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February 2004 - Posts

BlogJet tip

Dmitry offered this BlogJet tip as a comment on my technical blogging post: Just a small tip: to configure the format for "BlogJet This!" button, you can edit <BlogJet Folder>\Data\Templates\blogthis.htm Use this variables among your own formatting: Read More
posted Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:24 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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"Mapped" post demo

The second example I promised, one showing a post that starts with a diagrammatic "map" of the rest of the post, is now available here. In content terms it's just a "mapped" version of my recent post on exceptions. Unfortunately, whilst doing the first Read More
posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:36 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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O'Reilly launches WindowsDevCenter.com

[Via Chris Sells]: WindowsDevCenter.comAnd it's got an RSS feed. Subscribed, as they say... Read More
posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:35 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments

Scripting: XML (.wsf) vs. "plain" (.vbs/.js) files

I never saw the point of moving to the shiny, new XML format, but now realise that this opinion was based on incomplete evidence. Check out The Scripting Guys take on the matter for the full story:How Come You Guys Don't Use .WSF Files?P.S. This Read More
posted Wednesday, February 25, 2004 9:05 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Poster bonanza

Some time ago Brad Abrams posted about the Longhorn Architecture Diagram. Now Jason does likewise with the .NET Framework and other assorted goodies. Read More
posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:36 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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"A .NET Developers' Guide to Windows Security" almost complete

Via Keith Brown:The topics for the book are complete. I wasn't able to cover every item I wanted to on my table of contents, but I think what I've got now is a really useful collection of tips that is pretty cohesive. I'll be heads down proofreading and Read More
posted Tuesday, February 24, 2004 9:09 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Practical exception handling in .NET

In my "day job" I've recently been writing a whole bunch of utility classes and macros to bring some conformity to the way errors are detected, handled and propagated within our (unmanaged C++) codebase. This got me to wondering how one might best achieve Read More
posted Monday, February 23, 2004 1:02 PM by pdbartlett | 3 Comments
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Free .NET Code Coverage Tool

Looks like NCover has competition:Via Tim Sneath: Free .NET Code Coverage Tool Read More
posted Monday, February 23, 2004 11:40 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Comparison of controls/objects for different MS "platforms"

Whilst looking for Asp.Net slider control, Roy comes across another very useful document. Reminds me a bit of Douglas Adams concept of Zen navigation (as employed by Dirk Gently), which often took him where he needed to be, rather than where he Read More
posted Monday, February 23, 2004 11:36 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Collapsible SPANs demo

In my post yesterday I promised a couple of examples. Well here's the first. The "collapsible DIVs" have morphed into "collapsible SPANs" as they are less intrusive (and are probably what I really meant anyway ;). I should also like to thank Jon Udell Read More
posted Friday, February 20, 2004 1:47 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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UmlAsSketch with Visio

Looks like Ingo has found an way to do UmlAsSketch within Visio, rather than resorting to another tool (my tool of choice here is UMLet): IngoRammer.Com - Ingo Rammer's Weblog: 100% Guaranteed Interpretation-Free Visio UML Shapes Read More
posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 2:37 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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On techinical blogging...

Most of my technical posts fall into one of two categories:short "have you seen this..." posts, often with only a brief comment added by melonger "articlets", usually the result of many me-hours of work, thought, experimentation, etc.I am aided in writing Read More
posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 1:33 PM by pdbartlett | 6 Comments
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Improvements in signal-to-noise ratio with Jon's Radio

I'd like to give a big "hats off" to all the work Jon Udell is doing to make the "semantic web" a reality by looking at ways to extract information from existing (X)HTML content, and also in proposing new ways of adding semantic information Read More
posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 10:17 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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More on security in .NET from Keith Brown

Keith has just uploaded more content for his "book-in-progress" (feed here). Read More
posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:44 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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HOWTO: Adopt .NET For Free!

Peter Provost does a new improved version of my FreeTools.NET? and More .NET Goodies posts:Geek Noise - HOWTO: Adopt .NET For Free! Read More
posted Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:10 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments

TOAD for SQL Server

Just seen this: SqlJunkies :: New SQL Server Freeware Tool - TOAD for SQL Server Sounds good, as I found TOAD extremely useful back when I used Oracle. My only question is whether it should really be called TSSAD - Tool for SQL Server Application Developers? Read More
posted Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:36 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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#1

Well, as it is a Friday lunchtime, I thought I'd have a quick ego-Google (along with checking this blog's Technorati "link cosmos", and seeing who's admitted to reading it at feeds.scripting.com, of course...) and apparently I am now the most Read More
posted Friday, February 13, 2004 1:07 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Hi Mike!

