januari 2004 - Posts

31 januari 2004
All PDC session available as streams

Hopefully I can still make some people happy by telling that ALL sessions of the PDC2003 are available as audio/video streams from the site http://microsoft.sitestream.com/pdc2003 . They (Probably Microsoft) used to host the TechEd 2003 content there as well, but apparently they have taken it offline... Read More...

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29 januari 2004
LoginStatus control

It seems like I'm reproducing functionality of the Whidbey framework lately. I also wrote a ASP.NET server control that is similar to the LoginStatus control. It demonstrates the use of the IPostPackEventHandler interface. The one peculiar thing that I had to implement is a GetLoginUrl method that returns... Read More...

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28 januari 2004
MIME types and AssemblyResourceLoaders

At Van Loon we where working on this scrollable panel that uses a IE behavior. If you are not familiar with these, you should check behaviors out here. To add a behavior to an HTML element, the style attribute includes a URL reference to the .htc file for the behavior that is needed: <div style=“behavior... Read More...

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26 januari 2004
Generating PDF files

About two weeks ago I was working on a prototype for Twice IT to generate PDF files on the fly. These documents contain order confirmation info that Twice's customers need to sign. These should not be alterable, hence a choice for the PDF format, which can be encrypted and secured. During a Christmas... Read More...

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25 januari 2004
Kumbaya clan site coming up

Over at Van Loon six of us are part of the Kumbaya clan. Perhaps you might associate this with Eek! the Cat. You would be right in doing so. The clan members are called: Doc Tari Gunther Bo Diddley Squat Eek Sharky Incredible Elmo (that's me) I've claimed the www.kumbaya.nl domain to host the clan's... Read More...

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24 januari 2004
Lego Mindstorms to be discontinued?

For the Developer Days Jeroen and I built these MindStorms robots. Jeroen (one of the funniest and wittiest persons I know) had written a nice VB.NET program to directly control the robot through the IR tower. He had also uploaded a routine to the robot so it would run around, and would backup, turn... Read More...

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23 januari 2004
Developer Days 2004, lots of fun

Yesterday the Dutch Developer Days 2004 were held in The Hague at the National Congress Centre (NCC). Twice was there as well, represented by Patrick, Leon, Jeroen and myself. We made a very lasting impression, because we had the Lego MindStorms demo at our booth. More on that in a later post. I also... Read More...

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21 januari 2004
Other types of annotations

Readers of my blog will know that I devised a datalayer that uses SqlXml annotations. But little did I know (I do remember seeing this a long time ago, but just vaguely), that you can also annotate the XSD of your typed DataSet with codegen attributes, when I read this entry at Mad Nissen's blog . Read... Read More...

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19 januari 2004
More than quite funny

Robert McLaw refers to a URL sent to him by one of his friends. I would call it more than just funny. Here's the URL to a flash movie that illustrates why smoking kills (many innocent people). LOL. Read More...

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18 januari 2004
Bug in ADO.NET ObjectSpaces?

Yesterday (well, actually it was today, because it was from 23.30 till 1.30), I was working on my lunch presentation for the Developer Days 2004. Earlier that day I ran into a problem with the ObjectSpace class, trying to persist a new object. It was really a simple piece of code when I reduced the problem... Read More...

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18 januari 2004
Very funny blog at neopoleon.com

Maybe I'm way too late in discovering his blog, but Rory of neopoleon.com is definitely a very funny read. Reading his post on data compression and Google searches makes you wonder how his mental health is, but anyway. His post on snow and truck nerds is hilarious as well. Read More...

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17 januari 2004
Cool screensavers

If you are interested in a cool screensaver (presumably virus-free), you should go to 3Planesoft and check out their creations. Especially the Lord of the Rings screensaver is very worth the download. Read More...

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14 januari 2004
Some more things for KillerBlog

For my KillerBlog implementation I created a LoginStatus control, just like the one in ASP.NET Whidbey. It might make a nice tutorial if you have never created any custom controls. I've included the .cs file as an attachment. You will have to create your own project and remove the .txt extension from... Read More...

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13 januari 2004
Pingback all done

Last night I implemented the Pingback API on KillerBlog. Pingback uses XML-RPC instead of SOAP. XML-RPC is a platform-independent simpler version of SOAP. For the implementation, I walked the same road as dasBlog and .Text by using CookComputing's XML-RPC.NET assembly. I did find out about another .NET... Read More...

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12 januari 2004
Pingback reference test for KillerBlog (please ignore)

Please ignore. This is a hyperlink to a posting inside KillerBlog . Read More...

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