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.Net 1.1 Service Pack 1
I just installed the Service Pack 1 for .Net 1.1 (Beta). Great but does somebody know where I can find what have been done and improved on this upgrade.
Apparently the log I found in a temp folder seems to indicate that a lot of classes received a facelift. -
MSDN Product Feedback Center
Mark ask what do we think about the new MSDN Product Feedback Center.
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.Net 1.2
Ok now that the Microsoft .Net team got a short break after some good job in the past few months, can they answer this question.
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Visual Studio 2005 documentation
In case you look for the docs, go here.
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Betas are dangerous productivity animals
Well I don't want to be to tough there, but be careful with betas. History repeat itself, and I have this feeling that Beta 2 will add a lot of changes to Beta 1.
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Dynamic Search Conditions with T-SQL
Long article but great one by Erland Sommarskog on searching data with many criterias.
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Don't do this with .Net 2.0 Beta 1 !
Well hopefully this will help somebody to avoid the same mistake.
Like many others I rushed on the new VS 2005 Express Beta 1. I installed on a machine with a previous version of .Net 1.1.
Thankfully this is not my main production PC. I run then in a series of small troubles, but like a coming storm, it gets to a point where I was unable to start any debugging session with a VS 2003 project. -
SQL Express admin
Thanks to Scott Guthrie to clarify this:
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SQL Express wish
OK so SQL Express is on my machine, with already a SQL 2000 already installed. Now comes the surprise: no more snap-in to manage my databases ?!?
I tried to register SQL Express 2005 (which comes as an instance Yourmachine\SQLEXPRESS) using Enterprise manager. A message come to say that I need SQL workbench to manage my data. -
Reflector new version
I can't see the changes but anyway here we go with my favourite tool Reflector 4.0.9.0
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Starck works with Microsoft
New optical mouse announced by Microsft and designed by Starck (exist in red or blue):
You can preorder them on Amazon. Noiw if Microsoft start to works with guru designers like Philippe Starck, what is left to Apple ? -
VS 2005 express and SQL 2005 Express
God, it's fever day :-) So many posts to announce the Messiah, no sorry Visual Studio Express 2005 !
OK I admit I couldn't resist, I downloaded it and installed the package. -
Apple lost the plot
So the WWDC was full of promises (new Ipod, new Imac G5, etc...).
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Visual Studio 2005 Beta will be there this week
Yes I can confirm it will be available for MSDN subscribers this week. This is extracted from an email sent today by Microsoft Ireland:
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Apple eye of the Tiger
Some aggressive banners for the new MacOS X Tiger at Apple WWDC (click to enlarge)
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Visual Studio 2005 Beta Ready to Roll
Microsoft is including Visual Studio Team System technology in the first beta of Visual Studio 2005, to be released at TechEd Europe.
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Web browser flaw prompts warning
The loophole is being exploited to open a backdoor on a PC that could let criminals take control of a machine.
The threat of infection is so high because the code created to exploit the loophole has somehow been placed on many popular websites.
Experts say the list of compromised sites involves banks, auction and price comparison firms and is growing fast.
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Shocking patent
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Windows CE and Windows Embedded Lab Tour
Great ! Mike Hall give a tour of the Windows CE lab.
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Root and Virtual: path tip
Well I think I figured out a very simple way to make my paths working in my virtual directory and in the root of the live server.
The problem as I mentioned this morning, was about URL rewriting. -
Reflector new version
Download here the latest one : 4.0.8.0
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Internet Explorer not so much good news ?
Apparently Dave Massy changed my mood about IE. Now after one step forward, ten other backward.
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Resistance is futile....
I don't know if it's kind of a joke but the borg world is coming to us
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My world is virtual
OK I figured out yesterday how to make my URL rewriting working. Strangely, I just had to keep my original Form tag to have everything working properly.
Now another puzzling question. As many develoipers I write my code locally and I mange a lot of different web applications.
So my world is made of virtual directory.
Of course, this is great only locally, because when I deploy to my servers, everything back to the root for most of the stuff.
I know everything about relative and absolute paths, root (~). The question is how to code one good way my paths to be sure that nothing break when I move from my virtual world to my real world ?
By the way sadly some tags cannot be transformed as server side tags. An important one is the <Link tag to embed a stylesheet.
Other curious thing: if you use URL rewriting, the ~ root trick don't work anymore and it's easy to understand why :-) -
URL rewriting, help required
I need some help here. For a web application I needed to use URL rewriting to create some nice easy to remember addresses.
Everything's fine except for some controls. I have on this page a Search textbox, so the user can enter a text and I send him to a search results page.
Very trivial, but with URL rewriting, according to this excellent article, you need to override the form tag to make things working properly.
So I used the assembly provided with the article, and actually only the method GET works. The POST method don't fire any events and send me back a 405 error. -
SQL 2005 and VS 2005 in Dublin today... not great :-(
Kind of time wasted this afternoon with a Microsoft presentation of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL 2005.
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Shadow effect for your windows
A useless but useful gadget software to add a shadow effect to Windows.
It's really cool to see at last the windows in some sort of 3D effect. The menus can also have a shadow and transparency. -
Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer
Daniel Miessler post is surely controversial but I think he has some valid points.
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Firefox 0.9
In my opinion, the Microsoft Internet Explorer team had opened the pandora box by asking their users to comment on the future of IE.
