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July 2006 - Posts

New Expression Web Designer Community

Posted Thursday, July 20, 2006 9:48 PM by rjdudley
Thomas Brunt, who runs one of the best FrontPage Webmaster sites, has started a site dedicated to the new Expression Web Designer at http://www.firstexpression.com/ . The site is just getting started, but there’s a large community from his other Read More...
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July BADNUG Meeting: Custom Server Controls, Part 2

Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:52 PM by rjdudley
Join us as Tony Casale of Comunifax presents the second half of his talk on Custom Server Controls in ASP.NET 2.0. In the first half of Tony's talk, we saw how powerful custom server controls are, and how finely we can control output and formatting. This Read More...
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Summer Slam V

Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 7:36 PM by rjdudley
Developers, leave your code at the office; DBAs, forget Oracle and SQL for one night; CIOs, you can worry about the information technology audit tomorrow. It's time for Pittsburgh user groups to unite! For the fifth consecutive year the summer socials Read More...
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ASP.NET 2.0 UrlRewriting Fix

Posted Tuesday, July 18, 2006 5:26 PM by rjdudley
There is a bug in the URL Rewriting engine of ASP.NET 2.0 which leads to search engines dropping (or not indexing) sites using URL Rewriting. While not specific to Community Server, it maniftested itself more so in CS communities at first. Here, Scott Read More...
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Free Sharpcast Sync Service: One to Watch

Posted Thursday, July 13, 2006 12:43 PM by rjdudley
Walt Mossberg has a review today of Sharpcast sync service. What sets this service apart is that no only will it sync with PCs, it will sync with your cell phone. Specifically, Walt used a Treo 700w for his tests. Now, a small Silicon Valley start-up Read More...
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What Happpens When You Remote Wipe a Treo 700w?

Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 11:08 AM by rjdudley
When you install the MSFP on your Treo 700w, you can use Exchange 2003 SP2 to enforce security policies on the PDA functions. One policy includes an access PIN, which locks the phone after a certain period of inactivity (5 min doesn't seem bad in testing, Read More...
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Virtual PC 2004 SP1 now free (VPC 2007 apparently will be also)

Posted Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:42 AM by rjdudley
Kevin Remde is reporting that as of 9am PST (noon Eastern), VPC 2004 SP1 will be released free of charge: Now, like Virtual Server 2005 R2, you can download and use Virtual PC 2004 (SP1 version) for free. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg Read More...
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First Look: XMod for DotNetNuke

Posted Tuesday, July 11, 2006 6:51 AM by rjdudley
After working with XMod for about an hour and a half last night, I’m of the opinion that 90% of the modules available on Snowcovered.com can pack their bags and go home. The 90 minutes is rougly the time from purchase, through installation, to finishing Read More...
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TestDriven.NET Enterprise & Professional

Posted Monday, July 10, 2006 4:09 PM by rjdudley
In order to help turn TestDriven.NET from a hobby into somethig that pays the bills, Jamie has released a Professional and Enterprise version of TestDriven.net. There's still a free version, non-crippled and non-nag, but he asks if you regularly use TestDriven.NET Read More...
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Comments on "DotNetNuke and SharePoint, part deux"

Posted Friday, July 07, 2006 11:23 AM by rjdudley
Bil Simser responded to Shaun Walker's DNN vs. Sharepoint Feature Matrix , and for some reason I can't get the Submit button to work on Bil's blog. So I'm posting my comments here. Two points to add to Bil's great list: 1) Unless there have been some Read More...
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Remote Web Administration Tool

Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 1:34 PM by rjdudley
Recently, a question came up in the ASP.NET security forums about the lack of a remote membership/role configuration tool in ASP.NET 2.0. Being able to remotely manage users is important in pretty much any site where you have users. Fortunately, QualityData Read More...
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URL Rewrite Issue in ASP.NET 2.0 (Serious Effects Upon Community Server)

Posted Thursday, July 06, 2006 11:13 AM by rjdudley
The result of the problem is that search engines won't index the content on your Community Server based site. That's bad if you're counting on being found in the SEs. The problem appears to be a bug (or a feature nobody wants) in the URL Rewriting part Read More...
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Use Web Deployment Projects To Replace Web.config Sections

Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:57 AM by rjdudley
In a comment to my Web Application Settings in ASP.NET 2.0 article, I was asked about overriding default web.config values by replacing external files using the file attribute, as he could in .NET 1.1. The web.config has several new sections, and none Read More...
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Review: The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law

Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 9:18 AM by rjdudley
This one is an oldie (in Internet terms) but a goodie. Even though it was published in 2002, The GigaLaw Guide to Internet Law is still an extremely valuable resource today. Written by Doug Isenberg, who founded GigaLaw.com , an Internet site consolidating Read More...
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