Christopher Steen

Link Listing - October 30, 2006

• CSS Control Adapters Update (Beta3) [Via: ScottGu ]
• Automatically Updating Applications (ClickOnce vs. ClickThrough) [Via: James Avery ]
• Dynamic Drive CSS Layouts [Via: Dion Almaer ]
• Visual Studio 2005 IDE Enhancements Released [Via: PaulBallard ]
• TestDriven.NET 2.0 [Via: Jamie Cansdale ]
• Getting Started with Windows Communication Framework [Via: dwahlin ]
• Tip/Trick: Handling Errors with the UpdatePanel control using ASP.NET AJAX [Via: ScottGu ]
• The Build Server: Your Project's Heart Monitor [Via: ]
• WCF and Duplex Channels [Via: Tomas Restrepo ]
• Microsoft SyncToy 1.4 Released [Via: Chris Haaker ]
• Real World SOA Presentation Materials [Via: trobbins ]

Link Listing - October 26, 2006

• New and Notable 117 [Via: SamGentile ]
• How To: Enable Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax Betas on an existing site [Via: jkimble ]
• Thoughts on Code in ASPX Pages [Via: Jeff Perrin ]
• Deploying a DB to your Hoster [Via: danwinn ]
• Subtext 1.9.2 "Shields Up" Edition Released! [Via: Haacked ]

Link Listing - October 25, 2006

• What's Wrong With This Code? (#8) [Via: scott ]
• Dojo 0.4 Released [Via: Dion Almaer ]
• SubSonic 1.0.5 [Via: swatermasysk ]
• Generics and Factories in the Data Access Layer - Code Generation [Via: dhayden ]
• MonoRail vs ASP.Net [Via: Dru Sellers ]
• MSDN Webcast: Five Reasons to Love Visual Studio Team System [Via: Rob Caron ]
• CommSee architectural v-ARCast up on SkyScrapr [Via: shlock ]
• CSS Friendly ASP.NET 2.0 Control Adapters Beta 3 Now Available [Via: bgold ]
• Must-have Add-Ins for Internet Explorer 7 [Via: robburke ]

Link Listing - October 23, 2006

• Small Business Site Starter Kit Released [Via: j_gaylord ]
• Tip/Trick: Cool UI Templating Technique to use with ASP.NET AJAX for non-UpdatePanel scenarios [Via: ScottGu ]
• ClickOnce Book Site and Samples up [Via: brian@softinsight.com ]
• Goodbye XAMLPad, Hello Kazaml! [Via: ]
• Presentation: The Role of the Enterprise Service Bus [Via: ]
• What's In a Workflow Queue Name? [Via: scott ]
• Avoid using Impersonation in ASP.NET [Via: Scott Hanselman ]

Geek Lunch - Monday, October 23rd in Columbia, MD

For anyone interested in eating lunch with a bunch of "Geeks",  we will be meeting on Monday, October 23rd at Fuddruckers in Columbia, MD. I am planning on being there around 11:45am. This is a very informal gathering. There is no set time for this to start or end.

Fuddruckers
6486 Dobbin Center Way
Columbia, MD 21045

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Please email me via this blog if you are interested. This way we can get an idea of how many people may show up. 

Link Listing - October 22, 2006

• YUI BorderLayout: Rich cross browser layouts [Via: Dion Almaer ]
• ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 Released [Via: ScottGu ]
• WCF Extensibility - Part 1 [Via: andresv ]
• Cutting Edge: Windows Workflow Activities [Via: Dino Esposito ]
• PowerShell CMDLET Visual Studio 2005 Item Template [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
• Splash Screens in Windows Forms [Via: James Avery ]
• Privacy Guidelines for Developers [Via: Rob Caron ]

Link Listing - October 19, 2006

• Screwturn Wiki [Via: James Avery ]
• Bubble Generator [Via: Dion Almaer ]
• WebSnapr - Website thumbnails for your site (built in .NET) [Via: gavinjoyce ]
• CodeSmith 4.0 Public Beta Released [Via: ejsmith ]
• Re-Hosting the Windows Workflow Designer [Via: SamGentile ]
• WCF Metadata Publication and Others [Via: Tomas Restrepo ]
• National Geographic talks about GeoRSS [Via: Tim Hibbard ]
• Cutting Edge: Windows Workflow Activities [Via: Dino Esposito ]
• OriginUrl Supports Regular Expressions [Via: Haacked ]
• Atlas Web Application Project Template [Via: Haacked ]

