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  • TreeView Controls

    There is a reason I hate using 3rd party controls. It is because they all suck (ok, one exception... the FreeTextBox.NET control is pretty slick). Today, I spent about 5 hours jacking with different treeviews only to end up using a modified version of the IE TreeView. It all started out because the new TreeView over on GotDotNet locks up IE for some unknown reason when you use the HTC file. So, I decided, I'll go out and download another treeview control. Simple enough, right? I mean, anyone making a TreeView control should have the basics covered. Apparently, making a decent server control is insanely difficult for the shmucks who make TreeViews (or any other type of control for that matter)...

  • Hillarious

    If you haven't seen this show, you need to. It's definately the most hillarious show I've seen in a while. I don't watch TV often (to many more fun things to do...like working till 3:00 AM), but I am tempted to go and get cable installed just so I can watch this one show.

  • Dot Net Rocks

    "Michael Stuart is a Senior Consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS) and has been completely taken with .NET. He is working on the next generation of Microsoft Application Blocks, or BlueBricks, a collection of classes that you can use for free in your applications, that use best-practices in a variety of areas.

  • It's About Time

    "Three of the nation’s largest e-mail account providers, normally bitter rivals, today are to announce a joint assault on spam, vowing to collaboratively hunt down unsavory e-mailers and explore industry standards that would curtail the ability to create bulk electronic mailings."
    [MSNBC]

  • "Other" CEOs

    "Borland's president and CEO, Dale Fuller, describes his company as the Switzerland of software development. He is molding the company's products to interoperate with a broad variety of platforms and to bridge the gap between Java and .Net."
    [ZDNET Webcast]

  • Dot Net Rocks

    "Dino shares some valuable tips and insights into the innerworkings of ASP.NET security, IIS Impersonation, how __VIEWSTATE is encoded, the serialization engine, how to store encrypted values in the registry, inline code vs. CodeBehind, and Italian Rock bands. We also learn that Dino has an extreme distaste for barbeque.