Rick Strahl's Web Log

Weblog Posts in October 2006

Accessing Localized values in ASP.NET markup and JavaScript
October 31, 2006 @ 6:59 pm

I'm finally getting to the point of actually using my localization provider and localizing a couple of applications, which as we all know is tedious as heck. Here are a few thoughts in how to deal with literal values placed into the ASP.NET page markup, especially in relation to creating script code literals.

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Strongly typed resources in ASP.NET
October 31, 2006 @ 2:57 am

So I was screwing around today with strongly typed resources in ASP.NET. Another cool side-effect of using Web Application Projects as opposed to stock ASP.NET projects is that WAP uses strongly typed global resources. If you create a global resource file, WAP automatically creates a strongly typed...

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Auto-Culture detection related issues in ASP.NET
October 30, 2006 @ 3:21 am

I've been mostly playing around with new Auto-Culture switching in ASP.NET 2.0 and it seems that there are a coulpe of issues I've run into that I can't seem to work around using this mechanism. I’ve posted about ways to switch cultures in code previously and that’s been working fine, but...

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Creating and writing ASP.NET 2.0 custom Configuration Sections
October 29, 2006 @ 12:37 pm

I had a few false starts when trying to update a custom Configuration Section in web.config today. It's super easy to create sections and read the values, but writing turned out to be a little more tricky due to lack of documentation.

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GridView and BoundField DataFormat Strings with Dates
October 29, 2006 @ 2:29 am

I keep running into this funky GridView behavior: You add a bound field to the grid and add a format string for a short date, run and find - no short date formatting. Turns out you have to tweak the settings to get formatting to work correctly.

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ListControl SelectedValue inconsistencies
October 28, 2006 @ 7:33 pm

I really dislike the ListControl SelectedValue implementation – this damn property is causing me all sorts of grief on occasion with its inconsistencies.

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wwHoverPanel Update to co-exist with MS AJAX
October 25, 2006 @ 10:04 pm

I’ve posted a small update to the wwHoverPanel control today that fixes a couple of small problems if used in combination with MS Ajax beta.

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More MS Ajax Pain
October 22, 2006 @ 4:12 am

I went through the chore of converting my ATLAS samples to Beta 1 today and it was a very painful experience. This realease seem terribly buggy and there a number of things that are simply not working.

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First look and few thoughts on the Microsoft AJAX Beta
October 21, 2006 @ 6:25 am

So Microsoft now has released Beta 1 of the ASP.NET Ajax Extensions. As expected this update pretty much fries all existing ATLAS code as there are major changes in the framework. There are many improvements for the base framework and the client framework, but the whole theme of this fragmentation of these tools really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

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Common Problems with rendering Bitmaps into ASP.NET OutputStream
October 19, 2006 @ 5:36 pm

Rendering image output in ASP.NET is not always straight forward as there are situations where images cannot be directly rendered into the Response.OutputStream

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Packaging ASP.NET ASPX Pages into a separate Assembly
October 18, 2006 @ 4:29 am

I was thinking about deploying some administration pages for a component I've built recently and it came to me that it'd be nice to be able to package the admin pages as part of an assembly rather than forcing installation of a bunch of support files. It turns out using Web Deployment Projects it's possible to accomplish this at least at first glance with very little effort.

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C Style String Encoding
October 17, 2006 @ 12:22 am

Got tired of manually trying to encode strings for quotes and other 'C-style' markup so I created a simple utility for it.

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RSS in Outlook 2007
October 16, 2006 @ 6:56 pm

I'm not impressed by the RSS features in Outlook 2007. While it's nice to have RSS integrated into Outlook natively, the implementation is just plain lackluster.

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Earthquake
October 15, 2006 @ 1:53 pm

We had a pretty good sized earthquake this morning here on Maui. Apparently it’s a pretty sizable one at 6.3-6.6 somewhere off the coast of the Big Island about 90 miles away or so… although the actual shaking here was pretty mild...

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Properly overriding the Width Property of Web Control?
October 15, 2006 @ 12:08 am

If I have a control that inherits say from a Panel control (which basically generates a <div>) and I want to override...