Link Listing - October 18, 2006

• Remote Desktop On A Non-Standard Port [Via: Haacked ]
• Why Oh Why Couldn't WebPermission Be Part Of Medium Trust? [Via: Haacked ]
• How to Make Design 2.0 [Via: palichorova ]
• Visual Studio for Database Professionals and other Cool Data Management Tools for .NET [Via: ScottGu ]
• Three New Data Tutorials on Using Master/Detail Filtering with the DataList and Repeater Controls! [Via: Scott Mitchell ]
• SiteMap Macro v2.0 [Via: scott ]
• What Can aspnet_compiler.exe Do For Me? [Via: scott ]
• Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now [Via: ieblog ]
• PHP on .NET [Via: AaliAlikoski ]
• Another Inversion of Control Example With Infrastructure and DAO Components [Via: dhayden ]
• HOWTO: Configure Apache Tomcat/Axis for web service development on Windows XP SP2 [Via: Anil John ]
• Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Part 7 [Via: ]

Link Listing - October 16, 2006

• ASP.NET 2.0 - Investigating .NET Exceptions with WinDbg (Compilation and Load Exceptions) [Via: Tess ]
• Introducing Perf+ , A better perfmon [Via: RoyOsherove ]
• Tip/Trick: Source/Documentation for Simple ASP.NET 2.0 SQL Providers Published [Via: ScottGu ]
• HTTP troubleshooting tools [Via: steve schofield ]
• Inversion of Control - Dependency Inversion Principle - Castle's Windsor/MicroKernel [Via: dhayden ]
• Mike Roberts: Tree Surgeon has moved, and Google Code [Via: ]
• .NET University [Via: trobbins ]
• .NET 3.0 Adoption and the current relative importance of its pieces [Via: brian@softinsight.com ]
• .NET Hang Debugging Walkthrough [Via: Tess ]
• Mono 1.1.18 is out [Via: Mono Project (mono@novell.com) ]
• NAnt 0.85 is released [Via: Gert Driesen@nospam.com ]

Geek Lunch Follow Up

On Tuesday, 9 other "Geeks" and myself met at Three Brothers in Columbia, MD for lunch and good conversation.  Overall, I think the turn out was good for such short notice.  The topics of conversation where mostly tech related with topics like Verizon FiOS and HDTV.  Thank you to everyone that participated.

The next lunch will be on Monday, October 23rd at Fuddruckers in Columbia, MD.

Fuddruckers
6486 Dobbin Center Way
Columbia, MD 21045

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Please email me via this blog if you are interested. This way we can get an idea of how many people may show up. 

Also email me with ideas for other locations to hold a lunch.

Link Listing - October 12, 2006

• Examining ASP.NET 2.0's Membership, Roles, and Profile - Part 6 [Via: ]
• Layouting Formview without Tables and use CSS [Via: preishuber ]
• SOA Reference Model 1.0 Approved as OASIS Standard [Via: ]
• InfoQ Interview: John Crupi on Enterprise SOA [Via: ]
• Web Client Software Factory - Drop 04 [Via: scott ]
• MasterPage Issue With ViewState Disabled in web.config [Via: scott ]
• Essential ASP.NET 2.0 - off to the presses! [Via: Fritz Onion ]
• Upcoming free "Live from Redmond" webcast talks [Via: ScottGu ]

Link Listing - October 10, 2006

• My Favorite Little Function - FixUrl [Via: Stephen Wright ]
• Generate Google Earth KML using ASP.net and XmlTextWriter [Via: Tim Hibbard ]
• WCF Self hosting snippet [Via: richard@nospam.dotnetconsult.co.uk ]
• ASP.NET Crash - Crazy looping in a SiteMap [Via: Tess ]
• What's Wrong With This Code? (#7) [Via: scott ]
• XSDObjectGen ++ ? [Via: DotNetInterop ]
• Semantic coupling: the elephant in the SOA room [Via: rocky@lhotka.net (Rockford Lhotka) ]
• Gotcha: Fixing Error with VS 2005 SP1 Beta and older Web Application Project Templates [Via: ScottGu ]
• Power Tools For Disk Defragmenting [Via: Haacked ]
• jQuery 1.0.2 Now Available [Via: Karl ]
• Downloading Files Without Timeouts [Via: ]

Geek Lunch Tuesday, October 10th in Columbia, MD

For anyone interested in eating lunch with a bunch of "Geeks", we will be meeting at Three Brothers Italian Restaurant this Tuesday.

I am planning on being there around 11:45am.

This is a very informal gathering. There is no set time for this to start or end.

Please email me via this blog if you are interested. This way we can get an idea of how many people may show up.

If people are interesting in this type of get together, we can do this on a regular basis.  I am hoping this can be a weekly or bi-weekly event.   Let me know your thoughts and ideas.

See you on Tuesday...

