Wallace B. McClure

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• What have I been doing lately
  • Finished all the chapters on the book, now into Author review stage
  • 4th Dan black belt
  • Kneecap popped out
  • Trying to keep up with Wally's pace of podcasting.
  • Playing my XBox360
• Technical Stuff
  • The release of the Atlas March CTP
    • great improvements like support for gadgets
    • Web service bridging - accessing web services outside of your originating domain
    • Agility controls
    • Alas eabling my site (http://www.theglavs.com)
  • Web Deployment projects. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/reference/infrastructure/wdp/default.aspx)
    • Deployment of resource files. Precompiled means you cant selectively deploy just resource file, meaning you have to deploy the whole site just for a resource file update.
  • Web application projects. (http://webproject.scottgu.com/)
    • VS2003 like project system
    • Source control advantages
    • Compilation advantages
  • SecurePasswordTextBox control.
    • Uses the .Net V2 SecureString class.

• This control adds directly to a securestring instance – no managed string instance.

• Available with full source code at http://www.theglavs.com/DownloadItem.aspx?FileID=46

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