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DottextWiki
I think this is not new for other bloggers here but this is an important message for me (or other Blog + Wiki lovers) as I'm work on a similar project recently.
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.Text was updated
Firstly, Thanks ScottW to update this web site to .Text (Version 0.95.3.1221) !
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JSP Migrate to ASP.NET (ViewState and JavaBeans)
When I searching for something about “ViewState” in the MSDN Library this morning, an article with title “ViewState and JavaBeans (ASP.NET Technical Articles)” placed at #1 in the result set.
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ASP.NET Webcast Week - January 19-23, 2004
Interesting (Busy) January ? Ya, I think so..
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Redesigned Sites
Larua blogged about the redesign of MSNBC lately, which remind me one of the MSN web site build by the .NETJunkies recently:
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MSDN Connection Program spread over Asia
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Tetris and Wahoo
Interesting!
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Presentation of ASP.NET Whidbey
I'm glad to give a talk about ASP.NET Whidbey for my Hong Kong .NET User Group last Sat, it's a great moment as the audience showed vigorous response during the presentation.
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Understanding Caching Application Block
Just came across these 2 articles from the ASP.NET Forums tonight:
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Meeting my .NET friend - Thomas :)
The Hong Kong .NET User Group will organize the second user group gathering on 6 Dec 2003, which have a huge difference than normal UG gathering! -
.NET invade student community
I attended an opening ceremony in the Department of Computing, Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education last Sat, and the name of that event is ".NET Student Union Opening Ceremony".
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AI Constraint Programming in .NET
The Hong Kong .NET User Group organized a Campus Tour Series recently and the first stop in City University of Hong Kong (CityU) was completed successfully 2 days ago.
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Big Picture of Data Access Support in "Whidbey"
An article named “Data Access Support in Visual Studio.NET (Whidbey)” published on DotNetJunkies recently, which is written by Mark Fussell (the Microsoft's Lead Program Manager on XML technologies).
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Pop Up Control + Private Messaging in ASP.NET Forums App
Paschal blog about a Pop Up control for ASP.NET recently, which is so nice and a great feature - drag and drop - will be added in the next version too. :)
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Query Analyzer provide ... IntelliSense?
SqlBuddy is an handy open source database tool for MS SQL Server very similar to Query Analyzer. The SQL text editor even has syntax highlighting and Intellisense. It's written in C#, too. [Josh]
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C# Class Generator (beta)
Talked with Salman last week... He told me that he've created a C# Class Generatorbeta. I just tried it and it's pretty funny. :)
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ASP.NET Whidbey FAQs
The first FAQ of ASP.NET “Whidbey“ is available now:
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GotDotNet's Nov Featured Site
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ASP.NET Roadshow!
Just saw this exciting announcement from Brian's blog: [ ASP.NET Exposed ]
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Web Matrix shut down automatically but just a splash screen?
One of the “bug” or problem that Web Matrix developers face is that whenever you try to start the Web Matrix IDE, it will shut down automatically without displaying any error message nor notice. That's really weird as it happen occasionally and no error message for us to trace what's going wrong.
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Introducing BulletedList Control in ASP.NET v2.0
I saw a blog by Juliet in my local blogging site 2 days ago, and she wrote an article about creating a custom control inheriting from Repeater class and then generate a data-bindable list of data in bullet format.
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Smell ... ASP.NET V2.0
I was moderating the ASP.NET Forum tonight and found that Sreedhar just post a message about ASP.NET v2.0!
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PHP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant Alpha
PHP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant Alpha
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A New Microsoft Asia Developer Community Program
It's live (finally)... the MSDN Connection Program!
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.NET Magazine in Asia
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ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant Alpha
The ASP.NET team announcing the “ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant Alpha” a few days ago (A few of related forums created but disappeared immediately and appear again today ?!)
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A utility to transfer database - DbDataTransfer
I came across with this thread in the ASP.NET Forum today and notice that Vicenc created a tool for transferring database to a remote location, and it looks promising!
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How to pass authentication credentials in System.Web.Mail class
I believe this is a FAQ on the ASP.NET Forum and other newsgroup as well, and the answers/replies are normally be - “No, you can't! You have to use other third party control in order to do so if your mail server require you to logon.“
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ASP.NET 2.0 Resources Consolidation
Scott Guthrie is on .NET Rocks to talk about ASP.NET 2.0.
