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Friday, October 29, 2004 11:31 AM

If you don't put in your $1.05, who will?

Time for the foreigner to exhort all US citizens to go out & vote on Tuesday. I don't feel that anyone has the right to tell you who to vote for, but I feel that I must tell you *to* vote. People who feel the need to live in a democracy and not exercise
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Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:20 PM

Data Access, but like, with objects...

Stephen Walther continues his survey of ASP.NET 2.0 features with a look at the new ObjectDataSource control . I have to admit that as a "middle-tier guy", I love this control.
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Thursday, October 28, 2004 11:12 AM

Debugging MUIDs

Wednesday started out fairly normal -- look through all my "ContactUS", "VS2005 You wanted to know" and other support-related emails. One was from one of my Product Managers , though. In one sense, that means higher priority (he knows how to find my office),
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Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:09 PM

Essentially ASP.NET

If you haven't read Fritz Onion 's Essential ASP.NET yet, go get a copy in your favourite language (as long as your favourite language is C# or VB.NET). It will give you something to do while you wait for Fritz's upcoming webcast series starting November
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Sunday, October 24, 2004 7:03 PM

How bread (and ASP.NET 2.0) is made

Scott Guthrie has an amazing look into the 'end game' of how software gets released from Microsoft. It also has the cleanest explanation of "tell" and "ask" mode I've ever read (never had the guts to ask anyone).
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Thursday, October 21, 2004 4:13 PM

MSDN hearts Firefox (and IE)

First Duncan made sure that LiveBookmarks work in Firefox 1.0 , and now Lowell has fixed the appearance of code in Library articles. That solution Lowell came up with was a rather interesting dive into browser differences that still exist (maybe not a
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Wednesday, October 20, 2004 4:33 PM

Something new, something blue

Two articles for you today: Still making money off of ASP.NET 1.1? Take a look at Callum Shillan's Dynamic Creation of Validation Controls for those times when you just don't know what you'll need to do to validate Looking forward to making more money
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Monday, October 18, 2004 12:56 PM

Which way is the big ship going?

One set of questions we get a lot are around the plans behind Visual Studio 2005. It's often difficult for people to find the information from those who know . We've now (hopefully) made it easier for you to find out with a new page highlighting the Developer
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Sunday, October 17, 2004 2:42 PM

Mostly non-technical

... I just needed a rant space. I've just spent 10-20 minutes trying to track down a bug in some code in a Windows Service I was writing, "Cannot close stream until all bytes are written." Get stream length. Yup, right size Get ContentLength property.
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Friday, October 15, 2004 10:45 AM

Why can't ASP.NET open that file? (and other questions answered)

The most recent ASP.NET Support Voice is live. This month, Mike Clay from Product Support answers common security issues around ASP.NET accessing resources. In short: "It is very common for developers to remotely access file shares, Web services, databases,
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Friday, October 15, 2004 10:42 AM

Go on a Safari hunt in Whidbey

No, of course this isn't a discussion of the wildlife in Whidbey . Instead, this is about O'Reilly's incredibly excellent Safari Bookshelf. If you're not familiar with Safari, it's a site you can get access to the full text of books from over 2000 books
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Thursday, October 14, 2004 9:42 AM

Go Google yourself!

Google Desktop launched (OK, Beta). " Use Google Desktop Search to find: Web pages you've previously seen in Internet Explorer Email you've sent or received via Outlook or Outlook Express IM chats you've had using AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) Files in
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 5:27 PM

Jobs @ MSDN

Shawn and Matt posting about some of the many jobs available at MSDN, in case you know of anyone interested. Also hidden (mostly) in Matt's posting -- the Mighty D is moving from "Content Strategy" to fulltime dev again. He'll be building the infrastructure
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Wednesday, October 13, 2004 4:44 PM

Buying Visual Studio

We've launched a new section on MSDN today - " How to Buy ". Possibly not a major need for all of you, but I think it's a great improvement over the previous random pages people had to meander over, credit card in hand, desperately trying to find a link
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 3:20 PM

Why wait for DetailsView?

Dino is back, and he brought presents. The DetailsView control is one of the most intriguing ones (for me) in ASP.NET 2.0. However, why wait until ASP.NET 2.0 ships? In this article , Dino creates a DetailsView control that works with ASP.NET 1.1 code
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 9:29 AM

How to catch a Roadrunner.

The scene: Cafe 36 Dramatis personae: D , B and K I can't remember how the discussion turned to the greatest mind that ever came out of the Southwestern US desert, but it was D that began the rant, "You know how the coyote would strap on rocket skates,
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Tuesday, October 12, 2004 8:47 AM

Exercising the lump

Yesterday as I rode home, I decided on an exercise that I would hope help awaken the grams of fat that I store between my ears - each day, I'd pick important lyrics from the first song I hear each morning, and attempt to live it all day. So, today begins
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Monday, October 11, 2004 2:51 PM

Web Parts! Hot toasy Web Parts! Getcher Web Parts here!

Stephen Walther continues his survey of ASP.NET 2.0 with a look at working with the Web Part Framework
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Thursday, October 07, 2004 8:41 AM

Retro (and uber) geeks Register here...

Dino pointed this out to me this morning. I'll let you decide if you want to click the link , but I'll give you this line to tempt you. <%@ page language="Asm80386" %>
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 3:31 PM

Themes in ASP.NET 2.0

Stephen Walther continues his exploration of ASP.NET 2.0 with a look at Themes and Skins , two of the cooler features upcoming. Makes me wish I had designer abilities beyond drawing crooked lines...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2004 12:22 AM

Take Action on ASP.NET Vulnerability

We have become aware of a vulnerability in ASP.NET (all versions) that could allow a Web site visitor to access secured content by using a specially crafted request to the server. Note that this does not affect IIS, only ASP.NET. See this page or this
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004 11:04 PM

Yum! Fresh RSS

Duncan's dev effort is now live, and the new, slicker RSS feeds are now available on the ASP.NET and Visual Studio Developer Centers. (and the others as well). You'll hopefully notice a few things. Hopefully, that they are more accurate. In addition,
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Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:25 PM

ASP.NET Webcast Series - Oct 18-29

Just a reminder to everyone, in a few weeks (Oct 18-29), we'll be having the ASP.NET Webcast Series . Excellent content from ASP.NET Experts like Rob Howard , Michele Leroux Bustamante , Paul Sheriff and more. Attend three or more of the webcasts, and
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Monday, October 04, 2004 5:58 PM

Testing and thinking…

I'm trying to post this using InfoPath . So far, a little confusing, but I'm thick. Christine & I have been wanting to restructure the ASP.NET Developer Center for a while now. We want to make it easier for all of you to find the content our authors
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