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Richard Dudley
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In my spare time, I've been working on an open source project management tool called Scrumr. Scrumr is a lightweight app for managing sprints per Scrum methodology. You can find out more a...
Registration is now open for the Pittsburgh launch of Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008. The launch is April 14 at the Westin Convention Center--additional details as t...
We've been working with some offsite contractors who needed good
documentation of our databases and DTS packages. After looking around at
several available programs, we settled on d...
Hot off the presses and into my hands comes Brian Bischof's Crystal Reports Encyclopedia Volume 1: Professional XI Reports. Brian's first book was an invaluable help in my work with Crys...
My buddy Shaun Eutsey had his first ASP
Alliance article published today:
CodeSnip:
Taming the Page Flash Beast in ASP.NET 2.0
Since SmartPageNavigation has gone to the wayside,
there has ...
The flippin' awesome Ankh Subversion plug-in for Visual Studio has its 1.0 Final release the other day. Official post at http://arildf.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!E99F8B43533149B0!221.entry.&nb...
The folks at ASP.NET have posted a new By The Community, For
the Community poll. Choices are pretty good--an e-commerce extension
to the Small
Business Starter Kit, an events calendar, AJAX p...
My latest ASP Alliance article has been published: Review: ASP.NET 2.0 Web Parts in ActionASP.NET 2.0 brought us all sorts of new technologies and one of the most exciting is Web Parts. Web Parts are ...
After a couple of publishing delays, I received my copy of Visual Studio 2005: Unleashed a week or so ago (ordered for Christmas 2005). The first thing you notice when you pick up this boo...
I received the following e-mail from Brian Bischof today:
It's been a long time since I sent out a newsletter because I've been busy writing a new book, "Crystal Reports XI Encyclopedia, Volume 1"....
The nomination period ends September 1, so get on this soon if you haven't
already.
Last week Packt Publishing announced an Open Source Content Management
System contest. The contest is designe...
Ankh is in RC1, but the concept of
running both Tortise and Ankh--two Subversion clients--at the same time
offends the sensibilities of some. You can configure a custom toolbar in
Visual Stud...
I wasn’t aware of this until I saw Don’s article:
Fortunately, Microsoft has committed to providing a steady stream of documentation and educational materials to help solve the prob...
Three good sessions at the next MSDN Event:
Session 1: Exploring the System.Net Namespace in the .NET
Framework 2.0
This session will delve into the System.Net namespace, including:
...
There is a bug in the URL Rewriting engine of ASP.NET 2.0 which leads to
search engines dropping (or not indexing) sites using URL Rewriting. While
not specific to Community Server, it manifte...
In order to help turn TestDriven.NET from a hobby into somethig that pays the
bills, Jamie has released a Professional and Enterprise version of
TestDriven.net. There's still a free version, non-cri...
The result of the problem is that search engines won't index the content on
your Community Server based site. That's bad if you're counting on being
found in the SEs.
The problem appears to be...
Just a reminder that the Butler Area Dot Net
User Group will be meeting from 6-8pm tomorrow (6/22/2006) at the Communifax HQ in Cranberry Township.
Directions can be found at http://communifax...
The June BADNUG meeting will be a SQL Server Potluck. Round up your favorite SQL Server tools, tips and tricks (for 2000 and/or 2005) and prepare to share them! Rich Dudley will present on...
We got a small mention in today's USA Today about marketing with blogs. We were interviewed a little over a week ago by the reporter who had found our weddings blog (http://www.bloomeryweddings....
Full article at http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/authcontentpart.asp
A SharePoint Portal Server Webpart that can publish content depending
on a users authentication.
I haven't had a chance t...
One feature I'd love to see removed from all versions of VS is the ability to
name a setup package "setup.exe" or "setup.msi". For the most part, the
developer community is really good at ...
In his "Passionate
Programmers" post, Justin James makes a point I doubt anyone disagrees
with--hire people who truly enjoy their job. That's not an idea exclusive
to scientists or programm...
When you have VS 2005 generate a strongly-typed dataset for you, it also adds
some comments as to the date and time of generation, as well as who generated
the code. Here's one line of these c...
There's another sproc-or-not battle royale going on over at
CodeBetter.com. Not going there, but one statement Eric
Wise made isn't completely correct:
First, you can be sure that no sql in...
