree more!

# February 10, 2006 1:00 AM

David Taylor said:

Wallace,

This is actually a standard way ASP.NET 2 works with certain templated controls, nothing specific to Altas.

To get your head around this, get visual studio to output a template for the asp:Login control (use the ToolTip and pick the option to "convert to Template"). Note that there are lots of buttons that have a particular action based on the ID of the button.

In general, one of the nice things introduced with ASP.NET 2 controls was this ability for a control to have behaviour, but for the exact template of the control to be completely up to the page developer, as long as they give the right buttons/labels/etc the correct IDs.

I hope this helps.

# February 10, 2006 4:42 AM

Andrey Skvortsov said:

Entirely agree with you,intro of magic "id"s smells bad;-)

# February 10, 2006 5:03 AM

Andy Stopford said:

Nice one Wally, me too. Hoping someone has a geek dinner organised. Would be good to grab a few beers?

Andy

# February 15, 2006 12:46 PM

Wallym said:

I'll probably be the only one wearing a tshirt that looks like me, so I should be easy to spot.

# February 15, 2006 12:53 PM

Wallym said:

Actually, I should say that I will be the only one wearing a tshirt that looks like me and himself at the same time.

# February 15, 2006 12:58 PM

Mary said:

I LIKE IT!

# February 17, 2006 7:39 AM

Patrick Spence said:

Shameless, absolutely shameless!

# February 17, 2006 12:00 PM

Joe Healy said:

Wally,

I love your comments. From my perspective, yes the program is changing, and for the better. With change comes resistance. My stated mission is to "Build Developer Communities in FL/AL/MS". Scarily enough, my nod for MVP is worth something right now. My _first_ bar a potential candidate has to get over for my nomination is community face time engagement. I'm not going to use my nominations to help out people who are simply posting newsgroups, although its great they are there. There are plenty of guys in Redmond watching he newsgroups for that. When I see someone doing good facetime work, that I think can also pass the Redmond bar, I'll nominate them. Incidentally, 3/4 of my last nominees made the cut. They passed my bar, and the redmond bar before they made it in.
Of course Wally, if you ever need any backup on your nomination, you know you can always count on me. I appreciate your support of our developer communities (offline!).

Joe Healy, Microsoft Developer Evangelist, FL/AL/MS

# February 17, 2006 12:51 PM

J. Ambrose Little said:

Who'd actually wear something with your mug on it!? :)

# February 17, 2006 1:38 PM

Michael K. Campbell said:

I was actually in 8th grade - and science was my first class of the day. We watched the launch live. As a geek I knew 'everything' about the shuttle. I remember telling a buddy that in just a few seconds that the boosters would break off from the sides - then nothing but white smoke/cloud everywhere. I thought that was strange.... so did NASA - it took a few seconds, maybe even a minute for NASA to confirm, on tv/satellite (I _think_ we were watching it at school on a satellite feed), that something had gone terribly wrong.

# February 17, 2006 1:46 PM

Hannes Preishuber said:

welcome

i am also member in the emea speakers burau. INETA User groups can order me or any other speaker for free. The travel expensives are paid by ineta.

So - do it!

# February 18, 2006 5:54 AM

TGoK said:

Congratulations. Well deserved.

# February 18, 2006 7:52 AM

Robert Hurlbut said:

Congratulations!

# February 18, 2006 11:40 PM

David Yack said:

Here was my 2 cents...http://techlaw.davidyack.com/journal/2006/1/12/bewary-of-google-desktop.html

# February 21, 2006 2:24 AM

AndrewSeven said:

It seems like a strange approach when you could make the google desktop interact with the google desktop on a annother machine.

I disagree with the assertion "End users do not have the technical knowledge to understand the ramifications of something like this."
The ramifications seem clear, all searchable material may end up on google's servers where is it beyond your control.
This is a lot easier to understand than the networking details that will let you search the files and folders of annother machine without exposing that machine to the internet.

# February 21, 2006 9:16 AM

Wallym said:

I don't think that end users understand that their material would end up on a google server outside of their firewall. This could easily include intellectual property and trade secrets.

# February 21, 2006 9:33 AM

Rick said:

Is this book only about Atlas or AJX with ASP.NET in general? Are you going to cover other frameworks like AJAX.NET and Anthem.NET?

# February 21, 2006 11:03 AM

Craig Shoemaker said:

Rick:

The book covers Atlas and Ajax.NET in depth.

We will also cover Anthem.NET, ComfortASP.NET, and MagicAjax in the chapter on "other" Ajax frameworks.

Craig Shoemaker
<a href="http://polymorphicpodcast.com/">http://polymorphicpodcast.com/</a>

# February 21, 2006 6:59 PM

Thomas Kern said:

and i would say that attend a training like that isnt healthy or productive either.
take a day off per week or are you a pro?

# February 23, 2006 7:22 AM

Wallym said:

No, I'm not a pro. However, I have been working out pretty hard for the last 4 1/2 years. Before that I lifted weights mostly. Now, I'm almost all aerobic exercise. I workout 6+ days per week on average. I've only had two off days this calendar year.

# February 23, 2006 7:35 AM

blah said:

Bellsouth is a piece. Always have been.

# February 23, 2006 8:24 AM

Grant Holliday said:

Great effort Wally! I know how difficult it can be to talk oneself into going to the gym. (and how easy it can be to talk oneself out of)

Nothing like a good workout to clear the mind and get some ideas flowing.

# February 26, 2006 6:48 PM

Kim said:

Should be added to Lee Wilkins Web 2.0 logo montage! Hits most Web 2.0 efforts square.

# February 27, 2006 8:36 AM

uber1024 said:

It's funny 'cause it's true.

# February 27, 2006 9:34 AM

Stefano Demiliani said:

This is the question I've asked this morning... I'm waiting for your news :)
Please post some useful infos on how to install it under VPC (if possible).

# February 28, 2006 8:14 AM

karl said:

I'm doing the same thing :)I gave the sucker 1gb of ram :)

# February 28, 2006 8:50 AM

Wallym said:

yep, I have it set for 1 gb of ram also. Still installing............

# February 28, 2006 8:51 AM

karl said:

Dunno how it's going for you, but it's too slow for me. I tried to give it more ram, give it less. Everything goes "Not responding". I did remove the nice theme, but that didn't seem to solve anyhting. I did see a couple neat things (like asking for permission before lauching tast manager) and stuff. Too bad I don't have a spare machine anywhere..I'm sure this is all VPC related...

# February 28, 2006 12:38 PM

Steve Maine said:

I tried this out over the weekend...with marginal success. I was able to get the OS to install and boot just fine, but there was a CPU utilization issue that rendered the image pretty unusable - for some reson the CPU idles at 100% CPU utilization :(.

# February 28, 2006 12:41 PM

Robert Hurlbut said:

I learned awhile ago not to try running Vista on VPC. These days, I have a multi-boot partition for it that I can image and wipe away as needed for the next iteration.

# February 28, 2006 8:50 PM

SBC said:

Congratulations on getting it published soon!

# March 1, 2006 7:15 AM

SBC said:

LOL!
I won't be suprised if that site gets VC funding anyway.. ;-)

# March 1, 2006 7:17 AM

Wallym said:

Soon is a "relative" term.

# March 1, 2006 7:19 AM

SBC said:

I like the language of the publication as well..
;-)

# March 1, 2006 10:21 AM

AndrewSeven said:

Where is the "B." in your name on the book?

# March 1, 2006 4:47 PM

Simone said:

The audio from the india guy is a bit difficult to understand... at least for me, since I'm not an English mother-tongue

# March 2, 2006 7:02 AM

Wally said:

yes, I worked on the audio the best I could. Sorry for the problems with it.

# March 2, 2006 7:07 AM

Wallym said:

One other item that I forgot to mention is that one of my goals is to build community and be open to people in the community. I want to open the podcast up. The audio from someone else is something that I will have to get resolved on the front end next time.

# March 2, 2006 7:16 AM

genaya kruger said:

please get these i have to have one. he is the graetest.

# March 5, 2006 9:25 AM

Ohad Israeli said:

No matter how much you adore VPC... taste VMWARE and you will not return to VPC again.

I just love my VMWARE... finaly things go faster... and i have support for usb devices inside my virtual machine.

# March 6, 2006 2:53 PM

Jeff said:

Well done. I wish I had your situation...
http://www.campusfish.com/Jeff/4058

# March 6, 2006 3:39 PM

karie said:

I have just got to have one on these for my own cubbical!!!!!

# March 7, 2006 9:10 AM

Lisa Mackey said:

I WANT ONE OF THESE - I GOTTA GET ME ONE!!!

# March 7, 2006 11:24 AM

sral said:

You probably agree that com+ has its role with in the ms product stack. I think the problem is that the a lot of people didn't and dont understand it!

Cheers sral

# March 9, 2006 7:14 PM

Ciaran Roarty said:

I built my entire career on MTS and subsequently COM+! If I had said NO then I would be out on the street desolate.

You are, of course, right: don't use something unless it really needs to be used. If only more technologists thought that way....

Ciaran

# March 10, 2006 9:47 AM

sreejith said:

this looks amazing..........

# March 13, 2006 12:33 AM

Jean said:

It seems that I'm unable to download the podcast because it's mms:// and my firefox 1.5 always wants to open media player for that. I just would like to only download the .mp3 so I can listen to it on my pda.

# March 13, 2006 4:25 AM

Wallym said:

The direct downloads are meant for live listening. Sorry for the confusion. We are attempting to get stats comparing direct downloads vs. podcatcher applications.

# March 13, 2006 7:11 AM

Gabriel Halsmer said:

Yeah I'll believe it when I see it. The Inquirer isn't exactly objective reporting. And this particular article sounds like it was written by a 6th grader. I wonder how many times in the last 3 years the Inquirer reported that Dell was "about ready" to adopt Opeterons.

I think Intel will always use the marketing-term HT just to differentiate itself from AMD. They'll never admit it was a worthless technology. Too much marketing went behind it and they'd risk looking like hippocrates. The AMD fan boys (myself included) would love to see that happen, but Intel's not dumb.

# March 15, 2006 3:37 PM

jayson knight said:

Please god let there be plenty of fixes for the train wreck that is SSMS.

# March 15, 2006 5:32 PM

Erik Porter said:

Have a safe trip...see you there! :)

# March 17, 2006 5:37 PM

Eric Golpe said:

Yup, I VPC'ed mine and even with the tweak guide and pruning services Im still getting 100% CPU outta the gate. using VPC w SP1. Seems like its in the explorer process to me? Anyone got any ideas how to patch it?? As a developer it sure would be the right thing to run it as a VPC image..

BTW, Wally, where did you get the IIS7 Beta? Email me that one ericgolpeAT-NOSPAMhotmail.com

# March 20, 2006 4:44 AM

Andy Stopford said:

Hey Wally,

I am at mix as well, give me a shout back and we can arrange a meet?

Andy

# March 20, 2006 1:31 PM

Wallym said:

Send me an email through the contact form on the blog and I can get ahold of you directly. If you want to look for me, I'm the only guy running around with my tshirt on. http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/photos/asp.net_podcast_listeners/picture76.aspx

# March 20, 2006 1:48 PM

Rich Ersek said:

Yes, you definitely want to look at the release notes for the March CTP at http://weblogs.asp.net/atlas/archive/2006/03/20/440631.aspx

Here's the excerpt:

Changed or Fixed

1. Namespace

a. The atlas class library namespace has changed from Web.xxx to Sys.xxx

# March 20, 2006 5:29 PM

Dion said:

Duh! Guess you never heared of embedded resources?
Please realize that this url is different for any webserver.

# March 20, 2006 5:33 PM

scottgu said:

The script files are installed in your program files directory - so if you directly want to use them you still can.

But by default for both convenience, as well as to take advantage of the new built-in http compression module, they are exposed via WebResources.axd.

Hope this helps,

Scott

# March 20, 2006 5:42 PM

Wallym said:

Yes, I understand embedded resource. I put that up as just an example. Sorry for any confusion.

# March 20, 2006 6:09 PM

Wallym said:

Sweet. I knew that the files were somewhere, but I couldn't remember.

# March 20, 2006 6:11 PM

Wallym said:

thanks Rich. I went through it the hardway and found thatit. Viewing the readme would have been much quicker.

# March 20, 2006 6:12 PM

Floyd Gladden said:

Wally,

Can an updatepanel be placed inside of a usercontrol?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Floyd Gladden

# March 21, 2006 4:50 AM

Sonu Kapoor said:

nice.

# March 21, 2006 9:29 AM

raj said:

Hai

Let me know how to use response.redirect in ajax method.

Hope i will get some replays.

# March 22, 2006 1:27 AM

Aaron Seet (icelava) said:

And I remembered back then marketing stated something like, "customers do not have to wait for SP1 before deploying; SP1 is already baked into the product."

te he he

# March 25, 2006 1:12 PM

Aaron Seet (icelava) said:

But what happens when your boss says, "yes, we must" "do or die" "by hook or by crook"

I am just _waiting_ to witness the nuclear bomb get triggered for this current project i'm in for a technical design that has proven completely impossible to accomplish. With an environment so tied down we are not allowed to access the servers proper to conduct the necessary troubleshooting and testing, no less.

# March 25, 2006 1:15 PM

Rick Strahl said:

Live.com being the best example, that performance obviously wasn't a consideration.

Scalability maybe but perceived user experience - certainly not. <g>

# March 27, 2006 5:44 AM

Beavis said:

Fletch Lives reference. Nice.

# March 29, 2006 12:35 PM

Wallym said:

Actually, it was Chevy Chase in "Vegas Vacation." You had the right actor but the wrong movie. :-)

# March 29, 2006 12:39 PM

Frans Bouma said:

Still early beta, be aware of a biiiiiiiiiiig download :)

# March 29, 2006 3:23 PM

Craig Shoemaker said:

Congrats Wally!! Now with your singing efforts the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame is next! ;)

# March 30, 2006 9:56 AM

Jason N. Gaylord said:

Congrats Wally! We knew you were good for something. ;) j/k

If there is anybody out there who has not used that site, it is a pretty cool way to keep track (and be rewarded) for your community involvement.

# March 30, 2006 10:01 AM

Joe Fuentes said:

Yahoo, anyone that can drive so far for a code camp has my vote as well LOL.

Joe

# March 30, 2006 10:18 AM

Michael Schwarz said:

Working with Ajax.NET Professional, too. ;)

CIAO
Michael

# April 1, 2006 3:25 AM

jayson knight said:

Wow, that's pretty cool! There are various add-ins floating around for VS.Net as well...mono's getting there slowly but surely.

# April 2, 2006 8:58 PM

David Taylor said:

Hey Wally,

Actually What exactly are they?

I assume they are just using RSS to link to Audio feeds you can listen to on a mobile device after downloading?

Is that all?

I have heard the term for the last two years myself....On weblogs.asp.net, blogs.msdn.com, from people I met when I went to last years PDC in LA.

No one has every actually blogged about what it is?

# April 7, 2006 9:25 AM

Wallym said:

yeah, thats pretty much all that they are. There are tons of variations on the them, but thats about it.

# April 7, 2006 9:28 AM

Plip said:

I think with the likes of ITunes having a "Podcasts" section they will become more popular amoungs the unwashed masses. But PodCasts will just be "Downloadable Radio" to most people.

Here the main radio station (BBC Radio1) has a podcast of the morning show every day - that's popularising the terminoligy, but it's a bit different to the backroom podcasters :-)

# April 7, 2006 9:46 AM

Greg Young said:

Thanks Wally.

# April 7, 2006 11:37 AM

David said:

Greetings! I'm having an issue with downloading this episode. The link seems to be "broken".

Any suggestions?

# April 9, 2006 1:16 PM

Gregor Suttie said:

Smashin leaderboard - would be nice for dc to win or ernie but i still think tigers the man on the back nine on sunday at the masters.

# April 9, 2006 2:11 PM

not the one with the shiny cranium said:

Its fixed now. Sorry, I mistyped the url (obviously). :-)

# April 9, 2006 2:27 PM

Wallym said:

And Left wins.

# April 9, 2006 9:48 PM

Plip said:

I used XMLSpy some time ago to do something similar, I spent over a day trying to fix it - downloaded XMLSpy and within seconds I had ti fixed.

# April 10, 2006 6:27 AM

Tim Murphy said:

I don't care what anyone says, I find yours and the dozen other podcasts I listen to help keep me up to date with subjects I don't have time to read. Keep rev'n it up!

# April 10, 2006 8:46 AM

Greg said:

But is ut working? Feeling better each day? Losing the holiday inches? :-)

# April 10, 2006 9:07 AM

Ward Bekker said:

Funny, today DotNetJunkies.com, another dotnet blog site, is also is more dead than alive...maybe they have both the chicken flue ;-)

# April 10, 2006 2:35 PM

Ken Cox [MVP] said:

I'm getting "Server Too Busy" on weblogs.asp.net. Will you guys please go away so I can post my stuff and browse faster? <grin>

# April 10, 2006 3:02 PM

Alex Lowe said:

We're looking into the issues. In the future, please report issues using the feedback from linked from the weblogs.asp.net home page.

http://asp.net/forums/feedback.aspx?tabindex=0&tabid=1

# April 10, 2006 3:26 PM

Frans Bouma said:

I saw something too.

What I did was: in w.bloggar I clicked 'get posts', which took a long time so I killed w.bloggar. The second after that, weblogs.asp.net showed 'Server is too busy'. Uhoh. It reverted to normal after a few seconds (20 or so).

# April 10, 2006 3:34 PM

Alex Lowe said:

We've just made a change so the issue should be resolved now. The issue was created inadvertently while preparing to open the test site for the weblogs.asp.net upgrade.

# April 10, 2006 3:47 PM

Darren Kopp said:

"BTW, I'm not complaining, just wondering what's happening."

Well, isn't someone a bit nervous about hinting to problems with a system? :)

# April 10, 2006 7:09 PM

Robert McLaws said:

UPGRADE!!!! WOO HOO!!!

# April 10, 2006 8:09 PM

Plip said:

What's the overhead of making a single request, say in terms of the overall transmission in terms of bytes to transfer up the setting of a propfile propery called "Name" and giving it the value of "Wally" ?

Some metrics would be cool in demonstrating how much is saved here. Obviously its also client side and server side processing.

# April 12, 2006 4:05 AM

Matt Ranlett said:

Thanks for the post and the announcements in the podcast. I really appreciate it.

# April 12, 2006 10:42 AM

Granville Barnett said:

Out of the few Atlas books I've seen (none of which are out yet) the one you are working on sounds by far the best!! Seems likes in taken an eternity to write...you've been pluggin this book on so many podcasts!!...I'm sure it will be worth the wait though!!

Will the release date be the same for Amazon UK?? noticed its not on their system.

# April 21, 2006 9:04 AM

Scott Hanselman said:

You can also do this within VS.NET without any addins using MSBUILD and Gustavo Guerra's targets:
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BuildingNET11ProjectsUsingVisualStudio2005.aspx

# April 21, 2006 6:21 PM

Aaron Seet (icelava) said:

Countdown timer to Plip's editorials....