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RSS to WML Converter
Learn something new today
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.NET Show - Tablet PC
Just finish watching the latest .NET Show about Tablet PC from the MSDN web site.
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Using ASP.NET Web Matrix control in VS.NET
Bill Evjen
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Hong Kong's Attempt at Breaking Guinness World Records for the Largest PC DIY Assembly
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Designing and Developing a Line-of-Business Web Application in ASP.NET
A new video published on MSDN web site - ASP.NET section
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MVP Awards List, 2003-2004
The latest MVP Award list was updated and I'm glad too see a couple of the names on that list (including myself of course :)
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Blogs from SQL experts
I blogged about the SQL bloggers in Aug, and I just reveal that the famous SQL resources site - SQLTeam.com start a blogging site today! [Subscribed]
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Latest Control from MetaBuilders
I'm sure I saw TONS of post on the Forums about “How to disable / make a button invisible after a click”, or “How to avoid double insertion of data”?
This is a headache for developers especially when you click a button and insert something into the Database, as your user may press the “F5“ button and/or repeated click the submit button. -
Special User Group Event
My local Hong Kong .NET User Group organized a seminar for our members yesterday, the topic is Building Smartphone Application using .NET Compact Framework. Yeah, that seminar is great, I don't have a SmartPhone but I learn something new in this session!
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Editable DropDownList in ASP.NET
Similar to the ComboBox control in Windows Form, Andy made an awesome ComboBox control long times ago for ASP.NET - Yes, no such control in ASP.NET Server Control Collection, and we have to use some JavaScript and/or add a “ArrowDown” image next to a TextBox to stimulate this normally.
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DataGridGirl on MSDN
Congrat to Marcie firstly, I saw her first article on MSDN ASP.NET Section go live today!
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Funny Post
I got an email from Mazen yesterday... it contain a recruitment post:
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Microsoft commit to add pragmatic value to Student
I blog about the kick start of Microsoft HK TechEd 2003 yesterday, and actually Microsoft HK Ltd publish a press release yesterday announcing a new program - Student Club.
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.TEXT 0.94 is coming very soon
0.94 - Thanks ScottW!
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New friends at the Microsoft Hong Kong TechEd 2003
Just finished my presentation at Microsoft Hong Kong TechEd 2003 today, the new Business Marketing Organization Director - Robbie Wright presented a really cool opening keynote. I learn a copule of new new features about the new Exchange server and the Microsoft Office system.
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Meeting with a linguist
I'm preparing for my presentation tomorrow in Microsoft Hong Kong TechEd 2003. Ya, that's not my first public presentation in TechEd, but I'm still nervous... My powerpoint is rich in content, but the whole session will be conducted in English, which is not my mother tonque. :S
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Effective Presentation Tool/Skill
Brain post a very good entry about Presentation Skill / Tool in his blog yesterday - Well, I should read his entry earlier during the preparation of my presentation for TechEd tomorrow... :-)
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TechEd/PDC Bloggers
I visited TechEdBloggers.NET this morning and find that 2 new entries were added on 31 Aug (The latest 2 entries):
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User Group Gathering (Revisit)
We (Hong Kong .NET User Group) organize the first member gathering last week, and our Arts director edited and uploaded the photos to our portal site yesterday:
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Undesired code insertion/modification in Web Matrix
If you were using Web Matrix for your development, you may notice that the 'codes' are not keep intact from times to times.
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Navigation in ASP.NET
Like C# VS VB, WebControls VS HTMLControls, DatabaseStorage VS FileStorage... (I can compile a list of debatable subjects if you want to see), discussion of Response.Redirect VS Server.Transfer is also a FAQ in all forums / discussion board.
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First User Group Gathering
Just finish the first gathering day of my .NET User Group yesterday, this is a great success although the number of attendee is far less than the registered/reserved records (Yeah, the number is better than my prediction in fact , we've a registration form and 51 members click the Register button, but 35 members finally attend the gathering only.)
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Access upsize to SQL Server 2000
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'Server Application Unavailable' error on Windows XP
ScottGu start a new Forum Group in the official ASP.NET Forum with the captioned subject.
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.NET VS Java
Don't shoot me first after reading the title of this entry...
I read different kinds and a lot of salary index, programmer population, technical/infrastrcuture comparion, sample application comparsion, performance figures, ... etc etc. about these two technology in the past. -
Scanning Tool to Identify Host Computers That Do Not Have the 823980 Security Patch (MS03-026) Installed
Recalling my 'experience' of the Blaster Worm 10 days ago... I receive a Kb from my co-worker today.
