Via Peter: Snippy – Darren May found this cool little client app for creating VS2005 code snippets. And to think I’ve been doing them by hand all this time… […]

Jonathan Cogley has posted a nice piece of javascript: http://weblogs.asp.net/jcogley/archive/2005/12/07/432584.aspx ASATISMT (As Soon As There Is Some More Time) I need to wrap smth like this with a control…

Die INETA (International .NET Association) User Groups VfL-NiederRhein und NET UG Düsseldorf feiern die Veröffentlichung von Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 und BizTalk Server 2006! Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 und SQL Server™ 2005 und BizTalk Server 2006 sind in Englisch am 7. November erschienen. Die deutschen Sprachversionen werden in einigen Wochen verfügbar sein werden. Anlässlich der Veröffentlichung laden die INETA Usergroups alle Mitglieder und Interessierte herzlich ein, den Launch zu feiern.

Yesterday the new issue of the MSDN Magazine Europe arrived in our office. It includes my article about my travel to the DDD Developer Day in Reading.

Friday night Andreas Hoffmann (2nd lead of the VfL-NiederRhein user group) picked me up ad we drove the long way down to the south. Our destination for Saturday morning was the Chaostage event of the .NET user group Deggendorf (http://dotnet-deggendorf.sefnet.de/). I had a session “Introducing the concepts and architecture of ASP.NET“ in the morning and a second one “Hello WebServices – Message-Oriented Programming for distributed systems” in the evening. We checked in at our hotel in Garching (I won’t tell the name but I’ll tell you a bit about the worst service).

A short statement additional to my post against the spagetti code because I think Scott got me wrong: <sarcsam>The Object Data Source is one of the coolest things out there cause it’s never been so easy to use n-tier applications and bind custom business objects to databound controls. And this is exactly what I tell the folks out there in my articles and talks.</sarcsam>

The most important thing to point out whenever I talk about ASP.NET 2.0 data-driven applications is: With the SqlDataSource and GridView or DetailView controls you can quickly build up tiny applications that just need to be set up asap. This has to do nothing with REAL best practice applications!" Therefore I was pretty happy to read “The Code Spaghetti generation is back” in Pascal Leloup’s Blog. Here is my statement:

Me and Benjamin Mitchell Barry Dorrans Me and Ian Griffiths(Pluralsight) Richard, Me, Craig Murphy, Tim and VBUG man Me and Amy Sorokas(Microsoft) Phil Winstanley Oliver Sturm Speakers in the Space Bar The Geek Diner

[…]The .NET Framework 2.0 comes with a built-in webserver, based on the old Cassini web server. So I wanted to be able to easily set up any directory to have its contents served up on an as-needed basis. The result is an addition to the Windows Explorer right-click menu…[Robert McLaws] Chris Fraizer wrote it thgether in a small app. Here is my version with a few modifications: using System; using System.

Wow, what a weekend. Just so short cuz my desk is quite full - but I promise to tell more tomorrow.

Problem When connecting through a Microsoft ISA 2004 server, the FTP client has read only access to the files and folders. e.g. Uploading, renaming or deleting a file or folder is not possible. The FTP server replies with a “550 Access denied” message if such operations are performed. Solution Microsoft ISA 2004 server (acts as Firewall) default settings only allow read access (list and download). To change this settings open ISA management Select Firewall policy -> Web Access -> Protocol -> Filtering ->Configure FTP

Damir hat ein tolles Video zusammengeschnitten… Starring: Barbara Steiger, Simone Stocker, Frank Butler, Christian Frei, Amy Sorokas, Trisha Lacey, Hans Verbeeck, Karsten Samatschke, Christian Wenz, Damir Tomicic, André Obelink, Dirk Primbs, Frank Prengel, Bill Gates, Jim Alchin, Andres Hejlsberg, Chris Anderson, Don Box, Scott Guthrie, Doug Purdue, Sara Faatz, Samantha Spears, Morgan Baker, Julia Lerman, Nicolas Clerc, Patrick Hynds, Chris Capossela, Golo Haas, Alex Bierhaus, Mario Spuszta, Alexander Holly, Michael Willers, Channel 9 guy *

[Jeffrey Palermo] public launch date and availability is still scheduled for the week of November 7th, but Microsoft will be releasing the software to it’s MSDN Universal subscribers first on October 15th. I’ve been looking for changes from the Release Candidate to RTM, but I haven’t found them yet. I’m glad the software is finally coming out. I’ve been working with .Net 2.0 since Beta 1 came out, and I’m looking forward to using the final product.

