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Saturday, August 27, 2005 1:43 AM

Register Controls via Web.Config

I had a conversation with ScottW about this about a year ago (almost exactly, from Iraq, no less), and yet I still keep forgetting this technique every time I need it. So I'm blogging it myself this time just to try to keep it in my (online) memory bank.
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Friday, August 26, 2005 11:18 PM

Two Kinds of Writing

If you don't know me, just click here . If you do know me, you should read this interesting article (ok, blog entry) by Seth Godin , marketing guru, about why we are overly verbose when we're trying to get information across to strangers, but typically
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Friday, August 26, 2005 4:34 PM

Scott Guthrie explains why web project files go away in 2.0

ScottGu write about the lack of web project files in VS2005: VS 2005 Web Project System: What is it and why did we do it? There have been some threads lately on other blogs about whether this helps or hurts enterprise developers, with the main counter-point
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Friday, August 26, 2005 4:12 PM

ASP.NET 2.0 Sample Themes

DotNetTreats has a collection of sample themes for ASP.NET 2.0 , along with some tips on how to work with themes. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, August 26, 2005 2:45 PM

More on SQL Server Query Notifications

I found this post by Rushi Desai on Invalidating cached result sets using SQL Server Query Notification . It's from March so it's a bit out of date, but it has some working ASP.NET sample code (well, working in Beta 2, I presume, but pretty close for
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Friday, August 26, 2005 2:41 PM

Looking for ConfigurationManager?

In .NET 2.0 there is a new configuration class called ConfigurationManager. It supercedes the ConfigurationSettings class that most .NET developers are familiar with today. When you create a website in VS2005 the ConfigurationManager class should be available
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Friday, August 26, 2005 12:36 PM

Working on Caching Presentation

I'm working on my caching presentation for Fall ASP.NET Connections and a few user group presentations. Those few who read my blog can enjoy some early looks at my research, which I'll detail here for my own future reference (and yours!). First of all
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Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:28 PM

Went to Drive-In Movies Last Night

I guess there aren't very many drive-in movie theaters in the country (or world) any more, so this is almost newsworthy. We saw Madagascar and Sky High. Madagascar was entertaining but not as good as I was expecting from the previews. The penguins were
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Monday, August 22, 2005 4:17 PM

VS2005 RC, TFS Beta 3 Coming in September

Soma announces Visual Studio 2005 RC1 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (TFS) Beta 3 will be released in September . The Beta 3 will feature a Go Live license, so organizations can immediately begin using the Team System features. Release
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Saturday, August 20, 2005 6:04 PM

Hidden Network Cards

I just moved a server and switched it from using a wireless card to a 10/100 Ethernet port and I kept getting this kind of message when I set it back up with its IP addresses: The IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX you have entered for this network adapter is
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Friday, August 19, 2005 2:45 PM

C# a Total Failure with no Future... ?

According to Calvin Austin , writing in JDJ (which, as a dead trees publication, you would expect to have better, more accurate information than some uninformed blogger or /.er, but not this time) has a recent column titled C#: Is the Party Over? In it,
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Friday, August 19, 2005 1:55 PM

Windows Vista Screenshots

Jason Gaylord has uploaded some Windows Vista Screenshots on WindowsAdvice.com . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, August 19, 2005 1:49 PM

Laptop Stands

I got a new laptop stand from my buddy Scott Cate last week which is making me much happier. I used to have to hunch over all day so I could look directly at my laptop screen, and I didn't want to spend $100+ for a manufacturer laptop stand (and I don't
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Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:06 PM

ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Toolkit Available

ScottGu announced the availability of the ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Toolkit a couple of days ago -- I just saw it. The toolkit provides a full source code implementation of how to build your own providers for Membership, Role Management, Health Monitoring,
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Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:02 PM

Konfabulator

Cindy pointed me to Konfabulator last week , and I had a chance to download it and set it up a couple of days ago. It's pretty slick. They were recently bought by Yahoo! and now the whole thing is free (I guess it used to cost $40 or something). Basically
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Thursday, August 04, 2005 12:39 PM

AJAX Controls - Dart's LiveControls Reviewed

I've had a chance to work with Dart's suite of AJAX-style LiveControls , and posted a review up on AspAlliance.com . If you're interested in adding AJAX capabilities to your ASP.NET applications, but don't want to have to write a lot of code (especially
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Monday, August 01, 2005 1:04 PM

ASP.NET Validation Controls - Common Problems and Fixes

Peter Blum has an article today on AspAlliance.com that addresses some common problems with the built-in ASP.NET validation controls. It's definitely worth a read if you're using these controls, or want to learn more about them: Solving the Challenges
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Monday, August 01, 2005 12:53 PM

ASP.NET Development Helper Browser Plugin

I'm a bit late, but I just discovered Nikhil's ASP.NET Development Helper Browser Plugin (with screenshots). Downloading it and will have to play with it next chance I get. From the screenshots it looks very cool, especially the ability to view the current
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