Visual ActiveKent Sharkey .NET SE 3.11To Serve Mankind...Moving this blog -- need opinions- March 25, 2005 To move the comments, or not to move the comments Whether tis nobler to leave every URL intact or by moving them break them I'm pretty certain I can move all the posts without egregious problems, but the comments may be another matter. Would anyone care if they stayed here Would anyone care andor notice if I did nothing and just started blogging in "the new place" As is often the case, I need your opinions to help my brain decide.http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/24/402048.aspx Browser Security Test- March 24, 2005 Run 37 tests to make certain your browser isn't letting anything in you don't want. via ACMEbinaryhttp://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/23/401315.aspx SQL Web Administrator- March 22, 2005 Even with all of the many powerful resources at my demand to install, I still tend to install SQL Server Developer Edition. I guess it's just that I'm so used to just having that around for testing (and not wasting valuable CALs for testing purposes) that I just don't feel like installing Enterprise on my dev box. (I do install it for dev that needs big box features, of course -- what am I an idiot Oh, right, I am) Installing Dev Edition does mean that I'm usually left with osql for my database.http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/21/400205.aspx Meet the new boss, (not the) same as the old boss...- March 21, 2005 In an attempt at our ongoing efforts to confuse everyone coming to MSDN balance the knowledge and workload at MSDN, we have shuffled a few of the Developer Centers around. While I will still be working on the ASP.NET Developer Center, I am reliquishing my duties on the Visual Studio Developer Center. The good news for all of you is that this means that Brian Johnson, one of the authors of "Inside Visual Studio" will be moving in. As you can probably guess, he knows far more about Visual Studio..http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/21/399884.aspx A modest proposal: DateTime considered evil- March 17, 2005 After documenting some of the problems I had with DateTime when creating my RSS Aggregator, and reading a Google presentation at ETech, I came up with a noble idea. We all use the same date and time. Whereever we are in the world, whatever time of day. So, timezones, Daylight Savings Time, JulianGregorianetc. calendars, RFC 822, RFC 1123 and everything else goes away. Think of how easy life would be -- "I'll you at 5". 5:00 PST 5:00 EST 5:00 Arizona whacky Time GMT 5:30 in Newfoundland...http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/17/398308.aspx Ambient dashboard- March 17, 2005 Pretty cool -- I used to want an Ambient Orb, but I like the retroanalog feel of these gauges better. I just hope they will also allow your own data channels.http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/17/398232.aspx TechEd, will I be there- March 16, 2005 I haven't a clue. Last I heard I'd be able to go if I ride my bike there. Still, Scott & Rory will be there (along with a lot of other Really Smart Folk), and you'll even be able to get them to explain this in person...http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/16/397146.aspx aspnetPRO Readers' Choice Awards- March 11, 2005 aspnetPRO magazine is now accepting votes for the products of the year in a number of categories. While I'm a little saddened that the ASP.NET Developer Center wasn't nominated as an Online Resource, I'll move on. Remember, if you don't vote, they win.http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/10/393999.aspx Tracing in 2.0, soon.... soon....- March 10, 2005 I try not to push 2.0 information too much, as there are many others out there with far more knowledge on it than me. Having said that, I saw this new setting this morning. <trace enabled="truefalse" localOnly="truefalse" pageOutput="truefalse" requestLimit="integer" mostRecent="truefalse" writeToDiagnosticsTrace="truefalse" traceMode="SortByTimeSortByCategory"> I'll be the first to admit, I go crazy with _context.Trace.Write and _context.Trace.Warn in my code. However, then you either...http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/10/392284.aspx Custom Entity Classes- March 8, 2005 It's been a while since I mentioned any new content on the ASP.NET Developer Center, and there's a reason -- I've been remiss, and haven't scratched any out lately. Well, I think the drought is over, I hope (I passed two more articles on to the editors yesterday -- although one you might not see for a while). Today's morsel is from a new author I'm hoping to get much more from -- Karl Seguin arrives with an informative, and possibly controversial article: On the way to mastering ASP.NET ...http://blogs.msdn.com/ksharkey/archive/2005/03/08/389861.aspx |