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Close() or Dispose()...
Interesting post from Jim Blizzard.Still the debate continue but yes agree MSDN docs are the reference.
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Lesson from the incident
OK I know we all have to check our posts before posting, no problem with that.
But without Scott help I was unable to delete the bloody post.
So I think it's bit scary to see that .Text is on the shoulders of one man, and what a great man :-)
No more seriously it should be a good idea Scott to have a kind of offline management tool for .Text, something we can use as a Window application.
IMHO I think our blogs management would make thing more secure and easier, if something like I did happen again and you're not free to fix it or maybe in Hawaii for some long holidays you deserve surely. -
htmlArea - Turn any text area into a WYSIWYG editor
Price: FREE! *
• Version 2.03 - IE 5.5+ for Windows only (changelog)
• Version 3.0 (beta) - IE 5.5+ (Windows)/Mozilla 1.3 (all OS) cross platform functionality.
* Go ahead and use it free in any web form you like. See the license agreement for the minimal restrictions. -
Update on my previous post
Hey guys just calm down ! Don't bombard me with hundred of mails !
I am not a bot and I can make mistakes like everybody isn't it Robert ;-)) -
Apologies ;-)))
Sorry about that, but I screwed the main feed using an html keyword in my last post, and for some unknown reason, the online .Text editor has transformed this keyword
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TreeMap.Net
MS Research has been working on an interesting thing: .NET components that display hierarchical data as a set of nested boxes.
For questions or comments, go to the microsoft.public.research.netscan.discussion newsgroup.
It seems that this tool was used first to do a newsgroups survey and analyze their importance in cyberspace.
The site C2i give an example on how to use TreeMap to show the space files are using on an hard drive. -
Powerful New T-SQL Syntax Gives SQL Server a Programmability Boost
T-SQL in Yukon is still there, the proof an excellent article on MSDN.
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Cookies or cookieless ?
I just have a look at some stats on one of my project and I discovered that more than 53 % of the users of this website are still blocking cookies.
I'm surprised because I was quite sure that the cookies was now accepted by most of the Internet users. I am not sure where this coming from, if it's the type of users (teachers, schools, parents, kids) but it's a bit strange.
Thankfully I don't use any registration process on the site, but sadly I lost for these users the ability to track their session time on the site. For example the stats software is unable to give me an accurate number of new vistors versus returning visitors.
The solution I know will be to switch in cookieless mode, but I don't like really the ugly Url I have with this option.
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Undocumented stored procedures
Thanks to Manuj Bahl for this:
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Scoilnet up again
OK I think I identified the IP responsible for making my server down today.
So because I hate this kind of practice, I make this trace route available for this communty. I know Microsoft folks are reading this blog, so if this can be helpful in their battle against those assholes, yes It will be after all a good day for everybody ;-)
It seems to take origin from Turkey, but it could be a fake ip, I don't know. This IP is coming a lot of time in my logs and yes I am quite confident this is the one (note the pingpong trap at the end of the route).
So I blocked this list of IPs and hope it will be ok for now.
Tracing route to 194.125.233.179 over a maximum of 30 hops