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For those of use using Trac for online projects and wiki-type functionality, and live in a visual studio world, you've got to check out Devja Vu's Visual Studio plug in.
http://vstrac.devjavu.com/
Its only in a Beta 1 state, but looks good enough to try out! You can too, grab it here on the SourceForge site:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=214927&package_id=259175
Rob Conery, the author of the coolest DAL utility known to man (AKA SubSonic) has joined the ranks of ASP.NET gurus at Microsoft.
He now may be getting paid by Microsoft, but his work is still the same. Can you beleive it? They are paying Rob to continue his efforts on Subsonic, and even integrate it with the ASP.NET Teams MVC framework!
Very cool news... Lets see, Scott Gu, working together with Shawn Burke, has brought in Phil Haack, Scott Hanselman, and now Rob Conery. Who's next? I would be putting my money on Mads Kristensen, but he's not American. Huh.
::: now back to...
Simply Wow! Taking the open source initiative to new heights, Microsoft decides to open up access to the source of .net framework libraries. Someone is definately shaking things up inside the box! Of course its a little (*alot) restrictive with what you can do with it, but hey, its out there!
Read all about it on Scotts blog:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/10/03/releasing-the-source-code-for-the-net-framework-libraries.aspx
Where to next?
Heres a little more by Shawn Burke, one of the pushers to get it out there.:
http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2007/10/03/making-net-framework-source-available-to-developers.aspx
Nice...
You may never had associated the title words with the Internet or web-based applications, but I predict that within 15 years thats exaclty the type of experience we will be getting used to on a day to day, site-to-site, basis. Web developers today can either get relevant or get lost.
With applications and technologies like Photosynth, Seadragon, Popfly, and Silverlight, that's exaclty where Microsoft is headed.
http://labs.live.com/photosynth/ : "Newest and most exciting way to view photos on a computer. Takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how...
As some of you that know me know, I'm an avid blog reader. I like to read about all the different 'stuff' thats going on in the minds and lives of thoses that inspire, educate, and humor me. Its a hobby. Instead of the latest book on my night stand, as me about my latest favorite blogs and blog writers. There are quite a few.
For someone like me though, who loves to keep up on the latest and greatest code corners, subscribing to the msdn blogs rss feed is just too much information. Its truly information overflow.
BEWARE of this RSS feed! http://blogs.msdn.com/MainFeed.aspx?Type=AllBlogs...
Ok, so I broke down and enlisted in Facebook. There is a catch though! Actually two! First and foremost, I just had to let my wife link to who she is married to, and second, I\m thinking up ideas how to work Facebook into a SuperOffice DevNet article. There are a dozen ideas, and when I get a few minutes I'll write and code it out to share with the community.
I'm sure there are others that are thinking the same thing, so if so, give me a poke and we can build it together!
I came across kris' blog entry about installing the asp.net Membership tables in a database you define. This is not about creating the standard ASPNETDB database, but creating a sql script that installs the Membership tables, triggers, stored procedures, the whole lot, into a database you define! This is a great tip that certainly alleviates me from having to deploy a completely seperate database just to manange users information.
Essentially it breaks down to this line:
aspnet_regsql.exe -E -S localhost -d MyPersonalDatabase -A all -sqlexportonly c:\membership.sql
As most probably already know, aspnet_regsql.exe is found in (C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\)
Kris has more about setting up the connection...
The creator of NStub, Jeremy Jarrell (sometimes referred to his blog handle: Digital Blasphemy), has just announce that NStub Beta 2 has been released. Unfortunately, he also says that that will not be any more effort going into that project. Thats too bad because its a cool idea! Expecially for lazy-ass programmers! Then again, it does kind of go against the point of TDD - write tests first, then code. Oh well... :-(
For those people who don't like to mess around with interpreted-language sites (e.g based on php, python, perl, etc), and have a desire to host a .Net project-based, subversion-friendly site, you need to check out SharpForge.
Its no TRAC, thats for sure! However, the project and site have been around for awhile, and more and more effort going into it makes it a worthwhile option for managing small to medium-sized projects. Expecially if you prefer .Net.
Interesting features include:
Multi Portal
Multi Project
Subversion Administration
Work Item Tracking
...
So there I was, strolling along minding my own SharePoint custom Membership Provider business, when all of a sudden I ran across some information (issue???) about Client Integration and persistent cookies. Then there was more information about cookie timeouts, and what a hassle it is to recover from the timeout on a machine with a default machine key in the machine.config file. THEN, there was a link to a microsoft article that describes the process to create new keys for use in Forms Authentication. So, I thought to myself, "Self, feels like a good time to write a simple windows form application to...
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