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  • Apply for .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2 Beta

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    The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework product team is kicking off a beta program for .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2, and is inviting developers to participate. This invitation was posted at MSDN Newsgroups. If you are interested give it a shot...

    The Microsoft .NET Compact Framework Product Team would like to invite you to participate in their upcoming beta program for .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2. We are specifically looking for feedback as to whether existing application functionality is preserved when running against SP2 bits (no regressions).

    Our goal is to have a well targeted group of testers willing to actively participate and provide useful feedback to our development team. Please carefully consider your willingness and ability to test .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP2. Your feedback will be critical to the success of our product. Regular and consistent participation throughout the program is expected.

    If you are interested in participating, please use this special Guest Account below to access a nomination survey on     http://www.BetaPlace.com.

    Guest Access Account
    Guest Beta ID:     netcfbeta

    You will only be contacted once your nomination has been processed.

    We look forward to hearing from you.
    The .NET Compact Framework Team

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  • A couple ASP.NET lessons learned

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    I'm in the middle of the laborous process of writing an article (or, more likely, a series of articles) for my web site about ASP.NET Tips and Tricks.

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  • Pirates sell Microsoft's next Windows system LOL ;-))

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    JOHOR BAHRU, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's brazen software pirates are hawking the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system years before it is supposed to be on sale.

    Underscoring the scale of U.S. companies' copyright problems in Asia, CDs containing software Microsoft has code named "Longhorn" are on sale for six ringgit (92 pence) in southern Malaysia. Microsoft's current version of Windows, XP, sells for upwards of $100 (58 pounds) in the United States.

    The software is an early version of Longhorn demonstrated and distributed at a conference for Microsoft programmers in Los Angeles in October, Microsoft Corporate Attorney Jonathan Selvasegaram told Reuters.

    "It's not a ready product," he said from Malaysia. "Even if it works for a while, I think it's very risky," to install on a home computer, he said.

    Chairman Bill Gates has said Longhorn, which is not expected to be released before 2005, would rank as Microsoft's largest software launch this decade.

    The software is on sale in the largest shopping complex in Johor Bahru, the Malaysian city bordering Singapore, alongside thousands of pirated programs, music CDs and DVDs.

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  • How to pass the popup blocker

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    Thanks to all the comments I received in this post. Of course  I give all my support to the popup blockers, but as I said, I would like to use a popup window in some specific cases, without bothering my users with some shortcuts like the Ctrl key.

    Well I finally found the solution, and it works pretty well. What I tested is to use in the Login page a link button instead of a normal button.

    In  the click event, after the user name and password is validated, I register a client side script to open the window.

    In Javascript, the trick here is to declare the window, not just open it.

    It seems that a Link button fire a slightly different Click event than a Button so it is not considered as a possible popup by Google, so that's why it works here.

    That I suppose is an explanation, but if you know better ;-)

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  • Popup control

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    Well hat off to Tomas ! He did it again ;-)

    A brand new version of his popup control (1.2) is now available in CodeProject.

    Great job, with drag and drop trigger, and few bugs fixed. The only thing remember that this popup window never goes over a dropdown list (IE bug)

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  • Popup or not popup that is the question

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    I hate pop ups, so as surely many of you now, I installed the Google bar with the popup blocker.

    But one issue is coming now. I have some web projects where after a login page, I need to open the main window full screen without the menu bar or any decorations.

    I am puzzled now how I am going to fix my Javascript code because obviously my legitimate new window has been considered legitimately by Google bar as a popup !

    So what I am supposed to do now ? Very annoying, because of course I can click on Ctrl to open my new window, but what's about the users ? It make things complicated.

    Including the fact that this feature will be part of the next IE, and i believe activate by default. I would like to see a little bit of intelligence in the behavior of these pop up blockers. Like for example that if a window.open is called from the same site, it consider this as perfectly valid.
    I know a lot of webtools working with full opened windows, I wonder how they will fix this.

    Any ideas ?

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