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Great idea, http://www.gotcodesnippets.com/ !

Great list of tools and scripts for IIS

John Rivard explain in this post in deep details why VS 2005 target only .Net 2.0. Apparently they are working on supporting also other versions. Cool!

I really enjoy the new SQL 2005 management studio, everything I need in one location. However I have issues when I try to connect to any production databases (SQL 2000 or 2005).
In the Connect To Server windows, if I browse for any remote services, I can see my databases, but I have all the time the same message if I try to connect to one of them ‘under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections (provider, etc…)
I double checked SQL Surface tool and Named Pipes and TCP/IP protocols are enabled, I read already few blogs and forums on the subject, but still don’t know what to do.
Any help?

This is what it takes when you are unlucky (or lucky depends on the day) when you are the lonely developer in your company and you have two weeks to maintain and migrate 25 websites (note: on the left, yes an Apple G5 for the creative side of my brain, and not in the picture three more PCs!)

Two days on this issue, probably easy one but hard stuff for an average developer like me!

Sadly a proof that you can’t really depend on .Net 2.0 books yet. I believe the lack of experience from many means we have to survive only with Scott Guthrie and his team.

Anyway what happens here make sense when you finally see the light but at the start it baffled me for too much precious little hours.

OK I know some people can say I have a constant bad attitude regarding Microsoft products, but hey I like their products and I like also to say when something goes right or wrong.
Here I want to say bravo for the HTML editor in VS 2005. It's really a great job, no more mess with my code reformatted.
One thing I really enjoy is the fact I can collapse any nested div or table element when I am writing my code. It's make the code much more readable and because I am now moving away more and more from the table and use more CSS and div tags. I finally disabled the HTML intellisense validation because I disagree with some of the rules, it could be nice to have some granularity on the level of error the tool report or not. Actually it's just on or off.
After one year of tests on the different betas, I finally start to write some real code. As I say before, I don't use really the migration tool, I prefer to start from a clean project and copy and paste what I need. I know it's a slow process, but I am quite sure its a winning situation in the long term. I hope also very soon to implement the new stuff like master pages, or web parts.

Ireland .Net Developers Alliance has been scobleized!