Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in October 2004

Returning a Relative Path in .NET
October 29, 2004 @ 7:02 pm

The .NET BCL doesn't include native functionality to create a relative path from a full path. Here's a function that does it.

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Application level Cookie Management for ASP.NET apps
October 24, 2004 @ 3:48 pm

Cookie handling in applications can be repetitive and if you access and must set your cookies in many places of the application a logic change can quickly break a lot of code. Abstracting cookies into a class that contains all related logic reduces the amount of code and makes things much more maintainable.

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Cookie Monsters are eating my West Wind Cookies...
October 22, 2004 @ 8:11 pm

On this site I have problems with my permanent cookies not 'sticking'. It looks there's something invalid happening with the cookie creation in one app that's causing IE to corrupt the permanent cookie store in some way. I'm stuck - can't quite figure out how to debug this.

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Phone Company Rant
October 20, 2004 @ 12:09 pm

Trying to reduce my phone costs and the overhead of three phones I dealt with Verizon today trying to get minimal service for the only landline left. After reconsideration I decided I'm not given Verizon any more of my money.

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Converting values to string and back with Type Converters
October 19, 2004 @ 12:56 pm

Type Converters can make conversion of values/objects to strings and back a lot easier. More importantly though it allows you to create customer serialization mechanisms for storing data in things like a config file.

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Tying a property to a Thread Context in .NET
October 13, 2004 @ 11:01 pm

As far as I can tell there's no native way to store properties/resources that are thread specific in .NET. Here's a way to implement your own thread based storage mechanism.

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Back to Maui
October 12, 2004 @ 4:41 am

.NET Web Services and Complex Types (again)
October 12, 2004 @ 4:33 am

I'm still trying to figure out a better way of passing data over Web Services when the data is a complex object. Because of .NET's insistence on building proxies you always end up copying data either manually or using various copy routines...

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Fiddler and Application Proxy setup
October 11, 2004 @ 1:16 am

Here are a few tips on how to set up your HTTP client and Web Service applications to be able to use the proxy Fiddler sets up to monitor the HTTP traffic.

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The UK Subs rock Portland
October 09, 2004 @ 10:45 am

I haven't had this much fun at a show in a long time. Old school punk rock with the UK Subs in Portland!

Object parsing for Web Services called by Visual FoxPro
October 06, 2004 @ 11:03 am

Passing objects with the MSSOAP toolkit or VFP in general is somewhat of a pain. I've made some additional changes to wwSOAP that work through the WSDL type definitions to automate some of the object return value creation as well as the ability to create properly cased XML representations from VFP objects.

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A new Les Paul makes the neighbors unhappy
October 06, 2004 @ 11:02 am

A new addition has arrived to my music collection and I'm very stoked!

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MSDN Universal Support Policies
October 06, 2004 @ 8:40 am

Is Web Services Technology getting too complex?
October 05, 2004 @ 10:10 am

Interesting article on CNet discusses some issues I've noticed myself over the last year or so, discussed in the mainstream press. Forward momentum is good, but not if it comes at the expense of ease of use and interoperability which are the cornerstone features of why we want to use in the first place.

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