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Weblog Posts in October 2005

Updating Help Builder for .NET 2.0 and VS2005
October 31, 2005 @ 11:12 pm

Over the weekend I got Help Builder ready for .NET 2.0 and VS.NET 2005. No picnic to be sure... here are some thoughts and experiences of the process and things that I ended up doing.

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Putting up .NET 2.0
October 30, 2005 @ 12:48 pm

.NET 2.0 is here and now the real work begins of updating applications, updating servers, double checking apps, and most importantly start actually using all the new functionality for real! Here are a few thoughts and experiences of the first couple of days...

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VS.NET 2005 Web Project Manager Tool
October 27, 2005 @ 4:44 am

Microsoft has heard some of the complaints about the ASP.NET 2.0 project deployment issues and they are planning to release an Add-In project type that provides the missing features to control deployment much better.

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VS.NET 2005 Debugger chokes on COM/.NET Interop Debugging
October 26, 2005 @ 4:44 pm

VS.NET 2005 RC seems to have problems debugging into COM Interop .NET object from a COM client. I'm struggling with a few issues today regarding porting the 1.1 wwwReflection.dll from Help Builder to 2.0 and add support for Generics etc.

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Creating Undo functionality in a Visual FoxPro TextBox
October 26, 2005 @ 3:00 am

VFP's native TextBox control has - uh, marginal Undo functionality. The functionality does actually more harm than good as it seems very inconsistent for users - so much so that it would be difficult to rely on it in an application. Anyway, today I finally decided to do something about it and build optional undo behavior into my custom Editbox control.

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Short IIS7 Interview with me on Channel 9
October 25, 2005 @ 1:51 pm

While at Microsoft for an IIS 7 preview event last week, Brett Hill IIS 7 Evangelist at Microsoft, interviewed me for impressions on IIS 7 from a developer perspective.

Occasional Computer Faxing?
October 18, 2005 @ 11:01 am

Sending faxes on the road is a bit of a pain. Anybody know of a service that's reasonably priced for the occasional fax sent?

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Need Internet Access? Just count to ten...
October 17, 2005 @ 10:19 pm

Priceless instructions from the folks at Comfort Inn...

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West Wind Web Connection User Conference Wrap up... what a blast!
October 13, 2005 @ 11:59 pm

It's been a long 3 days, but the Web Connection User Conference was a load of fun and a huge success...

SOAP Toolkit and Secure Web Service Access
October 08, 2005 @ 3:16 pm

The SOAP Toolkit doesn't make it particularily easy to retrieve authenticated content from a Web Service especially if the WSDL file requires authentication as well.

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A few really annoying VS.NET 2005 ASP.NET bugs
October 08, 2005 @ 2:54 pm

Here are a couple of annoying bugs that cause me to loose some time during development. First control renaming in the ASP.NET WebForm editor often doesn't allow renaming. And multiple CSS references applied to a page being injected by VS.NET for who knows what reason.

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Project and Item Templates in VS.NET 2005 are easy!
October 05, 2005 @ 10:12 pm

After reading Scott Guthrie's post on project templates I took a closer look to see how I could integrate this with my new Web Connection tools for VFP. It turns out the new templates mechanism in VS.NET is super easy to use and extremely handy in preconfiguring projects and pages.

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Ditch the SmartPhone Emulator in Visual Studio!
October 04, 2005 @ 12:31 am

The SmartPhone Emulator in VS.NET 2005 is a royal pain in the ass and I've taken to developing on my actual phone and using Pocket-Controller which yields a much more reasonable development experience.

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Atlas to carry the ASP.NET World - take 1
October 02, 2005 @ 12:54 pm

After playing with Atlas for a bit over the last couple of weeks here's my high level take on what I see in this initial release of ASP.NET's official AJAX framework.

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