Chris May

This is good news for those of us who were kinda pissed that Team Foundation Server didn't come with this type of interface to begin with:

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/03/26/microsoft-acquires-teamplain.aspx

Here is a nice article on creating a test (bogus) SSL certificate for your local develoment machine.

ScottGu has a nice article on how to do something similar with IIS7, which is going to be the webserver on Vista machines.

Here is an interesting article on codeproject about creating "drill through" reports.

Here are some pages that I have been reading on the subject.

http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/mscompression.asp

http://bistrica.usask.ca/madmuc/Grads/Adnan/cmpt898/Project.pdf

http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/MhtBuilder.asp

There internet is filled with places to do reverse phone lookups (who called me 5 minutes ago).

But, most of them now ask you to pay for the name of the person or business.

I happened to find one that didn't:

http://www.whitepages.com/10001/reverse_phone

I found this list of the top secondary market ticket resellers:

http://www.ticketnews.com/view/TopSecondarySellers

Thu, 04/26/2007 - 11:12am — TicketScoop

Here an article I was reading about some of the new (and from the looks of it... very useful) features of WCF.

One-Way calls, callbacks, and events.

I have been getting a few errors when trying to use the asp.net ajax framework.

The one error message is:

Error: Sys.ArgumentTypeException: Object of type 'Sys_Application' cannot be converted to type 'Sys._Application'/

Parameter name: instance

This is caused by having SmartNavigation turned on for the page. 

The other error I was getting was this Sys.ArgumentOutOfRangeException.  Value must be an integer.  Parameter name: X.  Actual value was NaN.

This error is caused by using a "yes" or "no" for "frameborder" for a frame.

Yes and No are valid entries but the framework is expecting a "1" or a "0".

This service is down right now, but it looks like it might be very useful!

I have been fighting with this lately, but here is something I haven't tried... rewriting the interface that is giving me problems.

Not sure if this will work, but I will give it a try.

More in the souce...

I think I saw this ABCUpload .Net tool being used by microsoft on one of their internal support sites for uploading large files.

I don't think it actually gets around the httprequest length and executiontimeout problems, but it does provide you a window showing your progress, which is nice.

Here are some nice step by step directions for getting HTTP Compression setup in IIS6.

They also link to a nice site that will do a compression test for you on the public side.

I was trying to test stuff that wasn't public, so I figured out how to test this with Fiddler.

Once you start a trace with fiddler, if you select a session, they will check a box next to the type of compression None/GZIP/Deflate, which was used.

I have recently needed to create some more complex mailto links than people normally use.  I need to populate the subject and body with text that is pulled from a DB, so there are lots of random characters in there like @, #, &, -, _, etc...

Most of these won't work, and need to be escaped.

The most effective way I found was to use the ascii HEX code in this format:

%2D = "-"

%45 = "E"

I'm not going to write too much about this, but we have been seeing a LOT of recycles of our web application, which makes us lose session for everyone logged it.

I am just going to archive a few links I have been using to track down this problem.

ScottGu has some reflection code to get the reason the process is shutting down that I converted to vb.net

Scott Gu's Article

And here are some places discussing the issue:

asp.net thread

Todd Carter's Blog Article

Scott Forsyth's Blog Article

This is a 3 part article on the use of design patterns in ASP.NET. 

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/33695
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/33889
http://www.devx.com/dotnet/article/34220

It looks like from this article that the author is showing how to use remoting to interact with a windows form running on a server.

http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/RemoteWinControls.asp

Pretty interesting.

I have written a few programs in .Net that utilize Active Directory (AD), and what a pain it was.

Here is an article where the author created classes to encapsulate some of the objects in AD, which is pretty similar to what I did.

Keywords: LDAP, AD, Active Directory

If you are Microsoft, why do you create a function "TypeOf" that has totally differnet applications in VB and C#?

Typeof in C# is like GetType in VB, where VB uses TypeOf to see if 2 types are the same or check for interface implementation.

Kinda dumb.

I came across this offer where you get $50 free (I haven't read the details) for using Microsofts adCenter (just like adwords I guess).

http://www.startadcenter.com/lcoff/