Jesse Ezell Blog

If you missed you chance the last time MS was giving out the application architecture books, here is another one (if you don't have VS.NET 2003 yet, you can also enter a drawing for a free copy).

“For a long time, in Mono we used libxslt: we would dump all the data from an XmlDocument, or a XPathNavigator into a temporary file, and then use libxslt to do the heavy lifting.

“This is great news for Laszlo!  Macromedia has acknowledged that Laszlo's approach to developing rich Internet applications (RIAs) is the way to go!  You can't expect large, complex environments to be built with a timeline!  That's not what we designed them for!

Looks like Marc agrees with me on this one...

A sneak peek.

This is the type of thing I like to see. Andy Smith has upgraded and extended my original dialog code and made it available with the rest of the metabuilders stuff (which, I might add is very cool... I use quite a few of his code blocks on a regular basis). You can read more about it in his blog post.

Ever wondered how to interface with IIS using .NET? If all your apps/clients are running IIS 6.0, it is drop dead easy, just enable the XML metabase and parse it to your heart's content. However, if you need to support older clients, you will probably end up using DirectoryServices. However, since DirectoryServices is fairly generic, you might have difficulty figuring out what exactly you need to do. In case you get stuck, here is a little reference block of code that will create a new web site with the supplied name and root directory:

After hearing a lot of noise from the Macromedia community about the latest release of Flash and reading a lot of the hype, I was actually pretty excited to see what it could do. Yes, my intuition told me, "Macromedia can't possibly have gotten it right this time." But, there were these thoughts creeping around in some dark corner of my mind that kept whispering, "Maybe they did..." So, after much deliberation, I downloaded the Macromedia Flash 7.0 (2004) Professional Edition trial, so that I could put the debate raging in my mind to rest.