# April 22, 2006 1:10 PM

Paul Glavich said:

T-Shirt looks great, the head sticking out of the T-Shirt however is a little less than stellar... ;-)

# April 23, 2006 9:23 PM

Adnan said:

Great!

THough i am not married yet but i know tht its like a pleasure and gift if you get a good partner.May you guys lead several eyars together in each others arms:)

# April 29, 2006 5:18 PM

Plip said:

Congratulations :-)

# April 29, 2006 5:57 PM

Scott said:

Congrats, Wally.

# April 29, 2006 8:40 PM

Tyrone said:

Happy Anniversary!

Forget about all the .NET and Podcast for a day. Mrs. McClure need more Wally in her life! :)

# April 29, 2006 9:03 PM

Paul Glavich said:

Congrats Wally. Ronda must be a strong and tolerant woman indeed .... ;-)

# April 29, 2006 10:25 PM

simone said:

Congratulation Wally...
Ronda must be very tolerant with you since u spend all you spare time with .NET community...

well... like my wife is :-)

# April 30, 2006 8:17 AM

Granville Barnett said:

Manu happy returns Wally :)

Don't drink too much champagne!!

# April 30, 2006 4:07 PM

Plip said:

So, so, so sad.

# May 1, 2006 10:25 AM

Greg Young said:

Wow, she is a oak!

Congrats Wally!

# May 1, 2006 10:30 AM

Jason Love said:

Congradulations!

# May 1, 2006 10:43 AM

AndrewSeven said:

I just tell them that "I don't know anything about broken computers".

# May 1, 2006 1:15 PM

Dave said:

Good Luck. Had the same problem with upgarding to win 2003 when there were no problems on win 2000. Ended up having to recycle about every 45 minutes.

# May 3, 2006 12:16 PM

Tim Murphy said:

I have actually been asking a similar question about the Chicago area. We do have a Day of .NET which I understand is similar to a code camp. The big difference is that it has sponsorship and the speakers tend to be more from the sponsor companies, MS and INETA than the community. Our DE has been looking into starting a code camp. I guess we will have to wait and see.

# May 4, 2006 8:07 AM

Alan Stevens said:

Wally,

Glad you're going to participate. I sent him your contact info this week.

See ya' there.

++Alan

# May 4, 2006 10:28 AM

Raymond Lewallen said:

LOL Wally. You should try living in Oklahoma. We're so close to Dallas (3 hr drive from Oklahoma City) that nobody even gives a 2nd thought, or a 1st thought for that matter, of ever having anything like that here.

# May 4, 2006 11:08 AM

Jason N. Gaylord said:

With a DCom app, I had to set recycling to every 15 minutes. It was an app that was really supposed to be cleaned up and then enhanced and due to time constraints my boss at the time said just worry about the enhancements and your application architecture and forget about the unit tests, etc. Lots of fun that was.

# May 4, 2006 3:59 PM

Mickey Gousset said:

We are in the early planning stages of putting one together for Memphis as well.

# May 4, 2006 11:58 PM

Simone Chiaretta said:

ma il water? lo lavi o no? :-)

# May 5, 2006 12:03 PM

Doug Reilly said:

Congratulations! Just an FYI, my long suffereing wife and I just celebrated the 33rd anniversary of our first date (back when we were both 16 in high school)! Time flies!

# May 6, 2006 1:16 PM

khuzema said:

its nice to see, people care.

# May 7, 2006 7:16 AM

Tim Murphy said:

Craig is a great member of the .NET community. I don't mind getting updates like this.

# May 8, 2006 1:58 PM

TGoK said:

Congratulations to you and your crew of authors. I'm looking forward to reading a signed copy soon (maybe in August?). ;-)

# May 10, 2006 10:29 PM

Granville Barnett said:

I went to the gym every day for all April, felt great afterwards but I just don't have the time to go anymore, still manage to squeeze 2 or 3 days of weights in though - just no time for cardio.

Whats all the training for anyway?

# May 11, 2006 10:35 AM

Wallym said:

I'm trying to be half as good looking as Paul Glavich.

# May 11, 2006 10:37 AM

Granville Barnett said:

Well I will gladly donate money to you towards the cost of a a good hair shaver so you can capture Paul's look :)

# May 11, 2006 10:59 AM

Stephen said:

600 miles? Thats rough. I thought my 200 mile drive was bad enough. Good Luck with that Wally!

# May 12, 2006 4:25 PM

Jim Wooley said:

It is amazing the dedication some have to make it to these events. It is even more amazing when you realize that people are making the effort without compensation for the Code Camps. Kudos to you and all of the speakers who dedicate themselves like this.

# May 15, 2006 10:11 AM

Simone Chiaretta said:

I listened the first version of Miljan interview, and even if it had a few "bloppers" I liked it :-)

# May 15, 2006 11:21 AM

Wallym said:

Apparently others have conflicting thoughts on the code camp.
http://aspadvice.com/blogs/jfuentes/archive/2006/05/15/17810.aspx

# May 15, 2006 3:19 PM

Brit said:

I've tried subscribing to the podcast through iTunes and even downloading the MP3 directly, but no luck. Is the download available or have I overlooked something?

thanks,
.brit

# May 17, 2006 5:07 PM

Wallym said:

We have had a server failure. I am going to be working that problem this evening.

# May 17, 2006 5:08 PM

Wallym said:

The feed and the first direct download have been updated.

# May 18, 2006 8:22 AM

Simone Chiaretta said:

I think there are some problem with this page :-)

# May 20, 2006 8:24 AM

Granville Barnett said:

I think I've been listening to the podcast now for about 6 months, and I must say Paul and yourself have done a great job, I've not found anything as good as the podcast in any media format regarding asp.net.

As for improvements I can't really say anything, personally the thing I like most about the show is that its proactive in that it covers technologies that are not out yet (so to speak) but will be in the near future and thats invaluable.

Keep up the good work and congratulations!!

Granville.

# May 20, 2006 8:46 AM

FoxyBlog said:

# May 22, 2006 4:31 AM

FoxyBlog said:

# May 22, 2006 4:34 AM

Chris Hammond said:

Crossposting already documented ;)
http://weblogs.asp.net/christoc/archive/2006/05/22/enable-communityserver-cross-posting.aspx

# May 22, 2006 10:56 AM

admin said:

As you can imagine, we can't track questions, etc. via individual blogs. We really want to answer the questions so please send them to aspblogs@telligent.com or post them in the weblogs.asp.net forum at forums.asp.net. If you have a blog here and don't have access to the weblogs.asp.net forum then please send your email address to aspblogs@telligent.com and we'll get you setup with appropriate access to the forum.

# May 22, 2006 11:12 AM

Plip said:

I just blogged about the kit.

http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/archive/2006/05/23/IIS-7-Managed-Module-Starterkit.aspx

# May 23, 2006 6:53 PM

FoxyBlog said:

# May 25, 2006 4:17 AM

Community Server Daily News said:

Community Server Critical Security Patch released. Yesterday, May 25th, a potential security vulnerability

# May 26, 2006 6:57 PM

Plip said:

It's not very good as a starter kit goes.

# May 27, 2006 1:18 PM

Jason Haley said:

# May 28, 2006 11:45 AM

Jason Haley said:

# May 31, 2006 11:17 AM

Community Server Daily News said:

Telligent's Jose Lema releases a new CS Spotlight on how to duplicate the Video Gallery seen at the popular

# May 31, 2006 2:24 PM

shoemoney said:

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# June 1, 2006 1:40 PM

Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0\r\n said:

From the ASPNET Podcast team - Wally gives you the IIS 7 podcast with Chris Adam, Thomas Deml and Brett...

# June 1, 2006 10:23 PM

this is very good said:

this is related article

# June 4, 2006 3:00 AM

Varad said:

Thanks for the info. There are many apps in our org that are using SQL 2K, not sure my IT Dept is know of this update. I will communicate the same to them.

Thanks again!!
Varad.

# June 4, 2006 11:27 AM

AnjanaRam said:

I am not sure why this paper has been published it like that...

But this is a rumour.

Check the MS site to know the retiring dates

http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-in&p1=2852&x=4&y=14

# June 5, 2006 5:31 AM

Julie Lerman Blog said:

# June 5, 2006 9:24 AM

gbarnett said:

See this post on Wally's blog for more info:
http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2006/06/04/Sql-Server-2000-Support-to-be-Dropped-on-June-1_2C00_-2006.aspx...

# June 5, 2006 11:14 AM

SimonS SQL Server Stuff said:

This is the first of hopefully a series of summaries of whats happening in the SQL world.
I've can't...

# June 8, 2006 2:19 PM

SqlNews said:

This is the first of hopefully a series of summaries of whats happening in the SQL world.
I've can't...

# June 8, 2006 2:22 PM

SqlNews said:

This is the first of hopefully a series of summaries of whats happening in the SQL world.
I've can't...

# June 8, 2006 2:28 PM

Wallace B. McClure said:

My post about my webcast on Atlas has been easily eclipsed by the funny post about the David Yack picture...

# June 25, 2006 9:46 PM

Wallace B. McClure said:

My post about my webcast on Atlas has been easily eclipsed by the funny post about the David Yack picture...

# June 25, 2006 9:46 PM

Wallace B. McClure said:

Doug Turnure, a Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Atlanta, came to Knoxville and did a talk on Multithreading...

# June 28, 2006 8:52 AM

Wallace B. McClure said:

Doug came to Knoxville and did a really good talk on Multi-threading in .NET.&nbsp; I have uploaded his...

# June 28, 2006 9:10 AM

The blog of Wallace B. McClure said:

Doug Turnure, a Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Atlanta, came to Knoxville and did a talk on Multithreading...

# June 28, 2006 9:12 AM

The blog of Wallace B. McClure said:

Doug came to Knoxville and did a really good talk on Multi-threading in .NET.&nbsp; I have uploaded his...

# June 28, 2006 9:12 AM

Top 11 Ajax Podcasts : Ultimate Web Developer Lists : eConsultant said:

PingBack from http://www.econsultant.com/web-developer/ajax-podcasts/

# July 5, 2006 5:17 PM

Granville Barnett said:

Reading an article on Wally McClure's blog today about WAMP a new term that refers to Windows, Apache,...

# July 10, 2006 3:46 PM

Jason N. Gaylord said:

Unbelievable. The thing that bothers me the most is that 98% of MVPs are excellent community liaisons. The remaining 2% disgrace the program. They take advantage of the fact that Microsoft has rewarded them for a year's worth of work and never again attempt to help the community. Or, they place false statements like this one. One can only hope that they meant the free access to MSDN, the free MVP summit, and the "priceless" access to some of the Microsoft teams.

# July 11, 2006 9:12 AM

Ken Cox [MVP] said:

I think *you* should apologize for jumping to conclusions. At the very least you should have asked the guy directly what he meant before going overboard and posting stuff in a blog like "2% disgrace the program".

The guy's an excellent MVP and made the comment as a joke. Did you really think he was announcing that MVPs are paid by MS??????

# July 11, 2006 8:32 PM

Ken Cox [MVP] said:

Wally, please make it clear to your readers that the guy in question was *making a joke* and that others jumped on the issue without checking with him about what he posted.

MVPs are not paid. In fact, those who get hired by Microsoft must give up their MVP status.

# July 11, 2006 8:35 PM

Ken Cox [MVP] said:

Thanks for the update Wally!

# July 12, 2006 10:44 AM

Granville Barnett said:

First time I've ver plugged the ASP.NET Podcast but you should all listen to it, its great!! The most...

# July 22, 2006 8:38 AM

Granville Barnett said:

Well first MS denied it and now they have publicly confirmed it...MS will be making a device that WILL...

# July 23, 2006 8:33 AM

Chris Love's Official Blog - Professional ASP.NET said:

As I am working on a Time & Attendace application this weekend I have to figure out good ways for format dates for display and calculation. For some reason date formatting and my brain do not work well together. Well it is encouraging to see Wally

# July 23, 2006 7:00 PM

Plip said:

Looks like it was a good event :-)

# July 26, 2006 5:36 PM

Varad said:

Oh..I am in Charlotte and missed your session yesterday due to a hectic schedule at work. We (our application) moved to UAT yesterday (that was a big achievement though!).

Also I got from my friends that your session was great and they were telling me that I missed a wonderful event with lots of useful information on AJAX.

Is it possible to get the presentation slides? Please let me know.

Thanks,

Varad.

# July 26, 2006 10:46 PM

Plip said:

Good show. Enjoyed it.

# July 29, 2006 5:02 PM

Glavs Blog said:

Yes, its almost here. The &quot;Beginning AJAX in ASP.NET&quot; book is ready for release. Wally points

# July 31, 2006 10:46 PM

Craig Shoemaker said:

Our lead author on Beginning Ajax with ASP.NET, Wally McClure was browsing Amazon and found something...

# August 1, 2006 11:30 AM

Plip said:

Amazon uses the front page to show you what it thinks you're interested in ...

It's personalized to your account.

# August 5, 2006 7:55 AM

CodeSniper said:

Thanks for the video, I hadnt looked into the Auth/Profile API's in Atlas yet, so it was a good starting point.

There were some problems in the Profile Provider code that I wanted to point-out: (GetProfiles.aspx)

* You should move the setup for OnSaveProfileData & OnLoadProfileData events into the OnPageLoadEvent(), otherwise you will increase the number of callbacks to these events each time you Load/Save.

* SaveProfileData() fails if you dont load the Profile first. This is because it hasnt yet identified which properties are available in the config. So, for a Save, you should instead use the setProperty(name, value) method:

ex:

Sys.Profile.setProperty("Name", document.getElementById("txtName").value);

Thanks!

# August 15, 2006 10:55 AM

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# August 16, 2006 4:09 AM

Jason Haley said:

# August 29, 2006 10:45 PM

Jon Galloway said:

Woo hoo! Let us have it!

# August 30, 2006 3:58 AM

Vinay Ahuja said:

Wally is coming to Jacksonville to speak onAtlas on September 6th, 2006. Wally is a very interesting...

# September 4, 2006 8:25 PM

Plip said:

It would be nice if it did for some things ...

# September 11, 2006 12:55 PM

Wim said:

What do you mean: "..appendLine() does not currently work on an HTML page.." Of course it works. It works as it should by design. If you want to use the Sys.StringBuilder to concatenate HTML, avoid appendLine() but instead just use append() and put appropriate HTML BR or P elements in your StringBuilder.

# September 13, 2006 12:07 PM

Glav said:

Vista and Office are ok for me in general. I am running Vista Pre-RC1 and it does have some issues, but nothing too major. Outlook 2007 is a slug though, even after the Technical refresh, although the TR is much better than Beta2. Word works good for me, no issues there.

Visual Studio.NET has constant issues for me (when it closes, always says there was a problem, now restarting VS.NET). Script debugging does not work properly. Fiddler only works on outbound connections, not cassini/web file server sites, and I have had some issues with Team Explorer closing down when associating check-ins with a work item.

The integrated search in Vista os really good though. MSN desktop search was pretty crappy and slow.Vista search kills it.

- Glav

# September 21, 2006 10:16 PM

Jim McClure's Blog said:

Nice feature in Oracle - RETURNING Clause

# September 23, 2006 7:05 PM

Wim said:

Hmmm. That's kind of saying 1 and 1 equals two.

I don't know of anything that's easier done than said. Do you?

;)

# September 30, 2006 5:37 PM

Weblog said:

Go to about minute 31:30 at http://weblogs.asp.net/jasonsalas/archive/2005/04/25/404093.aspx, which is...

# October 3, 2006 1:51 PM

Weblog said:

As I was first building my Web Spider, i figured that the easiest thing to build the spider with would...

# October 3, 2006 2:07 PM

Weblog said:

As a followup to my post about Intel's x64 bit x86 plans, News.com has posted an article about an upcoming...

# October 3, 2006 2:12 PM

Weblog said:

Now with a day or two to digest what Intel has announced with regards to 64 bit extensions to their 32...

# October 3, 2006 2:15 PM

Weblog said:

I haven't worked on my Web Search code recently due to a bunch of work for customers. So, I got...

# October 3, 2006 2:29 PM

Weblog said:

I tried my Web Search with .NET code this morning after I got my cable modem re-provisioned. Well,...

# October 3, 2006 2:33 PM

Weblog said:

As a small followup to my post about “Mom always warned me to keepmy databaseindexes clean,”...

# October 3, 2006 2:40 PM

Weblog said:

Ok, I have been working on this NNTP Spider that goes out to a news server and sucks down the content...

# October 3, 2006 2:44 PM

Weblog said:

I just ordered some AMD 64 bit hardware. I have been hearing to much good about AMD64 and to much...

# October 3, 2006 2:45 PM

Weblog said:

I meant to revist my statement about finally getting Master Pages in Whidbey. I am not going to...

# October 3, 2006 3:07 PM

Weblog said:

I just updated my Web Search with .NET code to run under Whidbey and to use Sql Express as the database....

# October 3, 2006 3:24 PM

Weblog said:

Yesterday, I blogged and posted some code regarding CLR Triggers. One thing to be careful of is...

# October 3, 2006 4:34 PM

Weblog said:

Note: Please refer to my updated post on the subject if you have .NET 1.1 SP1. I've been looking into...

# October 3, 2006 4:50 PM

Weblog said:

Thanks to Scott Galloway for pointing out the AssociatedControlID property was added to .NET 1.1 SP1....

# October 3, 2006 4:51 PM

Weblog said:

If you are having problems trying to uninstall previous betas of Whidbey with little bits and pieces...

# October 3, 2006 5:15 PM

Weblog said:

The following are the current publically available, most recent builds of .NET 2.0 related products that...

# October 3, 2006 5:27 PM

Weblog said:

To follow up on the SMO Scripter() object, many of the SMO objects, like Table(), Column(), Index(),...

# October 3, 2006 5:30 PM

Weblog said:

This is very cool. I decided after checking out the USB drive this morning that I would check out...

# October 3, 2006 5:33 PM

Weblog said:

http://weblogs.asp.net/wallym/archive/2004/10/19/244766.aspx If you don't do this, no clr stuff will...

# October 3, 2006 5:55 PM

Weblog said:

Wow, this is so cool. The previous build didn't run under Windows for x64. There was no mention...

# October 3, 2006 5:57 PM

Weblog said:

I switch back and forth between Visual Basic and C#. Sometimes, the project changes, but I keep...

# October 3, 2006 6:04 PM

Weblog said:

I have a dropdownlist (aka drop down list) box within a repeater. When the index change event fires,...

# October 3, 2006 6:12 PM

ScottGu said:

Stephan Walther has a great ASP.NET 2.0 accessibility article on MSDN that you might also want to check out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnetusstan.asp

Hope this helps,

Scott

# October 3, 2006 9:26 PM

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# October 4, 2006 8:19 AM

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# October 4, 2006 3:04 PM

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Subscribe Download Show Notes:I've got an interview with Paul Wilson and then me doing some technical...

# October 4, 2006 3:14 PM

Weblog said:

If you are a user of the Oracle Tools for .NET, check out the OTN Support forum at http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jsp?forum=228...

# October 4, 2006 4:03 PM

Weblog said:

Download. Subscribe. Show Notes: Interview with Matt Gibbs. The .NET Regular Guys (and the Regular...

# October 4, 2006 4:19 PM

Weblog said:

A couple of links of interest regarding javascript debugging from my previous post about some issues...

# October 4, 2006 4:25 PM

Weblog said:

Ok, I'm not sure how I missed this, but I did. It was added on August 3rd. Oracle has put...

# October 9, 2006 3:55 PM

Weblog said:

Subscribe. Download. Note (Added on 9/11/2005): Check out the Interview with Michael...

# October 9, 2006 4:15 PM

Weblog said:

As a follow up to our podcast on Ajax, some folks asked me about my examples. I have posted my...

# October 9, 2006 4:45 PM

ExplosiveDog.Com said:

I recently had the need to search through various files that were stored in a SQL table. These files

# October 12, 2006 3:22 PM

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# October 12, 2006 4:05 PM

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# October 12, 2006 4:57 PM

Weblog said:

So, I was talking the other day about the AuthenticationServices class in Atlas. To get this working,...

# October 12, 2006 5:15 PM

Weblog said:

It looks like there is a namespace called Web.Profile. This namespace appears to be for managing...

# October 12, 2006 5:17 PM

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# October 12, 2006 5:40 PM

Weblog said:

Doug came to Knoxville and did a really good talk on Multi-threading in .NET. I have uploaded his...

# October 12, 2006 6:53 PM

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# October 14, 2006 2:15 AM

DotNetKicks.com said:

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# October 19, 2006 7:51 PM

Steve said:

Is it just horrible fixed-width-no-matter-what blog software that makes the text get cut off on the right side? 3 sentences are cut off while you are explaining what they are doing/telling the framework

# October 23, 2006 1:07 PM

Jody said:

The post is incorrect for the correct reasons. Turning off partial rendering doesn't mean that less script is being sent to the browser - what it means is that the page will still perform a full postback. The odds are over the course of the lifetime of the user experience if in partial rendering mode (and client' broswer cache enabled) that less will be transferred between server and client. Partial rendering set to false merely indicates that full postbacks occur which means all of the viewstate etc gets transffered back and forth between server and client.

# October 24, 2006 1:38 AM

Microsoft Internet Explorer and Opera: The BugBlog Report 10/24/06Microsoft Internet -- Centplus Tech said:

PingBack from http://www.centplus.com/microsoft-internet-explorer-and-opera-the-bugblog-report-102406microsoft-internet/

# October 25, 2006 3:59 AM

Seiti said:

Nice! But where are the code/binaries?

# October 25, 2006 4:08 PM

Fabrice Marguerie said:

I had to revert to the atlas prefix because apparently the asp prefix confuses the designer. I had the bad surprise to discover blocks of HTML reformatted by the designed in some of my ASPX files... See http://forums.asp.net/1436990/ShowThread.aspx

# October 25, 2006 8:10 PM

Steve Marx said:

I believe that "most" == "features that are in the AJAX Extensions" (as opposed to the CTP). Just for the Beta, the UpdateProgress control is in the CTP. It'll come back into the core soon and be "asp:".

# October 25, 2006 8:32 PM

Rob Howard said:

I'm glad you like it -- it's one of the many cool features that already exist, and there is MUCH more to come :)

# October 25, 2006 11:34 PM

vikram said:

I feel the beta release has too many bug for people to move to it. The attitude of Microsoft towards the first beta has been really very bad. I am not moving to the beta till they update these. Also How do you get the Microsoft.Web.Ajax.dll in the Bin folder. According to Microsoft it in GAC but my Hosting provider might not update this in the shared Hosting I am using. http://www.vikramlakhotia.com/New_Beta_version_of_the_ASPNET_AJAX_released.aspx Vikram

# October 26, 2006 1:10 AM

charles said:

Yes, guy, thanks a lot.

# October 27, 2006 4:12 PM

robert said:

You can return a DataSet, but not a DataTable. Go figure!

# October 30, 2006 12:54 AM

cyril said:

Good thing to know how works the pageRequestManager, but a tool like fiddler is better to see this. For information, in the Atlas CTP, XML was used to transfeir this information.

# November 2, 2006 2:36 AM

willreyn said:

Thanks for that tip. Also, if you want to make a vsi you need to "Export Template" which creates a .vscontent file without which you are sunk. Then play around with your xml files and zips. It does work eventually!

# November 3, 2006 5:07 AM

Rahul Chaudhari said:

Hi All Gurus, RemoteOperationException: ERROR: Wrong password for user I'm getting the above error while connecting ORACLE 10G database through "Oracle Enterprise Manager" trying to connect to sys user and Host Credentials Please tell me how should i set "Specify the OS user name and password to login to target database machine." it's very urgent me mail to RahulC@infonox.com Thanks and Regards Rahul Chaudhari

# November 7, 2006 1:04 AM

Elliott said:

I don't belive it! I have been trying to sort this problem for 1.5 days!!! It's fixed now. You're a star!!!

# November 7, 2006 6:11 AM

Dan Kahler said:

"...to where I can use it." I don't agree with this 100%. If you mean "I won't be able to have a boilerplate solution that I can use for all my IIS customers", then yes, I agree that we won't see wholesale adoption for some time, especially in federal environments. But as a server technology, I don't see this as a technology has to be widely adopted before I can personally benefit. It doesn't have the same leveragability barriers as say, ClickOnce applications, which can't be deployed unless .NET 2.0 is installed on all the end users' desktops. We were able to migrate selected public web sites to IIS6 pre-RTM, and saw the performance and reliabilty improvements on those sites immediately. I think we'll see similar adoption with Longhorn. There will be early adopters and laggards, but developers and administrators will be able to reap the benefits well before IIS7 deployments outnumber IIS6.

# November 9, 2006 1:50 PM

help.net said:

Dan disagree totally. IIS 7 is not just a fancy new UI. It's the first version to integrate fully .NET and I don't understand the marketing ploy to push everybody to Vista Server to get it. As Wallym said my servers will b under Windows 2000 and 2003 for more years to come!

# November 9, 2006 7:33 PM

Paul Glavich said:

You are so jealous, but thats ok, you are only human. ;-)

# November 16, 2006 4:45 PM

vishal said:

Man you are great...that solved my problem

# November 17, 2006 4:47 AM

Michael said:

What two places did you place this handler? My application works great in BETA 1, but BETA 2 has caused all the UpdatePanels to cease working!

# November 17, 2006 11:32 AM

Tim Hibbard said:

It was a good game, but what happens if Michigan wins? Are they the champs then? Is that fair?

The numbers say that Michigan is #2, but it doesn't seem right to have a rematch. This season is poking some holes in the BCS system. Maybe we will see a type of playoffs in the future.

# November 19, 2006 4:30 PM

Ed said:

It's obvious now that those 2 teams are #1 and #2. There is nobody close to their "class" in the rest of the top 10. The game is being touted as the "Game of the Century."

As far as the "if Michigan wins.." argument, if they beat Ohio State by 7 or more points, yes, they would be champions. They lost the game on a roughing personal foul. Without that penalty, they win the game.

Everybody is looking forward to a rematch. I think a rematch would be the best thing for College Football as well as National TV.

# November 20, 2006 2:38 PM

Simone said:

Hy Wally, the link to the video is broken, any chance to get it fixed?

# November 21, 2006 3:08 AM

Park said:

Are u finish? Is it opensource ?

i am learning timesheet asp.net program.

# November 21, 2006 4:24 AM

lucas kost said:

this is an awsome game

# November 22, 2006 12:16 PM

bob bob said:

this game is the coolest

yey

cake

mmmm

cake

yey

try the game and eat cake

# November 23, 2006 4:07 AM

Abdullah Arslan said:

You need to put some extra lines in web.config

The explanation and example web.config file is in atlas folder (program files\microsoft asp.net\atlas...)

# November 23, 2006 4:25 AM

anita said:

i think a rematch is completely unfair to the buckeyes because the winner of last weekend's game doesn't get rewarded and if michigan somehow wins the national championship if it is a rematch, they don't deserve to be the champions. the whole BCS system is ridiculous!

# November 23, 2006 10:50 AM

kamiwa said:

http://forums.asp.net/thread/1465297.aspx

# November 23, 2006 12:05 PM

Harish Ranganathan said:

Wallym and folks, if you had installed ASP.NET AJAX Beta 2, you would face this issue. You need to add the script resource tag as mentioned in the original post by Wallym.

The correction being, this documentation is available at C:\program files\microsoft asp.net\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025\ReleaseNotes.txt file.

I have also blogged about it at http://geekswithblogs.net/ranganh

# November 24, 2006 7:28 AM

Walter said:

Bingo!

Thanks for the fix.

# November 27, 2006 5:16 PM

Aniruddha Banerjee said:

Thanks a ton. I fixed this problem in the webconfig file by adding

</httpHandlers>

inside the System.web.

# November 29, 2006 6:07 PM

jayson knight said:

I asked a similar question on a popular news site after reading about this story, especially since it's well known that MS has to approve any story concerning their software.

The answer is simple...no one paid for it. It's a story about security flaws. A simple trip to Secunia or other similar security sites will confirm what is outlined in the pdf, therefore even if the story had been unfavorable towards MS, there is nothing that could have prevented them from allowing it to be published as it's based on public domain.

# December 2, 2006 3:47 AM

Laura said:

Hey ,

I've had the following error after using the website administration tool:

The SSE Provider did not find the database file specified in the connection string. At the configured trust level (below High trust level), the SSE provider can not automatically create the database file.

I am using a ms sql server database although i am new to this feature. It works fine locally but not remotely.

Please help

# December 5, 2006 9:22 AM

David L. Penton said:

Please....stop it Wally!!!! :) For the love of God!!!!

# December 6, 2006 12:36 PM

Ed said:

The fact that a rematch is not happening is a travesty in college football.

Where would Michigan be ranked if USC beat UCLA? Obviously 3rd. With USC losing, it's common sense that the team that would be 3rd be moved up to 2nd. It's simple logic. Something the BCS obviously lacks.

# December 6, 2006 12:49 PM

ASP.NET Podcast Site has been updated :: Newstack said:

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# December 7, 2006 10:58 AM

CRAP ON A STICK said:

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# December 8, 2006 6:54 PM

ashley said:

where do i go 2 track santa

# December 8, 2006 8:58 PM

Adrian said:

Thanx Abdullah. That worked for me.

To be more specific for others: Take the contents from "C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025\web.config" (or something like that) and copy it into your own projects "web.config". Try your project again. Voila!

# December 9, 2006 3:53 AM

Gabriel Lozano-Morán said:

Last week I have bought a new laptop which is in the $3,000 price range. The manufacturer claimed it is Windows Vista ready. Since I have access to the MSDN downloads the first thing I did was install Windows Vista and indeed it could find all drivers except for the drivers for the GeForce Go 7950GTX graphics card and my built-in wireless device. I could install the drivers for my graphics card by using the one for drivers targetting Windows XP. But then, for me propably one of the most important devices, my wi-fi device, there are no drivers. It is a Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG module and looking at the web site from Intel these drivers will be available somewhere in June/July 2007 which I find kinda messed up!

# December 10, 2006 7:31 AM

saraha said:

this game is awsome eni1 (bois)perhaps fancy chatting 2 me chhers

# December 11, 2006 8:15 AM

jt said:

this game can kiss my ass but its bad ass

# December 11, 2006 9:59 AM

psychoben said:

I like this game as it has inspired me to eat several people, fullstop. I do try to fit in a social life in my life, but it is exceedingly difficult. So just remember; stop, look, listen, live. Just rember boys and girls, mr spencers in the woods tonight, mr spencer is to *** in the woods tonight to give little children a fright. dont forget to use your nails boys!

# December 12, 2006 8:07 AM

Scottie said:

LINE RIDER RULES MAN!

# December 12, 2006 11:35 AM

jojopojamo said:

this game is cool

(I can pull cheese out of anything)

# December 12, 2006 5:41 PM

madi said:

it was a cool game

# December 12, 2006 6:09 PM

Si said:

worked for me too. many thanks

# December 13, 2006 4:40 AM

Nobull said:

Well he won't be spammer out of any of our servers and listing his name on a huge webhosting forum

# December 13, 2006 5:31 PM

ashcan said:

I pasted the error into google. You're page came up. Perfect Directions and I got that wonderful warm feeling you get from instant gratification. Bless you. This dumbfounded me. I am aware now. Thx.

trash

# December 15, 2006 12:28 AM

Daniel Plomp said:

Yes, I'm using his control for quite a long time now. Also, doing mail-merge stuff is very easy. Just add a datatable and an e-mail template, and the mail merge is done. (a-sync, if you want!)

Great product.

Daniel

# December 15, 2006 3:21 AM

Devacy said:

LineRider is really fun, because it is completely pointless and stupid, and is very adictive.

If you haven't played it go to linerider.com and try it.

If you have played it you know what I am talking about.

Possible the best game ever, if you can truly call it that. What ever it is, it is great!

I just wish they had a ruler option or something like that for (really) long(er) lines. That would make it easier to make a good slope and jump.

# December 15, 2006 11:02 AM

corey said:

this game is freaken awesome

# December 19, 2006 2:08 PM

JIgna said:

Yet doesnt work for me.

# December 19, 2006 11:49 PM

stinky said:

TTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSS GGAAAAMMEE RROCKS

# December 20, 2006 1:14 PM

bumble bee tuna said:

i love lamp, i love desk, i love line rider!

I dont know what we're yelling about!

Loud noises!

# December 20, 2006 2:08 PM

Janice said:

Happy Festivus! <A HREF="http://www.whatisfestivus.com" >What is Festiuvs?</A> Its for the rest of us.

Let the airing of grievances begin!

# December 23, 2006 3:43 PM

Janice said:

Today is Festivus! Happy Festivus! <A HREF="http://www.whatisfestivus.com" >What is Festiuvs?</A> Its for the rest of us. Let the airing of grievances begin!

# December 23, 2006 4:09 PM

AzamSharp said:

This is a very sad news. Doug was a good guy and an asset to the community. This is a great loss for everyone. May God give patience to his family.

# December 24, 2006 12:34 AM

Mariano said:

Beautiful. Thanks a lot, you saved me a lot of time.

# December 27, 2006 3:34 PM

FransBouma said:

I agree with you that it has nothing to do with ethical, it happens all the time, heck we too give free licenses to people who want to write about our work, a lot of companies do. I also agree that bloggers aren't journalists and shouldn't be seen as journalists, bloggers are opinionwriters, they share their own opinion.

So what I think is the point is credibility: a blog is an expression of an opinion and a reader spends time reading that opinion.

If that opinion is biased in such a way that the point made in the opinion is based on other motivations than what the writer of the opinion truly thinks, and the reader doesn't know this, what's the point of reading that opinion anyway?

Take yourself for example. You are one of the few bloggers who dare to say that Oracle isn't that bad at all. I like that, because you didn't fall for the

'Everything from Microsoft is preferable'-doctrine some people seem to be using. So because of this, I know your expressions here have a high risk of being honest opinions.

If you would get a shiny laptop from Microsoft, and you'd stop blogging about oracle because of that, your readers would lose, and thus you will lose, because then your opinions here are just hot air, as valuable as Microsoft's own propaganda on their own site...

So it's not 'nothing' this is about: it's about credibility of the bloggers who got the laptop, and the value of the opinions they ventilate. Often these people are at the root of a chain of 'did you hear?' conversations, which thus makes it about something.

At least, in the case where you care about what you read is an honest opinion of course. If you like to read marketinggoo, then this is all about nothing.. ;)

# December 28, 2006 8:38 AM

The Other Steve said:

All the hardware that Jerry Pournelle talked about. All the hardware you see reviewed at anandtech, or tomshardware, gaming sites, etc.

All of that was given to them for free.

# December 28, 2006 9:43 AM

B.L. Ochman said:

<Update: I don't know who B.L. Lochman is, but I do not agree with him.

I'm a she, not a he, which you'd know if you read my blog, which has my picture on it. And my name is B.L. Ochman, not Lochman, which you'd also know if you read my blog.

B.L. Ochman

# December 28, 2006 9:53 PM

CumpsD said:

I don't see what all the fuss is about either.

Person X blogs about subject Y.

Company Z behind subject Y gives person X a laptop.

Person X already blogged about subject Y, happily accepts the laptop.

Person X carries on just like he did all the time before that.

Yes, if person X suddenly changes all subjects he is blogging about, then he lost credibility. If he just keeps going like before, for me personally, he is still as credible as before :)

# December 29, 2006 3:01 AM

Doug Turnure said:

Nicely done. I always appreciate inclusion in a Christmas poem :-)

# December 30, 2006 9:09 AM

Glav said:

Couldn't even get the right URL for my link....pffft. And I thought you cared....

# January 1, 2007 6:04 AM

Plip said:

I already had my go :-)

http://weblogs.asp.net/plip/archive/2006/12/21/five-things-meme.aspx

# January 1, 2007 7:25 AM

Michael Schwarz said:

Congratulations to you, Wally!

# January 1, 2007 1:21 PM

jerdenn said:

Interesting 5 items (+1). I didn't know that you were a GT grad, it's a great engineering school.

# January 1, 2007 2:08 PM

Craig Shoemaker said:

Wally:

So when are you going to do a bonus podcast on contract negotiations? ...seriously you should do this ;)

# January 2, 2007 9:15 AM

Martijn said:

Sorry I dont agree with Jason Clark. I've been using eWorld UI Controls specifically the pop up calendar for almost 2 years in an intranet app. It works well is simple and clean without clutter. - It rocks.

My personal thanks to Matt Hawley for a great job! Excellent controls :)

# January 3, 2007 3:19 AM

Philip said:

Of course you're biased, you're a person. You're not required to act as though you balance your view with the opposite. That's *why* I subscribe to your blog and hundreds like it - it's a look at the development landscape through many viewpoints. Please, let me do the balancing.

Joel's article on this laptop thing is simply dripping with ego. He (and you) are no more credentialed journalists than my chia pet. He seems to think that he's carries so much weight with technical readers everywhere that if he took a free laptop we'd be incapable of tipping the scale with our own information. Even though I've lost a lot of respect for Joel over the last year, I still read him - but I have a mind of my own. Assuming I won't use it is just stupid.

The day you stop acting like a person speaking about your daily life and start acting like a reporter is the day I start evaluating your blog as a magazine. I expect them to be balanced already. If they're not, I quit reading them. But I'm not surprised to see ads in the pages.

I maintain a blog. I am not a reporter. If you're interested in my professional life, you can read it. But don't let me fool you - I'm not a journalist. I may push my own viewpoints on you. I may have passion about things you find boring, and stand on the other side of a line and proclaim I'm right and you're wrong. I'm a person spewing thoughts and words into the net.

