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In this post Brendan Kowitz talks about how he managed to implement friendly URL's for SUB - very cool! He also pointed out that even though I had a FormatURL method thatwas initially createdto do all...
As ASP.NET developers we are all familiar with the concept of writing trace statements to the Trace log so that we can use that information later at runtime to assist us with diagnosing problems in ou...
Recently I noticed that my blog was running really slowly even though SUB was running at a fine clip on my own development machine. In addition to the general application slowness, Mitch and I discove...
Late last year when BlogML was a shiny new object I started to look around the blogging universe for potential blogging engines to target. One of the people that I contacted was Phil Haack who I knew ...
I'm currently right in the middle of preparing a new release of SUB and I should have the source code up on ProjectDistributor later tonight. If you are running an existing build of SUB remember from ...
I've just installed a new build of SUB on my server and I'll let it settle for a few days before I package it up as a release onto ProjectDistributor. If you take a look at my web page you will see th...
Grant and I have recently started working on a new ASP.NET 2.0 application for a client of ours and, for the project we decided to use the new ASP.NET Web Application Projects instead of the Webs...
Joseph has been busy getting the skin for his new website ready and now it's there for the whole world to see: http://LearnWPF.com
I've recently ordered the WPF book t...
Last week I was lucky enough to be in Adelaide to teach our Professional .NET course. The students were great and hung in there exceptionally well. Even on the lastday (Day 5) when we were discussion ...
Keyvan Nayyeri has released his BlogML reader/writer for CommunityServer 2.0. Get it and read about it here:
http://nayyeri.net/archive/2006/02/11/491.aspx
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To provide a full service, Web 2.0 sites need to be able connect to external sources - such as the PageFlakes portal which exposed a Gmail web part that I showed the other day. Other external sources ...
Important components of a Home Automation System
Security
Networking
Lighting
Audio/Video
Home Theater
Automation
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I've used http://Google.com/igas my home page now for some time and have become used to seeing all of my favourite information in one place whenever I fire-up a browser. I can see my Gmail, USA Today ...
BlogML managed to get a bit of momentum after I released the 1.0 version but it's still not quite where I'd like it to be. This is due mostly to my lack of time while I finish off the web portals book...
I was doing some research about Web 2.0 over the weekend for my book and while browsing across the various Web 2.0 sites it struck me that some of them are doing some very interesting things with data...
http://Live.com(or Start.com) [Microsoft]
http://my.msn.com [Microsoft]
http://Google.com/ig [Google]
http://www.PageFlakes.com [Web 2.0 startup]
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Grab the BlogML 1.0 schema and SDK from here: http://codegallery.gotdotnet.com/BlogML
<blogml>
It's Your Blog!
</blogml>...
Programming Office Applications Using C#Discusses the tips-n-tricks for coding VSTO apps using C#.
Understanding the Excel Object Model from a Visual Studio 2005 Developer's Perspective
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The other day I noticed that all of the controls in SingleUserBlog do not display nicely within the design view of Visual Studio. Whenever I bring a page up in the designer, each of the controls appre...
Last year I created BlogML as a format for "fully describing" the content of a blog so that it could act as an archive format for blogs and also as a way to migrate content from one blog and into an...
Well, SUB V2 seems to be detecting the IE7 Beta2 just fine. I downloaded IE7 Beta 2 this morning and have been impressed by the UI tweaks that they've made. Printing is also included in this release. ...
Here is a link to a nice set of scripts and CSS that provide an unobtrusive way to display images from a web page:
http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/...
Paul Stovell has installed SUB V2 for his blog and has written a post about how he went about personalizing the theme.
http://www.paulstovell.net/Posts/Post.aspx?postId=1348228b-da36-43d9-844b-e70...
OK, so I've just uploaded the source code for this blog (SUB V2) to ProjectDistributor. To download it go here:
http://projectdistributor.net/Projects/Project.aspx?projectId=182
The biggest featu...
I was reading the Manning Press blog today and found an article which discusses the decline int the market for IT books (and also business books). The blog article mentions a book that they have which...
