Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in January 2007

OFX Data parsing in .NET
January 31, 2007 @ 8:48 pm

I'm doing some work with OFX financial data parsing and I'm finding that there's not a lot of information on doing this and a number of problems with getting the OFX schemas to work properly with .NET. With some help I was able to get .NET types from the OFX schemas but the data is ugly as sin on these generated types. So I'm looking for insight if anybody's been down that path.

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MS AJAX 1.0 is here
January 31, 2007 @ 1:02 am

Microsoft has finally release MS AJAX 1.0 to RTM so it's now finally an official part of the Microsoft product line. V 1.0 is a mixed bag of cool stuff and stuff that's left for the next release which makes the core 1.0 product a little lackluster in terms of functionality. This functionality is made up by the MS AJAX Control Toolkit and less so the Futures CTP which is Microsoft's continuing and evolving platform on the way to the next version of .NET and Visual Studio.

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wwHoverPanel ASP.NET AJAX Control updated
January 30, 2007 @ 2:58 am

I've updated the wwHoverPanel AJAX control to version 1.60. There are a number of new features which are mentioned in this post.

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Debugging FireFox Cookies
January 28, 2007 @ 1:08 am

Ran into an interesting cookie bug today with FireFox where I ended up with duplicated cookies.

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.HLP support discontinued in Vista
January 27, 2007 @ 4:29 am

Microsoft pulled out support for .HLP files in Windows Vista by removing hte WinHlp32.exe application

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XSD.EXE and included schemas?
January 26, 2007 @ 4:55 pm

I've run into a snag trying to import a schema that includes a bunch of related schemas. When running XSD.EXE it fails to see the related schemas and bombs because of it.

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Update to free Web Configuration Utility
January 25, 2007 @ 5:06 am

I've updated my Web Configuration Utility with better support for IIS 7 and configuring .NET versions for a given Web Virtual.

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Submergable USB Key
January 24, 2007 @ 11:48 pm

The things I do to a USB key...

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MS AJAX Samples updated for 1.0 Release Version
January 24, 2007 @ 4:36 am

I've updated my MS AJAX samples both on the live site and for the download.

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Building a GZip JavaScript Resource Compression Module for ASP.NET
January 23, 2007 @ 2:15 am

Finally got around to building a GZip script compression module for my library so I can start to quit worrying so much about script size. Here are some details on the module, how it works and how it's implemented.

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Streaming Music (Radio) Suggestions?
January 23, 2007 @ 12:56 am

I'm looking to enhance my online streaming music environment, but I'm not having much luck finding good information, so I'm asking directly for some experiences.

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Some great practical CSS Links
January 22, 2007 @ 3:51 pm

Ran into a cool collage of CSS formatting related links that show a number of cool practical examples for CSS.

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FireFox and the Visual Studio Web Server = Snail’s pace?
January 22, 2007 @ 2:26 pm

Seems like Firefox and the internal Visual Studio Web Server don't work well together with FireFox running dog slow in this combination.

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An update to the ClientScriptProxy Class for ScriptManager/ClientScript
January 22, 2007 @ 2:12 pm

Here's an update to the ClientScriptProxy class I posted a month ago for the release version of MS Ajax. The class acts as a front end proxy object to the ScriptManager and Page.ClientScript detecting whether MS Ajax is registered or not and making the appropriate calls to the right object.

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Detecting ASP.NET Debug mode
January 19, 2007 @ 9:00 pm

Here's a quickie: How do you detect if an ASP.NET application is running in debug mode?

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IE Opacity and DIV tags with no width
January 19, 2007 @ 4:08 am

More fun inconsistencies: IE's opacity supports sucks anyway but apparently even the alpha filter doesn't work on DIV tags that don't have a width specified.

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Programmatically listing, getting and setting Application Pools
January 17, 2007 @ 12:34 am

Ever need to programmatically list, or get or set an IIS Application Pool? Here's the code to this programmatically with .NET code using DirectoryServices.

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Am I an Administrator on Vista? No really am I?
January 15, 2007 @ 4:51 pm

Who can you trust when it comes to your status as an Administrator. Checking admin priviliges under Vista is no fun at all and I can't tell whether I am in fact an admin or not. Some things seem to indicate I am, while others

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SQL Server 2005 Windows Security has gone out to lunch...
January 15, 2007 @ 3:37 pm

While experimenting with UAC on Vista, somehow, somewhere my SQL Server Windows Authentication has somehow disconnected itself from my SQL Server installation. SQL Server no longer sees the Administrators group AT ALL and so several database connections that have been working off integrated security now suddenly fail.

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IIS Root Web and web.config Inheritance - grrrrrr...
January 14, 2007 @ 6:52 am

While working on a module that installs on a root web I ran - once again - into a problem with the IIS web.config inheritance that causes the root web to propagate handler entries down into sub-virtuals which can cause serious problems.

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Explorer Folder View Customization - what were they thinking?
January 12, 2007 @ 9:13 pm

Folder views in Windows Vista's Explorer got even more confusing by yet another layer of 'views' that can be applied by yet another dialog separate from the already buggy View selection dropped down on folders. Getting folders to display in a consistent view is getting harder and harder to do in Windows which is ridiculous.

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Component Vendor Selling Practices
January 12, 2007 @ 1:13 am

Seems like more and more component vendors are getting agressive with their use of copy protection schemes. While I can understand some need to protect software some of this has gotten to the point where the software becomes such a pain in the ass to test and use that the copy protection/registration scheme is enough to scare off potential customers.

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FireBug 1.0 Beta rocks
January 09, 2007 @ 1:58 am

FireBug 1.0 beta was released last month and I've been using it for most of my JavaScript debugging in the last few weeks. It's grown up into an excellent tool from its somewhat funky earlier versions and I've almost remove the VS JavaScript debugger from my debug routines except for IE specific debugging.

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Microsoft Wireless Mouse Issues under Vista
January 02, 2007 @ 11:59 pm

Looks like the Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse Receivers are causing some timing problems in Windows Vista. These are a subtle problems that show up in applications that apparently look for idle state to do work or figure out how to put themselves into a low activity mode. The Wireless Mouse receivers don't let that idle state happen apparently.

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HREF links and javascript: Navigation
January 01, 2007 @ 7:23 pm

Calling JavaScript from HREF anchors can be a little tricky if you not calling external functions. There are a few things you have to watch out for with inline code and a few workarounds for letting you embed controls that have the href and javascript all in one place.

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Tag, I'm It - 5 things you didn't know about me
January 01, 2007 @ 3:30 am

I've been tagged and so here are a few things you might not know about your's truly...

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