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Programming Languages
Microsoft Programming Languages
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Mad About Developers!
I visited a bookstore last month and write an entry about what I see in the past. Apart from the book that I mentioned in my last entry, I also saw a new magazine in that bookstore actually and its name is “.NET Asia Magazine”
Anyway, I browse to the Microsoft Asia site today and found that an inaugural copy of that magazine can be downloaded for FREE. (Yee.... Yeah!) -
FAQ: Display (Expand/Collapse) Hierarchical in ASP.NET DataGrid
I always see the question of “How to display hierarchical data in a DataGrid” in different Forums, Newsgroup, List Servers...etc etc. Therefore, a lot of articles were written in this topic, some of them use WITH ROLLUP keyword in TSQL, some of them use Nested DataGrid, some of them like injecting data into a Table/DataGrid control during ItemDataBound... etc etc, there're really tens of different approach to do the same result. Today, a new columnist join ASPAlliance, his name is Denis Bauer and his first article is exactly talking in this subject.
He wrote a Custom Control named “HierarGrid“ and just published an article about how to use it. This control is a DataGrid-like control and capable of displaying parent-child relationship / data. Moreover, it will generate a Expand/Collapse (Javascript) and toggle the visibibility of the child data per parent item: -
3 New Articles published on MSDN - ASP.NET Section
The ASP.NET Page Object Model
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TechEd... Party... Formal...Informal... ?
I saw few pics this morning:
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Blogging from anywhere?
ScottW blog about how to make a blog entry without using the Web interface :
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What You Should Know About the Blaster Worm?
August 11, 2003
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MSDN .NET Framework "latest" article?
Broswing to the MSDN .NET Framework section today and I notice that there's a new article published recently:
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Rss Readers
Today I came across a list of Rss Readers from David's blog.
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DGG in Australia!
Just have a nice chat with Marcie this morning, yeah, she arrive Aust and ready for the Microsoft Australia TechEd 2003!
Initially, I'd like to blog about this news and draw the attention of Aussie for her sessions of “DataGrid” and Data-Driven Applications, and the TechEd 2003 Australia and New Zealand. I'm glad to hear from her that we're getting a little closer in my part of the world! (Yes, we have 3 hours difference in watches only now :)
However, I'm sorry to see this entry from her... If anybody see a black wallet/phone combo (black? not Pink?) please let her know IMMEDIATELY as I don't want to see there's an imperfection for her trip...
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GotDotNet's Featured Site for August
Congrat Salman! Well Well Well... Salman just leave a URL in IM to me this morning... What's that? No more description but just a URL ;)
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Exam/Cert is a MUST?
Yeah! James and Marcie passed the Web Application exam recently:
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Migration to Web Matrix from VS.NET
The title of this entry is migration to Web Matrix from VS.NET, sound strange ? reverse? huh?
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iPAQ Community
Salman did a pretty great job and roll out a community named iPAQ.org in July, and he told me a new iPAQ community Url today: iPAQ.NET (It's the first hand news and you may have problem in accessing the web site by clicking this Url at this moment as the DNS records are updating)
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Microsoft Hong Kong TechEd 2003
Well, well, well... the official homepage of the Microsoft Hong Kong TechEd 2003 was announced!
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Have you see the power of DotText?
Guess what? DotText had been put on GotDotNet Workspace already!
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TypePad "Features"
Six Apart announce the latest features and pricing of TypePad recently, which is build upon the Movable Type platform with many new functionality that can't be found in originial MovableType. TypePad provide a couple of pretty cool features :
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New MSDN article - DataGrid, DataList or Repeater ?
MSDN web site just publish an article yesterday:
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SQL Bloggers
As many of you may noticed that Donny announce the SqlJunkies a few days ago:
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Worm Attack - W32.Mimail.A@mm
I received > 10 emails from my User Group email account today, all of them containing an attachment - message.zip, and all of them are send from the same admin account of my .NET User Group!
That's obviously odd as I 'm sure there's NO email address with the name of “admin” (I'm one of the domain and email administrators for my User Group domain name) AND all of the emails with the same message body and attachment: -
Web Services Survey
Want to influence the design of Microsoft developer platform?
