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Microsoft Atlas - Authentication Services
If you looking at MS Atlas's support for Authentication, you really need to check out this page over at http://atlas.asp.net.
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Microsoft Atlas Client-side Javascript Enumerations in the March CTP
It looks like enumerations have changed in the March CTP of Atlas. To create an enumeration, you now call the Type.createEnum() method like below. In this example, the EnumGBI is created.
Type.createEnum("EnumGBI", "Good", 0, "Bad", 1, "Indifferent", 2);
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Microsoft Atlas - Updating Validators to the March CTP (targetElement -> id)
I'm in the process of updating my Atlas code to use the March CTP of Atlas. I just went through the validators. It looks like you need to modify the xml-script to use the "id" attribute of the control to validate as oppossed to using the "targetElement" attribute for this. I pulled some of my hair out over this, but its working now. :-)
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #43 - All Wally, All the Time (1000th blog post)
ASP.NET Podcast site url: http://aspnetpodcast.com/CS11/blogs/asp.net_podcast/archive/2006/03/31/159.aspx
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I'm part of the Community-Credit.com Hall of Fame
Ok, so I just saw that I had an email from Community-Credit.com. I am named to the Community-Credit Hall of Fame. Wow, Thanks to David Silverlight, Joe Healy, and Russ Fustino for naming me. Here is the official announcement.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #42 - Brad Abrams
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Oracle ODP.NET and VS Tools for .NET 2.0 and VS.NET 2005
Oracle just release (last Friday) some ODP.NET and VS Tools for .NET 2.0 and VS.NET 2005.
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Preliminary approval for IIS7 book
It looks like we got preliminary approval for out IIS7 book. This is good. The book will be a mix of content for admins (mostly) and developers. I'm looking forward to doing the developer oriented content.
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Las Vegas pics
Here are some of my pictures from MIX06. There aren't as many as in the Orlando Code Camp.
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Photo Gallery of the Orlando Code Camp
I just put up the Photo Gallery for the Orlando Code Camp. Its at
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ASP.NET Show #41 - Orlando Code Camp Round Table Discussion
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Atlanta .NET User Group
I'm in Atlanta today. I checked and I see that the Atlanta .NET User Group has a meeting this evening. I am going to try and attend. More info for Atlanta Events is at http://www.devcow.com/.
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Orlando Code Camp
It looks like the Orlando Code Camp was a great success. Joe Healy and Russ Fustino were great to see again. They put on a heck of a party on Saturday after the Code Camp. The sessions were really good. I did my talks on:
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Next Stop - Orlando, FL
Next step: Orlando Code Camp. I'm looking forward to seeing Joe Healy, David Silverlight, and Russ Fustino while I meet other new people. My travels will take me to Atlanta on Thursday for some work, then onto Orlando on Friday, back to Atlanta, and finally home. I'm really looking forward to doing my talks on Atlas (thanks to Bertrand and Jonathon), Sql Server 2005 CLR objects, and Building Section 508 Accessible Web Applications with ASP.NET. If you are in the Orlando area, please come out and say hello.
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Mix06 Personal Roundup
I'm writing this on the plane on my way back from Vegas. I was really impressed with the features of Atlas that I saw. It was good to catch up and meet new folks at MS and elsewhere. Shanku Niyogi, Nikhil Kothari, Brad Abrams, Pete LePage, Thomas Lewis, Keith Smith, Bertrand Le Roy, Jonathon Hawkins, Ron Jacobs (The Channel9 ArcCast guy), Chris Adams, Brett Hill, Thomas Deml, Scott Cate, Cheryl Wise, DataGridGirl (oops, guess it is GridViewGirl now), Rob Howard, ScottW, Shaun Walker, Miljan Bratecevic, Jim Minatel and others. I got so much podcast content done and even a few sessions attended. I am exhausted from the whole experience.
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Javascript Inheritance with Atlas/Ajax
One of the features in Atlas is that some new features are available in javascript. These are things like inheritance, interfaces, namespaces, and other things. One of the things that I was having a devil of a time upgrading to the March CTP was my javascript inheritance/interface code. The problem was that pre-March CTP, this code used to be
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Big thanks........
I just wanted to put out a big THANK YOU to the people at MIX that had time to be interviewed for the podcast. Some of these were:
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AJAX Myth - I love it.............
I'm listening to someone talk about Live.com. He had a slide that said something along the lines of
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Scoble
Great, I just got done talking to Scoble. He's going to do a podcast interview with me later today. I'm hoping to get out soon.
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Microsoft Gadgets
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Atlas without ASP.NET
I remember last summer/fall hearing that the Atlas scripts were going to run without the need for ASP.NET. I hadn't heard about this recently and I thought I misunderstood it. Well, I was wrong. Shanku Niyogi just showed a demo with the Atlas client scripts showing a demo with the scripts running against a PHP app running on Apache.
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If you get this error after you setup the Atlas doc.............
Its because you didn't configure your site to use ASP.NET 2.0. I got the error and then I noticed at the bottom that the app wasn't setup with ASP.NET 2.0. After I setup the app to use .NET 2.0, all things were resolved.
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Atlas: ScriptLibrary is no more
It looks like the ScriptLibrary directory with all of the fun source for the client side javascript is now gone. To get a looksee at the javascript, I had to do a ViewSource on the content and then directly view the url: "http://localhost:1354//Atlas Talk/WebResource.axd?d=-R6AkNC1i7E1emRSyiAAHD2kELz6A_EQYfttbe9pBX52aP_n97JxQJD8J1JpLuKsT2L1e3LXyFHXcwrX-fpwRXl3UwhNVrJUJq5Qc3eHAAo1&t=632782166040000000" Wow, is that a mouthful.
