Want to win an XBox? You run dasBlog? Michael Earls shows you how.
[I just knew that the <%newtelligence.aspnetcontrol("TechEdBloggersFeed.ascx")%> macro would eventually be good for something ;-) ]
Omar Shahine, who took the role of the "Program Manager" for dasBlog 1.6 added a new macro feature (I am actually not really sure who added it; someone correct me if I am wrong; at least Omar OK'd the feature) that totally rocks and put us on par with MovableType in terms of easy access to older entries:
<%newtelligence.drawarchivemonths()%>
The macro creates a list of links for all months that have blog entries and if you look...
I am not a “smart client” programmer and probably not even a smart client programmer and this trick has probably been around for ages, but …
For someone who’s been doing WPARAM and LPARAM acrobatics for years and still vividly recalls what (not necessarily good) you can do with WM NCPAINT and WM NCMOUSEMOVE (all that before I discovered the blessings of the server-side), it’s pretty annoying that Windows Forms doesn’t bubble events...
I didn't spend much time for anything except writing, coding, travel, speaking and being at geek parties in the past weeks. Hence, I am sure I am the last one to notice, but I find it absolutely revolutionary that the Microsoft Visual C++ 2003 command line compiler (Microsoft C/C++ Version 13.1) is now a freebie.
One of the reasons why I run Windows Server 2003 on my notebook is that "Services without Components" (managed incarnation is System.EnterpriseServices.ServiceDomain) didn't work on XP. If you just touch the ServiceConfig or ServiceDomain classes on XP, you get rewarded with a PlatformNotSupportedException, because the unmanaged implementation of that feature was present, but not quite-as-perfect-as-it-should-be on XP. That will soon be history. Windows XP SP2 and the COM+ 1.5 Rollup Package 6 will fix that and will...