Thoughts about .NET. Thoughts about code.
Posted in .NET on Nov 3rd, 2004
The Windows Forms team has been putting together some GREAT sample applications that showcase the power of the new 2.0 engine. If you have the .NET beta available you’ll want to check these out. I really like the new toolbar formatters. Way cool. Joe Stegman did a talk here in Redmond last week about the [...]
Posted in .NET, Conference on Nov 3rd, 2004
I got some good news this weekend. Three of my proposed talks for the VSLive! conference were accepted. I landed two talks in the C#Live track and one in the VBITS track. As usual the speaker roster is full of interesting people so it should be a lot of fun. I love software developer conferences. [...]
Posted in .NET on Oct 6th, 2004
Hear me now… There is a flaw in the way ASP.NET parses the path to a secure folder. Apparently it only happens with non IE browsers, but what does that matter? A user can see aspx pages in folders that are supposed to be secure. This is a major flaw and you should update you [...]
Posted in .NET on Sep 21st, 2004
I heard about this new online mapping site over at Scobles site. The user interface on Map24 is superb. It seems very intuitive to me. Take a look, I think you will like it. http://www.us.map24.com/ Try out these features: Zoom window Control – the small window that appears in the lower right corner. Drag a [...]
Posted in .NET on Sep 20th, 2004
During a class today someone asked me how to validate multiple ASP.NET controls. The framework has the CustomValidator class that can handle this scenario. Unlike all the other validation controls the CustomValidator does NOT need to have the ControlToValidate property set to an existing control. If you need to determine validation based on multiple controls [...]
Posted in .NET, Programming on Sep 19th, 2004
ASP.Net makes it very easy to write and debug server side code. I’ve found when talking to ASP.Net developers that many of them don’t know that you can debug clent side script with VS.NET too. This week I was working on a client web site and needed to to write some client-side JavaScript. This reminded [...]
Posted in .NET on Sep 16th, 2004
I spent this week in Orlando Florida speaking at the VSLive conference. If you’ve attended a conference similar to this you know that information swirls about you in great gusts resulting in a overload of ideas and new directions that you want to pursue back in the ‘real’ world. I’ve captured a bit of this [...]
Posted in .NET on Aug 11th, 2004
I had an idea while listening to a Microsoft evangelist talk up some of the newer Office tools (OneNote, InfoPath). She mentioned Virtual PC while answering an audience members question and that started a chain reaction in my head. So what was the big idea that I had? Why don’t software companies distribute beta software [...]
Posted in .NET on Aug 3rd, 2004
The Story Some days it’s frustrating to be a .NET developer. You’re eating lunch with your software team, pizza for the third time this week, and suddenly everyone starts brainstorming a useful little utility that fills a niche in the software world. "We can market it via the Internet," you say excitedly. "Yeah. We could [...]
Posted in .NET on Jul 31st, 2004
The .NET beta has been available for a few weeks now. I’ve been spending a little time with it everyday and I have been finding many wonderful things. For instance, the Base Class Libraries (BCL) have been extended – with several new namespaces and lots of new classes. A couple of my favorites. Compression Libraries [...]