June 2005 Entries
There is nothing more fun than having a new project to work on and new things to learn. Yesterday I got involved with a project for my client where I am going to get to work with Sharepoint Windows Services for the first time. I have been a ...
Since February, the blogosphere has been abuzz with AJAX, which had been used by GoogleMaps and impressed the pants off of a lot of web developers. AJAX incorporates XMLHttp but is not limited to I.E.
Now it is "hold the presses" at Microsoft who is planning ...
I have been playing with WSE3.0 this week and when stuffing some credentials into my web service proxy the other night, I discovered that the new wse3 namespace method for doing that makes use of generics. This *is* designed to integrate specifically with ...
One of the great difficulties of programming is having to accept the fact that we can't know every little function and feature that exist in our development tools. In the old days it was easy to write an application from end to end, understand all that was available to you in your IDE and database and even fix your ...
When Beta2 was released, I wanted to get my hands on it right away. This meant downloading it from MSDN Subscriptions since it would take a while before any CD's would arrive. I have DSL with [read more...]
Just yesterday I was working some last minute review of a Customized Debugging in VS2005 presentation for DevTeach that I will be doing early next week and was stunned to see the "List" property gone when debugging into a rows collection of a datatable. Had the ADO.NET team taken this stuff back under the covers? ...
I'm still thinking about the Turnkey Security Scenarios I saw demonstrated by Mark Fussell at TechEd as part of the WSE3 overview. I look at these scenerios as too canned and wizard-y for me, but ...
TechEd is many things to many people. During the day and evening, the choices are overwhelming. During each time slot there are 20 standard technical presentations and nearly as many cabana talks. There are dozens of ...
One of the more exciting things in a developer's life is going to a conference, especially a really big one. Microsoft's TechEd U.S. conference is starting on Monday and ...