Three Brothers Italian Restaurant
7090 Deepage Dr
Columbia, MD 21045
(410) 309-5944

http://threebrotherspizza.com/

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Link Listing - October 6, 2006

• Administering ClickOnce Deployments whitepaper [Via: brian@softinsight.com ]
• Google Announces Code Search [Via: ]
• Exceptional Handling in Windows Communication Framework and Best Practices [Via: ashishme ]
• Patterns and Anti-Patterns for SOA [Via: ronjacobs ]
• Essential Audio for .NET Professionals [Via: tmitch ]
• New Database Documentation Tool - Data Dictionary Creator by Jon Galloway [Via: thomasswilliams ]
• SOA: The WCF governance and management story (long) [Via: FederalDev ]
• Handcrafting WCF-friendly WSDLs [Via: donsmith ]
• Microsoft and SOA: AMR's Dennis Gaughan gets it [Via: FederalDev ]
• CSS Tools [Via: ericgu ]
• Web Client Software Factory works with pageflow, workflow [Via: Jack Vaughan@nospam.com ]
• Patterns & Practices Guidance Explorer Beta 2 [Via: Anil John ]
• SQL Refactor [Via: Ayende Rahien ]

Link Listing - October 4, 2006

• Tip/Trick: Adding Authorization Rules to Business and Data Layers using PrincipalPermissionAttributes [Via: ScottGu ]
• Mike Roberts: CruiseControl.NET 1.1 Released [Via: ]
• Great PowerShell Screencasts [Via: blog-feedback@leeholmes.com ]

Del.icio.us Links

• Federal Developer Weblog : Microsoft: Real-world SOA
• Main Page :: Castle Project
  Castle aspires to simplify the development of enterprise and web applications. Offering a set of tools (working together or independently) and integration with other open source projects, Castle helps you get more done with less code.
• altinoren.com - ActiveWriter Introduction
  ActiveWriter is basically a tool to model entities and relations between them
• ScrewTurn Wiki - Overview - ScrewTurn Software
  ScrewTurn Wiki is a performant and simple Wiki engine, written in C# and based on the ASP.NET 2.0 platform.
• TMT Validator
• Intelligencia » Restful.NET
  The Restful.NET library is an open source REST Web Service framework for .NET.

Link Listing - October 3, 2006

• jQuery Spy [Via: Dion Almaer ]
• What's in a name? "Generate..." [Via: CWeyer ]
• Inline XSD in WSDL with WCF [Via: Tomas Restrepo ]
• Regular Expression Library [Via: Chad Finsterwald ]
• CSharp C# Feeds Help Wanted [Via: ssmith ]
• XSDClassgen = XSDObjecGen + .net framework 2.0 [Via: Ram Marappan ]
• Scheduling the Import of data with ASP.NET [Via: swright ]
• XFire 1.2.2 Released! [Via: dandiep ]
• WordProcessingML doc creation in Java [Via: DotNetInterop ]
• The Page Appearance Framework. [Via: crisag ]
• WARNING: Concurrency Issue with ASP.NET 2.0 GridViews/DetailsView/FormViews that Support Editing and/or Deleting and Whose View State is Disabled [Via: Scott Mitchell ]

Link Listing - October 2, 2006

• The Dangers of Cross-Domain Ajax with Flash [Via: Chris Cornutt ]
• In-Browser Wireframe Prototyping with Frametastic [Via: Dion Almaer ]
• Visual Studio "Orcas" alpha [Via: fmarguerie ]
• Custom Build Numbers in Team Build [Via: scott ]
• Using Sandcastle August CTP and MSBuild to produce CHM documentation automatically [Via: rimuri ]
• Html, Url & Xml encoding page and script [Via: Jason Haley ]
• CSLA .NET 2.1 is available [Via: rocky@lhotka.net (Rockford Lhotka) ]
• Workflow Policy, Rules, and Collections [Via: scott ]
• Visual Studio Team System Webcast Series [Via: robcaron ]
• Set up your system to use Microsoft's public Symbol Server [Via: Scott Hanselman ]
• Tip/Trick: Guard Against SQL Injection Attacks [Via: ScottGu ]
• ASP.NET and search engines. Or why Google is not indexing my ASP.NET web-site the way I want [Via: Rumen Stankov ]
• Yahoo! Developer Day Recap [Via: Eric Miraglia ]
• My Gameplan for Starting a New Project from Scratch [Via: jmiller ]
• Announcing SecurityKicks.com [Via: gavinjoyce ]
• [Cool Tool] NetSetMan - switch network configurations in a single click [Via: RoyOsherove ]

CMAP Job Fair on Tuesday, October 3rd

On Tuesday, October 3 from 4 pm to 6:30 pm the CMAP Job Fair will be at the UMBC Technology Center, 1450 S. Rolling Road, Halethorpe, MD. 

All companies attending will have jobs for individuals that are Software Developers in Microsoft Technologies or are interested in the same. Some companies will have openings for entry level candidates.

Attending organizations will include:

• Ajilon Consulting
• Aquilent
• Catalyst IT Services
• KForce Technology Staffing
• Microsoft
• PPS
• Profiles Placement Services
• SM Consulting
• Talent Family, Inc.
• TEKsystems
• Telesis
  

For more details visit http://www.CMAPJobFair.org.