Posts for: 8 June, 2005

.NET vs. J2EE Performance Benchmarks for XML and XML Web Services

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, June 8, 2005

About a year ago, the folks at Sun Microsystems came up with a bunch of benchmarks that showed that XML parsing in Java was much faster than on the .NET Framework. On the XML team at Microsoft we too...

Free Web Seminars Presented by Dan Wahlin in June and July

XML, June 8, 2005

Microsoft .NET MVP Dan Wahlin will be presenting several free Web Seminars covering a variety of topics from new .NET version 2 features to emulating master pages Website templates in .NET version 1....

Fun with ConfigFramework (updated)

David Hurtados Integration Traces, June 8, 2005

I've been playing around with a funny error message in ConfigFramework. It says "The Operation Completed Successfully", but it's a Retry/Cancel message box, where you get looped until you press...

.NET vs. J2EE Performance Benchmarks for XML and XML Web Services

Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, June 8, 2005

About a year ago, the folks at Sun Microsystems came up with a bunch of benchmarks that showed that XML parsing in Java was much faster than on the .NET Framework. On the XML team a...

Soma Blogs about Refactor!

The Visual Basic Team, June 8, 2005

(posted by Adam Braden) In case you missed it, Soma blogged about our team's response to customer feedback by partnering with Developer Express to provide you all with a refactoring solution...

What is the Generic Bootstrapper

The Visual Basic Team, June 8, 2005

(by Adam Braden) Chris Smith, an SDET on the Deployment feature team, and been burrning up the blog-o-sphere with great information on the Generic Bootstrapper.  Check out his posts regardin...

VB.NET rant

Rick Strahls WebLog, June 8, 2005

  I was forced to spend some time with VB.NET in Visual Studio today, and all I can say is that the experience was frustrating to no end. My project had to do with some Web Browser interop and s...

Soma Blogs about Refactor!

The Visual Basic Team, June 8, 2005

(posted by Adam Braden) In case you missed it, Soma blogged about our team's response to customer feedback by partnering with Developer Express to provide you all with a refactoring solution...

What is the Generic Bootstrapper

The Visual Basic Team, June 8, 2005

(by Adam Braden) Chris Smith, an SDET on the Deployment feature team, and been burrning up the blog-o-sphere with great information on the Generic Bootstrapper.  Check out his posts regardin...

Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 SetPassword Issue

Brendan Tompkins, June 8, 2005

Yesterday evening, I installed SP1 for Windows Server 2003 on our Web Servers.  This morning, we got reports that new users couldn't be created on our site.  Upon investigation, it turned ou...

We know that too much of a good thing in your aggregators stinks...

Brendan Tompkins, June 8, 2005

You may have noticed that we have a serious multiple-post problem here at CodeBetter.Com.  This problem only shows up in some aggregators, but can result in a bunch of phony new posts...

Tech Ed 2005 Day 3 - ASP.NET 2.0: Under the Covers - Exploring Internals, Page Lifecyle and the Compilation Model

Jeffrey Palermo, June 8, 2005

This talk went over the internals of ASP.NET 2.0. Other sessions went over the RAD (*shudders*) capabilities of v2, but this session drills down to the compilation models and other more internal aspec...

Tech Ed 2005 Day 3 - .Net Rocks lunch

Jeffrey Palermo, June 8, 2005

Wednesday was a lunch session for a live showing of the .Net Rocks internet radio show.  Carl and Richard hosted some folks from the Teams System group.  There is a lot of interest here at T...

GRID computing using .NET

Cirrus Minor, June 8, 2005

GRID computing, in the sense of distributed computing with a focus on large-scale resource sharing and high performance computing, is starting to emerge as a viable direction for several computing pro...

Exceptions in ADO.Net 2.0 [Siraj Lala]

DataWorks WebLog, June 8, 2005

Id like to briefly talk about some of the work we have done in ADO.NET 2.0, for improvement of Errors and Exception usage. In ADO.NET 1.1, several error messages were generic and didnt have enough det...

DiscountASP.NET Wins Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Award for Best ASP.NET Web Hosting

DotNetJunkies Just Published, June 8, 2005

ASP.NET hosting and SQL hosting provider, DiscountASP.NET announces receiving the highly coveted Best ASP.NET Web Hosting award in Visual Studio Magazine's 2005 Readers' Choice Award....