Want to win Visual Studio Professional 2003 with a Viewsonic V37 Pocket PC device?
Click the following link right now: -
ASP.NET Technical Quiz
I'm glad to read a news from our local Microsoft office today.
They created a quiz in my favourite subject
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2 New articles - ASP.NET @ MSDN
2 new articles published on MSDN - ASP.NET section, both of them are written by Scott :)
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How ASP.NET solved a site licensing, maintenance nightmare
Glad to see an interesting case study like this:
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TechEd 2003 Speaker Invitation
I got the invitation for the Microsoft TechEd 2003 from Microsoft HK Ltd yesterday, I'm pretty excited about that annual event, especially hear so much 'noise' about TechEd here and the TechEdBlogger.
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Congratulation Alex!
As per blog entries:
1. Congratulations Alex Lowe! [ScottW]
2. It appears that Alex Lowe has been assimilated... ;-) [GAD] -
Domain Name Registration
I browse to a Domain Name registration web site this morning, and I want to search any available or interesting domain name for me. Yes, I know, www.Colt.com is registered by “Colt's Manufacturing Company Inc.” in the United States, and I don't think I can register it within short period of time. The similar 2nd level domain names like Colt.net, Colt.org, Colt.ws, Colt.Whatever are all unavailable.
So, I turn to a local domain name registration office, which is mainly for “.hk” third level domain name registration (i.e. the area code). I'm pretty sure the www.Colt.com.hk is available, as I check it a few months ago. However, it give me a surprise this morning that this domain name was registered by ... Mitsubishi Motors: -
DotText and new version of WebLog@ASP.NET launched
What a great news that ScottW announce the new blog engine - DotText and his personal blog to a new home. (It's a good name and a very good application! I know he have many beautiful skins and fantastic features coming :)
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New face of ASPAdvice
I browse to ASPAdvice and it give a shock tonight, it was changed!
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File and Data Management Area in ASP.NET Web Matrix
One of the very cool feature in Web Matrix v0.6 is the real time visual rendering of User Control. That is, if we create a User Control and save it(uc1.ascx), and then we create a parent/template page (WebForm1.aspx) to embed this User Control, what we have to do is to drag the User Control (uc1.aspx) and drop it onto the page (WebForm1.aspx), then the visual appearance of the User Control will be displayed on the designer of Web Matrix automatically. That's a really cool feature in WM and his brothers - Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 still can NOT render user controls in real time like that but just showing a 'grey box' instead.
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Desktop Security Demo (Flash)
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What are you currently reading?
Recall a blog discussing "What are you currently reading?" by ScottW, and I know that there're really a lot of valuable books out there.
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Attendee of my local User Group Presentation
My local .NET User Group hold a technical presentation today and the topic is Database Programming with .NET - A Quick Start. This presentation is hold by my User Group and a tertiary educational insitutation cooperatively and target for the students.
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An addition to the FAQ for Email Sending in ASP.NET
Mike post a FAQ for Email Sending in ASP.NET and I blog it in my previous entry. Today, I saw a Forum member face this problem while his suggest solution is NOT covered in this FAQ, so one addition to this list of FAQ today :)
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2 New Vocab by Paul Wilson
I blog about a book by Paul Wilson yesterday and got a comment from my friend - Paul Wilson in a couple of hours. (2 x Thanks to PaulS)
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[Book] Calm at Work - by Paul Wilson
I read few pages of a book titled "Calm at Work" - Paul Wilson.
Yes, the author of this book is Paul Wilson! That's why I pick it up from the bookshelf (Hey Paul, why don't you let me know that you publish a book with no relationship with .NET?!)
Obviously, that author is actually NOT the one who I know - the ASP.NET Guru: PaulWilson. I saw this book on the cateogry of Psychology from a bookstore, and I pick it up anyway as the title is quite interesting to me (another reason is that I want to clarify is that Paul == the one who I know :)
While a chapter of "Time" and "Time Pressure" in this book impressed me and I'd like to blog and share it: -
Monitor II
After reading a blog about a 'multi-monitor' (pilot) office here (remind me if you remember the Url of that blog), I saw another 'special' office today...
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Blog Glossary
I found this web site of "Blog Glossary" from an entry of Mike's Blog, as I got a little Linky Love from him last week. :0)
BTW, I think this glossary is a good reference for every bloggers.
