Wednesday, February 25, 2004 - Posts

Non-Rectangular Forms with .NET

Really interesting... I was thinking how to design non rectangular forms with .NET and I've found an answer on David Cumps Blog...

In an interesting post, How To Make Non-Rectangular Forms, David explains how to write forms with different shapes, using the Region property...

Cool!

Searching for .NET Portal Content Manager

I'm searching for a free ASP.NET Portal Content Manager, for example like DotNetNuke, but with Microsoft Access Database (.mdb) support. I've read that DotNetNuke will have support for Access Database with the Beta 2. I'm waiting for it but at the moment I can't found other free Portal with .mdb database support and i need it.

Do you know something available on the net? If someone know some solutions, please tell me an advice! Thanks.

MSN Messenger and Hotmail on Cellphones

Yes, it will be true, just read on Openwave site:

Microsoft has struck a deal with mobile phone software development company Openwave that will see versions of Hotmail and Messenger available to mobile users running the Openwave software suite.

Openwave plans to incorporate the new services into its Phone Suite V7, an all-in-one phone browser interface.

Sounds good! :)

Just read on  Frank Prengel Blog...

New Visual Studio Whidbey will support multi-language projects (not just solutions, as in v. 2002/2003). That means that you can mix & match C++, C#, VB, etc. in one project, and compile that into one assembly.

Really amazing... this will be a revolution and one of the thing i was dreaming! :)

Templated Custom ASP.NET Server Controls

An interesting new article on MSDN: Building Templated Custom ASP.NET Server Controls. This article shows how to build custom server controls that utilize templates. Templates allow for customization of a Web control's rendered output by providing a means for a page developer to specify HTML elements, Web controls, and databound statements.

Check it!

 

Importing Hierarchical XML into SQL Server 2000

I want to signal an interesting post on Tim Walters blog: Hierarchical XML - importing into SQL Server 2000.

Tim show us how to import infinite-depth XML trees into a parent/child table in SQL Server 2000. It uses table variables and OPENXML to do most of the tricks, along with an interesting WHILE loop.

Interesting!