Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in September 2006

The type initializer for 'System.Drawing.ToolboxBitmapAttribute' threw an exception.
September 30, 2006 @ 5:13 am

Whoa, a whacky ASP.NET error showed up on the WebLog Error log sometime this evening generating a boat load of errors rather quickly.

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Compilation and Deployment in ASP.NET 2.0 Article posted
September 28, 2006 @ 3:08 am

I’ve posted a new looong article on Compilation and Deployment with ASP.NET 2.0 in the Articles section of the site. This article also ran in CoDe magazine this month: Compilation and Deployment in ASP.NET 2.0Compilation and deployment in ASP.NET 2.0 has brought some of the biggest changes to the...

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Thread Aborted exception with a Thread Timer fired in ASP.NET
September 27, 2006 @ 6:12 am

I'm working on an app that uses a Thread Timer in an ASP.NET application to fire of a 'scheduled' recurring task that processes some slow running IO requests in a queued fashion. The concept works fine on my dev box, but unfortunately on the live server the timer thread aborts somewhere in the processing...

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Web Application Projects and Visual Studio under Vista RC1
September 27, 2006 @ 5:13 am

I’ve been working for the last couple of days with some code in Web Application Projects under Vista RC1 and I am having nothing but problems with the Visual Studio Web Designer...

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Web Log Changes
September 26, 2006 @ 6:26 pm

Over the weekend I switched this Web Log over from .Text to a custom engine I’ve been working on off and on as a side project...

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Internet deprived
September 26, 2006 @ 5:22 pm

Over the last couple of days I’ve been trying to get resettled as part of my annual winter migration and one thing that really occurred to me again is just how dependent I’ve become of my Internet Connection. In short I didn’t have any Internet access yesterday as I was waiting for my cable hookup today...

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Maui bound
September 25, 2006 @ 1:29 am

My time on the mainland is coming to a close once again. I’ve been having a fun summer here in Hood River, but tomorrow (no today) I’m on my way back. The last day before getting back is always one hell of a rush job, trying to get everything packed, and buttoned down for a 7-8 month...

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ATLAS for ASP.NET grows up
September 23, 2006 @ 4:16 pm

It's been about a year since ATLAS was first unveiled. It's come a long way towards becoming the offical Microsoft framework. A few weeks ago Microsoft announced official names for ATLAS and a tentative release schedule which is a sign that we're getting somewhat close to feature lockdown and a 1.0 release. In this post I talk about where we're at with the technology and some experiences that I've had talking with developers about ATLAS in the last couple of months.

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Vista RC1 and SmartPhone Sync
September 20, 2006 @ 2:59 pm

I haven't had any luck getting my SmartPhone to sync in Vista RC1. This was working in Beta 2 but the RC1 install seems to not recognize the phone as a Windows Mobile sync device.

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Major wwHoverPanel Control update
September 18, 2006 @ 2:58 pm

I've updated the popular wwHoverPanel ASP.NET control with a fairly major update that provides more functionality and easier operation. The new version makes both hover panels and remote method callbacks much easier and provides a small resuable client library that provides common functionality in a browser independent manner. It's not extensive ala ATLAS, but hits a few common (at least for me) scenarios that frequently come up.

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Expression Web Designer Beta 1
September 17, 2006 @ 9:23 pm

After installing Office 2007 Beta 2 Refresh Office Sharepoint Designer no longer works. So I ended up downloading and installing the Expression Web Designer again (which incidentally was originally broken by the Office Beta 2 install ). This update is a big step up and I continue to be impressed by the functionality of this tool. And it looks like it might even work well as an all around editor for ASP.NET pages.

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ASP.NET WebResources and GZIP
September 16, 2006 @ 7:18 pm

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Visual Studio Script Debugger and Microsoft Script Debugger Mixup
September 14, 2006 @ 2:36 am

Aargh - I mucked around with the Microsoft Script Debugger today and it turns out it stepped on the Visual Studio

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JavaScript Editors
September 13, 2006 @ 4:12 pm

I'm playing around with a third party JavaScript editor which is a slight improvement over native VS.NET JavaScript editing, but I'm wondering if anybody has found a good JavaScript editing environment.

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ATLAS and Client Control to Server Control communications
September 12, 2006 @ 5:35 pm

ATLAS makes many things pretty easy, but if you are a control developer and hoping to have your client control or code directly callback to server control, you'll find that there unfortunately is no native way to do this and you're left on your own to decide how to push the data to the server.

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I've seen the future (of food) and it's scary!
September 11, 2006 @ 1:37 am

I just got done watching The Future of Food and thought I had to make a few comments. The movie is basically a look an admittedly one sided look at the consolidation of the food supply in the US and the fact that a handful of large companies are using every trick in the book to control the food supply and doing so with rather questionable methods and without any regard on the long term effects that genetic engineering and crowding out of local farmers has on food viability and sustainability.

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Auto Culture Mapping in ASP.NET 2.0 and Caching in ASP.NET 2.0 Pages
September 09, 2006 @ 6:32 pm

I ran into some issues today dealing with caching in a localized page. Apparently caching - even with VaryByParm based on the culture - doesn't quite work correctly to get caching to work correctly with culture specific mapping.

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Hooking meta:Resource parsing in ASP.NET 2.0?
September 09, 2006 @ 12:48 am

I'm building a custom ResourceManager to allow localization in a more data driven fashion and ASP.NET 2.0 makes this relatively straight forward. However, one construct - the meta:Resource key using the ASP.NET designer seems to be a pure compile time feature and I'm wondering if there's some way to hook into that behavior to provide the same behavior with a custom Resource provider.

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Slides and Samples from the LA .NET User Group Sessions this week
September 07, 2006 @ 12:25 pm

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IE 7 failing to log into American Express site
September 06, 2006 @ 11:21 am

Having problems logging into some secure sites with IE 7 which is annoying.

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CD/DVD Burning on Vista RC1
September 04, 2006 @ 6:36 pm

I'm trying to burn a backup DVD today and am running into some problems with Nero, and well the Windows burning tools. I'm looking for an alternative and frankly am not quite up to date on choices.

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WebBrowser Control – No PostData in Navigating Event
September 04, 2006 @ 5:06 am

Needed to update some WebBrowser control samples today and figured I'd try to hook up the new Web Browser control instead of my 1.x created custom control that's got all sorts of hairy code borrowed from various different projects. To my horror though this control doesn't include all the WebBrowser API event args on many of its event calls. Especially lame is the lack of POST data support in the Navigating event which means I can't use the control at this point...

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Another weird IIS 6 Lock up
September 03, 2006 @ 11:39 pm

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Segoe UI Font in Vista
September 03, 2006 @ 11:22 pm

Vista seems to have made a really bad default font choice in Segoe UI as the font doesn't work well at all when ClearType is turned off. I'm still going back and forth between ClearType on and off due to the eye strain that ClearType imposes. Unfortunately even changing the system fonts to a more flexible font like Tahoma doesn't seem to solve the issue for all applications because Microsoft insists on overriding font choices explicitly in some applications.

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Internet Explorer 7.0 and Opacity: Not even close!
September 02, 2006 @ 8:44 pm

Internet Explorer 7.0 STILL doesn’t support the opacity CSS style and instead requires the continued inappropriate use of DirectX filters to specify opacity (this is in Vista build 5536 at least).

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Vista 5536 and some odd Security issues related to IIS 7
September 01, 2006 @ 3:38 pm

There are a few changes in the way the Network Service account is displayed under IIS 7/Vista and there's a new security group that might affect the security environment of your local IIS7 applications.

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