As an aside, I think Microsoft did well with the tablets - they used marketing budget to 1) market products they sell 2) reward the people out there that *already* market the products they sell for them.

Yes, let's all reflect on how evil that is.

# January 4, 2007 7:27 PM

ScottGu said:

The JScript intellisense isn't there yet in this CTP - but will be available with next month's CTP (along with a whole bunch more features).

Thanks,

Scott

# January 11, 2007 10:46 AM

preishuber said:

are the final AJAX bits ar in?

# January 11, 2007 10:53 AM

Mike said:

Is it JScript or JavaScript?

# January 11, 2007 3:14 PM

Adell said:

That is bad news hope you back on track soon.

# January 17, 2007 10:56 AM

Gustavo Valdes said:

Hi. I was checking this link and I'd like to know if IBM has released the production version of this provider or just drop the project?

Thanks in advance.

# January 18, 2007 10:47 AM

hj said:

My computer is connecting by domanin,I installed the oracle 10g on my local pc but wheb I try to start/shut down the db I get this error:RemoteOperationException: ERROR: Wrong password for user.

I tried few times what you wrote but it dosent work.

if someone can help...

# January 18, 2007 10:47 AM

stink said:

This game is totally narly

# January 22, 2007 7:09 PM

Lyng at medware said:

I copied just the <httpHandlers> section from the Web.config located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025\web.config into the <system.web> section of my web.config and I was good to go.

Thanks for the info.....

# January 23, 2007 2:33 PM

Nairooz said:

Well, i tried this example with a table having around 5000 records and the query execution shows the same performance and time

# January 24, 2007 4:46 AM

Mostafa said:

this is the first example

# January 24, 2007 6:04 AM

Gilles said:

THanks alot works for XP too

# January 26, 2007 3:05 AM

Isaac said:

Also, be sure that "localhost" is added to the trusted sites collection.

# January 27, 2007 1:13 PM

Chris Love said:

You are absolutely right Wally. Just another liberal anti-production organization trying to stop progress. They are probably all for the socilistic philosophy of Linux and other Source Available to Hackers applications. As far as I am concerned, when liberals get bent out of shape over something, then it most likely is a great thing.

# January 29, 2007 12:09 PM

The Other Steve said:

"Their dominance in the marketplace is based on the fact that their customers are paying for the products, nothing more."

I don't know who this ECIS is, nor do I necessarily agree with them, however if you go back to the Adam Smith theory of the invisible hand, the market is not just those who are paying for the product, but all consumers in the market.

It is perfectly reasonable, rational, and desirable for consumers who do not feel their needs are being met to advocate and complain. This is a recognition that the free market involves not just producers, but also consumers.

In time, if the complaining voices resonate, they can effect the market. Again, that is reasonable, rational and desirable. It is therefore in the best interests of the producer to judge the market and respond. If the complaining voices are strong, they must surely change their product and adapt.

As a sidenote, if you feel the complaint is not valid because the product performs a feature in such a way that it is a benefit to you, then it is your right to similarly speak up.

The point is, that the "market" is not solely about those who buys. It also includes those who do not buy, who refuse to buy, or whose needs are not being met by market producers.

This does not mean I think we should see government action enforcing an action. But it certainly means that people have a right to their opinion, whether you agree or not.

Again, I don't follow ECIS, or really know or feel if their complaint has any merit. However I frequently hear this myth about the way markets work and I wanted to counter it.

# January 29, 2007 2:08 PM

CodeSniper said:

On a lighter side, I find it interesting how the ECIS implicitly gives XAML & OOXML a boost by legitimizing them as competitors to HTML & ODF.

The funny part is that they neglect to recognize how many times Microsoft has thrown out technology and had it flop. Even if the Windows OS has a monopoly on the desktop, it doesnt guarantee that any of its features will also monopolize other markets.

Take the browser wars for example. The only reason why Microsoft succeeded for so long was the lack of any decent competitor. Then one day, after years of neglecting IE, some new releases from the Mozilla guys changed the story in a short period of time. The same can happen if Java/XUL/SVG et al can do what FireFox did to the browser wars.

The ECIS has once again dropped their pants and shown the world their incompetance.

~Lance

# January 29, 2007 3:46 PM

Darren Kopp said:

So.... why aren't they whining about xml being supported in pretty much every product? THAT is more of a html killer (remember, xhtml is xml).

freakin idiots. be universal in your application of rules. if ms can't include a media player, no one else should be able to.

# January 29, 2007 4:00 PM

The Other Steve said:

Bosworth used to be at Microsoft.

# January 31, 2007 1:47 PM

Nish said:

Assuming Bosworth did invent Ajax, that still doesn't mean Google invented it - so the title of that article is misleading as is the title of your blog entry :-)

# January 31, 2007 2:29 PM

Tim said:

I don't think Bosworth was claiming anything about AJAX. He says "stuff that these days is called AJAX." All he is saying was that while at Microsoft he was pushing to move apps from the desktop to the web but it wasn't time yet. Everyone was talking about the same thin client concept back in the mid 90s but nobody could come up with a good way of getting it done. You had Sun trying to produce a JavaOS at the same time. It was all a push to move applications back to central servers as they were in the mainframe days.

# January 31, 2007 2:53 PM

Steve Marx said:

Hey Wally!

The quote doesn't say that Google invented AJAX. It says that Adam and some other people did, and that many of them now work at Google.

I agree it's worded pretty badly, though. I don't know if that's intentional or not.

# January 31, 2007 3:32 PM

David Keaveny said:

AIUI the first real Ajax application was the Outlook web client for Exchange Server. I was certainly writing Ajaxy applications using MSXML on IE5 back in 2000 (and cursing the changes in the various XML components when IE5.5 came out). I would agree with wallym, though: Google really popularised it with Suggest and Maps.

# January 31, 2007 5:22 PM

The Other Steve said:

"I never stated that Adam Bosworth did not work at Microsoft. The article that I link to states that. What's the deal with you and your attempt to correct me. So far, you are 0-2."

It's my job on the internet to correct people who are wrong. You should be less stubborn about being corrected.

:-)

# January 31, 2007 9:20 PM

The Other Steve said:

Wally - Yes, but people who don't give money are also potentional consumers and you ignore them at your perile.

Look at General Motors. For years they only listened to customers who bought GM, and ignored customer who bought Toyota and Honda. Eventually they lost more customers than they kept, and their marketshare slid precipitously.

The point is, just because someone has bought Honda, does not mean GM should not listen to their complaints as a potential customer. And believe me, the Honda owners were telling their friends what crap GM made, and their friends eventually listened.

CodeSniper - Agreed. I don't like that ECIS thinks the only way to get what they want is to have the Government kneecap Microsoft. As you say not everything MS creates is useful or popular. My point was simply that ECIS does have a right to their opinion.

But it's up to us to determine whether they are right or not.

# January 31, 2007 9:27 PM

Jim Pendarvis said:

I would like to thank Mr. Bosworth for inventing AJAX, Al Gore for the internet and Sir Wally for the GUI that I enjoy.

I would also like to thank Santa Claus for me car, the Easter Bunny for my house and the stork for my kids.

It great to know that the people who deserve the credit are receiving it.

# February 1, 2007 6:50 AM

Neil Murphy said:

Haha, I have just been informed by a senior support guy at a global multi billion dollar company in the UK that support for SQL 2000 ends this year. After he said that i checked for myself and found this site. Brilliant.

# February 1, 2007 7:34 AM

Dave said:

add the following:

</httpHandlers>

</httpModules>

</system.web>

# February 1, 2007 5:13 PM

Jeff said:

Thanks, this helped me a lot. I was really worried there was something more obscure or difficult happening. But does this fix only work when accessing 10g from the same computer? What about when accessing remotely?

# February 1, 2007 5:45 PM

Bill said:

Hey Wally:

I appreciate the comments - and well, the feeling is mutual. I'm glad I finally got to meet John - he's extremely cool.

Thanks again man!

Bill

# February 2, 2007 2:25 PM

Bill's House O Insomnia : Lunch with Wally said:

PingBack from http://msmvps.com/blogs/williamryan/archive/2007/02/02/lunch-with-wally.aspx

# February 2, 2007 2:54 PM

Aaron Seet (icelava) said:

So "prototype" is an indicator to mean the method is an _Instance_ method, rather than Static. Ah, I am getting closer to understanding what that term is about.

# February 4, 2007 9:45 PM

Fred said:

Sure but you have to be sysadmin on both servers! Big step backwards from DTS. I need to copy a db from a hosted server. The only good way I see is to install the sql server 2000 client....

# February 6, 2007 11:14 AM

Guna said:

This document is timely helped.

# February 7, 2007 1:30 AM

Prasshant said:

Thanks for the tip. this baled me out of the error

# February 7, 2007 9:30 AM

Venkat said:

I am wondering why Oracale changed the ExecuteNonQuery behavior from 9.x to 10g release.

My application is happily working with 9i ODP.NET. It is failing after moving to 10g, beucase I am checking for NumberOfRowsAffected and executing some logic based on this.

I foind that ExecuteNonQuery return -1 only if the commandtype is Procedure. Where as if the CommandType is Text, it is retuning correct value (number of rows affected)

Is it an issue with Oracle 10g? Or some issue got fixed and this is result of that fix? Any idea?

Thank You,

Venkat

# February 8, 2007 9:22 AM

a-joprue said:

Why register both HTTP and HOST? I'm confused over which one needs to be used for domain AppPool service accounts. Looks like your suggestion is just to register both.

-Joey

# February 8, 2007 4:41 PM

Adel said:

Microsoft invented Ajax first when they develop they Outlook web accsess.

# February 9, 2007 1:23 PM

Rick said:

Can Vista (assuming that you are running Vista on your machine) Run on machines with more than 3 GB. I had a problem with XP/2003 with 4 GB RAM. The OS used just 3 GB.

# February 9, 2007 2:59 PM

chuckt said:

I don't see the components in the VS toolbox when working with asp.net projects. Windows projects show the components. I don't see anything in the docs that mention this limitation. Are you experiencing the same thing?

# February 9, 2007 7:18 PM

freehostingbadboy said:

Nice but how do i set the connectionstring to my connectionstring in the web config?

# February 9, 2007 8:04 PM

jlee said:

Great solution. Thanks a lot.

# February 12, 2007 3:16 PM

Bibek said:

Hello i want to retrieve the value of the textbox created dynamically.for eg.

for (i=0;i<5;i++)

{

string value=value of textbox(txt+i)

}

how is it possible.

# February 13, 2007 12:34 AM

morbac said:

THANKS ALOT FOR THIS TRICK !!

YOU'RE MY HERO !!!!

# February 14, 2007 11:48 AM

Mcoolant said:

Thanks for this usefull information

# February 16, 2007 6:47 AM

cotter said:

i love this game and it so beast

# February 20, 2007 6:58 AM

cotter said:

i love this game and it so beast

# February 20, 2007 6:58 AM

Phil Andrews said:

Thanks for that. I've been going nuts trying to figure out why it wasn't working. That fixed it right up.

# February 23, 2007 1:51 AM

Jason Salas said:

Hope it works out for you. I've been messing with some virtualization configs for accessing some business apps written for Windows on Linux laptops. It's made for an interesting little weekend hackfest.

# February 24, 2007 1:04 AM

John said:

Remarkble!

I'm a Chinese PhD candidate major in International Relations. I sought Wallace McClure, the economist of State Department on google, but found that most of the outcomes are corcern with IT and softwares and something I really don't understand...:-(

Finally I found this page...It's a touching story, You found your grandfather on internet, I found the economist I admired and his grandson!

# February 25, 2007 5:09 AM

ERROR said:

first time something worked so quick

# February 27, 2007 10:07 AM

joydeep said:

Thanks wally your suggestion worked like charm.

# February 28, 2007 11:58 AM

Jason said:

The link for the self-extracting image is broken. It points to http://www.microsoft.com!

# February 28, 2007 12:23 PM

Dominick said:

It would be wonderful if this were available on a DVD or CDs to be sent out. My connection is limited at work so I won't be able to download all the huge files, but I would love to see the new features and provide feedback.

# February 28, 2007 12:36 PM

Vikram said:

thanks for sharing the Release of the CTP

# March 1, 2007 5:04 AM

Tom said:

Can SSD be implemented over NAS + ISCASI instead of SAN?

# March 1, 2007 10:09 AM

Manish Gupta said:

HI

I tried using SQL Dependency but it is getting fired again and again without even any event occurs. I am not able to understand why. I used one code which was running perfectly and then i copied it and wrote my own code with my own variable. But it seems that its OnChange event is getting fired again and again

# March 5, 2007 4:17 AM

Santos Martinez said:

Congrats and welcome to the team

# March 5, 2007 4:08 PM

... said:

..Rather helpful information you have here. Grazie!

# March 6, 2007 6:36 PM

Alex said:

Maintenance plans were changed in SP2, so apparently haven't been tested properly =/

# March 6, 2007 10:44 PM

Martin said:

Only one question.

How I can execute a CL from.NET. ???

This link is as a document that I have in my web about DB2 and .NET

http://www.sidra400.com/Sidra400.nsf/dx/ADO-NET

I use CE #

Thanks in advanced

# March 7, 2007 7:36 AM

audio » Blog Archive » ASP.NET Podcast Show #87 - Darren Neimke - Audio said:

PingBack from http://professionalaudioblog.info/aspnet-podcast-show-87-darren-neimke-audio/

# March 7, 2007 11:39 PM

Igor said:

Try <a href=http://www.yaldex.com/>1st JavaScript Editor</a>

You will get really Awesome JavaScript Intellisense.

# March 8, 2007 3:43 PM

suma said:

can anyone help me by giving me details about timesheet through asp.net,im doing a project on it

# March 9, 2007 4:05 AM

core said:

i have the same probelm.. i done the local policy settings.. while i trying to recover the databse then it shows the error

Error in Restoring Control File

Recovery Manager: Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production Copyright (c) 1995, 2004, Oracle. All rights reserved. RMAN> connected to target database: orcl (not mounted) using target database controlfile instead of recovery catalog RMAN> executing command: SET CONTROLFILE AUTOBACKUP FORMAT RMAN> 2> 3> 4> allocated channel: oem_restore channel oem_restore: sid=160 devtype=DISK Starting restore at 04-DEC-07 recovery area destination: D:\oracle\product\10.1.0\flash_recovery_area database name (or lock name space) used for search: ORCL channel oem_restore: no autobackups found in the recovery area autobackup ��search outside recovery area not attempted because DBID was not set released channel: oem_restore RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS =============== RMAN-00571: =========================================================== RMAN-03002: failure of restore command at 12/04/2007 18:49:12 RMAN-06172: no autobackup found or specified handle is not a valid copy or piece RMAN> Oracle instance shut down RMAN> connected to target database (not started) Oracle instance started database mounted Total System Global Area 171966464 bytes Fixed Size 787988 bytes Variable Size 145488364 bytes Database Buffers 25165824 bytes Redo Buffers 524288 bytes RMAN> Recovery Manager complete. ��

plz help..

# March 13, 2007 9:25 AM

03/13/2007 « Another .NET Blog said:

PingBack from http://liangwu.wordpress.com/2007/03/13/03132007/

# March 13, 2007 2:05 PM

Andrew said:

How do I stop the window from popping up in the middle of the IDE?

CTRL+TAB seems to take 2 seconds to switch between files which is waaay to long.

# March 18, 2007 11:55 PM

kv said:

great help..... was really upset with thiis error... the solution worked so smooth ...

# March 20, 2007 9:09 AM

ST said:

Working fine..., tx a lot.

# March 21, 2007 6:27 AM

2012IsComing said:

Just a quick comment - Was getting this error when running page under IIS - Page worked fine under visual studios web server. Anyway, added the config bits mentioned but still no luck. Then realised I had not created an application in IIS for the site. Did that and error went away.

# March 22, 2007 4:02 AM

Abraham said:

the problem still exist with my site

on server only but on may localhost it work fine

# March 25, 2007 12:37 PM

Tanner said:

just trying this out

# March 25, 2007 5:23 PM

It’s Beta » Blog Archive » ASP.NET Podcast Show #11 - Intro to Ajax and the Ajax Library for .NET said:

PingBack from http://www.itsbeta.com/2007/03/25/aspnet-podcast-show-11-intro-to-ajax-and-the-ajax-library-for-net/

# March 26, 2007 12:08 AM

Roman said:

thanks, this worked perfectly!

# March 27, 2007 10:29 AM

will said:

Outlook 2007 running on XP does this to me also - data file closed improperly - irritating - does anyone have a solution? many thanks

# March 29, 2007 10:12 PM

MW said:

As far as we have come the technologies still fail to mitigate security concerns.

# April 2, 2007 9:51 AM

Dan Kahler said:

Hey Wally -

The way I read these, JavaScript would be disabled through the use of "Internet Explorer Protected Mode". AJAX-style applications would still be viable on "approved" sites that the users or administrators had added to the Trusted Sites zone.

IMO, the hard parts for using AJAX on internal apps would probably be 1) convincing the approvers that site-retricted use of javascript on internal trusted sites does not constitute a reduction in security, and 2) ensuring that developers still keep Section 508 compliance in mind as they're incorporating AJAX-enabled features.

# April 2, 2007 11:48 AM

Hatem said:

Try a captcha, it will save your time ! Otherwise http://akismet.com/ is not bad at all to fight spam comments/trackbacks especially.

# April 4, 2007 1:19 PM

Tony Bunce said:

you may want to look into greylisting (google can explain better than I can)

We have used it for over a year and it works great against botnet spam.

Also, relays.ordb.org is no longer active so you should avoid using it.

http://www.dnsbl.com/2007/02/status-of-relaysordborg-dead.html

# April 4, 2007 1:37 PM

This does not work! said:

It makes no difference if the user name is defined or not

# April 5, 2007 3:48 AM

PixelKilla said:

Thanks a ton for this post. I kept trying to uninstall it from Studio's control panel.

Thanks again!

# April 6, 2007 11:55 AM

depot » Windows Home Server SDK has just been released said:

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# April 6, 2007 12:53 PM

Ponnu said:

For an Enum like this

Enum Numbers

One = 1

Two = 2

Three = 3

End Enum

won't Numbers.One.ToString() give the name?

Ponnu

# April 7, 2007 9:19 AM

Steve said:

My pic gonna make it on there or what? Gonna have to make everybody's heads' smaller...

# April 7, 2007 11:22 AM

Ayende Rahien said:

EnumName.EnumValue.ToString() ??

# April 7, 2007 11:53 AM

Sean said:

Doing a .ToSting() on the enum name will work although I believe it is deprecated in favor of the static Enum.GetName() method.

# April 7, 2007 1:47 PM

Jason said:

How about enumname.ToString() ?

# April 7, 2007 2:48 PM

Cyril Gupta said:

What is the behaviour of enum.tostring?

