Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in September 2004

Off to Visual FoxPro DevCon
September 28, 2004 @ 8:57 pm

Getting ready for Visual FoxPro DevCon has been a bunch of work - now it's time to roll. I hope to see some of you in Vegas for talking shop and of course having fun. Stop by our booth if you're going.

Banks and Merchant Providers
September 28, 2004 @ 11:34 am

Getting debt collection letters from a merchant provider from 8 years ago is making me wonder about business practices of banks/merchant providers.

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Browser wars? Maybe not, but...
September 21, 2004 @ 12:43 pm

Browsers matter and the sad state of affairs today means that you probably need more than one browser to surf the Web. But IE is definitely on the losing end of the stick for security, features and standards compliance. But browsers will continue to be important, rich client apps non-withstanding.

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CodeModel Editor differences between C# and VB.NET
September 19, 2004 @ 5:28 pm

Some of the differences in the CodeModel between VB and C# are subtle and really maddening. In this entry I'll show an example of how VB differs in handling for class headers and attributes from C#.

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Odd missing Field error
September 17, 2004 @ 7:10 pm

I've been having a weird problem with an intermittent error that appears to be dropping a field from a query.

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Red Gate's SqlCompare/SqlDataCompare saves my day
September 17, 2004 @ 9:43 am

I wiped out my dev Database this morning and realized that there were some recent changes that didn't make it to a backup. Luckily I had another staging server that received the changes already. Within a few minutes iwth SqlCompare and SqlDataCompare I had my database right back were it was supposed to be.

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XMLComments, and large component documentation
September 16, 2004 @ 9:19 pm

The XMLComments tag allows documentation content to be externally stored which is something I missed until today. This can be useful for large projects that have lots of documentation or require editing by multiple people, or require localization.

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Html Help Builder and Html Help 2.0 support
September 11, 2004 @ 3:55 pm

Over the last couple of days I updated Help Builder to support generation of HTML Help 2.0 output. Html Help 2.0 is a PITA and designed in such a way to be even less user friendly than the already screwy HTML 1.0 format. Yes there are some nice features in the format itself, but it amazes me how Microsoft could have made a process such as installing help as complex as this.

Hacked by browser
September 09, 2004 @ 7:32 pm

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Lots of JavaScript Errors on Commercial Sites recently due to popup blocking?
September 09, 2004 @ 9:46 am

Anybody else notice ALOT of Javascript errors on a lot of major pages recently?

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IIS6 and Compressing of Web Content
September 08, 2004 @ 12:27 pm

IIS 6 makes using compressed content fairly straightforward which can result in large bandwidth and download speed savings. Using compressed content in browsers is automatic, but with dynamic HTTP clients a bit more work is required.

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COM+ Component manager unaccessible
September 07, 2004 @ 8:11 am

I've one server that has a major issue with the COM+ Admin console: The console will not allow access to the COM+ components. According to the errors there is a problem with the DTC.

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Multitasking Overload
September 06, 2004 @ 8:24 pm

Too much is too much. I had enough for today. Some days are like that where every piece of code you work with has something wrong with it and needs fixing.

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Grumbling about the state of Help in Windows
September 02, 2004 @ 9:07 pm

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PayPal Integration with ASP.NET article posted
September 02, 2004 @ 12:06 am

I've posted a new article that talks about integrating PayPal into an existing e-Commerce application as a supplement to online based credit card processing. The focus of this article is on the integration issues and making the process as seamless as possible with the existing e-Commerce application.

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