Daily Archives: October 13, 2004

MSDN VB site Content Strategist position

Jobs

Well, Duncan is going back to coding which is awesome! (And Duncan and  his wife and his son have a new baby girl in the family, too!!)

But this means Duncan is leaving behind some big shoes to fill with his job. Here is the description on Matt Powell’s blog. As a person who mostly programs in VB, I have a vested interest in this site. Duncan has done an amazing thing with the MSDN VB space in the past few years. It is not a job for telecommuters, by the way.

Deploying a policy enabled client of a wse2 web service

WSE

When you create a policy in an WSE2 enabled client app in Visual Studio using the WSE Settings tool, your policycache.config file will likely be in the root directory of the application development folder because that is the default setting and I know everyone loves to just use those defaults.  Your app.config file will point to

<microsoft.web.services2>
<diagnostics />
<policy>
<cache name=”../../policyCache.config” />
</policy>
</microsoft.web.services2>

So you need to remember when you deploy your application, especially if you are testing and possibly deploying manually, that the policyCache config is not in the bin folder AND that you will probably need to modify that location setting in the app.config based on the final relationship between your exe and that file.

Just a little thing…but it had me scratching my head for a few minutes.

The Great INETA User Group meeting attendance Count

Ineta

An email just went out to the user group leaders of all NORAM (US & Canada) and APAC (Asia Pacific) user groups about filling out a VERY SHORT online survey (two whole entries to make) asking how many people attended your October meeting and how many people are on your mailing list. If you are a the leader of a user group that is an INETA member and is in one of these two regions, keep an eye out for the email. If you don’t receive it, contact your INETA liaison. If you don’t know who that is, then email ugrelations@ineta.org. Guess who answers (or forwards to the correct person) every single email that comes to this address which basically equates to info@? ME. So be kind.

What I did today

Purely Personal

I just realized I have been sitting at my computer for 4 hours and have not even opened up Visual Studio. I have written 40 emails all related to INETA, my user group, the and Vermont Software Developers Alliance. What’s wrong with this picture. Oh and I wrote a couple of VERY SHORT blog posts.

I think I will just close Outlook for a bit.

ASP.NET Membership & Personalization and removal of Access Data Providers

dotNET

For those of you who attended the MSDN Event yesterday in Burlington, VT, I just wanted to make sure you are aware of this change from the CURRENT beta of ASP.NET 2.0 to Beta 2:

(this comes from the weblog of the Group Program Manager of ASP.NET)

Access Data Providers

 

In Beta 1, ASP.NET application services such as membership and roles include Access data providers, and use them by default. In Beta 2, however, we will replace this functionality with support for SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, the new version of SQL Server which combines the file-based simplicity of Access databases with seamless deployment to full editions of SQL Server.  The developer model of using the application services stays 100% the same, but the backend implementation will now be much more robust and performant.

Letting people play with your tablet pc

Tablet

Really, it’s the only way to get people to grok Tablets. Robert Scoble let a stranger on a plane (hopefully nothing like Strangers on a Train) play with his tablet and got the usual “wow”. I LOVE to let my friends kids play with my tablet. First of all they are astonished that I am letting them touch my computer (that buys a LOT of love) and then when I show them how to draw etc. I let the 8 yr old child of a perfect stranger draw a picture on my tablet. I actually gave it to him and then walked away (it was a the hair dressers – I hate that term..but that’s what we all call it, eh?). Afterwards, I got his moms email – she was astonished that I had allowed this – and emailed her the drawing when I got home. Hmmm… I wonder if they’ll buy a tablet soon.