# April 7, 2007 3:17 PM

Stuart Ballard said:

Er.

ToString()?

# April 7, 2007 3:33 PM

Jens Christian Mikkelsen said:

Ahem, enumname.value.ToString()?

# April 7, 2007 4:10 PM

JJ said:

Enum.GetName is useful only if you want to get the name from the enum's ordinal value.

For ex. Enum.GetName(typeof(enumname), 0);

In other cases, you could simply use enumvalue.ToString();

# April 7, 2007 4:30 PM

jayson knight said:

On an instance of the enum in question, call ToString(). Of course that's assuming you have an instance. If not, GetName is the best option.

# April 7, 2007 6:13 PM

Al Iverson said:

I recommend using zen.spamhaus.org instead of SBL. Zen includes XBL and PBL, two additional Spamhaus lists that help catch a lot more spam. If you want to see how it looks on my mail stream, check out

http://stats.dnsbl.com

Regards,

Al Iverson

# April 7, 2007 6:50 PM

Chris Martin said:

@Sean

How the world could you deprecate ToString()?

# April 8, 2007 8:35 AM

Jason Haley said:

ToString() is most common ... but it won't work in all cases. For example an enum that has multiple int values that are same:

public enum Numbers

{

First = 0,

Zero = 0,

One = 1,

Two = 2,

Three = 3,

Last = 3

}

This will not write out the expected "First" and "Zero":

Console.WriteLine(Numbers.First.ToString());

Console.WriteLine(Numbers.Zero.ToString());

It will be "First" and "First" ... you'll have to go to the Names to get the Zero as far as I know.

# April 8, 2007 11:03 AM

» Sarasota, Naples, and Miami .NET User Groups in May, 2007 said:

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# April 9, 2007 12:50 PM

Ian Ringrose said:

We used to get a lot of spam at work; however since we have started to use http://www.messagelabs.com spam is no longer a problem. They are not free; however it has been WELL worth it!

# April 10, 2007 5:08 AM

KNOCKS said:

GetNames is the way to go.

Anyone remembers how we achieved the same in C++?

# April 10, 2007 5:31 AM

Brad said:

Jeez, Wally, how many of us .NET / SQL 2005 devs are there in Naples? Usually feel pretty lonely down here.

# April 10, 2007 8:05 AM

Edwin said:

"I am finding that browsers are fickle apps and can be fairly easily overwhelmed by too much data".

I agree on that, for example I've used IE to browse several web site pages which contain a whole bunch of information including several Flash animations, javascript code for user interactions, iframes, etc. I've seen that the browser has a really hard time with too much info in a single page.

# April 10, 2007 9:19 AM

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# April 10, 2007 11:00 PM

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# April 11, 2007 9:04 AM

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# April 11, 2007 9:04 PM

vikas said:

i am studying at niit and doing software enginering so i need a presentation on ado.net

# April 12, 2007 9:09 AM

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# April 13, 2007 9:35 AM

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# April 13, 2007 9:56 AM

Mike said:

Wallace,

We've been using the iSeries .Net data provider for the better part of two years now, and it's most definitely not new. I've ported the Enterprise Library data access layer v1 and v2 over to it as well and it works like a charm.

# April 13, 2007 4:20 PM

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# April 15, 2007 11:19 PM

Bilal Haidar [MVP] said:

Hello Wallace,

I have been following your blog for a while and always fascinated by what you write!

I am waiting for your book so much!

After I have published my first article in code-magazine, I was offered to write a book! Still negotiating about the topic and stuff and I hopefully get the chance to write my first book!!

Good luck and keep it up!

regards

# April 16, 2007 1:29 AM

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# April 16, 2007 7:01 AM

Chris Love said:

Editors, we don't need no stinking editors! What is a gerund? I have to use whay paragraph style. Why do I need to strikethrough anything. Let's just write good solid .NET content and get on with!

# April 19, 2007 2:53 PM

Bruce said:

Thanks Dave! Oh and thanks Wallace for the blog... ;-)

# April 19, 2007 5:17 PM

Bruce said:

Thanks for the solution Dave! (and Wallace for the blog...)

# April 19, 2007 5:35 PM

Jim Minatel said:

"How much money am I making from this again?" It's all about the Benjamin's Wally? Ouch! I thought you were in it for fame and fun. :)

# April 19, 2007 11:02 PM

Ripal Patel said:

how can import the data of DataSet Into Crystal Report At Runtime in ASP.net

# April 20, 2007 7:15 AM

Daniel Moth said:

It's not only via the properties, you can choose it at creation time too :-)

http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2007/03/netfx-support-in-vs-orcas.html

# April 22, 2007 2:35 AM

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# April 23, 2007 12:03 PM

Jason said:

I assumed connect.microsoft.com was the place to submit feedback on Orcas.

# April 24, 2007 8:15 AM

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# April 24, 2007 3:27 PM

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# April 24, 2007 6:54 PM

Mary said:

First book cover, wally's pic is better

# April 27, 2007 10:21 AM

Scott Fletcher said:

So, where are the hot programmer chicks? In the absence of grrrrls, I suppose my favorite is the one with ou3b*HU#BOWS_X_c90hxb&#&^*GYDV -- [connection terminated unexpectedly]

# April 27, 2007 10:29 AM

Rob said:

Surely there are alternatives, like Wally being larger than the others (is that hard to imagine?).

Maybe a Brady Bunch style thing, with the others in little squares down the side? You could have an animated gif in the online version, with Wally looking over at each one, lovingly....

# April 27, 2007 10:33 AM

Craig Shoemaker said:

Obviously there should be a third option... the fourth guy in on the first cover is quite a dashing fellow...

# April 27, 2007 10:36 AM

Rob said:

Craig, that's a disturbing comment to make. You should've at least got your better half to write it.

# April 27, 2007 10:43 AM

Not Wally said:

Definately the second one.

# April 27, 2007 10:47 AM

Keyvan Nayyeri said:

IMO the first one is better according to what Wrox has written in its documents for author photographs.

They put the photo of authors on cover to let readers start a friendly bridge between themselves and authors. And this is the reason to ask authors to take some friendly photos.

On the other hand having the photos of other authors can help to sell more copies and they can bring more readers to the book.

Anyhow, I think your photo on second cover is better than the first one ;-)

# April 27, 2007 11:50 AM

Keith said:

I like the listbox approach...

# April 27, 2007 11:53 AM

julie said:

Wally, maybe this will help you choose? [http://www.thedatafarm.com/blog/2007/04/27/WROXAJAXBookCover.aspx]

# April 27, 2007 12:06 PM

The Other Steve said:

Why not pictures of kittens and puppies?

# April 28, 2007 1:50 AM

Rob said:

Glav's having fun with PhotoShop too...

http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/archive/2007/04/28/beginning-asp-net-ajax-book-cover.aspx

# April 28, 2007 4:12 AM

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# April 28, 2007 5:16 AM

Brian said:

I can only hope that the full .NET framework is put onto the Mac. How amazing would it be to be able to write a application for Win and Mac users? This just leaves out Linux...which they might as well include. I only hope that this is the future, as I do believe that .NET is great to work with. Right now I am starting to learn new languages and platforms because I recently bought a Mac. This would keep me on the .NET stack and not make me go to the other frameworks.

# April 30, 2007 7:03 PM

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# April 30, 2007 8:11 PM

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# May 1, 2007 1:56 AM

Chris Pietschmann said:

Don't forget about the Mono project.

http://mono-project.com

# May 1, 2007 12:54 PM

Uwe said:

Try www.go-mono.com for Linux and Mac .NET.

# May 1, 2007 2:52 PM

Wim Hollebrandse said:

Why would OLPC need Windows? If you can run OpenOffice, FireFox and a vast number of educational OpenSource software?

Especially in developing countries (which really is the main target audience for OLPC), people don't need a commercial OS and lock-in to all sorts of commercial software that run on the Windows platform.

A light-weight, very well localized and open source linux based OS suits the OLPC project down to the ground.

# May 3, 2007 2:48 PM

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# May 3, 2007 8:56 PM

Ayende Rahien said:

A WIFI in the car opens up interesting possibilities, but more important is that I would have WIFI while waiting for the dentist, frex.

# May 4, 2007 8:51 AM

Jim said:

I think Microsoft needs OLPC more than OLPC needs Windows (to maintain future marketshare). My 2 cents.

# May 4, 2007 4:51 PM

Stephanie Beach said:

It was a good try but it does not work for me either.

I also made sure my user was a member of the ORA groups....all of them actually.

Any further clues?

# May 7, 2007 2:03 PM

Paul said:

It's not a typo, they just know you.

# May 8, 2007 11:17 AM

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# May 8, 2007 3:17 PM

Steven M. Swafford said:

Have you installed this version? If so, any issues?

# May 8, 2007 10:24 PM

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# May 11, 2007 12:03 AM

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# May 11, 2007 1:14 AM

Damien Jorgensen said:

I'll be buying it for our Junior developers

# May 11, 2007 1:48 AM

Rick Strahl said:

Well, that's the WPF list, not the Silverlight list <s>... You'll have to significantly trim that list down. No input controls and none of the top level containers except Canvas are supported currently in Silverlight.

Let's hope that changes soon...

# May 14, 2007 1:37 AM

Granville Barnett said:

You could just use the Windows SDK that ships with the .NET 3.0 framework.

# May 14, 2007 5:11 AM

Andrey Skvortsov said:

There's no "controls" except TextBlock,Canvas+ some basic visual primitives in Silverlight in present time.That's WPF reference,not Silverlight and never will be,I suppose.

# May 14, 2007 6:45 AM

Glenn said:

From what I've read, I thought the Controls weren't included in the Silverlight footprint. (...To help keep it small.)

Am I mistaken? Are these Controls included in the Cross Browser supported Silverlight?

# May 14, 2007 9:19 AM

John Bowen said:

You seem to be confusing XAML with WPF. XAML is markup used by multiple technologies including WPF, Silverlight and Windows Workflow. WPF is the UI part of .NET 3.0 encompassing the rendering engine and class libraries. Since Silverlight's rendering engine essentially uses a subset of WPF's functionality they will be able to share code in many cases (probably will most often expressed in XAML). Silverlight 1.1 currently has a very limited control set and is more concentrated on getting the core functionality working. When Silverlight 1.1 ships it will have a larger control set but probably will not exactly match the full WPF control set.

# May 14, 2007 11:32 AM

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# May 16, 2007 5:31 PM

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# May 17, 2007 2:50 AM

Robert McLaws said:

Wally, RE: Vista, did you file your problems as bug reports during the beta? If you ARE having issues now, are you reporting them? If not, your "hopes" for SP1 will only lead you to disappointment. You're credible in the Microsoft camp, and the teams will likely listen to what you have to say. If not, send me a list of your issues and I'll get them forwarded to to the right team.

# May 21, 2007 8:54 PM

Jeff W. Barnes said:

It is my first day back on the job after returning from vacation. I am still attempting to get my mind

# May 21, 2007 10:38 PM

ali said:

These tags are already defined in project but not working fine, and i created a dummy [new project] of the existing one and it works fine in that, but not in server. Any idea?

# May 22, 2007 3:16 AM

deviateX said:

Saying that Vista stinks is a bit too strong. In my opinion the initial Vista release was way better than the initial release of XP or 2000. And consider that Vista (XP->Vista) is a far more ambitious project than was 2000->XP.

# May 22, 2007 5:18 AM

Healy said:

I just assumed wally would want to talk on his favorite topic

# May 22, 2007 3:33 PM

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# May 23, 2007 9:44 AM

Peter said:

First of all, I think ListView is not a good name for this control. It's more like a different take on the repeater. There was one thing in the video that was not exactly clear and that kind of worries me; something about ListView replacing the Repeater. I have nothing against having an extra control, but there's no reason why the Repeater couldn't stay. The Repeater is one of those simple but powerful controls. There's no need to explain why you need a control inside a template and to have that hooked up with an ID (for ListView). It's just simple and the results are very easy to predict. Also not having control over the outputted html (see the span tag around the control) is very bad!

Peter.

P.S. maybe TemplatedRepeater would be a better name(?)

# May 23, 2007 2:07 PM

Aaron Seet said:

hmmm my question is: why do we need zealots for?

# May 24, 2007 10:44 AM

Amy said:

Same problem. EVERY time I open Outlook 2007 it says it was closed improperly (it wasn't).

# May 24, 2007 6:17 PM

Alex Hoffman said:

Sure there are MS zealots ... isn't that what the MVP program is all about? :)

# May 24, 2007 9:50 PM

holex said:

the problem is still alive. "modify" and "not modify" the web.config file are equals: no solution. Under IIS7 (and Vista) still genereta the 'sys is undefined' error. (using: AJAX 1.0 RTM and VWD Express 2005 + SP1.)

I try 7-8 different "solutions", but no one can help to me.

I don't beleive it... Must be exists a solution.

Do you have got any different idea to resolve the problem?

Thank a lot!

(holex@hotmail.com)

# May 25, 2007 12:27 PM

Jude said:

That is exactly what I am looking for... sigh...

Trying to get developers to use AJAX for content pages in an LMS environment...

# May 26, 2007 1:13 PM

njsden said:

Simple and effective! My local database (10g R2) runs on Windows XP and the solution you described resolved the issue in a snap.

Thanks so much!

# May 27, 2007 12:07 AM

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# May 27, 2007 4:44 PM

M. Ramesh kumar said:

I had the same err. With your I solved the problem. I indeed thank you so much.

# May 28, 2007 10:28 PM

PunUko said:

Thanks for all Comments I can fix it by add httpHandlers Tag and httpModules Tag inside Tag GoodBye I Love U Jub Jub

# May 31, 2007 3:06 AM

Owned said:

http://money.cnn.com/2007/05/31/technology/spam_king/index.htm?postversion=2007053110 I guess thats the end

# May 31, 2007 1:54 PM

Jim Pendarvis said:

I guess it's not going to be to much longer before we have the technology used in the Movie "Minority Report"

# May 31, 2007 10:04 PM

John said:

He could be mixed up in the wrong thing. He could be a good person after all. Maybe this arrest will send him on the right path. Ever think about this person is someones son? Someones friend? Spamming is annoying, I will say that. And I HATE when I get spam mail. But, he is just a person doing what he thinks he can to make a buck.

# June 1, 2007 3:20 AM

ram said:

I want to checking out for a good spidering library for .net. I need to write some custom scripts to download a paticularly unspider friendly site.

# June 2, 2007 7:42 AM

Steven J. Ackerman said:

Hey Wally - I was in the audience, but the Sarasota photos don't seem to be at the link you posted...

# June 2, 2007 10:58 AM

Suresh said:

Hai, I'm a beginner of Asp.Net. I,m also working on TimeSheet Program, where Employees should enter their login time , Logout Time & Break Time. And we have to calculate how many hrs he worked in a week. So please provide me the code or give me some details on it.

# June 4, 2007 12:40 AM

Nathan Rose said:

Note: I have not tested this myself.

I would imagine FindControl() would cause a considerable performance hit because it must iterate through each control on a page. Granted, this might not be much of a task for many of the servers today, but you have to think:

1) If there are a lot of controls on a page, such as any page with a repeater or datagrid (each row would be its own control), it has to iterate through each one in the enumeration.

2) It must cast them to a generic control (probably WebControl) to check its ID or ClientID.

3) Once cast, it must compare the ID or ClientID space in memory vs. the string in FindControl().

4) If it matches, return the memory reference of the enumerated control.

By referencing the control itself, we already know the place in memory that control resides.

Again, I have not tested this, but it seems logical that FindControl() would be a huge memory hog. Anyone know for sure?

# June 6, 2007 12:40 PM

Murty said:

can we implement this in our windows application? if so, then how?

# June 7, 2007 8:49 AM

abbie said:

pls can you tell me how to solve this problem on redhat 3.

# June 7, 2007 10:24 AM

Milind Naik(B.Sc.IT- Fresher) said:

Enhancements to the DataSet and Datatable classes

Optimized DataSet Serialization

Conversion of a DataReader to a DataSet or a DataTable and vice versa

Data Paging

Batch Updates — Reduction in database roundtrips

Asynchronous Data Access

Common Provider Model

Bulk Copy

# June 11, 2007 4:01 PM

Brad Abrams said:

Daniel Moth has a good post describing .NET Framework 3.5 ... I though i'd share part of it here as it

# June 12, 2007 10:32 AM

ChrisP said:

I'm having difficulty installing Robotics Studio. Have Windows XP Pro installed. Get part way through the install and a message comes up'Error1335: the cabinet file 'Data1.cab' is missing or corrupt...

Can anyone help?

Newbee at Robotics, and very frustrated

# June 17, 2007 5:50 AM

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# June 18, 2007 10:29 AM

Starbucks .NET Developer said:

Wow, the last two days has been quite a bit of fun. Hey, these things don't happen every day. Who would

# June 18, 2007 9:57 PM

raff said:

Please more examples and documentation!

Best regards

# June 22, 2007 3:19 PM

Simone said:

Happy birthday wally!!! We definitely need more Wally :)

# June 24, 2007 1:58 AM

Plip said:

You really do need help.

# June 24, 2007 7:13 AM

Ryan Anderson said:

Happy Birthday Wally!

# June 24, 2007 11:07 AM

Josh said:

Awesome!

Wally 3.9 was starting to get a little old. I think that wally 4.0 should fix those bugs along with some nifty upgrades; like the fancy new red sports car addon.

But alas, we have to wait for ver 4.1 to fix the new bugs, like midlife crisis error it gets on a bad day! :D

...oh, and happy bday!

# June 24, 2007 1:00 PM

Alan Stevens said:

Many happy returns, Wally!

I hit version 3.9 on June, 23rd. It appears I'll always be one minor version behind you.

Cheers,

++Alan

# June 24, 2007 2:06 PM

Aapo Laakkonen said:

Is there ChangeLog somewhere? Did we get rid of that that nasty "died and physical fitness" bug?

# June 25, 2007 1:46 AM

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# June 28, 2007 3:09 PM

sutapa mallick said:

dropdown in c#.net

# June 29, 2007 1:42 AM

D said:

yea it has nothing to do with the web config files

# June 29, 2007 3:55 PM

ramesh said:

Sample Code from the Ajax Podcast - Populating a drop down list

# July 1, 2007 11:38 PM

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# July 3, 2007 5:23 PM

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# July 6, 2007 12:52 AM

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# July 8, 2007 12:51 AM

Chua Wen Ching said:

Hi, I think you have the title wrong in this blog. It suppose to be LINQ not LINK.

# July 8, 2007 9:36 PM

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# July 8, 2007 10:23 PM

JC said:

OMG!!!! I'm freaking out!!! I just peed my pants!!!!

# July 9, 2007 8:11 AM

Krupa said:

I got following code during some surfing reg. varchar(max) data type...

CREATE TABLE BigStrings

(

BigString VARCHAR(MAX)

)

But when i m trying to use above one... I m getting error

Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 3

Line 3: Incorrect syntax near 'MAX'.

