Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in August 2006

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August 31, 2006 @ 4:24 am

I presented today at the Portland .NET User Group and I ran into some major projector trouble, which was ultimately worked around with a solution from Scott Hanselman who dropped in...

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Los Angeles ASP.NET talks next week
August 30, 2006 @ 1:09 pm

I'll be in LA next week for the 5th and 6th to speak at a couple .NET user groups on ASP.NET Architecture and ATLAS.

ASP.NET Compilation and Deployment Article in Code Magazine
August 29, 2006 @ 10:45 pm

A while back I wrote a LOOOOONG article about ASP.NET Compilation and Deployment for CoDe Magazine and today I got my copy in the mail. The article covers a lot of ground and goes into detail on how the page parsing and compilation process works in Stock projects as well as comparing stock projects to Web Application projects. The article also talks about compilation and deployment and various and complicated modes available for all of that.

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Some Vista 5536 Problems
August 29, 2006 @ 10:32 pm

So I’m happily plugging away on my latest Vista install but there are a few odds and ends that are not doing so well.

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Getting burned by .NET 3.0 "Framework" Install
August 28, 2006 @ 4:13 am

Just ran into a problem with registering a COM interop assembly on Vista and because of some logic I used some time ago to sniff out the latest version of the framework this code now fails due to the brilliant .NET 3.0 "framework" installation that isn't a real .NET installation.

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New Vista Install Take 2
August 27, 2006 @ 2:58 am

I just installed a new build of Vista for a few improvements that I really needed and I'm impressed by the progress since Beta 2. Beta 2 was OK, but this build feels very solid and gasp - it's pretty damn snappy. It's making this computer work the way I thought it would when I bought it...

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OS reinstall and still have VS.NET 2005 ASP.NET Intellisense issues
August 26, 2006 @ 12:20 am

I still have major issues with Intellisense not working properly for the ASP.NET CodeBehind pages until I switch into Design view and then back to code view. This now after a full OS and VS.NET 2005 reinstall, so now I'm ruling out odd configuration issues...

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ATLAS at the Portland .NET user group on August 30th
August 24, 2006 @ 11:43 pm

I’m speaking again next week at the Portland Area DotNet User Group (PadNug) on Wednesday the 30th of August. The topic is Taking ATLAS for a Ride. It's free so if you're in the Portland Area stop on by...

Custom Control Block elements in the ASP.NET Designer
August 22, 2006 @ 3:22 am

Getting an ASP.NET control to display properly in the designer can be a bit of the chore because the designer doesn’t do real well when it comes to rendering controls based on block tags, like

or . The VS.NET designer renders controls into a block that appears to be a self-sizing tag or equivalent, so if you have block content the designer usually mucks up the display.

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Blogging Tools and HTML Editing - Yuk
August 20, 2006 @ 3:39 pm

I'm using Word here for editing my Blog posts because it's easy to get content created. Unfortunately Word mangles the HTML it generates if you need to paste code or other text out of the entry, so I've from time to time looked at various Blogging tools. But they all have the same shortcomings in terms of editing experience because they are based on the crappy IE HTML Edit control.

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Getting the currently executing Control in ASP.NET
August 19, 2006 @ 12:02 am

Quick - how do you figure out which control is currently executing? Which Page, or User Control or Master Page? In this post I'll look at how to get this at runtime and - cough, cough - at design time.

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Collection property Hell on an ASP.NET Server Control
August 18, 2006 @ 2:41 am

Running into an error that I just can't get past here besides the fact that I have a number of other controls that are basically doing the same thing. This is a control exposing a collection property, but when the items are set on the collection the control fails to render in the designer.

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Testing Windows Writer
August 16, 2006 @ 12:36 am

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Speaking at the Portland MSDN Event tomorrow: ATLAS
August 14, 2006 @ 7:27 pm

I'll be doing an ATLAS presentation tomorrow in Portland at the MSDN event by Lloyd Center. Real short notice - this oughta be interesting...

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Spamorama
August 14, 2006 @ 5:12 am

I broke down a couple of days ago and added a Captcha control to the comments section of the Blog to help cut down on spam. Enough is enough...

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SoapException.Message on the Client
August 11, 2006 @ 1:21 pm

Getting a displayable value out of a SoapException is kind of a pain. QUestion is why does it have to be that way?

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JavaScript and function.call and function.apply for async execution
August 10, 2006 @ 2:57 pm

Making asynchronous callback functions typically using window.setTimeout in the browser can be tedious code to write if you need to pass parameters. String literals is the most common way to do this but there's an easier way.

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Unable to evaluate expression because the code is optimized or a native frame is on top of the call stack
August 10, 2006 @ 3:00 am

Ran into this error today and it's a bitch. I'm not sure what caused it but it appears that it had something to do with the operating system state as a full reboot finally got rid of the problem...

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Web Services and type mapping - again
August 07, 2006 @ 11:48 pm

I keep coming back to this problem - the need to pick up strongly types on the client and shoehorn them into their proper types rather than the .NET generated proxy types which don't travel well across application boundaries. I have a workaround to make to make this work in one case, but it ain't pretty.

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NDoc no more and Open Source
August 06, 2006 @ 9:33 pm

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Reading Sql Server Image/Blob data in Visual FoxPro 9
August 06, 2006 @ 5:45 pm

Raeding binary data from SQL Server in previous versions of Visual FoxPro was a bit of a pain. In 9.0 with better support for a binary data type this functionality gets significantly easier.

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No more Meta Refresh Tags
August 04, 2006 @ 4:27 pm

Eh, I've realized that there's actually an easier way to get a page to refresh with HTTP headers rather than using a Meta tag.

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Problems with FoxPro COM Interop on IIS 7 (Vista Beta 2)
August 03, 2006 @ 7:10 pm

I still have a few COM objects running on my Web site and I ran into snag with it on IIS 7 locally today when I needed to update some ASP pages calling on these COM objects. Looks like there's a problem in IIS 7 Beta 2 loading VFP COM object, even though ATL COM objects seem to work OK.

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