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March 2005 - Posts

High Court Rules Telecommuter Living Out Of State Owes Full New York Taxes

Posted Wednesday, March 30, 2005 12:47 PM by rjdudley
From the “uncool item of the day” file A telecommuter who lives out of state while working by computer for a New York employer must pay New York tax on his full income, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday in a case that could have wide Read More...
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Excel XML Workbook Library and Code Generator

Posted Tuesday, March 29, 2005 9:22 AM by rjdudley
Carlos Aguilar Mares has a recent update for his free ExcelXmlWriter library. For those of you who aren't familiar: This library allows you to generate Excel Workbooks using XML, it is built 100% in C# and does not requires Excel installed at all to generate Read More...
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Crystal Licensing Information For Web Developers

Posted Monday, March 28, 2005 2:52 PM by rjdudley
Eric Landes has a new article regarding Crystal Licensing for Web Developers which cuts through the Business Objects legal-ese pretty well. There are a few points I could add also: >I’m not sure how that impacts web farms This is a moot point Read More...
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ASP.NET Forums Migrated to Community Server

Posted Monday, March 28, 2005 9:59 AM by rjdudley
The ASP.NET team seems to have hidden a big Easter Egg for us over the weekend--ASP.NET forums are now powered by Community Server. Sweet! Great job, and thanks ASP.NET team! [edit 2005-03-29] The new link is http://forums.asp.net . Share this post: email Read More...
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Regions Add-In Updated

Posted Monday, March 21, 2005 11:03 AM by rjdudley
One of my favorite add-ins for Visual Studio is the Regions Add-In , and it's recently (well, Feb 11 anyway) been updated to version 2. The new version adds a region explorer, a list of region names (”Templates” as they're called), and some Read More...
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Open-source programmer alleges Linux misuse (this is a little scary)

Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 11:30 AM by rjdudley
Apparently this guy has a bit of an agenda, but it's one good reason to be extremely careful to know what OS license something is released under, and what OS license you release projects under. This did could potentially clean up some big dough, and the Read More...
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Forms Authentication - Redirect User to Another Page

Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005 8:44 AM by rjdudley
<note 2006-10-13> This post was written for ASP.NET 1.*. There were some changes in ASP.NET 2.0 which make this information unnecessary. If you're using ASP.NET 2.0, skip this post. </note> This question comes up several times a week on Read More...
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Crystal Reports .NET Error - "Access to report file denied. Another program may be using it."

Posted Tuesday, March 15, 2005 12:01 PM by rjdudley
From the been there, done that, beat my head against the wall until I figured it out file: This is a very misleading error message, and usually has nothing to do with another program. The actual filename will differ based on your configuration, but the Read More...
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"Access to the path 'C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\....tmp' is denied" When Exporting From Crystal Reports .NET

Posted Monday, March 14, 2005 12:50 PM by rjdudley
If you are exporting a Crystal Reports .NET report, and you get the following error (the filename in the error message will change with each attempt): Access to the path "C:\WINDOWS\TEMP\export_6d7fb065-43ca-4ff3-a569-f55b2f472e70.tmp" is denied. you Read More...
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Exporting and Sending Crystal Reports .NET Reports to the Client Browser

Posted Monday, March 14, 2005 9:07 AM by rjdudley
There are two simple ways to send a Crystal Report to the client's browser in ASP.NET. One uses the ExportOptions properties of a ReportDocument to set where a file should be saved, and then the Export() method to save the report file. The second method Read More...
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Another .NET Convert - CodeNotes.com

Posted Sunday, March 13, 2005 4:28 PM by rjdudley
Bottom line, companies are finding .NET to be cheaper and more flexible than J2EE. The latest example I stumpled across is CodeNotes.com , who had this to say about their conversion from J2EE: First, it should be said that there was absolutely nothing Read More...
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Where to Put EntLib DAAB Config Info

Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 2:19 PM by rjdudley
David Hayden has a nice post about the Enterprise Library - Data Access Application Block (DAAB) - Patterns and Practices . My bugaboo with the EntLib DAAB has been the configuration files. In one solution, I have the UI in a web project, and the DAL/CBO Read More...
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How I Made Windows Authentication and Forms Authentication Work Together

Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:33 AM by rjdudley
In response to my blog post Using Forms Authentication with Windows Authentication ("Mixed Mode") , I'm often asked how I made this work. I used two time-honored development methods to do so: Copied someone else's idea (thanks, Paul!) Cheat For the most Read More...
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Using Forms Authentication with Windows Authentication ("Mixed Mode")

Posted Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:04 AM by rjdudley
[note: this entry was originally posted on DotNetJunkies.com. Since it invites a lot of comments, I had to repost it here, where it can receive comments and I don't get buried in blog spam.] Here are a couple of references for mixing Forms Authentication Read More...
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April BADNUG Meeting

Posted Tuesday, March 08, 2005 10:09 AM by rjdudley
The Butler (PA) Area Dot Net User Group will have the follownig topics as its April meeting: Tool of the Month (“Use one, don't be one“) Brad West from Spang & Co. will present on the SQL Web Data Administrator. This is a free tool released Read More...
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Exporting >64K Rows to Excel

Posted Monday, March 07, 2005 9:22 AM by rjdudley
This comment was left on my “ Exporting to Excel in Crystal Reports .NET - Perfect Excel Exports ” article on ASPAlliance.com : How do we trap max row length error that excel gives when we export report from anything to excel? excel allows Read More...
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HTML Tidy in View Source - Cool FireFox Extension

Posted Tuesday, March 01, 2005 3:52 PM by rjdudley
I'm getting addicted to the extensions in FireFox. One of my new favorites is the HTML Validator , which is based on HTML Tidy. When you View Source on a page, an HTML validator window is added to the view, and the HTML is validated. Errors are listed Read More...
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