Moreover, I learn two new terms for me today:
Clog Blog (noun.) A Dutch language blog
Frogblogs (noun.) A Francophone blog
As I'm going to launch a blog application which support Chinese & English bloggers (which is based on the Blog Framework from ScottW), but I don't see there's a 'term' of blog in Chinese language... hm... Maybe I should 'invent' a term and 'update' this Glossary, or please kindly let me know if any of you know the answer. :) -
PetShop Demo ( .NET VS J2EE )
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Work at home VS Work at office
Despite the fact that:
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My Cubicle
Does your cubicle like this? :-)
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Mike Pope have a blog!
Just submit a blog and mentioned a FAQ about Email Sending posted on the ASP.NET Forums, and I click "Blog" Home and one of my old blog entry unintentionally, guess what? Mike read my blog and he have a blog (Subscribed!) - Sure, his blog is made by Web Matrix ;)
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FAQ for Email Sending in ASP.NET
Email sending in ASP.NET is very easy! There's a library named "System.Web.Mail" provide a easy emailing services for ASP.NET Developers, we can prepare and send an email from our Web application in just 1-2 lines of codes. Moreover, Web Matrix provide a Code Wizard which contain a Email Sending module/wizard which will generate the code to send email in a visual way.
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System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Login failed for user 'MachineName\ASPNET'
I'm not sure how many of you are using MSDE as your backend data store, but Web Matrix inborn work naturally with the MSDE Database. Even in the Guided Tour of Web Matrix (which is a tutorial for Web Matrix user and step-by-step samples for users) also have an appendix specialized in MSDE installation).
"Login Failed for user XXX\ASPNET" is a FAQ in the Forums, I think I saw and moderate this kind of questions over thousands of times. Dave post a FAQ for this subject some times ago, while an ASP.NET Team member - MikePope - answer a question for that problem again recently.
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ASPNET Worker Process Recycled?!
I received a ad-hoc task for retrieving, sorting and filtering data from a Excel file tonight, it's pretty simple and straighforward - Just use an appropriate connectionString in ADO.NET then I can connect to the 'data source' and manipulate the data directly.
However, I 'hang' for about 5 minutes in front of my workstation in the process! There're two problems which were sucking me:
1. A Excel worksheet was used as a Data Source by user, well, I understand this situation as users are more familiar with the Office products sense, but the point is that the single worksheet contain >= 20Mb of data, which take me l..o..n..g.. time in loading. 20Mb is a insignificant size when storing in a SQL Server, but loading up a 20Mb Excel file is really face a heavy performance penalty. (More info: The file is connected and filled with data from a SQL Server, but I'm not authorized to access to this Server directly, don't laugh at me)
2. An error message with something like "aspnet worker process recycled" displayed when I was retrieving the data from the 'data source'. Next, I go to open up my Event Viewer and see what's going on. The reason is something like "Insufficient memory - the ASP.NET process take > 60% of my physical memory". Ah.... I have 256Mb physical RAM in my workstation and... I don't want to waste time in this issue but just search and scan a similar Kb from Microsoft support site.
Finally, my solution is to break down the amount of data to be SELECT for retrival in order to 'avoid' this problem, I don't want to spend more time in investigating or trying to solve this problem tonight, as I want to completed my task ASAP and off - I've stayed in office for nearly 12 hours already.
Inproper way for problem-solving and learning? or reply to user in the shortest response time? Who win? Excel or XML or other Data Source will you suggest to users? -
Welcome ScottMitchell to the blog world
Just submit my prevoious blog and scroll a bit down... and find that ShowUsYourSomethingHere - Darren have a blog mentioning Scott have a blog now!
Whevener I hear the name of Scott and I'd think of a DataGrid at once.. I don't know why, no reason! Maybe I always meet him in the online DataGrid Forum, various Discussion List, MS Newsgroup, or the reference books... -
Windows Mobile Quiz
My local Microsoft office just launch an interesting Windows Mobile Quiz this evening:
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Multiple languages in one project
During a discussion of the captioned subject in the ASP.NET Forums, Ambrose, Paul and I were discussing "languages" in a project. Yes, langauge choices is a 'hot' debate topic and we can mix them across an application, while Ambrose propose a way to "mix" languages with the use of Assembly Linker.
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INETA New Face
I just hanging around and find that the International .NET Association (INETA) have a new face now!
(More information for this new web site can be found at here)
It look promising and fresh!
