Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in January 2006

Getting Mime DateTime in .NET
January 31, 2006 @ 2:29 pm

Seems like getting Mime Date time formatting is common enough that it should be built in but I couldn't find it for the life of me. Here's a hand routine that does this.

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Screwing around with WebResources in ASP.NET 2.0
January 30, 2006 @ 1:30 am

Script WebResources in ASP.NET make it easy to embed content into WebControls so that there's no need to ship external files for .js, images, .css files etc. I ran into a few dumb user error snags today with embedding a .js file by not crossing all the t's and dotting all the i's.

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I'm Speaking at ASP.NET Connections in Orlando in April - yay!
January 29, 2006 @ 8:42 pm

I'm pretty exited that I got selected to speak at ASP Connections in Florida in April. I just had to tell *someone*...

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Faking a PostBack in a DataGrid column – is there an easier way?
January 26, 2006 @ 10:59 am

I'm working on a 1.1 app right now where I have a bunch of hyperlinks in a single column all of which need to be managed and post back. While I got this to work the solution I came up with feels like a hack. Maybe there's a better way...

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Back from SouCal CodeCamp and User Groups... Phew.
January 24, 2006 @ 2:56 pm

It was a fun and busy week driving around in Southern California last week to speak at the Fox User Groups and CodeCamp over the weekend.

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MSDN January doesn't integrate with Visual Studio 2005?
January 24, 2006 @ 2:15 pm

The latest MSDN Library CD for January 2006 doesn't integrate with Visual Studio 2005, which seems odd. I guess I'm sticking with the older version specifically for VS.NET.

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Load Balancing for ASP.NET
January 19, 2006 @ 6:48 am

I've been using Network Load Balancing in Windows 2003 on a few installations of ASP.NET applications, but because it's very finicky for installation and tied to the running hardware, I'm considering looking at other load balancing solutions. Anybody have some feedback on other hardware/software solutions they're using especially in big multi-server installations?

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Crash...
January 14, 2006 @ 2:20 pm

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Code Camp is coming to Southern California
January 12, 2006 @ 10:42 pm

I'll be at CodeCamp January 21st and 22nd. Lots of sessions will be happening and you just can't beat the deal that these code camps provide.

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Web Connection 5.0 Presentations at LA Fox and San Diego Fox Developers Network
January 12, 2006 @ 10:41 pm

I'll be stopping by the LA Fox and SD Fox user groups on Jan 17th and 19th for a couple of presentations showcasing the new Web Connection 5.0 Web Control Framework.

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More BindingSource WinForm Databinding frustrations
January 12, 2006 @ 9:22 pm

I'm still trying to get my head around the new DataBinding in WinForms and am having some success in getting this stuff to work effficiently. Unfortunately I'm also running into some problems with custom controls.

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Hungarian Characters and DataRow String Field indexes
January 10, 2006 @ 11:45 pm

One more time I've run into an issue where I'm reading a field from a DataRow only to find that the current Locale I'm running in doesn't like the field name and fails to retrieve the field. This time it's Hungarian which seems to have some odd combinations that do and don't work.

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Loosing a Cookie when switching from http:// to https://
January 10, 2006 @ 9:59 pm

I have yet another odd cookie situation - when using a cookie that is pathed to a virtual directory, switching from http to https causes the cookie to get lost.

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Debugger Value Highlights are editable in VS2005
January 09, 2006 @ 9:02 am

Did you know that the new debugger expression highlight allows you to edit values in place?

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Updating the ASP.NET PreserveProperty Control
January 05, 2006 @ 11:14 pm

After the many comments made on the previous entry I've updated the PreserveProperty Control. This version is more efficient in storage and uses much less internal code instead relying more on ASP.NET's internal serialization support. There are also a few new options like choosing the storage mechanism.

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Getting Values and Keys out of a Hashtable
January 05, 2006 @ 10:20 pm

Got stuck on this again for a few minutes today, so I'm writing it down. Iterating over the keys in a collection is done best by using the raw Enumerator.

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Using Fiddler with non-Internet Explorer Browsers
January 05, 2006 @ 4:00 pm

Fiddler is a great tool for debugging HTTP traffic and examining HTTP headers and the like. Fiddler works automatically in combination with Internet Explorer, but with a little bit of configuration you can also use it with any other browser or Web client.

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Setting ACE/ACL permissions in .NET 2.0
January 04, 2006 @ 12:26 am

Setting ACE/ACLs in .NET 2.0 got a bit easier with managed wrapper support built into the BCL. But these classes are still pretty complex if you're not intricately familiar with how these security constructs work. It takes a fair amount of code to do this seemingly common and simple task, and the question begs why nobody went through the excercise of creating a more user friendly class front end.

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Cookies, Session and switching between plain HTTP and SSL Urls in ASP.NET
January 02, 2006 @ 12:47 am

I ran into some nasty problems with Cookies today when switching from plain http Urls to https. There's converting the URL correctly and dealing with different domain name referencing such www.west-wind.com and west-wind.com. To top things off a couple of browser inconsistencies make this even more confusing than it has to be...

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