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David Sussman has created a cool little app for generating pages from site maps etc.
Go read about the ASP.NET SiteMap Editor and have a play around with it, alternativly go straight to the ASP.NET Menu Editor homepage.
It may be a slow download, I think it's hosted in David's Tree House server (Squirrel inside).
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Published on 09 Jul 2006 from
We have our session for the 19th sorted now, so get sigining up either at our site or yahoogroup
July 19th: An Overview of Team System
Visual Studio 2005 Team System extends the Visual Studio experience from the developer to the entire development team by delivering powerful new role-based tools for software architects, developers, testers, database professionals and project managers. It also includes an integrated team server and customizable processes to help teams drive predictability, visibility, and control into their software development process. This session will provide an overview Team System and will consist mainly of product demonstration rather than slides.
Richard Erwin is a VSTS Technology Specialist in the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft Limited. His role is to demonstrate the new capabilities of Microsoft Developer Tools to software developers, architects, testers and project managers. Richard has been with Microsoft for 6 years.
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July 19th: eXtreme .NET
Dr Niel Roodyn comes to the .NET user group to talk about agile .NET. More to follow...
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Published on 09 Jul 2006 from
We have our session for the 19th sorted now, so get sigining up either at our site or yahoogroup
July 19th: An Overview of Team System
Visual Studio 2005 Team System extends the Visual Studio experience from the developer to the entire development team by delivering powerful new role-based tools for software architects, developers, testers, database professionals and project managers. It also includes an integrated team server and customizable processes to help teams drive predictability, visibility, and control into their software development process. This session will provide an overview Team System and will consist mainly of product demonstration rather than slides.
Richard Erwin is a VSTS Technology Specialist in the Developer & Platform Evangelism Group at Microsoft Limited. His role is to demonstrate the new capabilities of Microsoft Developer Tools to software developers, architects, testers and project managers. Richard has been with Microsoft for 6 years.
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July 19th: eXtreme .NET
Dr Niel Roodyn comes to the .NET user group to talk about agile .NET. More to follow...
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Published on 09 Jul 2006 from
My application of choice is the very capable Cinema4D from Maxon.The project consisted of creating two 3D rendered views plus two vector (Adobe Illustrator) drawings of the vehicle, demonstrating its construction and test equipment interior.... Some artistic decisions were made to more clearly show elements of the interior and exterior, particularly not creating every element in every detail - just enough to get the message across.Just in case you do not know about such things, the first two images are the 3D model/renders, and the second pair the vector illustrations.
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Published on 09 Jul 2006 from
Thank you all that attended my webcast.
For those that missed it, you can replay it here: .NET Compact Framework for Desktop developers. You get the same experience except slide animations seem to have been taken out and of course you can't interact and ask questions.
Speaking of questions, looks like my content was so clear that I didn’t have to clarify anything :-p. Instead, here are some of the questions that I received.
Q1) I see from one of the last slides that you won't be covering SQL CE/SQL Mobile/SQL Everywhere. Please consider doing so in a future webcast.
A1) Thank you for the suggestion. In the mean time you can find info on SQL Everywhere here and here. Ask questions on this topic here.
Q2) Does Groove offer support for mobile devices yet?
A2) I have absolutely no idea. I would think not and indeed searching seems to bring back no relevant results so I'll stick with "no it is not supported at the moment" guess. If anyone has info to the contrary please enlighten me and I'll update this. Groove home page.
Q3) Are there any particularly cool open source projects for Windows Mobile?
A3) Yes, SDF from OpenNETCF. Source for v1.x is free and for v2.x available at a small fee. Binaries are free regardless of version.
Q4) What's your initial opinion of the new Mobile Client Software Factory? Is it useful for beginners or should novices focus on more meat and potatoes issues?
A4) I think it is a great effort. As everything else, only you know if it is of value for your particular scenario but definitely do check it out.
Q5) Windows Mobile or Tablet PCs?
A5) Mobility development is a wide field from laptops to tabletpcs to UMPCs to PocketPCs to Smartphones to watches! Depending on the job requirements one or more of the previous platforms can be chosen for any particular project. There is no universal answer.
Expect to read more on this blog soon regarding the Vista mobility story
Q6) Mapping for devices?
A6) See this and this. I would expect this to fully support mobile browsers or someone will be missing a trick.
Q7) In some Windows Mobile devices the .Net Compact Framework is in the system ROM in others it has to be downloaded and installed, what is the performance and other impacts of the built in framework vs a downloaded version?
A7) If you are building against a NETCF version that you expect to be in ROM on all your target devices, then there is no issue. If you don't, then you need to deploy the NETCF runtime with your app. In that case, NETCF is installed in RAM and hence using some of it (much like installing any application on your device). The other difference between the NETCF being in RAM or ROM is a tiny perf advantage in the ROM case. This is not something you should be worried about as it will definitely not be your perf bottleneck if you have one.
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Published on 09 Jul 2006 from
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This photograph was taken near Soho Square in London. It has such a strong presence because it uses the uniform lines of the window frames to draw your eye from the bottom left of the photograph to the beautiful blue sky in the top right.
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Published on 09 Jul 2006 from
Problem
You are coding away on an ASP.NET page, and are trying to isolate a problem within the page. You have some existing html/controls/markup/in-line code that is being used on the page, and you want to temporarily comment it out while you fix the problem.
Solution
ASP.NET supports a little known feature called “server-side comments” that you can use to completely disable code/controls/html in a page. Server-side comments in ASP.NET are delimited using a <%-- --%> syntax. For example:
<%--
Commented out HTML/CODE/Markup. Anything with
this block will not be parsed/handled by ASP.NET.
<asp:Calendar runat="server"></asp:Calendar>
<%# Eval(“SomeProperty”) %>
--%>
One common question people ask is what the difference is between using client-side HTML comments and server-side comments. The key difference is that with client-side comments it is the browser which is ignoring the content within them. Code/controls within client-side comments will still be executed on the server and sent down to the browser. As such, if there is a server error caused within them it will block running the page.
With server-side comments, the ASP.NET compiler ignores everything within these blocks at parse/compile time, and removes the content completely when assembling the page (like its contents weren’t there at all). Consequently, any errors caused by mal-formed controls or issues with inline code or data-binding expressions within them will be ignored. The page is also just as fast with controls/code within server-side comments as if there were no controls/code on the page at all (there is no runtime performance overhead to them).
One tip/trick to take advantage of in the HTML source editor within Visual Web Developer and VS 2005 is the automatic comment/uncomment feature they support. You can use this by selecting some markup within a .aspx page, and then clicking the “comment” command button that is on HTML Source Editor Toolbar:
This will automatically wrap the selected content with a <%-- --%> block. You can likewise move the cursor within it and click the uncomment command to remove the comment. Keyboard short-cuts are also automatically enabled to do this purely from the keyboard. The exact keystrokes depend on what VS profile you have configured – but on my system it is “Ctrl-K, Ctrl-C” to comment a block and “Ctrl-K, Ctrl-U” to uncomment one.
Note that this comment/uncomment command in VS works not only in HTML – but also within regular VB/C# source files as well. It provides an easy and consistent way to comment out functionality everywhere within your project.
Hope this helps,
Scott
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Published on 09 Jul 2006 from
I have updated my photo gallery with new shots from Spring and Summer so far this year. I’m have been running way behind in getting these galleries online, and I apologise to everyone who wanted to see these images sooner.
Added Are:
Leigh-on-Sea Old Town, Spring 2006. Sarah, Claire, Claudia and I spent the afternoon down in [...]