Eli Robillard's World of Blog.

The InfoPath team is blogging, say no more!

After seeing and article about PocketVault on the Wired site, my first question was “what prevents a clerk from swiping my plastic through their own Pocket Vault?” I submitted the question through their web site and received a great response within a few days:

Last week I wrote an EventHandler for SharePoint Team Services 2003 to route files reaching a particular document workspace into the proper folder (based on a string embedded in the filename). While writing it I found a seemingly intermittent quirk with the SPFile.MoveTo() method where sometimes the source file wouldn't be moved (at least it didn't disappear) and a 0-byte file was created at the target Url with the same name. Rewriting this as a CopyAndDelete() method seems to have solved it:

After finishing Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon last week I was surprised to find that the Pontifex algorithm it describes was not yet implemented for .NET. So, I present two C# versions of Pontifex: as a fat commented .aspx page and as a lean class assembly. Both include source, and both are linked from the demo page. Consider these to be under the Lesser GNU Public License (LPGL), I'll be adding the appropriate text in the next version of the files.

The InfoPath update is finally official!

Two interesting guests on today's .NET Rocks! webcast. Scott Hanselman (king of the must-have tools list) is the main guest and it looks like he's giving his take on where development is headed -- including code generation, declarative programming, profiling, and blogging trends. And Peter Blum (king of the must-have validation tools) will be doing a ten-minute spot on his excellent products (and freeware!). Join Mr. Franklin and his guests at noon EST, and all shows are available for download usually within a day or two.

I will be in Redmond this upcoming Saturday through Wednesday afternoon. Rather than blast all friends that way by e-mail I thought I'd try the weblog. Not sure which end of town I'll be staying in yet but likely near campus. Who's around?

There are a lot of bytes online about handling exceptions in ASP.NET. This article presents a solution you can have running in an hour or two. From the introduction: