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Friday, May 28, 2004 4:29 PM

It's coming...

Windows XP Service Pack 2 is going to have an effect on many applications, it's best to be prepared before something happens. Read How to Make Your Web Site Work with Windows XP Service Pack 2 before bad stuff happens.™ TTFN - Kent
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Friday, May 28, 2004 4:18 PM

100% Pure .NET -- or is it?

The latest .NET in the Real World column is now up. Scott (very patient) Hanselman provides us with an answer to the eternal CxO question, “Do we have to port everything to .NET?” Further to the purpose and content of the .NET in the Real
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Friday, May 28, 2004 9:49 AM

Removing a Search Folder from OWA

When I'm not in the office, I tend to use OWA almost exclusively, and I love it. My only (slight) irritation lately was that I had an old Search Folder listed, and I kind of wanted to remove it. Finally did, so I'll use this lovely technology thingie
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Friday, May 28, 2004 9:21 AM

Rob makes it official...

Rob Howard makes it official . Today is/was his last day at Microsoft. We will all be sorry to see him go, but I know I look forward to keep working with him — he can't keep all that knowledge, energy and skill to himself. I wish him only the best
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 8:22 PM

Idle rainy day thoughts

As I walked in today through the rain, my Karma picked Enya to be the perfect soundtrack for depression. Yes, I could have flipped to the next song, but I never argue with anything called 'Karma' first thing in the morning. I don't drive, but occasionally
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:16 AM

What is the future of VSS?

In this Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) world (well, soon), what will become of our old companion, Visual SourceSafe ? Here's the Roadmap . (For those who don't want to RTFA, VSS is *not* part of VSTS, and there will be a VSS 2005, launching with Visual
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 11:06 AM

What do superheroes do when they're not?

Great set o' PhotoShopped images of assorted heroes in non-heroic positions . Including my personal favourite: TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 9:36 AM

Making an ASP.NET Web Site Accessible

Scott Mitchell (you remember him, don't you) returns to the ASP.NET Developer Center after a lengthy absense (couple of weeks) with a great article on a topic that doesn't get much attention: Web Site Accessibility . People building government Web sites,
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004 9:34 PM

Dual... as in 2, right?

IWill coming out with a Small Form Factor (SFF) PC that will support Dual AMD Opterons: http://www.iwill.net/zmax/zmaxdp_1.asp Looks to be the same size case as Shuttles et al. Hopefully quiet as well — and likely a nice foot warmer. TTFN - Ken
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:19 PM

New VS2005 readme file available

For those who've received the new May Community Technical Preview of Visual Studio 2005 (or for those curious about it), the latest ReadMe file is now live . TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 10:38 AM

gadget shopping...

I think Laura has found the ultimate gadget for us. I wonder if M will let me get one? http://www.dimensionprinting.com/product_specs.html Nothing communicates design ideas faster than a three-dimensional part or model. With a Dimension 3D Printer, you
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:12 AM

Support? I got your support *right* here...

Ten years worth. At least. Today, at TechEd, Andrew Lees announced that there's a new policy for *all* business and server products (highlights mine): This announcement affects the Support Lifecycle Policy for current and future Visual Studio and .NET
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Monday, May 24, 2004 5:37 PM

"Where has that tie been?"

New study shows that doctors' ties may contain (and transfer) bacteria and molds: TTFN - Kent
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Monday, May 24, 2004 5:04 PM

A day in the life...

With so many people at TechEd this week, it's scary-quiet around here. With that in mind, and also the fact that it's been a while since I last oozed or gotten into internal joy, I've decided to share with you a probably not so average day in the "life"
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Monday, May 24, 2004 2:05 PM

Chris writes a nice guide to finding all the Burton info

Good Mr. Sells seeks info, finds it, and sends our way: http://www.sellsbrothers.com/news/showTopic.aspx?ixTopic=1359 “Here are some things that tickled my fancy: Data binding to drive web site testing. I want the same thing for stand-along client
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Monday, May 24, 2004 11:53 AM

Duncan is busy at TechEd

via Brian's moblog : TTFN - Kent
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Monday, May 24, 2004 8:46 AM

