March 2006 - Posts
This may seem like a simple question with a simple answer, How to Register a Domain Name, but it never ceases to amaze me how many business owners, marketers and developers do not know the fundamentals of domain registration. This is a very simple but extremely important step in the development of a successful web site. I hope this helps you detertim some key things to look for in a domain registrar, and key peices that need to be in place to maintain ownership of your domain.
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I had never really utilized a powerful feature built into the .NET framework, custom Collection Classes. I decided to investigate their use recently by creating some custom classes from the CollectionBase Object.
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This morning I was setting up a new ASP.NET 2.0 site in my production IIS 6.0 web server. I thought I had set the web site to use its own Application Pool and set the ASP.NET version to 2.0. To my surpse that was not the case and used the IIS Status Codes to troublshoot the issues that ensued.
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I hit a snag this mroning trying to work on a site that accesses a remote third party SQL Server. I was trying to debug a the code to track down an error. To my surprise I kept throwing a different exception and at a different location in the code when I debuged.
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The new ASP.NET 2.0 menu control is pretty good, and fairly easy to work with. The concept of a site map provider is good too. Unfortunately the provider has some flaws in the design that will ever keep it from being used on any of our production sites.
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So I finally got around to installing IE 7 yesterday. I had tried to install it on the old machine a few times, but it kept getting and error with a newsreader dll and back out of the install each time. I found a few others on the messageboards with that
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I am real excited about Visual Studio 2005, there are so many great new features, such as code snipets, cleaner interface, more controls, the ability to actually inherit classes for your pages and not loose the UI. I could go on all day, and hopefully cover them in the blog as I go forward.
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I just found this free offer from Microsoft for a free 16 MB USB Drive. All you have to do is fill out a quick 4 question survey. I know it is only 16MB, but hey it is Free!
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