February 2007 - Posts
I will be speaking twice at the Roanoke Valley Code Camp this Saturday, March 3rd. My topics are Search Engine Optimization for ASP.NET and Building a Custom SiteMap Provider . Ashton Hobbs and Andy Leonard will also be presenting. Robin has been working
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Policy Injection Application Block - New Member of the Pattern & Practices Enterprise Library Time Saving Templates for Office 2007 - Podcasts that caught my fancy: Michelle Leroux Bustamonte on DotNetRocks way back in January 2003. She talks about
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I love to talk shop with fellow .NET developers and other platforms as well. I get a lot out of sharing what each of us are doing and how we do it. I also love to listen to .NETRocks , Hansel Minutes and the ASP.NET Podcast because it gives me some insight
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I am going to start a new thing. Think of it as my Favorites List, but on my blog instead of my browser. It seems like every day I come across some great sites, but I rarely if every bookmark anything in a browser. I use around 3-4 computers each week
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I have been asked to be a presenter at the Feb 28th .NET University here in Raleigh. I will be presenting Card Spaces, part of the .NET 3.0 framework. I think Card Spaces is a great new feature for secure authentication. Another plus is I can start forgetting
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I have fallen in love with Regular Expressions over the past few months. Over the weekend I replaced some moderately complicated parsing code on an older application with a Regular Expression and found another quick use for one this morning, extracting a currency value.
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The annual Spring Code Camp in the Northern Virginia area has been announced. It will be help on April 14, not sure where. Last year it was in Reston VA. Ironically I was in DC the day before, but had a family thing beyond it the next day so I could not
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Looks like we have an update to SQL Server 2005, Service Pack 2 has not been released. Key features are Vista and Office 2007 compatability. Other items include Data-Mining, Reporting and Analysis Services, Data Compression, Management Services and Interoperability
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http://blogs.msdn.com/ron_cundiff/archive/2007/02/15/wpf-e-february-2007-ctp-released.aspx . This is a little outdated, and I thought I might have some time to play with WPF/e before now, but oh well. Maybe next month I will spend a Saturday see what
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I decided when I started this Blog I was going to use Community Server as the application. Why not it would be free and it a really well done piece of code. Plus Telligent does make money selling commercial licenses and provides top notch support. The
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I see the question from time to time on ASP.NET related forums and message board quite often asking what the difference is between Response.Redirect and Server.Transfer . I remember about four years ago when I too was pondering this question and where
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Wow! Another Code Camp! I guess with all the new technologies hitting the .NETOSpehere it is bound to happen. Richmond Code Camp will follow the Roanoke Code Camp (March 3rd) on April 28th. The camp will be again held at the ECPI in Northwest Richmond.
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I had a request for the Copyright control in C#. Of course the compiled control will work with any .NET langauge, but I can do C# too, so here you go: using System; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Drawing.Design; using System.Security.Permissions;
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With all the cool new things going on in the .NET space some of the fundamental tings can get lost on us. Over the past few months I have decided to tackle what I think is sort of a forgotten aspect of ASP.NET and that is creating Web Controls. When I
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