Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in June 2004

VS.Net Automation and Selected Controls - no fun at all!
June 28, 2004 @ 11:02 am

My misadventures with the VS.Net Automation model are no fun at all. I could use some help in trying to get the selected control in the designer...

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Bad Penguin
June 26, 2004 @ 8:47 am

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GDI+ InterpolationMode
June 24, 2004 @ 8:25 pm

Resizing images can cause images to loose some of their quality as the images are resampled. You can control the algorithms used for the resize resampling by using the Graphics object's InterpolationMode property.

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Back Home
June 24, 2004 @ 5:41 am

I'm back home finally after 3 months of on and off travelling.

Looking for TCP/IP Network Monitoring Software
June 16, 2004 @ 11:57 pm

I need a network monitoring tool basically. Something like what Microsoft’s Network Monitor does, but in a more usable format. Everytime I fire up Network Manager I forget just how I need to run it and worse how to filter the data to get only what I want. What I want to see in this case is the communication on Port 25. Specify the port and let it record the high level traffic that goes through it...

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Response.End() bites back at HttpApplication events
June 15, 2004 @ 3:51 pm

Did you know that the ASP.Net pipeline can often get forestalled so that events on the HttpApplication object are not always fired? This is significant if you build HttpModules or Application event hooks or even if you hook logic to Render methods of a Page object.

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VS.Net HTML editor mangling script tags inside of Styles
June 12, 2004 @ 6:36 pm

Don’t you just hate it when the VS.Net HTML editor mangles your ASP. Net template code, because it thinks it knows better? Right! Here VS strips out any tags that contain embedded <%= %> inside of any style tags...

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Converting Windows Forms Colors to Web RGB string values
June 11, 2004 @ 2:43 pm

Ever needed to convert a Windows color to a Web color for use in some HTML that is rendered as part of the Windows Form? A quick tip to show a couple ways to get at the color values in a Web usable format.

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Capturing Output from ASP.Net Pages
June 08, 2004 @ 9:39 pm

Ever wonder how you can capture the content of the current ASP.Net page and either manipulate it or use it for things like Email confirmation or capturing for logging? How about executing other pages to perform mail merge type operations for things like confirmations and other notices that you may send to your customers via email? Or even providing text merging features in your WinForms applications? Here are a few tips on how you can accomplish these tasks with ASP.Net easily.

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What makes a great conference session?
June 02, 2004 @ 4:57 am

What makes a great conference session? Coming from TechEd last week I have a few thoughts on this subject...

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