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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:31 PM

Retro bike redux

Schwinn has created a new, retro-styled bike that comes pretty close to my first bike , but this one is pretty cool. The only problems I can think of having it are: I certainly couldn't/wouldn't be doing the STP on it (not like I will anyway) I'd be forced
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 7:11 PM

.NET Book of the Month Club

The divine and datagridesque Marcie lets us all know that: I ran across The .NET Book Club today, which is apparently run by Jeff Julian . http://weblogs.asp.net/datagridgirl/archive/2004/03/30/104174.aspx Looks like Jeff has kicked off not one, but at
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 4:13 PM

Hey - they changed my Dev Center!

The brownies (aka, Christine, my Site Manager) have taken a look at the feedback you all (the three of you) have sent in. The end result is the new ASP.NET Developer Center home page. Obviously still a work in progress, but open for business, and looking
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Wednesday, March 31, 2004 2:57 PM

I'm back.... like you cared

For the two of you that care, I went off to the appropriately spelled , but incorrectly named nearby National Park . Read the first five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the first fiction I've read in well over a year). Did a lot of walking
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:49 PM

It's always Nightest before Dawn...

Before the new Dawn of the Dead , before the Day of the Dead , before the old Dawn of the Dead , there was the Night of the Living Dead . Now available for download! Legally! Free! Creative Commons license: Public Domain http://www.archive.org/movies/details-db.php?collection=feature_films&collectionid=night_of_the_living_dead&from=collectionSpotlight
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:42 PM

not Dr. Gui, but Dr. Ex

Old news (he/she/it already has 4 posts), but if you have Visual Studio Extensibility questions, ask the Doctor ... TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:36 PM

Extending Visual Studio, and some extras

AaronM posts: http://weblogs.asp.net/aaronmar/archive/2004/03/23/94907.aspx VSIP EXTRAS IS RELEASED In addition, we've also launched a new section on MSDN devoted to Visual Studio extensibility called the “Visual Studio Extensibility Center”
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:04 PM

Sneaky little articles!!!

Henry informed me that a couple of wild beasts are on the rampage. What's that? No wild beasts? Only ASP.NET articles? OK. Sorry, Henry informs me that a couple of ASP.NET articles were published today on the ASP.NET Developer Center . Scott Mitchell
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 5:02 PM

Peace, out (for a little while)

The Original Evil Hungarian Wench® and I are heading out for a week of non-computer related work (hiking, snowshoeing, etc.), so the ASP.NET and Visual Studio Developer Centers will be running without me for a while. Not like any of you will notice,
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004 8:44 AM

Whid -- uhm, "Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center"

John (no blog) and I are hoping to get the start of the Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center up in the next few days. The idea isn't to irritate anyone without access to the Betas, but instead to provide a more isolated means of providing you the information
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Friday, March 19, 2004 4:49 PM

Personal hierarchical storage

An idle thought on a Friday afternoon while I wait for SpaceMonger to tell me the worst culprits for bulking out my HDD. What if there were a service running that archives files & folders you don't use frequently to “something” (ZIP format
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Friday, March 19, 2004 4:26 PM

36% of respondents have gotten in trouble because of things they have written on their blogs

Blog Survey: Expectations of Privacy and Accountability © Fernanda Viégas, 2004 http://web.media.mit.edu/~fviegas/survey/blog/results.htm TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, March 18, 2004 3:30 PM

Local Google Search

Others have blogged about it in the past, but Google's Local Search is out of the labs. And it's so cool! Now, you can search for important nearby items , and find them. Hopefully it will lose the 'Beta' soon (although Google's News site still has it
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 3:20 PM

Rewrite that URL!

