Archives / 2004 / August

  • Presentation.IsCompleted = True

    Wednesday, August 11, 2004
    Last night I gave my presentation at this month's NUFW Meeting.  As unprepared as I was, I think it went pretty well.  Before showing up for the meeting, I had the slides done, but had no demos at all.  This actually turned out pretty well.  I decided to just do two demos.  One was ASP.NET w/ C# and the other was WindowsForms w/ VB.  Basically I just played around with both, showed everyone what I could at the time and answered any questions that came up.  Originally I had thought that this would be a short presentation since I was
  • Broke, and luvin' it!

    Tuesday, August 03, 2004
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  • Setting up the AppUpdater Component to work with Windows Server 2003

    Monday, August 02, 2004
    The AppUpdater Component is sexy.  Check out the article on it to get a good start on getting it working.  It's a little goofy at first, but works fantastically and is very flexible to fit your needs.  For a recent project I did, I set it up to call a WebService to check for updates checking who the user is (a custom forms authentication) and checking a versions database to see what the latest version for that user is.  This allows you to do some neat things like have beta versions that only some people get. One of the big