SO CAN YOU PLZ GUIDE ME REG. THIS??? THIS DATA TYPE IS SUPPORTED BY ONLY SOME OF THE EDITION OF SQL SERVER 2005... IS IT SO ... THEN PLZ TELL ME IN WHICH EDITION IT SUPPORTED?????

# July 11, 2007 4:52 AM

Steven Smith said:

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# July 12, 2007 3:55 PM

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# July 12, 2007 4:38 PM

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# July 12, 2007 5:55 PM

Sameera said:

Looks like a mugshot! LOL

# July 12, 2007 10:57 PM

Denis The SQL Menace said:

>>Link Part III

Link or LINQ?

# July 13, 2007 8:57 AM

Sami said:

Wizard Creates a Data Transformation Services (DTS) Package

The Copy Database Wizard creates a DTS package that runs on the destination server and can be run either immediately or can be scheduled to run later.

from support.microsoft.com/.../en-us

# July 13, 2007 5:33 PM

ManageProgressTracking.asmx said:

I have to consume ManageProgressTracking through ajax, so pls help me out

# July 16, 2007 4:55 AM

jagan said:

i require a sample which populates allthe dropdown lists ,based on one drop down

# July 17, 2007 6:24 AM

Glavs Blog said:

After going on holidays, feeling relaxed and generally not doing much tech related stuff, I have fallen

# July 19, 2007 11:57 PM

Community Blogs said:

After going on holidays, feeling relaxed and generally not doing much tech related stuff, I have fallen

# July 20, 2007 12:17 AM

Simone said:

In NZ it's already Thursday, but no sight of the beta2 yet :)

# July 25, 2007 9:37 PM

John Walker said:

I assume you mean beta 2, right?

# July 26, 2007 12:58 AM

lkempe said:

How much F5 did you reached ? ;-)

# July 26, 2007 9:49 AM

erik said:

PSSS: beta2

msdn2.microsoft.com/.../aa700831.aspx

# July 26, 2007 5:16 PM

Jose Barreto said:

You can check the differences between the roles and features included in the Beta 3 and the June CTP at:

blogs.technet.com/.../changes-in-windows-server-2008-roles-and-features-from-the-beta-3-to-the-june-ctp.aspx

# July 28, 2007 4:29 PM

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# July 29, 2007 5:06 AM

Naveen said:

Hi I have installed Oracle 10g Enterprise edition on Windows XP Professional... and i dont find Local Security Policies.... please guide to solve this issue

# July 30, 2007 8:06 PM

Dan said:

Still I am getting:

Error Message

# July 31, 2007 6:30 AM

matt arrington said:

I hate the ctrl+tab menu in vs-8. It makes the screen flicker, and just slows makes tabbing between documents slower. The GUI in visual studio gets slower and clunkier with each new release.

# July 31, 2007 1:51 PM

Basu said:

Even I am facing the same problem that it is getting fired again and again without even any event.

# July 31, 2007 3:49 PM

Mayur said:

You are a genious...hats off to you. I am no DBA, but this helped real good. Thank you very much

# August 2, 2007 10:05 AM

jesús said:

still, the copy wizard can't be accesed if you're not sysadmin. problem when you have to copy from network solutions to somewhere else or viceversa...

# August 2, 2007 9:26 PM

yoga said:

Thanks a lot wally

# August 3, 2007 5:54 AM

Andrew said:

Great, thanks for the help.

I've used a custom button as by dynamically added control

I just have 1 question:

How can you now use the click event of the added controls?

# August 3, 2007 12:36 PM

Andrew said:

I did this in c#

I created a custom button, add it to an ArrayList and also add an EventHandler :

(in Wally's example above, put this in that for loop)

myControl.Click += new System.EventHandler(DynamicControl_Click);

I then created a new method called "DynamicControl_Click"

///////////////////////////////

private void DynamicControl_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

myConrols.myButton myButton = (myConrols.myButton)sender;

//you now know which button was clicked

String s = myButton.Name;

}

//////////////////////

the DynamicControl_Click method will now catch all the click events of all the dynamically added buttons or which ever control you've added so you may want to put a switch statement in there to work out which btn was actualy clicked.

# August 3, 2007 2:27 PM

Vasudevan Rajagopalrao said:

I had this issue. The reason that caused me because I hadn't used dbo.TableName in my query. Check this. Belive me, it resolved it

# August 3, 2007 2:50 PM

smith said:

Great!Your posting helped me to solve my issue.

Smith

# August 7, 2007 9:51 PM

honnee said:

thanks a lot! i solve the problem now.

# August 9, 2007 10:51 AM

CrniAngeo said:

Great thing, it improves networking speed!

Thank You for the greatest suggestion!

# August 10, 2007 10:05 AM

Daryll said:

Thank you, this fix worked perfectly!

# August 12, 2007 9:36 PM

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# August 13, 2007 10:01 PM

Scott said:

Nope...SP1, that's when Vista ships! This just makes it bearable until then.

# August 13, 2007 11:30 PM

w4x said:

Thanks it helps me too

# August 14, 2007 1:49 AM

Granville Barnett said:

Only problem I ever had with Vista was it blue screening when coming out of sleep on my Dell Inspiron 6400 - this was using a pre RC build.

Apart from that I've been using Vista on several machines since Beta 1 and many builds in between and its been rock solid! Glad its ok for you now :-)

# August 14, 2007 11:45 AM

Chump said:

It must be the laptop then. I've had zero problems with Vista and I've been using since Jan 2007 on my Dell Latitude D810.

Glad to hear it fixed you up.

# August 14, 2007 1:28 PM

Kevin said:

fantastic.. couldn't work this out for a long time.. worked perfectly!

# August 14, 2007 4:08 PM

Loga said:

Its working .Thanks a lot.

# August 16, 2007 5:55 AM

Aaron Seet (icelava) said:

Hey Wally, so your problem is largely stability. Have you felt any performance improvements? in which areas?

# August 16, 2007 8:40 AM

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# August 17, 2007 2:09 AM

John Walker said:

Wally...are you running 2008 on the same machine running 2005? I'm considering taking 2008 beta 2 out of my Virtual PC and onto my main dev box. Just wondering what your experience has been if you have both installed...running Vista here.

# August 17, 2007 2:34 AM

Will Asrari said:

Not to mention that the multi-targeting allows you to work on your existing 2.0 applications.

At a demonstration the other night Scott Guthrie showed how you could add references (similar to using statements) in .js files and have Intellisense pick that code up as well. Really slick.

The new CSS Designer is pretty neat too!

# August 17, 2007 11:35 AM

Ryan Ternier said:

I run VS 2008 B2 with VS 2005 TeamEdition, without any issues at all.

I also have the TFS libraries installed for VS 2008 and VS 2005 and haven't noticed any issues with those either.

Running VIsta Ultimate here. I have the same at home running Last XP / Last Vista.

# August 17, 2007 12:48 PM

Will Asrari said:

I am running 2005 & 2008 on the same machine with no problems. Vista Home Premium.

# August 17, 2007 5:05 PM

sbc said:

what's with the dates on your postings at your other blog site? they appear to be a year off (to 2008)!

# August 20, 2007 10:04 AM

sduhzone said:

how did you solve this problem? please tell me the methods.

# August 20, 2007 11:09 PM

Craig Goodspeed said:

awesome really enjoyed the podcast!

# August 22, 2007 5:25 AM

John said:

I put the following code in my web.config and it worked:

</httpHandlers>

# August 22, 2007 2:30 PM

sayeed said:

great! worked for me! you rock!

# August 22, 2007 4:24 PM

Tejas said:

Hello Al,

I tried all above solution but still not working for me. Can any one let me know the reason.

tejas_vadalia@yahoo.com

# August 25, 2007 12:13 PM

raghu said:

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Tue Aug 28 11:54:12 2007

Enter user-name: system

Enter password: ******

ERROR:

ORA-01034: Message 1034 not found; No message file for product=RDBMS,

facility=ORA

ORA-27101: Message 27101 not found; No message file for product=RDBMS,

facility=ORA

i have installed 10g in vista and i couldnt login into sql plus as it says the above message when i was dng my installation i set my password as oracle so plz et me know wats the username and wats the password to do my queries in sql i even tried scott n tiger,sys n system with oracle i couldntget that plz help me out bya raghu

# August 28, 2007 11:57 AM

TGOK said:

Congrats on 100 episodes to both you and Paul. Fine work guys.

# August 29, 2007 7:02 AM

ravindra lokhande said:

I too tried all solutions....If anyone found the solution please help me on ravindralokhande@gmail.com

# September 12, 2007 7:16 AM

Dan said:

Talk about a confidence-building reply section...oh yeah...it worked for me too, and you rock!

# September 12, 2007 5:18 PM

sell and buy college textbooks said:

sell and buy college textbooks

# September 13, 2007 2:38 AM

raj said:

I have windowx XP Professional and I installed Oracle 10g. I got the same problem. I did the same thing as you explained above. But, it does not work. Do you have any other solution, please?

# September 15, 2007 8:25 AM

raj said:

I can not connect to the database through the Enterprises Manager in Oracle 10g. The error is 'cannot find the server or DNS error'. How can I resolve this problem? Please advise me if you know this problem

# September 15, 2007 8:33 AM

ho van binh said:

Oracle Database .NET Drivers and Server Updated for Win XP

# September 16, 2007 3:47 AM

Bin said:

Brilliant, well deserved google ranking!

# September 20, 2007 5:02 AM

kani said:

thanks a lot.....it works fine......... follow this to solve 'sys' problem

I copied just the <httpHandlers> section from the Web.config located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025\web.config into the <system.web> section of my web.config.

# September 22, 2007 4:23 AM

hfbggghg said:

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# September 22, 2007 7:18 AM

Leigh said:

I'm still mainting a large VB6 app in late 2007 that would be cost prohibitive to rewrite. I'm not at all happy ms chose to dump the language.

# September 26, 2007 12:26 AM

Bodya said:

Thanks a lot!!! it's working!!!

# October 1, 2007 5:08 AM

TheKiN said:

i wondering to know what happend with the current connection that still connected when i clear all pool.

# October 1, 2007 5:15 AM

Lee said:

I'm with you Matt. Has anyone found a way to disable this popup, and make it work like VS 2003 did?

# October 3, 2007 5:31 PM

Lee said:

After looking around a bit more, I found a solution here:

blogs.msdn.com/.../257962.aspx

It reads:

1. Open Tools – Options – Keyboard

2. Under “Show commands containing:”, type in “Window.NextDocumentWindowNav”

3. Press the Remove button to remove the “Ctrl+Tab” keyboard shortcut binding

If you want the Visual Studio .NET 2003 Ctrl-Tab behavior, continue with these steps:

4. Under “Show commands containing”, type in “Window.NextDocumentWindow”

5. Under Press shortcut keys, press Ctrl+Tab.

6. Press Assign to bind the keyboard shortcut

7. Press OK to accept changes and dismiss the tools options dialog

# October 3, 2007 5:41 PM

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# October 4, 2007 4:27 PM

Martin said:

Perfect! Tanks from Italy!!!

# October 6, 2007 2:07 PM

Uma said:

Great!!! Just couldn't any info from metalink!! It said this is a 10g Release 1 issue and has been solved in Release 2, just a lie!! It happened on release 2 for me, not sure why.

You r a genious, had spent about three fourth of a day trying to resolve this, your tips, just worked in a tick. Thank you so much, saved a lot of time.

# October 7, 2007 9:46 PM

Ady said:

to get rid of this weird problem follow the following

steps

1)open IIS and right click on your web site virtual directory and then click

properties

2)then on virtual directory tab click on configuration button

3)In mappings tab ,make configuration like this.

Executable:

"C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll"

.locate this dll file

Extension: .axd

Verbs: All Verbs

Script Engine: checked

Check that file exists: do not check this .

finally click OK.

# October 8, 2007 6:26 AM

Kunjan Pandey said:

its working.

thanks lot

# October 16, 2007 5:33 AM

MaxK said:

Thanks a lot!!!!!!!

# October 18, 2007 8:41 PM

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# October 21, 2007 7:39 AM

giovanni gallucci said:

Wally,

Pictures from the Tulsa Techfest 2007 event are posted here: www.theagencyblog.com/.../tulsa-techfes-1.html

-giovanni

# October 21, 2007 10:55 AM

mike said:

FYI, the sample (216.187.235.116/atlassection508test) is causing my browser to crash.

IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.070227-2254

WinXP sp2

# October 29, 2007 1:04 PM

Rob Windsor's Weblog said:

ALT.NET has been getting a lot of play on blogosphere these days but a lot of pople are still unclear

# November 2, 2007 2:59 PM

sany said:

I created a crystal report in .net but everytime I run it it gives me following error. What is wrong?

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.InvalidArgumentException: Error in File C:\DOCUME~1\NEMASE~1\ASPNET\LOCALS~1\Temp\temp_a33fbe02-f040-4e2c-8db4-d6f4828994c3.rpt: Invalid group condition.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:

[InvalidArgumentException: Error in File C:\DOCUME~1\NEMASE~1\ASPNET\LOCALS~1\Temp\temp_a33fbe02-f040-4e2c-8db4-d6f4828994c3.rpt:

Invalid group condition.]

. F(String , EngineExceptionErrorID

)

. A(Int16 , Int32 )

. @(Int16 )

CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.FormatEngine.GetPage(PageRequestContext reqContext)

CrystalDecisions.ReportSource.LocalReportSourceBase.GetPage(PageRequestContext pageReqContext)

CrystalDecisions.Web.ReportAgent.u(Boolean N)

CrystalDecisions.Web.CrystalReportViewer.OnPreRender(EventArgs e)

System.Web.UI.Control.PreRenderRecursiveInternal()

System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain()

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573

# November 14, 2007 3:26 AM

The Land of Intellect said:

The thing with templates is really good. I'll have to find time to toy with this.

# November 18, 2007 7:31 PM

Mi said:

It also doesn't support Partitioning!!!

# November 25, 2007 9:34 AM

zubairi said:

great man............... i had been trying to resolve it long long time........ cheersssssssss

# November 28, 2007 4:56 AM

abdelrahamn said:

thank you very mush

i have no words to express my happienss

# November 29, 2007 7:58 AM

Koya said:

Thanks a lot :)

u r the champ...!!!

# November 30, 2007 8:29 AM

vje said:

Yes it is. I found this, as well as the rest, all the way back to #1. If you still haven't been able to find their podcast in iTunes, I'll send them to you if you'd like. I just found this podcast, and have been listening to them,s tarting with #1, and I'm liking them very much. Thank you for contributing your podcasts, all who are involved in this. It/they are very much appreciated by a green programmer wannabe such as myself.

# December 3, 2007 8:30 PM

tanthuyhoang said:

thank to Wally so much

# December 7, 2007 4:10 AM

katie isenbarger said:

I love Chrismas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# December 12, 2007 10:58 AM

you've been HAACKED said:

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# December 14, 2007 4:03 PM

Sunny said:

I am assuming, i can put login control in that template section.

# December 18, 2007 2:18 AM

slatz said:

Both products are total crap in my opinion. I do not know anyone that will be rolling these apps out anytime soon, just too many bugz. By the way I experienced the same issues with outlook and the data file being closed improperly. Another app that is finnicky on Vista is Nero 7.8. Do not install nero scout unless you want nmindex problems...

# December 18, 2007 4:31 PM

gigi said:

i really want to see santa . he is awsome ###111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# December 24, 2007 8:56 AM

Kanchana said:

hey thanx a ton.. i am completely new to clr and was just wondering how to set the dataaccess property when i came accross you blog...[:)]

# December 26, 2007 12:09 AM

nsenor said:

so, for the programming starter, where in this wide world of nerds kind i find a place where someone can give me an idiot's preview of what hash, ...code, ...table etc. is all about and why i keep getting distracted by them every time i'm browsing language documentations.

# December 28, 2007 4:07 AM

Vijay Santhanam said:

I need this too, but it keeps saying I'm not connected.

When do I call EnlistTransaction(System.Transactions.Transaction)? Do u have sample code?

# December 30, 2007 12:14 PM

Trumpi's blog said:

Happy new year! And no, I didn't get an MVP award. Podcasts .NET Rocks! #303 - Ken Levy on Visual

# January 1, 2008 2:39 PM

Aaron Seet (icelava) said:

Looks like Microsoft needs More Wally too....

# January 3, 2008 12:50 AM

juhi said:

hey im facing same problem on vista home edition

welll im not able to find the local security policy section anywhere here on vista ,,,,,many forum say it is already enabled on vista

but still not working

welll can u help

# January 3, 2008 7:13 AM

Martin Novacheck said:

Great help, thank you :-)

# January 10, 2008 7:10 AM

Richard's Rant said:

Challenges for Corporate Developers podcastWhat a world we live in

# January 15, 2008 12:29 AM

gj said:

AJAX is still a cool name! Now, that we have the acceptance of developers and web designers we should concentrate us on the correct usage of the XmlHttpRequest object. I still get strange questions concerning the Ajax.NET library because of missing understanding how HTTP, postbacks and browsers are working.

# January 16, 2008 9:36 AM

Rama Krishna said:

That was a cool T-Shirt. How can one get a Wally T-Shirt?

# January 18, 2008 11:28 AM

varun said:

i was searching about ajax.net , do u think that you have given intro of the ajax.net

# January 21, 2008 10:10 AM

rtm said:

Worked straight off, why didn't i find this 2 days ago. Wally, I love you and want to have your babies.

# January 23, 2008 6:20 PM

Ghawas said:

Thx Buddy. You reminded me.

# January 27, 2008 12:51 PM

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# January 29, 2008 9:16 AM

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# January 29, 2008 4:04 PM

Hot Topics said:

Jim Wooley, co-Author of LINQ in Action , did a three part webcast on ASP.NET Databinding with LINQ for

# February 3, 2008 3:15 PM

website said:

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# February 7, 2008 8:05 AM

Connecting News, Commentaries and Blogs at NineReports.com said:

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# February 7, 2008 5:52 PM

ms said:

Thank You. I was stuck , and this solved my issue

# February 9, 2008 7:40 PM

Hrishi said:

Hi I copied just the <httpHandlers> section from the Web.config located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions\v1.0.61025\web.config into the <system.web> section of my web.config.

It's working fine..!!!!

# February 11, 2008 2:39 AM

sai said:

i agree with you ( Wallym)

# February 13, 2008 5:57 AM

hlhamduc said:

Ok my God,

Thank you so much

# February 27, 2008 3:03 AM

Krishna said:

Excellent! It was like finding an oasis when you are left in Sahara :-).

Thanks a lot!

# February 28, 2008 7:11 AM

gagan said:

code to create an update trigger using ASP.NET 2.0 ..

...actually just want to update specified column, if the already existing value is not entered

else should not update.......

# February 28, 2008 8:35 AM

E said:

Wow - nice job on this. Pooped up in google as the first response and it worked great. I added my domain user name to the windows 2003 server and no problems.

