Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

Wow, lots of people are using the MSBuild Compatibility Toolkit I put out a couple weeks ago. Awesome! I hope it is working for you guys. I'm working on improving the .Targets files to support more of the older compiler options, and I'll be working on releasing those, along with tutorials on how the compilation variables work, very soon. I'm also planning a few nifty additions, but tracking down the code in the VSIP 2005 package has been difficult. Hopefully I'll have some answers back from the VSIP guys soon, and I'll be able to really make the thing sweet. Plese let me know if you guys have any suggestions on how to make this system better.

The Channel 9 Guy tours Silicon Valley with Scoble progeny Patrick. Hilarious.

... when it errors out. Chalk one more major corporation on ASP.NET... now if only they'd get their site working...

I'm supposed to get 2 big things delivered to my doorstep. The first is the new processor/RAM/and keyboard upgrades I picked up on eBay for dirt-frickin-cheap. The second is my MVP package, which was renewed again this year. I made the smart call and switched to DVDs for the MSDN subscription... but that's not what I'm waiting for. Susan Bradley alluded to it... could it be? Is it possible? Does it have a Windows logo on it and play TV shows? Oh man, I hope it gets here soon. I don't know that I should get my hopes up. And don't anyone tell me, either! I wanna be surprised. <crosses fingers>

I'm not going to jawjack about how important this fix is, blah blah blah. Microsoft's working on a patch. In the meantime, EVERY ASP.NET developer should add this information to their Global.asax file ASAP. If you add it to the ASAX file and not the code-behind, you won't even have to recompile the app. DO THIS NOW. Please. More Info Here.

This is a long post, so I'll give an intro at the top. I've created a simple system for supporting all versions of the .NET Framework from VS2005. Click through to keep reading about the process, and download the redistributable.

I just successfully made VS2005 compile an application to all versions of the .NET Framework. In the next few days, I'll be cleaning up this process, and building an installer for the required files. I'll detail everything here shortly. But it IS possible with a couple miniutes worth of work, which should be great news for control vendors and others who want to save a bunch of time.

Did you know that you can do some pretty complex things with .NET's late binding in ASP.NET 1.X? I had a problem where I needed to be able to kick out dates in a specific format. I didn't want to use a helper method, which involves compiled code, so I found a solution.