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Atlas Name Change: Web.IDisposible -> Sys.IDisposable
It looks like the Web.IDisposible interface is now Sys.IDisposable. Wow, was that a pain to find.
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Mix06 & Atlas
I'm at Mix06, but the cool thing is the stuff that I just heard about Atlas.
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The Journey to Mix06 begins today
The journey starts in a little while. I'm currently in Washington, DC. I leave in a few hours to drive back to Knoxville, TN. There, I pick up the family and we go to Nashville, TN tonight. In the morning, we fly out of Nashville to Mix06. Today is going to be a long day...................
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Interview on the Polymophic Podcast
Craig Shoemaker, over at the Polymophic Podcast, interviewed me a while back for his podcast. After I made his life miserable by asking him to be a co-author on our "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" book, the interview is up. You can listen to me ramble about ADO.NET V2.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #40 - Udi Dahan - The Software Simplist
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That was quick - Sql Server 2005 SP1 CTP
Infoworld has some information on the Sql Server 2005 SP1 CTP. Thanks to Kent for mentioning it.
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HyperThreading is outta here
I found another interesting article over at TheInquirer. It seems that HyperThreading is not in Intel's future. Well, I thought it was a cool idea at the time............I guess I need to get out of the cool bits-n-bytes stuff and more into 2006.
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Will the producers of the IPod by MS video please stand up?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=36099539665548298&q=microsoft+ipod...... Geez, I just love this video.
According to TheInquirer, the producers of the iPod packaging video were none other than MS. It was a parody of their own internal process for designing packaging. Very funny and thought provoking. -
Who wants "More Kent" in their life?
Kent Tegels is considering starting a podcast. He talks about this on his blog at: http://www.sqljunkies.com/WebLog/ktegels/archive/2006/03/10/TOAE000.aspx
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Workout regime continues............
Ok, I finally took a day off from working out on March 3, 2006. This was 30 days in a row since my last off day. Don't worry, I don't do weight lifting any more. I spend 30-45 minutes on an aerobic machine each time. Its not quite as physically demanding as weight lifting, so I do it more often.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #39 - Scott Allen is on the show
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ASP.NET Podcast downloads
I've just gone in and looked at my download log files for the ASP.NET Podcast. It seems that some of the shows are really popular. The Michael Mahemoff show has had over 4,000 downloads recently. Some of the other recent shows have had 1,500-2,000 downloads. These downloads are done through the xml feed. The logfile analysis of the xml feed seems to be getting bigger every day. For February, the log file downloads were larger per day than any other month.
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XBOX 360 for Children's Charities
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COM+ - "Just Say No"
For those of you that are readers of my blog, you will know about the COM+ application that I picked up a couple of years ago. I am currently working on getting it to run under Windows 2003 Server. When I work with this application, and all of its intracacies, I am reminded of Nancy Reagon and her "Just Say No" to drugs line from 20+ years ago. There are medical drugs which have uses under certain situations. COM+ is similar to medical drugs. If you don't know why you need a medical drug, you shouldn't take it, so if you don't know why you need COM+, you shouldn't use it at all. It is your job as a developer to understand the proper use of a technology. Don't use a technology just because it is cool or has a cool sounding name. Don't run out and inflate your resume. Just get the job done for the customers. Everyone will be happier and everything will be much better then.
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Virtual PC tip / feature
I think that this is a pretty cool feature in Virtual PC. Assuming that you have the VPC Addins installed (don't know if this works without them), you can drag files from the VPC guest and put them on the host and vice-versa. I remember hearing about this a while back, but I just tried it and sure enough, bango, it worked.
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Coach Wally ends basketball season 13-1
My basketball teams played their final games today. My son's and daughter's teams both won. My son's team ended the season 7-0 (one game was not played because of the weather). My daughter's team ended the season 6-1. Their only loss was by two points. We had our end of season parties for both teams. We'll see you next year.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #38 - Anand on the GridView and Wally on VB.NET 2005 My Namespaces
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Show notes on the ASPNetPodcast.com site.
Show Notes:- Joe Healy
- Developer Evangelist for Microsoft in Florida.
- Orlando CodeCamp.
- David Silverlight.
- What's happened recently.
- Atlas Wiki for January 2006 CTP.
- First draft of my chapters are in.
- Working out like crazy.
- Tshirts.
- My Namespace.
- My.Application.Log.WriteEntry() vs. System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry().
- GetEnvironmentVariable().
- My.User.Name() vs. System.Environment.UserName().
- My.Computer.Audio.Play() vs. System.Media.SoundPlayer().
- GridView by Anand Narayanaswamy. Sample Files
- GridView replaces ASP.NET 1.1 DataGrid control
- GridView is a new addition to ASP.NET 2.0
- Easy to configure and use with built-in smart tag
- Ability to edit, update and delete records without a single line of code
- Quick paging and sorting functionality
- Supports Access, SQL Server 2000 or 2005, Oracle, XML data files
- Separate control for accessing each databases
- Implement search capabilities on your applications within seconds
- INETA Speaker's Bureau.
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Third Party Analyst does not seem to agree with Intel Performance Analysis
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/03/01/75978_HNclovertown_1.html