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MSDE Deployment Toolkit

Mar 212005

Finished! Completed 1 project. Feeling good. 5 more to go. UGH!

Anyway, here’s something to tingle your senses. I’m sure everyone needs to use a database somehow or another during their development, and not everyone has SQL Server 2000 installed. One way would be to use Access, but that’s too slow. Another way would be to use MSDE. Here’s a good article as how to create your application installation to include and setup MSDE 2000 for your application.

The MSDE Deployment Toolkit (RC) in Action

Enjoy!

Next up I’ll talk about Paladin, if I can remember anything to write about.

WS-ContractFirst (WSCF)

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Mar 202005

Yo yo yo. I’m 90% done with one of my long-passed dateline project, and NOW I’m going to rest. But before that, I’d like to share with you guys WebServices – Contract First.

A few weeks ago, my friend Softwaremaker gave a presentation to the SgDotNet User Group. And he did a wonderful presentation about WebServices – Contract First. Here’s his blog about it.

Introducing WS-ContractFirst (WSCF) to Singapore

And he did mention about Christian Weyer’s WS-ContractFirst (WSCF) tool. Please do check it out. Contract First with webservices is a good way to go, though not the best, but I assure you SWM has convinced me it’s the best way to go at the moment.

There is a March 2005 Indigo CTP just released on MSDN Subscribers. Here are a few good articles on Indigo.

Microsoft “Indigo” The Unified Programming Model for Building Service-Oriented Applications

Introducing Indigo: An Early Look

Well, that’s all folks! It’s dinner time, and after that, I have to do the rest of this. I have another 5 more projects which datelines are way long overdued. Sigh.

Hopefully till tomorrow, I’ll be blogging again.

Five Undiscovered Features on ASP.NET 2.0

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Mar 162005

Five Undiscovered Features on ASP.NET 2.0

By now, developers everywhere have had the opportunity to download the first beta of the Microsoft® .NET Framework 2.0. ASP.NET developers who have played with it are no doubt salivating at all the cool new features. From Master Pages to declarative data access to new controls to a new provider-based state management architecture, ASP.NET 2.0 offers myriad ways to do more with less code. And with Beta 2 just around the corner, now is the time to get serious about ASP.NET 2.0.

You may have read some of the many books and magazine articles previewing the upcoming features. You might even have seen a live demo at a conference or user group meeting. But how well do you really know ASP.NET 2.0? Did you know, for example, that those wonderful $ expressions used to declaratively load connection strings and other resources can be extended to create $ expressions of your own? Did you realize that the new ASP.NET 2.0 client callback manager provides an elegant solution to the problem of keeping browser displays in sync with constantly changing data on the server? Did you know that you can encrypt sections of Web.config to prevent connection strings and other potentially injurious data from being stored in plaintext?

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My Take? Interesting article. I like the part about the client script callbacks, which is extremely useful. And the custom expression builder.

Visual Studio 2002 SP 1

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Mar 152005

Download it here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c41d8159-b42f-4d06-a797-e510494976ee&displaylang=en

Here is a list of the changes and hotfixes included in the SP.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837234

Release Notes are here.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C64786BC-FC5D-46C8-9E2E-FCD3A79935D8&displaylang=en

This download installs Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002. Fixes in this Service Pack concern stability and security enhancements made in many areas of the product. A comprehensive list of hotfixes requested by customers since the release of Visual Studio .NET 2002 and included in this Service Pack can be found by following the appropriate link under Related Resources on this page.

Enjoy!

Microsoft Learning 2nd Shot Exam Offer

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Mar 132005

http://www.microsoft.com/learning/mcp/offers/2ndshot/

Give yourself the best chance for success with an extra opportunity to pass any Microsoft IT Pro or Developer certification exam. Sign up now, and if you don’t pass the first time around you can retake it free.

ASP.NET and Struts: Web Application Architectures

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Mar 132005

ASP.NET and Struts: Web Application Architectures

Summary:
Learn about the similarities and differences between ASP.NET on the .NET Framework and Struts on Java 2 Enterprise Edition; and the features that each provides to solve common developer problems. Learn about the advantages and disadvantages of each, and the utility that they bring to next-generation Web development.

My Take:
Struts was the revolution in J2EE. Struts seperated design from logic using the MVC model. Struts was the next best thing for J2EE other than JBoss. Struts is the Controller.

But then came about ASP.NET.

Scholarships for University and more on CS 1.0

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Mar 102005

I think this might be my first non-technical post. I’m desperate to find scholarships or someone to sponsor me to go University, if I get into the University I want.

For those who already know, I’ve applied for University of Toronto and University of Waterloo, to the Computer Science program. Apparently, one of my family member is having an operation today, and that operation costs quite a far bit of money. Therefore, as you should already guess, my funds for university is much diminished.

I’ve looked at quite a few scholarships, and most of them require 3 A level distinctions, or S-Papers, which is quite apparent that I don’t have those. I’m currently holding a Diploma in Computer Engineering from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, and it’s only a B average (or so my counselor at the Canadian Education Centre says). Furthermore, for those who doesn’t know, I’m very active in SgDotNet and currently am an MVP – Visual Developer C#.

So, now the big thing. Where do I find scholarships? I’ve checked up BrightSparks but like I said, most of them require quite exceptional results.

Oh well. Anyway, enough of lamenting. Here’s something I’d like to share with you guys who’s playing around with Community Server 1.0. The conversion tool from Asp.net forums 2.0.1 to CS 1.0 is released by external sources. Here’s the link.

http://www.communityserver.org/forums/475923/ShowPost.aspx

There’s a fix for the Anonymous users here.

http://www.communityserver.org/forums/476239/ShowPost.aspx

Links for converting from nGallery to CS 1.0.

http://www.communityserver.org/forums/2/476157/ShowPost.aspx

Community Server has also released their “documentation” which is a wiki. Check it out here.

http://docs.communityserver.org

Oh yes, did I mention SgDotNet is going to do migration? Yes that’s right. That’s why I posted all these links here. And you think it’s for you. Haha! This blog is for me to remember things, not for you! Just joking. *wink*

Other cool stuff is this very cool Content Management System (CMS) that is actually quite good. It’s XHTML and CSS compliant. It’s called WordPress. And it’s totally done in PHP. Very good stuff. I’m wondering if CS 1.0 and DNN 3.0 is XHTML and CSS compliant. Even if it’s XHTML 1.0 Transitional, that’s pretty good already, in my opinion. Check WordPress out. They have a demo site setup here. http://www.opensourcecms.com/

Is that enough information? Or is it not enough?

Interesting news. It seems that MVPs are going on revolt because Microsoft is stopping development on VB6.

http://rblevin.blogspot.com/2005/03/microsoft-mvps-revolt.html

That’s all folks for today.

Emails ALL GONE!!!!

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Mar 062005

For those who have sent me emails since 05/03/2005 onwards, please re-send. My emails all went down the /dev/null.

Apparently the problem was this.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842293

Fixed it. Now everything works. But I lost 2 days worth of emails. Sorry to everyone. Please resend emails to me. Thanks. That includes Jason, Ken, Kitkai, Howard.

Thanks alot for the inconvenience. I’ll be sending you guys emails to request you guys to resend to me.