Aus einem Chat mit Michael Willers zu Thema Indigo (Windows Communication Foundation) und Interop: Michael says: die wahrheit is aufm draht Michael says: die zeiten ändern sich Michael says: fürher war aufm platz heute is aufm draht

Monday: I met Andreas Hoffmann (2nd UG Lead of the VfL Usergrop) and Peter Nowak (Head of FIAEon.net, a community for .NET related vocational education) at Starbucks in Düsseldorf. Tuesday: Benjamin Mitchell notified me that one of my sessions was voted by the british community and I’ll have a session at the Developer Developer Developer Day. Wednesday: I’m in contact with the Student Partners in Wuppertal now (better said Anselm Haselhoff because Marcel Wiktorin is moving and has not replied yet :-)).

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.

It was the second time this year I went to Warsaw (Poland). The Microsoft Technology Summit happend for the first time and was a big success. An amazing event: Two days, about two-thousand attendees, six parallel tracks, four a day. I had about three-hundred listeners in each of my sessions (“Layout and Personalization with ASP.NET 2.0” and “Data-Driven Application with ASP.NET 2.0”). The feedback in the breaks was great.

Torsten Weber invited me to do one day of sessions at the .NET Summercamp: I introduced .NET 2.0 and C# 2.0 and talked about Visual Studio 2005 Team System. It was the first time in Leipzig and i really liked it. Hopefully i’ll be there next year too.

Cropper is a free Screen Capture Utility written in C# http://www.thegridmaster.com/

Usergroup-Treffen mal anders: Open Air 400 m² Leinwand Kein Vortragender Am donnerstag haben wir zusammen mit der NET UG-Düsseldorf im Frankenheim Kino den einzigen Geek-Kompatiblen film diese Saison gesehen: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy War super ;-)

For years I used ACDSee 3.0. It always remembered me of the days of Windows 95/NT 4.0. That is the past now. Deep deep in your file system there lies a neat tool that does the job very well. The only problem I did not recognize that its even there for years. After i found it, and yes also liked it. I decided to use it and added the missing part to integrate the Office Picture Manager into daily work.

Carefully said I do not like that sharepoint “hijacks” the Internet Information Server. When you create a virtual directory it is just not accessable because SharePoint took over IIS. Funny fact: This is the second post how to fix issues with IIS and “extension” that cause issues :-) So I decided to hack a small utility serving my needs… Enable to exclude applications from sharepoint services through the directory context menu.

I develop with 1.1 and 2.0 - When VS 2003 creates a web solution it is configured to use the 2.0 runtime. Placeing the following code to the Global.asax’s of your 1.1 projects and setting execute permissions on the aspnet_regiis.exe helps much. protected void Application_Start(Object sender, EventArgs e){ if(System.Environment.Version.Major == 2) { System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); p.StartInfo.FileName = "%WINDIR%\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v1.1.4322\\aspnet_regiis.exe"; p.StartInfo.Arguments = "-s W3SVC/1/ROOT" + Request.ApplicationPath; p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false; p.

I got an E-Mail from a student this morning asking how to thumbnail an uploaded image. Here is a “quick” solution (there are a few things you can do to increase quality, set JPEG compression factor or keep gif transparency). If you like to dig deeper have a look at one of the articles I wrote for the DotNetPro magazine’s #Talk column. <%@ Page Language="C#" %> <script runat="server" Language="C#"> public void UploadFile(object sender, EventArgs e) { System.

Like Christian Weyer and Damir Tomicic I like the word Indigo more than WCF and just read that Kenny will continue to refer to it as Indigo for a little while.

…And I was just Added :-) Shinja Strasser is the head of the NET UG Usergroups. He is publishing a main feed for the members under http://blogs.netug.de/. Now he opend the main feed for a few guys of the german community.

First of all thank you to everybody who helped (Microsoft, INETA, S&S, E-Team…), spoke (Christian Weyer, Dirk Primbs, Achim Oellers, Dr. Holger Schwichtenberg) nad attended the event. A few things learned: Min. Session time is 60 min. Print out the list of attendees ordereb by lastname ascending Call restaurant to make sure the speakers diner will be served :-P The feedback until now was very good and Stephan and I plan to do the “.

Mike Vernal figured out from where Microsoft’s whole “evil empire” moniker comes from. Must read :-)

If you ever wanted to know where newtelligence headquarter is (Korschenbroich)… http://virtualearth.msn.com/default.aspx?cp=51.188584|6.605851&style=r&lvl=9&v=1 You can also see where our next SOA Workshop will happen (Düsseldorf) on September 5 - 7, 2005.

Scott posted a solution to support httpOnly cookies in ASP.NET 1.1 but pointed out some problems when you run the code on 2.0(http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HttpOnlyCookiesOnASPNET11.aspx) Here is a solution: protected void Application_EndRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e) { if(System.Environment.Version.Major<2) { foreach(string cookie in Response.Cookies) { const string HTTPONLY = ";HttpOnly"; string path = Response.Cookies[cookie].Path; if (path.EndsWith(HTTPONLY) == false) { //force HttpOnly to be added to the cookie Response.Cookies[cookie].Path += HTTPONLY; } } } }