Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11

Only one new article to chew on over the weekend: The Road Warrior himself ( Bill Evjen ) returns with an article on using the File Upload control . Sure, it's much easier than uploading files in ASP 3.0, but there are still a few tricks to using...

In all the hubub around the release of Paul's article yesterday, I forgot to notice, and mention that Andrew Duthie is back with another great article on Whidbey (Those who haven't gotten your hands on it yet, sorry. Soon...) Caching Improvements in...

At last, I can stop apologizing to Paul Sheriff , as we've finally published his article. In Single Sign-on Enterprise Security for Web Applications Paul shows how to create a solution that enables multiple intranet applications to share a single sign...

Probably somewhere, but not here, I'm just going to beg for feedback. Seeing as how Chris is asking for feedback , and it's been a while since I asked last , it's time for me to ask all of you what you think of the ASP.NET Developer Center , and how...

ClayCo (Compton) starts blogging. Clay is a tester for ASP.NET. I've always been a little amazed at the testers at Microsoft. In other companies, testers are junior devs, or even non-devs that just like to break programs. Here, they often perform major...

Now live - two Migration Assistants: PHP to ASP.NET Migration Assistant - Not just the tool, but also a great deal of excellent articles to help PHP developers understand the way of ASP.NET (sorry, Scott Hanselman 's zen comments still echoing in...

Eric Sink's latest column: Be Careful Where You Build is now live. In it, Eric discusses choosing the best platform for your applications, and provides some insight into why to choose each. TTFN - Kent

via Rick Strahl's blog: (old FoxPro developers never die...) http://west-wind.com/weblog/posts/269.aspx An excellent blogicle (blog article) describing each of the paths in ASP.NET, and what they actually point to. TTFN - Kent PS: Thanks to YAG...

Do you host ASP.NET or Visual Studio content? Please send me the link to your RSS file, as these fine folks have: 4 Guys From Rolla ASP Alliance www.asp.net Code Project 123ASPX MSDN ASP.NET Developer Center TTFN - Kent

I wish I could take in Julia's talk . She's going to discuss why you want to limit the rights of the account ASP.NET runs under. OK, this was a gratuitous plug for DevDays . Try to find the time to take them in. Lots of Web & security (& Web...

Shanku Niyogi (Group Program Manager for ASP.NET) has finally taken the plunge and created a blog. Let's see if he can shame a few people into writing more . Or would you rather have them work on something else ? As the Group Program Manager of the...

This one snuck past us (LAST YEAR!!!), or at least me, to find it's way to the web. Should be good for those trying to deploy MSDE as part of your solutions... (by way of Brian Desmond's blog ) The MSDE 2000 Deployment Toolkit (release candidate) is...

We're thinking of adding a new feature to the ASP.NET Developer Center , Q&A with ASP.NET's Who's who. General questions aimed at assorted ASP.NET product team members, and other authors I can get to answer my grotty e-mails. Thoughts? Are there...

For those that don't read through *all* my comments: Feb 18, 2004: The Resource Kit License Key registration application is having some technical problems right now. We apologize for the inconvenience and we expect that these problems will be resolved...

Sorry for the delay. The ASP.NET Resource Kit is NOW AVAILABLE. Details at http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/asprk/ . For those who downloaded it last week, don't bother, it hasn't changed. Spread the news far & wide! Let's see if you can break...

News from NetCraft: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/02/15/visual_spoofing_offers_new_opportunities_for_phishers.html Visual spoofing, as outlined by Don Park , uses javascript links to launch a new browser window without scrollbars, menubars...

For once, it's not me, but ScottGu himself saying dates. via Chris Garty: http://weblogs.asp.net/chrisgarty/archive/2004/02/16/73455.aspx The summary: The first public beta will be released in June There will be releases before the first...

Scott Hanselman writes about some controls I have to take a look at by Peter Blum . http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PermaLink.aspx?guid=5291897b-8f7f-4289-b1d7-6ba6c381892b I trust Scott's opinion on this (actually, I'd trust his opinion on just about...

via William Bartholomew : Fritz Onion has posted an interesting article about how to write ASP.NET projects without using Web Projects and the associated bindings to IIS etc. http://staff.develop.com/onion/Samples/aspdotnet_without_web_projects...

Did you know (yes, you should care) that next week (Feb 16-20, 2004) is Security Webcast week ? Take a few of them in -- I like the fact that there are talks from two of the ASP.NET Developer Center authors ( Paul Sheriff , Michele Leroux Bustamante...

Finally got around to looking at TheServerSide.NET . Looks like it will be a great source of information -- good Mr. Neward is wise beyond his years (in both Java and .NET). Also noted: Frequent ASP.NET Developer Center contributor Michele Leroux...

Nikhil Kothari (Dev Lead for ASP.NET, creator of the creature that became known as Web Matrix, etc. etc.) has started playing with Avalon and XAML. Big things coming, I would think. The “little app“ he created is amazing looking... http...

A few people noticed an interesting download appear (and now disappear) from the MSDN downloads center. We crave your patience. It will return soon, we just need to get some pages up first. I'll let you know once it's back and available. In the meantime...

A customer request came in today, and I always feel that if one person is asking, 19 are likely fumbling around trying to find it. For those 19: ASP 3.0 object reference Scripting reference : this continues to be one of the most requested vroots...

Old news, but the most recent version of Firefox 0.8 (formerly Firebird, formerly Phoenix) has been released, along with the newest version of the Mozilla mail client, Thunderbird (formerly... Minotaur?) Not much new in this one, all I really noticed...