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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 1:19 AM

Visual Web Developer

Part of the new launch (you may have heard about it from about 2000 blog postings starting about midnight Pacific time) is the new Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. This is the new, lightweight version of Visual Studio, tuned for Web development.
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:29 AM

3, 2, 1, 0 -- Houston, we have Beta 1

We have just released a glorious beast onto the world -- Beta 1 of Visual Studio 2005 is now live. In addition, if you look at that URL, you will see that we have also released a new Developer Center for it. This is our first steps at personalizing MSDN
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Tuesday, June 29, 2004 12:05 AM

Two for ASP.NET 2.0

Stephen Walther provides the first two of many articles in the pipe on ASP.NET 2.0: Security changes in ASP.NET 2.0 - covering the login controls, and administration Caching changes in ASP.NET 2.0 - covering SQL caching and the (to me, crazy) post cache
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Monday, June 28, 2004 11:30 AM

Horrid blast from the past

Did something yesterday I had hoped I would never need to do again — get some JavaScript to work in all available browsers. Why are we still having this issue? OK, in this case it was because the “ease of use” item I had been using from
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 9:24 PM

Welcome to the 'mythical' Frank Redmond... ;)

My manager, and man- about .NET Framework , Frank E. Redmond III has joined us all in blogdom . Welcome him, and get him to tell some tales of COM+ and SQL... (and my favourite, Executants and Emissaries) TTFN - Kent PS: I call him mythical as a previous
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Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:41 AM

That's one...

I've just realized that the ASP.NET Developer Center has actually been open for business for a year now. (I had thought the anniversary was 6/26, but it's actually 6/12 ). So much for doing something special for the anniversary. Sorry about that. I had
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Monday, June 21, 2004 12:36 PM

Update to a webcast

This just in... The presentation: Delivering Rich-Client Features with Thin-Client Delivery that was originally scheduled for Thursday, June 24, 2004 from 1:00PM-2:30PM will now be held on Friday July 16, 2004, at 11am. TTFN - Kent
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Monday, June 21, 2004 12:33 PM

Authors, presentations and an apology

Sorry I haven't been updating this as often as I should, I've been preternaturally busy [1]. I just posted author's pages for two of my favourite ASP.NET authors: Stephen Walther : author of far too many great ASP.NET books to list here. some guy named
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Friday, June 18, 2004 11:19 PM

Back on the monkey

While the infamous (to me) cold turkey episode in St. Louis taught me a lot. Today taught me more. I'm going back on the meds. It's time for you, my faithful reader (and management, seeing as how it's review time), to determine if that has any effect
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Thursday, June 17, 2004 7:52 AM

Fishing (and learning) with CHuM...

Scott reminds me that MSDN magazine is also now available in downloadable CHM files . Just the thing for that commute read. Just not while you're driving, please. TTFN - Kent
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Wednesday, June 16, 2004 4:48 PM

Disabling comments (hopefully temporarily)

Until the blog spam problem goes away, or I have time to play Whack-a-mole more, I'm disabling comments. Send them directly to me if you really must tell me something. TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, June 15, 2004 11:37 AM

ASP.NET 2.0 in MSDN magazine

The ASP.NET 2.0 issue content from MSDN magazine is now online. Loads o' goodness. TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 9:06 PM

Avoiding "High volume e-mail distributors"

While I enjoy spam (or “High volume e-mail deployers” as some call it [caution - big video, requires DivX]) as much as the next person, John (no blog) pointed out Mailinator to me today. It's a service that is essentially a one hour inbox.
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:41 AM

Susan Warren spotting

Susan Warren , who shall ever remain the Marchioness of ASP.NET Server Controls in my mind, provides us with a glimpse at what she's been doing lately with a nice article on a Wrapper to help making Smart Documents for Office ... TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 11:40 AM

ViewState, as in, "What my brain does not support"

This actually went live a few days ago, but I missed it. Scott Mitchell returns to the Mitchell, Scott Developer Network with Understanding ASP.NET View State . TTFN - Kent
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 10:47 AM

Tired of Application Restart? Try the purple pill...

If the Purple Pill doesn't do anything for your application restarts, try reading the latest Voice of Support column: Why is my ASP.NET application restarting? TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004 4:01 PM

Messenger Plus

It's been a while since I used Messenger Plus , but I re-installed it today. So much good and/or fun stuff for those of us that run MSN Messenger a lot to communicate with people. From automatically marking you as away if you lock your machine, through
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Monday, June 07, 2004 3:57 PM

Preparing for the upcoming Whidbey trip

No, I'm no planning a vacation -- this is for those who are planning on upgrading to Whidbey (aka Visual Studio 2005, aka ASP.NET 2.0, etc.) Dino Esposito : Rearchitecting your Web applications for ASP.NET 2.0 TTFN - Kent
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Saturday, June 05, 2004 5:25 PM

Playing with VS, without installing VS

Forgot to mention in all the Java Resource Center updates, we also added a neat simulator for Visual Studio to the Visual Studio Developer Center . It walks you through the (should be) classic Three apps in 10 minutes scenario. Great to demo to people
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Saturday, June 05, 2004 1:57 PM

Patriot games

Ah {insert semi-satisfied sigh here} M & I just voted. Although not in this election , nor that , but this one . I've been saddened lately by my inability to exercise said right for a while, so we decided to ping Elections Canada and maintain the
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Saturday, June 05, 2004 1:29 PM

Have a 'Community' site?

You may want to register it with the Microsoft Community Program . Fame & fortune await. TTFN - Kent
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Saturday, June 05, 2004 10:26 AM

Java Resource Center

After much sweat (from John & I), cussing (from Dan , Brian and I), pleading (from Dan ), and something akin to effort (by all), the Java Resource Center is now live on MSDN. This is meant to be the place that those who like their development caffeinated
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Thursday, June 03, 2004 6:13 PM

Firedrills

I'll tell you more, once I get the time... TTFN - Kent
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Wednesday, June 02, 2004 6:43 PM

Forget Babelfish, now there's BabelCode!

Neat link from the good folk @ Borland -- an experimental C# to Delphi Convertor , done as a Web Service (and ASP.NET page ). Had to try it, so I grabbed a little C# from the C# FAQ (I'm not on my dev box right now). End result: type Test = class strict
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Wednesday, June 02, 2004 4:47 PM

News news news news news

Bill Evjen somehow has become aware of (and shares with the world): Reuters RSS Feeds Released! Now I can get my fill of “ Oddly Enough ” all the time... TTFN - Kent
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004 3:17 PM

Crystal Reports blog

Probably way old news for most, but there is a Crystal Reports team blog . TTFN - Kent
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