It looks like my brother is now a fully paid-up member of the online community too, as you can now check out some examples of his photography here. I seem to remember someone else posting recently about how different he and his brother were. Well, Read More
posted Friday, February 13, 2004 12:00 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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.NET Weblogs Archive

I've just noticed this site in my referrers list: .NET Weblogs Archive.Not sure how new (or otherwise) it is, but it was news to me... Read More
posted Friday, February 13, 2004 11:48 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Debug vs. Release - The Best of Both Worlds

Scott Hanselman blogs about how to get the "best of both worlds" by running code with optimisation (like Release) and symbols (like Debug).This is very similar to the way I always work with VC++ linker in Release configs, i.e. enable debug information, Read More
posted Friday, February 13, 2004 9:10 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Why don't .NET developers grok scalable distributed computing?

Sam Gentile asks "Why don't .NET developers grok scalable distributed computing?".Personally I have two pet theories here:.NET has brought together all developers using MS technologies, which means there is almost certainly a greater number who develop Read More
posted Thursday, February 12, 2004 12:54 PM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Sure, we do that

A very amusing story from Raymond Chen: Sure, we do thatI'm sure if the use of hammers featured more heavily in the day-to-day work of a developer then they'd be a lot fewer arguments of the "tabs vs. spaces" ilk... Read More
posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 3:58 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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The Code Project - Nine Reasons Not To Use Int - .NET

Via Scott Hanselman: The Code Project - Nine Reasons Not To Use Int - .NET Read More
posted Wednesday, February 11, 2004 11:52 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments

.NET patterns blog

Via Alex Lowe: IPattern.com (Maxim V. Karpov)It's already pointed me at an MS resource I didn't know about: the Enterprise Solution Pattern (ESP) book.Subscribed, as they say... Read More
posted Tuesday, February 10, 2004 9:53 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Security: Mixing Forms and Windows Security in ASP.NET (ASP.NET Technical Articles)

It's always seemed to me to be natural to want to set up ASP.NET to use Windows authentication if possible, then fallback to Forms if necessary, but my sparse research had suggested that this was not possible. Apparently I was wrong (and not alone Read More
posted Monday, February 09, 2004 12:44 PM by pdbartlett | 2 Comments
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Sanjay's Coding Tips :: MSDE Tools

If you're using MSDE (or like me, planning to use it...) then you may well find these useful: Sanjay's Coding Tips :: MSDE Tools Read More
posted Monday, February 09, 2004 10:28 AM by pdbartlett | 1 Comments
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Qu'est-ce que se passe?

I am currently reading Chris Sells' excellent "Windows Forms Programming in C#". As you would expect, all the important topics are covered in good depth (though sensibly he defers to Don Box's equally good "Essential .NET: Volume 1" in certain areas [which Read More
posted Friday, February 06, 2004 4:38 PM by pdbartlett | 4 Comments
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You know COM is dead when...

Several people have reported Don Box's recent comments on MS's lack of future investment in COM (sorry, no link, but I know that OLE32.DLL was mentioned by name...). However, when Raymond Chen blogs about The layout of a COM object you Read More
posted Thursday, February 05, 2004 3:49 PM by pdbartlett | 4 Comments
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Bootstrapping ASP.NET's Configuration System

How do you think that ASP.NET bootstraps its configuration system? Jamie Cansdale has the answer, which is a little surprising to say the least... Read More
posted Wednesday, February 04, 2004 8:44 AM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Dependency injection and plug-ins

On the way in to work yesterday I listened to (see my previous post) Martin Fowler's article on the Dependency Injection pattern. It's a good and thorough treatment of the subject, as I'm sure you'd expect. The connection to the Plug-in pattern in his Read More
posted Tuesday, February 03, 2004 1:17 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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Apartments and Pumping in the CLR

Another Chris Brumme epic: Apartments and Pumping in the CLR. Need I say more? Read More
posted Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:26 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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"Co-operative" Linux kernel

Via Stefano Demiliani WeBlog:I've just downloaded this tool, CoLinux, a port of the Linux kernel that allows it to run cooperatively alongside another operating system on a single machine. With this tool you can run your Linux distributions on Windows Read More
posted Monday, February 02, 2004 3:11 PM by pdbartlett | 0 Comments
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