September 2005 - Posts
Summary: My.Blogs is a collection of sample code that will show you how you can easily provide programmatic access to weblogs in the applications you build. Full source code is provided along with Windows Forms, ASP.NET 2.0, and a Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Outlook Add-In. (15 printed pages)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/myblogsgetstart.asp
IdeaBlade-Lite RAD Framework for .NET
IdeaBlade is pleased to offer the IdeaBlade-Lite rapid application development (RAD) framework for .NET absolutely free! Applications built with IdeaBlade-Lite may be developed, deployed, and even resold royalty-free.
Previously available only through the Microsoft MSDN web site, IdeaBlade-Lite is a developer productivity suite for data-intensive client/server applications. It was designed to improve your team's productivity and application quality from development to deployment. IdeaBlade solutions simplify .NET adoption and accelerate time-to-market. This allows you to better meet the needs of your users while reducing overall costs.
IdeaBlade-Lite includes a RAD framework, an integrated ORM, model-view-controller architecture, advanced UI DataBinding, integration with Developer Express and Infragistics control suites, and one-click deployment and versioning. IdeaBlade-Lite is fully integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio 2003. It includes all product documentation including "Quickstart" tutorials and demos. We encourage you to join our newsgroup, swap code and ideas with others, take one of our training classes, or enjoy one of our Webinars .
By upgrading the developer suite and deploying the IdeaBlade Business Object Server, applications become n-tier, are vastly more scalable and secure, can operate disconnected, include advanced persistence management, and may be deployed as Internet-enabled smart clients - without additional coding. The full developer suite includes many additional powerful features such as building objects from stored procedures, enabling multiple security methodologies, and advanced mobile business object management. Upgrading also provides the option to purchase annual support and product maintenance.
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System requirements:
IdeaBlade applications require .NET Framework 1.1. IdeaBlade development requires Visual Studio .NET 2003. Additionally, our tutorials require Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE).
We often feature the Developer Express UI controls suite in our tutorials. Here you can download the DevEx evaluation copy that works with this IdeaBlade version.
Update: The original link above doesn't seem to work; however, this one works:
Coding4Fun is the point, right?
I bet if you took a poll, a lot of coders were gamers before they were coders—and that they got started by coding games. The cool thing is, after you learn to code and start making stuff work in the real world—stuff that isn't games—it's still fun! People reading this at Coding4Fun obviously think so, right?
So we all learned how to code and we know coding is fun, what do we do with that? Well, I think we want to give other people a chance to try coding, see what it's like, and figure out whether it's as fun for them as it is for us. If it is, they'll be coders too, and glad they are.
So how do we help them try coding? And when? We think kids can learn coding as early as they can learn reading and typing and math, and that learning coding helps with and complements other learning—so the sooner the better. Kids are all about fun, too: Harry Potter, Nintendo, Legos... So if you want kids to learn to code, make it easy. Make it fun. Help them make it a game.
Those are some of the things we were thinking about as we came up with KPL—our Kid's Programming Language. Coding4Fun makes a lot of sense to us, and is about a lot of these same thoughts, so we're very glad to have the chance to write an article introducing KPL here.
Overview
The Active Directory Migration Tool version 3 (ADMT v3) simplifies the process of restructuring your operating environment to meet the needs of your organization. You can use ADMT v3 to migrate users, groups, and computers from Microsoft® Windows NT® 4.0 domains to Active Directory® directory service domains; between Active Directory domains in different forests (interforest migration); and between Active Directory domains in the same forest (intraforest migration). ADMT v3 also performs security translation from Windows NT 4.0 domains to Active Directory domains and between Active Directory domains in different forests.
Summary: Here's a list of issues, helpful notes, known problems and workarounds for the PDC "The Goods" beta discs. Please feel free to annotate these notes with your own thoughts.
http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.PDCTheGoods
Just got a new "Work" PC from my employer. I keep getting asked from the IT guy "When will you return the old PC?".. I keep responding when I get around to finishing the build of the new one.
Why does it take so long? I took a run-through of all the stuff I have installed/available on the system. The list is below. This doesn't include Office in the list, but the Full Office w/ Frontpage, Publisher too.
It's not always the time to install it's the time to track down some installation keys, etc. Nice companies like VMWare allow you to retrieve your keys from their web sites for my profile. Others are a complete pain. One great tool I use is ApexSQL Diff. But I can't find the damn key for the installer.
