Random .NET Ramblings

Microsoft, O’Reilly & Dr. Drbb’s are sponsoring a set of webcasts for JSP, PHP and ColdFusion developers that will give resources to use existing web development knowledge with ASP.NET and then you get a free copy Visual Studio Standard Edition and five chapters of Programming ASP.NET 2.0 Core Reference, by Dino Esposito.

Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 Webcast Series

Cool set of add-ins for the Class Designer at the ClassDesigner's WebLog

I got to present to the to the ASP.NET Users Group in San Diego last night on the ASP.NET HTTP life cycle. I hope all in attendance enjoyed the topic I know that each time i work with HttpModules and HttpHandlers I get a whole new appreciation for what ASP.NET dose for us!

Here is the content from last night: Slides and Sample Code

I had some in-depth questions about ASP.NET caching after the meeting some resources on caching are:

ASP.NET Caching Features
ASP.NET Caching: Techniques and Best Practices

But I still have yet to find good content to answer what are the memory implications of caching, I will keep looking.

Thanks all for coming last night and I look forward to talking to you again soon.

Back to the theme of supporting family members computers, beta 2 of the Windows Defender is now in beta 2.

OK this is only for the hard core geeks but some great go getters in the LA area are putting together a BarCamp… don’t know what a BarCamp is? Check out the BarCamp Los Angeles wed site where there are several links to find-out more information. I will be there and hope to give some talks about Atlas and other new tools that Microsoft is coming up with.

 

I have been asked of late some questions on how to do distribution of Smart Client applications with Visual Studio 2005. To use the traditional installer you will need to get to know the Windows Installer SDK with this SDK you can do anything you may want. Make sure you checkout the ClickOnce information so you can see how much it can do for you with or without the Windows Installer SDK.

I can’t take credit for this graphic but I was such a good depiction of the capabilities of Windows Mobile 5 and the Messaging and Security Feature Pack (MSFP) that I had to post it. What this means is that most of Microsoft biggest customers and a lot of small customers have all they need today to have secure Mobile solution.

I happen to be talking to a guy while I was at LAX coming back from Fresno, he was just setting up a Blackberry phone device of some sort and we got talking… To make a long story short hi company who had MS Exchange had just setup a RIM infrastructure and sent all of it’s filed employees new devices. I told him about the new features included in MSFP, he was quite interested, then I learned he was the CFO for this company… whoops I hope the CIO dose not get too hurt .

While I am on the subject let me show the device I am pinning over, the bad news is I have only had my i730 for about 6 months so I have a while before I can get it

Do you want to protect your home, fiends and families systems? Try Windows OneCare Live and let Microsoft know what you think.

I am doing some research on implementing Themes and Master pages and I found a great resource… The ASP.NET for Designers has some great resources for developers wanting to learn how to make there sites work the best for designers.

Public beta of the MSBuild Extras - Toolkit for .NET 1.1 has been posted. This is great for customers who are using the VS 2003 plug-in for TFS and want to use MSBuild.