ASP.NET Resources

November 2005

Microsoft AntiSpyware Extended Until July 31, 2006

I’ve been using Microsoft® Windows AntiSpyware (Beta) for several months now and have been very pleased with it. I like it way better than nasty Norton and McAfee. It is quiet and not too intrusive. If you are a control freak, it gives you a lot of options to customize what should be monitored. Otherwise, default settings of agents—Internet Agents, System Agents and Application Agents—work just fine.

11/29/2005 |

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Types of Business People In Technology

Below is an excerpt from the fascinating book Less Is More by Jason Jennings on types of people you run into in the IT business.

11/27/2005 |

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ASP.NET and XHTML

An MSDN article ASP.NET and XHTML talks about conformance of server controls with XHTML, markup validation, changes to rendering logic between HTML and XHTML, changing page MIME type, and other interesting points.

11/27/2005 |

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That Pesky Document Schema Picker: Part II

Back in May we had a heated discussion over the document type picker in Visual Studio 2005 (beta 2 at that time). I cranked out a copy of the now released VS2005 and noticed that the picker did not change one bit. To my disappointment the changes I expected didn’t happen.

11/24/2005 |

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Overview of Codezone.com

The official launch of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 in New York City went very well. That was one big crowd of attendees! I had a chance to meet Trisha Lacey from Microsoft who was there to promote Codezone.com—a site for the developer community, which debuted back in June. When you hear of yet another site which aggregates blogs, local news, forums and what not it’s easy enough to dismiss it, but I think Codezone is on to something interesting.

11/22/2005 |

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Thank the Disney UK Store

While I had my head in code over the past few weeks, I missed a revolt against the Disney UK Store (hat tip to Ryan Williams). Molly has already lashed them for their shameful redesign, and Andy Clarke took a screen shot where you can see them selling… Spacer gifs? Can I have a pound of those to go, please?

11/21/2005 |

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Client vs. Developer Wars

Newfangled Web Factory has an interesting ebook, Client vs. Developer Wars, about a web development process they devised in-house. Which development methodology to choose for your business is a religious rather than technical question, but their Grayscreen Website Prototyping process works. These folks also have a video of their methodology.

11/20/2005 |

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Hiring Attitudes Over Skills

While reading It’s Not the Big That Eat the Small… by Jason Jennings, I came across a one-pager that precisely summarizes what I’ve believed all along about hiring the right people. What follows below is an excerpt from this book.

11/20/2005 |

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ASP.NET for Designers

I’ve just noticed a section within MSDN entitled ASP.NET for Designers. It was a pleasant surprise to see a lengthy article by Stephen Walther, Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards. In this remote corner of MSDN you will also find several design templates to jump start your new commercial or personal web endeavor. The templates claim standards compliancy, adherence to Section 508, dedicated print style sheets, and other goodies.

11/19/2005 |

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Book Review: The Document Object Model

Although I have this book by Joe Marini listed among my favorites, I never wrote a review for it. Just recently I read it again to brush up on the minute details of working with Document Object Model (DOM) and figured it deserved some praise.

11/14/2005 |

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Vine Type: A Lightweight Blog Engine

On a regular basis I receive emails from people asking what blogging engine I run and whether I can share the code. As I mention in the About section, my “engine” is home-grown. For a number of reasons I can’t share the code but… there’s a nice little .NET blogging engine called Vine Type.

11/14/2005 |

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VS2005 Launch E-Card

Pick a city. Remeber to show up.

11/12/2005 |

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ASP.NET Expressions — A Useful Feature

Have you looked into ASP.NET expressions yet? Now, that is a very useful feature. If any of you are developing a localizable product and ever needed to output language–specific text with minimum of code, you’ll love this one.

11/6/2005 |

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Visit Visual Studio 2005 Launch at NYC

Come visit SQL Server 2005 and Visual Studio 2005 launch at New York City on November 22 (never mind the note about closed registration. Please do come.) I’ll be at the Ask the Experts area between 1:45 and 5:45 pm. Swing by if you are around.

11/6/2005 |

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Illegibility Of MSDN2

Looks like MSDN2 went overboard in their zeal with printer-friendly pages. For example, head to Extending ASP.NET Health Monitoring in Internet Explorer and go to File | Print Preview. Here’s what you see:

11/2/2005 |

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November 2005