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Weblog Posts in December 2005

A first look at ASP.NET 2.0 Web Projects
December 28, 2005 @ 12:41 pm

Microsoft has recently put out a new tool that provides VS2003 projects for VS2005 to provide many of the lost features in VS2005, including easy single assembly compilation and easy cross page/control referencing.

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Still looking for a new Notebook...
December 27, 2005 @ 10:36 pm

Still shopping for a notebook and I ran into a nice ASP.NET crash on the Alienware site the other day.

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Implementing an ASP.NET PreserveProperty Control
December 26, 2005 @ 12:30 pm

A couple of days ago I posted about having PreserveProperty functionality in ASP.NET. Today I'll look at implementing a custom control that implements this functionality. The control allows saving and restoring of property values automatically and declaratively without ViewState being enabled. This article discusses the control functionality and implementation in some detail. If you're new to Server Control development this article covers a few important topics such as exposing collections as ch

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Odd Word Problem - Home and Delete keys not working
December 26, 2005 @ 11:59 am

For some reason Microsoft Word is acting up on me with the Home and Del keys not working inside of Word only. The keys work just fine everywhere else, but not in Word.

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No Compiler Directives in VS.NET 2005 Web Projects
December 25, 2005 @ 11:57 pm

VS.NET 2005's new Web Projects aren't real projects and because of it there are lots of little features that have gone missing. I'm hitting most of these slowly but surely ... this time its compiler directives that can't be set at the project level any more...

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Advanced FoxPro .NET COM Interop Article Series
December 24, 2005 @ 10:55 am

I've put out a three part article series on FoxPro to .NET COM Interop that addresses several common advanced Interop scenerios. This entry links these articles and provides a feedback link to the articles.

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An ASP.NET feature I’d like to see: Control.PreserveProperty()
December 22, 2005 @ 1:24 pm

It would be really nice if there was an easier and more deterministic way to persist values in ASP.NET. One way that I think would be nice is to have a PreserveProperty() method on the control class that could automatically store and restore a value on a control which simplify persistence greatly and allow tight control over exactly what gets persisted both on the control as well as the application level.

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ASP.NET 2.0 ReadOnly behavior change when EnableViewState is false
December 20, 2005 @ 2:27 pm

Behavior of ReadOnly controls has changed in ASP.NET 2.0 causing ReadOnly controls to not properly post back when the form is submitted.

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Installing Visual Studio ontop of Visual Web Developer? Apparently not...
December 19, 2005 @ 4:57 am

Apparently you can't install Visual Studio directly ontop of Visual Web Developer - you have to first uninstall VWD, the .NET framework and then reinstall. Not a big deal but it seems odd that the MSDN VS.NET Pro CD flags the release VWD version installed on this machine as a beta.

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Slow VS.NET 2005 Editor is driving me nuts
December 19, 2005 @ 2:59 am

The VS.NET C# editor is killing me - everytime I save a source file or switch to another source file, VS.NET locks up for 5 to 10 seconds while the document - what, reformats? Granted I don't have the fastest machine in the world but I'm starting to suspect something isn't right here - it shouldn't be this slow.

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Fun with the same assembly - different name in an ASP.NET Bin dir
December 18, 2005 @ 4:30 pm

I ran into an interesting problem while deploying an ASP.NET application and accidentally forgetting that an renamed assembly still existed on the server.

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Slow Http client calls from ASP.NET 2.0? Make sure you check your Proxy Settings!
December 14, 2005 @ 2:28 pm

If you run into slow connectivity over HTTP from your ASP.NET 2.0 applications, make sure that you check your proxy settings. The default proxy configuration in .NET 2.0 has changed and due to security requirements for retrieving Proxy configuration this may significantly slow HTTP request in a low rights environment.

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Creating Menu Bitmaps and AboutIcons for Add-ins in Visual Studio .NET 2005
December 13, 2005 @ 5:09 pm

Here's a summary of how to create and use custom bitmaps for your menu options and your About Box icon in Visual Studio .NET 2005 Add-ins.

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This blog is turning 2 today
December 13, 2005 @ 12:06 pm

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Taking a look at what's coming in IIS 7.0
December 10, 2005 @ 3:30 am

IIS 7.0 hasn't been getting a lot of attention in the recent round of announcements of new technologies from Microsoft. I've seen quite a bit about IIS 7 at Microsoft recently and here are some of my thoughts on this new Web platform.

Generics, Reflection and XML Documentation == Madness
December 08, 2005 @ 3:11 pm

I set out to fix the Generic Type parsing in Help Builder today and it's been a long road to figuring out just how .NET and Reflection deal with Generic types and how these types are mapped into XML Docs.

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Bye bye, new Dell Laptop
December 07, 2005 @ 6:52 pm

After a lot of back and forth with support I decided to throw in the towel and return my new Dell laptop to Dell today. Customer Service was just so bad and the end result was to wait nearly two weeks to get the thing sent in and returned back. Heck it's quicker to buy a new one in that case. Crap just when I was looking forward to having a faster and allaround more beefy machine...

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Producing Screen Cam Video - and Media Player 10 troubles
December 07, 2005 @ 1:52 pm

Media Player 10 doesn't like to play screen capture videos properly and blurs the otherwise sharp videos. Media Player 9.0 and other players do just fine.

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New Laptop is no joy...
December 07, 2005 @ 12:03 am

I got a new machine yesterday and felt like a kid in a candy store getting all my stuff moved over. The joy didn't last long - looks like the machine is having hardware issues right out of the gate...

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ASP.NET Compiler Utility Updated
December 06, 2005 @ 10:28 am

I've updated my ASP.NET compiler utility to take advantage of the ASPNET_MERGE.EXE utility if it is installed on the machine to allow creating a single merged assembly of your compiled project.

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Add a Web Server to your .NET 2.0 app with a few lines of code
December 04, 2005 @ 9:23 pm

.NET 2.0 includes a very useful and more importantly easily integrated HttpListener class that makes it very easy to add a Web Server to your own applications. Can you say quick communication between two apps?

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Watch out for class name conflicts with the ASP.NET Web Deployment Merge Tool
December 04, 2005 @ 3:07 am

VS.NET 2005 plays fast and loose with classnames when you create new ASPX pages which can easily result in duplicate type signatures for pages in your project. This is usually not a problem until you try to merge your project with the new Web Deployment Projects tool.

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A few thoughts about Forms Authentication in ASP.NET
December 03, 2005 @ 3:23 pm

Forms Auth is often touted as the most appropriate way to do Authentication with ASP.NET. I don't agree for a number of reasons.

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Web Connection 5.0 Beta 1 and a few videos released
December 02, 2005 @ 4:48 pm

I've release beta 1 for Web Connection for Visual FoxPro today. In this post there's a little reflection on some of the issues of the day surrounding Web Connection 5.0.

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How can I capture all HTTP traffic on a specific port using code?
December 02, 2005 @ 12:57 am

I'm trying to figure out how to capture all HTTP traffic on a specific port, so it can be played back at some later point. So today I'm picking your brain... maybe.

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