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Looking at the provider model of ASP.NET 2.0, I thought it would be nice to write my own PersonalizationProvider. Just to see how it all works.

Do you want to query on unstructured xml data inside SQL2000 text fields? Keep on reading!

I'm using Log4NET for almost a year now, and I must say I'm very pleased with it. This logging framework is very easy to learn and extend; same goes for installation and configuration.

Victor van Hagen (a collegue of mine at Macaw) has build a nice logging feature into the web application we're building together at the moment. This logging feature takes care of logging client-side JavaScript errors to a special 'Logging' WebService!
This way you're able to monitor the JavaScript errors that occur on the browsers of your clients. Pretty powerful tool to improve your application!

The next version of ASP.NET (2.0) finally comes with a built-in logging mechanism:
Healthmonitoring.
I've just been experimenting with it (using my Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition Beta1), and it really rocks! It's got the power of EIF (Enterprise Instrumentation Framework) combined with the simplicity of Log4NET. Moreover, ASP.NET 2.0 Healthmonitoring offers a lot of common event-sinks, like EvenLog, Email, TemplatedEmail, File, Wmi and SQLServer.

The goal of PortalFx -one of my 'home' projects- is to extend the default functionality of the ASP.NET 2.0 portal framework and its webparts. What triggered me was the '[WebBrowsable]' attribute in ASP.NET Whidbey, which allows you to add custom web-editable properties to a WebPart. When editing the WebPart, these custom properties are added to the 'Custom Settings' box. However, just plain textboxes are shown to edit the values of the custom properties. And of course, I want much more than just  textboxes :) So PortalFx was born...

For my current project I'm building a framework that automatically saves all form-data on a page postback. Because a save-operation is time consuming, I want the framework only to save the information when the user really changed the data on the page.