Visual Studio Team System

Announcement #1 out of TechEd for Visual Studio developers: The Visual Studio Team System . This is the new set of life-cycle tools soon to be on a desktop near you. These will include (depending on edition): PreFast and FxCop help developers detect coding
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Friday, May 21, 2004 3:35 PM

Firefox & Netscape 7.1

One of the support questions I got this week was around my favourite browser (and the latest Netscape one) and ASP.NET. ASP.NET 1.1 doesn't recognize Firefox by default. It therefore doesn't set the Browser[“css2“] property appropriately,
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004 12:12 PM

Michele is blogging!

Michele Leroux Bustamante is now blogging -- Web Services, Architecture and more. Plus, a great name for the site. www.dasblonde.net TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, May 18, 2004 1:45 PM

The Big Red Button

I have this expression that I've used since back in my training/consulting days that people around me are probably bored of hearing. “ Everyone wants a big red button ” Basically, everyone wants something that does their job for them at a
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Monday, May 17, 2004 11:51 AM

BHOs and other TLAs

A few weeks back, but an interesting article from Michele Leroux Bustamante on creating Browser Helper Objects (BHOs) using managed code . I've been tempted a few times to take a poke at this very topic, so nice it's already done for me. TTFN - Kent
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Friday, May 14, 2004 3:34 PM

Enterprise Services, ASP.NET, AD/AM and Membership

All topics for today's articles, just in bundles of fewer than four: Jit Ghosh arrives on the ASP.NET Developer Center with an article many looking at ASP.NET 2.0 (formerly codenamed 'Whidbey') have looked for -- creating a Membership Provider for Active
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:30 PM

Microcaching

Intriguing article on caching for very short periods as a means of (dramatically) increasing Web app perf by Steve Smith on ASP Alliance. Would love to see someone test this on a larger scale. TTFN - Kent
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004 9:10 PM

Admins gone wild

For all those who wonder just “how things get done” at Bill's Fish Shoppe and Software Emporium, this Tech Ed preview is sometimes frighteningly close via Brian Goldfarb : http://blogs.msdn.com/bgold/archive/2004/05/10/129210.aspx TTFN - Ken
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Thursday, May 06, 2004 4:52 PM

Voice of Support

As well as the ASP.NET Developer Center , there is another great source for ASP.NET information @ Microsoft -- the ASP.NET Support Center . This site is run by PSS (Product Support Services - you know, the folk that answer your calls and solve your problems.
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004 8:05 PM

{Insert Keanu-like 'woah' here}

Via the most excellent Powertoys blog : Simply put -- an add-in that lets you leverage the PInvoke Wiki to automagically add API declartions to your code without leaving Visual Studio. Very sweet. TTFN - Kent
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Wednesday, May 05, 2004 8:10 AM

Creating Dynamic Themes and Skins in ASP.NET

MSDN Webcast: Creating Dynamic Themes and Skins in ASP.NET Date: Thursday, May 06, 2004 Time: 1:00PM-2:30PM Pacific Time (GMT-7, US & Canada) Description: Redesigning a web site can prove to be a very time consuming process unless a good amount of
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004 5:50 PM

Don't you just love it when code works?

Result of this afternoon was strangely satisfying: private void button2_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e) { RssClient c = new RssClient(); c.LoadOpmlFile(http://weblogs.asp.net/opml.aspx); this.textBox1.Text = c.GetRss(); } That took a little while
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004 3:02 PM

Today's thought

Overheard in the latte line: “It's so version 1” Discuss, TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:30 AM

Business Value of .NET

The latest article from the Microsoft Regional Directors (in this case, Paul Sheriff ) is now live: The Business Value of .NET Looking at the comments on the previous column , there are some questions around these articles. The intent is not to provide
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Monday, May 03, 2004 4:00 PM

Well, that must have been a restful weekend...

I stared at the e-mail. It stared back. After what seemed like minutes, the pixels formed letters. I realized that it was actually telling me that there were two new articles on the ASP.NET Developer Center . First up, is a new article, from a new author
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