September 2006 - Posts
I am always looking for good references on the net and one of the things I tend to have problems with is dealing for date formatting. Katy Kam has a great entry on her blog which should serve as a great reference for Date formatting in .NET.
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Get ready for a long list of large affordable USB drives as well as Window's Vista's Ready Boost feature.
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I like to find sample code ot help me solve my problems, who doesn't? Often I find good C# code and I prefer VB.NET, so going through and rewriting the code can be tedious. I have long used Alex Lowe's converter, but I think it leaves a few holes and may not have been updated for 2.0. I think this was just developed as an example of advance reflection capabilities anyway.
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The Good News is that we have Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio available in Beta (so you are on your own with that :>). The bad news is that Visual Studio 2005 will only work, and then with specific problems. Somasegar expalins this a little bit:
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I think every developer/team should have a good set of utility functions to help make code cleaner and easier to maintain. Typicaly these are methods that probably should be in the core framework for us to use, but somehow the framework team never got around to it. The first method I am going to talk about is one I use multiple times on every site and often multiple times on any given page, SelectListControlItem.
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Now this is what I am talking about, a great use of AJAX with a progress bar. I found it on ScottGu's blog. He even has some visuals on his site. The controls are part of the Atlas Toolkit. I seriously hope I have some weekend time to play with these controls.
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I am excited to announce that I will be making two presenations at the October 7th Richmond Code camp. I will be talking about how to optimize ASP.NET sites for better peromance and URLRewriting.
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I came across this lengthy Blog by Mark Gabarra with all sorts of entries about .NET 3.0 installation issues and how to resolve them. I still plan on making some entries about .NET 3.0 here shortly.
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Quick method to set multiple home pages in IE 7.
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ASP.NET comes with a great set of validation controls, which can be invaluable to any developer wanting to maintain the integrity of their application. If you do not use validation controls you really need to start incorporating them into your application ASAP. One validation control that I rarely ever see used is the ValidationSummary control.
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I found this great video about Microsoft Developers this morning and knew I had to share it. Microsoft developer Pain. Just think about your end users and their frustrations with your code as you develop.
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WOW, less than a year after .NET 2.0 was released to production we are getting .NET 3.0 CTP release. I have not downloaded yet, give me a few minutes, so I can't really give you any real feedback. But you can grab a copy from here.
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