juli 2005 - Posts

15 juli 2005
Changing behavior of ASP.NET 2.0 wrapped WebPart

When you create a webpart in ASP.NET 2.0 by adding a user control to the WebPartZone, te control will be wrapped inside a GenericWebPart during runtime. This saves you from the trouble of having to derive from WebPart or implement IWebPart yourself. You do not get the full set of possibilities with such... Read More...

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13 juli 2005
TechEd is love

Like Don Box always used to say: "COM is love". But guess what? TechEd is also a place of love. Check out Frans and Paul , both of which reported on a lovely day ( here and here ) the three of us spent together "discussing" (yeah, right). Good thing this happened late in the afternoon and without alcohol... Read More...

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09 juli 2005
Simpler version of trick to watch TechEd streams

Roy Osherove reported a trick to watch the sessions of the US TechEd 2005. Paul already mentioned this posting. But it's way too complicated: browsing one site and then composing the URL for another site. Why not go to this URL: http://microsoft.sitestream.com/TechEd2005/ Much simpler. Update : Unfortunately... Read More...

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08 juli 2005
DEV466: VSTS: Enterprise-Class Source Control

The new source control mechanism/store in Visual Studio Team Systems is not based on Visual SourceSafe. It has a new set of features that are pretty cool: Shelving, which is similar to creating a private branch, but in a better and formalized way. Checking policies on a per-project basis. These are evaluated... Read More...

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07 juli 2005
A day with Paul Gielens

I spent most of the day visiting the same sessions as Paul Gielens did. We spent lunch together and just kept talking right till the party. Boy, did I have a blast exchanging ideas with Paul. The guy is way ahead of me (and most of the Dutch developers) on architecture and using design methodologies... Read More...

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07 juli 2005
Meeting people continued

Just to prove (again) that TechEd is a place to meet people in the broad sense of the word, here's a list of the people I met yesterday and today: Paul Gielens (CapGemini) Marco Timmerman (Maruso) Michiel van Otegem ( The Vision Web/Ordina ) only passing by Vincent and Peter (Siemens) Hassan Fadili ... Read More...

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07 juli 2005
Appointment for lunch tomorrow

To whomever reads this and is at the TechEd tomorrow: lunch appointment for tomorrow (Friday)? Read More...

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07 juli 2005
Internals of Indigo (CTS467)

Some random notes that I picked up during this massive-info talk (again 9+) Messaging layer will be used by lots of Microsoft products like BizTalk or ADO.NET. It's the lower layer of Indigo and involves getting data around. Indigo message are CLR representations of the SOAP infoset. The Indigo message... Read More...

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06 juli 2005
ARC419 The Grey Area of Implementing Services Using Object-Oriented Technologies

Problem 1: You might not always get want you want When services share types you will have problems because the generated proxies also have client-side representations of the shared types. (BTW, in ASMX 2.0 this is less of a problem, since wsdl.exe has a /sharetypes parameter). You will not be able to... Read More...

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06 juli 2005
Enterprise Services features in Indigo and more

Some highlights of the CTS366: Implementing Indigo Endpoint (Secure, Reliable and Transacted messaging) by Ingo Rammer and Steve Swartz. Indigo distinguishes to sorts of standards: Basic Profile and WS Profile. Basic is neccessay if you like to interface with heterogeneous services and/or ASMX web services... Read More...

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05 juli 2005
Champions off to Electronic Sports World Cup

In the first weekend of June the Electronic Sports World Cup qualifier was held in the "Beurs van Berlage" in Amsterdam. Great place to have a LAN tournament. Champions eSports Association was there and seeded first. We also won the qualifier pretty easily. That means that we get to go to the ESWC finals... Read More...

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05 juli 2005
Great place to meet people

When you are looking for certain people at a jumbo-sized venue like the Amsterdam RAI with over 7 thousand people squirming around like ants, you won't find them. Still, I met the following people today and spoke to them: Sander Gerz ( ToDotNet ) Foppe Weijer, Jan Kamphuis and Will Heessels ( Provincie... Read More...

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05 juli 2005
Mixed feelings on keynotes sessions

Shame on me, but this was my first ever keynote session on a TechEd (even though I have been to 5 TechEds before). I did see the keynote of the Professional Developer Conference (PDC) in 2003. That one rocked. It was aweome to see Bill Gates mock himself in a documentary style clip of about 15 minutes... Read More...

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05 juli 2005
Arrived at TechEd

Just arrived at the TechEd. Registration went smooth. No line (I got to use the MCT/MVP non-existent queue, but the others were not too bad either) to receive my passes and collect the bag. Each edition of TechEd it is always a surprise as to what bag and shirt you get. Well, this year's t-shirt is blue... Read More...

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02 juli 2005
Assembly binding failures no longer logged by default

Just came across this little message in a Yellow-Screen-Of-Death of ASP.NET 2.0: WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF. To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1. Note: There is some performance penalty associated with... Read More...

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