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Okay – My name is Julie and I use FrontPage. I use FrontPage for the family websites: my parent’s dog kennel, my sister’s business and a few others. You know these sites, they are 95% static html and you are doing it for love (not money). Why not? My sister’s business does use a little asp and we even use an asp.net site for her to maintain store lists which are served back to the FrontPage site via web services.
So don’t be shy. I can admit it. And now the reason I brought this up was to preface the fact that Lisa Wollin, who is the content manager for the FrontPage Developer center is blogging some good FrontPage tips.
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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 …[more]… [A DevLife post] |
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Juval Lowy is at it again. Not only is he creating .NET 2.0 components that we can use today in .NET 1.1, but now he is creating VB components for C#. This from the man who is definitely a C# guy! What’s next, Edit & Continue for C#? (Just kidding Juval, besides I think the E&C for C# camp already won that battle….;-))
Okay, sorry, I know Juval highly values the variety of languages that can be used to code against the .NET framework.
Anyway, I definitely have it on my todo list to check it out, but in the meantime, no reason why you can’t! It is on this page, about 1/2 way down “My for C# 2.0”
but you don’t control the webserver box (i.e. it is on a webhost somewhere out in the world).
I asked how to do this with DPAPI when you don’t control the webserver. Paul Glavich and Rich Dudley were way ahead of me on this one. They both write web apps that can do the DPAPI on the webserver, then they remove the apps from the server! Aha. That, I can do!
Here is Rich’s solution which leverages the DPAPI wrapper that Carl Franklin wrapped up after DevDays last year.
Here is Glav’s download page where he has his DPAPI wrapper.
The irony here is that I talked about this at DevDays and wrote about it too. I even did it on servers that I have control over, but, I never did get to the two applications that are hosted elsewhere because of this problem.I will write about what I have learned when I have time to absorb it all but I have seen great presentations by Steve Schwartz (overview of the variety of technologies to pick from for designing connected systems), Michele Leroux Bustamante (awesome look at doing ws-security with wse2 “beyond the wizards”), Mark Fussell (my *must see* .. WSE 3.0) and Tim Ewald (who I have locked in for Oct. 17th at VTdotNET 🙂 ) Tips & Tricks for implementing Web Services – so great that this is what he will be doing at my user group. I have never seen Tim present before and he is a TOP notch presenter. He has mastered the art of not flying through his content but making a statement and then pausing, letting you spend a moment thinking about what he has just said. I am going to try to be conscious of this when I present.
Although I have had many strings trying to pull me to skip TechEd today and go to Epcot Center (“if you can see only one thing while you are here….”), I will make a point of doing more sessions today.
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xTras.Net is one of the most creative vendors of 3rd party developer tools out there and owner Mike Schinkel has come up with another great idea! Xtras is publishing the “How to Select” guides edited (and sometimes authored) by Mike Gunderloy. I saw the first in the new series which was How to Select PDF Components. I took a look, there a a long list of these to choose from and I could only think of one that I know (off the top of my head). When Mike showed this to me, I just thought what a GREAT idea! People are always looking for this type of advice which is a different spin than reading straight reviews.
So keep your eye out for these!
http://www.AcehAid.org
I had a very strange problem with SQL Server 2005 April CTP today that I have “solved” but just want to put it out there in case anyone has this happen too!
I installed VS2005 Beta2 and SQL Server 2005 April CTP Developer on a completely repaved clean machine. There is nothing else on the box.
I did this before I went to D.C. so that’s about 2 weeks ago. I ran through all o fmy demos and everything worked great. I went away for a week and still didn’t turn that machine on for another week, until today. I was unable to log into the sql server from code or from the Mgmnt Studio interface, not even into the default database. On both the lowly user or even the admin account, I was getting “invalid user”. I couldn’t run any of my demos from Visual Studio. I tried all kinds of stuff and finally gave in and uninstalled and reinstalled and everything is now fine.
I would be very interested to know if anyone else has had this behavior. I know it’s just a beta and expect wierdness, but am still curious.
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I use SQL Server nearly every day and I know nothing about it. Two months ago I saw Rod Paddock running stored procedures line by line in SQL Query. I never knew you could do that. (highlight the lines you want to execute and hit run.)Today I was trying to do a query that was case sensitive. I guess in all the years I have used SQL, I have never needed a case sensitive search. So I didn’t know that I had to have my field as a varchar so that I could cast it to varbinary in order to do the comparison. (See Michael Kaplan’s post on an even better way to deal with case sensitivity!)
It is really pathetic (and kinda scary) to know that there are thousands and thousands of people like me who end up being responsible for doing all of the SQL Server work, but we are too busy learning our development tools to *also* be a pro at the database tools, too. Oh, to have Roman Rehak spend just *one* day a week working with me. Heck, I’d take one day a *month*. Boo hoo. I know that looking at my database would probably give him a coronary anyway, so maybe it’s better this way. Actually it would be better not to have someone wiht a public blog look at my db anyway. That way they couldn’t humiliate me as readily. Of course, maybe I could bargain with him using my ADO.NET 2.0 deck and demos for his PASS talk!!