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I hate throwing away code. Recently, we had a requirement to create an Excel spreadsheet with formulas and specific data for a particluar user. Of course we could always use Reporting Services to get the data in Excel format but then there would be no formulas. So I ran across this article by Peter Bromberg titled Create Dynamic ASP.NET Excel Workbooks In C#. It's a short article but it gives a good code listing at the end. I created a prototype in VB.Net & ASP.Net and it was working pretty well, a bit slow, but it worked. Then it got yanked....
Microsoft has announced some updates to thier Windows Live Local service (I really hate that name). Then enhancements include real-time traffic reporting and new social sharing tools. Here are the highlights:
Real-time traffic flow. Customizable driving directions are now even more useful with the addition of real-time traffic flow and incident reporting provided by Traffic.com. This functionality will be available only in the U.S. release.
Collections. Social networking functionality allows customers to create lists of favorite landmarks and locations, attach personal photos and save them to a Scratchpad. Collections can be saved, recalled later, permalinked, and shared with friends and community in e-mail or...
As I mentioned in my previous post I'm in the middle of moving a blog from MSN Spaces to my Community Server site. Of course there were some issues to resolve. You first need to turn on e-mail publishing for your MSN Spaces blog. You cannot use the MetaWeblog API without it. You can turn it on by following the steps documented in the Getting Started with the MetaWeblog API for MSN Spaces page. Note: you may have to use Firefox to do this. No lie. While using IE6 an error kept popping up on me. Weird.
Next you will have to download the XML-RPC dll. Unzip the...
I will be needing to migrate a MSN Spaces blog over to my Community Server site. I can't tell you what blog yet but it involves primates, colors and flames. Fortunately, Microsoft has made available the MetaWeblog API on MSN Spaces. They also have a decent getting started with MetaWeblog API for MSN Spaces page. Unfortunately, they limit the metaWeblog.getRecentPosts method to only 20 posts. Ughhh. I can't fault MS too much their documentation is not too bad. I've got an idea on how I'm going to port the data. I'll post the code I've completed the port.
I see that you've found my new technical blog. Welcome. Just so you know I'm using Community Server 2.0 as the software for this blog. I have loaded all of the posts in the Tech category on my personal blog at www.jorriss.com on this site. To do this I was able hook into the Community Server web service, loop through my technical blog posts (stored in .Text) and load each post. I wasn't worried about the comments or referrals since I wasn't going to remove the original posts from jorriss.com. This way, I get a fresh blog with all of my...
Recently, I needed to create a list of items that were to be manually sorted by the user. I decided to use the sorting mechanism that Netflix uses in its queue. The items are listed 1 to n on the page with the sequence number in a text box. If the user wishes to re-sequence an item all they need to do is change the number in the text box to the desired sequence number. After I created the sorting algorithm in the business collection object I started out to write the UI. I first started out using Infragisics WebGrid. It...
While checking the logs at work I found this curious error “Invalid_Viewstate_Client_Disconnected”. After some research (i.e. Google) I found this knowledge base article Intermittent Invalid Viewstate Error in ASP.NET Web pages. Unfortunately, the KB didn’t help much since we were doing all of the recommended steps. I did find this post which defined the problem as the user canceling the postback while the viewstate was being sent to the server. This issue tends to occur when the viewstate becomes very large. I found another post that pointed the blame at a proxy server truncating the viewstate if it was...
There is a good article available comparing DotNetNuke vs. Sharepoint. If you’re on the Sharepoint fence DNN might be a good alternative for you. Via Patrick Santry’s (aka wwwCoder) Blog.Now Playing: Speakers of Geek - CGS - Infinite Crisis 4
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Microsoft has released a Step-By-Step guide on how to upgrade your Visual Studio 2002/2003 ASP.Net projects to Visual Studio 2005. I'll probably be tackling this sometime soon so I'll keep everyone posted on some of the problems that I encounter. Check out this quote from the doc:
If the application you are converting is of reasonable size and has several Web projects and additional projects, such as class libraries, in a single Visual Studio solution, it is possible to encounter issues during migration. Be prepared to spend the better part of a day completing the entire process. The steps and guidance provided...
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