ASP.NET 2.0 GridView Fix
ASP.NET’s GridView control suffers from an irritating design flaw.
Now Available: The ASP.NET 2.0 Provider Whitepaper
I spent several weeks this summer writing an ASP.NET 2.0 provider toolkit under contract for Microsoft. The centerpiece of the toolkit is a 120-page whitepaper documenting the provider model and […]
ASP.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2005, and SQL Cache Dependencies
If you used ASP.NET 2.0 SQL cache dependencies in early betas of the product with SQL Server 2005, you may be surprised when your code breaks on newer builds. You […]
It’s a Bit of a Hack, But…
I’m working on an ASP.NET 2.0 project that uses CSS to stylize the UI. I needed to include <COLGROUP> elements in the output from GridView controls, but alas, GridView doesn’t support […]
Caching in ASP.NET 2.0
I just came across an excellent article by Andrew Duthie on new caching features in ASP.NET 2.0. Everybody’s heard about SQL cache dependencies, but post-cache substitution is one of ASP.NET 2.0 […]
R/C Crash Video (Cockpit View)
Here’s a pretty cool video of an R/C airplane that crashed when the wing joiner failed. What’s unusual about it is that the video was taken with an on-board video […]
Escape From Yesterworld
You gotta hand it to Microsoft: when they do marketing, they do it right. Check out this ad for Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005: http://www.escapeyesterworld.com/
Inside Microsoft Flight Simulator
Years ago, it was a curiosity about (and passion for) computer graphics that got me into the computer business. I bought a Commodore 64 (remember those?) and set out to […]
Coming Soon: MyComix 2.0
Lots of folks who have attended my talks in user groups, classes, and conferences in recent years have seen the MyComix application that I use in many of my demos. I […]