Thursday, March 06, 2003

Andy Smith has a new control available I have a new control up on metabuilders. It's a radiobutton that has a global GroupName. This lets you put it in a repeater or usercontrol or whereever, and the GroupName will still work. I threw it together in a few hours, but it was a bit harder than it should have been, as I had to completely reimplement RadioButton. ( please, MS, give us more protected virtual methods, please ) It works by using the GroupName as the name attribute, totally disregarding the unique id's generated by being in naming containers. 8:10:46 PM     BuildIt and they will come. (maybe...then there is always NAnt) Microsoft has a Team Development Build Tool called BuildIt which you can download here. From their site: "BuildIt.NET is designed to jump-start the build process used for development of .NET distributed applications. This download provides full source code and comprehensive documentation for the Microsoft Visual C#® development tool and Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET development system." 8:08:35 PM     David Stone's List of utilities he likes: Code is great. But often it's tied to one particular problem. I have found that whenever I see a question on CodeProject or via one of my MSN contacts that I don't know the answer to, I don't go looking for a code snippet to help me out. Rather, I turn to one of my many utilities that I love. So I thought I'd share a couple with everybody: Reflector - This is by far the most useful tool in the .NET world. A great object browser that far surpasses anything that the VS.NET object browser has to offer. Documentor - More by Lutz Roeder, a very nifty tool for working with XML documentation in C#. jv16 Powertools - While not necessarily a programming utility, I do find jv16 Powertools to be very useful. The file and registry tools are just awesome. Syndirella - I love Syndirella. 'Nuff said. Window Sizer - This app is awesome. Because I run at 1400x1050 screen resolution, often the ASP.NET pages that I make are too big for people with normal resolutions to see... Control Inspector - A must have for any Windows Forms developer. This app lets you inspect when controls are fired on forms. Very nice. It's kind of like Spy++ for .NET, but there's a "test" surface that you can add controls to in order to just perform an ad hoc test of when the event gets fired.   8:05:36 PM     Lhotka crib notes on remoting via .NET 8:00:33 PM     As seen on Sam Gentiles blog: While it's great that there is support in the 1.1 Framework to protect against cross site scripting attacks it stills helps to know how to turn off support for it in certain instances. For example for a current project we are leveraging the Community Starter kit found on the www.asp.net site.  Unfortunately they don't have a version specificially built for the 1.1 framework so the site won't run on the 1.1 Framework due to protection against cross site scripting found that version of the framework.  So if you find yourself in a similiar situation here is how you disable the protection for cross site scripting. At the Page Level just specify in the @Page directive validateRequest="false". You can also specify this in web.config or machine.config for the site as a whole by adding the following: <pages buffer="true" enableSessionState="true" enableViewState="true" enableViewStateMac="true" autoEventWireup="true" validateRequest="false"/> [Sean 'Early' Campbell & Scott 'Adopter' Swigart's Radio Weblog] 7:55:04 PM     Privacy Activist Takes on Delta. A boycott of Delta Airlines is being mounted in response to the airline's decision to test a controversial program that requires airline passengers to undergo background checks. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] 7:45:59 PM

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