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July 2005 - Posts

Validators for Windows Forms

Posted Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:51 PM by rjdudley
For those of you who don't know, those sweet validators we use in WebForms are not available in Windows Forms. Greg Duncan has a post today that shows how to use an ExtenderProvider to create a RegEx validator in the same vein as the web one. MVP Billy Read More...
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"How do you know how big to make a field in Crystal Reports?"

Posted Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:58 PM by rjdudley
Laying out a Crystal Report can be stressful, especially when you're guessing at how wide to make a field so string data fits. The problem is, string database fields (such as nvarchar) are measured in characters, but text felds are measured in inches Read More...
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Scotty is Beamed Up

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 6:12 PM by rjdudley
Sad day in Geek-land: LOS ANGELES - James Doohan, the burly chief engineer of the Starship Enterprise in the original "Star Trek" TV series and movies who responded to the command "Beam me up, Scotty," died Wednesday. He was 85. more: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20050720/ap_on_en_tv/obit_doohan Read More...
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OT: If You Really Loved Me, You Wouldn't Have Sent That To Me

Posted Wednesday, July 20, 2005 2:42 AM by rjdudley
Dear Parent-Spammers, Sibling-Spammers, Friend-Spammers, etc., If you really loved me, you wouldn't have every e-mail message on auto-forward. Instead, you'd evaluate the content of the message, maybe check out its claims, and discard the crap. To wit: Read More...
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DotNetNuke Error "System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Bad Data."

Posted Friday, July 15, 2005 3:36 AM by rjdudley
If you receive a Bad Data error when working with DotNetNuke, the problem seems to be with cookies. The solution is to clear the cookies from your computer, and that should take care of the problem. It worked for me when I encountered the error. There Read More...
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A Few Clarifications For Mike Drips

Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 9:29 PM by rjdudley
Leaving the easy ones aside, here's a few things Mike Drips might want to know before he writes another article : 1) Hello? Java and JavaScript are two separate technologies. JavaScript was independently developed by Netscape, Java was developed by Sun. Read More...
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Very Sweet Open Source DNN Calendar Module

Posted Tuesday, July 12, 2005 2:53 AM by rjdudley
I stumbled across a really sweet calendar module for DotNetNuke today--the AVCalendar from avanced.net . It's open source/donationware, and is the best DNN calendar module I've found yet. It supports multiple calendars, which you can arrange as master/child, Read More...
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Preventing Page Review after Logout with Forms Authentication

Posted Monday, July 11, 2005 1:01 PM by rjdudley
My latest ASP Alliance article has been published today: Preventing Page Review after Logout with Forms Authentication The inclusion of Forms Authentication in the .NET Framework has been a significant benefit to developers securing web-based applications. Read More...
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Review: Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals

Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 4:52 PM by rjdudley
My latest ASP Alliance article has been published: Review: Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals DotNetNuke is an exciting open-source portal application, full of features and potential. Unlocking the application's potential through custom modules and Read More...
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Sierra Wireless To Exit Voq Phone Business

Posted Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:06 AM by rjdudley
Sierra Wireless will no longer make Voq phones. Apparently, they weren't selling all that well, but their other products have been. That's a shame, because it's a very cool phone. More plans for phasing out support will be announced July 20 during their Read More...
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No Excuses To Be An Idiot Now...

Posted Tuesday, July 05, 2005 11:20 AM by rjdudley
Your IQ Is 115 Your Logical Intelligence is Above Average Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius Your Mathematical Intelligence is Above Average Your General Knowledge is Exceptional A Quick and Dirty IQ Test Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg Read More...
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1,000,000 Podcast Subscriptions Via New iTunes

Posted Friday, July 01, 2005 9:22 AM by rjdudley
Holy crow these things are popular! Apple's podcast directory includes some 3000 listings, and you can subscribe to any others you know about. In only a couple days, iTunes users subscribed to over one million podcast subscriptions: Apple Computer Inc. Read More...
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