# February 28, 2008 10:36 AM

Joy said:

Thank you for posting this... I was in agony until I saw it. Solved my problem...

# March 1, 2008 7:04 PM

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# March 5, 2008 6:26 AM

Prinal said:

Excellent stuff...worked like magic mate! You are a star!!

# March 9, 2008 8:50 PM

mlastra said:

Thanks very much, I lost a whole morning dealing with that issue, god bless you and google.

# March 10, 2008 12:05 PM

dvd burning said:

First real obsessive banging the machine was with Street Fighter 2, watching with rapt attention as the local stoner (our guru) talked me thru the special stances taken to get that perfect with a Ryu or Ken type (see champion and/ or cheater). This was

# April 3, 2008 11:24 PM

JIm Whitmore said:

I've had good luck with:

1) Shutting off anonymous access to the web site. Ensure that integrated or basic authentication is turned.

2) Ensure that your domain account is a member of the local system's Administrator's group.

3) On a system with ANY VS.NET 2005 (2003 seems to be more forgiving but try this anyway if it doesn't work) on it:

3.1) Stop the Machine Debug Manager service if present and running.

3.2) do an "MDM.EXE /unregserver" in your system32 directory. (This should cause the Machine Debug Manager service to go away.)

3.3) unregister pdm.dll in the system32 directory.

3.4) register all the dlls in program files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VS7Debug

4) Unregister the DLL to be debugged.

5) Open the vbp for the Dll to be debugged

6) Set your breakpoints and "Run with full compile"

7) Navigate your browser to your site and respond to the challenge with your domain credentials.

This has worked for me on W2K w/ IIS 5 and W2K3 w/ IIS 6 (running in both v5 & v6 modes).

-whit

# April 4, 2008 11:08 AM

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# April 6, 2008 3:19 AM

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# April 7, 2008 12:08 AM

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# April 7, 2008 4:01 AM

Zeeshan said:

How can we access controls such as label within loginview control and how we can change the text of that label?

zeeshan992@hotmail.com

# April 7, 2008 6:17 PM

Zeeshan said:

How to access the label control in the loginveiw control and how to change the text value.

# April 7, 2008 6:26 PM

Andreas said:

yep it worked for me too.

but don't forget to add your domain name before your login name, like this

DOMAINNAME\LOGINNAME

otherwise it won't work

# April 9, 2008 4:42 AM

youngcitya said:

Good thing..

my computer running slow all the time, it's Core Duo 2 T7250 CPU, but it runs slow...

# April 14, 2008 2:17 AM

david said:

raj

this solution works well, pls make sure your account name is accordance with the name in domain and with domain\acount name.

-David.

# April 14, 2008 5:44 AM

Sumit said:

Hi,

I am facing same problem on vista home edition.

I am not able to find the local security policy section anywhere here on vista home edition.

Pls help me in this....

Thanks..

# April 15, 2008 1:16 PM

Garry said:

Will this user be for the full domain name and username?

# April 18, 2008 12:36 PM

Programmer said:

I don't think it will ever happen. Dot NET is constantly evolving and besides, who uses a mac for programming anyway? Almost all large businesses use PC's.

# April 21, 2008 1:14 AM

flux-wizard said:

yup, it works for me too!!thanks!

# April 21, 2008 4:41 AM

John said:

Heh, come to DC, and I'll buy ya a beer. Worked 3 hours on this damn thing right after a server hardening. Gotta watch for GPO's that will prevent it even though they are allowed in the Local Policy.

# April 25, 2008 4:49 PM

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# May 1, 2008 2:02 PM

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# May 1, 2008 8:34 PM

Eric said:

Wow, how 'bout some code formatting for your readers - that is rough.

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# May 11, 2008 9:02 PM

Christopher Steen said:

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# May 12, 2008 3:41 AM

Korgoth said:

Hello,

I use the full-text search utility in SQL Server 2005 to find word in PDFs document.

This is my 'Documents' table:

id (PK), data (VarBinary(max)), extension (nvarchar(4))

My full-text catalog on 'data' column works fine because when I search 'Microsoft', my document containing this word is returned as result.

SELECT * FROM Documents WHERE freetext([data], 'Microsoft');

1 , 0x255044...., .pdf

But I need to know how many times 'Microsoft' word appears in this document.

Do you have any idea how can I retrieve this information?

Thanks in advance!

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# May 19, 2008 11:14 AM

butchi said:

Hi,

In my case i had to change Authentication Methods on my IIS for my page, when I checked Integrated Windows Authenticaton everything started to work perfectly.

butchi

# May 20, 2008 8:31 AM

William Sim said:

Thx for the solution.. saved me alot of time to troubleshoot why my instance cant start.

cheers..

# May 20, 2008 10:56 PM

Charls said:

Ady..... Your solution worked...

Thanks a lot.....

# May 25, 2008 11:00 PM

kris said:

Thanks Wally!

Your solution saved a lot of time.

# May 28, 2008 4:18 AM

ravi said:

great....good solution...thx a lot.....

# May 29, 2008 4:59 PM

BN said:

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# May 30, 2008 10:05 PM

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# May 31, 2008 2:02 PM

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# May 31, 2008 5:01 PM

Chris Woodruff said:

Thanks Wally for the plug!

# June 1, 2008 10:53 PM

More Wally - Wallace B. McClure said:

As some of you know, I've been working with mapping for the last 18 or so months . These maps have

# June 4, 2008 9:32 AM

craigshoemaker said:

How about getting companies to sponsor specific routes? These could be something you might want to do on a vacation or on a weekend. Basically just like a tourist guidebook, but directly on the map.

# June 4, 2008 12:07 PM

Luciano Evaristo Guerche said:

Have you never thought about adding video to your podcast, turning it into a webcast/screencast, like dnrtv.com?

# June 4, 2008 12:49 PM

Mark Nongkhlaw said:

Wallym, I'd love to hear how you can implement a .NET hash (preferably a salted SHA1 type) on the client and validate it on the server against a database field, say a password field which stores password in SHA1 format with a salt. Please email me at mark.nongkhlaw@nic.in

# June 5, 2008 9:54 AM

Col said:

So when are you going to tell us the funny story?

# June 5, 2008 10:03 AM

Alper DAGLI said:

Thank you so much.

# June 9, 2008 10:46 AM

Right'in Code™ said:

Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend TechEd this year. From all indications, it was a great show

# June 11, 2008 11:04 PM

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# June 21, 2008 2:17 PM

» ASP.NET Podcast Show #118 - Paul on Peer-To-Peer with Windows … said:

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# June 21, 2008 4:17 PM

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# June 22, 2008 3:41 AM

Wallace B. McClure said:

that at approximately 4:10 am this morning, I turned 41 years old. I'm tired of running, so I have had

# June 24, 2008 9:40 AM

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that at approximately 4:10 am this morning, I turned 41 years old. I'm tired of running, so I have

# June 24, 2008 9:49 AM

Sue said:

My "my documents" folder was mapped to a drive that was currently not connected to my computer. I reset the path to the default and reran the installer. Worked fine.

Thank you,

Sue

# June 25, 2008 11:28 AM

joycsharp said:

Happy birthday!

# June 27, 2008 2:48 AM

Neelesh said:

When I execute GRANT SEND ON SERVICE :: SqlQueryNotificationService to GUEST, I get the error...

Msg 15151, Level 16, State 1, Line 1

Cannot find the service 'SqlQueryNotificationService', because it does not exist or you do not have permission.

Could you please help.

# July 1, 2008 1:41 PM

mannoj said:

re: "RemoteOperationException: ERROR: wrong password for user" with Oracle 10g

and i had done adding my user name to 'log on as batch jobs', Still the same issue...

I can even pay if some one rectifies it...

mannoj87@hotmail.com

Regards,

Mannoj

# July 10, 2008 6:19 AM

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# July 28, 2008 5:35 PM

you've been HAACKED said:

Super Simple MVC Ajax With JQuery Demo

# July 29, 2008 12:15 PM

Chris I said:

Blimey, it worked!

# July 29, 2008 5:56 PM

Vaibhav said:

Hey .. Thanks a lot .. I was wondering how to get this work .. After searching a lot, i was finally able to find this solution .. Thanks !!!!

# August 1, 2008 3:07 AM

abosede talabi said:

it works perfectly well.

thanks.

# August 1, 2008 11:57 AM

Shahid Noor said:

I am using MSMQ-3 on my local machine. I am using enableNotification method to notify me when a message comes in the queue. But i am getting error message while using enableNotification. The message comes is "Access is denied" (error no. -1072824283). I am getting the message in the following line

Dim evnt As MSMQ.MSMQEvent

evnt = New MSMQ.MSMQEvent

vMyQSend.EnableNotification(evnt)

anybody please help me.

# August 2, 2008 6:08 AM

Garfield said:

Thanx a million this worked perfectly.

# August 5, 2008 8:48 AM

Elijah Manor said:

I was getting a JavaScript error in Firefox involving the removeAttribute method in the Flash. I updated the code to the following and it appears to work in both Firefox and IE now.

function flash(selector) {

$(selector)

.css('opacity', 0)

.animate({ backgroundColor: 'khaki', opacity: 1.0 }, 800)

.animate({ backgroundColor: '#ffffff' }, 350, function() {

$(this).removeAttr('filter');

});

}

** New! Track my life at http://twitter.com/elijahmanor **

# August 7, 2008 5:09 PM

bunbun said:

I know this post is quite old but I stumbled upon it as I was searching for info on the log parser. I'm sure you've moved on but I took what you did and tried to make it more generic. Basically I created a couple of functions that would take the recordset object returned from a query and convert it to a datatable so it can easily be used with a gridview or other databound control. In any event, I found your post to very helpful as it got me going in the right direction.....

Protected Function ConvertILogRecordsetToDataTable(ByRef objRS As MSUtil.ILogRecordset) As DataTable

Dim i As Integer

Dim dtTemp As New DataTable

Dim dr As DataRow

Dim objRow As MSUtil.ILogRecord

'Create table columns

For i = 0 To objRS.getColumnCount - 1

dtTemp.Columns.Add(objRS.getColumnName(i), GetDotNetType(objRS.getColumnType(i)))

While Not (objRS.atEnd)

dr = dtTemp.NewRow()

objRow = objRS.getRecord()

For i = 0 To dtTemp.Columns.Count - 1

dr(i) = objRow.getValue(i)

objRS.moveNext()

End While

ConvertILogRecordsetToDataTable = dtTemp

End Function

Protected Function GetDotNetType(ByVal iLogType As Integer) As Type

Select Case iLogType

Case 0

GetDotNetType = GetType(Integer)

Case 1

GetDotNetType = GetType(DBNull)

Case 2

GetDotNetType = GetType(Double)

Case 3

GetDotNetType = GetType(String)

Case 4

GetDotNetType = GetType(Date)

Case Else

GetDotNetType = GetType(String)

End Select

GetDotNetType = GetType(String)

End Function

# August 8, 2008 5:57 PM

Cosmin said:

The ctrl+tab windows remains active after releasing the ctrl. I think It's related to sticky keys or something, but I cannot make it work properly, no matter what I do.

Does any one know how to solve this ?

Thanks.

# August 10, 2008 10:22 AM

Chau Huynh said:

Thanks so much for your advice.

# August 12, 2008 6:11 AM

Carlo Henrico said:

Thanks Waly, you're a star!!!

# August 13, 2008 9:09 AM

Rcardo Silva said:

Hello Korgoth,

I need to do the same thing, i e, count how many times a specific word appears in a document.

Did you discover how to do that using MSSQL Fulltext index?

# August 22, 2008 5:32 PM

CFQüeb said:

The tip works fine in SQL Server 2008 (i'm using the Developer edition).

10x!

# August 25, 2008 11:42 AM

Wally Rogers said:

Great graphic site !

I had to surf around for some time to find this excellent page .

I was of course interested in the Gulf of Mexico temperatures relative to Hurricane Gustav .

I did wonder also if they help determine the direction the hurricane may take ?

I am in Canada ..ya I know but lots of us DO care .

Wally

# August 30, 2008 3:18 PM

THE MASTER said:

IT DOES NOT WORK on SQL 2005

# September 5, 2008 6:23 AM

BP said:

It's amazing. You're super star.Woaaaaa.....

# September 10, 2008 11:38 PM

PCM said:

It worked!!!

Many many many thanks!!

# September 13, 2008 3:19 AM

Hans said:

Yeah-I just got this error and I checked the mapping of the My Docs folder-it was pointed to a network drive letter-I just pointed it to the path \\server\location instead of the drive letter and this error went away.

# September 15, 2008 7:32 PM

Sreejesh said:

Plz help me in populating an ajax code for populating a php combo box from another

# September 23, 2008 2:07 AM

Kenosi said:

Wow! Thanks.Works perfectly

# September 29, 2008 11:36 AM

werutza said:

Hi!

I want to make better my SQL experience.

I red so many SQL books and still feel, that I am not an expert

in SQL. What would you recommend?

Thanks,

Werutz

# September 29, 2008 11:58 AM

werutzb said:

Hi!

I want to make better my SQL knowledge.

I red that many SQL books and still feel, that I am not a whise man

in SQL. What would you recommend?

Thanks,

Werutz

# September 29, 2008 12:25 PM

Paul said:

Wally, this did the trick for me. I recently migrated an older app over from 2000 to 2005 and the fulltext search stopped working on PDF's stored as blobs. I uninstalled the IFilter, ran those commands, and reindexed. Bingo!

Thanks!

# September 29, 2008 10:54 PM

Scott Johnson said:

It would be nice to see the .NET framework on the MAC. It would be nice to be able to develop under Visual Studio and then have your apps run on the MAC or even have Visual Studio on the MAC. XCode is nice, but C# and managed code has a lot of advantages over C++. I know that a lot of MAC people have a great abhorrence of anything Microsoft but comparing writing software under Visual Studio and then under the XCode environment is about like using a motorcycle to get to your destination over a bicycle. Ah, to live in a perfect world!

# September 29, 2008 11:35 PM

Ward Delcomyn said:

I have noticed some issues with Win2k3 com+ 1.5, and I'm wondering if you have this problem:

Using classic asp to call a .net assembly registered in COM that inherits EnterpriseServices.ServicedComponent. Activate method fires appropriately, but when "Set obj = nothing" is called on the object (obj), the DeActivate method never fires.

I'm not finding much help on the MSDN forums and newsgroups on this. Oh, yeah, it all works fine in Win2k.

If you did have the problem, what did you do to fix it?

Thanks,

Ward Delcomyn

# October 2, 2008 11:18 AM

4hourswrongpassword said:

muchos gracias. we got it fixed because of this. took me 4 hrs to realize i should just search for the error online.

# October 2, 2008 8:19 PM

Jose (Brazil) said:

TERRIFIC !!! Thank you very much !

# October 3, 2008 10:03 AM

bbodio said:

Mono is nice, i respect Novell for developing such a project. But i have a nice experience in running .NET apps on Mono - Mono is absolutely not complete. Not only in architecture but also in realization of C# for example. Many of the corners in Mono are NOT complete (And i don't mean Windows-associated things). Example: Hashcode and Dictionary<T,T> in .NET are synchronized -> in Mono they are not -> the same multithreading app, working on .NET well falls downn on Mono...

# October 4, 2008 2:16 PM

drhender said:

The linked samples don't work in IE8

# October 7, 2008 4:43 PM

Caesar W. Were Auma said:

Thanks a big deal. Has worked so smoothly, unbelievable. Uve solved a problem ave been havin for the last two weeks...

# October 10, 2008 8:13 AM

James Fowler said:

Man, your just full of information...

# October 11, 2008 11:07 PM

Matthew W. (MSFT) said:

Glad you found msiinv useful. It uses the MSI APIs directly, rather than going straight to the registry.

-- matthew

(Developer of msiinv.exe)

# October 17, 2008 5:00 PM

calvin said:

Hai, I'm a beginner of Asp.Net. I,m also working on TimeSheet Program, where i need to store what employee doing at every hour. So please provide me the code or give me some details on

# October 20, 2008 2:37 AM

websparc said:

I wonder how you able to compile that code. FIrst i not find anything like __LongTerm__ typeof.

second when you add namespace to the aspx page class i cant access it in DisplayHandler class. Do you have working code for this example?

# October 20, 2008 11:17 AM

Doug said:

Hey, Wally, did you have any issues with permissions? I've been struggling with this error:

Creating an instance of the COM component with CLSID {8CFEBA94-3FC2-45CA-B9A5-9EDACF704F66} from the IClassFactory failed due to the following error: 80004005

when I try to instantiate the MSUtil.LogQueryClassClass.

# October 28, 2008 6:04 PM

Nilehs Trivedi said:

I am wondering if I can use TransactionScope in Business Layer for ASP.NET, c#, DB2 combo.

In Theory, this should work since I am using DB2 v9.5. But after applying code in BL, it is throwing an error as,

" SQL0998N Error occurred during transaction or heuristic processing. Reason Code = \"16\". Subcode = \"2-8004D026\". SQLSTATE=58005\r\n"

Any Idea?

# November 4, 2008 10:05 AM

dev said:

how do you use connection pooling in asp,i want to handle connection poooling in asp not in asp.net.

pls help !!!!!!!!!

# November 11, 2008 7:59 AM

Radu - ecommy.com said:

Thank you for your solution. I was struggling to get it work since yesterday.

# November 11, 2008 8:54 AM

Abha Agrawal said:

Good Solution.It helped me in fixing the issue

# November 17, 2008 5:56 AM

Stan said:

Almost as useless as the comment!

# November 17, 2008 2:47 PM

bil123 said:

merci, cela m'a économisé beaucoup du temps.

# November 19, 2008 8:43 AM

Dave said:

Are you using the workgroup edition that is in MSDN?

# November 20, 2008 2:42 PM

Guy Harwood said:

im curious too, maybe next year :-)

# November 20, 2008 4:07 PM

Mika Berglund said:

I had a similar problem in our TFS 2008 environment. We're running on Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008.

The problem occured on some clients when they tried to create new team projects. The create new project wizard quickly failed with an error saying that the projects in SQL Server Reporting Services cannot be enumerated.

The problem was caused by the fact that on the clients experiencing this problem, Team Explorer 2008 was installed after Visual Studio 2008 SP1. Reinstalling SP1 on the client resolved the problem.

Also make sure that you don't have the same situation on the application tier server.

# November 21, 2008 1:45 AM

Sanat KUmar said:

I had done

Go to "Control Panel" -> "Admin Tools" -> "Local Security Policy."

Within "Local Policies", go to user "Right Assignment."

Add the user to "Logon as a Batch Job."

but it is giving me the same error.

please cooperate

thanks in advance

# November 22, 2008 12:07 AM

Sanat KUmar said:

many many thanks

I t worked for me.

regards

s k swain

# November 22, 2008 1:47 AM

xoro said:

Hi,

Great news.

I wrote some other tricks about ASP.NET Caching.

