Archives
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Tabletop computing coming to you
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-05-29-microsoft-surface_N.htm
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Pics from Florida
I recently went to Sarasota, Naples, and Miami to talk. Here are the photos from each location:
Sarasota: http://morewally.com/cs/photos/sarasotanetusergroupmay2007/default.aspx
Naples: http://morewally.com/cs/photos/naplesnetusergroupmeetingmay2007/default.aspx
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Silverlight Streaming
You may or may not have heard of a new service from Microsoft called Silverlight Streaming. Its an interesting service with the ability to stream video through the Silverlight media control. It also seems to be a mechanism for Microsoft to compete with Google in the area of user video.
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #92 - Source code
Looks like I forgot to add the source code in for the podcast on Silverlight and Managed Javascript Podcast. I have updated the entry and have them at:
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Video saved the Book Authors?
http://news.com.com/Can+video+save+the+book-publishing+star/2100-1026_3-6186169.html?tag=nefd.led
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #93 - ASP.NET ListView in Orcas Beta 1 - Video
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Load testing updates - Rob, I feel your pain
I just wanted to throw my two cents in on this subject of load testing updates to highly trafficed sites. http://weblogs.asp.net/rhoward/archive/2007/05/21/www-asp-net-update-part-2.aspx
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Where are the Microsoft Zealots?
A friend of mine sent me some links earlier today that basically asked where were the Microsoft zealots?
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Miami, FL on May 17th - ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel
I'll be in Miami, FL (USA) on Thursday night to talk about the ASP.NET AJAX UpdatePanel.
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Professional Sql Server 2005 CLR Programming - Highly Recommended
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #92 - Silverlight and Managed JavaScript
Subscribe - What everyone wants (besides more Wally).
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Naples, FL tonight - Sql Server CLR Objects
I'm in Naples, FL (USA) tonight talking about Sql Server CLR Objects. If you are in the area, please come to the user group meeting.
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XAML control listing
As I have been reading and trying to understand the silverlight 1.1 alpha. Given the similarities between silverlight design and XAML, I've been looking for a list of xaml controls. Well, I found it. MS's list is at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms752324.aspx
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ASP.NET Podcast Show #91 - ASP.NET AJAX Integration with ASP.NET Services
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Update to "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" book
Last year (2006), Paul Glavich, Scott Cate, Craig Shoemaker, and I completed our "Beginning AJAX with ASP.NET" book. I wrote the chapters on what was then called Atlas and became ASP.NET AJAX. Apparently, sometime during a drunken stupor, I committed to update my content for the released version of ASP.NET AJAX. Well, that just hadn't gotten done. Its been 4 months since ASP.NET AJAX shipped. I had the best of intentions, but I just didn't have the time given commitments for our full ASP.NET AJAX book, work, and home. I kept telling the editor that I would get to it, but I sounded more and more like the plumbers from the "Money Pit" in saying "Two weeks." Well, I finally had some time this week in the evenings to work on things. Given some peace and quiet, I was able to got through and hit the bunches of changes I needed to make to get this done. The bottom line is that some time, fairly soon (after editing), I suspect that there will be some downloadable content on the wiley.com site for purchasers of the book. I hope that the readers enjoy the updates. Apologies for the delay.
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Interesting the little changes that take place during development.......
For reasons that will become clear later, I've had to go back and look at some code that I wrote on the old ASP.NET AJAX CTPs from last year. Yes, that's right, not the betas from last fall, but from earlier code. Anyway, I had to look at some code to integrate with the ASP.NET Profile Service. I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why it wasn't working. I finally looked in the web.config, which I had updated but hadn't really checked. I found the following line:
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Silverlight and Orcas Dev Tools
From Jeff King's blog:
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Oracle Database .NET Drivers and Server Updated for Vista
It looks like Oracle has released a set of .NET database drivers and server code that runs on Windows Vista. This is really good news for those of us that work in multiple database environments. Here are the links I see right now:
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Porting data into the ASP.NET Membership system through the APIs
Over the past couple of days, I have been working on porting some user data into the ASP.NET Membership system. I started off by writing some sql scripts, however, when I hit the password, I ran into a small problem. I didn't see any simple way to process the password into a format in the membership table in easy sql. I dropped back and wrote some c# to do this. It appears to be working so far. One of the requirements was to use as much of the existing ASP.NET Membership APIs. As a result, we decided to port the data over instead of implementing our own provider. In the future, we will probably write a provider that inherits from the existing provider.
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Wally McClure on...............Wally McClure?!? - That's an official WTF
According to the MSDN news flash that went out on Monday evening, I will be in Naples, FL on May 16 talking about..............myself. Hmm, this would seem to be a change in topic. I thought I was going to talk about Sql Server CLR Objects with the user group there, but I guess the subject got changed. Hmm, I wonder if my tshirts will go over wll there? I guess so if I am talking about myself.
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Microsoft and OLPC
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Economic Realities - what an amazing concept
Ok, so this idea that municipal wifi should be free/cheap and available everywhere is coming under stark economic realities. I say GOOD, no GREAT, no EXCELLENT. I'm all for these types of services, but if they don't make money, they should not exist. If the cities want this feature so badly, then they should pay for it.
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Front Page Server Extensions for IIS7 - Holy Snot Batman, I thought that they died a fiery death years ago
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ASP.NET AJAX May Futures CTP Documentation