Enjoyable Blog of Possibilities

Also see: 2,433 Unread Emails, I feel your pain.. The PDC has happened, which means two things.  I can post some of my (slightly self-censored) reactions to the show, and I can talk about what we ve disclosed about Whidbey and Longhorn more freely.  In this particular case, I had promised to talk about the [...]

Also see: Merry Christmas Indeed! Also see: Microformats are like RFID tags for the Web Also see: Load(AssemblyName) While doing my first ASP.NET 2.0 “publish” tonight I was presented with the following dialog box: Assuming that apps delete as few items as possible, I assumed that “existing files” meant files that matched those that were [...]

I’m going to the Rose Bowl. I am a University of Illinois alum and an avid fan of college sports.  The Illini football team had a great season this year and will play USC in Pasadena on January 1st.  In fact, this is the just the second time in my lifetime that Illinois has made [...]

Also see: Quick attempt at a validating roman numeral parser… Lots of gotchas. First, obviously, find the two types for which the cast failed and verify that they are the same type or otherwise castable. Next, if the type was just deserialized, also verify that its assembly successfully loaded in the target appdomain. If everything seems fine, check to [...]

CXF is a recent initiative by the Apache foundation targeted at bringing together the features of XFire and Celtix under the same umbrella. This post explores the project in the context of Spring 2.5. Also see: Reporting Services administration changes in Katmai (v.Next) Also see: Merry Christmas Indeed! Also see: Java Concurrency, another series on [...]

Also see: AppDomains (“application domains”) I’ve uploaded a minor update to Snippet Compiler. I also put up an Add-Ins page with the following samples: Web References Folder Browser Settings ToolBar Snippet Repository http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/archive/2006/01/29/436800.aspx

Also see: From C# to Java: Part 3 Until about 2002 I had a broad disdain for most IDEs.  I just felt they were too pushy.  They were always trying to take control over my build system or the layout of my source tree.  If I’m going to give those things up, I want something [...]

Also see: Claimspace: Against a Well-designed Reputation System Scott Morrison ( the PM for the Silverlight DataGrid) recently posted a very good walk through of using the DataGrid (complete with C# and VB samples)..  I recommending staying tuned to his blog if you are interested because he has plans to do several more posts on [...]

Well, apparently you aren’t allowed to have an opinion on the web anymore. I got flamed by an author after posting a personal review of his book. It wasn’t an objective review, I didn’t mark it as such, but I wasted a good deal of my life between reading the book and then turn that [...]

Also see: Dare Obasanjo on C# Anonymous Types I am really looking forward to my Mix08 session this year… It is going to be fun to building an Ajax application from scratch on stage with VS2008 and ASP.NET 3.5.     Update (3/15): I made a few tweaks based on comments to this post.  thanks! Update [...]