Check this out :

blog.sb2.fr/.../EN-Css-Caching-and-Compression-with-HttpModule-for-ASPNET.aspx

blog.sb2.fr/.../Useful-Cache-and-Session-Method-Extensions-for-ASPNET.aspx

Thanks !

# December 4, 2008 4:25 PM

Milan said:

I`ll repeat most of people which commented this solution and i`ll say BIG THANKS!!

# December 11, 2008 9:28 AM

Rajat said:

Hi,

I did same what ever you suggest here.

by doing this way i am able to show the data.but

not able to insert or update i got error

"Sys.Net.WebServicesFailedException: The server method 'insert' returned invalid data. The 'd' property is missing from the Json Wrapper"

I tried but the problem is not resolved

can you please give me suggestion.

thanks in Advance.

Rajat

# December 15, 2008 12:03 AM

sangam100 said:

One could just do it by using AsynChronousTrigger Class:

AsyncPostBackTrigger trigger = new AsyncPostBackTrigger();

trigger.ControlID = mydropdownlist.ID;

trigger.EventName = "SelectedIndexChanged";

updateImage.Triggers.Add(trigger);

# December 17, 2008 7:57 AM

elaina aguirre said:

i love you santa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# December 24, 2008 8:05 PM

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# December 27, 2008 1:22 AM

abdel-khaliq zubaidi said:

Daaaaamn

a lot of thanks to u man

u help me a lot in the company ...uuuuuuuuuuu

# December 27, 2008 1:51 PM

Elijah Manor said:

Congrats on the MVP!

# January 3, 2009 12:20 AM

Pravs said:

Now that you have got what is that you will do?

# January 3, 2009 2:40 PM

Keyvan Nayyeri said:

Congratulations, Wally :-)

# January 6, 2009 11:38 AM

BlacK RozE said:

Thanks .. was looking for it !

# January 7, 2009 7:18 AM

Christopher Steen said:

Link Listing - January 7, 2009

# January 7, 2009 8:47 AM

Keyvan Nayyeri said:

Thank you so much for the post, Wally :-)

# January 7, 2009 11:45 AM

Aaron Seet said:

Looks like Microsoft cannot get enough of Wally.

good work mate.

# January 7, 2009 11:00 PM

koistya said:

Going to check it.

And here is my list of asp.net books: http://www.riaguy.com/books/

# January 12, 2009 2:42 AM

SUNNY said:

Thank you for your help!It worked well

# January 14, 2009 4:41 AM

Hari S said:

Is it true ?

If so , I really congrates u heartily.

# January 16, 2009 8:50 AM

budugu said:

Congrats wally!!

# January 21, 2009 11:31 PM

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# January 22, 2009 4:17 AM

Winston said:

another one of those internet hoax... microsoft silverlight was not named after david silverlight...

please make sure before making such a claim to confirm the development of software because such claims might call for law suits

# February 11, 2009 11:49 AM

David Lockett said:

I plan to be in Atalnta during May 2009 visiting our daughter, and if possible I would be interested in attending an Atlanta Cloud Computing User Group meeting. Can you please advise where I can obtain information and details about any meetings that will take place during May.

Thnk you

David Lockett

Australia

# February 15, 2009 12:22 AM

Tony said:

Dude, you are life saver.

# February 18, 2009 9:33 AM

Unknown said:

This works great for WIndows XP Professional too with 10.2 Oracle DB. Thanks a lot for providing the solution.

# February 22, 2009 1:22 AM

Christopher Steen said:

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# February 24, 2009 12:14 AM

Christopher Steen said:

Link Listing - February 25, 2009

# February 26, 2009 8:38 AM

Jennifer Marsman said:

Yesterday I gave a webcast on developer functionality in SQL Server 2008.  I covered SQL Server

# March 11, 2009 2:29 PM

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# March 11, 2009 2:42 PM

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# March 11, 2009 4:09 PM

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# March 12, 2009 8:44 PM

Peter said:

If I don't see you there, I'm gonna say 'hello' now :)

# March 13, 2009 10:10 AM

Jesus Falture said:

What will you be wearing?

# March 16, 2009 5:18 PM

garch said:

You are a life-saver! I am using this in a project I am working on, and was going to abandon it because I could not get it to work. Thank you!

# March 17, 2009 10:36 AM

Bertrand Le Roy said:

You shouldn't set the path to MicrosoftAjaxAdoNet.debug.js (ever) but to MicrosoftAjaxAdoNet.js. If you want debug mode, you should set the scriptmode on each of those references to Inherit and set the scriptMode top debug on the script manager.

# March 17, 2009 6:13 PM

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# March 18, 2009 2:26 AM

webbes said:

After another look.. you could also better use the DownloadString method of the WebClient class:

msdn.microsoft.com/.../fhd1f0sw(VS.80).aspx

Cheers,

Wes

# March 19, 2009 10:07 AM

webbes said:

I had a look for you at the twitter date format and indeed it isn't that wierd. To parse the date you could simply use this:

<code>

string twitterDate = "Sat Jan 24 22:14:29 +0000 2009";

DateTime parsedDateTime = DateTime.ParseExact(twitterDate, "ddd MMM dd HH:mm:ss zzz yyyy", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

</code>

Cheers,

Wes

P.S. You could glue my three reactions into on comment or not post them at all. Maybe it's good to just change the code sample.

# March 19, 2009 10:31 AM

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# March 19, 2009 1:35 PM

cibrax said:

Hey Wally,

Have you taken a look at this project, code.google.com/.../twitterbots ?

It provides a rich object model layered on top of the twitter API, so you do not have to worry about many details.

Pablo.

# March 20, 2009 9:01 AM

Howdy said:

What did you mean while saying "marry the two"?

# March 20, 2009 1:17 PM

Mike Ormond's Blog said:

If you’re having some trouble getting the ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview setup working (the ReadMe is a little

# March 21, 2009 11:52 AM

pho said:

try hitting F12 in IE8 ;-)

# March 24, 2009 8:53 AM

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# March 24, 2009 3:45 PM

ziaahmedshaikh said:

as soon as security exception is launched, i hope this will not be good approach all the times.

# March 25, 2009 1:30 AM

webbes said:

You should definately not use the WebClient class for this. This would reduce your code to three lines only.

# March 25, 2009 1:58 PM

Links For March 30 2009 | .Net said:

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# March 30, 2009 9:47 AM

Jason Haley said:

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# March 30, 2009 10:22 AM

Steve Marx said:

Full Trust and Native Code support are already in Windows Azure. Just set enableNativeCodeExecution="true" in your .csdef file.

# April 1, 2009 5:10 PM

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# April 2, 2009 6:04 AM

Sam said:

I have the same problem too. I think it's because of service pack 1. Is there any solution for this ?

# April 10, 2009 10:47 AM

Steve said:

2009 and still maintaining and upgrading several VB6 apps because the clients can't afford to refactor to .Net. As a developer MS basically screwed me. It's hard to explain to your clients that MS decided to deprecate the platform on which their core business tools are developed... you are seen as having made poor choices in the first place and I lost several clients over it. As a result I moved off MS tools completely outside of what I need to do legacy wise. It was an eye opener for me and taught me not to put everything in one bucket. We now develop cross platform tools easier in Java/Perl than we did Win apps before. I thank Microsoft for making me realize they were a bad choice as a development environment as they weren't going to sick with you long term.

# April 10, 2009 8:27 PM

dolly said:

what are the credentials in this code of twitter API

# April 22, 2009 3:19 AM

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# May 4, 2009 2:18 AM

Scott Herbert said:

I'm implementing something like this in VB 2008, have you found out how to inform twitter that the post is from such n such client?

@webbes, I'm also using WebClient, what would you suggest useing instead?

# May 9, 2009 9:52 AM

Yaw said:

I tried it but it doesn't work for me. I've installed oracle 10g on a DC. I've added my account to the 'log on as batch job' but still doesn't work.

While login in I used domainname\username with password but still doesn't work.

Is there a way out or oracle is just not okay on windows.

Please help!!

# May 15, 2009 12:20 PM

dgman said:

this doesn't work on mine. been trying all day.

are you sure about this?

HttpWebRequest req = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("twitter.com/.../new.xml + recipient + "&text=" + tweet);

I'm using .net, and this isn't doing anything at all.

# May 28, 2009 2:19 PM

harushard said:

got problem..~

{"The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request."}

i do ur code in windows form.. ithink same also..

what's the problem..?

read about rate limiting, but didnt know what to add to avoid this.. HELPP

# June 2, 2009 11:46 AM

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# September 10, 2009 11:08 AM

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# January 1, 2010 3:21 PM

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# January 1, 2010 3:26 PM

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# January 1, 2010 3:30 PM

Edwin said:

Man, some of these commandments apply to some Web applications as well. Nice post.

# January 2, 2010 10:27 AM

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# January 2, 2010 6:10 PM

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# January 2, 2010 6:43 PM

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# January 2, 2010 7:41 PM

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# January 2, 2010 8:52 PM

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# January 3, 2010 1:22 AM

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# January 3, 2010 4:11 AM

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# January 3, 2010 9:00 AM

Michael Schwarz said:

Congratulations... they moved me from ASP.NET MVP to .NET Micro Framework MVP 2010. ;)

Michael

# January 3, 2010 1:28 PM

resize said:

hey, you have to resize your table

# January 4, 2010 10:03 AM

HW said:

Hi

What are the GeoCode and Location classes in this example? I've found the mono touch reverse geocoding classes (MKReverseGeocoding) but can't seem to locate the forwards lookup mechanism

Thanks for the blog posts!

Stuart

# January 9, 2010 4:35 PM

Debbie said:

Is it ever necessary to dispose of UI elements to release resources in MonoTouch (e.g. wrap the creation of the UIAlertView with "using")? If it's never necessary, why not? If it is sometimes necessary, what are the rules?

TIA.

# January 11, 2010 7:35 PM

Jim Wilson said:

Well done--worked great! Nice eBook by the way. I hope there's another edition that adds stuff like this in it.

# January 12, 2010 2:03 PM

williams rodriguez said:

Thanks for the information... ;D

# January 14, 2010 1:15 AM

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# January 14, 2010 1:32 AM

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# January 14, 2010 11:44 AM

Peter Benson said:

How about the license to use the API for commerical purpose?

# January 21, 2010 2:36 AM

Khurram said:

Yes this works. Thankx for this great help. Pls continue such type of articales........!

# February 1, 2010 8:29 AM

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# February 4, 2010 10:15 AM

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# February 4, 2010 1:44 PM

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# February 4, 2010 3:48 PM

Frenika said:

Hello..

I'm trying to run a full text search on PDFs but the PDF files are not showing in the item count in the catalog. My table also includes DOCs and they are showing in the count and is being indexed/searched properly but not PDFs.

I'm lost and need help. I installed the Adobe PDF iFilter for 64-bit v9.0. I'm using SQL Server 2008.

Why isn't PDFs being indexed? Could it be a 64-bit or a SQL Server 2008 issue?

Thanks in advance..

# February 5, 2010 1:04 PM

Jason Haley said:

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# February 18, 2010 6:21 AM

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# March 22, 2010 12:34 PM

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# March 22, 2010 1:17 PM

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# April 1, 2010 8:09 AM

Manuel said:

Thanks. that worked!

# April 28, 2010 1:32 PM

David said:

I see this comment was post back in 2006.. what do you think of WCF these days, has your first impression proven to be on it's mark?

I stumbled upon this post as I searched the internet for 'WCF Overhead'; my wcf service (host in a windows service) is not performing anything like I expected and I was trying to figure out if it was something I was doing wrong or if I should consider an alternative design for my project.

-David

# May 3, 2010 3:57 PM

Dr. Serious said:

Wow. Just wow...

I'm sorry Wally, you this entire discussion has made you lose quite a bit of face.

Honestly.

Focusing on conjecture as to who invented what holds little relevance and serves even less purpose. I suppose just because you contributed to a crummy WROX book you think your entitled to pass judgment on some poor blogger who simply doesn't know any better?

If you're going to swim with the sharks, I suggest you try to act like an adult. Focus on the work -- not the finger pointing.

# July 7, 2010 7:33 AM

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# July 9, 2010 12:59 AM

Greg said:

Still not available to us in the uk though... Same as you other download only publication I could not seem to be able to get that in the uk either....

Any plans for a download version that we in the uk can have access to?

# July 9, 2010 1:38 PM

Rob said:

2010 and still using VB6 for apps that run in WinPe because Microsoft, as usual, stick their heads in the sand when we all ask for .NET support in WinPE.

Lastly, VB6 was great. It was not the unstable, horrible language everyone said it was. What made it unstable was basically bad programming using badly written or inappropriate API calls.

Back in my day, people complained about VB apps because they had to copy the "huge" runtime DLL onto their hard drive. How Ms ever got us to all to install the leviathan that is the .NET Framework I'll never know...

# August 8, 2010 3:19 PM

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# September 10, 2010 9:22 AM

paul.vencill said:

So, the irony for me is that I just bought a mac specifically b/c I figured that they'd put the nail in this particular coffin and that'd be the only way I could dev iOS apps officially. Today is the day the mac shipped, and I see your post...

Oh, well, I was due for a new computer anyway...

# September 10, 2010 11:44 AM

abhishek said:

please tell me whare i can write the configration code

# October 6, 2010 2:44 AM

software web app development said:

I have one query..

what is Programming with Device Hardware?

# October 9, 2010 4:56 AM

Pierre said:

Good news every one.

.net is working on the AS400.

We have developped a suite class objects to make .net development very easy. Handling connection, library list, store procedure, parameter list, returned dataset, dynamic dataset layout .....

Don't hesitate to try our class objects, and share with us your comments at i5dotnet.com

Best regards

Pierre

# October 15, 2010 4:54 PM

akki said:

thanx a tonnnnnnnnnnn it works

# October 18, 2010 4:25 AM

Asutosh Rout said:

Appeared first in the search & exact solution..BINGO.. Worked for 100s of ppl..

Thanks A Lot..

Asutosh Rout

# October 29, 2010 3:58 PM

starsky said:

You could also try this as:

BEGIN

SELECT sequence.nextval INTO :newField1Value FROM DUAL;

INSERT INTO table (field1, field2) VALUES (:newField1Value, :field2Value);

END;

Maybe making the INSERT the last item in the anonymous PL/SQL block will help (I don't think so, though). Really, since in this example I'm securing the next sequence value first, the BEGIN..END isn't even necessary, and will thus work even if both statements are spread out between database sessions. Maybe that would work better.

# November 12, 2010 1:30 PM

Craig LaMonte said:

Love these kinds of tidbits....great to read.

# November 16, 2010 5:01 AM

Amit Dhyani said:

Thanks for the solution. Bang on target!!!

# November 30, 2010 2:26 AM

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# December 7, 2010 1:08 AM

noddy said:

i'm interesting to ASP.NET and SQL too

and i have some Project regarding Spider and Crawler

nadi_dubai@yahoo.com

# December 8, 2010 4:07 AM

joon said:

It amazes me just how powerful the custom field section is, the possibilities seem to be endless.

# January 18, 2011 9:39 AM

Mike said:

Excellent info Wally. I work at an eCommerce .com company and are developing a mobile view of our desktop site. Do you have any suggestions/tips for this development?....Thanks.

# January 18, 2011 12:56 PM

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# January 19, 2011 1:37 AM

Homero Lara said:

Do you know where I can get my hands on this book with out having to wait until June 2011?

# January 19, 2011 3:51 PM

Jason Haley said:

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# January 20, 2011 7:07 AM

Srini said:

that's true. even it is not working for me also. it is giving basic authentication is not supported now. it is true. twitter is now moved to oauth authentication. pl tell me how can we achieve the same using oAuth.

# January 22, 2011 10:27 AM

dcgate said:

i cannot get the asp.net login to work with the ipad. it never treats the user as logged in.

# January 26, 2011 2:40 PM

yukasung said:

Good information.

# February 2, 2011 8:14 AM

andy said:

Looks like there will be no difference when MonoDroid will be officially released.

btw, from http://monodroid.net: MonoDroid will be a commercial product licensed in a similar fashion to ...

Thanks anyway.

# February 11, 2011 5:57 AM

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# March 11, 2011 3:09 PM

bhagavan said:

can we use .net in mac?

# April 20, 2011 1:57 AM

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# April 23, 2011 10:00 AM

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# April 23, 2011 10:05 AM

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# April 23, 2011 10:15 AM

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# April 23, 2011 3:47 PM

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# April 23, 2011 5:31 PM

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# April 23, 2011 9:06 PM

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# April 23, 2011 9:16 PM

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# April 24, 2011 12:54 AM

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# April 24, 2011 2:41 AM

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# April 24, 2011 2:46 AM

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# April 24, 2011 8:07 AM

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# April 24, 2011 8:18 AM

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# April 24, 2011 1:36 PM

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# April 24, 2011 1:45 PM

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# April 24, 2011 3:44 PM

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# April 24, 2011 7:20 PM

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# April 24, 2011 11:04 PM

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# April 25, 2011 12:37 AM

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# April 25, 2011 5:53 AM

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# April 25, 2011 6:08 AM

odeits said:

You are using http and thus passing your username and password over plaintext. Try using https instead.

# May 18, 2011 12:57 PM

bailong said:

Where can i find your rss feed?

# May 21, 2011 6:03 AM

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# July 20, 2011 1:42 AM

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# August 4, 2011 4:47 PM

Erick said:

Can I buy this book in Mexico?

# October 12, 2011 7:02 PM

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# October 16, 2011 8:31 AM

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# October 20, 2011 1:38 AM

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# October 25, 2011 1:38 AM

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# October 25, 2011 6:59 AM

jb said:

Will the webinar be recorded? I signed up but have a meeting during the time. Looks like a great topic.

# October 25, 2011 3:46 PM

worldstarhiphop said:

very interested. have been experimenting with html5 video player but was sacred to make 100% transition due to some mobile devices still not accepting. thanks for the info

# October 30, 2011 12:16 PM

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# November 3, 2011 2:43 AM

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# November 6, 2011 12:20 PM

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# November 24, 2011 2:02 PM

Vivek said:

Thanks for the tip. I recently got your book and finally started on my first app. Although I was able to successfully deploy the app to my iPod Touch, I did get a MonoDevelop (2.8.5) warning: "Project does not have bundle identifier specified." Your tip gets me half way there. I am not sure what exactly I need to enter in the "Identifier" field; is it tied to my Apple Dev Account. The reason I ask is given the Apple "police-state" strictures, I don't want to put the wrong thing and then have them cite me for a violation. Thanks in advance for any help I can get.

# December 23, 2011 12:49 PM

Brian said:

You appear to know a lot about MonoTouch and HTML5. I'm new to Mono and have built a few apps. I love it, but am concerned that Mono won't be such a big deal for C# developers if HTML5 can completely replace native apps. I've heard rumors that Apple will open things like the camera to HTML5 soon. If that happens, I would think that HTML5 would be a better investment of my time and education. Please let me know your thoughts.

# January 25, 2012 10:23 PM

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# January 27, 2012 2:01 AM

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