I think it must be the good work from the INETA Infrastructure team there. ;)
Well, I'm not sure is it new but I found a pretty cute logo on the top right hand corner :) -
FREE Chart Control for ASP.NET!
A free WebChart control for ASP.NET was published by CarlosAg from the ASP.NET Team recently, it rocks!
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First User Group Presentation Completed
Just complete my first presentation for my local Hong Kong .NET User Group yesterday, well, the number of attendee/members is a little bit out of my expectation! The venue provide 40 seats to me originally, but it turn out over (approximately) 120 (when I look at the audience on stage) members come here!!
(Here, I'd like to thanks to the The Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) - Department of Computing providing the venue and cooperation of increasing the room capability immediately for us!)
Based on the conversation between a couple of members and me after the presentation, I've noticed that... They're not quite satisfy for my presentation at all... the reason is "Too few codes", "To few demo", "You say too much", etc.
Yes, based on my experience in giving presentation to 'beginners', showing too many codes or demos is not cool, they feel confused and just like 'watching a cat playing a ball on sofa' - they've no much feeling or don't feel exciting about the demo/code, yes, I enjoy coding even on stage and a few of member may feel interesting, but the majority of beginnners who have no concept / idea about what I'm doing actually, well, but the situation is obviously changed now... Maybe I should change my mind and material for the next presentations...Confused?! :( -
Writing ASP.NET Web Matrix Add-Ins. How?
There's a new Add-In control for Web Matrix as known as DbDiagrams, while I'm sure majority of people who like or dislike ASP.NET Web Matrix somehow is because it's lack of functionality and features compared with VS.NET 2003.
Well, these 2 products have 2 different design goal and target users. It's hard to compare them in 1-2 sentences. Anyway, more and more cool control / add-in come for this tool MUST increase the interest and usage for developers in this FREE (reloaded) ASP.NET Development Tool.
Therefore, CarlosAg, who work in the ASP.NET Team and as a quality assurance for the latest Web Matrix Reloaded version, recently wrote an article and teaching our fellow developers about how to write a add-in for Web Matrix.
Currenly, DbDiagram from Carlos is an interesting idea and add-in, while if any of you want the features like "IntelliSense", DB Layer code generator, multiple languages switch... These are potential add-in and I think this article is the way to go. -
DbDiagrams Add-In for ASP.NET Web Matrix
CarlosAg from the ASP.NET Team just release a very cool Add-In for the ASP.NET Web Matrix, and the name of this cool control is:
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ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook Arrive/Stolen?
Being a contributing author of the ASP.NET Developer's Cookbook, I got the complimentary copy today!! Thanks to SAMS, Steve and Rob at first.
However, when I get the mail from the lobby and discover that...
the envelop WAS OPENED!!
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A cOoL Flash-enabled web ad.
What's a good web page with attractive content and meaning ?
That's definitely one of my favorite: ;-)
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First User Group Presentation
My local .NET User Group will organize a series of technical presentation session for a tertiary education institution starting from July, and I'll be the first speaker in this series who are not MS employee :)
Yes, this is my first presentation to students for my User Group (We invited a local MS office developer evangelist as our speaker in the past presentations).
I don't know why but I don't feel any pressure for this presentation, it may due to the fact that I read lots of Presentation Tips here, such as Julia's Presentation Tips.
Ah... I still haven't mention the topic of the presentation - it's called Web Form Basic, Beginning ASP.NET, ASP.NET Getting Started, or whatever you like to name it.
I choose this topic as majority of the students in that institution are young and have few (or none) knowledge about ASP.NET . The lecturer in that institution just recruiting trainers to train themselves in this summer vocation extensively.
(Why the syllabus in tertiary educational institution or university still not yet include .NET?)
I hope I can draw the attention from the students, inspire and give some idea to them for their coming yearly-long project :)
Preparing the slide for that presentation is quite easy, at least easier than my previous presentation in TechEd, anyway, I hope the students have interest in my presentation and don't fall asleep inside the lecturer threatre, although it's summer vocation for students here. ;) -
3 new local MVPs born
My local Microsoft office annouce 3 new MVPs who have received awards for the 2003 first half award cycle, and their names were displayed on the official Microsoft local office web site!
