http://blog.darrenstokes.com Thoughts on .Net, Visual Studio, and other things Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:19:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A funny post over at The Daily WTF reminded me of a situation I witnessed many years ago at a small client I was working for. Like the situation described in the post, the client needed to move the door to the server room.  I can't even remember why but they ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/06/24/server-room-craziness/ I was looking over the traffic profile for the last week on this site and was surprised at the share of traffic that Firefox had. Firefox - 55.4% Mozilla Compatible Agent - 10.99% IE (what I have been using) - 8.7% ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/05/25/i-need-to-try-firefox/ I've been following the podcasts that Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky have been doing for StackOverflow.  The podcasts are not really technical in nature, in fact they really do not have anything to do with what will ultimately be the purpose of the site they are building.  They are more ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/05/22/do-you-really-need-to-know-c-i-think-so/ Scott Guthrie announced the availability of a new preview of the ASP.NET Dynamic Data functionality. The idea behind this functionality is that you can generate a fully functional application based upon a LINQ to SQL or LINQ to Entities model.  This reminds me a lot of the Naked Objects Framework from ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/04/10/updated-aspnet-dynamic-data-preview-released/ The Unity Application Block version 1.0 has been released and is available on CodePlex here. A good overview of the configuration of Unity was written by Matthew Podwysocki. The xml configuration is a little unique compared to other DI containers.  I plan on adding support for the xml configuration to Reference Assistant ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/04/05/unity-application-block-10-has-been-released/ Next week, I'll be heading to VSLive.  The pre-conference workshops actually begin Sunday, March 30, but I will be arriving a few days early for a short vacation with the family for Spring Break. If you are going to be there and want to meet up, reply to this post or ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/03/21/heading-to-vslive/ According to Redmond Developer News, the beta of Mono 2.0 will be available for download Friday March 14.  Mono is an open source implementation of the .Net CLR and libraries and runs on many platforms, including OSX, Windows, and Linux. I am a little mystified as to why a developer would ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/03/13/mono-20-net-20-compatible-is-coming-soon/ I will be moving my Visual Studio Links series to Visual Studio Hacks.  James Avery, author of the book by the same name, is revamping the site and will be adding a lot of content. In addition to Visual Studio Links, I will also write articles on Visual Studio periodically so ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/03/13/visual-studio-links-moving-to-visualstudiohackscom/ My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Vishal Joshi posted an overview of the VS tooling integration that shipped with ASP.NET MVC last week. Marlon Grech discusses how to add Input Prompt support in Vista with WPF ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/03/11/visual-studio-links-8/ My latest in a series of the weekly, or more often, summary of interesting links I come across related to Visual Studio. Carlos Quintero posted an excellent summary of resolving Type instances and information from within VS. This is a nice post on how to incorporate the Subersion revision number in to ... http://blog.darrenstokes.com/2008/03/08/visual-studio-links-7/