Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in September 2005

Drag and Drop from Explorer into a FoxPro TextBox
September 29, 2005 @ 11:24 am

Ever need to drag and drop an object into a text box at the drag and drop mouse cursor location in Visual FoxPro? Sounds easy but due to the way the drop content is managed you need to figure out where to put the text inside of the textbox.

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ATLAS bits for RC posted
September 26, 2005 @ 8:57 pm

Microsoft finally released the ATLAS VSI files for the RC today, so I can stop screwing around with my slow and flakey beta 2 install...

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A Music Recording Relvation (sort of): I want a noise cancelling pedal
September 23, 2005 @ 10:17 pm

Noise Cancelling for guitar tone? Pretty funny but it'd be interesting to know what it does to boost the apparent volume and clarity of the sound.

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Watch out for web.config Build Provider errors and Custom Controls on Toolbox
September 21, 2005 @ 2:51 pm

If you're unable to drop custom controls onto an ASP.NET 2.0 page make sure your Web.config file is valid, or at least the BuildProvider section within it.

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ClearType had to go
September 20, 2005 @ 11:45 am

My use of ClearType lasted 2 months and it has to go. I've been having major problems with my eyes while using ClearType, getting headaches and eye aches ( really - eyes feel really tight). Yesterday I switched back to just plain text and the physical symptoms disappeared almost immediately.

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Installed VS.NET 2005 Release Candidate
September 18, 2005 @ 11:22 pm

I decided today it's time to get rid of Beta 2 and install the VS.NET 2005 RC from PDC. And surprisingly all went well...

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IIS 6 Kernel Caching from an ISAPI Extension - eek!
September 15, 2005 @ 9:06 pm

Need to implement Kernel Caching in an ISAPI extension? This entry talks about how to do this underdocumented task with C++.

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My ASP.NET Script Callbacks Article Part 1 went live on ASP Today today
September 14, 2005 @ 11:23 pm

My ASP.NET 2.0 Script Callbacks article posted on ASP Today today. Find out the skinny on how Script Callbacks work, what they do well, and also what they don't do so well.

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PDC bound
September 12, 2005 @ 11:08 pm

I'm off at PDC this week to soak up new ideas and direction from the Borg...

Understanding Page Inheritance in ASP.NET 2.0
September 12, 2005 @ 1:17 am

Here's an in depth look at the new Page Compilation model in ASP.NET that talks about some of the nice features of this new model as well as a couple of sticking points that may cause problems for applications that migrate from V1.x.

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Working on FoxPro and ASP.NET frameworks side by side
September 08, 2005 @ 3:55 pm

There's been a lot of cross-pollination between ideas I've built on in .NET and my FoxPro upgrade to Web Connection. A lot of framework stuff is sloshing back and forth between the two platforms that's providing some interesting side benefits.

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Workin' on Web Connection 5.0
September 07, 2005 @ 2:25 am

I've been heads down working on Web Connection 5.0 and it's been a blast over the last couple of weeks.

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FoxPro and COM typelibrary creation
September 04, 2005 @ 10:51 pm

If you're using COM with VFP you may have run into a nasty problem that doesn't allow VFP to create a typelibary containing parameters, return values or property types of other classes/interfaces that exist in the current project. Calvin posted a solution to this problem the other day and here is some additional information around the topic.

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Determining class bases - or how to fake an interface identity with VFP
September 04, 2005 @ 5:58 pm

Visual FoxPro doesn't support interfaces which can become a problem if you deal with overloaded methods that can receive a variety of objects. In order to figure out the type of object used you need to resort to some - uh, hack techniques that are expensive in processing.

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