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LosFormatter for easy Serialization
October 13, 2006 @ 4:17 am

Ah, the ASP.NET LosFormatter – it’s a wonderful thing. I’m working on this resource provider and one of the things it has to do is deal with resources other than strings. There are a examples in several places that do a really half assed job of dealing with object resources that either don’t work. The LosFormatter makes this all so much easier.

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ResoureProvider, ResourceManagers Relationships in ASP.NET 2.0
October 12, 2006 @ 6:18 pm

I’ve been chomping away at my custom resource provider/manager and I have most of this working nicely with the ability to dynamically update resource content which was the original goal of this whole process. But even as all of this is coming together I still feel a bit lost on the high...

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Vista, Visual Studio, new Page and least Privilige - NOT!
October 10, 2006 @ 11:42 pm

Aaarrgh… So I’m really trying this time to give least privilege development in Vista a try, but it’s just like hitting walls everywhere. So here’s a real simple thing: Trying to add a new file to a project and as soon as I do I get a file access issue.

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Problem with Permission Elevation in Windows Vista
October 10, 2006 @ 11:13 pm

Windows Vista allows you to raise permissions of an application automatically if the application 'looks' like a Setup or configuration application. Or you can run 'As Administrator' which gives you Admin permissions. There's a problem with this though - when this elevation occurs it's essentially switching users, so your local user store - the Documents directory - is no longer pointing at your user store but at the elevated user store which can be problematic.

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Odd problem with ASP.NET Caching and a CAPTCHA Control
October 10, 2006 @ 2:43 am

I've run into an odd problem with a third party Captcha control I use in my app where it appears that the ASP.NET Cache is dumping items almost immediately after they're added.

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Recycling an ASP.NET Application from within
October 08, 2006 @ 8:03 pm

In most situations developers want to minimize the amount of ASP.NET Application cycling that occurs, but I've found a few situations where it's actually quite useful to force the ASP.NET application cycle from within the application itself. Here's how...

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Folder Virtualization in Windows Vista
October 08, 2006 @ 4:58 am

Folder Virtualization is a feature of Vista that allows virtualizing installation folders into a virtual store so that users who normally wouldn't be able to modify data in the Program Files folder get a private 'shadow' store so they can write to data. Interesting feature and certainly not very obvious...

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Windows Vista and custom Windows Application Installations - can you feel the Pain?
October 07, 2006 @ 11:05 pm

Oh man, I’m going to REALLY hate Vista from an application installation and configuration perspective for custom applications. To make a long story short, pretty much none of my Windows applications run under the default Vista security configuration.

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Trying to implement IImplicitResourceProvider
October 06, 2006 @ 1:03 am

I'm still trying to implement a custom Localization provider and while I've made the base functionality work fairly easily I'm stuck on the IImplicitResourceProvider interface not being quite sure where it needs to go and what it EXACTLY needs to do. I have it firing but it's not working correctly...

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Custom Localization ResourceProviders and Compiler Errors
October 04, 2006 @ 2:36 pm

I’ve been struggling with building a custom ResourceManager and hooking it into ASP.NET over the last few days as part of a localization engine that is data driven rather than through Resources. I’ve had a separate engine for this for sometime, but it hasn’t been hooked into the .NET or ASP.NET...

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SlickRun and Visual Studio 2005 Intellisense under Vista
October 02, 2006 @ 2:35 pm

SlickRun seems to interfere with Visual Studio 2005 Web Projects on Vista causing some issues with Intellisense not working properly.

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VS 2005 SP1 Beta - no relief for me
October 01, 2006 @ 11:49 pm

So I installed the Visual Studio 2005 SP1 Beta in hopes that some of the issues I’ve reported (here and here and here) on Vista RC1 but this seems to have made little difference. I still see Visual Studio crashing on exit. Intellisense is still hosed in any Web projects and I have to go into...

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C++ code from VS 2003 -> VS 2005 bloats size
October 01, 2006 @ 4:56 pm

Why is it that whenever a new version of Visual Studio comes out and you take a C++ project and migrate it and you simply recompile it the size of the project nearly doubles? I’ve been thinking about moving a handful of small Win32 DLL utlility libraries to VS2005 to get better editing...

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