I found this link via Phil's blog:
Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards
It is an article by Stephen Walther (geez that guy writes a lot of stuff) that covers all of the web standard...
Seen via Scott Guthrie's blog is a cool HttpModule that you can use to perform dynamic URL rewrites using regular expressions. There's a UrlMapper that comes out-of-the-box with ASP.NET 2.0 but it doe...
If, like me you've been trying to keep abreast of the moving target which is "Atlas" you'll be excited to know that Nikhil has posted a bunch of recent samples that run against the Dec CTP of Atlas....
Yesterdy Iwrote abouttheTimeZones web service that I've added to this site and todayI'll further explain the need for the web service. To start, let's take a look at the problem of dates and brea...
I was chatting with Paul Stovell yesterday about SUB and he asked for a specific feature to do with having posts and comments displayed in his current time zone and not the time zone of the web server...
This morning started just like any other morning... I was sitting in my home office drinking coffee and planning my day when a package arrived from UPS. It's not terribly uncommon for me to receive pa...
If this message has popped into your aggregator then I've most certainly done something right because today I changed my blog over to a brand new version of my SingleUserBlog bloggi...
There was an interesting post on the ASPNETV2 list today and yesterday about what is the best way to set an app-relative path for a script block in a Master Page. Ideally you would just be able to do ...
Adding Dynamic Content
I mentioned yesterday that I've been creating numerous different web parts throughout the course of writing my book on the ASP.NET 2.0 Portal Framework. The web part t...
It is an important feature of modern portals such as Sharepoint and Live.com that they have a rich set of web parts that allow users to view and work with data. For example, Sharepoint contains the Co...
During the Christmas break I managed to get two of the chapters for my book on ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts written. The chapters that I wrote were chapter five (Zones) and chapter six (Personalization) and ...
For those who love scouring reams of data this is not to be missed:
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2005/phenomena.html
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Today I learned two very important things about American culture.
First, in America they do not play the game of "pass the parcel"; I learned this after the Editor of my Web Parts book scratched a...
Rocky just posted a list of 8 debugging tips - well done Rock, couldn't have said it better myself. To sum up:
Problems are always big when they are tangled in hundreds of lines of code.
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The purpose of this post isto show how to reproduce and correct the following WSDL error message:
No methods were found in the WSDL for this protocol.
1) Create a service contract...
We have a real knack for coming up with great ideas only to find that that we've totally screwed things up in ways that we didn't anticipate. This pattern behavior can easily be studied by giving a pr...
Within the web part framework there is a powerful feature that allows us to turn ordinary web controls into web parts simply by dropping them onto a zone. The real beauty of this is that we can even t...
In a project that I'm currently working on we are using something called Schematron to perform some of our data rules over Xml. It's a pretty cool technology and allows you to specify logic such as th...
One of my favourite features in ASP.NET 2.0 is Themes (in fact I like it so much that I own the domain aspthemes.net) so naturally it's one of the features that I'm hoping to get a lot of mileage out ...
Today I worked on the "Post Categories" web part which can be seen in the following image:
The picture shows me dragging the web part to display it elsewhere on the page.
This web part is a p...
The other day I mentioned that I had plans to integrating some portal features into the new version of SingleUserBlog and today I'd like to share some of that vision. At the moment I'm actually writin...
I meant to post this the other day actually but I see that Howard Van Rooijen has been posting about a new VSTS template based on Scrum. You can read more about it at these two posts:
Scrum Template...
Chris Frazier pinged me this morning to let me know that he has written an HttpHandler to expose SUB via that MetaWeblogAPI - woohoo!
This means that users will certainly be able to connect to ...
I got a good slab of work done on SUB V2 last night; here's a picture of the current state of it:
As you can see, the base theme will stick with the 3-column layout and I have included We...
Yup, I started it today:
I'll describe some of the features - especially my plans for the Web Parts - a bit later. Remember, if you have any special request, send 'em through!...
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