Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I needed to implement a subscription approach for a couple of company .text weblogs.  Consequently I had to add a new page in the .text httphandling framework and understand what was being handled behind the http sc... [More]

A couple days back I saw a wonderful opportunity to rewrite an existing page, make it a base webpage class, then with inheritance extend it for an add-on feature for a new app I was working on.  I began working in this direction for about an hou... [More]

I finally “had a reason” to checkout Reflector.  I was updating my C# asp.net app and found a call to an older VB.NET component I'd been using.  (I started in .NET using VB.NET.)  Well, I wasn't going to do that anymore.  I... [More]

A most excellent week spent customizing .text 0.94 for a company weblog to track project events has ended with the release of not one, but two separate weblogs now running on the company intranet.  The same day the project event weblog was put online... [More]

My coding + weblogging practice seems to have settled into going a number of days focusing on the work, then taking a night away from coding to post a few blogs on the experience.  In the meantime I'm reading other blogs and the ones which don't get ... [More]

I maintain a site for a remote client who is still using the 1.0 .NET Framework.  I just wanted to say that I appreciate being asked if I want to upgrade my VS.NET 1.0 project to 1.1.  MS doesn't assume that it should be upgraded.  Small th... [More]

It's been a week now during which I got to spend a lot of my time with .text .094.  Someone said early on when ScottW first released .text .093 that it was a study in best practices.  That is so true. For one of several gains in studying Scott's... [More]

I have a most enviable task of working with ScottW's .094 .Text framework this week and get paid for it.  I'm customizing it a bit to serve as a company project weblog where multiple individuals post to the same blog.  This means the login is no... [More]

I remember reading Wroxer Alex Homer over two years ago saying something to the effect “to make any html element a smart asp.net control, just add an ID=”XXX” and a RUNAT=SERVER tag.”  That stuck with me and here, two years la... [More]

In our last episode I was adding a single textbox field to a site home page which I wanted to have as high-utility as possible, so I added a prompt in the textbox with clear-onfocus support.  I added a “GO” button then thought that i... [More]