Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11

At the PDC? At home? Now everyone can see the Powerpoints shown at the PDC. Duncan has added the available decks (and sample code) to the sessions list ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/events/pdc/agendaandsessions/sessions/default.aspx ) Enjoy...

I'm hoping you've all seen this already, but there are new Whidbey articles, and the Hands-On Labs from the PDC up on the ASP.NET Developer Center . See them here . Also, in case you want to know more about the rock stars that write for the ASP.NET Developer...

Oh, I sooooooo wanted this idea and product to succeed, it's (almost) an idea I've been pushing for a while. Sadly, I changed my mind once I got to the ordering page. USD$3970 is about USD$2470 more than I was willing to pay. Maybe OQO will have a cheaper...

Everything here at the MSDN machine was just a little.... urgent today. Controlled and calm, but urgent (at least in my office). Still, I think I'm ready. Whidbey section in place, Authors section in place, current version of my life generated out to...

Brian Goldfab (Product Manager for the Web features of Visual Studio .NET) took a field trip to PHPCon . Much fun had by all, by the sounds of things. Perhaps I should join him next year -- lots to learn from those good folk... Before I came down I was...

Just in case you need to find Random while you're at the PDC, and you're not sure what he looks like... Short version of the story -- D is being a crunch-god again, and Laura decided to thank him. Ho. Ho. Ho. TTFN - Kent PS: I guess this was...

I was looking at some of the fine ASP.NET Hands-on Labs that will be waiting for people at some conference upcoming (and hopefully shortly thereafter on a dev center I've heard about). As I went through, this caught my eye: public class BusinessObject...

In case you were wondering how this was possible, here's an interesting factino: At this point, System.Web.dll contains well over 1,000 public classes built from over 300,000 lines of code, compared to its version 1 counterpart which had 321...

Not on MSDN yet (it's on the [great] other place ), but there is now an Alpha of an ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant: The ASP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant is designed to help you convert ASP pages and applications to ASP.NET. It does not make the...

The man I wish I could be -- Doug Purdy -- is hinting a fair bit about his upcoming PDC talk. That one should be good. I feel almost like Dave in 2010 -- “Something ... wonderful ... is about to happen.” Go to the talk, you'll come out...

New versions of FireBird (0.7) and Thunderbird (0.3) both out today. Just the thing for a download deprived (my cable modem got replaced, thanks for asking) person. TTFN - Kent

(Yet Another RSS Feed) I see that Sys-Con also has an RSS feed, and they're promising that it will be staffed by many excellent folk I've worked with in the past: The .NETDJ RSS Feed - The Next Best Thing to Attending the PDC Editor-in-chief...

"Get Test Infected with NUnit: Unit Test Your .NET Data Access Layer" is now live. ASP.NET Dev Center url: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnet-testwithnunit.asp TTFN - Kent PS: We're going to have...

New section up on the ASP.NET Developer Center : Introduction to ASP.NET for PHP developers . Includes a whitepaper comparing PHP to ASP.NET (I didn't write it, don't send me hate mail!), and a number of great resources that most of you should know about...

Todd Bishop (the guy over at the Seattle PI who watches the company ) blogs about a new Forbes article series / graphic showing Bill's worth over the last 10 years, juxtaposed with public and private events in his life. TTFN - Kent

I hear that there has been some 'issue' with the RPC service lately. OK, that's a bad joke, and I apologize for it, despite the fact I didn't write it. Either way, one of the nasty side effects of said beastie is your computer randomly rebooting. This...

Scott Mitchell writes about his spam blocker. I'm intrigued (and will likely try it out -- Scott's a bright guy). Like Scott, I've never been afraid of posting my e-mail address on the web. In fact, Random & I have had internal fights about it (on...

Last two articles new for today: Mike Amundsen returns with Part 2 of his critically acclaimed "Jumping into ASP.NET". This time , Mike looks at the database for the system. Paul Sheriff lands on MSDN with an article for the ASP developer in...

Based on a wise request from SoMeone , I've added a Headline Archive page to the ASP.NET Developer Center . I've started adding old headlines to it, but hopefully this will get populated more later, and be the one place for you to look to find 'old' articles...

OK, I've (finally) updated the headlines on the ASP.NET Developer Center with the articles I mentioned yesterday. I'll have a few more changes for you later today (after I get a coffee). TTFN - Kent

Well, despite me abandoning MSDN , the beast continued to work, and a few more articles appeared on the ASP.NET Developer Center . Please enjoy G. Andrew Duthie (aka Graymad) has arrived on the Dev Center: Adding Design-Time Support to ASP.NET Controls...

I've been thinking a lot about bandwidth these days. First, last Wednesday, my cable modem started to act up. It would work for a while, then begin endless cycles of restarting itself. First an hour of work, then 1/2 an hour, then on Saturday, it was...

Early & Adopter (and their folk) have been busy creating a whack o' videos on .NET. This one examines the Starter Kit Time Tracker application . Learn how decisions made during implementation affect the performance and reliability of your line-of...