Here is a link to a tool that will go through a collection of blog entries and rename them. Just what I was looking for.
http://www.vasanth.in/Software.aspx?=renamer
Monthly Archives: April 2006
QofSA – Over the Years and Through The Woods
I just finished watching Over the Years and Through The Woods which I first blogged about here.
It was pretty cool! If you like Queens of the Stone Age, then you should really get it.
The performances reminded me of the one thing that they do live that I don’t like, and that is take an adlib section too far. It’s like, oh cool, normally this part only goes on 4 times but they are doing it more, ok, thats 12, 16, … ok 24 times … ok… this is getting stupid, I lost track of the count, are they ever going to jump back into the song?
But the DVD is pretty cool. There are some cool bonus footage of a bunch of the songs I really like with their old bass player that they don’t play live anymore, which sucks. I think they were a lot better w/ him in 2003 than w/o. But whatever.
I found this other CD by them that I might end up getting called The Desert Sessions.
Cool stuff.
From Asp.net 1.1 to 2.0: Parser Error – Could not load type 'xyz.Global'
As we were upgrading to run ASP.Net 2.0, we ran into this wonderful problem. Your code seems to run fine until you push it to a server and you get this error:
Parser Error
Description: An error occurred during the parsing of a resource required to service this request. Please review the following specific parse error details and modify your source file appropriately.
Parser Error Message: Could not load type ‘xyz.Global’.
Source Error:
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Source File: /global.asax Line: 1
Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:2.0.50727.42; ASP.NET Version:2.0.50727.42
There are 2 things I had to remember to do to get this to work.
1) We use a domain user for the aps.net worker process, so our site can access UNC files across the network. In order for this user to have the ability to compile the app, you have to give them full rights to: c:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv1.1.4322 and if you start running your apps in .net 2.0, you need to do the same for c:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727.
2) If you have any web apps running in 1.1, there is a good chance that even thought you changed the iis setting to asp.net 2.X, you are still running against an app pool that is shared with another site using asp.net 1.1. So, just create a new app pool, and have your newly 2.0 site setup to use that app pool.
Problem solved!
VS.Net 2005, Projects, Solutions, and References: What was MS thinking??? This SUCKS!!!!
This is really shocking (and very disappointing) to me.
I had the task of upgrading the code base at Walsh Construction from .net 1.1 to 2.0 and putting it all in a source control database.
I had been getting a lot of totally random build problems, and I started wondering: Where does it store my references?
ASP.Net Web Sites projects don’t have a vbproj or csproj file anymore, so where is it storing the fact that I want this website to have a references to a given DLL or a given project in my solution?
I found that the answer is that the project references are stored in the solution file!
If you open up the solution file you will find lots of stuff like this:
ProjectSection(WebsiteProperties) = preProject
ProjectReferences = "{E050AEA3-6DCA-4DE8-936F-5A8B14A912B9}|MyReferencedAssembly.dll;
This is kinda stupid.
Non-website projects keep a list of their references in their project file.
Websites keep SOME reference info in their web.config, although I think that is only for DLLs that are in the GAC.
Anyway on to the list of things that truly suck about how this works:
1) When you add a reference from a web project to a DLL, the DLL is copied to the Bin directory right then, as opposed to when you do the build. I bet it does it at build-time as well, but what really sucks is that you can have a situation where WebSiteA references ComponentA which references DataAccessLayerA. WebSiteA will have DataAccessLayerA.dll in it’s bin directory, then if you go to add a references from WebSiteA to DataAccessLayerA, it will say “Oh you already have a reference” when you really don’t, and if you try to build it won’t work until you go delete that dll from your bin and add the reference.
2) I have been unable to open some projects without opening the entire solution that I joined them too at one point. Basically as I was converting all our projects over to 2003 I wanted to also change them from DLL references to project references. So I created a solution with ever project and website we have in .net. To illustrate my problem, I added a project to the solution called IAmABogusProject with 1 class and 1 static method. No one uses this class, no projects have a reference to this project, and this project has no references to any other projects. Yet, if I go click on the vbproj file for this project, it loads up my solution file with every single project. I tried creating another solution and adding it to that one to see if it would open the new solution when I tried to reopen the project but no luck, it opened original solution with every application again!! WTF!!
3) This is the worst of the list. If you have a project in a solution that is referenced by some other projects and you remove that project from the solution, guess what happens? In 2003 it would remove the project and all the referencing projects would show a missing reference icon. In 2005 it checks out all the referencing projects and removes the reference!!! Are you kidding me??? For the cherry on top, you have to then manually add all the references back after you add the project back into the solution, and of course you get all kinds of weird bugs, none telling you that you are missing an assembly reference. Totally stupid. This is a bug, see Update3 at the bottom.