* Yes, you can't see my name on the new web page and it's really odd that they even forgot I'm a MVP too or don't know who I am?!
haha, that's just kidding, I know these 3 MVPs in person and we 're friends and committee members of the HK .NET User Group, and 2 of them are the Vice Presidents in our .NET User Group, and the third one is an active member in other .NET community like CSharpFriends and CSharpCorner. -
DBCS problem in Web Matrix Reloaded
What a great news that Web Matrix Reloaded was official launched!
However, I saw a thread about using languages other then English in the ASP.NET Forum recently, and I open my WM and try to stimulate it when seeing this post.
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ASP.NET Web Matrix Reloaded!!
Just back from camping in this weekend but got a shocking news (email) in my Inbox immediately!
Subject: "Announcing ASP.NET Web Matrix Reloaded" by Brian Goldfarb.
Yes! The new version of the ASP.NET Web Matrix (Reloaded) was released!!!
I'm a big fan of the ASP.NET Web Matrix and co-author a book in the past:
Beginning Dynamic Websites : with ASP.NET Web Matrix
I love this tool and it's very handy and powerful for ASP.NET Development. Honestly, I used Web Matrix frequently and nearly as the same rate like your Visual Studio .NET in work.
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User Group Support from APress
Just got a good news from APress! today, and I'd like to thanks Stephanie Parker (Marketing and Publicity Co-ordinator from Springer-Verlag London Limited) firstly.
Stephanie and me start keeping contact since May, we have a great time though she've just hand-over her jobs to a staff in my region recently, and I'm glad to meet her (albeit virtually). She is very helpful and I'm happy to see the polite response from her staff in my region too.
They provide a warm and friendly support to our local User Group and promise to send the promotion catalog, give-away products and review book to our User Group members. If any User Group leader read this blog, I'd recommend you take a look at their APress! site, register and cooperate with their User Group section, they are a friend and beneficial to the User Group community. :) -
DotNetJunkies 3.0 released
Got a instant message for a small test from Doug yesterday, and I'm glad to hear that the new DotNetJunkies was official released. Their new web site is so amazing and pretty!
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[New article] data access control - SqlDataSourceControl
Just published a new article on ASPAlliance last week, ah... I just notice that I didn't write for my column more than 4 months... :\
In Web Matrix, there is a new data access control - SqlDataSourceControl and we can use it to manipulate the datasource and databind to any data web controls, e.g. DropDownList, DataGrid, DataList, Repeater, etc. The beauty is that you can create and configurate the SqlDataSourceControl once easily, and then you can apply it to different data web controls immediately.
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Matrix (Bug?) Reloaded
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Help on Web Hosting
Any idea/suggestion about Web Hoster which provide a multiple-year plan?
A Portal site for the Hong Kong .NET User Group will be released soon, (guess what?) which is based on the CSK. While the concern at this moment is - Web Hosting, and I'm finding a hoster which can provide > 1 hosting plan (and definitely offer a discount if possible) to me, but all I can find on the Web is a monthly or yearly basis only. Finally, I found a hoster offered this solution to me, but their service and response is not as good as I expect.
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PopUp New Window in List Control with Multiple Parameters
Just saw 2 very similar post in the ASP.NET Forums yesterday (It would probably be a FAQ about using Javascript and DataGrid)
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Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 Launch Day
Just back from the Windows Server 2003 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 Launch event offered by my local Microsoft office, I have a bit disappointed about this event today...
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ASP.NET Web Matrix Update Details
Firstly, I'm really excited to see the message from Nikhiko today in the ASP.NET Forums
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A new comer in ASPAlliance
I got a pretty interesting notice that a new columnist born in ASPAlliance yesterday. He's called Andy, I'm glad to see this happened because he's come from the same city with me - Hong Kong. It's a small place with around 7 millions of people only, but 2 columnists (included me) come from this place in ASPAlliance.com, you know the percentage/portion? :)
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.NET Book
When browsing around the blogs, I found that most of the bloggers read LOTS of articles and reference books about ASP.NET since Beta 1/2. However, the situation is a bit different for me, as there are FEW books in Hong Kong. One of the reason is that the bookstore owner won't purchase computer book in ENGLISH, (English is not our mother tongue) or they just purchase a couple of the 'best selling' books only.
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MVP Summit 2003 Photos
I finally uploaded my photos for the MVP Summit 2003, it's a bit late (due to the problem of uploading image from camera to computer) but this is really an amazing and unforgetable event for me and I hope all of my MVP friends forgive me.
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Welcome to my Blog
Hi,