They surely going to be busy for the next1020 years :-)
Anyway today I decided to have atry with Firefox 0.9 and see if it's really the best browser in the world. -
Data Access Application Block 3.0.9.2 (Abstract Factory Implementation - RC1 for 3.1.0.0)
This version include now an abastract factory, so worth to check !
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VBParser Beta 1
When I started this blog a year ago, one of the things that I mentioned that I was working on in my spare time was a scanner and parser for the Visual Basic language. It's kind of been on the back burner, behind things like VB 2005 and the book, but it's finally gotten complete enough to release! I created a GotDotNet workspace for the code, and there's a binary release there as well.
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Whidbey debate: Is the page an application ?
Alister post this comment regarding the conversation I reported on Widbey concerns:
To add my two cents, maybe in Orcas the page will be the Application and the UI will be generated from the page. It means that in this case we go full circle, back to a proprietary system, where the UI (Windows, HTML, XHTML, etc...) doesn't matter. -
James Joyce celebrating Bloomsday by Google
Nice one :-) Thanks Google for this. 100 years James Joyce and Ulysses Celebration today !
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Free font site
I just discovered another nice font site, DaFont where you can download tons of nice fonts.
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Alister Jones ask to Microsoft: Is Whidbey over complicated ?
This is surely the most exciting and deep debate I ever read on Whidbey. Alister really you got the right angle. The critics are positive, and I fully share your comments.
It's so well written that I decided to keep your questions and answers by Bertrand Le Roy as an article on this blog.
The only difference I have with you, is that I played a bit with a Whidbey preview, and yes I share the same feelings (and some pain). -
Weather application for Pocket PC
I saw before some cool weather software for Pocket PC but this one is from far the best one !
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Multithreading with the .NET Framework
Excellent article on multithreading posted by Informit.
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Visual Basic Power Pack
The Visual Basic Power Pack consists of seven custom controls written in Visual Basic .NET 2003. The controls provide enhanced user interface elements and enable you to create more interesting and more colorful client based applications.
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Web Screen Fonts
Don't forget also these ones. Very useful for web buttons and menus !
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Monospaced Bitmap Programming Fonts
Nice !
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OT: www.thejohncleese.com
Basiiillll ! My hero John Cleese, alias Q, alias Basil is online. I wait now for Sybil and Manueeel :-))
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XForms 1.1 Requirements
XForms is an XML application that represents the next generation of forms for the Web. This document specifies the requirements for XForms 1.1.
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Cookie handling
Gidion mention a nice feature found on Firefox 0.9RC cookie handling.
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Array initializer
Or when coding become an art LOL :-)
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ASP.Net 2.0 a third language ?
Just few thoughts for the day after reading some excellent articles in the latest MSDN magazine regarding ASP.Net 2.0
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MSDN Developer Day in Dublin
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Brief about Triggers in SQl Server2000
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Web imitates football
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Web Accessibility in Mind
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Poor Contingency Design Can Cost You
Interesting post by D.Keith Robinson on designing for errors page.
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Web Forms 2.0 - notes and comments
I forgot also to mention this page which is a constructive critic of the Web form 2.0 draft
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WebForms 2.0
Ian Hickson extends the HTML 4.01 Forms specification to allow Web authors to easily add validation requirements to form fields.
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OT - Ray Charles die
It's a very sad news. Another great legend passed away today.
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Windows Media Player 10 Technical Beta review
ExtremeTech review the new WMP 10.
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Mozilla Firefox 0.9 Release Candidate
download here
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Questions about Longhorn, part 3: Avalon's enterprise mission
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ReSharper: C# Refactoring Tool
When the Java world come to the .Net world, they produce something superb as Reshaper.
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Turn your PC into a Mac
Excellent compilation of ideas found on Engadget if you want to give an Aqua-Mac look to your Windows desktop, or would I say a Longhorn style ?
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Capturing Output from ASP.Net Pages
Another marvel from Rick Strahl, some different ways to capture what an asp.net page output.
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Understanding ASP.NET View State
Everything you need to know about Viewstate by Scott Mitchell on MSDN
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Pocket C# compiler
Great news ! You can now compile C# directly on your Pocket PC. I have to try this :-)
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iPAQ h6310 First Look
First picture and (short) review of the new HP Pocket PC.
To be honest, I am not so impressed, maybe the quadraband but the 64Mb of Ram is a bit short for a model like that.
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Questions about Longhorn
Well the title should be indeed Questions about WinFS. This is the subject Jon Udell focus on in a series of articles.
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Blogjet new version
I really enjoy Blogjet. And now a new version with some nice new stuff :
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ASP.Net Forums 2
Just in case you missed it, ASP.Net Forums 2 is now in RC 2.
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An idea for .Text
I think it could be a good idea to have on the .Text admin tool a way to easily jump to an old post in the case I want to edit it.
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Color coding in HTML
Cool ! This one works for different languages
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Freeze header and columns
Finally a nice solution to freeze headers and columns in a datagrid.
Well Irwansyah don't use the standard Datagrid but create on the fly a Datatable with different embedded DIVS.
The only thing that seems to be check is the Onresize Javascript event which seems to be a bit slow, because the code redesign the size of the table dynamically.
It would be nice to see what expert like Dino or Marcie think about this approach.