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Friday, February 27, 2004 4:20 AM

InfoPath 2003 Hacking - Change XSN Location; DB Source

I built a handy InfoPath form to do some data entry for the AspAlliance Ad Network back when it was still in beta over the summer of 2003. In December, I moved my database server to a dedicated box (with new connection string settings), and around that
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Thursday, February 26, 2004 10:54 PM

Vault Thoughts

Xander Sherry has a new blog and is wondering why people like Vault . Here's my $.03. 1) It's all .NET. I know that shouldn't really matter to me as long as it does what it says it does, but i like that. 2) It's DB-based, so it won't get corrupted or
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Thursday, February 26, 2004 1:04 AM

I love InfoPath, but it doesn't use .NET... until now

Check it out -- the InfoPath 2003 Toolkit for VS.NET was released a few days ago. My biggest gripe about InfoPath is that it relies on VBScript/JavaScript and ADO for its customization (e.g. anything outside the norm you want it to do). Well, according
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:35 PM

Outlook 2003 Calendar Living In The Past

There's probably a way to fix this - I'm hoping someone will tell me. I have Outlook 2003. I have the calendar set up to default to Month view. However, it seems to always want to show me a lot of stuff in the past. It might just be that it is showing
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Monday, February 23, 2004 3:17 PM

Latest TDD Tool in the NFoo series: NCover

Everybody's talking about it, it seems ( Jonathan Cogley , Jeff Key , hey, that's everybody, right?). NCover ( GDN , SF ) is a new tool that analyzes source code and unit tests to provide information about test coverage -- that is, how much of your code
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Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:47 AM

Paired Programming Analysis by the Menlo Software Factory

Finally subscribed to Jonathan Cogley's blog and found this gem on Paired Programming: http://www.menloinstitute.com/freestuff/whitepapers/pairedprogramming_qanda.htm As JC notes, view the PDF not just the HTML, since it includes some pictures of how
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:41 PM

ASP.NET Resource Kit Available

Download the ASP.NET Resource Kit and check it out. It's 131MB (you can also order the CD, which I imagine will probably come with MSDN or something at some point). It's only become available for download within the hour and I'm at 5% as I write this,
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 12:05 AM

Whidbey Overview Talk in South Bend Went Pretty Well

I spoke to about a dozen folks at the MADNUG user group this evening about Whidbey. Borrowing heavily from Scott Guthrie's slide/demo pack that he has shown on several occasions, I did a 'whirlwind tour' of the new features that are coming. Some of the
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:41 PM

Speaking in Redmond April 5th

I'll be speaking in Redmond on April 5th at the .NET Developers Association user group, on Microsoft campus. Thanks to Carl Prothman for organizing the event and inviting me. I'll be in town for Microsoft's MVP Summit, which should be a lot of fun. I'm
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:23 PM

Auto-Updating Cache Entries

As I posted here , I'm interested in a feature of the ASP.NET Cache engine that isn't there today, and it sounds like won't be there in Whidbey. To wit, I'd like to be able to throw something in the cache and have it periodically update itself in an offline
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 9:08 PM

Speaking in South Bend, IN

I'll be speaking at the Michiana Area .NET Users Group (MADNUG) this Tuesday, February 17th, about Whidbey (ASP.NET / VS.NET v2). The presentation will essentially be a 'whirlwind tour' of many of the most exciting new features in Whidbey, with the general
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 6:32 PM

SourceGear Vault 2.0 Released - And Price Reduced!

http://software.ericsink.com/vault2_pricing.html Eric Sink of SourceGear talks about why they've opted to drop their prices - mostly they've adopted a very reasonable volume licensing scheme which I like a lot better than their previous $400/user no-matter-how-many
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Thursday, February 12, 2004 3:01 PM

Home From Vermont and Montreal

Today was my first day back home from my trip to Vermont and Montreal to speak at user groups. I've posted a few pictures in my gallery . I flew in and out of Burlington, VT, which is a tiny little international airport. I got in Saturday, saw some of
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:35 PM

Paul Vick Top 10 Rules of Performance

I was just referred to this by Darren Neimke . It's a great top 10 list of things to do/not to do when you're trying to increase the performance of an application. Being a scalability and performance kind of guy, I really enjoyed the read, and must blog
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Tuesday, February 03, 2004 3:08 PM

Code Katas

I found an interesting page I haven't had a chance to really play with yet, but I'm posting it here so I can find it later. I'll comment more when I have a chance to actually go through some of these katas. PragDave's Code Kata Share this post: email
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Monday, February 02, 2004 6:20 PM

Speaking in Montreal, Canada

I'll be speaking at the Montreal .NET User Group hosted by Guy Barrette next Tuesday February 10th on ASP.NET Caching. Stop by if you're in the area. It will be downtown at the IBM building on the 19th floor, and starts at 6:30pm. Share this post: email
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Monday, February 02, 2004 6:17 PM

Speaking in Vermont

I'll be speaking at the Vermont .NET User Group on Caching in ASP.NET next Monday night, February 9th, 2004. If you're in the area, stop by and say hi. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Monday, February 02, 2004 2:31 PM

Cleveland DevDays - I'll Be There

If you're in the Cleveland area, I encourage you to sign up now for the Cleveland DevDays event, happening on Wednesday, March 10th. I'll be presenting there on some of the fundamentals of web-application security (in the Web Development track, obviously),
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Monday, February 02, 2004 1:01 PM

VS.NET: ASP.NET Projects as Class Library Projects

http://staff.develop.com/onion/Samples/aspdotnet_without_web_projects.htm Excerpt: The Web Project wizard in Visual Studio .NET is convenient for creating quick ASP.NET applications on your local machine, but in an effort to simplify your life, it also
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Monday, February 02, 2004 5:06 AM

ASP.NET Whidbey Caching Features - Where's the Self-Renewing Feature?

One new feature Whidbey supports is custom CacheDependencies. Simply inherit from CacheDependency and NotifyDependencyChanged() whenever you want the cache to be invalidated -- very simple. An old feature that has been around since 1.0 is the CacheItemRemovedCallback.
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