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.NET 3.5 and VS SP beta1 goodies

luisabreu — Mon, 12 May 2008 19:58:24 GMT

You can get them from here (VS) and here (.NET). I'm reading what's new on Brad Abrams post and I'm really digging the new features:) For instance, having the format option working with JS code is simply cool! Another cool thing: the ScriptManager is able to combine scripts so there's really no need for using the ToolkitScriptManager for that:)

Btw, i'm still going through the complete list but it really looks like we're gonna gave lots of new stuff :)

Going crazy while trying to open the config files of IIS

luisabreu — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:51:52 GMT

Currently, I use VS 2008 to write all the code and Notepad2 to read txt files. I do also use Notepad2 when I just need to take a quick look at some file. It's been a long time since I have used Notepad. In fact, I've already forgotten about it until today :) Let me explain this better...

While trying to study the new IIS 7, I decided to take a quick look at the new config files and their schemas, which are located on the %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config folder. After getting there, I just tried to double clicked the applicationHost.config file. Hum...nothing happened...weird...ok, so how about opening VS and the dropping the file into it? again, it didn't work...

So, lets go through the file open dialog. this was even stranger since the files were not shown on the dialog...well, the same thing happened when I tried to use Notepad2...believe it or not, the only thing that did the trick was droping the file over the good old notepad... And yes, I've tried everything (I did disabled UAC and used an administrator account but none of the previous approaches worked!)

Open Source projects in .NET

luisabreu — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:36:41 GMT

An open letter from D. Starr to Scott G. resulted in a cool discussion about open source projects in the .NET platform. If you have the time, then go read it!

[I know this is old, but I'm on vacations:) ]

Quick tip: using Fiddler to catch the traffic in IE7

luisabreu — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:09:15 GMT

Some time ago, Rama gave us (users of the AJAX forums) a good tip: Using http://localhost.:12... or http://localhost./.... forces IE to use Fiddler to make the request! The problem is that IE7 is smart (in fact, maybe I should say that in this case, it's behavior is really annoying) and even if you configure it to go through a proxy, it will always make a direct call if it detects a localhost call.

Before knowing this, I was forced to use firefox or to create a web app in IIS. This little trick will save me lots of time :)

btw, Rama has some cool posts on his blog (I say some because there's only five posts there :( ). Lets hope that he starts writing frequently!