TechEd 2005: CodeZone Launch Party

Darrell Nortons Blog [MVP], June 8, 2005

I attended the CodeZone launch party on Tuesday. The lead on the project is very nice and from what I heard and discussed I think CodeZone's purpose is not to compete with current community sites...

Bug in .NET 2.0

Sahil Malik [MVP], June 8, 2005

This in my opinion is a bad bug. I had blogged about this earlier today, but Here is another scenario where this is clearly an issue. Say your deployment pushes parts of your app as small dlls - this...

Need a job It is 1 AM - are you dreaming about .NET

Sahil Malik [MVP], June 8, 2005

Straight to the point -  client of mine is looking for a fantastic self motivated high energy individual for a .NET Architect position. This is in the Washington DC area. If you are interes...

Oracle connection error 12514

Sahil Malik [MVP], June 8, 2005

Connecting Oracle 10g to .NET Below are someone's successful steps - First of all, I had to install the client part of Oracle 10g, and I installed everything, just to be sure that I didn't miss anyth...

Bad programmer diseases

Sahil Malik [MVP], June 8, 2005

A while back I had blogged about Bad Application Architect diseases. Well it's only fair to reverse the equation and blog about Bad programmer diseases. 1. ManagementSuckitis: The patient frequently f...

Exceptions in ADO.Net 2.0 [Siraj Lala]

DataWorks WebLog, June 8, 2005

Id like to briefly talk about some of the work we have done in ADO.NET 2.0, for improvement of Errors and Exception usage. In ADO.NET 1.1, several error messages were generic and didnt have enough det...

TechEd 2005: Connectivity Enhancements Fuel Excitement

DevX: .NET Feed, June 8, 2005

New tools, official release dates for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 (finally), and a new openness from Microsoft infuse this year's TechEd with new developer capabilities, new power for IT ad...

Tech Ed 2005 Day 3 - ASP.NET 2.0: Overview of ASP.NET 2.0

Jeffrey Palermo, June 8, 2005

Scott Guthrie gave a session on ASP.NET 2.0. I asked a question about excluding files from a web project, and I got a partial answer. In Beta 2 with source control, the system wants to check in binari...

Tech Ed 2005 Day 3 - Cabana talks with Miguel Castro on web controls

Jeffrey Palermo, June 8, 2005

This afternoon I had the privilege of speaking with Miguel Castro at the cabanas.  He has some great ideas about web controls, and I learned a lot from him.  He has some great control downlo...

Codesnip: Redirecting a User to a Specific Page with Forms Authentication

ASPAlliance.com - The #1 ASP.NET Community, June 8, 2005

In most cases, when using Forms Authentication, redirecting a user to their originally requested page, or default.aspx, is the desired action. However, there may be times where you want to redirect a...

Day 3 Pt. 2 - DSL Tools

.Avery Blog, June 8, 2005

Back in the hotel waiting to catch a shuttle over to a party and figured I would right up the rest of the day so I don’t have to try and do it tonight. :) Went to an awesome session on Domain-Sp...

PodQuiz

Eric Gunnersons C# Compendium, June 8, 2005

Last summer, I got invited by one of the C# PMs to go to a "Quiz Night" at an English pub in the Wallingford area of Seattle. I thought I would do okay, since I know a fair amount of trivia. I did p...

NUnitAsp Rocks!

ASP.NET Daily Articles, June 8, 2005

NUnitAsp is a unit testing framework for asp.net. In this article, I build a RepeaterTester using TDD that allows you to get the number of RepeaterItems bound to the repeater. In addition, you can u...

TechEd 2005: CodeZone Launch Party

Darrell Nortons Blog [MVP], June 8, 2005

I attended the CodeZone launch party on Tuesday. The lead on the project is very nice and from what I heard and discussed I think CodeZone's purpose is not to compete with current community sites...

Day 3 Pt. 1 - Don Box, Models, and Contracts

.Avery Blog, June 8, 2005

I came back to the hotel to eat lunch with Drew, Dave, and Nate today so I decided to blog this while it was on the my mind. We went to see Don Box talked about “Metadata soup”. It was a p...

Insights into Professional DotNetNuke ASP.NET Portals

Patrick Santrys (aka wwwCoder) Blog, June 8, 2005

Now that we're published and officially launched at TechEd, let me provide you with some insights into the book and what sets it apart. First off, the book is written by people who are involved with t...