Scott Mitchell returns to the ASP.NET Developer Center (has it really been seven days since his last article ?) with a great article on URL Rewriting - creating an engine that will help you create simple, clean URLs, complete with PostBack . Oh, and the
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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:44 PM

Neat Query control on CodeProject

Mike Ellison has written a neat ASP.NET Query Control . Seems like it could be a quick way to crank out query forms. <aq:Query runat= "server" connection= "SqlCon" requeryOnPostback= "false" queryType= "Text" enabled= "true" > <sql> Select
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Monday, March 15, 2004 5:20 PM

Today's "What Would You Do?" (WWYD) Question

<babble worth=“debatable“> While reading an interesting report on various 'Developer Center' web sites, I came up with a thought (it's rare, so I decided to write): Up to now, when we post an article, I've been keeping the mention of
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:26 PM

10th planet? in the house

The Australian is breaking the news that NASA will be announcing the discovery of the 10th planet for our solar system on the 15th (the Ides of March, no less). In addition, they seem to have run out of Roman gods, so have decided to name this one Sedna
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Sunday, March 14, 2004 1:39 PM

Think different

Had my first Apple Store experience on Friday. Ms. Simon's iBook was having issues [1], so we took it in. Our genius, Rob, didn't even make a snide reference to the assorted logowear I had on. Not a flicker from the, “No, we don't have AppleCare
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Friday, March 12, 2004 1:29 PM

Come hither...

Laura (and Ethan) are looking for a tester at MSDN. People who remember/care what I write know for my love of and respect for testers at the mothership , so I think of this as a great opportunity for someone. However, Laura has, uhm, let's just say used
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:12 PM

ASP.NET Security talks in Canada

via Adam Gallant Hey! Where's Winnipeg: AM Sessions: Session 1: Essentials of Application Security Session 2: Writing Secure Code I PM Sessions: Session 1: ASP.NET: Designing and Developing a Line-of-Business Web Session 2: ASP.NET: Best Practices and
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Wednesday, March 10, 2004 1:10 PM

Composite Controls

When Andy gives you a tip on creating ASP.NET controls, you should listen. He's one of the masters . Here he shows how to create a composite control that delegates it's properties to the embedded controls. (Hopefully part one of a series) TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004 4:45 PM

insert Template here

The second half of Scott Mitchell 's Building Templated ASP.NET Server Controls has gone live, so those who tuned into this cliff hanger can now read it. In “ Building DataBound Templated Custom ASP.NET Server Controls “, Scott adds the capability
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004 1:49 PM

There is nothing new under the sun

<rant> “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” - Ecclesiastes 1:9 Probably the one and only time you may see a Bible quote on
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:47 AM

Cute Cat Story

OK, I've tried to keep this blog as personal-less as possible, but I have to get this off my chest. Or shoulder. This morning, at 4:00, one of our cats decided I had been using my pillow solo for too long. After a few minutes of trying to sleep on my
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Tuesday, March 09, 2004 8:42 AM

Rob's on the road again

If you listen carefully, you may hear old Hank Snow songs coming out of his iPod. Seven more dates have been added to the ASP.NET Roadshow (sorry, all in the US). So, if you missed the show on the first sweep through the country, you should try to take
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Monday, March 08, 2004 4:39 PM

Using MSDE?

A whole whack of articles from Brian Randell on working with MSDE in your Web applications has just gone live. Using MSDE 2000 in a Web Application And every possible combination and permutation of: Visual Basic .NET and C# Visual Studio, WebMatrix and
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Sunday, March 07, 2004 11:30 AM

Just the FAQs

Duncan , Eric et al have created a FAQ blog for C# . No doubt Visual Basic is just around the corner. Should ASP.NET follow? Visual Studio? Let me know what you think/want... TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:05 PM

Migration Assistants

Anyone using the ASP to ASP.NET and/or the PHP to ASP.NET Migration Assistants ? How much code did it bring across for you? What didn't it bring across? TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, March 04, 2004 2:03 PM

Unable to start debugging

Marcie lets folk know how to get around the 'Unable to Start Debugging' error: http://weblogs.asp.net/datagridgirl/archive/2004/03/04/83827.aspx On a related note, every once & a while, I hear about the requests coming in from PSS (Product Support
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004 4:15 PM

The Return of the King, baby!

At last, I can let everyone know what I've been soooooo excited about for the last few weeks -- Rob Howard has returned to MSDN : Provider Model Design Pattern and Specification, Part 1 Rob explains why he's been absent for a while (something about shipping
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Monday, March 01, 2004 9:45 PM

powering from waste

As opposed to wasting power. OK, neither ASP.NET nor Visual Studio related, but a neat news item. Scientists can use waste water to generate electricity while purifying the water. Of course, the article doesn't say if they're using pumps to move the waste
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