I am really pissed about this. Why do MS product upgrades frequently come with a “What were they thinking?” tag?
Maybe the roll of the solution has changed or something, but this is going to really piss me off working like this day to day.
I have already had something happen where all my website projects that I had already added to source control lost their binding. Great….
Update1: I am continuing to have problems with my web project “losing” references that I have to keep setting. What a pain this is becoming!
Update2: Scott Gu from Microsoft (http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu) suggested that I give the Web Application projects a try. I had tried them once before when in beta and remembered there was something that was a show stopper at the time. I don’t remember exactly what, maybe the designer didn’t work? Anyway, that could solve a few of my issues, but this whole thing of not being able to open a project without a solution getting opened, and the thing where VS removes references from projects (even if they are under source control) if you remove the project from a solution is crazy.
Update3: Well thank God, someone from Microsoft let me know that this thing with removing a project causing references to disappear is actually a bug: http://www.chrismay.org/2006/04/19/VS2005RemoveProjectLoseReference.aspx
Quickbooks Integration
AcctSync is a .NET SDK for integrating stuff into quickbooks.
Update: I first made this post in 2003, but I have another client that is going to be looking to do something with Quickbooks. Might want to revisit this component in the near future.
Running ASP.NET Development Server Without Virtual Path, From Root
I had been looking for a way to get the asp.net development server to run w/o a virtual directory settings. It’s really very stupid and short sighted to not enable this. Just about every project I have ever worked on has some paths coded into the HTML that are based on / being the root, not the application root. Stupid.
Anyway, ScottGu posted these steps on his site, and it works. Not bad!
Step 1: Select the “Tools->External Tools” menu option in VS or Visual Web Developer. This will allow you to configure and add new menu items to your Tools menu.
Step 2: Click the “Add” button to add a new external tool menu item. Name it “WebServer on Port 8080” (or anything else you want).
Step 3: For the “Command” textbox setting enter this value: C:WINDOWSMicrosoft.NETFrameworkv2.0.50727WebDev.WebServer.EXE (note: this points to the web-server that VS usually automatically runs).
Step 4: For the “Arguments” textbox setting enter this value: /port:8080 /path:$(ProjectDir)
Step 5: Select the “Use Output Window” checkbox (this will prevent the command-shell window from popping up.
Once you hit apply and ok you will now have a new menu item in your “Tools” menu called “WebServer on Port 8080”. You can now select any web project in your solution and then choose this menu option to launch a web-server that has a root site on port 8080 (or whatever other port you want) for the project.
You can then connect to this site in a browser by simply saying http://localhost:8080/. All root based references will work fine.
Step 6: The last step is to configure your web project to automatically reference this web-server when you run or debug a site instead of launching the built-in web-server itself. To-do this, select your web-project in the solution explorer, right click and select “property pages”. Select the “start options” setting on the left, and under server change the radio button value from the default (which is use built-in webserver) to instead be “Use custom server”. Then set the Base URL value to be: http://localhost:8080/
Essence Theme
The current theme on this site was created by Jelle Druyts. I just emailed him looking for an idea to solve the problem of the left column dropping to the bottom of the page if you narrow the window.
I was kinda suprised to see his site when I clicked on the link for the theme creator because I have been to his blog a few times before, obviously for some .net programming stuff.
I am going to take a look at his categories b/c I long ago gave up on using categories in BlogX b/c you could only search in 1 category. So if I knew I had saved some URL in my blog I would have to search in every category in order to find it.
Now that I am using dasBlog, I should be reorganizing my categories.
Morning Commute
I tried wearing a new pair of shoes yesterday (big mistake) and on my walk to the train I got a giant blister on my left foot.
Damn it hurts!
So today I decided to drive to avoid the walk to/from the train station, and something terrible happened. I actually ended up looking for “the mix” on my car radio. I am ashamed.
Kathleen has been putting it on every morning, and my usual stations were not doing anything intersting. The Score had Mike North saying something racist, 720 and 780 were on commerical, 850 was some terrible show I have never heard before, and ESPN was talking about golf.
Lucky for me the mix quickly went to commerical, so I was able to come to my senses.
Databinding in .Net 2.0 (DNR TV)
Brian Noyes is the guest on DNR TV to cover databinding in .Net 2.0.
The video can bee seen here.
Expert VB 2005 Business Objects eBook
Here is the link to get the book in beta:
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=10090
Expert VB 2005 Business Objects takes you from an opening discussion of logical architectures to detailed n-tier deployment options using the CSLA .NET Framework. Rockford provides enough understanding and detail for you to take this approach to your own projects, as many developers have already done.
Chris May 