I’ve started to work with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1. I installed it into a Virtual PC 2004 VM running Windows XP SP1a. In the process of trying new things out, I discovered the new ASP.NET Web Site Administration Tool. This is a web app that allows for easier configuration of Security, Profile, Application, and… Continue reading aspnet_regsql.exe Does Not Configure Permissions

I have just finished writing an Outlook 2003 addin for automating the process of uploading pictures and creating weblog entries. Once you have the addin installed, all you have to do is email a picture as an email attachment to an email address that starts with “modblog” (and of course have Outlook pickup this email).… Continue reading ModBlogger Addin

After reading Chris Sell’s site, I took the test: Which OS are You? This is particularly funny as my first computer was an Apple ][+.

Ok, so I have been wrestling for the last few days with the fact that I was unable to debug .NET addins in Outlook. For whatever reason, Visual Studio would launch Outlook, and then it would crash almost immediately. I started to think that this might be a permissions issue. With that in mind, I… Continue reading Outlook vs. Whidbey

I was doing some Google’ing on XmlSerialization when I came across an entry in Daniel Cazzulino’s

I have just witnessed something that I feel is on the same level as the invention of the wheel! BOX-4-BLOX – Sorts and Stores Lego

My friend Sondre posted some pics of his servers. It was such a mess, I had to post pics of my machines in the garage.

I can now officially say that the DataSet can kiss my lilly white ass! I have just successfully data bound a custom collection that contains objects that have a property containing another collection. All collection classes derive from CollectionBase, and implements IBindingList. The individual objects implement IEditableObject. This also now makes the design pattern I’m… Continue reading The DataSet Can Kiss My Ass

So, I came across a tribute site for ASCII porn. Check it out here. [Listening to: Back In Black – Rock And Roll Ain%27t Noise Poll.mp3 ]

In case you wrote a IConfigurationSectionHandler in .net 1.0, you may have a problem with 1.1. Check here for the answer. [Listening to: Back In Black – Rock And Roll Ain%27t Noise Poll.mp3 ]