Contents tagged with Server Controls
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Dude, Where's My Reference?
My next Builder.com article is finally online. This one talks about how to deploy server control files, and how to make sure they show up in the “Add References” dialog box. It's one of those steps that is often overlooked, but critical to customer usability. If server controls are your thing, then this article is for you. As always, feedback is welcome and appreciated.
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Control Confusion
Why is it that no one expects a server control to register information in the Start Menu? I get support questions all the time asking where they can find the docs. I say “Did you check the Start Menu - Start | Programs | Interscape Technologies | ScrollingGrid 1.1 ?” Is it just because few other control vendors do this?
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The Ever Changing Process of Building Processes
So I've been spending the past few days updating the build processes for all the software I've been working on. The problem is that, while I'm not the first person to ever have to build installers for commercial components using the deployment tools in VS.NET, I'm the only one willing to talk about it. Several searches on Google for information on nuances like what an “Environment String Value” is in the Registry Editor have turned up utterly fruitless.
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Building A Better Server Control Experience, Part 3
Building a Better Server Control Experience, Part 3
Architecting For Simplicity: Don't Build It For Yourself -
I Can't Have What I Want
I have determined why there aren't more quality processes in place in the community for server controls. It's because Microsoft makes it darn-near impossible to install controls in the intuitively simplest manner. In fact, the whole process is completely counterintuitive.
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On Tap For This Week:
Here's what I'm working on for this week, and the weeks ahead:
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Building a Better Server Control Experience, Part 2
Details matter. Especially in building solutions people pay for. You've heard of the term WYSIWYG? Well why isn't the term YGWYPF more prevalent? It stands for You Get What You Pay For, and it's more true in today's economy than most people realize. So where are the little details in server controls? What are the mundane, time-consuming details that set apart a proof-of-concept from a true solution? Over the next few posts, I'll address them.
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Building a Better Server Control Experience, Part 1
Building a Better Server Control Experience, Part 1
Your Code Is Broken..... Or Is It? A Look At Coding For The Requirements -
The Scrollable Area Problem
David Burke talked today about Julia Lerman's article on scrollable areas, more specifically using a <DIV> tag to make a DataGrid scroll. It's kinda funny he mentioned that, because I'm a few days away from releasing my next killer control, which is based on a similar principle. I wasn't planning on talking about it before it was done, but since it was brought up, I decided to let the cat out of the bag a few days early.
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Relief like you can't imagine...
I finally got the merchant account problem squared away. It's not an appropriate post for here, so you can read about the whole ordeal here in my corporate blog. I know the site design needs work, but it's not exactly on my list of priorities right now. This incident caused us to totally change direction on our cash flow situation, and I'll be blogging about that process in my corporate blog over the next few days.