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Importance of meaningful error messages
The other day I had a very strange Visual Studio 2005 experience. I was testing the new design time capabilities of r.a.d.tabstrip and something went extremely wrong. My test environment consists of a WebControlLibrary project (the control itself) and a WebSite with a single aspx page containing nothing but a humble r.a.d.tabstrip. The site has a project reference to the web control library so it gets rebuilt whenever I build the site. So far so good. Here is the fun part - whenever I rebuilt the site and refreshed the page I received the following error:Ok, i said to myself, it's debugging time. I...February 08, 2006 -
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The (TextBox) loss of text conspiracy
While working on AJAX support for r.a.d.calendar, one of our relatively new controls, I came across a very interesting issue with the ASP.NET TextBox control. The problem was related to ViewState management, or better said, the absence of such. The TextBox simply didn’t seem to handle any ViewState information and the TextBox values were not persisted and reloaded correctly after PostBack. What I was doing wasn’t rocket science - I wanted to make the TextBox (System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox) persist its value when the user scrolls forward or backward through the month views. My first thought was that I’m brain-dead and have had...January 17, 2006 -
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No more Internet Explorer for Mac
One of the people on our design team sent us the good news this morning - it's official that Internet Explorer for Mac will no longer be supported and will not be available for download as of December 31st, 2005. You can read the full bulletin at the Mactopia site:http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx?pid=internetexplorerI am sure there won't be a lot of tears in the eyes of our development team now that the "villain" will be finally gone. We will not stop to support Mac IE immediately but we do plan to drop support for the notorious browser at some point in Q1 2006. We do recommend to customers...December 20, 2005 -
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Test-driving Windows shell scripts with Windows Scripting Host
I was creating a small banner rotation script yesterday. It needed to be tiny, lightweight and easy to deploy, so I chose to do it in JScript as it is available on every Windows machine. I usually do small automation projects in Ruby, but the machine that has to run the script does not have Ruby installed. I am a closure freak, so I went for JScript (VBScript does not have closures).The script has to select a random subfolder from the source location and copy all its files to the destination. I don't have much experience with Windows Scripting Host's (WSH)...December 01, 2005 -
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www.asp.net has a new design
A couple of days ago the good ole www.asp.net site got a facelift. I didn't find much new stuff, but the design is very funky. I guess everyone was waiting to see something fresh and the VS 2005 official release seemed like a good time to roll out an update (the site's running .NET 2.0 so it's kind of a showcase:).I don't know whether anyone else is experiencing the same behavior, but it seems to me that the site simply hangs for a few seconds when you load a page with a lot of content (let's say the home page for the...November 09, 2005
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