Now, I don't mean to be mean here; but on occasion (not mentioning any names for fear of being butchered), there's people who basically demand that I help them do their job.
Let me explain; I hang out...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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A very common question in the ASP.NET Forumsis "How do I nest one Repeater (or DataList or DataGrid) inside of another?"; well, my usual stock answer used to be to use the OnItemDataBound event then...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Just noticed that Winamp is giving away a free copy of Spitting Games by Snow Patrol, so you just download the bunde! I bought the Snow Patrol album, Final Straw when it was first released a few...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Well, still at it (20 hours after starting - yes, the time on this post is correct!). Really fustrating mostly, but one of those times coding where hours and hours of pain (literally in this case -...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Deadlocks...I hates the little buggers!
Just spent the day trying to fix an 'issue' with a site I developed for a client. This is slightly annoying as it's a 'theoretical' issue. Essentially, the...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Noticed a post on Robert McLaws' weblog about Hard-links...go and read the post it'll all make sense... Now, I've recently been working on a project where a requirement existed for an 'uploads'...
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One of the most common problems with using CDOSYS (which is the underlying class used by System.Web.Mail) is the lack of authentication for sending mail via SMTP, Darren Jefford posted a method to do...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I left a comment on Rob Chartier's blog about adding confirmation prompts to buttons, now I do use Andy Smith's Confirmed Buttons controls where I can, but if I need to add a simple confirmation to a...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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A comment from Rob Howard (I'll dig out a link later) go me thinking about problems with most blogs. Now, in my every day job I develop community applications, forums and all sorts of similar 'social...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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I'm getting increasingly involved in the world of Asynchrony and have been doing a bit of digging about into some of the pitfalls of multi-threading.
I came across an interesting one today involving...
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I posted a little while ago about an odd 'Memory Leak' I was having...well, after several days of trawling (and annoying Data Wantawho's excellent email component I was mistakenly blaming - sorry!), I...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Read all about it here...ah, sweet metablogging :-)
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Just noticed this in my User Agents....NET CLR 2.0.31022 - now the version I have from the Alpha is .NET CLR 1.2.30703 - is this new string the PDC build?
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Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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Now it's after the 26th, the NDA is lifted on the Whidbey alpha...which is nice :-) Anyway, thought I'd provide a look at the new ASP.NET toolbar for Whidbey here.
There's lots of really nice new...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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With all the hype about the distribution of the Whidbey Alpha at the PDC, I can't help but worry that people will get their hopes up a bit much...just remember it's an Alpha, whilst phenomenally cool...
Friday, 20 February 2004 00:00
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If by any chance you install a new version of .NET and still want to work with older sites under earlier versions (e.g., for the Whidbey stuff)... check out Denis Bauer's ASP.NET version...
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Though I'd provide an update of stuff I'm working on for this site; which will be finished eventually finding time to do it is pretty tricky. Anyway, I've been delving deep into the core of .TEXT and...
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This one drove me nuts for a while, I have an smtp server running on my server, but occasionally, the SMTP administration snapin would disappear for no particular reason. This is needless to say VERY...
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Further to my earlier bit on Threading, this site has some brilliant (fairly advanced) examples on various things...including a custom Thread Pool
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Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:00
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I love the articles which Joel Spolsky writes, I already linked in an earlier post to an interview he did about social software and forums in particular (I'll dig out the link tomorrow - and the...
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