Tech Ed 2005 Day 3 - ASP.NET 2.0: Under the Covers - Exploring Internals, Page Lifecyle and the Compilation Model

Jeffrey Palermo, June 8, 2005

This talk went over the internals of ASP.NET 2.0. Other sessions went over the RAD (*shudders*) capabilities of v2, but this session drills down to the compilation models and other more internal aspec...

Tech Ed 2005 Day 3 - .Net Rocks lunch

Jeffrey Palermo, June 8, 2005

Wednesday was a lunch session for a live showing of the .Net Rocks internet radio show.  Carl and Richard hosted some folks from the Teams System group.  There is a lot of interest here at T...

TechEd Reports

Ablog, June 8, 2005

If anyone's interested in an inside view of some of the TechEd conference this week, Ewan Buckingham has just written a column summarizing Steve Ballmer's keynote on Monday, at http://www.asptoday.com...

iPod Armband Recommendations

JohnPapa.net, June 8, 2005

OK, so I pick up a new iPod mini for running and light soccer drills. (Ill review how it holds up after some time with it) The headphones are not so good so I get myself some of the Etymotic Research ...

Enter and the Button Click Event

4GuysFromRolla.com Headlines, June 8, 2005

A typical data-entry page usually consists of a variety of form fields for collecting user input along with a Submit button. To create such a page, you'd add the appropriate set of Web controls onto ...

Soma Blogs about Refactor!

The Visual Basic Team, June 8, 2005

(posted by Adam Braden) In case you missed it, Soma blogged about our team's response to customer feedback by partnering with Developer Express to provide you all with a refactoring solution...

What is the Generic Bootstrapper

The Visual Basic Team, June 8, 2005

(by Adam Braden) Chris Smith, an SDET on the Deployment feature team, and been burrning up the blog-o-sphere with great information on the Generic Bootstrapper.  Check out his posts regardin...

Whassup TechEd

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., June 8, 2005

Every year at TechEd it feels like a different experience to me - but always a great one! In addition to attending some WSE talks today, the highlight of the day was ...

VS2005 Release Date Announced

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., June 8, 2005

surely this is everywhere on the blogosphere, but I want to be sure to push it to the VTdoNET site! Paul Flessner announced the official release date for VS 2005 - No...

ADO.NET 2.0 and System.Transactions vs. SqlTransactions

Julia Lerman Blog - Dont Be Iffy..., June 8, 2005

I had someone ask an ADO.NET question last night that I just couldn't answer. It was a little more about distributed transactions which I have little experience with. So...

SearchBlackBox SDK has been released!

ASP.NET Announcements, June 8, 2005

90% of the time, modern office software operates using textual data.Various pieces of text are spread everywhere on our disks, local andglobal networks, etc. Thousands of developers spend months tryin...

Bug in .NET 2.0

Sahil Malik [MVP], June 8, 2005

This in my opinion is a bad bug. I had blogged about this earlier today, but Here is another scenario where this is clearly an issue. Say your deployment pushes parts of your app as small dlls - this...

Need a job It is 1 AM - are you dreaming about .NET

Sahil Malik [MVP], June 8, 2005

Straight to the point -  client of mine is looking for a fantastic self motivated high energy individual for a .NET Architect position. This is in the Washington DC area. If you are interes...

Oracle connection error 12514

Sahil Malik [MVP], June 8, 2005

Connecting Oracle 10g to .NET Below are someone's successful steps - First of all, I had to install the client part of Oracle 10g, and I installed everything, just to be sure that I didn't miss anyth...

Bad programmer diseases

Sahil Malik [MVP], June 8, 2005

A while back I had blogged about Bad Application Architect diseases. Well it's only fair to reverse the equation and blog about Bad programmer diseases. 1. ManagementSuckitis: The patient frequently f...

TechEd 2005, Day 2

John Bristowes Weblog, June 8, 2005

Today presented a challenge. I spoke in front of approximately 500 people. Now, I should clarify that I've spoken in front of groups many, many times in my life. But neve...

iPod Armband Recommendations

JohnPapa.net, June 8, 2005

OK, so I pick up a new iPod mini for running and light soccer drills. (Ill review how it holds up after some time with it) The headphones are not so good so I get myself some of the Etymotic Research ...

Rebecca Riordan - Database Geek of the Week!

Doug Reillys Weblog, June 8, 2005

Rebecca Riordan is clearly a database geek.  She has written a number of books, including Seeing Data, a book that explains how to present data to users in the most effective way.  She ...



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