February 2006 - Posts
Isn't the Internet great? Something happened the other day to remind me of my master's work 10 years ago. To my surpise the library at NC State has a pretty good online search and within a couple of clicks I was on my Thesis. Pretty exciting, to me at least.
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I get this error from time to time and I must admint is is now a legacy bug I propogated through my first Code Smith templates to generate my businesss logic. The problem is a simple one to overcome.
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Last summer I started using Infragistics controls to help me build cooler sites. One thing I did not count on was the severe lack of useful documentation and tutorials provided by Infragisitcs on using their tools. For example I have not even begun to play with the DataGrid and Chart included with the control suite.
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One thing I have learned in my ten plus years of building web sites is that data needs to be valid. If it is not valid, then the application could just blow up and your client will be mad at you/me. In those ten years I have tried many, many things to make sure users put the right type of data in the fields we provide them. Credit Cards, Phone Numbers, Money, you get the idea. No matter what I do, they seem to somehow find a way to get past the javascript, specialized control, etc.
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This software package completely ROCKS! As the tagline says it is much more than a bug tracker. It comes with three, count them, three user clients (Smart Client, Web and Visual Studio Add-In). It also has a client portal, so those enaggy customers can login, post unrealistic requests and see that, no you have not had time to get to their minor request they made 5 minutes ago.
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This will have to be part one of two entries. I am about to start migrating a few rather large DotNetNuke sites to ASP.NET 2.0 and I want to make sure that any links people have to the pages are handled corrrectly. The best way I think to do this is the set up a 310 Redirect handler
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OK this has nothing to do with Programming ASP.NET, but I think this is something we can help out with. If you are following the Olympics and I am a sucker for them, you have heard about Grandma Luge . I have to say I feel pretty bad for Anne Abernathy
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One thing that is definately going right is Code Smith. I do not know what I would do without my meager templates that generate the basic SQL CRUD, Business Logic and fundamental pages for my sites.
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I have not had much time to investigate the use of AJAX yet, I like what I see, but have not done anything with it yet. Anyway, 'Atlas' is a package that offers a set of libraries to integrate AJAX functionality to your asp.net web sites. It looks like a new version is available for Visual Studio 2005.
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For those of you who really, really gotta have Web Projects for Visual Studio 2005 there is a new release, Beta 2 available now.
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I remember back in High School when Jolt Cola (which by the way is now in a gum form) was introduced. Remember twice the sugar and caffeiene. I remember being on my second data with a girlfriend that year and we thought we would be daring and each get one as we went out that night. Trust me we stayed awake during that movie!
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You know how you read through many books and now Blogs trying to find nuggets, but often than not you just want to find the go to place for good solid reference? Well it seems like I find that each time the technology is interated, like now to .NET 2.0. I think I latched on pretty early to my GoTo book, Professional ASP.NET 2.0 from Wrox.
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One of the great new features of Visual Studio 2005 is the ability to create a custom project template. What this means, for me at least, is I can create a typical application and export it in its entirity as a Visual Studio project.
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Another URL Mapping with Regular Expressions Article.
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URLMapping or URL Rewriting as is is sometimes called, is very important to make your site people and search engine friendly. Well ASP.NET 2.0 is setup to URLMAP and here is some info on URLMApping with Regular Expressions.
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Anyway, I wanted to get back into the swing of my BLOG today and thought I would remind everyone in the Raleigh-Durham area that TRINUG will be having our main meeting this Wednesday. Kate Gregory will be presenting Click Once Deployment. You can find more information on this Smart Client Presentation here.
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