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April 2004 - Posts

Compiler Options and you…A quick additional thought on Option Strict.

As an addendum to my recent entry on option strict….Option Strict doesn’t actually add anything magical to the compilation process. (At least, not that I know of, or have been able to find.) It simply requires you to be a more disciplined Read More...
Posted Friday, April 23, 2004 10:51 PM by xsherry | 0 Comments

Compiler options and you....Option Strict.

I pulled out an old solution a week or two ago because it was starting to need some maintenance work. I tinkered around, got it running on my local machine (it's four web apps and two class libraries) but I hadn't really done anything with it yet. Yesterday Read More...
Posted Thursday, April 22, 2004 8:34 PM by xsherry | 2 Comments

User Authentication in Classic ASP

User Authentication in Classic ASP Yesterday I was answering a question on the ASPMessageboard for a developer who was having trouble implementing the code in this article . I went to give it a look, and wasn't particular thrilled with the how the author Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 18, 2004 12:04 PM by xsherry | 5 Comments

I just got back....

From the inaugural meeting of the Plano .Net User Group . It was excellent....The house was packed (132 attendees, officially) and Proceed Technical Resources provided plenty of pizza for us all. Then, Rob Howard gave an outstanding presentation on ASP.Net Read More...
Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2004 9:10 PM by xsherry | 2 Comments

RSS Feed control

Awhile back I built a semi-reusable user control for consuming an RSS feed and displaying it on an ASP.Net page. I started with this 4GuysFromRolla.com article, and I recently updated it to use Scott Cate's implementation of Steve Smith's caching pattern Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 11, 2004 1:55 PM by xsherry | 0 Comments

Visual Studio 2005 and HTML reformatting.

One of the goals that Microsoft had for Visual Studio 2005 was to solve the HTML reformatting gremlins once and for all. Damian Barrow mentions in his blog a specific situation that is particular vexing. It can be reproduced (in Visual Studio 2003, with Read More...
Posted Sunday, April 04, 2004 12:37 PM by xsherry | 0 Comments

Putting your Windows Forms app in the system tray.

As a rule, I really don’t like applications that put icons in my system tray. (Actually, the proper term is the “notification area”, which is the term that I will use here forward.) However, from time to time, this capability can be Read More...
Posted Saturday, April 03, 2004 11:29 AM by xsherry | 0 Comments