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My company Neudesic will once again be hosting NuCon, a deep dive conference into .Net 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 including LINQ, ADO.Net 3.5, Silverlight and TFS. Microsoft's new IO model (Infrastructure Optimization) will also be covered in one of the Read More
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Scott announced that the team is working on an additional project type for VS 2005 that brings back the VS 2003 web project development and compilation style. . I have done my share of complaining, but I take it all back now. Not only will the new project type support the VS 2003 model, you can also use 2005 features like precompilation and running a site from an assembly only. Awesome... Just freakin' awesome. Read More
Overriding an abstract member or implementing the members of an interface using Visual Studio’s code completion inserts the following into the members body:  throw new Exception("The method or operation is not implemented."); I would expect it Read More
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Rant follows… 1) Adding a new web site. If you start a new solution with a new web site, and choose the default project location listed in the project options, VS creates 2 top-level directories… ‘WebSite1’‘WebSite1 (2)’ ‘WebSite1’ has the project Read More
Live/work near downtown Chicago? Want to join in on some informal .Net and geek conversation... with food and drink? Join us Tuesday Nov. 15th at Rock Bottom... Read More
Uh oh, gratuitous use of quotes. What led me to do such a thing? Well first, I am annoyed with many changes in ASP.Net 2.0. The first being one that has been discussed and discussed again, so I want rehash much here except to say that I do not like the file based approach to the “projects” without having a project file... Read More
If you missed Kimberly's last apperance on .Net Rocks you should definitely check it out. It is still one of the better and more informative shows... Read More
I have been bothered for a while with the way my RelationalDropDownLists render in FireFox and some other newer browsers such as Safari. Their width, like regular list controls, always depended on the width of the longest text string in the control... Read More
Version 0.9.2. Fixed a bug that could cause a javascript error when the value of a list item contained double quotes. Read More
I have been oblivious to the coming release of the next version of the Application Blocks. Now called Enterprise Library. Someone mentioned it to me the other day and after doing some looking I can’t wait for the release... Read More
Ryan has updated all of the geekdojo blogs with a few anti-spam measures. You will notice the captcha image at the bottom of the comment form... Read More
If you develop your own frameworks for building applications, or think that sounds like something you want to do, this series of web casts may be for you. The whole series runs once a week through April and covers a two day internal training class at Microsoft... Read More
Recently I have been thinking about ways to make it harder for spam bots to submit blog comments or any other type of spam. Most likely they are sending out custom POST requests to comment pages where the name or ID of the form fields is well known. It is just a simple matter of supplying values for those field names and posting the request to the appropriate url. The solution I thought about was giving all the input fields random IDs. The IDs should change for each new request... Read More
My friend Griffin had his first article published recently. It’s a great unit testing intro article in Code Magazine. You can read the first page at code-magazine.com. It was published in the Nov / Dec issue... Read More
Saw this post on The Daily WTF. I’ve seen a lot of developers handle Response.Redirect incorrectly with try/catch blocks. You can read some of the discussions on the post, but for me, I simply don’t put a Response.Redirect in a try block... Read More
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