VS.NET 2003
SQL Dev w/ SP4
UltraEdit
Server Admin Tools for XP (AzMan)
ADAM
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional
Adobe Reader 7.0
Avanade
WITWAY
ACA.NET 4.x
Development Architecture
ACM & ACM for TI
Xpath Query Analyzer?
String Resource Tool
Enterprise Library June 2005
Development
ADAM
ApexSQL Diff
Axosoft OnTime
Construx
Estimate
Surveyor
GotDotNet
Data Blocks 3.1
FAR Helpware
HTML Workshop (Msft)
Infragistics
2005 Vol 1 w/ hotfix
2005 Vol 2 w/ hotfix
Application Blokx
Async
Caching
Config
Data Access v2
Offline
UIP
UIP 2.0
MSDN Library
FxCop
Platforms SDK
SQL Server
DB
Analysis
Reporting Services
SQL Web Data Administrator
VSS 6.0d
Windows Script 5.6
WSE 2.0
Xsd Inference Tool
Xsd Code Gen tool
MsXml 4.0 SDK
Ndoc 1.3
Nunit 2.x?
RoboHelp?
SharpDevelop
SourceGear Vault
Enterprise Library 1.1
Utilities
Meta Products Download Express
Msft Anti Spyware
Microsoft Office
PPT
Publisher
Project
Visio 2003
FrontPage 2003
One Note
InfoPath
IIS Mapper
CyberKit
ISO Recorder (alex feinman)
Opera
PowerToys for XP
Tweak UI
Nero (or some CD burner)
Sizeexplorer
IsoBuster
SmartFTP
Snagit 7
UltraISO
WebZip?
Windows 2003 Resource Kit
WinRAR
WinZIP
Ws FTP
Windows Media Editor?
Google Desktop
Google Bar
Snippet Compiler
SQL Find (ava tool)
ToDo List Code Project
PC Magazine DiskPiePro
Speedswitch XP
XmlSpy Professional
MSFT Virtual PC
MSFT Virutal Server
Newsgator
Fiddler
Daemon Tools
Diskeeper (Executive Software)
DAABAF from GotDotNet?
Inside SQL 2000 Book & Reference
IPWorks .NET Shell Edition
CopySourceAsHtml J.T. Leigh & Associates
Cyber Kit Luc Neijens
MSFT SyncToy
MSFT Help 2.0 SDK
MSFT MapPoint
MSFT E-Learning & Offline
Paint.NET
Readify String Resource Generator
Resource Kit Pro
RoboHelp
Support Tools
Regulator http://regex.osherove.com/
Verizon VZAccess Manager
VSTO
VS.NET Help Integration kit
XSD inference
XSDObject Generator
http://www.csszengarden.com/
A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design.
And CSS Tips
http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/resources/
Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta
Overview
The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages.
-- Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page.
-- Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques.
-- Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
-- View HTML object class names, ID's, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
-- Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
-- Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links.
-- Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
-- Immediately resize the browser window to 800x600 or a custom size.
-- Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
-- Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
-- Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align objects on your pages.
The Developer Toolbar can be pinned to the Internet Explorer browser window or floated separately.
I've never liked IDE hacks that force the IDE to work in different ways than what was initially provided. Any hack is potentially risky and when new versions of the IDE come out, well, good luck. Also on large teams (any team) some hacks, like the one linked here require everyone on the team to change their environment. I'm risk adverse and avoid things that make me spend hours just getting to work and keep going just to save a few extra hours. Damn, we need to deliver software to our clients and time is money.
However, this one, while you might call it a hack, really just changes the Project templates for ASP.NET VS.NET 2003. So, guess it really isn't a hack. And damn it's a time save. With 2.0 coming and the way it handles web projects, some of the problems go away. But for now, this for me is way too late and I wish I had seen this earlier. This tip comes from a couple members of a team that I'm currently working with on a project.
Whatever you think it is, this is a great way to rid you of IIS crap issues when opening, making, getting from SCM, all the garbage and struggle just to get it running in the first place goes away.
Fritz Onion's site goes into the details:
ASP.NET Applications without Web Projects
http://pluralsight.com/wiki/default.aspx/Fritz.AspNetWithoutWebProjects