My latest ASP Alliance article has been
published, titled Getting Started with the
Club Site Starter Kit:
Since the release of ASP.NET 2.0, several starter
kits have been released as examples ...
The Control
Gallery at ASP.NET still exists, it's just not on the menu anymore. It
has been moved to the Resources
Page, along with Hosts, Community Sites and Case Studies. VWDE,
...
Eric
says crazy filename parsing is something else you should stop doing.
If you're creating output files, you probably need to timestamp the file name to
keep the files separate. Step ...
Brendan Tompkins has a nice
post on printing a web page as a PDF using webSuperGoo's ABCPdf component. The
example is written in C#, but shouldn't be too hard to translate.
So whats t...
At the last BADNUG meeting, someone mentioned
they wished there was Intellisense for SQL Server. I said there was such a
product; Red Gate recently purchased it, and is
now giving it away unt...
One of the great things about stored procedures is that you
can put a whole bunch of different commands into one procedure, and call
everything with a single command. Gnarly! However, if...
I dislike how VS 2005 handles solutions, but I thought it was just me.
Victor Garcia Aprea has a good
commentary on the subject:
Of course, I still think Visual Studio is totally messing up...
Hat tip: Pat
Santry
This is the final week to register for BITS in Edinboro, PA. There will be many
presentations provided, here is an overview of the sessions:
Keynote: Convergence and Cellu...
Part of my work involves a SQL Server 2000 data warehouse,
updated nightly with extracts from an ERP system. I knew that the DTSs
tended to run long, and I wanted to get a better idea of exact...
Freaky--we were just talking about this yesterday afternoon.
The latest SQLServerCentral.com
update came out today, and the lead story is an update to an older article
titled "Copying
DTS Packages...
This is a short review because about 85% of the book is code samples. ASP.NET 2.0 Cookbook is divided into 21 chapters, covering topics ranging from Master Pages, error handling and web parts.&n...
If you're still formatting dates as such:
lblDate.text = datepart("d",Now) & "/" & datepartt("m",now) & "/" & datepart("yyyy",now)
then stop this instant! Step away fr...
My latest ASP Alliance article has been published:
ASP.NET 2.0 brought about a number of improvements in the way configuration settings are stored and accessed. Several new configuration sections ha...
The arrival of AJAXy Web 2.0 apps continues...
Chris Sherman at SearchEngineWatch.com has an overview:
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3598681...
I've used CSE HTML Validator for quite some time. I started with ther free version, and upgraded to the full version after using it for a while. They've recently released a free onlin...
I received an e-mail in regards to my article Exporting to Excel in Crystal Reports .NET - Perfect Excel Exports:
I have crystal reports that are displayed in PDF or Excel format from an ASP.NET appl...
Pittsburgh MSDN Event, May 25 1pm-5pm at Carmike 10 Theater on Fort Couch Rd.
With the productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0, you'll spend less time coding and mo...
nGallery was a great application on its own, but Community Server is just far too much overhead when all you need is a simple gallery app. Even though it haven't been updated in a while, nGaller...
The folks at Pittsburgh Dot Net have been busy with preparations for Pittsburgh Code Camp, and they've released the confirmed topics:
-AJAX / Atlas for .NET-An Inside Look at the .Net Framework Garba...
Another little gallery app I used recently is ThumbGallery from FlashRelief. It's $20, but that's really cheap considering how nice this gallery is. You don't need Flash at all--they provi...
The March BADNUG meeting will be held on March 9 from 68pm at Communifax HQ in Cranberry Township, PA.
Join us at John Szurley of Communifax discusses their implementation of SQL Server 2000 Reporting...
In Mindsharp's SharePoint Discussions group, the following question was posted:
Does anyone have experience with both SharePoint and DotNetNuke to the point where they could comment on the benefits of...
I see this a lot, and it's easier than you might think:
Open the e-mail, and click File >> Save.
In the "File Name", enter the URL to the document library, and click Save.
A view of the docum...
Bob Mixon has released a beta of his Quick Launch Web Part:
This Web Part can be used to replace the hard coded HTML in a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) Site. The first advantage to this Web Part ...
Teun Dynstee released his Gantt Chart Web Part today:
The part allows you to specify a list and view to render. You select the fields from the view that will indicate the start and end date of an ite...
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