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April 2003 - Posts

Saturday, April 26, 2003 1:43 AM

VS.NET Component-derived Peeve

I noticed last night that I have a file, just a plain old class file that the project file keeps deciding has a subtype of Component not Code. Even when I go in and manually change it, it changes it back the next time I reload the project, so there must
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Friday, April 25, 2003 5:25 AM

.netWire Shorting Out?

Maybe it's just me but what's going on over at .netWire (DNW)? I mean this in a constructive way, but the site's publication seems to have gotten a lot more sporadic. It seems to only update in fits and starts, as I'm looking at it right now, it hasn't
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Thursday, April 24, 2003 6:56 PM

Re: Aggregator as archives, not only as instant readers

Dave Winer said it so it must be wrong. Actually in this case, he most certainly is.I'm not exactly sure how anyone can say "aggregators should not organize news by where items came from, just present the news in reverse chronologic order"--and still
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Thursday, April 24, 2003 5:13 PM

Chandler 0.1

I read elsewhere that Chandler's initial beta release was nothing to get too excited about. Then I see others getting excited. So I gave it 10 minutes. In a nutshell, pretty underwhelming. I don't really know what the goal of the release was per se, maybe
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Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:15 PM

I'm going to do something lame in a few days

I kicked myself when I realized I was going to want to change my permalink structure in the near future, very bad form. The issue at hand is IIS6 vs 5 really. My development machine is still XP, I'll probably repave it to W2K3 Server some rainy Saturday
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Thursday, April 24, 2003 4:01 PM

Enterprise Solution Patterns Using Microsoft .NET

MSDN good stuff here, more exciting than developer centers to me. I just scanned the ASP.NET patterns in section three, decent coverage. Fix the DTO implementation images hehe. I feel like I'm getting more interesting things out of MSDN lately. Not that
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003 11:28 AM

Feedback Halftime

Well, it needs some major refactoring, but the background queue for processing outbound autodiscovery, trackback and ping back looks like it's working against some of the known examples. I replaced a lot of System.Diagnostics calls with log4net earlier,
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003 10:25 AM

Testing trackback/pingback autodiscovery

Pingback test to Sam. Okay, that worked. Changed code to pick up trackback over pingback for pages with both, this repost should trackback.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2003 4:47 AM

More caching goodness down the road

Rob Howard checks in ahead of his BillG review on caching tomorrow. It was interesting/tantalizing to me that a.) caching is going to get even better beyond what's already available in System.Web.Caching and b.) that the caching strategy is being pursued
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 1:44 PM

Two VS.NET ASP.NET tweaks

I sent two items to Marcie last week in response to two of her issues with VS.NET. Both are simple, one's a previous post, one's a new one:To turn off Grid mode for ASP.NET layout forever do this. (And no, I don't use the designer much myself, but just
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Tuesday, April 22, 2003 1:43 AM

IS .NET ON THE WAY OUT?

This piece of commentary was included in the .NET Update from Winnetmag.com last week. I'm friends with Paul but haven't spoken to him about his take just yet--but naturally it has an ominous ring to it. The question I would pose to Paul, his sources
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Thursday, April 17, 2003 11:31 PM

XHTML Entities

I had a similar problem the other day when I unwittingly threw an ampersand in a link's querystring and proceeded to blow up my rss feed. Nice work. Anyway, I've only tested this on my exceedingly simple html posts and I think it might need a lock on
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Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:36 AM

It's Official

.NET is now totally validated. All of the hard work by the folks of Redmond has paid off.The Chubb Institute is advertising .NET training in their late-night commercials now.
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Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:57 AM

Horse Good, Buggy Good. Internet Bad.

The Pew Internet Life survey was released again today. I think the notion that the growth of internet adoption in the US has flattened out combined with the statistics on the conscientious objectors out there were somewhat surprising. The economic and
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003 9:45 PM

EvnDTE is cool. Then again, it's not totally cool.

