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Friday, February 27, 2004 3:28 PM

Rubber ducky, you're the one

Neat, glowing (when plugged in) duck USB drive . Sadly, only USB 1.1, but it is 256MB...
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Friday, February 27, 2004 3:10 PM

Today's content on the ASP.NET Developer Center, and foreshadowing...

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 it.
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Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:30 PM

I am agog, and aquiver!

Just looking through the listing of people linked/trackbacked/whatnot to the blog, and I see that somehow (probably by mistake), Larry O'Brien has linked to my blog ! Wow! This is better than working with heavyweights like him and that guy . Gotta go
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Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:26 PM

Windows XP Game Advisor

Stumbled across this today. You can use it to find games in various genres, and for various age groups. Probably best suited for a parent, as my cats have little interest in anything other that Word. Once you find a game that looks interesting, you can
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Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:02 AM

Look what snuck out to the web yesterday...

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 ASP.NET
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004 5:14 PM

Upcoming Microsoft product

For edizzling your dox 'n shizzizle: TTFN - Kent PS: Thanks, Chris
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004 3:11 PM

Single Sign-on Enterprise Security for Web Applications

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-on
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004 11:43 AM

Cash for feedback!

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 we
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Wednesday, February 25, 2004 7:36 AM

Welcome ClayCo!

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
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Tuesday, February 24, 2004 10:38 PM

You can get here from there

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 my ears).
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Monday, February 23, 2004 10:02 PM

Test request

I've started to add the resources people have been sending me to an OPML file. I don't have anything to test said OPML file now. Could someone kindly try downloading it into a reader? It's also available by clicking on the Resource Sites category on the
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Monday, February 23, 2004 7:23 PM

Sort by Name

Here more as a reminder to myself than any use for anyone else. I've been having an 'issue' with Petard -- it wouldn't let me sort my Programs menu. Seems if you disable, “Drag and Drop” on the Start menu , that feature goes away. Instead
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Monday, February 23, 2004 4:34 PM

New Business of Software posted

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
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Monday, February 23, 2004 4:07 PM

Making sense of ASP.NET Paths

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 for reminding
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Monday, February 23, 2004 2:11 PM

Calling all community sites

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
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:52 PM

Julia (and Ted) discuss ASP.NET Security

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 Security)
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:30 PM

Shanku arrives online

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 ASP
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Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:14 PM

Add MSDE to your setup

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 a
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:26 PM

I think I've been married too long

During a brief discussion of yesterday's chicken soup (dinner/supper), M & I attempted to remember the yiddish word for the fat layer that forms on cold chicken soup. We simultaneously remembered it and blurted it out in stereo. Either she's going
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 9:11 PM

You've got questions, we'll find answers

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 any
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 7:54 PM

ASP.NET Resource Kit registration app issues

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
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Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:41 PM

Come and get it!

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 our
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Tuesday, February 17, 2004 2:35 PM

ATI HDTV Wonder card

Wow -- HD TV on your PC: http://www.ati.com/companyinfo/press/2004/4732.html “North American customers will be able to tune in and watch high-definition television (HDTV) programs on the PC without having to purchase an expensive TV that could cost
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Monday, February 16, 2004 9:04 AM

My word, but the hackers are getting clever...

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, toolbars
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Sunday, February 15, 2004 5:00 PM

Availability of the Whidbey Beta

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 public beta with
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:44 PM

More ASP.NET controls

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 everything
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:38 PM

OOF

As Eric says , there is a tradition at Microsoft of setting your OOF (Out Of oFfice) message when you'll be gone for a while, often to something humourous (inspirational message, haiku, etc.) Looks like D gave someone a nice present this Valentine's day
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 11:28 PM

Web Wizards, without the mess

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.htm TTFN
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 5:05 PM

Security Webcasts Week

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 ),
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Saturday, February 14, 2004 12:58 PM

TheServerSide.net

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 Bustamante
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Thursday, February 12, 2004 2:39 PM

Oh oh, Nikhil's looking at XAML

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://www.nikhilk.net/Entry.aspx?id=30
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Tuesday, February 10, 2004 10:31 AM

Where'd it go? (was ASP.NET Resource Kit)

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,
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Monday, February 09, 2004 10:17 PM

An oldie, but a goodie

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 off of
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Monday, February 09, 2004 10:03 PM

Mozilla Phoenix^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Firebird^H^H^H^Hfox 0.8 released

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
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Saturday, February 07, 2004 1:56 PM

Re-enabling user:pass with IE

I made this comment over at David Cumps' blog, but in the interest of blam (blog spam), I'll repeat it here: David's posting is a description of the Registry poke you can do to re-enable the URL form: protocol://<user>:<password>@<host>:<port>/<url-path>
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Friday, February 06, 2004 10:06 PM

I *knew* there was something he wasn't telling us...

Just on a lark, I was Googling the assorted “Content Strategists” at MSDN. The usual links, but then... It seems our little Frank has more to his name than just a wicked-deep knowledge of COM+ ... http://movies.go.com/filmography/Filmography?person_id=357855
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Friday, February 06, 2004 5:28 PM

More controls to Paypal for

Faithful readers will know I'm slow on the uptake. So, they will hopefully forgive me while I tell the rest of you about two great sources for great ASP.NET controls: MetaBuilders : Andy, Andy, Andy. You just always know what to build. The controls here
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Friday, February 06, 2004 2:49 PM

Finite State Machines, Wizards and the Web

Well, Michele wins my pick for “Most NNN[1] title on the ASP.NET Developer Center ” this week. :D Excellent article , though. In it Michele discusses how you can create Wizard-like apps in ASP.NET 1.1, and how ASP.NET Whidbey will make it
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Friday, February 06, 2004 2:20 PM

Shopping for a new gadget?

Brighthand has a nice look forward to upcoming handhelds and smart phones. Best look at it before you go out and buy something currently available. TTFN - Kent PS: Trying to convince myself to buy a new phone. Or maybe a handheld. Thoughts?
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Thursday, February 05, 2004 10:25 PM

Finns... yikes...

OK, normally I listen to strange stuffage (by most people's ears, anyway), but this is on the edge: via BoingBoing : Take a group of men from the northern Finnish town of Oulu... dress them in dark suits with black ties made from the inner tubes of car
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Thursday, February 05, 2004 6:08 PM

Managed DirectX

Tom Miller , dev guy over at DirectX is looking for reasons not to use DirectX. We've just gone through a nice Managed DirectX book due out soonish, and I can't think of any reasons (unless you want your app to be slow and boring). Help him out. TTFN
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Thursday, February 05, 2004 3:42 PM

Today's dose of ASP.NET content

We have two articles for your pleasure today on the ASP.NET Developer Center . Note that if you look at the home page, you won't see them now, but the links below will work. They'll appear on the homepage Friday afternoon. What's a week like without at
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Monday, February 02, 2004 9:56 PM

So true, so sad...

http://www.pvponline.com/archive.php3?archive=20040126 <sigh> Maybe I should get the Namco joystick . Used to love Bosconian. TTFN - Kent
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Sunday, February 01, 2004 1:45 PM

More on SCO (I'll try to stop)

Well, “MyDoom-day” has come and I'm actually getting decent perf (570kpbs, even with Launchcast running, so probably closer to the 768 kbps that I'm paying for). The Internet is not “ overwhelmed ”, and www.microsoft.com still
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