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  • Blogging and CS Projects

    Sunday, November 30, 2003
    My significant other and I had dinner with a long time friend of mine (grew up across the street from him) and his significant other and had an interesting discussion about one of his latest CS (Computer Science) projects that he had to work on.  One thing that was interesting was how much he hated it.  They had to design a 3D pinball game using Java.  I told him that was the bad part right there...Java  ;)  But what was more interesting was that he bitched and complained about how one student in his group for the project had pretty
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  • New Network

    Sunday, November 30, 2003
    I picked up the Microsoft MN-700 Wireless 802.11g Base Station Router and got it installed.  The management interface is fantastic and easy to use.  I seriously would've had it installed in 10 minutes if it wasn't for an error on my part (read the wrong MAC Address that my ISP requires me to use).  It was super easy to setup everything I need like Port Forwarding so I can TS into my box from work if needed. It has 4 10/100 ports for your machines that don't have a wireless card in it (my main computer and my longhorn machine). 
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  • Programmer -> Writer

    Friday, November 28, 2003
    I had mentioned previously about being an “official” author in print now earlier.  Thanks everyone for their congratulations.  Roy had a good suggestion I should've thought of...which is talking about my first time experience with writing.  Well, after going through a bit of it, I have to say I have more respect for those who do it.  It's not the easiest thing in the world.  However, that's one of the reasons I'm getting into it.  I enjoy coding very much, but sometimes it's great to take a break for a few reasons. It's just nice variety from coding all day and
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  • Officially an Author

    Tuesday, November 25, 2003
    Today I received on my doorstep my two free copies of Duncan's new book Visual Basic .NET 2003 Kick Start from Sams Publishing. For this book, I acted as the main Technical Editor.  Later on I was offered an opportunity to do some actual writing.  I ended up writing chapters 5 and 6 (ADO.NET and DataBinding) and was the technical editor for all the other chapters of the book.  It was a great experience for me as I am halfway new to writing.  For anyone that comes across my blog and have used VB6 and are wanting to move to VB.NET
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  • Backspace in C# in Whidbey

    Tuesday, November 25, 2003
    Do my eyes deceive me?  Did I just use C# Whidbey and after completing out a Property, then decide it was the wrong one and hit backspace and see Intellisense come up just like I'm used to in VB?  I must be dreaming! Anyone else see any “nice” C# IDE features that we VB'ers might be used to?  Or do not too many people jump back and forth?  :P
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  • Skinnable Template Site

    Monday, November 24, 2003
    Need a quick site up with a template and allows for skinning?  I went ahead and uploaded one.  If you're new to ASP.NET this should be a good start to get the base of a site going that you can build on. Hopefully someone will get some use out of it...enjoy!  :) Skinnable Template Site
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  • ObjectSpaces PDC Session

    Sunday, November 23, 2003
    If Not You.WasAtPDC OrElse Not You.WasAtObjectSpacesSession Then     You.GoToSession(“http://microsoft.sitestream.com/PDC2003/DAT/DAT410_files/Default.htm“)End If I always thought I would like ObjectSpaces, but after watching that session I am sold!  We've been discussing at work for the future of our big product and how we'll do the object model/data and we've come to the conclusion that Typed DataSets are the way to go.  After watching the ObjectSpaces presentation, I wish it was out now, because it currently does or will before release cover all of the downfalls of the other options (Business Objects, regular DataSets) which is what made us select Typed DataSets.  ObjectSpaces will definitely
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  • DynamicImage Control

    Sunday, November 23, 2003
    Been playin' around with Whidbey (ASP.NET, Generics, SQL Project, etc) and Yukon a bit this weekend and remembered I thought the DynamicImage Control was going to be cool, but couldn't remember much about it, so I went in and played with it and wow this thing is cool!  :) It has 4 main properties: ImageGeneratorUrl ImageFile ImageByes Image ImageGeneratorUrl taks a Url to an ASPX that you want to use to generate the image from.  ImageFile is a string that is the location of an image file to use.  ImageBytes is a byte array, so if you're loading an image from
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  • Advanced Templates and Skinning in ASP.NET Presentation

    Thursday, November 20, 2003
    Last week I gave the presentation at our user group meeting.  The code and Powerpoint slides are now up for you to check out if you're interested.  I basically went through how to setup a base template, use it, then create multiple skins the user can select on top of it. Download here Hope someone gets some use out of it...I know we have!  :)
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  • Whitespace screwing up your Templating?

    Wednesday, November 19, 2003
    I worked yesterday on taking a layout for a client site made by my co-worker and moving it into a custom template (Inherit from BasePage, add menu and properties, etc) and ran into a problem with HTML being pretty horrible.  As Adam put it, “who thought it would be a good idea to render whitespace?”.  Good question...but we're unfortunately screwed for now.  The problem we had in our case was having a carriage return (and maybe tabs and spaces) after the beginning of a div tag with and image and then a table in it.  That extra white space left a
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