I was mucking around last night on an add-in I wrote a while ago to automate some of the repetitive things that VA.NET and other bits don't handle. In this case I continue to search for something that lets me do something along the lines of specifying
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Wednesday, April 16, 2003 1:20 AM

.NET Developers Journal - April Issue Downloadable

I haven't checked it out yet, but you can download the April issue in PDF form.
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Saturday, April 12, 2003 10:05 AM

CodeSmart

Note: Genius-like, I posted this to my dev server instead of the live one last night. Brilliante. I looked at CodeSmart from AxTools a bit last night. Pretty nice, a little candy-ish, I installed it a while ago and never really used it on my primary
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Saturday, April 12, 2003 9:45 AM

.NET DJ Reader's Choice awards - Pffft

I checked out .NET Developer's Journal the other day when Sam Gentile mentioned he'd had his first printed piece published there. The quality of development mags tends to run the full spectrum, so I like to see one and flip through it before subscribing.
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Saturday, April 12, 2003 9:32 AM

Mort's world

The Morts will inherit the earth. So it is written. In thousands of lines of unwieldy code with a shelf life somewhere between that of J-Lo's current spouse and heartland sushi. It's out there, man is it out there. Come to think of it, I haven't seen
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Friday, April 11, 2003 8:33 PM

Rob Howard emerges

You gotta love it when Rob posts, it's typically a backlog of like 4 mos. of information. Of interest here were the screenshots of the revised ASP.NET forums... which I'll go out on a limb an say is one of the few good ASP.NET samples coming from the
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Friday, April 11, 2003 9:59 AM

Secure barcodes anyone?

Oh those crazy barcode thievin' pranksters.
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Friday, April 11, 2003 9:50 AM

VS.NET 1.1

Well the MSDN images came down a lot easier than the actual VS.NET installer did. Honestly, I'm only semi-excited because the final beta has been so stable and I haven't used 1.0 since late last year. The redist. build number doesn't look like it changed
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Tuesday, April 08, 2003 10:00 AM

Three app-specific APIs do not a standard not make

After typing the title, I was tempted to add a category called duh just for this post. I think I'm done with XML-RPC for a bit on BooBlog. It works well enough to support w.bloggar's interpretation of what API it should use to talk to your blog in various
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Friday, April 04, 2003 10:57 PM

Change WebForm's pageLayout to Flow forever

I don't know who likes Grid layout by default, I'm not sure I even like Designer as the default/initial view for WebForms. You can change this setting in the project's properties dialog. Which I think I've now done a thousand times (or so it seems).Silly
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Friday, April 04, 2003 7:31 AM

Standard Date Formats, TimeZones

Gudge writes: So, if I'd looked at the docs for System.DateTime.ToString I'd have realised that it implements the RFC822 format. All I needed to do was pass "r" as the parameter to ToString. So my code now does that, or will do when it props. And it includes
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Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:14 AM

I reverted to non-css positioning

It's not as satisfying as doing it with pure css but I cheated and added a one row two-col html table to the main page div for this layout. I told myself it didn't make me dirty. I took a bubble bath. I can make nice liquid css layouts, they just seem
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Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:09 AM

blogger.getRecentPosts

File under annoying actually. w.blogger, love you though I may, seems to be having an issue calling metaWeblog.getRecentPosts the first time it has connected to an existing blog. If I go to account settings and reload the blog list, it can get existing
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Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:55 AM

VS IDE shortcuts

This popped out with about a hundred other MSDN rss items: MSDN TV on IDE shortcuts.I learned a couple new things.1. You can set up your own comment task tokens. I had been using TODO and HACK pretty regularly, and started adding my own REFACTOR and DEP
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Wednesday, April 02, 2003 6:54 AM

Boo!

I wanted to give prevalence layers--specifically Bamboo.NET--a better chance to win me over from the I-Loves-Me-Nothing-But-SQL camp. I figured I really needed to do more than something totally trivial to do give it a fair test drive. So I did what everyone
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