Dave Burke : Online Community and Social Business Specialist

As Carl Prothman says, check it out!  The TechEd 2003 materials are online.  I went through Scott Guthrie's ASP.NET Tips and Tricks, and I must say that Microsoft Producer for Powerpoint with which these slideshows were presented is fantastic.  (I haven'... [More]

In my previous post I address tightening site security setup practices with the focus of restricting site folder access for new sites on a sweet new W2K3 production server.  I tightened folder access too much initially with .htm files loading fine, but ev... [More]

I have the good fortune of moving a few websites to a new W2K3 Server and am thinking about security. Specifically, security for a site folder access. IIS site setup is such a basic issue, and most of us have been doing it for years.  But I wanted to tigh... [More]

Every .NET developer has ftp'd new DLLs and a bunch of .ASPX files to add a new feature on a production site, maybe a feature that was several days or longer in development.  The time finally arrives to ftp the changes (usually late at night for me), and ... [More]

Asynchronous Web Service calls are a beautiful thing.  Web services I was executing from a console app I mentioned earlier were timing out and Asynchronous WS calls got me back in the pink.  I sketched out the basic framework in using an asynchronous call... [More]

I've been wrestling with relaying .NET STMP messages beyond our local domain since around 3:00 this afternoon.  It's now around 5:30.  I know, it's a Friday, but darn it, when something doesn't work on one of my servers--whether that particular something ... [More]

I broke-out the freetextbox.dll control from Scott Watermasysk's .TEXT framework for another project of mine.  (Is my understanding correct that this control was written on Linux?  It's a very sweet control!)  In testing I kept getting an error message "P... [More]

We don't get many MSDN sessions up here in Burlington, Vermont, so when one is available, I go!  The two sessions were led by Joe Stagner and were on 1) Deploying Smart Client Applications, and 2) Office 2003 and Visual Studio 2003.  I just wanted to say... [More]

I remember the errors I used to get while writing VB6 COM (which I thought at one time was the coolest technology in the world--that and rolling back a transaction with maybe sending something to MSMQ--who could want anything more???)  But the error messa... [More]

We moved to VS.NET 1.1 last week and all has gone pretty smoothly.  I did discover the other day that certain web controls no longer served up the data which originated from various remote server shares.  Once I knew the problem the fix was obvious:  it w... [More]